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 Bush, George W. "War Criminal" "George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small. He has lied directly and by omission. He has misstated facts, knowingly or not. He has misled. He has broken promises, been unfaithful to political vows. Through his campaign for the presidency and his first years in the White House, he has mugged the truth no merely in honest error, but deliberately, consistently, and repeatedly to advance his career and his agenda." — David Corn {How true and yet the SOB is not subject to impeachment or the regular checks and balances, are we to mourn the experiment that was American democracy?}
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Cracks in the Melting Pot "Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, free at last." — Mississippi Governor-elect Sonny Perdue, celebrating his victory which ended 130 years of Democratic governors in that state. Mia Taylor, "Activists offended at Perdue's quote of MLK," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 11-7-02.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?" — 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 28, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 67% Age: 70% Rise: no rise Set: 10:14 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 28, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 67% Age: 69% Rise: no rise Set: 10:39 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 28, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 68% Age: 69% Rise: no rise Set: 10:03 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 28, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 68% Age: 69% Rise: 11:45 PM Set: 9:39 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
A Solar Eclipse Painting from the 1700s
Painting Credit: Cosmas Damian Asam; Digital Image Copyright: Jay Pasachoff
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
● 1521 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
● 1547 - Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
● 1573 - Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland. {Somehow Hitler failed to notice this in his history lessons.}
● 1595 - Sir Francis Drake, English navigator/pirate (Porto Bello West Indies), dies at about 50.
● 1624 - Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts.
● 1724 - The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
● 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
● 1760 - Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
● 1787 - The Free Africa Society organizes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
● 1820 - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
● 1846 - Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
● 1853 - Birth of Cuban independence hero Jose Marti (1853-1895), Havana.
● 1854 - Vigilantes attack Coquille village near Randolph, Oregon, killing 16.
● 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway.
● 1861 - American Miners Association, first national coal miners' union, founded.
● 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
● 1883 - The trial to suppress the anarchists of the First International concludes in Lyon, France, against those known as "The 66. " They are accused of promoting workers' strikes, and the abolition of the rights of property, of family, of fatherland, of religion, and to thus attacking the public peace. Stiff sentences were handed down - "Leaders" such as Peter Kropotkin, Emile Gautier, Bernard, Bordat received four years in prison, while 39 of their companions were sentenced from six months to three years. Antoine Cyvoct, a Lyon citizen, received five years.
● 1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
● 1902 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
● 1909 - United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
● 1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
● 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
● 1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
● 1917 - U.S. forces withdraw from Mexico after failing to find Pancho Villa. {These forces were commanded by Pershing, who would later take command of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during WWI.}
● 1918 - Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
● 1918 - Germany - General strike in the large cities. In Munich, the anarchist Erich Muhsam, at a meeting of 10,000 workers, calls for the continuation of the strike movement and is subsequently stopped by police and put under house arrest.
● 1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honour the unknown dead of World War I.
● 1922 - Knickerbocker Storm, Washington DC's biggest snowfall, causes Washington DC's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
● 1932 - First U.S. unemployment compensation law enacted, Wisconsin.
● 1932 - Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
● 1933 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
● 1934 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont.
● 1935 - Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
● 1938 - Emile Bidault (1869-1938) dies. French anarchist and organizer, with Joseph Tortelier and others, the "League of the Antipatriots," to combat militarism, the war it promotes and its corollary, patriotism.
● 1938 - The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195.
● 1945 - Beginning of the Naples Congress, first congress of the united trade union movement in liberated Italy.
● 1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
● 1946 - Bluenose, Canada's greatest sailing ship, founders on a Haitian reef.
● 1953 - Derek Bentley hanged for a murder carried out by Christopher Craig.
● 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.
● 1961 - Committee for Nonviolent Action demonstrates against nuclear-armed ships, New London, Connecticut.
● 1969 - Santa Barbara oil well blowout (continues into midsummer). Union Oil Company drill strikes a deposit of high-pressure natural gas five miles off the Santa Barbara coast. Millions of gallons of "California crude" were sent spewing over the seaside. Tens of thousands of birds and whole populations of marine life were wiped out before the drilling hole was plugged up with cement, temporarily containing the flow.
