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
PASCAL DATE INFORMATION
Easter Sunday for the Western Christian Church is defined as the first Sunday following the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. Lent is defined as the forty days prior to Easter not including Sundays thus Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is 46 days prior to Easter. Calculations for Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday were performed for the 3774 years from 326 to 4099. For the year range 326 to 1582, dates are based on the Julian calendar. For years 1583 to 4099, dates are based on the Gregorian calendar. Ash Wednesday falls in a range of 36 days from February 4 to March 10. Easter Sunday falls in a range of 35 days from March 22 to April 25. The extra day in the Ash Wednesday range is February 29, which only occurs in leap years. February 29 only effects when Ash Wednesday occurs since it is well before the Spring Equinox and has no effect on the date for Easter Sunday. March 10 to March 21 is a twelve-day range that must occur in Lent no matter the timing of Easter Sunday. The entire range of 82 dates from February 4 to April 25 represents all dates with Pascal ramifications.
February 10 is the 7th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 124 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 17th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
370, 381, 392, 465, 471, 476, 555, 560, 566, 639, 650, 661, 723, 734, 745, 756, 807, 818, 829, 840, 902, 913, 924, 997, 1003, 1008, 1087, 1092, 1098, 1171, 1182, 1193, 1255, 1266, 1277, 1288, 1339, 1350, 1361, 1372, 1434, 1445, 1456, 1529, 1535, 1540, 1644, 1655, 1712, 1717, 1723, 1796, 1864, 1869, 1875, 1932, 1937
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2016, 2027, 2100, 2168, 2179, 2236, 2247, 2304, 2309, 2315, 2388, 2399, 2472, 2483, 2494, 2540, 2551, 2562, 2608, 2619, 2692, 2760, 2771, 2844, 2855, 2866, 2912, 2923, 2934, 2996, 3064, 3075, 3086, 3132, 3143, 3216, 3227, 3238, 3300, 3368, 3379, 3390, 3436, 3447, 3458, 3504, 3515, 3526, 3588, 3599, 3610, 3672, 3683, 3694, 3740, 3751, 3762, 3773, 3808, 3819, 3830, 3960, 3971, 3982, 4055, 4066, 4077
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Conservatives "The conundrum of modern political conservatism is that its superstitious worship of market forces brings about the disruption of the very family and communities that it claims to revere." — Gary Hart
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Treason, Traitors, Freedom-Fried Frenchmen ". . .
I say "so-called anti-war movement," because while many Americans were sincerely troubled by America's war effort, the organizers of this movement were Marxists and radicals who supported a Communist victory and an American defeat. Today the same people and their youthful followers are organizing the campus demonstrations against America's effort to defend its citizens against the forces of international terrorism and anti-American hatred, responsible for the September attacks.
. . ." — David Horowitz, "Horowitz's Notepad: An Open Letter to the 'Anti-War' Demonstrators: Think Twice Before You Bring the War Home,' FrontPageMag.com, 9-27-01.—Part 3 of 4 {Due to the length of some of these nutball quotes, I have decided to split the longer ones into parts. I could have abridged them but I think that would have lessened the impact of showing just how crazy these guys are. Please refer to previous and/or subsequent posts for complete quote.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "I don't know if he throws a spitball, but he sure spits on the ball." — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was another master of obfuscation, Stengel is Hall of Shame member #7.
{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)
Feb 10, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 12% Age: 11% Rise: 8:49 AM Set: 9:58 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 10, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 12% Age: 11% Rise: 9:11 AM Set: 10:12 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 10, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 12% Age: 11% Rise: 8:41 AM Set: 9:53 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 10, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 11% Age: 11% Rise: 8:18 AM Set: 9:28 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens
Credit: Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 60 - St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
● 1098 - Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
● 1258 - Battle of Baghdad - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing large numbers of citizens (estimates range from 10,000 to 800,000).
● 1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
● 1495 - King's College was founded under Roman Catholic sponsorship in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1860 it merged with the Protestant Marischal College (established in 1593) to become the University of Aberdeen.
● 1535 - 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
● 1542 - Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery).
