Day of the week in surrounding years:
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—MON—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—TUE—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—WED—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—THU—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—FRI—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—SAT—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—SUN—. . . .
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On African American "I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers." — W. E. B. DuBois
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On He Said/He Said "1. [Joe] Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "I will not answer any question about my wife," Wilson told me." — Robert Novak, "Mission to Niger," Chicago Sun-Times, 7-14-03.—Part 1 of 4 {Due to the length of some of these nutball quotes, I have decided to split the longer ones into parts. I could have abridged them but I think that would have lessened the impact of showing just how crazy these guys are. Please refer to previous and/or subsequent posts for complete quote.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "Do you mean now?"—when asked for the time — Few sports figures—and indeed, few figures of any endeavor—have achieved the verbal notoriety of Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, former catcher of the New York Yankees. This is one of the indescribable utterances of Hall of Shame member #6.
{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.}
MOON PHASE
Berkeley, California—Times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)
Jan 14, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 35% Age: 20% Rise: 10:45 AM Set: no set
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 14, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 34% Age: 20% Rise: 11:08 AM Set: no set
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 14, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 34% Age: 20% Rise: 10:36 AM Set: no set
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 14, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 33% Age: 20% Rise: 10:13 AM Set: 11:38 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
The Cocoon Nebula from CFHT
Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight, CFHT
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Knights Templar at the Council of Troyes.
● 1301 - Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary.
● 1501 - Martin Luther, 17, enters the University of Erfurt.
● 1514 - Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.
● 1539 - Spain annexes Cuba.
● 1601 - Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome.
● 1639 - The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
● 1724 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
● 1761 - The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marhatas. The Afghan victory changed the course of Indian History.
● 1784 - Treaty of Paris, officially ending U.S. War of Independence, ratified by Congress. By its terms, "His Britannic Majesty" is bound to withdraw his armies without "carrying away any Negroes or other property of American inhabitants."
● 1794 - First successful caesarean section in U.S., Edom, Virginia.
● 1814 - Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
● 1822 - Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrius Ypsilanti.
● 1832 - American author Edgar Allan Poe publishes his first short story, "Metzengerstein".
● 1850 - While held in the Konigstein fortress, Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin is condemned to death. Moved to Dresden in 1849, and played a principal role in the May 3 uprising with Richard Wagner. The rebellion is defeated by May 9. Bakunin is later arrested and today sentenced to die. His death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. He spends some of this time chained hand and foot to a wall. After various extraditions, he ends up in Russia where he is again condemned, without trial, to a dungeon for six years in the Peter and Paul Fortress. In 1854, he succumbs to scurvy, which causes his teeth to fall out. Eventually in 1857, Tsar Alexander orders Bakunin's release from prison. He is then permanently exiled to Siberia, from which he will escape and voyage around the world stirring up trouble.
● 1858 - Italian nationalists led by Felice Orsini throw three bombs at Napoleon III's carriage in front of the Paris Opera, killing eight bystanders and injuring 148, but only slightly wounding the Emperor and Empress.
● 1875 - Birth of Albert Schweitzer, Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. Medical humanitarian, historian of the apocalyptic enigmas of early Christianity and the end times.
● 1878 - U.S. Supreme Court rules unconstitutional any state law requiring railroads to provide equal accommodations for passengers, regardless of race or color.
● 1888 - Birth of Maurice Dommanget, Paris. Labor historian and revolutionary syndicalist.
● 1892 - Martin Niemoeller, pacifist pastor, born, Germany.
● 1893 - England - Independent Labour Party founded, Bradford, headed by Keir Hardie.
● 1896 - Birth of John Dos Passos, radical American novelist, Chicago.
● 1898 - Mathematician and pedophile Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) dies at 66.
● 1907 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
● 1913 - First Balkan War: The Greek army defeats the Turks at Bizani.
● 1914 - Henry Ford's assembly line begins production of the Model T. Each car requires 90 minutes for assembly.
● 1914 - IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) Suhr Trial begins, Marysville, California.
● 1918 - Emma Goldman fined and sentenced to two years in prison for obstruction of justice (opposing the draft). Goldman was deported shortly thereafter.
● 1922 - Committee for International Cooperation, first world cultural organization, founded by League of Nations, Geneva.