● 1980 - USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Bay Florida and capsizes; killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
● 1981 - Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980's Oil Glut.
● 1982 - US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.
● 1986 - 73 seconds after liftoff, the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing six astronauts and Christa McAuliffe, a New Hampshire teacher, who was supposed to be the first teacher in space. Subsequent investigations found NASA abandoned "good judgement and common sense" regarding safety problems causing the explosion. {Reagan appointees make saving money job one not safety.} News that the explosion was caused by an o-ring failure was followed later in the year by a revelation that virtually every safety system in U.S. nuclear power plants used such o-rings to prevent dangerous leaks. In 1981, the government found that viton, a material in the Challenger's o-rings, slowly disintegrates when exposed to large amounts of radiation. By 1986, more than 60 reports documented o-ring failure in nuclear plants.
● 1988 - Public Service Co. of New Hampshire declares bankruptcy after drug scandal and rejected evacuation plans render Seabrook nuclear power plant unusable.
● 1992 - Nuclear production at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Arsenal -- a complex used for both power and nuclear weapon munition manufacture -- is permanently closed after repeated revelations of environmental contamination in the surrounding land and water supply, 25 miles northwest of Denver.
● 1994 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
● 1995 - George Woodcock, Canadian anarchist, literary critic, and anarchist historian, dies, age 82.
● 1995 - Over 100 Solders' Mothers Committee members go to Russian army training camp to reclaim their sons from the Army.
● 1998 - France - Two hundred members of the Farmers Confederation, reacting against the government decision to authorize the use of bioengineered corn in France, broke into the Novartis Seed Company warehouse in southwest France where this corn was stored, "ripped open the sacks and drenched the corn with a fire hose, in order to call attention to the dangers posed to humanity by the agricultural use of bioengineering."
● 1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.
● 2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
● 2004 - Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly.
BIRTHS
● 1312 - Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
● 1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
● 1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
● 1582 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621)
● 1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
● 1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
● 1611 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
● 1622 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
● 1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
● 1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
● 1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
● 1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774)
● 1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
● 1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830)
● 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
● 1822 - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
● 1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
● 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
● 1853 - José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
● 1855 - William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)
● 1864 - Charles W. Nash, co-founder of Nash Motors, which would become American Motors as well as co-founder of Buick (d. 1948)
● 1864 - Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
● 1865 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
● 1865 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952)
● 1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
● 1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)
● 1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
● 1880 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
● 1884 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
● 1886 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
● 1887 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (d. 1982)
● 1890 - Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
● 1891 - Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
● 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
● 1897 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
● 1899 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
● 1903 - Aleksander Kamiński, Polish writer (d. 1978)
● 1908 - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
● 1910 - John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
● 1910 - Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
● 1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
● 1918 - Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (d. 1989)
● 1922 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
● 1927 - Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996)
● 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
● 1929 - Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist
● 1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist
● 1933 - Jack Hill, American film director
● 1934 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
● 1934 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
● 1935 - David Lodge, English author
● 1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
● 1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
● 1938 - Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
● 1941 - Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
● 1943 - Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1944 - John Tavener, English composer
● 1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
● 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
● 1948 - Charles Taylor, President of Liberia
● 1950 - Barbi Benton, American actress
● 1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
● 1951 - Brian Bilbray, American politician
● 1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
● 1953 - Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
● 1953 - Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
● 1954 - Rick Warren, American pastor and author
● 1955 - Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
● 1957 - Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1959 - Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
● 1959 - Randi Rhodes, Air America radio personality
● 1959 - Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
● 1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer
● 1961 - Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1962 - Sam Phillips, American singer
● 1963 - Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist for Anthrax
● 1965 - Lynda Boyd, American actress
● 1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
● 1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
● 1968 - Rakim, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper
● 1969 - Kathryn Morris, American actress
● 1969 - Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian
● 1969 - Linda Sanchez, American politician
