Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Civil Liberties "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates his duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." — Thomas Paine
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Coup D'état 2000 "This morning brings news from Florida that the final vote count there shows that Secretary Cheney and I have carried the state of Florida . . . And if that result is confirmed by an automatic recount as we expect it to be, then we have won the election. . . . We have to make sure the outcome is finalized as quickly as possible." — George W. Bush as the first recounts in Florida began. Lynn Sweet, "Confident Bush predicts he'll win Florida recount," Chicago Sun-Times, 11-8-00. At the time of this first recount, Bush led Gore by 1,700 votes.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Honest business should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer." — Lester Maddox, governor of Georgia, arguing against the creation of a state consumer protection agency {Maddox first gained notoriety as a Georgia restaurant owner claiming the right to practice discrimination by refusing to serve African-Americans.}
Thought for the day: "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal."
{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 Great Basin on Saturn's Tethys
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 490 B.C.E. - The Battle of Marathon took place between the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle.
● 701 – St. Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Notable naval battle of the Viking Age.
● 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
● 1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.
● 1513 - James IV of Scotland is defeated by English forces and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
● 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
● 1561 - The Colloquy of Poissy convened near Paris. Comprised of both French Catholic prelates and reformed Protestant theologians led by Theodore Beza, the council led to a 1562 edict offering a greater measure of freedom to French Protestants.
● 1590 - Rebecca Lemp, the wife of an accountant and mother of six, is burned at the stake as a witch in Nordlingen, Germany. Victim to political ambitions of two lawyers and a burgomaster, Lemp was arrested with 12 other women. She was tortured five times before confessing. Lemp was among 32 highly respected women who are burned as witches in Nordlingen that year. Historians estimate that as many as nine million European women were killed as witches in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
● 1598 - A celebration was held for the newly completed Catholic church at San Juan de los Caballeros -- the first church erected in (what is today the state of) New Mexico. The town, founded this year by Juan de Onate, was a former Indian pueblo in the Chama River Valley.
● 1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts the town of Stono near Charleston, South Carolina.
● 1776 - The second Continental Congress officially made the term "United States", replacing the previous term "United Colonies."
● 1817 - Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
● 1830 - Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ
● 1833 - The first tracts of the Oxford Movement (which sought to purify the English Church) were released. The series was forced to close in 1841, however, when Tract 90 was published, because it interpreted Anglicanism's "Thirty-Nine Articles" in too strong of a Roman Catholic direction.
● 1836 - Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.
● 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
● 1841 - Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300.
● 1850 - California became the 31st state to join the union.
● 1850 - Territories of New Mexico & Utah created when the Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
● 1862 - Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry
● 1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
● 1863 - Dwight Moody's future song evangelist, Ira D. Sankey, 23, married Fanny Edwards, daughter of a Pennsylvania State Senator. Their marriage of 45 years bore two sons, one of whom -- Ira H. Sankey -- became a songwriter like his father.
● 1867 - Luxembourg gains independence
● 1869 - Anarchist, Haymarket martyr Louis Lingg born. Haymarket occurred when he was 19; convicted of Haymarket bombing, blew he himself up in jail. His last words in his address to the court in the Haymarket Trial - "I despise you. I despise your order, your laws, your force-propped authority. Hang me for it!"
● 1873 - Swinomish Reservation created for Lower Skagit and other tribes.
● 1880 - President Hayes visits San Francisco
● 1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
● 1887 - Alfred Landon, the American politician who ran against Franklin Roosevelt for United States president in 1936, was born. {He ran with two strikes against him, he was a Republican (widely blamed for the Great Depression) and he was a Roman Catholic (JFK would be the first successful Catholic candidate and to this point only.).}
● 1892 - Almalthea, 5th moon of Jupiter, discovered by EE Barnard at Lick
● 1893 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland's wife, Frances Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther. It was the first time a president's child was born in the White House.
● 1904 - Mounted police were used for the first time in the City of New York.
● 1908 - Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
● 1910 - Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein take up lifetime residence together.
● 1911 - 1st airmail service (British Post Office)
● 1911 - Birth of influential '60s anarchist, alternativist writer Paul Goodman, New York City.
● 1911 - Italy declared war on the Ottoman Turks and annexed Libya, Tripolitania, and Cyrenaica in North Africa.
● 1913 - Assn for Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago
● 1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
● 1919 - Over 1,000 Boston police strike when 19 union leaders are fired for organizing activities. The strike precipitated widespread looting by the citizenry. Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge put down the strike by calling out the entire state militia and all strikers are fired.
● 1922 - Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
● 1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).
● 1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
● 1934 - Birth of black radical poet Sonia Sanchez.
● 1942 - In a rare raid against the U.S. mainland, Japan drops incendiaries over Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests of Oregon and Washington. The forests failed to ignite. By contrast, well over two million Japanese citizens died in their homeland during the war.
● 1943 - Italy surrenders to the Allies.
● 1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
● 1944 - Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
● 1944 - World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
● 1945 - Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
● 1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
● 1947 - First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
● 1948 - The Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
● 1952 - The religious program 'This is the Life' premiered on Dumont (later ABC) television. This long-running series was produced under the auspices of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church.
