Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Bush, George W. "I think it is nothing short of unbelievable that the governor of a major state [George W. Bush] running for president thought it was acceptable to mock a woman he decided to put to death." — Gary Bauer
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Treason, Traitors, Freedom-Fried Frenchmen "Let me be clear: Liberal ideas are not responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. They are, however, responsible for making America more vulnerable, for creating confusion in our society and among our children about what is right and wrong, and thus for placing our freedom and security at risk . . . It is therefore our job to stop them. Not just debate them, but defeat them." — Sean Hannity, Let Freedom Ring, NY: Reganbooks, HarperCollins, 2002, p. 11.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs." — Nancy Reagan, speaking at an anti-drug rally
Thought for the day: "Share your happiness with others today."
{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
Lunation
Credit & Copyright: António Cidadão
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EVENTS
● 490 B.C.E. - After the Battle of Marathon, where the Greeks defeated the invading Persians, Pheidippides, who had already run 140 miles in 2 days and nights, ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to carry the news of the victory. His last words before he collapsed and died, "Rejoice, we are victorious."
● 44 B.C.E. - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
● 44 B.C.E. - The first of Cicero’s Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
● 31 B.C.E. - Final war of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
● 1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
● 1666 - "Great Fire" in London rages. Before it was finally extinguished four days later, it destroyed almost 14,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, leaving 200,000 homeless. Four-fifths of the city is in ashes. Only 6 people were killed.
● 1752 - The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
● 1758 - The first Anglican service of worship to be held on Canadian soil was led by Rev. Robert Wolfall at Frobisher Bay, on Baffin Island.
● 1775 - Hannah, the first American war vessel was commissioned by General George Washington.
● 1784 - English clergyman Thomas Coke, 37, was consecrated, the first "bishop" of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by founder John Wesley. Coke afterward journeyed to America, where he and Francis Asbury oversaw Methodism in the Colonies.
● 1789 - US Treasury Department established by Congress
● 1792 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
● 1806 - A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switzerland, kills 500
● 1807 - British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
● 1833 - Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
● 1859 - Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
● 1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
● 1864 - During the U.S. Civil War Union forces led by Gen. William T. Sherman occupied Atlanta following the retreat of the Confederates.
● 1867 - Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she's called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
● 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces take French Emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
● 1872 - Mikhail Bakunin expelled from Communist International.
● 1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
● 1898 - Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establishing British dominance in the Sudan. The British are led by Lord Kitchener.
● 1901 - Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
● 1919 - Communist Party of America organized in Chicago
● 1921 - Mine owners bomb striking West Virginia miners by plane.
● 1923 - The Irish Free State holds its first elections after winning independence from Britain the year before. The newly autonomous nation comprises the majority of the island of Ireland, with the exception of six primarily Protestant counties in the north that join Great Britain as Northern Ireland.
● 1925 - The U.S. Zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14.
● 1930 - The "Question Mark" made the first non-stop flight from Europe to the U.S. The plane was flown by Captain Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte.
● 1930 - While a missionary in the Philippines, American linguistic pioneer Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'God is always awaiting the chance to give us high days. We so seldom are in deep earnest about giving him his chance.'
● 1935 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
● 1936 - 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
● 1938 - The first railroad car to be equipped with fluorescent lighting was put into operation on the New York Central railroad.
● 1939 - World War II: Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.
● 1944 - Anne Frank (Diary of Anne Frank), is sent to Auschwitz
● 1944 - Navy pilot George H. W. Bush was shot down by Japanese forces as he completed a bombing run over the Bonin Islands. The future president was rescued by a U.S. submarine.
● 1945 - Combat in World War II ends in the Pacific Theater: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The war ended six years and one day after it began.
● 1945 - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam’s independence from France (National Day).
● 1948 - Christa McAuliffe, the American teacher who died in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion, was born.
● 1949 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.'
● 1949 - Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
● 1951 - Designers prepare to dazzle Venice; British designers hold a fashion show of 40 outfits they plan to show at the Venice Biennale arts festival.
