Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Character "The great hope of society is individual character." — William Ellery Channing
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bashing the Clintons "Hitler was more moral than Clinton. He had fewer girlfriends." — Richard Mack, at a right-wing "Patriot" gathering in Bellevue, WA., 1994. David Neiwert, "Rush, Newspeak and Fascism: An Exegesis; VII The Transmission Belt," cursor.org, 8-30-03
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Having committed political suicide, the Conservative Party is now living to regret it ." — Chris Patten, British politician
Thought for the day: "Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it."
{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
Time Tunnel
Credit & Copyright: Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory)
Additional Image Data: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 3114 B.C.E. – According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.
● 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
● 1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
● 1522 - One of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships, the Victoria, returns to Spain, thus completing the first successful circumnavigation of the world. Magellan, a Portuguese navigator employed by Spain, set out from Seville three years earlier with 265 men, but only 15 survived the journey. Magellan himself was killed by angry natives in the Philippines, but it was too little, too late.
● 1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
● 1628 - Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
● 1669 – The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans
● 1766 - John Dalton was born. The teacher/physicist formulated the atomic theory.
● 1776 – Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.
● 1781 – The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
● 1812 - Colonial American missionary Adoniram Judson, 24, en route to the mission field, converted from Congregationalism to become a Baptist. He later translated the Bible into Burmese and authored a Burmese dictionary (1849).
● 1819 - Thomas Blanchard patented a machine called the lathe.
● 1837 - The Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio went co-educational.
● 1839 - Great fire in NY
● 1839 - Unified eastern & western Cherokee, split by the previous winter’s deadly Trail of Tears, adopt constitution and establish newly settled Tahlequah, in the Indian territory of Oklahoma, as their capitol.
● 1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
● 1848 - National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
● 1853 - Women's Rights Convention met (NYC)
● 1860 - Jane Addams, suffragist, social worker, reform activist and proponent of world peace, was born, Chicago. Founder of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Hull House. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
● 1861 – American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
● 1862 - Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland
● 1863 – American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
● 1869 - 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
● 1869 - Avondale Mine disaster, 179 miners killed, leading to first mine safety law in Pennsylvania.
● 1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
● 1873 - Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
● 1876 - Race riot in Charleston SC
● 1876 - The Southern Pacific rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco was completed.
● 1885 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
● 1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was born. He owned the Chicago Merchandise Mart and made his fortune in real estate, liquor and movies.
● 1899 - Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk.
● 1901 - U.S. President William McKinley shot by professed anarchist Leon Czolgosz, who previously had been repudiated by numerous anarchist groups, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Czolgosz was executed the following October.
● 1907 - Pius X issued the encyclical "Pascendi dominici gregis," in which he condemned the "modernist" movement within the various branches of Christendom. The document also established councils to combat these "modern errors."
● 1909 - Robert Peary, American explorer, sent word that he had reached the North Pole. He had reached his goal five months earlier.
● 1914 - Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
● 1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
● 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
● 1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
● 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
● 1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
● 1940 - The National Christian Council of Japan organized its churches into a single body, with complete autonomy from Western church control. The single Protestant structure thus formed was named the United Church of Christ in Japan.
● 1941 - Jews in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed. The order only applied to Jews over the age of 6.
● 1941 - Jews of Vilna Poland are confined to a ghetto
● 1943 - "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort PA, kills 79
● 1944 - During World War II, the British government relaxed blackout restrictions and suspended compulsory training for the Home Guard.
● 1944 – World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
● 1948 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands was crowned.
● 1949 – A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first {recognized (Custer and his ilk are ignored)} U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
● 1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
● 1952 - Dozens die in air show tragedy; At least 27 people, mostly spectators, are killed as a jet fighter breaks up over the crowd at an air show in Hampshire, England.
● 1955 – Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
● 1963 - Anti-nuclear march from Glasgow, Scotland, arrives in London, and attempts to present a dummy missile to the British Imperial War Museum. Apparently too many dummies are already in the museum.