● 1957 - Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited
● 1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President Eisenhower. {Later overturned by the Supreme Court.}
● 1963 - Landslide into Vaiont Dam empties lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)
● 1964 - Dynamite blast attributed to the Ku Klux Klan rocked the home of a black minister in McComb, Mississippi.
● 1965 - French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from NATO to protest the domination of the U.S. in the organization.
● 1965 - Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10-12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
● 1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched the eighth perfect game in major league baseball history, his 4th no-hitter.
● 1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
● 1965 - Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
● 1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
● 1967 - 1st successful test flight of a Saturn V
● 1968 - Committee of 100, pioneer British anti-nuclear group of 1950's and early 60's, dissolves itself.
● 1969 - Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashed near Fairland, Indiana killing 82.
● 1970 - A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
● 1971 - Inmates seized control of the Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, NY. Nine guards that were held hostage died along with 32 of their captors when the prison was stormed four days later.
● 1971 - British diplomat freed after eight months; The British Ambassador, Geoffrey Jackson, is released eight months after being captured by extreme left-wing guerrillas in Uruguay.
● 1975 - Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
● 1976 - Death of Mao Zedong, 82, "The Great Helmsman," who led the world's most populous country for 27 years and survived repeated attacks on his leadership by brutally suppressing his opposition, most notably in the Cultural Revolution. Mao's "Red China" was also the last serious attempt by a major country to improve its living standards by operating outside the Western capitalist economy.
● 1979 - Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
● 1980 - Eight activists from the Atlantic Life Community hammer nose cone of missile at GE plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, in the first of what would become an international movement of many dozens of "Plowshares" anti-nuclear direct actions.
● 1981 - Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League
● 1982 - Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank in preparation for STS-5
● 1982 - Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight
● 1983 - Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
● 1983 - The Soviet Union announced that the Korean jetliner the was shot down on September 1, 1983 was not an accident or an error.
● 1986 - Frank Reed was taken hostage in Lebanon by pro-Iranian kidnappers. The director of a private school in Lebanon was released 44 months later.
● 1986 - Gennadiy Zakharov was indicted by a New York jury on espionage charges. Zakharov was a Soviet United Nations employee.
● 1987 - Liverpool fans to stand trial in Belgium; Twenty-five English football fans involved in the Heysel stadium disaster are extradited to Belgium.
● 1990 - Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
● 1990 - Liberian President Samuel K. Doe was captured and killed by rebels.
● 1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
● 1993 - Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was buried in his homeland. The event occurred about four years after his death in exile.
● 1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
● 1993 - U.S. and Pakistani peacekeepers opened fire on Somalis that were attacking other peacekeepers. About a hundred Somali gunmen and civilians were killed.
● 1994 - Los Angeles prosecutors announced that they would not seek the death penalty against O. J. Simpson.
● 1994 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on an 11-day mission.
● 1994 - The U.S. agreed to accept about 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year. This was in return for Cuba's promise to halt the flight of refugees.
● 1995 - Demobilization of army's civilian auxiliary announced, Guatemala.
● 1997 - Mexico City police sweep poor neighborhoods; arrest, torture, and kill six youths.
● 1997 - Sinn Fein, the IRA's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
● 1998 - Four tourists who had paid $32,500 each were taken in submarine to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The ship is 2 miles below the Atlantic off Newfoundland.
● 1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton.
● 1999 - At least 93 people were killed when a bomb exploded in an apartment building in Moscow, Russia.
● 1999 - Report urges sweeping reform of RUC; The Royal Ulster Constabulary should undergo wholesale reform, a Police Review Commission report recommends.
● 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
● 2003 - The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.
● 2004 - 2004 Jakarta embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
● 2004 - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Čolić will be replaced. {Proving politicians are scientific idiots the world over not just in the United States.}
● 2005 - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.
