Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Children "Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." — Robert Fulghum
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Demonizing Democrats or Don't Kill All the Liberals "We have uncovered 132 scandals. And we're not proud of the fact we uncovered scandals; and we're not proud of the fact that we have 80 lawsuits against this Clinton-Gore administration; and we're not proud of the fact that this Clinton-Gore administration is not gone—it has simply moved from the White House to the Democratic National Committee." — Larry Klayman, Chairman of Judicial Watch. Alicia Montgomery, "Where Clinton hating never dies; At a conference of conservatives, a new Republican president is no reason to forget about the last one," salon.com, 2-20-01
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Sure, [pesticides] are going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway." — Othal Brand, member of Texas pesticide review board
Thought for the day: "One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true."
{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
South Pole Lunar Eclipse
Credit & Copyright: Robert Schwarz (South Pole Station)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 3114 B.C.E. - Presumed origin of Mayan "long count" calendar system.
● 1251 B.C.E. - A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
● 70 - A Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
● 1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
● 1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England is born at Greenwich Palace.
● 1539 - Guru Angad Dev becomes the second Guru of the Sikh.
● 1714 - Treaty of Baden-French retain Alsace, Austria gets right bank of Rhine
● 1724 - The first American congregation of Dunkards (German Baptists) gathered in Philadelphia, PA.
● 1776 - The world's first submarine attack occurs when the submersible craft American Turtle attacks the British flagship Eagle in New York harbor. The American Turtle, was large enough to accommodate one operator, and entirely hand-powered. The wooden submarine attached a time bomb to the hull of the Eagle, and departed unnoticed. An explosion results, but no serious damage occurs as the poorly secured bomb had drifted away from the ship.
● 1785 - The Sunday School Society was formed in London, under the leadership of Robert Raikes. It provided weekly Christian tutoring for the poor. Eventually 3,730 schools were formed, and their success ultimately inspired the founding in 1824 of the American Sunday School Union.
● 1800 - Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC)
● 1807 - Protestant Christianity first came to China when English missionary Robert Morrison, 25, arrived on this date. (Catholic missions had first penetrated China in the 16th century with the arrival of Jesuit Matteo Ricci in 1582.)
● 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
● 1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York's Troy Post.
● 1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
● 1821 - The Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) was established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
● 1822 - Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga river in São Paulo (National Day).
● 1833 - Hannah More dies in Bristol, England. Wrote the two-volume "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education."
● 1845 - St. Louis, Missouri, became the site of the first Hebrew synagogue to be built in the Mississippi Valley.
● 1860 - American painter Anna Mary (Robertson Moses) was born in New York. Today it is known as "Grandma Moses Day."
● 1860 - Excursion steamer Lady Elgin and the lumber ship Augusta collided on Lake Michigan, killing nearly 400 persons.
● 1863 - Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass
● 1864 - American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
● 1876 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly killed.
● 1880 - George Ligowsky was granted a patent for his device that threw clay pigeons for trapshooters.
● 1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator.
● 1888 - Jesse James' last holdup.
● 1901 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
● 1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
● 1907 - Sutro's ornate Cliff House in San Francisco destroyed by fire
● 1909 - Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered-heavier-than-air-craft.
● 1911 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
● 1914 - New York Post Office Building opens to the public
● 1915 - Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
● 1917 - Birth of Jacob Lawrence, Atlantic City, N. J. A leading painter in chronicling African-American history and urban life. Among his most celebrated works will be the historical panels "The Life of Toussaint-Louverture" and "The Life of Harriet Tubman."
● 1922 - In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
● 1927 - Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using an image dissector.
● 1927 - Six Marion, N.C. textile workers killed on picket line.
● 1927 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Governor Antônio Carlos.
● 1929 - Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives were lost.
● 1934 - Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off NJ, killing 134
● 1936 - Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation.
● 1936 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
● 1936 - Rock musician Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas.
