Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Change "If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions." — Peter Block
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On WMD – Weapons of Mass Destruction "Reporter:In regard to Iraq weapons of mass destruction and terrorists, is there any evidence to indicate that Iraq has attempted to or is willing to supply terrorists with weapons of mass destruction? Because there reports that there is no evidence of a direct link between Baghdad and some of these terrorist organizations.
Donald Rumsfeld:Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones. And so people who have the omniscience that they can say with high certainty that something has not happened or is not being tried, have capabilities that are—what was the word you used, Pam, earlier?
Reporter:Free associate? (Laughs)
Rumsfeld:Yeah. They can—(chuckles)—they can do things I can't do. (Laughter)" — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during a Department of Defense news briefing. defenselink.mil, 2-12-02.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "(Gay) marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman." — Arnold Schwarzenegger, California governor
Thought for the day: "People will buy anything that's one to a customer."
{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
Aurigids from 47,000 Feet
Credit: Jeremie Vaubaillon, Caltech, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1590 - Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
● 1661 - Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
● 1666 - Great Fire of London ends: nearly 14,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
● 1692 - At Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Colonial clergyman Increase Mather, 53, received the first Doctor of Sacred Theology (STD) degree to be awarded in America.
● 1698 - In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards.
● 1774 - The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association, and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress.
● 1781 - Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis.
● 1793 - In France, the "Reign of Terror" began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities.
● 1795 - US-Algiers sign peace treaty
● 1798 - Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
● 1800 - Malta is conquered by Great Britain.
● 1810 - The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was formally organized by the Congregational churches of New England at Farmington, Connecticut.
● 1816 - Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
● 1836 - Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas.
● 1839 - The First Opium War begins in China.
● 1862 - American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
● 1863 - Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama.
● 1864 - Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
● 1870 - Three Roman Catholic universities were founded in the United States on this exact same date: St. John's in New York City, Loyola in Chicago, and Canisius in Buffalo, New York.
● 1877 - Sioux chief Crazy Horse was killed by the bayonet of a U.S. soldier. The chief allegedly resisted confinement to a jail cell.
● 1877 - Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
● 1881 - The American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan.
● 1882 - Thirty thousand workers march to protest working conditions in the first U.S. Labor Day parade, New York City.
● 1885 - 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Jake Gumper in Ft. Wayne, Indiana) {To this day many pumps are still manufactured by the Wayne Pump Co.}
● 1888 - American baseball player-turned-evangelist Billy Sunday, 26, married Helen Thompson, 20. In later years she became affectionately known as "Ma Sunday," and became his evangelistic campaign advisor. She survived Billy (d.1935) by 22 years.
● 1900 - France proclaimed a protectorate over Chad.
● 1905 - The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed by Russia and Japan to end the Russo-Japanese War. The settlement was mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in New Hampshire.
● 1912 - John Milton Cage, the experimental American composer, was born.
● 1914 - Battle of Marne, first major battle of World War I. The Germans, British and French fought for six days killing half a million people.
● 1915 - The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
● 1917 - In 48 coordinated raids across the country, later known as the Palmer Raids, federal agents seize records, destroy equipment and books, and arrest hundreds of IWW (Wobbly) activists (including William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, a leader of the organization) for the crimes of labor organizing and "obstructing" World War I.
● 1918 - Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
● 1925 - 112° F (44° C), Centerville, Alabama (state record)
● 1930 - Charles Creighton and James Hagris completed the drive from New York City to Los Angeles and back to New York City all in reverse gear. The trip took 42 days in their 1929 Ford Model A.
● 1932 - The colony of Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, Mali, and Niger.
● 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
● 1938 - Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
● 1939 - World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
● 1942 - World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
● 1943 - World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
● 1944 - Allies liberate Brussels
● 1944 - Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
● 1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino is arrested in Yokohama. D'Aquino was suspected of being the wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose." She served six years in prison. She later pardoned by U.S. President Ford.
● 1948 - Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, as such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
● 1950 - Baptist Bible College was founded in Springfield, MO, under auspices of the Baptist Bible Fellowship. With an enrollment of over 2,000, it is today one of the largest Bible colleges in America.
