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—. . . .
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 11 is the 8th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 130 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 8th/9th/10th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
403, 408, 487, 498, 571, 582, 593, 655, 666, 677, 688, 750, 761, 772, 845, 856, 935, 940, 1019, 1030, 1103, 1114, 1125, 1187, 1198, 1209, 1220, 1282, 1293, 1304, 1377, 1388, 1467, 1472, 1551, 1562, 1587, 1660, 1671, 1682, 1728, 1739, 1750, 1807, 1880, 1891, 1948, 1959, 1970
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2032, 2043, 2054, 2065, 2111, 2122, 2184, 2195, 2252, 2263, 2274, 2320, 2331, 2342, 2404, 2415, 2426, 2499, 2556, 2567, 2578, 2589, 2624, 2635, 2646, 2657, 2703, 2714, 2776, 2787, 2798, 2809, 2871, 2882, 2893, 2928, 2939, 2950, 2961, 3007, 3018, 3080, 3091, 3148, 3159, 3170, 3181, 3243, 3254, 3265, 3311, 3322, 3333, 3395, 3463, 3474, 3485, 3520, 3531, 3542, 3553, 3615, 3626, 3637, 3699, 3705, 3767, 3778, 3789, 3835, 3846, 3857, 3903, 3914, 3925, 3987, 3998, 4009, 4071, 4082, 4093
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Corporate Power "CORPORATION, n: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." — Ambrose Bierce
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Treason, Traitors, Freedom-Fried Frenchmen "If I have one regret from my radical years, it is that this country was too tolerant towards the treason of its enemies within. If patriotic Americans had been vigilant in the defense of their country, if they had called things by their right names, if they had confronted us with the seriousness of our attacks, they might have caught the attention of those of us who were well-meaning but utterly misguided. And they might have stopped us in our tracks . . ." — 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 4 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.} {I note that Horowitz falls short of calling himself traitor preferring the label of radical. This supreme flip-flopper finds it necessary to blame everyone else and not have the integrity to shoulder the responsibility himself; might it be that his current stance is one of convenience and not any real conviction?}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "My health is good enough about the shoulders." — 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 11, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 21% Age: 15% Rise: 9:16 AM Set: 11:10 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 11, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 20% Age: 15% Rise: 9:41 AM Set: 11:21 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 11, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 20% Age: 15% Rise: 9:05 AM Set: 11:08 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 11, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 20% Age: 15% Rise: 8:41 AM Set: 10:43 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Saturn's Moon Epimetheus from the Cassini Spacecraft
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 660 B.C.E. - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
● 385 - Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona
● 731 - Gregory II ends his reign as Pope.
● 824 - St. Paschal I ends his reign as Pope.
● 1531 - Henry VIII of England recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
● 1543 - Battle at Wayna Daga Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army
● 1543 - Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
● 1573 - 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panamá)
● 1575 - King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
● 1650 - Death of René Descartes, 53, French philosopher and mathematician. His last words were: 'My soul, thou hast long been held captive; the hour has now come for thee to quit thy prison...; suffer, then, this separation with joy and courage.' {Best known for "I think, therefore I am."}
● 1659 - The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
● 1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
● 1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, 1st hospital in the United States, opens.
● 1766 - Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
● 1768 - Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
● 1779 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Chance has no share in the government of the world. The Lord reigns, and disposes all things, strongly and sweetly, for the good of them that love him.'
● 1790 - Long after colonists had invaded upstate New York and natives had fought back successfully (including in alliance with the British during the American Revolution), U.S. signs first treaty with Iroquois.
● 1790 - Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery. It failed.
● 1793 - Prussian troops occupy Venlo Netherlands
● 1794 - First session of United States Senate open to the public.
● 1802 - Birth of Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist, reformer, author.
● 1805 - Sacajawea gives birth to Jean-Baptist Charbonneau while leading Lewis and Clark Expedition.
● 1808 - Judge Jesse Fell experimented by burning anthracite coal to keep his house warm. He successfully showed how clean the coal burned and how cheaply it could be used as a heating fuel.
● 1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
● 1811 - President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
● 1812 - At Republican Gov. Elbridge Gerry's behest, Massachusetts is redistricted to give Republicans advantage in the election of State legislators. One grotesquely shaped new district, described as looking like a salamander, resulted in the coining of the word gerrymander.
● 1814 - Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union.
● 1826 - University College London is founded under the name University of London.
● 1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston, Massachusetts.
● 1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, the prolific inventor whose more than 1,000 patents included the light bulb and the gramophone, was born.
● 1852 - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
● 1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
● 1855 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam.
● 1858 - In Lourdes, France, 14-year-old French peasant St. Bernadette Soubirous experienced her first vision of the Virgin Mary. By July 16th of this year, she had experienced 18 such visions.
