Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Conservatives "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." — John Kenneth Galbraith
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On "Corrections Day" or Damn the Public, Full Speed Ahead "We commend House Speaker Newt Gingrich and congressional Republicans in their innovative efforts to rescind, overturn, and zero-out absurd bureaucratic red tape and rules through the process known as 'Corrections Day'" — Republican Party Platform, 8-12-96, p.12.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I can't believe that we are going to let a majority of the people decide what is best for this state." — John Travis, representative from Louisiana {What is most unbelievable is that he voiced what most politicians are actually thinking.}
Thought for the day: "Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate."
{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Iapetus: 3D Equatorial Ridge
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
Stereo Anaglyph: Patrick Vantuyne
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 608 - St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
● 921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
● 1394 - Charles VI, King of France, expels the Jews from France.
● 1556 - Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
● 1584 - San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
● 1616 - The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
● 1620 - Pilgrims set off from Plymouth, England, aiming for the British colony in Virginia. Their errant course proved disastrous for New England's natives.
● 1648 - The Larger and the Shorter Catechisms -- both prepared by the Westminster Assembly the previous year -- were approved by the British Parliament. These two documents have been in regular use among various Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists ever since.
● 1656 - England and France sign a peace treaty.
● 1683 - Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by 13 immigrant families.
● 1762 - Battle of Signal Hill
● 1770 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'To use the grace given is the certain way to obtain more grace. To use all the faith you have will bring an increase of faith.'
● 1775 - An early and unofficial American flag was raised by Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Mott after the seizing of Fort Johnson from the British. The flag was dark blue with the white word "Liberty" spelled on it.
● 1776 - British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan and occupied New York City during the American Revolution.
● 1782 - Congress adopts a Masonic emblem as the Great Seal of the U.S.
● 1789 - The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).
● 1812 - The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
● 1820 - Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal
● 1821 - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua jointly declare independence from Spain.
● 1830 - 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
● 1830 - William Huskisson, a popular member of the British Parliament, became the first person to be run over by a railroad train. He was to speak at the opening of the Manchester & Liverpool Railway when he failed to look both ways before crossing.
● 1831 - The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
● 1835 - The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
● 1845 - Female cotton workers strike for the 10-hour day. Allegheny, Penn.
● 1851 - Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
● 1853 - In her home state of New York, Antoinette L. Brown, 28, became pastor of the Congregational church in South Butler -- making her the first woman to be formally ordained to the pastorate in the United States.
● 1857 - Timothy Alder earned a patent for the typesetting machine.
● 1857 - William Howard Taft, the only person to serve as both United States president and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
● 1858 - The first mail service begins to the Pacific Coast of the U.S. under government contract. Coaches from the Butterfield Overland Mail Company took 12 days to make the journey between Tipton, MO and San Francisco, CA.
● 1862 - American Civil War: Confederate under Stonewall Jackson forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
● 1873 - Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
● 1883 - The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
● 1883 - The University of Texas at Austin opened.
● 1887 - Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution.
● 1891 - Birth of Agatha Christie, Torquay, Devon. Wrote hundreds of books, some under the pseudonym Mary Westmancott.
● 1894 - First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
● 1898 - National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
● 1904 - Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
● 1909 - A New York judge rule that Ford Motor Company had infringed on George Seldon's patent for the "Road Engine." The ruling was later overturned.
● 1909 - Charles F. Kettering applied for a patent on his ignition system. His company Delco (Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company) later became a subsidiary of General Motors.
● 1913 - 1st US milk goat show held, Rochester, NY
● 1914 - World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
● 1916 - During the Battle of the Somme, in France, tanks were first used in warfare when the British rolled them onto the battlefields.
● 1917 - Russia was proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky, the head of a provisional government.
● 1920 - Pope Benedict XV published the encyclical "Spiritus paraclitus," which restated the Catholic position on Scripture: '...the Bible, composed by men inspired of the Holy Ghost, has God himself as its principal author, the individual authors constituted as his live instruments. Their activity, however, ought not be described as automatic writing.'