● 1953 - The first privately operated atomic reactor opened in Raleigh, NC.
● 1954 - Peace Pledge Union organizes demonstration against H-Bomb, Trafalgar Square, London.
● 1956 - 20 people were killed in a train crash in Springer, NM.
● 1957 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
● 1957 - Publication of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," an inspiration for a generation of restless spirits.
● 1958 - The first color videotaped program was aired. It was "The Betty Freezor Show" on WBTV-TV in Charlotte, NC.
● 1959 - UK's first trunk call from a pay phone; The first trunk dialing system from a public call-box is launched during a ceremonial phone call from Bristol to London.
● 1960 - The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
● 1961 - Pres. Kennedy orders resumption of nuclear testing, "underground, with no fallout." {An assumption that proves deadly for many downwind of the testing.}
● 1961 - The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
● 1961 - The U.S. government made airline hijacking a federal offense.
● 1964 - "Rebel Girl" Elizabeth Gurley Flynn dies, Moscow, USSR.
● 1968 - 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan
● 1969 - My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
● 1970 - Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
● 1970 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien province.
● 1972 - Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium
● 1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. All terrorists and athletes end up dying during police attack at airport.
● 1975 - Sacramento, California: a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson, Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. The pistol she is using malfunctions and no shot is fired. 17 days later, Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate Ford.
● 1975 - London Hilton bombed; Two people are killed and 63 injured as a suspected IRA bomb explodes in the lobby of the Hilton hotel in central London.
● 1977 - Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
● 1977 - The United States launched the Voyager 1 spacecraft two weeks after launching its twin, Voyager 2. Both craft would fly by Jupiter and Saturn.
● 1978 - Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland. President Jimmy Carter would mediate the still in place successful agreement that would result.
● 1979 - Mountbatten buried after final parade; The Queen leads the nation in mourning as the body of her husband's uncle is buried after a day of pageantry in London.
● 1980 - The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
● 1981 - Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp established outside Greenham Air Base, Britain, as "Women For Life On Earth."
● 1983 - 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
● 1983 - U.S. President Reagan denounced the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean Air Lines. Reagan demanded that the Soviet Union pay reparations for the act that killed 269 people. {The acting president fails to mentioned the spy plane that was using the airliner for cover.}
● 1984 - 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB
● 1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
● 1984 - Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
● 1985 - Rioting in South Africa spilled into white neighborhoods for the first time.
● 1986 - A Pan Am jumbo jet carrying 358 people was hijacked at Karachi Airport. When security forces stormed the plane 21 people were killed and dozens were wounded.
● 1986 - NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms
● 1986 - NASA launched DOD-1.
● 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urged for a Holy War against the West and former allies.
● 1991 - In the trial of former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega jury selection began.
● 1991 - Soviet lawmakers created an interim government to usher in the confederation after dissolving the U.S.S.R. The new name the Union of Sovereign States was taken.
● 1992 - A General Motors Corporation strike ended with a new agreement being approved. Nearly 43,000 workers were on strike.
● 1995 - France set off an underground nuclear blast in the South Pacific.
● 1997 - Mother Teresa dies; Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, dies at the age of 87.
● 2000 - Mark Bailey, 42, pled no contest to stalking and terrorizing Brooke Shields for the last 15 years. Baily was sentenced to probation and counseling after he agreed to stay away from Shields for the next 10 years.
● 2001 - Peru's attorney general filed homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori. Fujimori was linked to two massacres by paramilitary death squads. At the time of the charges, Fujimori was in exile in Japan.
● 2002 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, a car bomb killed at least 15 people.
● 2002 - In Kandahar, Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai was unhurt in an assassination attempt. Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai was wounded in the attack. Karzai's American body guards returned fire and killed three people.
● 2005 - President George W. Bush nominated John Roberts for chief justice. {And the time of activist NeoCon judges would begin in earnest.}
● 2005 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
● 2006 - Felipe Calderon was declared Mexico's president-elect after two months of uncertainty over a disputed election. {Even though recounts showed he was the loser. The same voting machines that allowed Bush to steal the 2004 election were used and manipulated in Mexico.}
● 2007 - 3 terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Quaeda are arrested in Germany after planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US-Military installations.