● 1965 – War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore (city of Pakistan) in an hour.
● 1966 - Five nights of racial rioting begin in Atlanta. Stokely Carmichael arrested for "inciting riot" along with over 100 others.
● 1966 – In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
● 1966 - Sex reformer, birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger dies.
● 1967 - In British papers, the U.K. government takes out advertisements explaining its recent enacting of legislation outlawing pirate radio.
● 1968 - Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
● 1970 - Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners. After the crews and passengers were evacuated the jets were blown up while on the ground in Jordan.
● 1973 - Rebellion at Statesville prison, Indiana.
● 1974 - American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Only the one who has been hurt can bring healing. The other person cannot. It is the one who has been hurt who has to be willing to be hurt again to show love, if there is to be hope that healing will come.'
● 1974 - Housing occupations and barricade of San Bailio neighborhood of Rome, Italy, leads to legalized squatting.
● 1975 - 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
● 1975 - Martina Navratilova requested political asylum while in New York for the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.
● 1976 – Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
● 1978 - House Select Committee on Assassinations opens hearings into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The committee recessed on Dec. 30 after concluding conspiracies were likely in both cases, but with no further evidence for further prosecutions.
● 1978 - James Wickwire and Louis Reichardt reached the top of the world's second largest mountain, Pakistan's K-2. They were the first Americans to reach the summit.
● 1982 - Polish dissidents seize the Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
● 1982 - Twenty killed by car bomb in Tehran, Iran.
● 1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
● 1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
● 1986 - 22 worshipers were killed in a synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey. The people were attacked with machine guns and grenades. The gunmen eventually took their own lives.
● 1986 - USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
● 1988 - Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
● 1988 - Flood waters, submerging 3/4 of the country of Bangladesh, begin to recede, after killing at least 1,154 and leaving 25 million homeless.
● 1988 - Seven arrested in protests at uranium processing plant, Fernald, Ohio. The Fernald plant was later revealed to be among the worst polluters in the entire U.S. nuclear industry.
● 1990 - Iraq warned that anyone trying to flee the country without permission would be put in prison for life.
● 1991 - The name St. Petersburg was restored to Russia's second largest city. The city was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great. The name has been changed to Petrograd (1914) and to Leningrad (1924).
● 1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
● 1992 - A 35-year old man died ten weeks after receiving a transplanted baboon liver.
● 1993 - Slovak Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar says gypsies constitute a "socially unadaptable population" with "children, simply, who are a great burden on this society." Persecution against the Roma (gypsies), who emigrated to Europe from India in the 11th Century, has increased markedly in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism. Jozef Pacai, mayor of the Czech city Medzev, has suggested selectively killing gypsies.
● 1995 - Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at the O. J. Simpson trial. {Somehow in the jury's minds this meant O. J. was not guilty.}
● 1995 - U.S. Senator Bob Packwood was expelled by the Senate Ethics Committee.
● 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.
● 2000 - The U.N. Millennium Summit began in ● 1998 - Japanese director Akira Kurosawa died at age 88.
New York. It was the largest gathering of world leaders in history with more than 150 present.
● 2001 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it was seeking a lesser antitrust penalty and would not attempt to break up Microsoft.
● 2002 - At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the exhibition "George Catlin and His Indian Gallery" went on view. The exhibit contained over 400 objects.
● 2002 - In New York, the U.S. Congress convened at Federal Hall for a rare special session. The session was held in New York to express the nation's mourning for the loss on September 11, 2001 and unity in the war against terrorism.
● 2003- Mahmoud Abbas resigned as Palestinian prime minister.
● 2003 – Tropical Depression 9 formed in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, later to become Hurricane Isabel, the 9th named storm of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season.
● 2004 - Former President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery during a four-hour procedure at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.
● 2005 - The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the nation to approve same-sex marriages. (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger later vetoed the bill.)
