Day of the week in surrounding years:
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—MON—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—TUE—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—WED—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—THU—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—FRI—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—SAT—. . . .
1985,1991,. . . .,2002,2008—SUN—2013
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Books "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us." — Franz Kafka
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Family Values "Some day I hope I will have the courage to be as much a man as he [Paul Hill] was." — Anti-abortion crusader Dan Holman. Patrick Condon, "Judge restricts anti-abortion activist who praised killer," Chicago Tribune, 10-30-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light." — 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 27, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 76% Age: 66% Rise: 11:09 PM Set: 9:51 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 27, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 76% Age: 66% Rise: 11:23 PM Set: 10:13 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 27, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 76% Age: 66% Rise: 11:06 PM Set: 9:43 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 27, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 77% Age: 66% Rise: 10:41 PM Set: 9:20 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Mercury on the Horizon
Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
● 672 - St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
● 847 - Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
● 1142 - Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
● 1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
● 1343 - Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
● 1416 - Republic of Dubrovnik, as a first state in Europe, outlaw slavery
● 1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.
● 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31.
● 1678 - The first fire engine company in the United States went into service.
● 1695 - Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in 1703.
● 1734 - New York City maids organize to improve working conditions.
● 1756 - Mozart born. Patron saint of talented brats.
● 1785 - The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
● 1825 - U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
● 1832 - Mathematician and pedophile Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) born, England.
● 1842 - Birth of François Dumartheray, Collonges, the High Saone, France. Member 1850 - Samuel Gompers, first president of AFL, born.
● 1863 - Bear Hunter, leader of a Shoshone band, and 224 others massacred in village on Bear River near Great Salt Lake.
● 1870 - While searching for Cochise, Colonel Bernard's troops kill 13 Chiricahua Apache, Arizona Territory.
● 1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
● 1888 - In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
● 1891 - Mine explosion in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania leaves over 100 dead.
● 1908 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds railroad official who fired a worker for belonging to a union.
● 1909 - The Young Left is founded in Norway.
● 1913 - Paterson (New Jersey) silk workers' strike. 800 employees of Doherty Silk Mill quit work in protest of firing a workers' committee trying to talk to management about eliminating the four-loom system, returning to two-looms per worker. The new system meant faster, harder work for less pay. The strike became industry-wide within a month. The IWW was called in to help and 25,000 -- virtually all the silk workers in the city -- went on strike. Lasts six months, ending when ribbon workers negotiate separately. Negotiations broke down, shop by shop. The workers had become impoverished and weakened during the long strike.
● 1915 - United States Marines occupy Haiti.
● 1918 - The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War, beginning the war.
● 1920 - First meeting of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
● 1920 - Kansas mine workers strike against compulsory arbitration.
● 1923 - Kurt Wilkens (Gustav Wilckens) assassinates the "Killer of Patagonia" in Buenos Aires. An anarchist pacifist (?) emigrant in Argentina, he killed Colonel Varela, who was responsible for the massacre and torture of more than 1500 workers in Patagonia a year earlier. When arrested he declared - "He will not kill anyone again. I have avenged my brothers." Condemned to life in prison, he was killed while sleeping in his cell, June 15, 1923, by the right wing nationalist, Perez Millan. Millan was in turn killed on November 9, 1925, by the Russian anarchist German Boris Vladimirovitch.
● 1926 - John Logie Baird makes the first television broadcast.
● 1934 - Russian dictator Joseph Stalin announces his fear that the Great Depression will lead capitalists to war.
● 1939 - First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
● 1941 - World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins. Following the capture of Tobruk, two brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursue the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna.
● 1943 - World War II: Fifty bombers mount the first entirely American air raid against Germany, targeting Wilhelmshaven.
● 1943 - World War II: The Greek destroyer Adrias is believed to have sunk the German U/Boat U-553 near Cape Finisterre.
● 1944 - U.S.S.R. - Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed.
