Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Censorship "You can cage the singer but not the song." — Harry Belafonte
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Anti-War Republicans, Clinton Era "People in the Balkans have fought and have committed atrocities against one another for at least 500 years. Now we allow our Nation to be dragged into a quagmire for which there will be no exit." — Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA), Congressional Record, H2390, 4-28-99.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." — Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina
Thought for the day: "She's learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time trying to put into words."
{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
The Colorful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi
Credit: Adam Block, KPNO Visitor Program, NOAO, AURA, NSF
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 36 B.C.E. - In the battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
● 301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
● 590 - St. Gregory (I) the Great was consecrated the 64th Catholic pope, ruling 14 years. Gregory's administration took responsibility for converting the Anglo-Saxon tribes in England, chiefly through the work of St. Augustine of Canterbury.
● 1189 - Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster.
● 1260 - The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
● 1650 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650)
● 1651 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester - Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
● 1658 - Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, died.
● 1666 - The Royal Exchange burnt down in the Great Fire of London
● 1752 - This date became September 14th, when Great Britain (including Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the American colonies) officially implemented the Gregorian Calendar (developed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to replace the Julian calendar).
● 1752 - This day never happened--nor the next 10--as England adopts the Gregorian Calendar. People riot, thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives. True, but it was more days than that.
● 1776 - Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from himself: He kindled it and he keeps it alive; and because it is his work, I trust many waters shall not quench it.'
● 1777 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
● 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The war formally ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
● 1798 - Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.
● 1803 - Birth of Prudence Crandall, an abolitionist jailed for enrolling African Americans in her school.
● 1811 - Birth of Utopian John Humphreys Noyes, Brattlebrook, Vermont.
● 1813 - "Uncle Sam" image used for the first time, in Troy (NY) Post.
● 1826 - USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
● 1838 - Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, famous African-American abolitionist, escapes from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland, disguised as a sailor. He eventually arrives in New York City, taking the name Douglass, after the hero of Sir Walter Scott's poem "Lady of the Lake."
● 1849 - California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
● 1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett, the popular turn-of-the-century American writer, was born.
● 1852 - Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
● 1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
● 1859 - After closure of the Umpqua Subagency, 690 captive Indians are marched over the Coast Range to a coastal Oregon reservation.
● 1859 - Birth of French socialist leader Jean Jaures.
● 1860 - William Walker, a U.S. citizen who once set himself up as dictator of Nicaragua, invades Honduras with his own private army.
● 1861 - American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
● 1865 - Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land
● 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, which will result in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
● 1874 - The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".
● 1878 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
● 1883 - Last spike driven on Northern Pacific in Montana.
● 1891 - Cottonpickers organize union & stage strike in Texas
● 1891 - John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti
● 1900 - British annex Natal (South Africa)
● 1912 - World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
● 1914 - Giacomo della Chiesa acceeds to the papacy as Pope Benedict XV.
● 1914 - William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
● 1916 - Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun
● 1918 - Five African-American soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917
● 1919 - The Socialist Party of America, the most successful left party in U.S. history, splits to form the Communist Party of America and many smaller groups.
● 1925 - Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
● 1928 - Three hundred Chicago movie theatre musicians strike against their impending replacement by talking movies.
● 1930 - Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
● 1933 - Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union - Communism Peak (7495 m).
● 1934 - In London, Evangeline Cory Booth, 69, the seventh child of founder William Booth (1829-1912), became the fourth elected commander and the first woman general of the Salvation Army.
● 1934 - Tunisia began its move for independence
● 1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
● 1939 - World War II begins when France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, starting the Allies.
● 1940 - US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
● 1942 - World War II: Uprising of the Jewish ghetto in Lakhva occurs.
● 1943 - World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war.
● 1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
● 1945 - Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to Allies
● 1946 - Founder Sidney N. Correll established United World Mission. This interdenominational agency focuses on evangelism, church planting and Christian education in 13 world countries.