● 1940 - Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
● 1940 - World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
● 1942 - Death of peace activist Edouard de Neulville, France.
● 1942 - During World War II, the Russian army counter attacked the German troops outside the city of Stalingrad.
● 1942 - First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
● 1942 - Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
● 1943 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
● 1945 - Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
● 1948 - 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron, Ohio.
● 1948 - Three thousand attend rally in public launch of Peace Council, Melbourne, Australia.
● 1950 - Coal mine collapses in New Cumnock, Scotland - 13 miners dead. 116 rescued.
● 1952 - Egyptian army ousts prime minister; Following the recent coup in Egypt, General Mohammed Neguib forces Aly Maher out of office and assumes control himself.
● 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
● 1954 - Integration of public schools begins in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD.
● 1958 - First meeting of the New York Daughters of Bilitis, pioneer lesbian organization.
● 1958 - The first cathedral of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the U.S. and Canada was dedicated in Hackensack, NJ. The American archdiocese for this branch of Orthodoxy was created the previous year by Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III.
● 1960 - Positive thinker Rev. Norman Vincent Peale warns that any Catholic President would be under "extreme pressure from the hierarchy of his church." {JFK is elected anyway. Wonder what he might say about Huckabee or Romney.}
● 1963 - FDA announces that Dr. Steven Durovic's "anti-cancer" drug Krebiozen, administered to over 5,000 patients in 13 years, is really the common amino acid creatine, which has no anti-tumor effects whatsoever.
● 1965 - China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.
● 1965 - Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula.
● 1968 - For the first time, feminist protesters interrupt the Miss America beauty pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.
● 1969 - Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois died at age 73.
● 1970 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
● 1970 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
● 1977 - G. Gordon Liddy was released from prison. He had been incarcerated for more than four years for his involvement in the Watergate conspiracy.
● 1977 - In Wisconsin's first judicial-recall election, outraged Dane County (Madison) citizens vote judge Archie Simonson from office. He called rape a normal male reaction to provocative female attire and modern society's permissive attitude toward sex, which he said is why he sentenced a 15- year-old to just one year of probation for raping a 16-year-old girl. He is replaced by Moria Krueger, the first woman judge elected in Dane County history.
● 1977 - The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
● 1977 - Workers in Ghaziabad, India burn factory and lynch two finks; solidarity strike of 40,000 follows.
● 1978 - Callaghan accused of running scared; The UK Prime Minister announces he will not call an election this autumn, prompting criticism from the Opposition.
● 1978 - The Who's drummer, Keith Moon, 31, dies in London after overdosing on Hemenephirin, a prescription drug which was supposed to help him with alcohol. {Possibly not intended to be such a permanent solution.}
● 1978 - While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella.
● 1979 - 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at MSG, NY
● 1979 - The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
● 1984 - Epidemic 'spreads to second hospital'; Three more people die in the food poisoning epidemic at hospitals in Yorkshire, bringing the total number of deaths to 22.
● 1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
● 1986 - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
● 1988 - Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.
● 1989 - Legislation was approved by the U.S. Senate that prohibited discrimination against the handicapped in employment, public accommodations, transportation and communications.
● 1990 - Ploughshares Two activists jailed fifteen months for disabling F-111 bomber, Oxford, Britain.
● 1990 - RCMP moves in on First Nations encampment in southern Alberta, ending a month-long native attempt to protect sacred land by diverting the Old Man River around a partially completed dam.
● 1990 - Kimberly Bergalis of Fort Pierce, Fla., came forward to identify herself as the young woman who had been infected with AIDS, apparently by her late dentist. Bergalis died the following year.
● 1992 - 28 people African National Congress supporters were killed and 200 were wounded when fired upon by troops in South Africa.
● 1995 - U.S. Senator Bob Packwood announced that he would resign after 27 years in the Senate.