● 1546 - German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter to his wife Kate: 'Pray, and let God worry.'
● 1549 - Tomé de Sousa appointed Governor-General of Brazil
● 1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
● 1635 - Académie Française is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
● 1676 - Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster MA
● 1713 - Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier
● 1716 - Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
● 1720 - Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
● 1746 - English Pelham government resigns
● 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.
● 1774 - Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
● 1794 - Suicide of Jacques Roux (1752-1794) in his Paris prison cell. French revolutionist, known as the pitiless and sometimes cruel "Red Priest," but also a precursor of socialism and modern anarchism. Denounced those monopolizing the revolution, the speculator, the merchant -- and also government and the whole apparatus of the parliamentary state. A spokesman of poorest "sans-culottes" and incited women to assert their rights.
● 1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
● 1807 - US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
● 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
● 1824 - Simon Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Perú
● 1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
● 1846 - First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
● 1846 - Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began their exodus to the west from Illinois.
● 1855 - The Women's Hospital of New York City is founded. Although it provides much needed care for poor women, the hospital was also the arena for J. Marion Sims, known for his hatred of women and for ruthlessly cutting up their bodies. Here he performs brutal operations, including ovariotomies and clitoridectomies, and uses indigent women as guinea pigs before audiences of men. Sims began his career performing dangerous sexual surgery on black slave women who were housed in a stable in his yard. On a slave named Anarcha, he performed 30 operations. After affiliating with the New York Women's Hospital, Sims will perform the same number of operations on Irish indigent Mary Smith from 1856 to 1859. Internationally famous and honored by his peers, Sims was an object of adulation at Harvard Medical School, counted as one of the immortals.
● 1855 - US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
● 1859 - General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
● 1862 - Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms
● 1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
● 1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
● 1866 - Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms
● 1868 - Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
● 1869 - Birth of Octave Jahn (1869-1917), Cherbourg. French anarchist who founded, with Tortelier and others, the "League of the Anti-patriots" in1886. Went to Belgium during the French repression, and did 2 1/2 years in prison there for his vehement and revolutionary speeches during a strike in May 1897. He emerged, despite numerous trials and several stays in prison, an untiring, much-traveled anarchist propagandist, in France, North Africa, Switzerland, England, Spain, and Mexico, where he settled. Jahn was involved in the Mexican revolution, helped start a rationalist school on the Ferrer model, and wrote for the anarchist press.
● 1870 - City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
● 1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City).
● 1872 - Birth of Eugene Bigel. French Ardennes anarchist and proponent of direct action. Dynamited numerous police stations, inflicting material damage. His last attempted bombing, in July 1891, at the residence of an industrialist, failed to explode and was traced to him. Received heavy sentences and sent to the prison colony in Cayenne.
● 1878 - Peace of Zanjón
● 1879 - 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
● 1879 - Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo
● 1880 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
● 1883 - Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee WI, kills 71
● 1888 - Birth of Giuseppe Pasotti (1888-1951). Italian anarcho-syndicalist and member of the Italian League of Human Rights. An antimilitarist, jailed, in 1915, for the duration of the war; a mechanic, active in the '20s in strikes and agitated to save Sacco and Vanzetti. Watched by the fascists, he took refuge in France. Jailed and threatened with expulsion for a fight with the Italian fascist consul, Pasotti went into hiding, then to Tunisia.
● 1890 - Around 11 million acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
● 1890 - Boris Pasternak, the Russian Nobel Prize-winning novelist and poet, was born.
● 1892 - Four leaders of a January anarchist revolt in Andalusia, Spain, are executed, setting off new waves of violence. In January of 1892, hundreds of farm workers calling for "social revolution," took over the town of Jerez. The insurrection was quickly subdued, the leaders captured and tortured.
● 1896 - Home Colony Co-Operative founded on Van Geldern Cove near Seattle and Tacoma, Wash.
● 1897 - Freedom of religion in Madagascar
● 1897 - New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
● 1898 - Birth of Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht lives, Augsburg, Germany. Doctor, poet, playwright, theatrical reformer. Fled right wing German Nazis. After moving to the U.S., fled from the Land of the Free when right wing HUAC comes after him during the Cold War.