● 1938 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
● 1941 - A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and chief spokesperson for the African American working class, calls for a March on Washington, demanding racial integration of the military and equal access to defense industry jobs. The call prompts black enthusiasm too great for the government to ignore. On June 18, less than two weeks before the march, Pres. Roosevelt invited Randolph to the White House. In the unpleasant confrontation, Randolph told Roosevelt he will abandon the march plans only if Roosevelt bars job discrimination in both the defense industry and government. Incredulous at Randolph's obstinacy, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, the government's most significant action on behalf of African Americans since post-Civil War reconstruction.
● 1943 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
● 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
● 1950 - The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
● 1953 - President Josip Broz Tito is elected president of Yugoslavia.
● 1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation. {In later years AMC is absorbed by Chrysler, which is in turn absorbed by Mercedes-Benz.}
● 1966 - March on Atlanta to protest ouster of Julian Bond, African American pacifist, from Georgia House of Representatives, after his endorsement of SNCC statement critical of U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke.
● 1967 - Gathering of the Tribes for the First Human Be-In (first hippie "be-in") at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Between 20,000 to 30,000 come to play.
● 1969 - Series of explosions aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
● 1970 - A display of John Lennon's erotic "Bag One" lithographs opens in London. Scotland Yard seizes prints two days later as evidence of pornography.
● 1970 - Spain - Government drafts 55,000 postal workers to crush strike.
● 1970 - United Airlines halted its "men only" executive flights between New York and Chicago.
● 1972 - Adrien Perrissaguet (1898-1972) dies. Founder of "L'association des federalistes anarchistes." Activist in the Sacco and Vanzetti committee, he also fought in the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and was a member of the French Resistance during WWII.
● 1972 - Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
● 1975 - Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther".
● 1976 - Wildcat strike wave spreads across Spain.
● 1981 - Just before being replaced by Ronald Reagan, Pres. Jimmy Carter authorizes sending combat equipment to Salvadoran junta.
● 1984 - Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds, dies at 82. Cremated in one of his own restaurants, his ashes are kept at the first McDonalds. Don't ask where.
● 1987 - In nuclear reactor protest, Robin Wood occupies Environment Ministry, Lower Saxony, Germany.
● 1991 - An estimated 30,000-60,000 rally at Seattle Central Community College in vigil and opposition to pending U.S. invasion of Kuwait and Iraq. Protesters occupy Seattle's Federal Building; Univ. of Washington protesters block I-5 and march downtown to join the Federal Building demonstration. Evergreen State College students lead a demonstration that occupies the Washington state capitol building overnight.
● 1991 - Guatemala - Jorge Serrano Elias installed as president.
● 1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords to dismantle Ukraine's nuclear weapons and take U.S. and Russian missiles off Ukrainian targets.
● 1994 - Spanish anarchist, feminist, educator Federica Montseny (1905-1994) dies, Toulouse, France. Daughter of Catalan anarchists, involved with regional committees of the CNT/FAI, during the Spanish Revolution urging participation in the Republican government. She joined the new Republican government with three other CNT members (a source of much bitter debate). As Minister of Health, she helped enact legalized abortion. She and her companion, Germinal Esgleas, fled into exile in France along with thousands of others with the defeat of the Republic. They continued their anarchist activities opposing Franco, and twice landed in French prisons.
● 1996 - Sixteen protesters arrested in a winter blockade of the rural Wisconsin site of the U.S. Navy's ELF transmitter, which transmits triggering signals to nuclear weapons aboard U.S. submarines. A total of nearly 400 arrests occurred in 24 actions between 1991-96.
● 1998 - An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.
● 1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).
● 2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
● 2004 - The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
● 2005 - Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.
BIRTHS
● 83 B.C.E. - Marcus Antonius, Roman politician (d. 30 B.C.E.)