● 1861 - American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
● 1861 - President-elect Lincoln takes train from Springfield IL to Washington DC
● 1873 - King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.
● 1889 - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.
● 1890 - U.S. opens 11 million acres of Sioux land to white settlers.
● 1895 - Georgetown became part of Washington DC
● 1895 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This record was equalled on 10 January 1982 and again on 30 December 1995.
● 1897 - White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC
● 1898 - Owen Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister, named minister (ambassador) to Liberia
● 1899 - -15ºF (-26ºC), Washington DC (district record)
● 1899 - -61ºF (-52ºC), Montana (record low temperature)
● 1902 - Police assault universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
● 1905 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
● 1907 - De Master's Dutch government resigns
● 1907 - Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die
● 1908 - Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
● 1913 - IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) leads rubber strike in Akron, Ohio.
● 1916 - Black feminist and civil-rights activist Flo Kennedy is born in Kansas City, Missouri. As a lawyer, Kennedy represented Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker & H. Rap Brown. In 1966, she founded the Media Workshop to confront racism in media & advertising. In 1972 she forms the Feminist Party and files an IRS complaint alleging that the Catholic Church violates tax-exempt requirements by spending money to influence political decisions.
● 1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control.
● 1919 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany.
● 1919 - Seattle general strike ends.
● 1922 - US intervention army leaves Honduras
● 1926 - Tokelau (Union) islands in south Pacific transfers to New Zealand
● 1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed. Italy now recognized the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.
● 1932 - 73ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
● 1934 - Austria - Troops raid Socialist Party; uprising and bombardment of Karl Marx Co-op housing complex in Vienna follows.
● 1935 - -11ºF (-24ºC), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
● 1935 - 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York
● 1936 - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
● 1937 - Forty-eight thousand General Motors workers win 44-day sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan.
● 1938 - BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (The play which coined the term "robot").
● 1939 - Lockheed P-38 flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
● 1941 - Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
● 1941 - Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
● 1942 - The Battle of Bukit Timah was fought in Singapore during World War II.
● 1943 - General Dwight Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
● 1943 - Transport number 47 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
● 1944 - German troops re-conquer Aprilia Italy
● 1944 - U-424 sunk off Ireland
● 1945 - 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey CA
● 1945 - Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin
● 1948 - John Costello succeeds Éamon de Valera as Taoiseach of Ireland.
● 1948 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We ask Thee not for tasks more suited to our strength, but for strength more suited to our tasks.'
● 1951 - Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
● 1953 - President Dwight Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
● 1953 - The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
● 1955 - U.S. agrees to train South Vietnamese troops.
● 1956 - 'Cambridge spies' surface in Moscow; Two British diplomats, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, who vanished in mysterious circumstances five years ago re-appear in the Soviet Union.
● 1958 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs
● 1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor was the first black woman to become a stewardess by making her initial flight.
● 1960 - Jack Paar walked off while live on the air on the "Tonight Show" with four minutes left. He did this in response to censors cutting out a joke from the show the night before.
● 1961 - Robert C Weaver sworn in as Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency with then highest federal post by a black
● 1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
● 1963 - CIA Domestic Operations Division created.
● 1964 - Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
● 1964 - The Republic of China (Taiwan) breaks off diplomatic relations with France.
● 1967 - Less than two months after his return from a trip to Hanoi, A.J. Muste, renowned U.S. pacifist, dies at age 82. As a young minister, helped found both Fellowship of Reconciliation (1919) and War Resisters League (1922); championed direct action and anti-military activism in his later years.
● 1968 - Israeli-Jordanian border clashes.
● 1969 - At St. George Williams College, Montreal, 200 prescient students smash computers with axes and set the computer center on fire during sit-in protesting a professor's racism.
● 1970 - 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington NH (state 24-hour record)
● 1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
● 1970 - John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds in fines for protesting the South African rugby team playing in Scotland.
● 1971 - Eighty-seven countries, including the US, UK, and USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.
● 1973 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
● 1974 - Titan-Centaur test launch fails
● 1975 - Tories choose first woman leader; The British Conservative Party chooses Margaret Thatcher as its new leader.
● 1976 - Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black Secretary of Army
● 1978 - "Longest Walk" begins, 300 Native Americans start march from San Francisco to Washington DC.
● 1978 - Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
● 1978 - EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
● 1978 - Lois Gibbs brings U.S. to awareness of "Love Canal" (near Niagara Falls, NY). Residents will be evacuated this year.
● 1979 - Iran's premier Bakhtiar flees Teheran after collapse of Shah's regime; Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power.
● 1981 - 100,000 gallons (380 m³) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.
