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 Voting "The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men." — Lyndon Baines Johnson
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Earth Day at the GOP "Wherever is environmentally responsible to do so, we will promote market-based programs that are voluntary, flexible, comprehensive, and cost-effective. The Endangered Species Act (ESA), for example, is sometimes counter-productive toward its truly important goal of protecting rare species, 75 percent of which are located on private land. . . ." — Republican Party Platform 2000. RNC.org.—Part 1 of 3 {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 "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six." — 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 6, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 4% Age: 93% Rise: 6:18 AM Set: 3:22 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 6, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 4% Age: 93% Rise: 6:22 AM Set: 3:56 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 6, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 5% Age: 93% Rise: 6:27 AM Set: 2:58 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 6, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 5% Age: 93% Rise: 6:05 AM Set: 2:30 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Jupiter's Rings Revealed
Credit: (NOAO), J. Burns (Cornell) et al., Galileo Project, JPL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
● 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
● 1412 - Birth of French military heroine Joan of Arc.
● 1449 - Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra.
● 1494 - First Mass celebrated in the New World at La Isabella, Hispaniola.
● 1579 - The Union of Atrecht was signed.
● 1649 - The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial
● 1661 - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
● 1690 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
● 1720 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
● 1781 - In the Battle of Jersey the British defeated the last attempt by France to invade Jersey militarily.
● 1806 - Horatio Nelson laid to rest in Saint Paul's Cathedral in London
● 1831 - First world anti-slavery convention held.
● 1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph.
● 1853 - American President-Elect Franklin Pierce and family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
● 1858 - Birth of French anarchist Sebastien Faure.
● 1864 - U.S. Army captures 11,000 Navajos, later force-marching them 400 miles to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, killing thousands. Thousands more died of starvation after the army burned all Navajo crops and orchards.
● 1870 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
● 1882 - Toronto (Canada) Labor Council supports equal pay for equal work.
● 1887 - `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II.
● 1895 - Former Hawai'ian Queen Lili'uokalani is arrested after a failed coup against the "republican" government of Sanford Dole.
● 1900 - Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africa - over 1,000 people killed
● 1907 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
● 1912 - Birth of Christian anarchist Jacques Ellul, Bordeaux, France.
● 1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
● 1918 - Russia - Dispersal of the Constituent Assembly, by a detachment led by the anarchist sailor Zheleznyakov, who announced - "The guard is tired."
● 1920 - Birth of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, self-described Son of God and publisher of the influential conservative newspaper Washington Times.
● 1920 - Jose Lluis Facerias born, Spanish anarchist guerilla.
● 1927 - On an exceptionally busy day, freelance executioner Robert Elliot conducts six electric chair executions, three in Charleston, Massachusetts, and three at Sing Sing Prison, New York.
● 1927 - U.S. Marines re-invade Nicaragua after ending a 13-year occupation.
● 1929 - King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the so-called January 6th Dictatorship, Šestojanuarska diktatura.)
● 1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a legacy of work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.
● 1930 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
● 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
● 1936 - Supreme Court of the United States rules the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al..
● 1937 - Abraham Lincoln Brigade formed to fight Spanish fascism. Part of the International Brigade, it will fight valiantly on the Aragon front and in defense of Madrid. Some 4,000 American men and women fight for the Loyalists. Nearly 2,000 of them die of wounds or disease. One of the casualties is Oliver Law, an African American who came to command the entire Lincoln Battalion. Law is the first black man known to command white U.S. troops.
● 1940 - Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
● 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
● 1941 - Keel of USS Missouri (BB-63) is laid at New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn
● 1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
● 1944 - Muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell dies, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
● 1950 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
● 1961 - A fire at the Thomas Hotel in San Francisco kills 20 people.
● 1967 - Two homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines, plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140.
● 1967 - United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
● 1970 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds prohibition of underground GI anti-Vietnam War newspaper at Fort Bragg Army Base.
● 1970 - West Virginia miners wildcat to protest the murder of their union reform leader.
● 1974 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. {This does not happen in Arizona since the state had exempted itself when the state senate majority leader nearly went broke. He owned drive-in movie theaters that lost money for the one summer Arizona went on daylight savings time.}
● 1975 - South Africa - 12,000 workers strike at Vaal Reefs gold mine.
● 1977 - The music publisher EMI ends its contract with the notorious punk rock group Sex Pistols after reports of abusive behaviour at Heathrow Airport, London.
● 1978 - The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after the Second World War.
● 1981 - Mark David Chapman pleads not guilty, by reason of insanity, to murdering John Lennon.
● 1982 - Bill Hetherington invites Red Army general to personally disarm, Moscow.