● 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer
● 1972 - Nicky Southall, English footballer
● 1974 - Tony Delk, American basketball player
● 1974 - Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
● 1974 - Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
● 1975 - David Zingler, American writer
● 1975 - Anne Montminy, Canadian Olympic diver
● 1975 - Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
● 1975 - Junior Spivey, American baseball player
● 1975 - Terri Colombino, American Actress
● 1976 - Mark Madsen, American basketball player
● 1976 - Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
● 1976 - Lee Ingleby, British actor
● 1976 - Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
● 1976 - Emiko Kado, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
● 1977 - Daunte Culpepper, American football player
● 1977 - Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
● 1977 - Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)
● 1977 - Takuma Sato, Japanese Formula One driver
● 1977 - Lyle Overbay, American baseball player
● 1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
● 1978 - Jamie Carragher, English footballer
● 1978 - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
● 1979 - Pixie, English model
● 1979 - Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
● 1980 - Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
● 1980 - Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive
● 1981 - Rick Razzano, American football player
● 1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor
● 1984 - Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
● 1985 - Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
● 1986 - Jessica Ennis, English heptathlete
● 1986 - Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
● 1988 - Henry Mortensen (actor), American actor
DEATHS
● 814 - Charlemagne (b. 742)
● 1061 - Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
● 1271 - Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
● 1443 - Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France
● 1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
● 1596 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier
● 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
● 1613 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)
● 1621 - Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
● 1681 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
● 1672 - Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
● 1687 - Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)
● 1697 - John Fenwick, English conspirator
● 1725 (O.S.) - Tsar Peter I of Russia, (b. 1672)
● 1754 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684)
● 1832 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
● 1859 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
● 1864 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
● 1903 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)
● 1912 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
● 1915 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
● 1918 - John McCrae, Canadian poet (b. 1872)
● 1935 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)
● 1937 - Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (b. 1862)
● 1938 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (b. 1909)
● 1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865)
● 1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
● 1950 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
● 1951 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b.1867)
● 1953 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
● 1953 - Derek Bentley (b. 1933) (executed)
● 1960 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)
● 1963 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
● 1965 - Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
● 1965 - Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)
● 1971 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
● 1973 - John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
● 1983 - Billy Fury, British singer (b. 1940)
● 1983 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
● 1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger:
● Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939)
● Greg Jarvis (b. 1944)
● Michael J. Smith (b. 1945)
● Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946)
● Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948)
● Judith Resnik (b. 1949)
● Ronald McNair (b. 1950)
● 1988 - Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911)
● 1991 - Red Grange, American football player (b. 1903)
● 1994 - Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
● 1996 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Laureate (b. 1940)
● 1996 - Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
● 1996 - Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
● 1999 - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
● 1999 - Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908)
● 2001 - Curt Blefary, American baseball player (b. 1943)
● 2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
● 2004 - Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)
● 2004 - Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Don Stansauk, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
● 2004 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
● 2005 - Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
● 2005 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b. 1973)
● 2005 - Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
● 2006 - Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi (b. around 1900)
● 2006 - Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
● 2007 - Carlo Clerici, Swiss professional road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
● 2007 - Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (b. 1920)
● 2007 - Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
● 2007 - Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
● 2007 - Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
● 2007 - Emma Tillman, the world's oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Antilnus
● St. Cannera
● St. Flavian
● St. Glastian
● St. James the Hermit
● St. Jerome Lu, Blessed
● St. John of Reomay
● St. Julian of Cuenca
● St. Odo of Beauvais
● St. Palladius
● St. Paulinus of Aquileia
● St. Peter Nolasco
● St. Richard of Vaucelles
● St. Thomas Aquinas
● Sts. Thyrsus, Leucius, & Callinicus
● St. Valerius
● Bl. Amadeus of Lausanne
● Bl. Lawrence Wang
● Bl. Roger of Todi
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 16 (Civil Date: January 28)
● Veneration of the Precious Chains of the Holy Glorious Apostle Peter Martyrs Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Meleusippus the brothers, their grandmother Leonilla, and with them Neon, Turbo, and the woman Jonilla (Jovilla), in Cappadocia.
● Martyr Danax in Macedonia.
● New Hieromartyr Damascene of Chilandar on Mt. Athos.
● Blessed Maximus of Totma (Vologda), fool-for-Christ.
● St. Honoratus, Archbishop of Arles and founder of Lerins Monastery.
● St. Romil, monk of Mt. Athos. disciple of St. Gregory of Sinai, and with him Saints Nestor, Martinius, Daniel, Sisoes, Zosimas, and Gregory.
● World Leprosy 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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