● 1899 - -39ºF (-39ºC), Milligan OH (state lowest temperature record)
● 1899 - The Church of England first authorized use of the 1885 English Revised (RV or ERV) Version of the Bible in Anglican liturgy and worship.
● 1899 - US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley; US gets Puerto Rico & Guam
● 1904 - Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
● 1906 - Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
● 1906 - State of siege proclaimed in Zululand
● 1916 - Conscription begins in Britain
● 1917 - Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor
● 1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
● 1922 - Irish railroad workers seize railroads and prepare to run their own trains.
● 1923 - SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
● 1923- Texas Tech University was founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
● 1925 - 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City IN
● 1927 - Birth of Leontyne Price, first African-American international opera star.
● 1927 - President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
● 1929 - In London, renowned Baptist clergyman and devotional author F. B. Meyer, 81, preached his last sermon. He soon entered a nursing home where his health failed rapidly, and he died March 28.
● 1929 - Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu.
● 1930 - Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
● 1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
● 1932 - Spain - Anarcho-syndicalist CNT proclaims general strike; insurrections follow.
● 1933 - -54ºF (-48ºC), Seneca OR (state record)
● 1933 - Dutch sea-plane bombs Dutch ship
● 1933 - Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
● 1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
● 1933 - Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
● 1933 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
● 1934 - 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
● 1934 - Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
● 1934 - Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"
● 1935 - Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new streamlined electric locomotive
● 1938 - King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
● 1941 - 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Washington DC-Harrisonburg, VA
● 1941 - Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands
● 1942 - The Normandie, the former French liner, capsized in New York Harbor. The day before the ship had caught fire while it was being fitted for the U.S. Navy.
● 1943 - "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination
● 1943 - 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
● 1943 - Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau
● 1944 - Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
● 1944 - U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland
● 1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
● 1947 - Netherlands Radio Union forms
● 1947 - Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
● 1947 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'Save Thy servants from the tyranny of the nonessential. Give them the courage to say "No" to everything that makes it more difficult to say "Yes" to Thee.'
● 1947 - WWII peace treaties signed
● 1948 - Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki
● 1949 - Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman premiered in New York City.
● 1951 - Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari
● 1952 - India passes first test of democracy; Independent India's first general elections pass off peacefully, and return Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to power.
● 1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
● 1955 - US evacuates Pacific islands; The American Navy has moved thousands of people from the Chinese Nationalist Tachen Islands.
● 1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
● 1959 - Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265
● 1961 - Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
● 1961 - Voice of Nuclear Disarmament pirate radio station begins operation off shore of Britain.
● 1962 - Francis Gary Powers, a CIA pilot allows both himself and his super-secret airplane to be captured by the Russians, then confessed everything before a Soviet court. Exchanged for reputed Soviet master spy Rudolf Abel.
● 1964 - The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82.
● 1966 - Harmel government in Belgium resigns
● 1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
● 1969 - Mozambique - Eduardo Mondiane, president of Frelimo, assassinated.
● 1970 - 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
● 1970 - Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France)
● 1971 - National protests against U.S. invasion of Laos include 1,500 protesters and nine arrests at the Univ. of Washington.
● 1972 - Ras al Khaima joins the United Arab Emirates
● 1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
● 1973 - Gigantic storage tank filled with liquefied gas explodes killing 40 workers. Staten Island, New York.
● 1974 - Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
● 1974 - Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London
● 1977 - Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro
● 1977 - Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid (1976)
● 1978 - Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA
● 1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
● 1981 - Jamestown Clallam tribe, on Olympic Peninsula, receives federal recognition.
● 1983 - Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament
● 1983 - British police on trail of mass murderer; Police launch a mass murder investigation in London after discovering human remains in drains.
● 1985 - -61ºF (-52ºC), Maybell CO (state record)
● 1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
● 1985 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
● 1987 - Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
● 1988 - 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
● 1988 - Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails
● 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
● 1989 - Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff
● 1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1990 - Eight hundred loot Rio de Janeiro food market while security guards watch.
