Day of the week in surrounding years:
1977,1983,. . . .,1994,2000—MON—2005
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—TUE—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—WED—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—THU—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—FRI—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—SAT—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—SUN—2010
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Change "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand or more perilous to conduct. . . .than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." — Niccolo Machiavelli
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Holy War "I think the most important thing to note in this case is the issue, and according to the federal judge who tried this case, he said, "the issue is can the state acknowledge God?" That's the issue in this case. It's not about a monument. It's not about politics or religion. It's about whether or not the state of Alabama can acknowledge God. And indeed we must if we're to uphold the justice system in the state of Alabama." — Judge Roy Moore. "The Abrams Report," MSNBC, 8-21-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "I don't know. I'm not in shape yet."—when asked his cap size — 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 31, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 39% Age: 79% Rise: 2:11 AM Set: 11:42 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 31, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 39% Age: 78% Rise: 2:17 AM Set: 12:14 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 31, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 40% Age: 78% Rise: 2:15 AM Set: 11:23 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 31, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 40% Age: 78% Rise: 1:53 AM Set: 10:57 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Young Star Cluster Westerlund 2
Credit: X-ray; Y.Nazé, G.Rauw, J.Manfroid (Université de Liège), CXC, NASA—Infrared; E.Churchwell (University of Wisconsin), JPL, Caltech, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon.
● 1606 - Guy Fawkes, the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions, at Westminster in London, jumps to his death moments before his execution for treason. Co-conspirators Ambrose Rokewood and Thomas Wintour do not disappoint executioners.
● 1747 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
● 1814 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
● 1846 - After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee.
● 1849 - Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
● 1855 - Makah and Quileut reservations created by Neah Bay Treaty.
● 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
● 1865 - By a narrow margin, the U.S. House of Representatives passes the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery; it becomes part of the Constitution later that year.
● 1867 - Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
● 1876 - U.S. government orders all Native Americans to move to reservations or be declared hostile. Some of them already were. (Hostile, that is.)
● 1887 - Andreas Fritzner, anti-militarist activist, born, Sweden.
● 1894 - Italian anarchist Luigi Molinari sentenced to 23 years imprisonment by a military tribunal as the instigator of an insurrection in Lunigiani in support of Sicilian victims of the State of Seige (begun earlier in the month to repress revolts against increased flour prices). Following a movement of protest, Molinari was amnestied 20 months later.
● 1899 - Birth of Aristide Lapeyre (1899-1974). Hairdresser, anarchist, pacifist militant, and neo-Malthusian. Participant in the Spanish Revolution of 1936. Helped many comrades escape the Gestapo, and himself was taken hostage by the Nazis. Fought for abortion rights, not hesitating to practice it, and in June 19, 1973, he was sentenced to five years in prison following the accidental death of a patient.
● 1900 - Datu Muhammad Salleh is shot dead in Kampung Teboh, Tambuan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
● 1910 - The Portuguese republican revolution broke out in the northern city of Porto.
● 1915 - First poison gas attack, Germans against Russians.
● 1915 - Thomas Merton, radical pacifist U.S. priest, born, Pyrenees-Orientales, France.
● 1917 - World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
● 1918 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
● 1919 - 1919 Battle of George Square
● 1924 - George Simeonov Popov (1900-1924) dies. Bulgarian teacher, poet, speaker and organizer of anarchist groups. Initiated an insurrectionary movement against the coup d'etat of June 1923, which was subdued after a week of fighting against the army. Popov took refuge in the mountains, forming guerilla anarchist groups. When his hiding place was discovered, he committed suicide rather than fall into the hands of the army.
● 1929 - The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
● 1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
● 1940 - First Social Security check issued, $22.54, to Ida Fuller, Brattleboro, Vermont. {Conservatives have been trying to reduce or eliminate benefit amounts ever since. For example under current rules this check would have been "rounded" to $22.00.}
● 1941 - Layforce set sail.
