Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Church-State Separation "I'm completely in favor of separation of church and state. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." — George Carlin
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Inquisition "Perhaps the best thing we can hope for is that remorse and regret set in among the public and even among Clinton apologists . . . If this does happen it will be one of the very few good things to emerge from Bill Clinton's Year of Lies." — William Bennett, The Death of Outrage, Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999, p. 156
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "We have every mixture you can think of. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews, and a cripple." — James {let's rape the Earth for everything we can since the Second Coming is near} Watt, Secretary of the Interior, on the diversity of his staff {It was this statement that led to his forced resignation.}
Thought for the day: "One family builds a wall, two families enjoy 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
The Voyagers' Message in a Bottle
Credit: Voyager Project, JPL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 70 - Following a six-month siege, Jerusalem surrendered to the 60,000 troops of Titus' Roman army. Over a million Jewish citizens perished in the siege and, following the city's capture, another 97,000 were sold into slavery.
● 1273 - Election of Pope John XXI.
● 1331 - Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia
● 1380 - Battle of Kulikovo - Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance. This began the decline of the Tatars.
● 1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
● 1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
● 1514 - Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
● 1522 - Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan
● 1553 - City of Lichfield, England established
● 1565 - A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, FL.
● 1565 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta (the Siege of Malta started on May 18).
● 1565 - The parish of St. Augustine, Florida, was founded by Father Don Martin Francisco Lopez de Mendozo Grajales, chaplain to the conquering Spanish forces. It became the first and oldest Roman Catholic parish established in America.
● 1636 - Harvard College (later University) was founded by the Massachusetts Puritans at New Towne. It was the first institution of higher learning established in North America, and was originally founded to train future ministers.
● 1664 - The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who then renamed it New York.
● 1727 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
● 1755 - French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
● 1756 - French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
● 1760 - The Capitulation of Montreal. British give Indians right to remain on lands they occupy, recognizing previous French agreements.
● 1763 - Stepan Glotlov lands on Kodiak Island, Alaska, and attempts to persuade natives to pay tribute to Imperial government. They refuse and attack the Russians.
● 1771 - Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California
● 1793 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
● 1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
● 1797 - San Fernando Mission, Calif., established near a village of Anchois Indians that has since been replaced by strip malls.
● 1810 - The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men established fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
● 1831 - William IV was crowned King of Great Britain.
● 1845 - Oxford Movement leader, John Henry Newman, 44, resigned from the Church of England -- convinced that it had severed itself from its ancient episcopal moorings and true apostolic succession -- and became a Roman Catholic.
● 1858 - Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people.
● 1860 - Loss of steamer, "Lady Elgin"
● 1862 - Birth of Cecil Wilson, pacifist parliamentarian, Britain.
● 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
● 1866 - The first recorded birth of sextuplets took place in Chicago, IL. The parents were James and Jennie Bushnell.
● 1883 - Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake), main chief of the Lakota (Sioux) tribes, delivers a speech, at the celebration of the driving of the last spike in the Northern Pacific railroad joining with the transcontinental system, to great applause. He delivered the speech in his Sioux language, departing from a speech originally prepared with an army translator. Denouncing the U.S. government, settlers, and army, the listeners thought he was welcoming and praising them. While giving the speech, Sitting Bull paused for applause periodically, bowed, smiled, and continued insulting and making asses of the audience and U.S. authorities as the translator delivered the original address.
● 1888 - In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
● 1892 - An early version of "The Pledge of Allegiance" appeared in "The Youth's Companion."
● 1893 - In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was passed by the Legislative Council. It was consented by the governor on September 19 giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
● 1900 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
● 1900 - Claude Pepper, the American politician and champion of aid to the elderly, was born.
● 1901 - Francisco Ferrer opens the libertarian Escuela Moderna in Barcelona, Spain.
● 1909 - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) strikers at the Pressed Steel Car Plant in McKees Rock, Pennsylvania, force management to improve shop conditions, hike wages by 15 percent, and drop a "pool system," which determined a worker's pay according to the output of a group. The company paid a group's entire pay to the foreman, who doled it out as he saw fit.
● 1911 - Birth of naturalist Euell Gibbons. Many parts are edible. Clarksville, Texas.
● 1911 - Opening of the founding congress of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT).
● 1914 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
● 1916 - Death of Walter Roberts, first of 73 British WWI conscientious objectors to die as a result of their prison treatment.