● 1945 - Near the provincial Polish town of Oshwiecim, a Ukranian division of the Soviet Red Army liberates Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp where between two and three million people perished during World War II. As the Ukranians explore the three main camps comprising Auschwitz, they find approximately 8,000 survivors -- individuals too sick and hungry to participate in the death marches forced on the other surviving prisoners by the Nazis days before the camp's liberation. Although the Nazis had made efforts to destroy the evidence of their atrocities before their departure, the massive scale of the genocide committed at Auschwitz is too great to hide.
● 1945 - World War II: Lt.Col. Mucci comades Army Rangers to liberate the prisoners of the Cabanatuan POW camp.
● 1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
● 1957 - For the second time in a year, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed.
● 1967 - Apollo program: Apollo 1 - are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
● 1967 - Outer Space Treaty signed by U.S., U.S.S.R. and Britain and some 60 others. Yes, Dubya's Star Wars plans violate it.
● 1967 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee die in a launch-pad fire at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Flash fire engulfs their Apollo I space capsule during a simulated launch. An investigatory panel found that "many deficiencies in design and engineering" plagued the $21 billion Apollo program.
● 1969 - A group of Detroit African-American auto workers known as the Eldon Avenue Axle Plant Revolutionary Union Movement leads a wildcat strike against racism and bad working conditions. Since the 1967 Detroit rebellion, African American workers have organized militant groups in several Detroit auto plants. The most famous of these was the Dodge Revolutionary Union movement, or DRUM. Combining Black-Power nationalism and workplace militancy, these young militants compare factories to plantations and white supervisors to brutal overseers. Shutting down inner-city plants in more than a dozen wildcat strikes, they criticize both the seniority system and grievance procedures as racist. United Auto Workers (UAW) union leaders quickly denounce the protests, calling the dissidents (quote) "black fascists." The revolutionary groups will leave a permanent imprint on the Detroit labor movement. Most inner-city UAW locals will soon be headed by African Americans, some of them veterans of the insurgency.
● 1972 - J. Gordon Liddy's first plan for disrupting the 1972 Democratic Convention, calling for "mugging squads, kidnapping teams, prostitutes to compromise the opposition, and electronic surveillance" is presented to Attorney General John Mitchell, the highest law enforcement official in the American government.
● 1972 - One killed, nine injured when a bomb detonates at the offices of an agent booking Soviet artists. A caller claiming to represent Soviet Jews claims responsibility.
● 1973 - Vietnam Peace Treaty signed in Paris, supposedly ending Vietnam War. All American troops are to leave Vietnam within 90 days. It was the same agreement as was drafted the previous October, just before Pres. Nixon's re- election. The treaty guaranteed U.S. reparations to rebuild devastated country. Never happened. Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
● 1977 - In one of his first acts as President, Jimmy Carter pardons some 10,000 Vietnam draft resisters.
● 1983 - Nationwide strike by some 10,000 conscientious objectors, West Germany.
● 1983 - Pilot shaft of World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō breaks through.
● 1986 - Hormel workers locked out for honoring Ottumwa, Iowa picket line.
● 1987 - Soviet General Secretary Mikahil Gorbachev signals new era of "Glasnost" (openness), proposing economic and social reforms.
● 1988 - Center for Constitutional Rights reveals the FBI had under surveillance a number of organizations critical of Reagan administration policies in Central America. Although the principal target was the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), more than 100 other groups were investigated, including the Roman Catholic Maryknoll Sisters, the United Auto Workers, the United Steel Workers, and the National Education Association. FBI director William Sessions said the investigations were an outgrowth of the belief that CISPES was aiding a "terrorist organization."
● 1991 - Gulf Peace Team evicted from peace camp by U.S. troops, Judayyidat Ar'ar, Iraq.
● 1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
● 1996 - Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
● 1997 - It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
● 1998 - First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on The Today Show, calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
● 1999 - Pope John Paul II urges Catholics to oppose death penalty.
● 2001 - Ten members of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in Colorado.
● 2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
● 2007 - Approximately 100,000 protesters converge on the Mall in Washington, D.C. for the January 27, 2007 anti-war protest sponsored by United for Peace and Justice.