● 1944 - World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
● 1944 - World War II: Anzio campaign. (Darby's Rangers) 1st Ranger Battalion The entire 6615th Ranger Force (Provisional) was destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Cisterna, Italy.
● 1945 - US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.
● 1946 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
● 1950 - President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
● 1953 - The North Sea flood of 1953 causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
● 1956 - Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1957 - Three students on a junior high school playground in Pacoima, California are among the eight persons killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet above the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles.
● 1958 - Explorer program: Explorer I - The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
● 1958 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
● 1961 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 - Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
● 1963 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara declares - "The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed."
● 1966 - U.S. planes resume bombing of North Vietnam after a 37-day pause.
● 1968 - A Seattle City Council hearing concludes that there are no legal means to curb hippies in the U-District.
● 1968 - Nauru declares independence from Australia.
● 1968 - Tet Offensive catches South Vietnam off guard as war escalates. Seventy thousand Viet Cong troops attack 100 cities. Puts the lie to numerous U.S. government, military, and media fantasies of American victory being "in hand." Westmoreland and his troops are caught completely by surprise. Fighting lasts 25 days, and undermines U.S. morale abroad and at home. A photo of a police chief shooting a Viet Cong captive in the head is like a swan song. The Viet Cong strike at Saigon, including a penetration of the U.S. embassy compound, siege a U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh, and capture the provincial capital of Hue, among other initial gains. By the end of February, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces have repulsed the offensive and inflicted heavy losses on the Viet Cong, but the episode exposes the reality that a military end to the war is not in sight.
PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN DURING TET OFFENSIVE
This widely published photo is mentioned in the entry above. It shows Vietnamese National police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a suspected Viet Cong member acting as judge, jury and executioner. It is one of several photographs that turns American public opinion against involvement in Vietnam. One doesn’t have to think very hard to see that similar photos in Iraq are suppressed by the current main stream media.
● 1969 - A Saskatchewan Court convicts 17-year-old hippie David Milgaard of murder; he is sentenced to life in prison. He spent 23 years in jail until April 14, 1992 when DNA evidence proves him innocent of all charges.
● 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission - Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
● 1971 - The Winter Soldier Hearings begin in a Howard Johnson's motel in Detroit. Sponsored by the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the hearings are an attempt by soldiers who have served in Vietnam to publicize U.S. conduct in the war. The veterans testify that the My Lai massacre was not an isolated incident, and that American troops have committed atrocities. More than 100 veterans, in fact, testify to brutal U.S. acts. Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield will enter the Winter Soldier hearings into the Congressional Record but, otherwise, the proceedings capture little attention.
● 1973 - U.S. General John Stennis shot twice during a robbery in Washington.
● 1980 - Guatemalans take over Spanish embassy to protest the killing, by Guatemala's military dictatorship, of seven of their leaders; fire consequently kills 39. Guatemala City.
● 1981 - West German squatters protest eviction attempts, battle the police in West Berlin.
● 1985 - Seminal draft call completed in South Africa. Of 21,000 white draftees, 7,000 get "lost" on the way to camp and never show up.
● 1990 - The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow, USSR.
● 1992 - U.N. Security Council first summit meeting proposes "An Agenda for Peace," New York.
● 1993 - Three hundred thousand Berliners rally against attacks on immigrants, racism, Nazism on 60th anniversary of Hitler's rise to power.
● 1995 - President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
● 1995 - World Trade Organization opens for business in Geneva, Switzerland.
● 1996 - An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400. Responsibility claimed by Tamil Tiger rebel group.
● 1996 - U.S. Customs officials near San Diego attack Pastors for Peace activists attempting to carry donated computers across border to Mexico for humanitarian shipment to Cuba.
● 1997 - Four Critical Mass protesters arrested and five police officers "injured" when police attack a peaceful bicycle protest in downtown Seattle.
● 2000 - An Alaska Airlines MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
● 2001 - In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
● 2002 - A large section of the Antarctic Larsen Ice Shelf begins disintegrating, eventually consuming about 3,250 km² (1,254 miles²) over a 35-day period.