● 1923 - Oklahoma was placed under martial law by Gov. John Calloway Walton due to terrorist activity by the Ku Klux Klan. After this declaration national newspapers began to expose the Klan and its criminal activities.
● 1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
● 1931 - In Scotland, the two-day Invergordon Mutiny against Royal Navy pay cuts begins.
● 1935 - During the National Socialist congress in Nuremberg, the German Reichstag adopts the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws. The laws legitimize anti-Semitism and the so-called "purity of German blood." They also forbid marriage and sexual relations between Germans and Jews. Jews will no longer enjoy any protection from the state. Eventually they lose access to law and the courts--and are left completely at the mercy of the secret police and concentration camps. The same congress also adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
● 1936 - Sixty-eight thousand French textile workers strike at Lille.
● 1937 - WPA extends the L-Taraval streetcar to the SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
● 1938 - British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
● 1940 - The German Luftwaffe suffered the loss of 185 planes in the Battle of Britain. The change in tide forced Hitler to abandon his plans for invading Britain.
● 1941 - Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
● 1941 - The U.S. Attorney General rules that the Neutrality Act is not violated when U.S. ships carry war materiel to British territories, opening the door for the Lend-Lease Act.
● 1942 - World War II: The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
● 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
● 1945 - A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
● 1947 - 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
● 1947 - The U.S. Air Force is separated from the US Army to become a separate branch.
● 1950 - U.N. forces land at Inchon, Korea in an attempt to relieve South Korean forces and recapture Seoul.
● 1952 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
● 1954 - The U.S. Postal Service issues its 2¢ Thomas Jefferson Liberty Series stamp.
● 1955 - Betty Robbins became the first woman cantor.
● 1957 - West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad Adenauer remains chancellor.
● 1958 - A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
● 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States and is denied entry into Disneyland. Goofy Cold War results.
● 1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
● 1961 - The U.S. resumed underground testing of nuclear weapons.
● 1962 - The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
● 1963 - Four children attending Sunday School are killed in a Ku Klux Klan bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, a turning point in generating broad American sympathy for the civil rights movement. At 10:19 A.M., 15 sticks of explosive blew apart the church basement and the children in the changing room. The four dead - Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, all 14; and Denise McNair, 11. Some 20 others were injured. Prime suspects were the KKK and Nacirema (white supremacist organizations; Nacirema, fittingly, was derived from "American" spelled backwards). A member of the church, studying on a scholarship in Paris at the time, was Birmingham High School student Angela Davis.
● 1964 - The Sun newspaper is born; The Sun newspaper is published today for the first time. It is replacing the Daily Herald.
● 1966 - Gemini XI returns to Earth
● 1966 - The American Bible Society published the New Testament of its "Today's English Version" (TEV), otherwise known as "Good News for Modern Man." It marked the end of a two-year effort led by chief translator, Robert G. Bratcher. (The complete Good News Bible was published in 1976.)
● 1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
● 1968 - The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. Probable test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
● 1970 - Vice President Spiro Agnew says the youth of America are being "brainwashed into a drug culture" by rock music, movies, books, and underground newspapers. Later, of course, it would be the pharmaceutical companies.
● 1971 - Greenpeace was founded.
● 1972 - A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.
● 1972 - An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
● 1972 - Israel launches massive retaliatory raid in southern Lebanon to root out PLO guerrillas. That solved that problem.
● 1972 - The Watergate indictments began against seven perpetrators.
● 1973 - Victor Jara murdered in massacre, four days after the CIA-sponsored overthrow of Salvador Allende. Santiago Stadium, Chile.
● 1974 - Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
● 1974 - Outdoor modern art show bulldozed by authorities in Moscow. Could have been motivated either by totalitarian impulses or aesthetic ones.
● 1975 - The French department of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
● 1976 - Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days
● 1978 - German terror suspect arrested in UK; One of the most wanted members of the West German Baader-Meinhof gang is detained in London.