● 1920 - US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
● 1923 - Honda Point Disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
● 1924 - Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador
● 1925 - Birth of film comic Peter Sellers. His role in "Being There" (1979) anticipated George W. Bush to near perfection.
● 1926 - Germany was admitted to the League of Nations.
● 1928 - Pius XI issued the encyclical "Rerum Orientalium," promoting study of the history, doctrine and liturgy of Eastern Orthodoxy. He recommended that priests apply themselves to special studies at the Oriental Institute in Rome, founded in 1917 by Benedict XV.
● 1930 - NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
● 1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
● 1935 - Louisiana Senator--and Governor--Huey P. Long, "Kingfish," is shot to death in the corridor of the state capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr., who is gunned down, in turn, by Long's bodyguards.
● 1939 - FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
● 1941 - Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated
● 1941 - Workers strike against diversion of milk to military use by the Nazis, Norway.
● 1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Deutsche deported to Siberia.
● 1943 - World War II: Julius Fučík is executed by Nazis.
● 1943 - World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati was bombed by USAAF.
● 1943 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
● 1944 - 1st V-2 rocket lands in Britain
● 1944 - World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
● 1945 - Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
● 1945 - In Washington, DC, a bus equipped with a two-way radio was put into service for the first time.
● 1950 - Miners trapped underground by landslide; Rescuers say 116 miners trapped in Knockshinnoch Castle colliery in Scotland following a landslide are safe.
● 1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
● 1954 - Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) established by the U.S. and seven other nations, only two of which (Thailand and the Philippines, the latter until recently a U.S. colony) were actually in Southeast Asia.
● 1957 - Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV
● 1958 - Oman turns over Gwadur to Pakistan
● 1959 - The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
● 1960 - In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
● 1962 - Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways 9F locomotive 92220 'Evening Star'
● 1962 - Newly independent, Algeria, by referendum, adopts a Constitution.
● 1963 - Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys
● 1965 - Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana & Florida
● 1965 - Strike of Filipino and Mexican farmworkers against grape growers in Delano, California marks the beginning of a successful five-year strike by United Farm Workers throughout California.
● 1966 - The Severn Bridge was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
● 1967 - Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10
● 1967 - The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
● 1967 - Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic
● 1968 - Huey Newton, head of the Black Panther Party, convicted in Oakland of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of an Oakland policeman.
● 1970 - Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September
● 1971 - Beginning of the Attica (New York) Prison revolt. The interracial revolt was led by blacks but featured cooperation between prisoners of different racial and ethnic backgrounds, and was finally brutally suppressed by the state five days later, with 29 prisoners and 10 guards shot and killed by attacking state troopers. The prisoners were demanding improvements in their living and working conditions.
● 1971 - In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was inaugurated. The opening featured the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass."
● 1974 - Evel Knievel's attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho, fails after a parachute prematurely deploys on his "sky cycle."
● 1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford {Ford would testify later that there was no quid pro quo, yeah, right.} pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office. The act would ultimately cost Ford election in 1976.
● 1975 - Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline (printed in all uppercase) "I Am A Homosexual." He is later given a general discharge.
● 1975 - In Boston, MA, public schools began their court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.
● 1977 - Blacklisted film comedian Zero Mostel dies.
● 1977 - Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy
● 1978 - Three thousand unarmed demonstrators killed by Shah's troops, Teheran, Iran.
● 1983 - Eight thousand Chileans attend funeral of bus driver killed at a protest.
● 1983 - NASA launches RCA-6
● 1984 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41G mission
● 1985 - 7 die in a car & train crash in San Jose Calif
● 1985 - Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
● 1986 - Pinochet survives rebel ambush; The president of Chile escapes an attempt on his life in a fierce attack killing five of his bodyguards and wounding 11 more.
● 1988 - Four white supremacists plead guilty in Boise, Idaho to plotting bombings, robberies, and the murder of Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
● 1990 - Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Eliis Island, NYC
● 1991 - Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
● 1994 - 132 people were killed when A USAir Boeing 737 crashed as it was approaching Pittsburgh International Airport.
● 1994 - Festivities mark departure of U.S. and NATO soldiers from Berlin.
● 1997 - Strike shuts down Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in San Francisco area.
● 1997 - The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for his role in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, OK.
● 1998 - Real IRA announce ceasefire; The dissident republican group behind Northern Ireland's worst atrocity declares its violence at an end.