● 1954 - Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
● 1956 - Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
● 1956 - Detachment of combat-equipped National Guardsmen dispatched to Clinton, Tenn. after a series of violent demonstrations made it impossible for officials to carry out the token desegregation of Alabama schools below the college level.
● 1956 - Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
● 1957 - Arkansas governor Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to bar African-American students from entering a Little Rock High School.
● 1958 - U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.
● 1961 - The U.S.S.R. resumed nuclear weapons testing. Test ban treaty negotiations had failed with the U.S. and Britain when the three nations could not agree upon the nature and frequency of on-site inspections.
● 1963 - Alabama governor George C. Wallace prevents the racial integration of Tuskegee High School in Huntsville, Alabama, by encircling the building with state troopers. Eight days later, President John F. Kennedy federalizes the Alabama National Guard, forcing Wallace to abandon his attempt to block the desegregation of Alabama public schools.
● 1963 – CBS and NBC Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcasts, when the shows are lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
● 1965 - Mao Zedong launches "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" in China.
● 1969 - Blacks riot in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Hartford, Connecticut.
● 1969 - Ho Chi Minh died. He was the president and founding force of North Vietnam.
● 1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
● 1970 - NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation was re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
● 1973 - Death of J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, English Christian language scholar and novelist. His 1954-55 "Lord of the Rings" trilogy describes a war between good and evil in which evil is routed through courage and sacrifice.
● 1979 - Ripper suspected of 12th murder; Police discover the body of a young woman - thought to be the 12th victim of the "Yorkshire Ripper" - in an alleyway near the centre of Bradford.
● 1981 - U.N. Human Rights Commission rules that Canada's Indian Act violates international human rights.
● 1983 - Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israelli PM
● 1984 - The Mashantucket Pequot of eastern Connecticut take possession of 650 acres of former reservation land.
● 1984 - Seven killed in Sydney biker shootings; A 14-year-old girl and six bikers are killed in a gun battle between rival gangs in a suburb of Sydney, Australia.
● 1985 - It was announced that the Titanic had been found on September 1 by a U.S. and French expedition 560 miles off Newfoundland. The luxury liner had been missing for 73 years.
● 1986 - Cathy Evelyn Smith was sentenced to three years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in connection with the overdose death of John Belushi.
● 1987 - Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan.
● 1987 - Hundreds trash ROTC headquarters at Univ. of Calif.-Berkeley.
● 1987 - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, goes on trial in Russia
● 1988 - Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
● 1989 - Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
● 1990 - Transnistria unilaterally proclaimed as Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
● 1991 - Rioting in Britain due to a recession, city and county bankruptcies.
● 1991 - The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
● 1992 - The U.S. and Russia agreed to a joint venture to build a space station.
● 1994 - Roy Castle loses battle with cancer; Entertainer and television presenter Roy Castle dies from cancer at his Buckinghamshire home, just two days after his 62nd birthday.
● 1996 - Muslim rebels and the Philippine government signed a pact formally ending 26-years of insurgency that had killed more than 120,000 people.
● 1997 - Five Central American states sign declaration of intent to create economic union, Managua, Nicaragua.
● 1998 - 229 people were killed when a Swissair jetliner crashed into the Atlantic near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. The pilot had reported smoke in the cockpit a few minutes before the crash.
● 1998 - In Canada, pilots for Canada's largest airline launch their first strike in Air Canada's history.
● 1998 - The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
● 2003 - A federal appeals court in San Francisco threw out more than 100 death sentences in Arizona, Montana and Idaho because the inmates had been sent to death row by judges instead of juries.
● 2004 - President George W. Bush accepted his party's nomination for a second term at the Republican National Convention in New York City.
● 2005 - A National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled into New Orleans four days after Hurricane Katrina. President George W. Bush acknowledged the government's failure to stop lawlessness and help desperate people during a daylong tour of the Gulf Coast.
● 2005 - The Natural Bridge, a very popular tourist attraction in Aruba, collapses after thousands of years in good condition.
● 2006 - Waziristan War ends. US and Pakistani Troops leave Waziristan mountain area.