● 1981 - Blockade starts at nuclear power plant construction site, Diablo Canyon, California. Over two weeks, 1,901 are arrested in the largest occupation of a nuclear power site in U.S. history.
● 1981 - The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC.
● 1981 - The United States Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.
● 1981 - Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
● 1982 - Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
● 1982 - Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, was executed. He had been convicted of plotting against the government.
● 1983 - Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
● 1983 - The U.S. Senate joined the U.S. House of Representatives in their condemning of the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean jet with 269 people onboard.
● 1984 - Morocco Showcase opens
● 1986 - Vietnam Veterans Duncan Murphy and Brian Willson join Charles Liteky and George Mizo in the Fast For Life, opposing U.S. support of the contra war against Nicaragua.
● 1987 - U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
● 1989 - The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut.
● 1990 - France announced that it would send an additional 4,000 soldiers to the Persian Gulf. They also expelled Iraqi military attaches in Paris.
● 1993 - Katherine Ann Power surrendered to authorities to face charges in a 1970 bank robbery in which Walter Schroeder Sr. of the Boston Police was killed. She had been in hiding for 23 years.
● 1993 - Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament.
● 1993 - The FBI announced a new national campaign concerning the crime of carjacking.
● 1994 - U.S. President Clinton told Haiti's military leaders "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power."
● 1995 - Lakota tribal elders protest making of film based (apparently quite loosely) on the life of Crazy Horse. Rapid City, South Dakota.
● 1995 - The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing.
● 1996 - Six thousand rally and 1,033 are arrested near the Headwaters Grove in rural Carlotta, Calif., in a protest against the logging of one of the last large unlogged redwood stands in the world.
● 1997 - Hastings Wise murders four at a lawn mower parts factory in Aiken, South Carolina.
● 1997 - The IRA-allied Sinn Fein party entered Northern Ireland's peace talks for the first time.
● 1998 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Iranian military to be on full alert and massed troops on its border with Afghanistan.
● 1998 - David Andrew Douglas was convicted of strangling his 3-year-old granddaughter Shelby Lynne Barrackman because she licked icing off cupcakes.
● 1998 - It was announced that 5.9 million people read The Starr Report on the Internet. 606,000 people read the White House defense of U.S. President Clinton.
● 1998 - WorldCom and MCI Communications finish their landmark merger, forming MCI WorldCom which would later be renamed WorldCom and become the largest bankruptcy in United States history.
● 1999 - A gunman killed 7 people and himself after opening fire at the Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX.
● 1999 - The United Nations approved the deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force in East Timor.
● 2000 - UK fuel protesters go back home; The fuel protests which have paralysed Britain for seven days are at an end.
● 2001 - Four days after 9-11, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) casts the only Congressional vote opposing the granting of unlimited military power to Pres. Bush.
● 2001 - President George W. Bush identified Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and told Americans to prepare for a long, difficult war against terrorism.
● 2003 - In Independence, MO, the birthplace of Ginger Rogers was designated a local landmark. The move by the Independence City Council qualified the home for historic preservation.
● 2005 - President George W. Bush, addressing the nation from storm-ravaged New Orleans, acknowledged the government failed to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina and urged Congress to approve a massive reconstruction program. {Nothing much has happened since except the demolition of public housing to make way for high priced condos.}
● 2006 - Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, agreed to plead guilty to two criminal charges in the congressional corruption probe spawned by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
● 2007 - Over 3000 Taiwanese Americans and their supporters rallied in front of UN in New York City to demonstrate the dedication that UN should accept Taiwan. At the same time, over 300,000 Taiwanese people rally in Taiwan to make the same plea.