● 1999 - Russia's Mission Control switched off the Mir space station's central computer and other systems to save energy during a planned six months of unmanned flights.
● 1999 - US Attorney General Janet Reno names former US Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas in response to revelations in the film "Waco: The Rules of Engagement" contradicting the official government stories.
● 2000 - The head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs apologized for the federal agency's "legacy of racism and inhumanity" that included massacres, forced relocations of tribes and attempts to wipe out Indian cultures.
● 2000 - The Republic of Albania officially joins the World Trade Organization.
● 2000 - French fuel protests spread to UK; The fuel protests which have been crippling France for the past week reach Britain with a series of actions across the country.
● 2001 - Durban, South Africa hosts the World Conference against Racism.
● 2003 - The Recording Industry Association of America filed 261 copyright lawsuits against Internet users for trading songs online, including Brianna LaHara, a 12-year-old U.S. schoolgirl.
● 2004 - The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
● 2004 - "60 Minutes Wednesday" aired a report questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service. CBS News later apologized for a "mistake in judgment" after memos featured in the report were challenged as forgeries. {The London paper that originally published the story has never retracted.}
● 2005 - Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock AFB. This marks the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
● 2006 - A Senate report faulted intelligence gathering in the lead-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, and said Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather than a possible ally, contradicting assertions President Bush had used to build support for the war. {We were lied to.}
BIRTHS
● 801 - Ansgar, German Catholic archbishop (d. 865)
● 828 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
● 1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
● 1207 - King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
● 1271 - Charles Martel d'Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)
● 1380 - Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)
● 1474 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
● 1515 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)
● 1588 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (d. 1648)
● 1611 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
● 1621 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (d. 1686)
● 1633 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
● 1672 - Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (d. 1703)
● 1749 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793)
● 1749 - Marie-Louise, Princesse de Lamballe, French aristocrat (d. 1792)
● 1778 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
● 1783 - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
● 1804 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875)
● 1814 - Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874)
● 1824 - Jaime Nunó, Spanish composer (d. 1908)
● 1828 - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, American Civil War soldier (d. 1914)
● 1828 - Margaret Olivia Sage, American philanthropist (d. 1918)
● 1830 - Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (1904) (d. 1914)
● 1841 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (d. 1904)
● 1841 - Charles J. Guiteau, Assassin of President Garfield (d. 1882)
● 1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
● 1857 - Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
● 1863 - Jessie Willcox Smith, American painter and illustrator (d. 1935)
● 1873 - David O. McKay, ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1970)
● 1881 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945)
● 1884 - Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1921)
● 1886 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (d. 1967)
● 1887 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (d. 1972)
● 1889 - Robert Alphonso Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio (d. 1953)
● 1895 - Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980)
● 1896 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983)
● 1897 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer (d. 1933)
● 1900 - Claude Pepper, American senator (1936-51) and U.S. representative (1963-89) from Florida; championed help for the elderly (d. 1989)
● 1901 - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1966)
● 1907 - Buck Leonard, American baseball player (d. 1997)
● 1910 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (d. 1994)
● 1914 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (d. 2001)
● 1915 - Frank Cady, American actor
● 1918 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
● 1919 - Gianni Brera, (Giovanni Luigi Brera), Italian journalist and writer (d. 1992)
● 1921 - Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)
● 1922 - Sid Caesar, American comedian ("Your Show of Shows")
● 1922 - Lyndon LaRouche, American politician
● 1924 - Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)
● 1924 - Marie-Claire Kirkland, Quebec politician
● 1924 - Grace Metalious, American novelist (d. 1964)
● 1925 - Peter Sellers, English actor (d. 1980)
● 1927 - Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter (d. 2002)
● 1929 - Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
● 1929 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (d. 1958