● 2006 - President George W. Bush acknowledged previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects had been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.
BIRTHS
● 1535 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d. 1612)
● 1620 – Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer (d. 1704)
● 1656 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
● 1666 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
● 1711 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
● 1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
● 1729 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786)
● 1757 – Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
● 1766 – John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
● 1781 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858)
● 1795 – Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852)
● 1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
● 1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
● 1808 – Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883)
● 1811 - James Gilliss, American naval officer; founded the U.S. Naval Observatory (d. 1865)
● 1814 – George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
● 1815 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (d. 1870)
● 1817 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician (d. 1893)
● 1829 – Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902)
● 1838 – Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
● 1857 – Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
● 1860 – Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935)
● 1868 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1947)
● 1869 – Felix Salten, Austrian author (d. 1945)
● 1876 – John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (1923) (d. 1935)
● 1877 – Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930)
● 1879 – Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
● 1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American banker and diplomat (d. 1969)
● 1890 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress (d. 1960)
● 1892 – Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
● 1893(90? NYT) – Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
● 1895 - Walter Robert Dornberger, German engineer; directed construction of V-2 rocket (d. 1980)
● 1899 – Billy Rose, American composer (d. 1966)
● 1900 – W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
● 1900 – Julien Green, French-born American novelist (d. 1998)
● 1904 – Max Rosenbloom, American boxer (d. 1976)
● 1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1970) (d. 1987)
● 1909 – Michael Gordon, American actor and director (b. 1993)
● 1909 - Michael Galitzen, American diver; won four Olympic medals (1928 and 1932) (d. 1959)
● 1911 – Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
● 1915 – Franz Josef Strauß, German Politician (d. 1988)
● 1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler
● 1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, American Inventor
● 1923 – King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
● 1925 – Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (d. 1976)
● 1926 – Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (d. 2001)
● 1926 – Claus von Amsberg, Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
● 1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, American author
● 1928 – Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
● 1929 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
● 1937 – Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-born illustrator
● 1937 – Brigid Berlin, American actor
● 1937 – Jo Anne Worley, American actress ("Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In")
● 1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1939 – Dan Cragg, American soldier and author
● 1939 – David Allan Coe, American country singer
● 1942 - Mel McDaniel, Country singer
● 1943 – Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1943 – Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
● 1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
● 1945 – Larry Lucchino, American baseball executive
● 1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress ("Saturday Night Live," "Third Rock From the Sun")
● 1947 – Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
● 1982 - Buddy Miller, Country singer, songwriter
● 1954 – Ève Luquet, French stamp designer
● 1956 – Bill Ritter, American politician
● 1957 – Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor-General of Canada
● 1957 - Joe Smyth, Country musician (Sawyer Brown)
● 1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian
● 1958 – Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
● 1958 – Buster Bloodvessel, British singer
● 1958 – Nigel Westlake, Australian musician and composer
● 1960 - Perry Bamonte, Rock musician (The Cure)
● 1961 – Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
● 1961 – Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
● 1961 - Steven Eckholdt, Actor
● 1962 - Kevin Willis, American basketball player
● 1962 – Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
● 1962 - Kevin Miller, Rock musician
● 1963 – Alice Sebold, American novelist
● 1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
● 1963 – Bryan Simonaire, American politician
● 1963 - Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
● 1963 - Mark Chesnutt, Country singer
● 1964 – Rosie Perez, American actress
● 1965 – John Polson, Australian actor and film director
● 1968 – Paul Rea, American television journalist
● 1969 – Ben Finegold, American chess player
● 1969 – CeCe Peniston, American dance music singer
● 1969 - Darryl Anthony, R&B singer (Az Yet)
● 1970 - Macy Gray, R&B singer
● 1970 – Paul Miller, American composer and author
● 1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
● 1972 – China Miéville, English writer
● 1972 – Justina Machado, Puerto Rican actress
● 1972 – Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