● 1451 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music theorist (d. 1522)
● 1477 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
● 1507 - Catherine of Austria, Infanta of Spain and queen of Portugal
● 1551 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (d. 1608)
● 1615 - John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662)
● 1684 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)
● 1684 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (d. 1742)
● 1702 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737)
● 1705 - Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French governor (d. 1786)
● 1741 - Benedict Arnold, American general notorious for treason (d. 1801)
● 1767 - Maria Theresia of Tuscany, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1827)
● 1780 - Henry Baldwin, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1844)
● 1792 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (d. 1865)
● 1793 - John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
● 1798 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
● 1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1877)
● 1806 - Matthew Fontaine Maury American oceanographer (d. 1873)
● 1818 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (d. 1898)
● 1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
● 1841 - Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
● 1850 - Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923)
● 1861 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
● 1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
● 1882 - Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American historian and journalist (d. 1944)
● 1883 - Nina Ricci, Italian-born French fashion designer (d. 1970)
● 1886 - Hugh Lofting, English author (d. 1947)
● 1892 - Hal Roach, American film producer (d. 1992)
● 1896 - John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)
● 1896 - Martin Niemöller, German theologian (d. 1984)
● 1904 - Emily Hahn, American writer (d. 1997)
● 1904 - Babe Siebert, National Hockey League player (d. 1939)
● 1905 - Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
● 1906 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
● 1907 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (d. 1985)
● 1908 - Russ Columbo, American singer (d. 1934)
● 1909 - Joseph Losey, American theatre and film director (d. 1984)
● 1914 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (d. 2002)
● 1915 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (d. 1992)
● 1917 - Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1988)
● 1919 - Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician
● 1919 - Andy Rooney, American journalist
● 1921 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
● 1924 - Guy Williams, American actor (d. 2002)
● 1925 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
● 1925 - Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (d. 2000)
● 1926 - Tom Tryon, American actor (d. 1991)
● 1926 - Warren Mitchell, English actor
● 1928 - Lars Forssell, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (d. 2007)
● 1931 - Caterina Valente, French-born singer
● 1932 - Don Garlits, American race car driver
● 1933 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
● 1934 - Richard Briers, English actor
● 1934 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (d. 1977)
● 1935 - Lucille Wheeler, Canadian alpine skier
● 1937 - Ken Higgs, English cricketer
● 1937 - Erland Kops, Danish badminton player
● 1938 - Jack Jones, American singer
● 1938 - Allen Toussaint, American singer
● 1940 - Julian Bond, American civil rights activist
● 1941 - Faye Dunaway, American actress
● 1941 - Milan Kučan, Slovenian statesman
● 1942 - Dave Campbell, American baseball player
● 1943 - Shannon Lucid, American astronaut
● 1943 - Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor
● 1943 - José Luis Rodríguez, Venezuelan singer
● 1944 - Marjoe Gortner, American evangelist
● 1944 - Nina Totenberg, American journalist
● 1946 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)
● 1947 - Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (d. 2003)
● 1947 - Maria Farantouri, Greek singer
● 1948 - T-Bone Burnett, American producer
● 1948 - Carl Weathers, American actor
● 1948 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet Union ice hockey player (d. 1981)
● 1949 - Lawrence Kasdan, American director
● 1949 - Mary Robison, American writer
● 1950 - Marco Antônio da Silva Ramos, Brazilian composer
● 1952 - Sydney Biddle Barrows, American author
● 1952 - Maureen Dowd, American writer
● 1952 - Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, Prime Minister of Romania
● 1954 - Jim Duggan, American wrestler
● 1956 - Ben Heppner, Canadian singer
● 1956 - Étienne Daho, French singer and songwriter
● 1957 - Suzanne Danielle, English actress
● 1957 - Anchee Min, Chinese writer
● 1959 - Geoff Tate, American musician (Queensrÿche)
● 1962 - Michael McCaul, American politician
● 1963 - Steven Soderbergh, American director
● 1964 - Shepard Smith, American news anchor
● 1964 - Mark Addy, British actor
● 1964 - Ernest Miller, American wrestler
● 1965 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (d. 2006)
● 1965 - Marc Delissen, Dutch field hockey player
● 1965 - Bob Essensa, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1965 - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, British chef
● 1967 - Kerri Green, American actress
● 1967 - Emily Watson, English actress
● 1967 - Saskia Wickham, British actress
● 1967 - Zakk Wylde, American musician (Black Label Society)
● 1968 - LL Cool J, American rapper and actor
● 1968 - Ruel Fox, English footballer
● 1969 - Jason Bateman, American actor
● 1969 - David Grohl, American drummer and composer
● 1970 - Gene Snitsky, American professional wrestler
● 1971 - Lasse Kjus, Norwegian skier
● 1972 - Predrag Gosta, Yugoslav-born conductor
● 1972 - Kyle Brady, American football player
● 1972 - Raimondas Rumšas, Lithuanian cyclist
● 1973 - Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