● 1930 - Nguyen Cao Ky, Premier of South Vietnam
● 1930 - Mario Adorf, film and stage actor
● 1930 - Robert W. Firestone, Author, Artist, Clinical Psychologist
● 1931 - John Garrett, British politician (d. 2007)
● 1932 - Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
● 1933 - Michael Frayn, British playwright
● 1933 - Eric Salzman, American composer
● 1933 - Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician; father of Heidi Fleiss
● 1933 - Asha Bhonsle, Indian Singer; sister ofLata Mangeshkar
● 1934 - Peter Maxwell Davies, British composer
● 1934 - Rodrigue Biron, Quebec politician
● 1937 - Virna Lisi, Italian actress
● 1937 - Barbara Frum, news anchor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (d. 1992)
● 1937(38? NYT) - Sam Nunn, American politician
● 1939 - Carsten Keller, German field hockey player
● 1939 - Guitar Shorty, American blues guitarist
● 1940 – Willie Tyler, Ventriloquist ("Laugh-In")
● 1941 - Alan Feinstein, Actor
● 1941 - Bernie Sanders, American politician
● 1942 - Brian Cole, American bass guitar player (The Association) (d. 1972)
● 1943 - Adelaide C. Eckardt, American politician
● 1944 - Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer
● 1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (the Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
● 1945 - Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
● 1947 - Ann Beattie, American writer
● 1947 - Valery Afanassiev, Russian pianist
● 1947 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist (The Cars) (d. 2000)
● 1950 - Zachary Richard, Louisiana singer and songwriter
● 1950 - Mike Simpson, American politician
● 1951 - Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer
● 1952 - Will Lee, Rock musician ("Late Show with David Letterman")
● 1954 - Mark Foley, American politician
● 1956 - Frank Tovey, British musician (d. 2002)
● 1957 - Heather Thomas, American actress
● 1958 - Michael Lardie, American guitarist/keyboardist
● 1958 - Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese voice actor
● 1959 - Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer and actor
● 1960 - Aimee Mann, American musician
● 1960 - Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman; husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (d. 1990)
● 1960 - Aguri Suzuki, Japanese racing driver and Formula One team owner
● 1960 - David Steele, Rock musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
● 1962 - Sergio Casal, Spanish tennis player
● 1962 - Christopher Klim, American novelist
● 1962 - Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
● 1963 - Li Ning, Chinese gymnast
● 1963 - Brad Silberling, American television and film director
● 1964 - Michael Johns, American business executive
● 1964 - Scott Levy, American professional wrestler
● 1964 - Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian musician (d. 2000)
● 1964 - Marc Gordon, R&B singer (Levert)
● 1966 - Carola, Swedish singer
● 1966 - Peter Furler, Christian musician (Newsboys)
● 1967 - Kimberly Peirce, American film director
● 1969 - Gary Speed, Welsh footballer
● 1969 - Oswaldo Ibarra, Ecuadorian footballer
● 1969 - Lars Bohinen, Norwegian footballer
● 1970 - Neko Case, American musician
● 1970 - Latrell Sprewell, American basketball player
● 1970 - Yuji Nishizawa, Japanese hijacker
● 1971 - Brooke Burke, American model
● 1971 - Daniel Petrov, Bulgarian boxer
● 1971 - David Arquette, American actor
● 1971 - Martin Freeman, English actor ("The Office")
● 1971 - Henry Thomas, Actor
● 1971 - Pierre Sévigny, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1972 - Lisa Kennedy, American television personality
● 1972 - Markus Babbel, German footballer
● 1972 - Tomokazu Seki, Japanese voice actor
● 1972 - Phil Laak, Ireland-born professional poker player
● 1973 - Khamis Al-Owairan, Saudi Arabian footballer
● 1974 - Braulio Luna, Mexican footballer
● 1975 - Richard Hughes, English musician, (Keane)
● 1975 - Elena Likhovtseva, Russian tennis player
● 1975 - Larenz Tate, American Actor
● 1975 - Lee Eul-Yong, South Korean footballer
● 1976 - Sjeng Schalken, Dutch former tennis player
● 1976 - Gerald Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
● 1976 - Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
● 1977 - Jay McKee, hockey player
● 1978 - Gerard Autet, Spanish footballer
● 1978 - Gil Meche, baseball player
● 1979 - Pink, American singer
● 1980 - Teruyuki Moniwa, Japanese footballer
● 1981 - Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
● 1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas, American actor ("Home Improvement")
● 1983 - Wali Lundy, American football player
● 1983 - Diego Benaglio, Swiss-Italian footballer
● 1983 - Will Blalock, American basketball player
● 1983 - Chris Judd, Australian football player, Norm Smith medallist
● 1983 - Lewis Roberts-Thompson, Australian football player
● 1984 - Vitaly Petrov, Russian racing driver
● 1986 - João Moutinho, Sporting Lisbon midfielder
● 1988 - Caitlin Hill, Australian internet personality
● 1988 - Gustav Schäfer, German Drummer (Tokio Hotel)
● 1996 - Krystal Reyes, Filipina actress
● 1997 - Kimberlea Berg, English actress
DEATHS
● 701 - Pope Sergius I
● 780 - Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor
● 1397 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
● 1425 - King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
● 1539 - John Stokesley, English churchman
● 1603 - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
● 1613 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
● 1637 - Robert Fludd, English mystic (b. 1574)