BIRTHS
● 973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)
● 1254 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
● 1580 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
● 1613 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
● 1649 - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
● 1715 - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (d. 1789)
● 1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (d. 1851)
● 1828 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
● 1830 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
● 1852 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
● 1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States and 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1930)
● 1858 - Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937)
● 1860 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, Indian engineer (d. 1962)
● 1863 - Horatio Parker, American composer (d. 1919)
● 1867 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1920)
● 1876 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
● 1876 - Frank Gannett, American newspaper publisher (d. 1957)
● 1876 - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
● 1877 - Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (d. 1938)
● 1879 - Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
● 1881 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian builder of racing and luxury automobiles (d. 1947)
● 1883 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
● 1887 - Carlos Dávila, former President of Chile (d. 1955)
● 1888 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
● 1889 - Robert Benchley, American drama critic, actor and humorist (d. 1945)
● 1890 - Dame Agatha Christie, English detective novelist and playwright (d. 1976)
● 1890 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (d. 1974)
● 1892 - Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962)
● 1894 - Jean Renoir, French-born American film director (d. 1979)
● 1894 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977)
● 1895 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
● 1898 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (d. 1936)
● 1901 - Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
● 1903 - Roy Acuff, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1992)
● 1904 - King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
● 1906 - Irving Jaffee, American Olympic gold medal-winning speed skater (1932) (d. 1981)
● 1906 - Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and director (d. 1960)
● 1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004)
● 1907 - Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and writer (d. 1968)
● 1908 - Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
● 1909 - C.N.Annadurai, Former Chief Minnister of Tamilnadu
● 1911 - Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
● 1913 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and Watergate figure (d. 1988)
● 1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
● 1914 - Creighton Abrams, American Army general (d. 1974)
● 1915 - Albert Whitlock, English motion picture matte artist (d. 1999)
● 1916 - Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
● 1918 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (d. 2005)
● 1919 - Fausto Coppi, Italian racing cyclist (d. 1960)
● 1919 - Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
● 1921 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (d. 2001)
● 1922 - Bob Anderson (fencer), English sword-master
● 1922 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
● 1923 - Anton Heiller, Austrian organist (d. 1979)
● 1924 - Bobby Short, American musician (d. 2005)
● 1925 - Forrest Compton, Actor
● 1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
● 1926 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
● 1927 - Norm Crosby, Comedian
● 1928 - Cannonball Adderley, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)
● 1929 - Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army
● 1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1933 - Henry Darrow, American actor
● 1933 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
● 1934 - Fred Nile, Australian politician
● 1937 - Fernando de la Rúa, 51st President of Argentina
● 1937 - Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel laureate
● 1938 - Gaylord Perry, Baseball Hall of Famer
● 1940 - Merlin Olsen, Football Hall of Famer, actor
● 1940 - Norman Spinrad, American science fiction author
● 1941 - Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer
● 1941 - Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
● 1941 - Signe Toly Anderson, American singer
● 1941 - Viktor Zubkov, Russian government official
● 1941 - Yuri Norstein, Russian animator
● 1945 - Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
● 1945 - Hans-Gert Poettering, President of the European Parliament
● 1945 - Jessye Norman, American opera singer
● 1945 - Ron Shelton, American film director
● 1946 - Howard Waldrop, American science fiction author
● 1946 - Oliver Stone, American film director
● 1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
● 1948 - Suzyn Waldman, American Sportscaster
● 1949 - Joe Barton, American politician
● 1951 - Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
● 1951 - Pete Carroll, American football coach
● 1954 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
● 1955 - Theodore Long, American professional wrestling executive
● 1955 - Željka Antunović, Croatian politician
● 1956 - Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer
● 1958 - Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1958 - Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (d. 2005)
● 1960 - Kevin Allen, Welsh actor
● 1960 - Mitch Dorge, Rock musician (Crash Test Dummies)
● 1961 - Dan Marino Football Hall of Famer
● 1961 - Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1964 - Róbert Fico, Slovak Prime minister
● 1968 - Danny Nucci, American actor
● 1969 - Allen Shellenberger, Rock musician (Lit)
● 1969 - Jim Curtiss, American writer
● 1969 - Kay Gee, Rap DJ
● 1971 - Josh Charles, American actor
● 1971 - Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer
● 1972 - Jimmy Carr, English comedian
● 1972 - Kit Chan, Singaporean singer
● 1972 - Princess Letizia of Spain
● 1973 - Julie Cox, English actress
● 1975 - Jamie Stevens, German singer
● 1976 - Matt Thornton, American baseball player
● 1976 - Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