● 1990 - Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzene in water
● 1990 - South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th
● 1991 - Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
● 1992 - Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
● 1993 - US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
● 1996 - Docklands bomb ends IRA ceasefire; The IRA admit planting the bomb that exploded in the Docklands area of London last night.
● 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
● 1997 - Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991
● 1997 - O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages
● 1997 - Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR
● 1997 - The United States Army suspends CSM Gene C. McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.
● 1998 - A college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace.
● 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
● 1999 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10.
● 2000 - U.N. Conference on Caring Communities for the 21st Century, New York.
● 2001 - The Southerner train service between Christchurch and Invercargill is axed after the New Zealand Government and Tranz Scenic fail to support the service.
● 2003 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
● 2003 - Iraq agreed to allow U-2 surveillance flights over its territory, meeting a key demand by U.N. inspectors searching for banned weapons; President George W. Bush brushed aside Iraqi concessions as too little, too late.
● 2005 - Charles and Camilla to be married; The Prince of Wales and long-term partner Camilla Parker Bowles are engaged, Clarence House announces.
● 2005 - North Korea suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.
BIRTHS
● 1499 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
● 1524 - Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
● 1606 - Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
● 1609 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
● 1685 - Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)
● 1741 - Andre-Ernest Gretry, French operatic composer (d. 1813)
● 1775 - Charles Lamb, English essayist/critic (d. 1834)
● 1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
● 1785 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1936)
● 1795 - Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
● 1837 - Harrison Gray Otis, American newspaper publisher-Los Angeles Times (d. 1917)
● 1846 - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
● 1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
● 1859 - Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943)
● 1868 - William Allen White, American journalist/writer (d. 1944)
● 1884 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
● 1887 - John Franklin Enders, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1985)
● 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
● 1892 - Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
● 1893 - Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
● 1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor/comedian (d. 1980)
● 1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
● 1897 - John Franklin Enders, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1985)
● 1897 - Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
● 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
● 1898 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian-born American stage and film actress (d. 1992)
● 1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
● 1901 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
● 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
● 1903 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
● 1903 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
● 1904 - John Farrow, American film director (d. 1963)
● 1906 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
● 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
● 1910 - Georges Pire, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
● 1914 - Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)
● 1920 - Alex Comfort, physician and writer (d. 2000)
● 1924 - Bud Poile, National Hockey League player, coach, manager and executive (d. 2005)
● 1926 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)
● 1927 - Brian Priestman, British conductor
● 1927 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
● 1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
● 1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor (''Hart to Hart'')
● 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
● 1933 - Richard Schickel, American film critic
● 1934 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
● 1935 - John Alcorn (artist), American designer and illustrator (d. 1992)
● 1937 - Roberta Flack, American singer
● 1939 - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
● 1939 - Roberta Flack, American singer
● 1940 - Jimmy Merchant, Singer (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers)
● 1940 - Mary Rand, British athlete
● 1941 - Michael Apted, British director
● 1944 - Frank Keating, American politician
● 1944 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
● 1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician
● 1944 - Vernor Vinge, American novelist
● 1947 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor
● 1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
● 1947 - Nicholas Owen, English newsreader
● 1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
● 1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor
● 1949 - Jim Corcoran, Quebec singer and songwriter
● 1949 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
● 1949 - Nigel Olsson, drummer
● 1950 - Mark Spitz, American swimmer
● 1951 - Robert Iger, President/CEO of The Walt Disney Company
● 1951 - Roxanne Pulitzer, American model
● 1952 - Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
● 1954 - Larry McWilliams, baseball player
● 1955 - Chris Adams, British pro wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
● 1955 - Greg Norman, Australian golfer
● 1955 - James Cramer, American television personality
● 1958 - Michael Weiss, American musician
● 1959 - Dennis Gentry, American football player
● 1960 - Lionel Cartwright, Country singer
● 1960 - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
● 1961 - Alexander Payne, American film director (''Sideways,'' ''About Schmidt'')
● 1961 - George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator (''This Week'')
● 1962 - Bobby Czyz, American boxer
● 1962 - Cliff Burton, American musician (d. 1986)
● 1962 - Piero Pelù, Italian singer and song-writer, leader of Litfiba from 1980 to 1999
● 1963 - Lenny Dykstra, baseball player
● 1964 - Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
● 1964 - Francesca Neri, Italian actress
● 1964 - Glenn Beck, Radio and Television host {and ignorant putz}