● 2003 - Waterfall train disaster, NSW, Australia.
● 2006 - Samuel A. Alito Jr. assumes office as the 110th Supreme Court justice of the United States.
● 2007 - Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
BIRTHS
● 1512 - King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580)
● 1543 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616)
● 1550 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (d. 1588)
● 1597 - John Francis Regis, French saint (d. 1640)
● 1624 - Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669)
● 1673 - Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint (d. 1716)
● 1686 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758)
● 1752 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816)
● 1759 - François Devienne, French composer (d. 1803)
● 1797 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828)
● 1865 - Henri Desgrange, Founder of the Tour-de-France (d. 1940)
● 1865 - Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951)
● 1866 - Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (d. 1938)
● 1868 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1928)
● 1872 - Zane Grey, American Western writer (d. 1939)
● 1881 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
● 1884 - Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundespräsident) (d. 1963)
● 1889 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958)
● 1892 - Eddie Cantor, American actor and singer (d. 1964)
● 1894 - Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956)
● 1896 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
● 1902 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
● 1902 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
● 1905 - John O'Hara, American writer (d. 1970)
● 1911 - Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981)
● 1913 - Don Hutson, American football player (d. 1997)
● 1914 - Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1997)
● 1914 - Sri Daya Mata, Hindu religious figure
● 1914 - Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994)
● 1915 - Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
● 1915 - Thomas Merton, American author and monk (d. 1968)
● 1915 - Garry Moore, American comedian (d. 1993)
● 1919 - Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (d. 1972)
● 1921 - John Agar, American actor (d. 2002)
● 1921 - Carol Channing, American actress and singer
● 1921 - E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004)
● 1921 - Mario Lanza, American singer (d. 1959)
● 1922 - Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
● 1923 - Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007)
● 1925 - Benjamin Hooks, American civil rights leader
● 1926 - Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
● 1928 - Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (d. 1958)
● 1929 - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1929 - Jean Simmons, English actress
● 1930 - Lynn Carlin, American actress
● 1931 - Ernie Banks, American baseball player
● 1931 - Christopher Chataway, English athlete, newscaster and politician
● 1933 - Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997)
● 1933 - Bernardo Provenzano , Mafia Boss
● 1934 - James Franciscus, American actor (d. 1991)
● 1934 - Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
● 1935 - Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel laureate
● 1937 - Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
● 1937 - Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
● 1937 - Philip Glass, American composer
● 1937 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress
● 1938 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
● 1938 - James G. Watt, American politician
● 1939 - Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter
● 1940 - Kitch Christie, South African rugby union coach (d. 1998)
● 1941 - Richard A. Gephardt, American politician
● 1941 - Jessica Walter, American actress
● 1942 - Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
● 1942 - Derek Jarman, British director and writer (d. 1994)
● 1944 - Charlie Musselwhite, American musician
● 1945 - Joseph Kosuth, American conceptual artist
● 1946 - Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (d. 1978)
● 1947 - Jonathan Banks, American actor
● 1947 - Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
● 1948 - Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
● 1949 - Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist
● 1949 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher
● 1950 - Alexander Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard
● 1951 - Dave Benton, Aruban-born singer
● 1951 - Harry Wayne Casey, American singer and musician (KC and the Sunshine Band)
● 1951 - Phil Manzanera, English guitarist (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, 801)
● 1952 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969)
● 1954 - Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch musician (Whitesnake)
● 1956 - John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.)
● 1959 - Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor
● 1959 - Kelly Lynch, American actress
● 1959 - Kelly Moore, American stock car driver
● 1960 - Grant Morrison, British comic book author
● 1961 - Lloyd Cole, British singer
● 1963 - Brian Adams, American wrestler (d. 2007)
● 1964 - Sylvie Bernier, Canadian diver
● 1964 - Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer)
● 1964 - Billey Shamrock, Swedish singer
● 1966 - Dr Umar Alisha, A Sufi Master was Born at Pithapuram.