● 1981 - Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski
● 1982 - High Court rules as illegal Israeli seizure of Arab lands in occupied territories for Jewish "settlers."
● 1983 - 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm))
● 1984 - 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
● 1985 - Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
● 1985 - Wyandot Indians of Kansas and Oklahoma receive $5.5 million for aboriginal lands sold in 1842 for less than fair market value.
● 1986 - Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
● 1986 - Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
● 1987 - British Airways begins trading stocks
● 1987 - Mrs Payne is no brothel Madam; Party planner Cynthia Payne is acquitted of nine charges of controlling prostitutes at her home in south-west London.
● 1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect.
● 1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1988 - Anthony M Kennedy appointed to the Supreme Court
● 1989 - Rev. Barbara C. Harris, 58, was consecrated in Boston as the first woman bishop in the Anglican Church. (In 1988 the Church of England passed the first legislation which began opening the Anglican priesthood to women.)
● 1990 - Nelson Mandela released after being held 27 years in prison without trial by the U.S.-supported apartheid government of South Africa, for the crime of "high treason." Government announces amnesty for all political prisoners in South Africa.
● 1991 - UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
● 1992 - F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths)
● 1993 - Janet Reno was appointed to the position of attorney general by U.S. President Clinton. She was the first female to hold the position.
● 1994 - Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
● 1995 - Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
● 1997 - STS 82 (Discovery 22) launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
● 1999 - Pluto is once again the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system
● 2000 - Great Britain suspended self-rule in Northern Ireland after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) failed to begin decommissioning (disarming) by a February deadline.
● 2000 - The space shuttle Endeavor took off. The mission was to gather information for the most detailed map of the earth ever made.
● 2002 - Israel attacked Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza City in response to unprecedented Palestinian rocket fire and a shooting attack on Israeli civilians.
● 2003 - The al-Jazeera Arab satellite station broadcast what was believed to be a new audio statement from Osama bin Laden urging Iraqis to carry out suicide attacks on Americans.
● 2004 - A car bomb at an army recruiting center in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 47 people.
● 2006 - Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates, won approval from a secretive U.S. panel for a $6.8 billion deal to take over operations at six American ports.
● 2006 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots Harry Whittington in the face while the two are hunting together.
● 2007 - In Portugal, a national referendum dictates non-therapeutic abortion to become legal when requested by the woman during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
BIRTHS
● 1377 - King Ladislas of Naples (d. 1414)
● 1380 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (d. 1459)
● 1466 - Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII of England (d. 1503)
● 1535 - Pope Gregory XIV (d. 1591)
● 1568 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625)
● 1649 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (d. 1715)
● 1657 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (d. 1757)
● 1755 - Albert Christoph Dies, German composer (d. 1822)
● 1764 - Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (d. 1811)
● 1774 - Hans Järta, Swedish political activist (d. 1847)
● 1776 - Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire and first head of state of independent Greece (d. 1831)
● 1799 - Basil Moreau, French Founder priest (d. 1873)
● 1800 - William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer (d. 1877)
● 1802 - Lydia Child, American abolitionist (d. 1880)
● 1812 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, American politician (d. 1883)
● 1813 - Otto Ludwig, German writer and critic (d. 1865)
● 1819 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (d. 1890)
● 1821 - Auguste-Édouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881)
● 1830 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, Prussian musician (d. 1913)
● 1833 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1910)
● 1839 - Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physicist (d. 1903)
● 1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor-lightbulb (d. 1931)
● 1860 - Rachilde, French author (d. 1953)
● 1869 - Else Lasker-Schüler, German writer (d. 1945)
● 1869 - Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder (d. 1939)
● 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian singer (d. 1938)
● 1874 - Elsa Beskow, Swedish author (d. 1953)
● 1874 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born composer (d. 1949)
● 1887 - John van Melle, South African writer (d. 1953)
● 1890 - David Drummond, Australian politician (d. 1965)
● 1891 - J.W. Hearne English cricketer (d. 1965)
● 1894 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (d. 1974)
● 1898 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 1964)