● 1996 - Rapper Tupac Shakur and Marion "Suge" Knight are shot in Las Vegas following a Mike Tyson fight. Shakur dies six days later at the age of 25.
● 1996 - Two women are arrested for trespass at the Norfolk (Virginia) Naval Base after walking into the base with a banner reading "Love Your Enemies."
● 1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, the former dictator of Zaire, died in exile in Morocco at age 66.
● 1997 - The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.
● 1998 - Two derecho events referred to as the Labor Day storms race across Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Vermont
● 1999 - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
● 1999 - The White House announced that 12 jailed members of the Puerto Rican independence group Armed Forces of National Liberation had accepted a clemency offer proposed by U.S. President Clinton.
● 2004 - Hurricane Ivan, a force 4 storm hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
● 2004 - The Serbian government backs a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools.
● 2005 - First presidential election was held in Egypt.
● 2006 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave in to a fierce revolt in his Labour Party and reluctantly promised to quit within a year.
● 2006 - Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage confirmed he was the source of a leak that had disclosed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, saying he didn't realize Plame's job was covert. {Questions still rest on how he came by the information in the first place.}
BIRTHS
● 786 - Emperor Saga, 52nd Emperor of Japan (d. 842)
● 1438 - Louis II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1471)
● 1524 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (d. 1583)
● 1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558-1603) (d. 1603)
● 1674 - Ernest Augustus (d. 1728)
● 1683 - Mary Anne of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal (d. 1754)
● 1694 - Johan Ludvig, Danish policitian (d. 1763)
● 1705 - Matthäus Günther, German painter (d. 1788)
● 1707 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist, biologist and author (d. 1788)
● 1726 - François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (d. 1795)
● 1740 - Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (d. 1814)
● 1777 - Heinrich Stölzel, German musician and composer (d. 1844)
● 1810 - Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist (d. 1858)
● 1814 - William Butterfield, English Gothic Revival architect (d. 1900)
● 1815 - John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (d. 1866)
● 1819 - Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
● 1829 - Ferdinand Hayden, American geologist (d. 1887)
● 1829 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German organic chemist (d. 1896)
● 1831 - Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
● 1836 - August Toepler, German physicist (d. 1912)
● 1842 - Johannes Zukertort, German chess master (d. 1888)
● 1851 - Edward Ashael Birge, American pioneer in limnology (d. 1950)
● 1855 - William Friese-Greene, British photographer (d. 1921)
● 1860 - Grandma Moses, American painter (d. 1961)
● 1866 - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (d. 1947)
● 1867 - Albert Bassermann, German actor (d. 1952)
● 1867 - John Morgan Jr., American banker and financier (d. 1943)
● 1870 - Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer (d. 1938)
● 1870 - Thomas Curtis, American athlete (d. 1944)
● 1877 - Mike O'Neill, baseball player (d. 1959)
● 1885 - Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (d. 1928)
● 1887 - Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (d. 1964)
● 1900 - Taylor Caldwell, American novelist (d. 1985)
● 1908 - Paul Brown, American football coach and executive (d. 1991)
● 1909 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film and theater director (d. 2003)
● 1911 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist leader during the Cold War (d. 1998)
● 1912 - David Packard, American electrical engineer and businessman (d. 1996)
● 1913 - Sir Anthony Quayle, British actor and director (d. 1989)
● 1914 - Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer.