● 1954 - Pope Pius X canonized a saint
● 1954 - The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
● 1954 - The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy.
● 1954 - National Trust buys remote island; The National Trust purchases Fair Isle in northern Scotland famous for its bird sanctuary and knitted sweaters.
● 1957 - Elizabeth Eckford is blocked from becoming first black student at Little Rock (Ark.) Central High School.
● 1964 - Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
● 1967 - Folk singer Woody Guthrie dies of Huntington's Chorea in New York City. He was 52.
● 1967 - In Sweden motorists stopped driving on the left side of the road and began driving on the right side.
● 1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution. {He assumes dictatorial powers and the country never again considers compromise with the North.}
● 1969 - Vietnamese revolutionary leader Nguyen Tat Thanh (aka Ho Chi Minh), 79, dies of natural causes in Hanoi.
● 1969 - Weather Underground protest in Pittsburgh organized and led by women.
● 1970 - Representatives from 27 African nations, the Caribbean nations, four South American countries, Australia, and the U.S. meet in Atlanta, Georgia for the first Congress of African People.
● 1970 - Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi died of cancer at the age of 57.
● 1971 - John Lennon leaves the UK for NYC, never to return
● 1971 - Qatar regains complete independence from Britain
● 1971 - Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
● 1975 - Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas mountains of Morocco, 188 die
● 1976 - The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface. These were transmitted back to Earth.
● 1976 - Hull prison riot ends; The last protesting imates at Hull's top-security prison finally surrender after 67 hours on the rampage.
● 1978 - Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
● 1978 - Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff
● 1979 - Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000
● 1981 - Prisoners revolt in Poland; 150 escape.
● 1984 - Typhoon batters Philippines; At least 1,300 people die and hundreds more are injured as the worst storm in living memory sweeps across the southern Philippines.
● 1985 - 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth
● 1989 - A Cubana de Aviacion jetliner crashed in Havana killing 126 people on the plane and 26 people on the ground.
● 1989 - The U.S. began shipping military aircraft and weapons, worth $65 million, to Columbia in its fight against drug lords.
● 1991 - In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
● 1992 - Thirty-nine state conference on disarmament approves treaty to ban chemical weapons.
● 1994 - In Alaska, two teenagers were exiled by an American Indian Tribal panel. The teenagers were sent to an uninhabited island for one year for beating and robbing a pizza deliveryman.
● 1994 - Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
● 1997 - A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
● 1997 - Kurdish Peace Train demonstration broken up by Turkish police in Istanbul.
● 1997 - Arizona Republican Governor Fife Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire. (The conviction was overturned in 1999.) {Further prosecution was short-circuited when Democrat Bill Clinton pardoned him in the waning days of his administration.}
● 1998 - All feared dead in Swissair crash; A Swissair plane flying from New York to Geneva crashes in the sea off the coast of Nova Scotia, just over an hour after taking off.
● 2004 - A three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed, most of them children.
● 2004 - Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized in New York with chest pains and shortness of breath; he later underwent heart bypass surgery.
● 2005 - President George W. Bush ordered more than 7,000 active duty forces to the Gulf Coast as his administration intensified efforts to send aid to the hurricane-ravaged region in the face of criticism it did not act quickly enough. {National Guard forces that would traditionally fill this role were on active duty in Iraq.}
● 2005 - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died at age 80.
BIRTHS
● 1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (d. 1073)
● 1499 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II of France (d. 1566)
● 1568 - Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634)
● 1653 - Roger North, English lawyer, historian and biographer (d. 1734)
● 1675 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
● 1693 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
● 1695 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (d. 1764)
● 1710 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
● 1724 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
● 1781 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais (d. 1824)
● 1810 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
● 1811 - John Humphrey Noyes, American founder of the Oneida Community (d. 1886)
● 1813 - Mark Hopkins, American capitalist; helped build Central Pacific Railroad (d. 1878)
● 1820 - George Hearst, (d. 1891) American businessman and father of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst.