● 1986 - Cylinder of nuclear material bursts after being improperly heated at a Kerr-McGee plant at Gore, Oklahoma. One worker dies, 100 hospitalized.
● 1994 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
● 1995 - A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
● 2004 - Costas Simitis Simitis announces his resignation as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement in Greece.
● 2004 - Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate is declared the official anthem of Karnataka
● 2005 - First World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace begins in Brussels, Belgium.
● 2005 - Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
● 2006 - Tropical Storm Zeta (2005) dissipates, ending the notorious 2005 hurricane season.
BIRTHS
● 1367 - Richard II of England (d. 1400)
● 1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
● 1486 - Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556)
● 1488 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (d. 1540)
● 1525 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
● 1561 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (d. 1656)
● 1587 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
● 1595 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French man of letters (d. 1650)
● 1617 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
● 1655 - Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1720)
● 1706 - Benjamin Franklin, American statesman (d. 1790)
● 1714 - Percivall Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
● 1745 - Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
● 1793 - James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
● 1795 - Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
● 1807 - Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
● 1808 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
● 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
● 1832 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
● 1838 - Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
● 1848 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet (d. 1876)
● 1850 - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1924)
● 1861 - George Exton Lloyd, Anglican bishop and theologian (d. 1940)
● 1870 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
● 1872 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
● 1878 - Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
● 1880 - Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
● 1882 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
● 1882 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965)
● 1882 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961)
● 1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer (d. 1931)
● 1898 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (d. 1965)
● 1899 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (d. 1960)
● 1899 - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (d. 1968)
● 1902 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (d. 1994)
● 1903 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993)
● 1905 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
● 1910 - Wright Morris, American writer (d. 1998)
● 1913 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
● 1913 - Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
● 1914 - Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991)
● 1915 - Alan Watts, English writer (d. 1973)
● 1916 - Vincent Serventy, Australian writer and conservationist (d. 2007)
● 1917 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
● 1920 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
● 1920 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
● 1920 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
● 1920 - Early Wynn, American baseball player (d. 1999)
● 1921 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998)
● 1923 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
● 1924 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
● 1925 - John De Lorean, American auto maker (d. 2005)
● 1926 - Ralph Branca, American baseball player
● 1926 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (2002)
● 1926 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
● 1926 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
● 1926 - Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel laureate
● 1929 - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
● 1930 - Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
● 1931 - Capucine, French actress (d. 1990)
● 1931 - E. L. Doctorow, American author
● 1931 - Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1932 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
● 1933 - Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
● 1933 - Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian
● 1934 - Tassos Papadopoulos, president of the Republic of Cyprus
● 1935 - Nino Tempo, American singer and actor
● 1935 - Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria
● 1936 - Rubén Amaro, Sr., Mexican baseball player
● 1936 - Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, President of Uruguay
● 1937 - Paolo Conte, Italian singer
● 1937 - Lou Holtz, American football coach
● 1937 - Doris Troy, American singer (d. 2004)
● 1938 - Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor
● 1938 - Mario Rodríguez Cobos "Silo", Argentine writer and spiritual leader
● 1940 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist (d. 1989)
● 1940 - Van McCoy, American musician (d. 1979)
● 1943 - Terry Venables, English football manager
● 1944 - Bonnie Franklin, American actress
● 1944 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel laureate
● 1945 - Allen Appel,
● 1946 - Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter Pink Floyd (d. 2006)
● 1947 - Jack Mishan, English vocalist (d. 1978)
● 1951 - Don Gullett, American baseball player
● 1951 - Kim Wilson, American musician (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
● 1952 - Frank Sivero, Italian-born American actor
● 1952 - Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
● 1953 - Malcolm Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
● 1954 - Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect
● 1954 - Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer
● 1954 - Anthony Minghella, British film director
● 1955 - Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
● 1955 - Richard Corbett, Labour Member of the European Parliament
● 1956 - Angus Deayton, English comedian, actor and television presenter
● 1958 - Themos Anastasiadis, Greek journalist, television presenter and newspaper editor
● 1957 - Nancy Lopez, American golfer
● 1959 - Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer
● 1959 - Kathy Sledge, American singer
● 1960 - Paul Azinger, American golfer
● 1960 - Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
● 1960 - Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
● 1960 - Howie Long, American football player
● 1962 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (d. 2002)
● 1964 - Charles Haley, American football player
● 1964 - Henry Maske, German boxer
● 1964 - Mark O'Toole, English bass guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