BIRTHS
● 1443 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
● 1546 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
● 1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
● 1603 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)
● 1621 - Thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675)
● 1662 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
● 1687 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
● 1701 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (d. 1790)
● 1708 - Anna Petrovna of Russia (d. 1728)
● 1720 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist (d. 1777)
● 1741 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
● 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
● 1805 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
● 1805 - Sophie of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
● 1805 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
● 1806 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
● 1814 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
● 1823 - Edouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892)
● 1826 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
● 1826 - Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
● 1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
● 1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d. 1895)
● 1841 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
● 1848 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
● 1850 - Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (d. 1924)
● 1850 - Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
● 1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1941)
● 1885 - Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
● 1885 - Eduard Künneke, German composer (d. 1953)
● 1885 - Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)
● 1891 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (d. 1967)
● 1893 - Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
● 1895 - Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
● 1900 - Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986)
● 1901 - Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988)
● 1901 - Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973)
● 1903 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1997)
● 1905 - Howard McNear, American actor (d. 1969)
● 1908 - Oran Page, American musician (d. 1954)
● 1908 - William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate (d. 1993)
● 1912 - Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher
● 1918 - Skitch Henderson, English bandleader (d. 2005)
● 1918 - Elmore James, American blues musician (d. 1963)
● 1918 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005)
● 1919 - Ross Bagdasarian, American musician (d. 1972)
● 1920 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
● 1920 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
● 1921 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
● 1924 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
● 1924 - Rauf Denktaş, founder of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
● 1926 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
● 1926 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
● 1928 - Michael Craig, British actor
● 1928 - Hans Modrow, a German politician, premier of East Germany
● 1929 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
● 1930 - Bobby Blue Bland, American singer
● 1931 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
● 1932 - Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast
● 1933 - Mohamed Al-Fayed, Eqyptian billionaire businessman
● 1936 - Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
● 1936 - Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel Laureate
● 1937 - John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
● 1940 - James Cromwell, American actor
● 1940 - Terry Harper, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1942 - Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 1986)
● 1944 - Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
● 1944 - Mairéad Corrigan, Irish activist, Nobel Prize Laureate
● 1944 - Nick Mason, English musician (Pink Floyd)
● 1945 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005)
● 1946 - Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
● 1947 - Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician
● 1948 - Jean-Philippe Collard, French pianist
● 1949 - Ethan Mordden, American author
● 1950 - Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
● 1950 - Derek Acorah, English spirit medium
● 1951 - Brian Downey, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy)
● 1952 - Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, American football player
● 1954 - Peter Laird, American comic-book artist
● 1954 - Joko Ninomiya, Japanese martial artist
● 1955 - Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1955 - John Roberts, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
● 1955 - Alexander Stuart, British author
● 1955 - Koji Ushikubo, Japanese racing driver
● 1956 - Mimi Rogers, American actress
● 1957 - Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
● 1957 - Frank Miller, American comic book artist and writer and film director
● 1958 - Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
● 1959 - Keith Olbermann, American news presenter
● 1959 - Göran Hägglund, Swedish politician
● 1959 - Cris Collinsworth, American football player
● 1961 - Margo Timmins, Canadian singer (Cowboy Junkies)
● 1961 - Dina Bonnevie, Filipino actress
● 1961 - Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order)
● 1961 - Narciso Rodriguez, American fashion designer
● 1964 - Bridget Fonda, American actress
● 1965 - Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
● 1965 - Mike Newell, English football manager
● 1967 - Bobby Deol, Indian actor
● 1967 - Byron Mann, Hong Kong actor
● 1967 - Dave Manson, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1968 - Mike Patton, American singer (Faith No More)
● 1968 - Tricky, English rapper
● 1969 - Cornelius, Japanese musician and producer (Flipper's Guitar)
● 1969 - Michael Kulas, Canadian singer (James)
● 1969 - Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer
● 1970 - Jon Douglas Rainey, American TV personality
● 1970 - Emmanuel Pahud, French-Swiss flautist
● 1971 - Fann Wong, Singapore entertainer (Shanghai Knights)
● 1971 - Lil Jon, American rapper and producer
● 1971 - Patrice Brisebois, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1972 - Guillermo, Mexican-born American TV personality
● 1972 - Keith Wood, Irish rugby player
● 1972 - Mark Owen, English pop singer
● 1972 - Janine Ilitch, Australian netballer
● 1974 - Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
● 1974 - Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player
● 1976 - Clint Ford, American voice actor
● 1976 - Ahn Jung-Hwan, Korean football player
● 1976 - Ruby Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
● 1978 - Pete Laforest, Canadian baseball player
● 1979 - Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
● 1979 - Rosamund Pike, British actress
● 1979 - Mario Fatafehi, American-born Canadian Football League player
● 1980 - Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
● 1980 - Chanda Gunn, Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Goalie
● 1981 - Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
● 1983 - Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1983 - Gavin Floyd, American baseball player
● 1983 - Mike Zagurski, American baseball player
● 1987 - Lily Donaldson, British model
● 1987 - Katy Rose, American pop singer
● 1988 - Kerlon Moura Souza, Brazilian footballer
DEATHS
● 98 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)
● 1490 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
● 1629 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
● 1638 - Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
● 1688 - Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, grandmother of the Kangxi Emperor in Qing Dynasty China
● 1731 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (b. 1655)
● 1740 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
● 1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)
● 1816 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724)
● 1851 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter (b. 1789)
● 1857 - Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (b. 1785)
● 1860 - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802)
● 1880 - Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)
● 1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
● 1910 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)
● 1919 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
● 1921 - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of theVictoria Cross (b. 1891)
● 1927 - Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general of the Greek Army
● 1940 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
● 1956 - Erich Kleiber, Argentine conductor (b. 1890)
● 1967 - Crew of Apollo 1:
● Roger Chaffee (b. 1935)
● Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926)
● Edward White (b. 1930)
● 1967 - Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
● 1970 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
● 1971 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
● 1972 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
● 1972 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (b. 1888)
● 1973 - William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929)
● 1975 - Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
● 1979 - Qalander Ba Ba Auliya, founder of Azeemia sufi order (b. 1898)
● 1983 - Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1914)
● 1986 - Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b. 1914)
● 1988 - Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (b. 1938)
● 1989 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
● 1993 - André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
● 1994 - Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1918)
● 1996 - Ralph Yarborough, American politician (b. 1903)
● 1997 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (b. 1900)
● 2000 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b. 1930)
● 2001 - Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (b. 1941)
● 2003 - Henryk Jabłoński, President of communist People's Republic of Poland (b. 1909)
● 2003 - Louis Archambault, Quebec actor (b. 1915)
● 2004 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
● 2004 - Salvador Laurel, 9th Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
● 2006 - Johannes Rau, 8th Bundespräsident (President of Germany) (b. 1931)
● 2006 - Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
● 2006 - disappearance of Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (b. 1965)
● 2007 - Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
● 2007 - Marcheline Bertrand, actress and mother of Angelina Jolie (b. 1950)
● 2007 - Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese athlete (b. 1933)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Angela Merici
● St. Avitus
● St. Candida
● St. Datius
● St. Devota, patron saint of Monaco
● St. Emerius
● St. Gamelbert
● St. Gamo
● St. Gilduin
● St. Julian of Le Mans
● St. Julian of Sora
● St. Lupus of Chalons
● St. Marius
● St. Natalis
● St. Sava of Serbia
● St. Theodoric of Orleans
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 15 (Civil Date: January 27)
● St. Paul of Thebes in Egypt, and St. John Calabytes ("Hut-dweller"), monks.
● Monk-martyr Pansophius of Alexandria.
● St. Gabriel, founder of Lesnov Monastery in Bulgaria.
● St. Prochorus, abbot in Vranski desert on the river Pshina in Bulgaria.
● St. Maximus of Nola.
● Catholicism — Catholic Schools Week.
● UN — International Holocaust Remembrance Day
● Denmark — Auschwitzdag (Auschwitz Day; commemoration day for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocide).
● Germany — Gedenktag für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Commemoration Day for the Victims of National Socialism).
● Italy — Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day).
● Poland — Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Nazizmu (Memorial Day for the Victims of Nazism).
● United Kingdom — Holocaust Memorial Day.
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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