● 1645 - John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
● 1644 - Francis Quarles, English poet (b. 1592)
● 1645 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (b. 1580)
● 1656 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
● 1675 - Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, countess of Solms-Braunfels (b. 1602)
● 1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
● 1721 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
● 1739 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
● 1755 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715)
● 1761 - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
● 1780 - Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)
● 1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
● 1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
● 1853 - Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
● 1882 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
● 1888 - Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
● 1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
● 1933 - King Faysal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
● 1943 - Julius Fucik, Czech journalist (executed) (b. 1903)
● 1948 - Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
● 1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
● 1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)
● 1965 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
● 1969 - Bud Collyer, American television game show host (b. 1908)
● 1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
● 1977 - Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)
● 1979 - Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
● 1980 - Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
● 1981 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
● 1981 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
● 1983 - Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
● 1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
● 1991 - Alex North, American composer (b. 1910)
● 2002 - Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)
● 2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
● 2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
● 2004 - Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)
● 2005 - Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
● 2006 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
● 2006 - Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver and TV personality (rally accident) (b. 1945)
● 2006 - Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
● 2006 - Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
● 2007 - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Birth of the Virgin Mary (mother of Jesus)
● St. Adela
● Sts. Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia
● St. Corbinian
● St. Disibod
● St. Eusebius
● St. James Fayashida, Blessed
● St. Kingsmark
● St. Louis of Omura
● St. Nestor
● St. Paul Aybara
● St. Romanus Aybara
● St. Sergius I, pope
● Sts. Timothy & Faustus
● Bl. Anthony of St. Bonaventure
● Bl. Dominic of Nagasaki
● Bl. John Inamura
● Bl. John Tomaki
● Bl. Lawrence Jamada
● Bl. Leo Kombiogi
● Bl. Louis Nifaki
● Bl. Matthew Alvarez
● Bl. Michael Jamada
● Bl. Michael Tomaki
● Bl. Paul Tomaki
● Bl. Thomas of St. Hyacinth
● Bl. Thomas Tomaki
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 26 (Civil Date: September 8)
● Martyrs Adrian and Natalia and 33 companions of Nicomedia.
● Martyr Adrian at Nicomedia.
● St. Tithoes of the Thebaid, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great.
● St. Adrian, abbot of Ondrusov (Valaam).
● Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw.
● St. Adrian, abbot of Poshekhonye (Vologda).
● St. Ibestion the Confessor, Egyptian ascetic.
● St. Adrian of Uglich, disciple of St. Paisius of Uglich.
● Finding of the relics of St. Bassian of Alatry Monastery (17th century).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Atticus and Sisinnius.
● Commemoration of the Meeting of the "Vladimir" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Repose of Schema-hieromonk Aristocleus of Mt. Athos. and Moscow (1918).
● Miraculous Renewal of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos in the hands of Righteous Abbess Rufina in Harbin, Manchuria (1925).
● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of 'Izzat (Might) - First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í calendar.
● Andorra - National day: Mare de Deu de Meritxell.
● Guinea-Bissau : Independence Day (1974)
● Lichfield, England : Sheriff's Ride Ceremony (1533)
● Malta - Feast of Our Lady of Victories (il-Vittorja); anniversary of the 1565 victory of the Knights of Malta over the Ottoman Empire; anniversary of the 1943 surrender of Italy to the Allied forces, marking the end of World War II hostilities on Malta.
● Mauritius - Mid Autumn Festival
● North Korea - National Day (Established Govt) (1948)
● Pakistan - Defence Day (Pak-Naval Day)
● Republic of Macedonia - Independence day (from Yugoslavia, 1991).
● Rhodri Day in Jersey, Channel Islands
● Fiestas de Santa Fe in New Mexico, USA.
● South Korea - Thanksgiving Day
● Uganda - Republic Day (1967)
● Vitória, Brazil - Foundation Day (1551)
● International Goose and Geese Day
● International Literacy Day
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : National Grandparents' Day - ( Sunday )
● Afghanistan : National Assembly Foundation Day (1964) - ( Wednesday )
● Scotland : Fisherman's Walk Day - ( Friday )
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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