● 1964 - Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler
● 1964 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (d. 2005)
● 1964 - Yuri, Mexican actress and singer
● 1965 - Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer
● 1965 - Konnan, Cuban-born professional wrestler
● 1966 - Fernando Carrillo, Venezuelan actor
● 1966 - A. R. Rahman, Indian composer
● 1966 - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)
● 1968 - John Singleton, American film director
● 1970 - Julie Chen, American television presenter
● 1970 - Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player
● 1972 - Nek, Italian singer
● 1973 - Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1974 - Nicole DeHuff. American actress (d. 2005)
● 1975 - James Farrior, American football player
● 1975 - Yukana, Japanese seiyū
● 1975 - Jason King, English radio DJ (Radio 1)
● 1976 - Danny Pintauro, American actor
● 1976 - Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player
● 1976 - Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor
● 1978 - Nikki Einfeld, Canadian opera singer
● 1978 - Casey Fossum, American baseball player
● 1980 - Steed Malbranque, French footballer
● 1980 - Hiromi Oshima, Japanese adult model
● 1981 - Mike Jones, American rapper
● 1981 - Jérémie Renier, Belgian actor
● 1981 - Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
● 1981 - Asante Samuel, American football player
● 1982 - Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
● 1982 - Tiffany Pollard, American reality television personality
● 1984 - A.J. Hawk, American football player
● 1984 - Sean O'Brien, Australian Professional Windsurfer (AUS120.com)
● 1986 - Paul McShane, Irish footballer
● 1986 - Alex Turner, English musician (Arctic Monkeys)
● 1989 - Andy Carroll, English footballer
● 1990 - Charlie King, Classical guitarist and Actor
DEATHS
● 664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (bc. 583)
● 1088 - Berengar of Tours, French theologian (bc. 999)
● 1448 - Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1418)
● 1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
● 1537 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
● 1616 - Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550)
● 1689 - Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1671)
● 1711 - Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
● 1718 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
● 1718 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
● 1725 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
● 1731 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
● 1734 - John Dennis, English critic and dramatist (b. 1657)
● 1813 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
● 1831 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
● 1840 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
● 1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (b. 1809)
● 1855 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
● 1884 - Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
● 1885 - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist (b. 1812)
● 1913 - Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
● 1918 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
● 1919 - Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
● 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
● 1922 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
● 1928 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
● 1934 - Herbert Chapman , Legendary Manager of Arsenal and Huddersfield Town (b. 1878)
● 1937 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
● 1941 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
● 1942 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
● 1944 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
● 1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
● 1949 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
● 1969 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
● 1972 - Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901)
● 1978 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
● 1981 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
● 1990 - Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
● 1990 - Pavel Alekseyevich Čerenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
● 1993 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
● 1993 - Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player (b. 1917)
● 1995 - Joe Slovo, South African politician (b. 1926)
● 1997 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
● 1999 - Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (b. 1962)
● 2000 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
● 2004 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
● 2004 - Charles Dumas, American athlete (b. 1937)
● 2004 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (b. 1921)
● 2005 - Lois Hole, Lt. Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
● 2005 - Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
● 2006 - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
● 2006 - Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
● 2007 - Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
● 2007 - Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist (b. 1934)
● 2007 - Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Feast of the Epiphany, visit of three wise men to the infant Jesus
● St. Anastasius VIII
● St. Diman
● St. Edeyrn
● St. Eigrad
● St. Erminold
● St. Hywyn
● St. John de Ribera
● St. Macra
● St. Melanie
● St. Merinus
● St. Peter of Canterbury
● St. Schotin
● St. Wiltrudis
● Bl. Andre Bessette
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 24 (Civil Date: January 6)
● Nativity Fast.
● Nun martyr Eugenia of Rome, and with her Martyrs Philip her father, Protus, Hyacinth (Jacinth), Basilla, and Claudia.
● St. Nicholas the monk of Bulgaria.
● St. Antioch, monk of Palestine, and St. Bitimionus of Scete.
● St. Aphrodisius, monk of Palestine.
● New Martyr Achmed (Ahmet) the Calligrapher (or Architect) of Constantinople.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Achaicus.
● Feast of the Epiphany celebrated throughout Christianity (except Eastern and Oriental Orthodox who follow the Julian Calendar) - Twelfth Day of Christmas, also known as Twelfth Day and Three Kings Day
● One of the oldest Feasts in Eastern Christianity, traced back to the beginning of the 2nd Century.
● The Western (Roman) Catholic Church adopted this Feast in the 3rd Century, calling it Epiphany.
● Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church:
● Third greatest Feast of the Eastern Church, following Pascha (Easter) and Pentecost.
● Public holiday in Spain, Italy and Puerto Rico to mark Epiphany
● In the Irish Calendar - Little Christmas (Nollaig na mBan, "Women's Christmas")
● Armenian Christmas (except in the Holy Land where it is on 18 January - old calendar)
● Ancient Latvia - Zvaigznes Diena observed
● Theophany (Revelation of the Trinity at Christ's baptism in the Jordan)
● Rastafari movement - Celebration of the ceremonial birthday of Haile Selassie
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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