● 1914 - James Van Allen, American space scientist (d. 2006)
● 1917 - John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1920 - Al Caiola, American guitarist
● 1921 - Arthur Ferrante, Pianist
● 1921 - Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish President of FC Barcelona (1978 - 2000)
● 1922 - Lucien Jarraud, Canadian radio host (d. 2007)
● 1923 - Peter Lawford, British-born American actor (d. 1984)
● 1924 - Daniel Inouye, U.S. senator, D-Hawaii
● 1925 - Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician
● 1926 - Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (d. 1983)
● 1927 - Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, French Canadian judge
● 1930 - Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist
● 1930 - Baudouin I, King of the Belgians (d. 1993)
● 1934 - Little Milton, American musician (d. 2005)
● 1934 - Omar Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon
● 1934 - Mary Bauermeister, German artist
● 1936 - Buddy Holly, American singer (The Crickets) (d. 1959)
● 1937 - John Phillip Law, American actor
● 1937 - Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor
● 1937 - Oleg Lobov, Prime Minister of Russia
● 1940 - Dario Argento, Italian film director
● 1943 - Lena Valaitis, Lithuanian-German Schlager singer
● 1943 - Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada
● 1944 - Bertel Haarder, Danish politician
● 1945 - Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
● 1946 - Alfa Anderson, Singer (Chic)
● 1946 - Willie Crawford, American baseball player (d. 2004)
● 1949 - Gloria Gaynor, American singer
● 1949 - Barry Siegel, American journalist
● 1950 - Julie Kavner, American actress ("The Simpsons," "Rhoda")
● 1951 - Morris Albert, Brazilian singer
● 1951 - Chrissie Hynde, American guitarist and singer (The Pretenders)
● 1951 - Mark Isham, American composer
● 1952 - Susan Blakely, American actress
● 1952 - Ricardo Tormo, Spanish motocyclist (d. 1998)
● 1953 - Benmont Tench, American keyboardist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
● 1954 - Corbin Bernsen, American actor ("L.A. Law")
● 1954 - Michael Emerson, American actor
● 1955 - Efim Zelmanov, Russian mathematician
● 1955 - Mira Furlan, Croatian actress
● 1956 - Byron Stevenson, British footballer (d. 2007)
● 1956 - Michael Feinstein, Pianist
● 1956 - Diane Warren, American song writer
● 1957 - Jermaine Stewart, American pop singer (Shalamar and Culture Club) (d. 1997)
● 1957 - Margot Chapman, Singer (Starland Vocal Band)
● 1961 - LeRoi Moore, American Saxophonist(Dave Matthews Band)
● 1962 - Jennifer Egan, American novelist
● 1963 - Eazy-E, American rapper (N.W.A.) (d. 1995)
● 1963 - W. Earl Brown, Actor ("Deadwood")
● 1965 - Andreas Thom, German footballer
● 1965 - Uta Pippig, German athlete
● 1965 - Darko Pančev, Macedonian footballer
● 1965 - Angela Gheorghiu, Romanian opera singer
● 1967 - Toby Jones, British actor
● 1969 - Angie Everhart, Model, actress
● 1969 - Darren Bragg, baseball player
● 1969 - Diane Farr, American actress (Numb3rs)
● 1969 - Little Jimmy Urine, American singer (Mindless Self Indulgence)
● 1969 - Rudy Galindo, American skater figure
● 1970 - Tom Everett Scott, American actor
● 1970 - Chad Sexton, Rock musician (311)
● 1972 - Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player
● 1972 - Slug, American rapper (Atmosphere)
● 1973 - Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
● 1974 - Mario Frick, Liechtensteiner footballer
● 1975 - Harold Wallace, Costa Rican footballer
● 1975 - Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer
● 1976 - Oliver Hudson, American actor
● 1977 - Nora Greenwald, American professional wrestler
● 1977 - Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
● 1978 - Devon Sawa, Canadian actor
● 1978 - Erwin Koen, Dutch footballer
● 1979 - Brian Stokes, American baseball player
● 1980 - Mark Prior, American baseball player
● 1980 - Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer
● 1980 - Javad Nekounam, Iranian footballer
● 1980 - Sara Carrigan, Australian cyclist
● 1981 - Gökhan Zan, Turkish footballer
● 1982 - Andre Dirrell, American boxer
● 1983 - Pops Mensah-Bonsu, basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks
● 1983 - Austin Kilgore, American newspaper reporter
● 1983 - Annette Dytrt, German skater figure
● 1983 - Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist
● 1983 - Mehmet Topuz, Turkisher footballer
● 1984 - Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
● 1985 - Márcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza, Brazilian footballer
● 1987 - Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
● 1987 - Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
● 1992 - Henry Gale, Guitarist in the English rock band Diversion.