BIRTHS
● 1187 - Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
● 1568 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
● 1621 - Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
● 1638 - Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
● 1667 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
● 1695 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
● 1722 - Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
● 1725 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
● 1735 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
● 1750 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
● 1771 - Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (d. 1847)
● 1774 - Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
● 1775 - Juan Martín Díez, el Empecinado (the undaunted), Spanish guerrillero (d. 1825)
● 1787 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
● 1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
● 1792 - Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857).
● 1806 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
● 1807 - Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
● 1809 - Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (d. 1880)
● 1827 - Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
● 1836 - Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
● 1847 - Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
● 1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and inventor (d. 1935)
● 1867 - Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
● 1874 - Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
● 1876 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
● 1876 - Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
● 1879 - Frank Baldwin Jewett, American engineer; first president of Bell Laboratories (1925-40) (d. 1949)
● 1881 - Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (d. 1938)
● 1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
● 1892 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
● 1897 - A. C. Nielsen, American market research engineer (d. 1980)
● 1902 - Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and executive (d. 1979)
● 1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
● 1905 - Maurice Challe French general (d. 1979), one of the leaders of the Algiers putsch in 1961.
● 1908 - Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
● 1912 - John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
● 1912 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
● 1912 - Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
● 1914 - Nicanor Parra, Chilian poet and mathematician
● 1916 - Frank Yerby, American novelist (d. 1991)
● 1916 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
● 1918 - Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
● 1921 - Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (d. 2007)
● 1924 - Paul Dietzel, American college football coach
● 1927 - Paul Volcker, American banker
● 1929 - Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
● 1929 - Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
● 1933 - Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilian catholic archbishop
● 1934 - Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
● 1935 - Johnny Briggs MBE, English actor
● 1936 - Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1936 - John Danforth, Former U.S. senator, R-Mo.
● 1937 - Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian footballer
● 1937 - Robert Lucas, American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics recipient
● 1939 - William Devane, American actor
● 1939 - George Lazenby, Australian actor
● 1939 - Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
● 1939 - John Stewart, Folk singer (The Kingston Trio)
● 1940 - Raquel Welch, American actress
● 1942 - Werner Herzog, German film director
● 1942 - Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995)
● 1942 - Denise Fabre French television presenter.
● 1944 - Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright (d. 1996)
● 1945 - Al Stewart, Scottish singer and songwriter
● 1946 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer and songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991)
● 1946 - Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
● 1946 - Dennis Dugan, Actor, director
● 1947(46? NYT) - Buddy Miles, American musician
● 1948 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
● 1950 - Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist ("Cathy")
● 1950 - Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer
● 1951 - Paul Breitner, German footballer
● 1951 - Patti McGuire, American model and television producer
● 1951 - Michael Keaton, American actor
● 1951 - Jamie Oldaker, Country musician (The Tractors)
● 1956 - Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings)
● 1957 - Peter Winnen, Dutch bicycle road athlete
● 1961 - Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist
● 1962 - Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor
● 1963 - Juan Alderete, American bassist (Racer X)
● 1963 - Jeff Brantley, American baseball player
● 1963 - Jonathan Phillips, English actor
● 1963 - Taki Inoue, Japanese racing driver
● 1963 - Kristian Alfonso, American actress
● 1964 - Frank Farina, Australian footballer
● 1965 - Chris Morris, English satirist
● 1965 - David Brabham, Australian racing driver
● 1965 - César Rincón, colombian matador
● 1966 - Achero Mañas, Spanish actor and film director
● 1966 - Milinko Pantić, retired Serbian footballer
● 1966 - Terry Ellis, R&B singer (En Vogue)
● 1967 - India Hicks, English model
● 1967 - Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
● 1968 - Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
● 1969 - Dweezil Zappa, American musician
● 1969 - Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo, Brazilian footballer
● 1969 - Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
● 1970 - Steve Burton, American actor
● 1970 - Liam Lynch, American musician (Sifl and Olly)
● 1970 - Kim Hye-su, South Korean actress and model
● 1973 - Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress ("Charmed")
● 1973 - Alexandra Kerry, daughter of American Senator John Kerry
● 1973 - Paddy Considine, English actor
● 1975 - Rod Barajas, American baseball player
● 1975 - George Boateng, Dutch footballer
● 1975 - Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1975 - Jamie Spaniolo, American horrorcore rapper
● 1976 - Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
● 1976 - Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