BIRTHS
● 384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
● 1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
● 1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
● 1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
● 1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
● 1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
● 1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)
● 1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (d. 1780)
● 1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer
● 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
● 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
● 1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
● 1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
● 1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
● 1850 - Fremont Lawson, American newspaper editor and publisher (d. 1925)
● 1853 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)
● 1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
● 1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)
● 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
● 1877 - James Agate, English drama critic for the London Sunday Times (1923-47) (d. 1947)
● 1877 - Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924)
● 1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
● 1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
● 1882 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
● 1887 - Alfred Landon, American governor of Kansas (1933-37) and unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate (1936) (d. 1987)
● 1890 - Harland Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
● 1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
● 1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
● 1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
● 1898 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)
● 1899 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
● 1899 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)
● 1899 - Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensics League (d. 1979)
● 1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
● 1901 - Granville Hicks, American critic, novelist and teacher (d. 1982)
● 1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer
● 1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
● 1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
● 1911 - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
● 1911 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
● 1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)
● 1919 - Gottfried Dienst, German football referee
● 1920 - Aldo Parisot, American cellist and teacher
● 1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
● 1920 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
● 1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1922 - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
● 1922 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
● 1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1924 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
● 1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
● 1925 - Cliff Robertson, American actor
● 1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
● 1927 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)
● 1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
● 1932 - Sylvia Miles, American actress
● 1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor ("Fiddler on the Roof")
● 1939 - Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican actor
● 1939 - Ron McDole, American football player
● 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
● 1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
● 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
● 1942 - Luther Simmons, R&B singer
● 1942 - Inez Foxx, American R&B singer
● 1943 - Art LaFleur, American actor
● 1945 - Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
● 1945 - Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
● 1946 - Doug Ingle, Rock singer, musician (Iron Butterfly)
● 1946 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
● 1947 - Freddy Weller, Country singer
● 1949 - John Curry, English Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater (1976) (d. 1994)
● 1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician
● 1949 - Garry Maddox, American baseball player
● 1949 - Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
● 1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician
● 1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer ("Dukes of Hazzard")
● 1952 - Angela Cartwright, actress ("The Danny Thomas Show," "Lost in Space")
● 1952 - Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
● 1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
● 1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor
● 1955 - John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator
● 1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
● 1957 - Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer
● 1959 - Eric Serra, French composer
● 1960 - Hugh Grant, English actor
● 1960 - Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
● 1960 - Bob Stoops, American football coach
● 1965 - Dan Majerle, American basketball player
● 1965 - Constance Marie, American actress
● 1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
● 1966 - Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
● 1966 - David Bennent, Actor
● 1967 - Akshay Kumar, Indian Actor
● 1967 - Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)
● 1967 - Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
● 1968 - Francois Botha, South African boxer
● 1968 - Jon Drummond, American former sprinter
● 1968 - Julia Sawalha, English actress
● 1968 - Paul Durham, Rock singer (Black Lab)
● 1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
● 1970 - Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress
● 1971 - Henry Thomas, American actor and musician
● 1972 - James Farmer, American educator and artist
● 1972 - Mike Hampton, American baseball player
● 1972 - Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
● 1972 - Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
● 1972 - Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor ("ER")
● 1973 - Mark Parry, Welsh guitarist (The Manvils)
● 1973 - Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
● 1974 - Shane Crawford, Australian rules footballer
● 1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
● 1974 - Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army
● 1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor
● 1976 - Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
● 1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar)
● 1976 - Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
● 1976 - Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
● 1977 - Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer
● 1977 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
● 1977 - Kyle Snyder, American baseball player
● 1977 - Maria Rita, Singer
● 1978 - Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player
● 1978 - Shane Battier, American basketball player
● 1978 - Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
● 1979 - Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer
● 1980 - Michelle Williams, American actress ("Brokeback Mountain")
● 1980 - Todd Coffey, American baseball player
● 1981 - Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
● 1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
● 1983 - Edwin Jackson, German baseball player
● 1983 - Cleveland Taylor, International footballer
● 1985 - J.R. Smith, American basketball player
● 1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
● 1987 - Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
● 1990 - Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
● 2000 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain
DEATHS
● c.546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
● 701 - Pope Sergius I
● 1000 - Olaf I of Norway
● 1087 - King William I of England
● 1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
● 1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
● 1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)
● 1513 - King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
● 1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
● 1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
● 1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
● 1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer and founder of Montreal (b. 1612)
● 1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
● 1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
● 1806 - William Paterson, Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)
● 1815 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
● 1841 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)
● 1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
● 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
● 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
● 1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
● 1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
● 1941 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
● 1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
● 1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
● 1976 - Mao Zedong, Leader of China (b. 1893)
● 1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
● 1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892)
● 1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
● 1981 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
● 1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
● 1990 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)
● 1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (b. 1951)
● 1993 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
● 1994 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
● 1996 - Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911)
● 1997 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)
● 1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
● 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
● 1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
● 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
● 2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (M*A*S*H) (b. 1936)
● 2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
● 2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
● 2005 - John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)
● 2006 - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
● 2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (b. 1955)
● 2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
● 2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Bettelin
● St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
● Sts. Felix & Constantia
● St. Hyacinth
● St. Isaac the Great
● St. Joseph of Volokolamsk
● St. Kieran
● St. Omer
● St. Osmanna
● St. Peter Claver, priest
● St. Severian
● St. Wilfrida
● St. Wulfhilda
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 27 (Civil Date: September 9)
● St. Poemen the Great.
● St. Poemen of Palestine.
● St. Sabbas of Benephali.
● St. Liberius, pope of Rome.
● St. Hosius the Confessor, Bishop of Cordova.
● Hieromartyr Kushka and St. Pimen (Poemen) of the Kiev Caves.
● Martyr Anthusa.
● Translation of the Relics of Saints Theognostus, Cyprian and Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow.
● Great-Martyr Phanurius the newly-appeared of Rhodes.
● Eastern Orthodox:
● Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna (Grandparents of Jesus, Parents of Mary).
● Anglican: Commemoration of Constance & her companions
● Christian: St. Gorgonius, martyr
● Bulgaria, Luxembourg - Liberation Day (1944)
● California - Admission Day—31st state in the union (1850)
● Italy : Salerno Day-Allied landing (1943)
● Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku).
● North Korea - Republic Day / National Day (1948).
● Tajikistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
● 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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