BIRTHS
● 1243 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (d. 1295)
● 1548 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
● 1661 - Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
● 1675 - William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
● 1778- Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (d. 1846)
● 1805 - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
● 1810 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
● 1814 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist; directed the excavation of Olympia (d. 1896)
● 1820 - Lucretia Hale, American novelist and writer of children's books (d. 1900)
● 1830 - William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
● 1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
● 1840 - Giovanni Verga, Italian novelist, short story writer and playwright (d. 1922)
● 1850 - Albert G. Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (d. 1915)
● 1850 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
● 1852 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
● 1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1909) (d. 1932)
● 1854 - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
● 1862 - Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
● 1877 - Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1921) (d. 1956)
● 1878 - Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (d. 1946)
● 1879 - An Jung-geun, Japanese assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
● 1884 - Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Christian missionary (d. 1970)
● 1894 - Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (d. 1939)
● 1901 - Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
● 1911 - Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
● 1914 - Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
● 1915 - Meinhardt Raabe, actor, notable as Munchkin Coroner on The Wizard of Oz
● 1915 - Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
● 1917 - Cleveland Amory, American author (d. 1998)
● 1917 - Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (d. 1995)
● 1918 - Martha Mitchell, American figure in the Watergate scandal (d. 1976)
● 1923 - Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
● 1924 - Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
● 1925 - Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
● 1928 - Horace Silver, American jazz pianist and composer
● 1929 - Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
● 1931 - Alan K. Simpson, Former U.S. senator, R-Wyo.
● 1931 - Clifford Jordan, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1993)
● 1933 - Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor
● 1935 - D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer
● 1936 - Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
● 1937 - Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive
● 1937 - Derek Fowlds, British actor
● 1938 - Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
● 1938 - Clarence Felder, American actor
● 1939 - Sam Gooden, American singer (The Impressions)
● 1940 - Jimmy Clanton, American singer
● 1941 - John Thompson, Hall of Fame basketball coach
● 1941 - David Bale, South African-born activist (d. 2003)
● 1943 - Rosalind Ashford, American R&B singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
● 1943 - Glen Sather, Canadian hockey player and executive
● 1943 - Joe Simon, American singer
● 1944 - Al Matthews, American actor (d. 2002)
● 1946 - Billy Preston, American musician (d. 2006)
● 1946 - Luis Avalos, Cuban actor
● 1946 - Walt Simonson, American comic book artist & writer
● 1948 - Nate Archibald, Basketball Hall of Famer
● 1948 - Terry Bradshaw, American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1948 - Christa McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986)
● 1950 - Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
● 1950 - Michael Rother, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster)
● 1950 - Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
● 1951 - Jim DeMint, U.S. senator, R-S.C.
● 1951 - Mark Harmon, American actor
● 1952 - Jimmy Connors, American tennis player, coach and Hall of Fame member
● 1953 - John Zorn, American musician
● 1955 - Linda Purl, Actress
● 1956 - Mario Tremblay, Canadian hockey player and coach
● 1957 - Tony Alva, American skateboarder
● 1958 - Jerry Augustyniak, Rock musician (10,000 Maniacs)
● 1958 - Olivier Grouillard, French racing driver
● 1959 - Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
● 1959 - Paul Deakin, Country musician (The Mavericks)
● 1960 - Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
● 1960 - Rex Hudler, baseball player
● 1960 - Eric Dickerson, American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1961 - Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
● 1962 - Prachya Pinkaew, Thai film director
● 1962 - Eugenio Derbez, Mexican comedian and actor
● 1962 - Jon Berkeley, author and illustrator
● 1964 - Keanu Reeves, American actor
● 1965 - Lennox Lewis, British-born boxer
● 1965 - Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian filmmaker
● 1966 - Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
● 1966 - Dino Cazares, American musician
● 1966 - Olivier Panis, French race car driver
● 1966 - Tuc Watkins, American actor
● 1968 - Cynthia Watros, American actress
● 1968 - Kristen Cloke, American actress
● 1969 - Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
● 1969 - Stéphane Matteau, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1971 - Tommy Maddox, American football player
● 1971 - Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian skier
● 1971 - Lisa Snowdon, English Model
● 1972 - Matthew Dunn, Australian swimmer
● 1973 - Jason Blake, American hockey player
● 1973 - Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor
● 1974 - Steven Johnson, Australian racing driver
● 1975 - MC Chris, American Nerdcore Artist
● 1976 - Phil Lipscomb, American musician (Taproot)
● 1976 - Erin Hershey, American actress.