● 1967 - Fat Mike, American musician
● 1967 - Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress
● 1967 - Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress
● 1970 - Minnie Driver, British actress
● 1971 - Lee Young Ae, South Korean actress
● 1971 - Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian
● 1971 - Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer
● 1973 - Portia de Rossi, Australian actress
● 1974 - Wil Anderson, Australian comedian
● 1974 - Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
● 1975 - Jackie O, Australian radio host
● 1975 - Preity Zinta, Indian actress
● 1976 - Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer
● 1976 - Buddy Rice, American race car driver
● 1977 - Mark Dutiaume, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1977 - Shingo Katori, Japanese actor and singer (SMAP)
● 1977 - Jim Kleinsasser, American football player
● 1977 - Kate Shindle, American actress
● 1977 - Kerry Washington, American actress
● 1978 - Ray Shah, Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter
● 1978 - Brad Rutter, Jeopardy! champion
● 1979 - Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant
● 1980 - Tiffany Limos, American actress
● 1981 - Julio Arca, Argentinian footballer
● 1981 - Justin Timberlake, American singer
● 1982 - Yuniesky Betancourt, Cuban baseball player
● 1982 - Andreas Görlitz, German footballer
● 1982 - Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese actor, comedian and TV host
● 1982 - Helena Paparizou, Greek singer
● 1982 - Jānis Sprukts, Latvian ice hockey player
● 1982 - Brad Thompson, American baseball player
● 1983 - James Sutton, British television actor
● 1984 - Jeremy Wariner, American 400m runner
DEATHS
● 743 - Muhammad al-Baqir, Shia Imam (b. 676)
● 1398 - Emperor Sukō (b. 1334)
● 1435 - Xuande, Emperor of China (b. 1398)
● 1561 - Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar
● 1561 - Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader (b. 1496)
● 1580 - Henry of Portugal (b. 1512)
● 1606 - Gunpowder Plot conspirators:
● Guy Fawkes (b. 1570)
● Ambrose Rokewood (b. c. 1578)
● Thomas Wintour (b. 1571)
● 1615 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
● 1632 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
● 1665 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
● 1686 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
● 1720 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (c. 1654)
● 1729 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
● 1736 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (b. 1678)
● 1788 - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (b. 1720)
● 1790 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718)
● 1794 - Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
● 1815 - José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)
● 1828 - Alexander Ypsilantis, Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence (b.1792
● 1844 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
● 1888 - John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
● 1892 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834)
● 1907 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
● 1923 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (b. 1869)
● 1933 - John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
● 1942 - Henry Larkin, Baseball player (b. 1860)
● 1944 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
● 1945 - Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)
● 1954 - Edwin Howard Armstrong, American electrical engineer and inventor of the FM radio (b. 1890)
● 1955 - John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
● 1956 - A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
● 1966 - General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer (b. 1887)
● 1967 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
● 1969 - Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)
● 1970 - Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)
● 1971 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (b. 1891)
● 1973 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
● 1974 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1882)
● 1976 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941)
● 1981 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
● 1987 - Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1907)
● 1990 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
● 1995 - George Abbott, American stage director and producer (b. 1887)
● 1997 - John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
● 1999 - Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
● 2000 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)
● 2001 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913)
● 2006 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)
● 2007 - Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
● 2007 - Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (b. 1944)
● 2007 - Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
● 2007 - Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adamnan of Coldingham
● St. Aidan of Ferns
● St. Athanasius
● St. Bobinus
● St. Cyrus
● St. Eusebius
● St. Francis Xavier Bianchi
● St. Geminian
● St. John Bosco, patron saint of Christian apprentices, editors, and publishers
● St. Julius of Novara
● St. Madoes
● Sts. Marana and Cyra
● St. Marcella
● St. Martin Manuel
● St. Metranus
● St. Nicetas
● St. Pedro Nolasco
● Sts. Saturninus, Thrysus, & Victor
● St. Tarskius
● St. Trypbaena
● St. Ulphia
● Bl. Ludovica
● No Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for (Civil Date: January 31)
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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