● 1972 – Idris Elba, English/American actor
● 1972 – Dylan Bruno, American actor (Numb3rs)
● 1973 – Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
● 1973 – Greg Rusedski, Canadian-born tennis player
● 1974 – Tim Henman, English tennis player
● 1974 – Sarah Danielle Madison, American actress
● 1974 – Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
● 1974 – Sarah Strange, Canadian actress
● 1975 – Derrek Lee, American baseball player
● 1974 – Justin Whalin, American actor
● 1976 – N.O.R.E., American rapper
● 1976 – Hyun Young, South Korean actress and pop singer
● 1976 – Naomie Harris, American actress
● 1977 – Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer
● 1977 - Noreaga, Rapper
● 1978 – Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
● 1978 – Tony Thaxton, drummer (Motion City Soundtrack)
● 1979 – Foxy Brown, American rapper
● 1979 – Brandon Silvestry, American professional wrestler
● 1979 – Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
● 1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
● 1980 – Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer
● 1980 – Jillian Hall, American professional wrestler
● 1980 – Samuel Peter, Nigerian heavyweight boxer
● 1981 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer
● 1983 – Ljubisa Bojic, Serbian student movement leader
● 1985 – Webbie, American rapper
● 1986 – Raven Riley, American porn star
● 1989 – Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer
● 2000 – Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (d. 2000)
● 2006 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japan Imperial Family member
DEATHS
● 957 – Liudolf, Duke of Swabia
● 972 – Pope John XIII
● 1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
● 1536 – William Tyndale, Protestant bible translator (b. c. 1494)
● 1625 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
● 1635 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
● 1649 – Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
● 1683 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)
● 1708 – Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
● 1748 – Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
● 1782 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
● 1783 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
● 1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
● 1868 – Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)
● 1902 – Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)
● 1907 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
● 1938 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
● 1950 – Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
● 1951 – James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
● 1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
● 1962 – Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b. 1898)
● 1962 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
● 1966 – Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)
● 1966 – Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
● 1969 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
● 1974 – Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b. 1896)
● 1978 – Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
● 1984 – Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
● 1985 – Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
● 1986 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
● 1987 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
● 1988 – Leroy Brown, professional wrestler (b. 1950)
● 1990 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
● 1990 – Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
● 1991 – Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
● 1994 – Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
● 1997 – P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
● 1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
● 1999 – René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
● 2000 – Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)
● 2003 – Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
● 2005 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
● 2007 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
● 2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
● 2007 – Alex, African Grey parrot "student" of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Feast of the Transfiguration
● St. Arator
● St. Begga of Cumbria
● St. Cagnoald
● St. Chainaldus
● Sts. Cottidus, Eugene, & Companions
● St. Donatian
● St. Eleutherius
● St. Faustus
● Sts. Felix and Augebert
● St. Gondulphus
● St. Maccallin
● St. Magnus
● St. Onesiphorus
● St. Petronius
● St. Zachariah
● Bl. Thomas Tsughi
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 24 (Civil Date: September 6)
● Hieromartyr Eutychius, disciple of St. John the Theologian
● Translation of the Relics of St. Peter, Metropolitan of Kiev.
● St. Arsenius, abbot of Komel (Vologda).
● St. George Limniotes the Confessor of Mt. Olympus.
● Martyr Tation (Tatio) at Claudiopolis.
● Virgin Martyr Cyra of Persia.
● New Hieromartyr Cosmas of Aetolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles.
● St. Dionysius, Archbishop of Aegina.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Petrovskaya" ("Of St. Peter of Moscow").
● Anglican:
● Feast of the Transfiguration
● Bulgaria – Unification Day.
● Canada – Stillbirth Remembrance Day in New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Nova Scotia.
● Pakistan – Defence Day (Pak-Army Day) Since 1965
● Swaziland – Somhlolo Day/Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1968).
● United States – Stillbirth Remembrance Day in 39 states, in remembrance of Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart
● 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
● 1903 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Creeping Man"
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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