● 1990 - Tanja Kolbe, German ice dancer
● 2006 - Dannielynn Marshall Birkhead, Daughter of Anna Nicole Smith and Larry Birkhead
DEATHS
● 355 - Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper
● 1151 - Geoffrey of Anjou (b. 1113)
● 1312 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
● 1496 - King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
● 1548 - Catherine Parr, final wife of Henry VIII of England (born c. 1512)
● 1552 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504)
● 1559 - Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
● 1632 - Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia
● 1644 - Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)
● 1654 - Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
● 1655 - François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601)
● 1657 - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)
● 1719 - John Harris, English writer
● 1729 - William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)
● 1708 - Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia
● 1799 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
● 1809 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)
● 1840 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)
● 1881 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842)
● 1892 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)
● 1920 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)
● 1921 - Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
● 1939 - Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
● 1943 - J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)
● 1949 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
● 1951 - Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912)
● 1954 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
● 1955 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
● 1959 - Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)
● 1962 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1892)
● 1962 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian singer (b. 1895)
● 1962 - Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b. 1885)
● 1971 - Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
● 1978 - Keith Moon, drummer in the English rock band The Who (b. 1946)
● 1982 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
● 1984 - Joe Cronin, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1906)
● 1986 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1914)
● 1990 - Earle E. Partridge, American military officer (b. 1900)
● 1991 - Edwin McMillan, American physicist (b. 1907)
● 1994 - James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924)
● 1994 - Godfrey Quigley, British actor (b. 1923)
● 1994 - Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915)
● 1994 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)
● 1996 - Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer (b. 1903)
● 1996 - Tupac Shakur, American rapper (b. 1971
● 1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930)
● 1999 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949)
● 2001 - Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
● 2001 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)
● 2002 - Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
● 2002 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
● 2003 - The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)
● 2003 - Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947)
● 2004 - Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
● 2005 - Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. circa 1924)
● 2005 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)
● 2006 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor, father of James Earl Jones (b. 1910)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alcmund
● St. Anastasius the Fuller
● St. Augustalus
● St. Carissima
● St. Cloud (Clodoald)
● St. Diuma
● St. Eupsychius
● St. Eustace
● St. Evurtius (Heortius)
● St. Faciolus
● St. Gratus of Aosta
● St. Grimonia
● St. Hilduard
● St. John of Lodi
● St. John of Nicomedia
● St. Madalberta
● St. Marek Krizin
● St. Memorius
● St. Pamphilus
● St. Regina
● St. Tilbert
● Bl. John Duckett
● Bl. John Maid
● Bl. Louis Maki
● Bl. Ralph Corby
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 25 (Civil Date: September 7)
● Return of the relics of Apostle Bartholomew from Anastasiopolis to Lipari.
● Apostle Titus of the Seventy
● Saints Barses and Eulogius, Bishops of Edessa, and St. Protopgenes, Bishop of Carrhae, confessors.
● St. Menas, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● St. John the Cappadocian and St. Epiphanius, patriarchs of Constantinople.
● Repose of Abbess Magdalena of Sevsk Convent (1848)
● Repose of Benjamin of Valaam (1848).
● Aydın Turkey - Independence day 1922
● Brazil - Independence day (from Portugal, 1822).
● Mozambique - Victory Day.
● Pakistan - Defence Day (Pak-Air-Force Day) Since 1971
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : National Grandparents' Day - ( Sunday )
● Namibia, South Africa : Settlers' Day - Monday )
● US, Canada, Guam, Virgin Islands : Labor Day (1894) - ( Monday )
IN FICTION
● 1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Engineer's Thumb"
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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