● 1977 - Minoru Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1977 - Rosevelt Colvin, American football player
● 1977 - Nazr Mohammed, American Basketball player
● 1977 - Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish football winger
● 1977 - Alexey Harkov, Russian bassist (Kipelov, Sergey Mavrin)
● 1978 - Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby union footballer
● 1978 - Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
● 1978 - Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
● 1979 - John Carew, Norwegian footballer
● 1979 - Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
● 1979 - George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
● 1980 - Franco Costanzo, Argentinian football goalkeeper
● 1981 - Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
● 1981 - Drew Carter, American football player
● 1982 - Alexandre Geijo, Spanish/Swiss footballer
● 1982 - Sondre Lerche, Norwegian musician
● 1983 - Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
● 1986 - Andrew Ducote, Actor
● 1987 - Pierre Casiraghi, son of princess Caroline of Monaco
● 1991 - Skandar Keynes, English actor
● 1993 - Gage Golightly, American actress
DEATHS
● 1165 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
● 1201 - Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
● 1235 - Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
● 1548 - Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
● 1607 - Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
● 1629 - Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c. 1585)
● 1734 - Nicolas Bernier, French musician and composer (b. 1664)
● 1786 - Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
● 1803 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
● 1803 - François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
● 1808 - John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
● 1836 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
● 1838 - Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
● 1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
● 1867 - Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
● 1876 - Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
● 1877 - Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
● 1898 - Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
● 1901 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
● 1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
● 1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
● 1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
● 1914 - Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
● 1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
● 1920 - Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
● 1922 - Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
● 1926 - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, one of the founding members of the "Deutsche Arbeiterpartei", which would become the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) (b. 1890)
● 1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
● 1931 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
● 1932 - Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
● 1936 - Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
● 1936 - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
● 1942 - François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
● 1943 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
● 1945 - Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
● 1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
● 1953 - Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading ‘blood and soil’ ideologists (b. 1895)
● 1954 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1954)
● 1965 - Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
● 1966 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
● 1970 - Jochen Rindt, Austrian Formula One driver, the first ever posthumous world champion (b. 1942)
● 1973 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
● 1975 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
● 1977 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant (b. 1897)
● 1979 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
● 1982 - Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
● 1983 - Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909)
● 1988 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
● 1990 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
● 1992 - Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
● 1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
● 1997 - Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
● 1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
● 1998 - Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
● 1998 - Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
● 1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
● 1999 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
● 2001 - Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
● 2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
● 2003 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
● 2005 - Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
● 2007 - Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
● 2007 - Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
● 2007 - D. James Kennedy, Presbyterian Evangelist (b. 1930)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abdas of Susa
● St. Alvitus
● St. Bertin, abbot of Saint-Omer.
● St. Charbel
● St. Eudoxius
● St. Herculanils
● St. Joseph Canh
● St. Laurence Justinian, bishop of Venice, confessor
● St. Obdulia
● St. Peter Tu
● St. Quintius
● St. Romulus
● St. Victorinus
● Sts. Zechariah and Elisabeth, parents of John the Baptist
● Bl. Teresa of Calcutta
● Bl. William Browne
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 23 (Civil Date: September 5)
● Apodosis of the Dormition
● Martyr Lupus, slave of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica.
● Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons.
● St. Callinicus, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● Saints Eutychius and Florentius of Nursia.
● Greek Calendar:
● 38 Martyrs of Thrace.
● St. Nicholas the Sicilian who struggled on Mt.
● Neotaka in Euboea.
● Roman festivals - Jupiter Stator to commemorate that Jupiter helped Romulus to stop the Sabine invasion under Titus Tatius.
● India - The birthdate of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India.
● Iran - Iman Ali Day
● 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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