● 1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (d. 1909)
● 1856 - Louis Sullivan, American architect (d. 1924)
● 1860 - Edward Filene, American department-store entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 1937)
● 1869 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
● 1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)
● 1887 - Frank Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
● 1888 - Thomas Milton Rivers, American virologist; helped develop the polio vaccine (d. 1962)
● 1897 - Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972)
● 1895 - Charles Houston, American lawyer and educator (d. 1950)
● 1899 - Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1960) (d. 1985)
● 1900 - Maurice Dobb, British economist (d. 1976)
● 1900 - Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician (d. 1986)
● 1901 - Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (d. 1959)
● 1905 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
● 1907 - Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (d. 1977)
● 1908 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)
● 1910 - Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (d. 2007)
● 1910 - Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (d. 2007)
● 1911 - Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
● 1913 - Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)
● 1914 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994)
● 1916 - Eddie Stanky, American baseball player (d. 1999)
● 1918 - Helen Wagner, American actress ("As the World Turns")
● 1921 - Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent,Pulitzer prize winner
● 1921 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
● 1923 - Mort Walker, American cartoonist ("Beetle Bailey")
● 1925 - Hank Thompson, Country singer
● 1926 - Irene Papas, Greek actress
● 1926 - Alison Lurie, American novelist
● 1926 - Anne Jackson, Actress
● 1928 - Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission(d. 2007)
● 1929 - Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (d. 2007)
● 1930 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)
● 1931 - Dick Motta, American basketball coach
● 1933 - Tompall Glaser, American singer
● 1934 - Freddie King, American musician (d. 1976)
● 1938 - Eileen Brennan, American actress
● 1938 - Caryl Churchill, English playwright
● 1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1940 - Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist
● 1940 - Pauline Collins, English actress ("Upstairs, Downstairs")
● 1941 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)
● 1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (the Beach Boys)
● 1942 - John Shrapnel, English actor
● 1943 - Valerie Perrine, American actress
● 1947 - Eric Bell, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
● 1947 - Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian politician
● 1948 - Donald Brewer, Rock musician (Grand Funk Railroad)
● 1949 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004)
● 1949 - José Pekerman, Argentine football manager
● 1950 - Doug Pinnick, American bassist and singer (King's X)
● 1953 - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director
● 1955 - Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols)
● 1957 - Garth Ancier, American television executive
● 1959 - Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989)
● 1962 - Costas Mandylor, Australian-born actor
● 1963 - Amber Lynn, American porn star
● 1964 - Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer
● 1964 - Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
● 1964 - Holt McCallany, American actor
● 1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor ("Two and a Half Men")
● 1965 - Todd Lewis, Rock singer, musician
● 1965 - Costas Mandylor, Actor
● 1966 - Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian politician
● 1967 - Luis Gonzalez, Baseball player
● 1969 - John Fugelsang, American actor
● 1969 - Dominic West, British actor
● 1970 - Gareth Southgate, English footballer
● 1971 - Chabeli Iglesias, Spanish journalist
● 1972 - Natalia Estrada, Spanish model and actress
● 1972 - Martin Straka, Czech ice hockey player
● 1973 - Jennifer Paige, American singer/songwriter
● 1973 - Damon Stoudamire, American basketball player
● 1973 - Norihiko Hibino, Japanese composer
● 1974 - Clare Kramer, American actress
● 1975 - Cristobal Huet, French hockey player
● 1976 - Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
● 1976 - Ashley Jones, American actress
● 1976 - Jevon Kearse, American football player
● 1977 - Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer
● 1977 - Rui Marques, Angolan footballer
● 1978 - John Curtis, English footballer
● 1978 - Paul Moor, English ten-pin bowler
● 1978 - Michal Rozsival, Czech ice hockey player
● 1978 - Nick Wechsler, American actor
● 1978 - Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal vocalist/musician (Windir) (d. 2004)
● 1979 - Tomo Miličević, Croatian-born American musician (30 Seconds to Mars)
● 1980 - The B.G., American rapper
● 1980 - Daniel Ruben Bilos, Argentinian footballer
● 1980 - Cone, Canadian bassist (Sum 41)
● 1980 - Jennie Finch, American softball player