● 1964 - Victor Davis, Canadian Olympic swimmer (d. 1989)
● 1965 - Mario Jean, Quebec stand up comedian and television actor
● 1967 - Armand Serrano, Filipino Animator
● 1967 - Jacky Durand, French cyclist
● 1967 - Laura Dern, American actress
● 1968 - Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
● 1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist
● 1970 - Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player
● 1970 - Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
● 1970 - Myrea Pettit, British illustrator
● 1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
● 1970 - Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
● 1971 - Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler
● 1971 - Louie Spicolli, American wrestler
● 1972 - Dude Mowrey, Country singer
● 1974 - Elizabeth Banks, Actress
● 1974 - Ty Law, American football player
● 1975 - Amber Frey, American witness
● 1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
● 1975 - Kool Savas, German rapper
● 1976 - Kev Brown, American rapper/producer
● 1976 - Lance Berkman, baseball player
● 1977 - Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
● 1978 - Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
● 1978 - Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
● 1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician
● 1979 - Ross Powers, American snowboarder
● 1980 - César Izturis, baseball player
● 1980 - Mike Ribeiro, National Hockey League player
● 1980 - Steve Tully, English footballer
● 1981 - Andrew Johnson, English footballer
● 1981 - Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
● 1981 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague, drummer from Avenged Sevenfold
● 1982 - Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
● 1982 - Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
● 1982 - Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
● 1984 - Alex Gordon, American baseball player
● 1984 - Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
● 1985 - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
● 1987 - Choi Si Won, actor/singer, member of Korean boyband Super Junior
● 1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress
● 1994 - Makenzie Vega, American actress
● 1997 - Chloe Moretz, American actress
DEATHS
● 1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
● 1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
● 1242 - Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231)
● 1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
● 1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
● 1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
● 1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
● 1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
● 1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect
● 1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
● 1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
● 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
● 1857 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
● 1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
● 1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
● 1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
● 1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
● 1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
● 1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
● 1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
● 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833)
● 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
● 1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
● 1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
● 1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
● 1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
● 1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
● 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
● 1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
● 1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
● 1966 - Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
● 1975 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
● 1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)
● 1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
● 1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
● 1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
● 1993 - Fred Hollows, Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
● 1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
● 2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
● 2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
● 2001 - Buddy Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
● 2001 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
● 2002 - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
● 2002 - Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
● 2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
● 2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922)
● 2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
● 2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
● 2003 - Ron Ziegler, American press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
● 2004 - Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
● 2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
● 2006 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
● 2006 - J Dilla, Rapper/Producer, former member of Slum Village (b. 1974)
● 2007 - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
● 2007 - Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Malta - St. Paul's shipwreck day; birth of Catholicism in Malta
● St. Andrew
● St. Aponius
● St. Austreberta
● St. Baldegundis
● St. Charalampe
● St. Desideratus
● St. Erluph
● St. Paganus
● St. Paul and Ninety Companions
● St. Scholastica
● St. Silvanus
● St. Trumwin
● St. William of Maleval
● Bl. Alexander of Lugo
● Bl. Arnaud
● Bl. Hugo
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 28 (Civil Date: February 10)
● St. Ephraim the Syrian St. Theodosius, abbot of Totma (Vologda).
● St. Paladius the hermit of Antioch.
● St. Ephraim, wonderworker of Novotorzhk.
● St. Ephraim, Bishop of Pereyaslavl (Kiev Caves).
● St. Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Ninevah (ascetic writer).
● Greek Calendar:
● St. James the Ascetic of Porphyrianos.
● Martyr Charis.
● Italy - National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe to commemorate Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and Foibe massacres.
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Boy Scouts Day (1910) - ( Sunday )
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING EIGHT SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
This Previous Day in History Post With
This Original Wikipedia List form the core of this post.
Additional facts taken from:
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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