● 1977 - Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
● 1977 - Jason Terry, American basketball player
● 1977 - Marisa Ramirez, American actress
● 1977 - Sophie Dahl, English model
● 1978 - Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
● 1979 - Amy Davidson, American actress
● 1979 - Dave Annable, American actor
● 1979 - Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1980 - David Diehl, American football player
● 1980 - Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer
● 1980 - Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
● 1984 - Prince Harry, Youngest son of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana
● 1986 - Heidi Montag, American reality television star
● 1987 - Vova Galchenko, Russian juggler
● 1988 - Chelsea Staub, American actress
DEATHS
● 866 - Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria
● 1231 - Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
● 1352 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
● 1500 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury
● 1596 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535 or 1540)
● 1613 - Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)
● 1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
● 1649 - John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
● 1700 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613)
● 1701 - Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
● 1707 - George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
● 1712 - Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician
● 1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
● 1794 - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
● 1803 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719)
● 1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
● 1835 - Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
● 1842 - Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
● 1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
● 1864 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
● 1883 - Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
● 1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
● 1893 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)
● 1921 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1886)
● 1926 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
● 1930 - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
● 1945 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
● 1945 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)
● 1965 - Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
● 1972 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
● 1973 - Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
● 1973 - Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1941)
● 1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
● 1978 - Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
● 1980 - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)
● 1985 - Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1910)
● 1987 - Steven Tuomi, murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (b. 1963)
● 1989 - Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
● 1991 - John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1904)
● 1993 - Ethan Allen, American baseball player (b. 1903)
● 1995 - Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b. 1901)
● 2000 - Vincent Canby, American movie critic (b. 1924)
● 2003 - Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)
● 2003 - Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)
● 2004 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
● 2004 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (b. 1931)
● 2005 - Sidney Luft, American film director (b. 1915)
● 2006 - Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
● 2006 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
● 2006 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
● 2006 - Rob Levin, Freenode IRC Network Founder (b. 1955)
● 2007 - Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
● 2007 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)
● 2007 - Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress and Match Game panelist (b. 1924)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Sorrows.
● St. Aichardus
● St. Aprus
● Sts. Emilas & Jeremiah
● St. Eutropia
● St. Hernan
● St. Joseph Abibos
● St. Leobinus
● St. Mamilian
● St. Maximus
● St. Melitina
● St. Merinus
● St. Nicomedes
● St. Ribert
● St. Ritbert
● St. Valerian
● St. Vitus
● Bl. Roland de'Medici
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for September 2 (Civil Date: September 15)
● Martyr Mama of Caesarea in Cappadocia, and his parents, Martyrs Theodotus and Rufina.
● St. John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● 3,618 Martyrs who suffered at Nicomedia.
● Righteous Eleazar, son of Aaron, and Righteous Phineas.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Aeithalas and Ammon of Thrace.
● "Kaluga" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● In Slovakia - Holy day of the Seven sorrows of Virgin Mary.
● In ancient Greece, the second day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the priests of Demeter declared the public start of the rites.
● Bulgaria - The first day of each school year.
● Costa Rica, El Salv, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua - Independence Day (1821)
● India- Engineer's Day celebrated on birthday of Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya.
● Iran - Imama Ja'afar Sadeq's Death
● Japan - Respect for the Aged Day before 2003; beginning in 2003, Respect for the Aged Day is held on the third Monday of September.
● Mexico - Independence Day
● Slovenia - Restoration of Primorska to the Motherland Day
● Thailand - Silpa Bhirasri Day.
● United Kingdom - the British commemorate the Battle of Britain on the day of the last massive Luftwaffe attack in 1940.
● Singapore - Civil Defence Day
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Hispanics : National Hispanic Heritage Week - ( Sunday )
● UN observance : Intl Day of Peace - ( Tuesday )
Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.
Additional facts taken from:
On this day in the New York Times
The BBC’s Take on the day
On This Day Website
Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
Scope Systems Any Day Website
Roman Catholic Saint of the Day
Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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