● 1977 - Darren Purse, English footballer
● 1977 - Narain Karthikeyan, Indian race car driver
● 1978 - Just Blaze, African American hip hop producer
● 1978 - Shawn Crawford, American sprinter
● 1979 - Karen Elson, British supermodel
● 1979 - Angela Lindvall, American supermodel
● 1979 - John Reuben, American hip hop artist
● 1980 - Clive Clarke, Irish footballer
● 1980 - Cory Gibbs, American soccer player
● 1980 - Byron Leftwich, American football player
● 1980 - Sosuke Sumitani, Japanese announcer
● 1981 - Rosa López, Spanish singer
● 1981 - Abdelmalek Cherrad, Algerian football
● 1982 - Víctor Valdés, Spanish goalkeeper
● 1982 - Caleb Followill, American musician (Kings of Leon)
● 1984 - Mike Pelfrey, American baseball player
● 1986 - Gary Brolsma, American internet celebrity
● 1987 - Kristin Cavallari American reality tv castmember (Laguna Beach)
● 1988 - Mikalah Gordon, American singer
DEATHS
● 1163 - Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)
● 1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
● 1640 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
● 1676 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
● 1679 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
● 1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)
● 1742 - Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
● 1753 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685)
● 1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
● 1788 - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
● 1825 - George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)
● 1833 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759)
● 1867 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
● 1889 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
● 1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
● 1901 - Charles Hermite, French mathematician (b. 1822)
● 1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
● 1915 - Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
● 1920 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
● 1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
● 1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)
● 1949 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
● 1952 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
● 1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
● 1961 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
● 1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
● 1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
● 1966 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1906)
● 1970 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)
● 1972 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)
● 1977 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
● 1977 - Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)
● 1977 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
● 1978 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
● 1978 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
● 1978 - Blossom Rock, American actress (b. 1895)
● 1979 - Thomas DeSimone, gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b. 1950)
● 1980 - Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)
● 1984 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
● 1986 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952)
● 1986 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
● 1988 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)
● 1990 - Mani Madhava Chakyar, Legendary Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
● 1997 - Dollard Ménard, French Canadian general (b. 1913)
● 2001 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
● 2003 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
● 2004 - Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919)
● 2004 - Ron O'Neal, American actor (b. 1937)
● 2004 - Valfar, Norwegian musician (Windir)
● 2005 - Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922)
● 2005 - Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)
● 2005 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
● 2005 - Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)
● 2006 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
● 2006 - Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
● 2006 - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)
● 2006 - Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
● 2007 - Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
● 2007 - Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (b. 1924)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Barbasymas
● St. Datius
● St. Deusdedit
● St. Euphrasius
● St. Felix of Nola
● St. Macrina the Elder
● Martyrs of Mount Sinai
● St. Mungo
● Martyrs of Raithu
● St. Sava
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 2 (Civil Date: January 14)
● St. Sylvester, pope of Rome.
● Repose of St. Seraphim, wonderworker of Sarov.
● Hieromartyr Theogenes, Bishop of Parium on the Hellespont.
● St. Sylvester of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Theopemptus, monk.
● St. Theodota, mother of the first Saints Cosmas and Damian.
● St. Mark the Deaf-mute.
● Martyr Sergius of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
● Martyr Theopistus.
● St. Cosmas, Archbishop of Constantinople.
● New-Martyr Zorsisus.
● Righteous Juliana of Lazarevo.
● Repose of Abbess Thais of Leushy (1915).
● Festum Asinorum, medieval burlesque festival celebrating the Flight into Egypt.
● Feast of Divina Pastora, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
● Pongal in South India. Harvest Festival for Tamil people. Also celebrated as Makar Sankranti by Kannada, Telugu and North Indian People.
● Makar Sankranti in India. The event is marked by flying kites.
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING SEVEN SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.
Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
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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