● 1981 - Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
● 1982 - Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
● 1982 - Andrew McMahon, American singer and songwriter
● 1983 - Nicky Hunt, English footballer
● 1983 - Augusto Farfus, Brazilian racing driver
● 1983 - Marcus McCauley, American football player
● 1984 - Garrett Hedlund, American actor
● 1984 - Michael Cashin, American Musician
● 1985 - Scott Carson, English footballer
● 1985 - Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
● 1986 - Shaun White, American snowboarder
● 1987 - Chris Fountain, English actor
● 1993 - Rina Koike, Japanese junior idol
DEATHS
● 1402 - Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1351)
● 1420 - Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland
● 1592 - Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
● 1634 - Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (b. 1552)
● 1653 - Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (b. 1588)
● 1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)
● 1662 - William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
● 1720 - Henri de Massue, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)\
● 1722 - Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1646)
● 1729 - Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
● 1766 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
● 1808 - John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
● 1857 - John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
● 1860 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804)
● 1866 - Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
● 1883 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian author (b. 1818)
● 1886 - William W. Snow, American politician (b. 1812)
● 1893 - James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)
● 1903 - Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
● 1914 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
● 1948 - Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
● 1961 - Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
● 1962 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
● 1963 - Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (b. 1907)
● 1964 - Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)
● 1967 - James Dunn, American actor (b. 1905)
● 1968 - Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896)
● 1969 - John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
● 1970 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913)
● 1970 - "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
● 1974 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
● 1980 - Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
● 1981 - Alec Waugh, English writer (b. 1898)
● 1987 - Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)
● 1991 - Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)
● 1994 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (b. 1918)
● 1994 - Billy Wright, English former footballer (b. 1924)
● 1994 - Major Lance, American singer (b. 1939)
● 1996 - Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Australian artist (b. 1910)
● 2000 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
● 2001 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
● 2001 - Thuy Trang, American actress (b. 1973)
● 2002 - W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
● 2003 - Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)
● 2005 - Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)
● 2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
● 2007 - Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
● 2007 - Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aigulf
● St. Andrew Dotti
● St. Angus MacNisse
● St. Anthony Ishida
● St. Auxanus
● St. Balin
● St. Euphemia
● St. Frugentius
● St. Gabriel of St. Magdalen, Blessed
● St. Gregory (I) the Great, pope and doctor
● St. Hereswitha
● St. Jerome de Torres
● Sts. John of Perugia & Peter of Sassoferrato
● St. Macanisius
● St. Mansuetus
● St. Marinus
● St. Martin de Hinojosa
● St. Maurilius
● St. Natalis
● St. Phoebe
● St. Regulus
● St. Remaclus
● St. Sandila
● Sts. Zeno & Chanton
● Bl. Bartholomew Gutierrez
● Old Catholic:
● St. Pius X, pope (1903-14) (now 8/21)
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 21 (Civil Date: September 3)
● Apostle Thaddeus of the Seventy.
● Martyr Bassa of Edessa and her sons Theogonius, Agapius and Pistus.
● St. Abramius, archimadrite, Wonderworker of Smolensk, and his disciple St. Ephraim.
● St. Abramius the Lover-of-labor of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Theocleta the Wonderworker of Asia Minor.
● St. Cornelius, abbot of Paleostrov, and his disciple St. Abramius.
● St. Isaiah of Mt. Athos.
● Australia - Flag Day.
● Monaco - Liberation Day
● Qatar - Independence Day (from Great Britain, 1971).
● San Marino - Foundation (301) by Saint Marinus.
● Taiwan/Republic of China - Armed Forces Day.
● Tunisia - Memorial Day (1934)
● 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 )
IN FICTION
● 1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client"
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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