● 1976 - Michael Lombardi, Actor
● 1977 - Ramiro Muñoz, Colombian musician
● 1977 - Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer
● 1979 - Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
● 1980 - Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese racing driver
● 1981 - Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
● 1981 - Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
● 1982 - Joey Barton, English footballer
● 1982 - Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
● 1982 - Jason Hammel, American baseball player
● 1983 - Mark Foster (rugby player)
● 1987 - Spencer Smith, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)
● 1989 - Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
DEATHS
● 490 B.C.E. - Pheidippides, Greek hero
● 421 - Constantius III, Roman Emperor
● 1031 - Saint Emeric of Hungary
● 1274 - Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
● 1397 - Francesco Landini, Italian composer
● 1540 - Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
● 1680 - Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
● 1688 - Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
● 1690 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
● 1764 - Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
● 1765 - Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
● 1768 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
● 1790 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)
● 1813 - Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1763)
● 1820 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
● 1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
● 1834 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
● 1865 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
● 1872 - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
● 1877 - Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
● 1898 - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
● 1910 - Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
● 1921 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
● 1921 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil pioneer (b. 1855)
● 1934 - Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
● 1934 - Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor (b. 1908)
● 1934 - James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player, All Black (b. 1860)
● 1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
● 1948 - Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
● 1953 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
● 1964 - Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
● 1964 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
● 1965 - Johannes Bobrowski, German writer (b. 1917)
● 1969 - Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
● 1973 - Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
● 1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
● 1976 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
● 1984 - Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1909)
● 1985 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
● 1991 - Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
● 1992 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)
● 1994 - Roy Castle, British entertainer (b. 1932)
● 1997 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (b. 1902)
● 1997 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
● 1998 - Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
● 1998 - Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918)
● 2000 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
● 2000 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (b. 1907)
● 2001 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
● 2001 - Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
● 2002 - Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
● 2004 - Joan Oró, Catalan scientist (b. 1923)
● 2005 - Bob Denver, American actor {"Maynard G. Krebbs" and "Little Buddy Gilligan"} (b. 1935)
● 2006 - Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman (b. 1930)
● 2006 - Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
● 2007 - Max McNab, National Hockey League executive (b. 1924)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions
● St. Agricolus
● St. Antoninus
● St. Brocard
● St. Castor of Apt
● St. Diomedes
● St. Elpidius
● St. Ingrid of Sweden
● St. Justus of Lyons
● St. Maxima
● St. Nonossus
● St. Stephen, 1st King of Hungary
● St. Valentine
● St. William of Roeskilde
● St. Zeno
● Bl. Andre Grasset, Canadian Holy Cross brother
● Bl. Martyrs of September
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 20 (Civil Date: September 2)
● Afterfeast of the Dormition.
● Prophet Samuel.
● Hieromartyr Philip, Bishop of Heraclea, and with him Martyrs Severus, Memnon and 37 soldiers in Thrace.
● Martyr Lucius the senator of Cyprus.
● Martyrs Heliodorus and Dosa (Dausa) in Persia.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Photina at the door of the Church in Blachernae.
● Repose of Righteous Hieromonk Seraphim of Platina.
● Anglican:
● Martyrs of New Guinea
● Lutheran:
● Commemoration of Bishopp Nikolai Grundtvig, renewer of the Church
● Christian:
● St. William, English bishop, apostle to Danes
● Mauritius - Ganesh Chaturthi.
● Sedan Day (Sedantag) - traditional national German holiday that commemorates Prussia's victory over France in 1870, making the German Empire a reality.
● Transnistria - Independence day, note Transnistria is not an internationally recognized independent state.
● Vietnam - National Day (independence from Japan and France, 1945).
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Namibia, South Africa : Settlers' Day - ( Monday )
● US, Canada, Guam, Virgin Islands : Labor Day (1894) - ( Monday )
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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