● 1900 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d. 2002)
● 1900 - Josei Toda, Japanese educator (d. 1958)
● 1900 - Thomas, Jr. Hitchcock, American polo player (d. 1944)
● 1901 - Roddy Connolly, Irish politician, son of James Connolly (d. 1980)
● 1902 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect (d. 1971)
● 1903 - Hans Redlich, Austrian composer (d. 1968)
● 1904 - Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1983)
● 1908 - Philip Dunne, American screenwriter, director and producer (d. 1992)
● 1908 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist (d. 1999)
● 1909 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director (d. 1993)
● 1909 - Max Baer, American boxer and actor (d. 1959)
● 1912 - Roy Fuller, English writer (d. 1991)
● 1914 - Matt Dennis, American singer (d. 2002)
● 1915 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, English author
● 1917 - Sidney Sheldon, American author (d. 2007)
● 1919 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach (d. 2007)
● 1919(21? NYT) - Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born actress (d. 1995)
● 1920 - Billy Halop, American actor (d. 1976)
● 1920 - Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., American general (d. 1978)
● 1920 - King Farouk I of Egypt (d. 1965)
● 1921 - Edward Seidensticker, American scholar (d. 2007)
● 1921 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)
● 1925 - Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001)
● 1925 - Peter Berger, British admiral
● 1926 - Alexander Gibson, British conductor
● 1926 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor
● 1926 - Paul Bocuse, French chef
● 1928 - Conrad Janis, Actor (''Mork and Mindy'')
● 1930 - Roy De Forest, American Painter (d. 2007)
● 1931 - Larry Merchant, American sportswriter
● 1932 - Dennis Skinner, British politician
● 1932 - Jerome Lowenthal, American pianist
● 1934 - John Surtees, MBE, English motorcycle and race car driver
● 1934 - Mary Quant, English fashion designer
● 1934 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (d. 2000)
● 1934 - Tina Louise, American actress (''Gilligan's Island'')
● 1935 - Bent Lorentzen, Danish composer
● 1935 - Gene Vincent, American musician (d. 1971)
● 1936 - Burt Reynolds, American actor
● 1937 - Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer
● 1937 - Eddie Shack, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1938 - Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricketer
● 1938 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007)
● 1938 - Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general
● 1938 - Simone de Oliveira, Portuguese actress
● 1939 - Gerry Goffin, American lyricist
● 1939 - Jane Yolen, American author
● 1940 - Bobby ''Boris'' Pickett, Singer
● 1941 - Sergio Mendes, Brazilian musician
● 1942 - Otis Clay, R&B singer
● 1943 - Serge Lama, French singer
● 1946 - Ian Porterfield, English footballer (d. 2007)
● 1947 - Derek Shulman, English musician
● 1947 - Joselito, Spanish singer
● 1951 - Mike Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services
● 1953 - Jeb Bush, American politician
● 1953 - Philip Anglim, American actor
● 1954 - Noriyuki Asakura, Japanese composer
● 1956 - Catherine Hickland, American actress (''One Life to Live'')
● 1956 - Didier Lockwood, French violinist
● 1956 - H.R., American singer (Bad Brains)
● 1959 - Roberto Moreno, Brazilian racing driver
● 1960 - Nick Currie, Scottish musician (AKA Momus)
● 1961 - Carey Lowell, American actress (''Law and Order'')
● 1961 - Mary Docter, American speed skater
● 1962 - Eric Vanderaerden, Belgian cyclist
● 1962 - Sheryl Crow, American musician
● 1962 - Tammy Baldwin, American politician
● 1963 - Diane Franklin, American actress
● 1963 - José Mari Bakero, Spanish footballer
● 1964 - Ken Shamrock, American martial artist
● 1964 - Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska
● 1965 - Vicki Wilson, Australian netballer
● 1967 - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (d. 1990)
● 1967 - Uwe Daßler, German swimmer
● 1969 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress (''Friends'')
● 1970 - Fredrik Thordendal, Swedish musician (Meshuggah)
● 1971 - Damian Lewis, British actor (''Band of Brothers'')
● 1972 - Brian Daubach, American baseball player
● 1972 - Craig Jones, American musician (Slipknot)
● 1972 - Kelly Slater, American surfer
● 1972 - Steve Mcmanaman, English footballer
● 1973 - Ethan Iverson, Jazz pianist
● 1973 - Jeon Do-yeon, Korean actress
● 1973 - Varg Vikernes, Norwegian musician (Burzum)
● 1974 - Alex Jones, American radio host
● 1974 - D'Angelo, American singer
● 1974 - Zain Verjee, American newsreporter
● 1975 - Jacque Vaughn, American basketball player
● 1976 - André Wickström, Finland-Swedish comedian and actor
● 1976 - Brice Beckham, American actor
● 1977 - Mike Shinoda, American singer (Linkin Park)
● 1978 - Peter Hayes (musician), American singer-guitarist (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
● 1979 - Brandy Norwood, American singer
● 1980 - André "Titi" Buengo, Angolan footballer
● 1980 - Cormac McAnallen, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer (d. 2004)
● 1980 - Marco Bresciano, Australian soccer player
● 1980 - Matthew Lawrence, American actor
● 1980 - Natasha Bobo, American actress
● 1980 - Titi Buengo, Angolan footballer
● 1981 - Kelly Rowland, American singer (Destiny's Child)
● 1981 - Scot Thompson, American soccer player
● 1982 - Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player
● 1983 - Huang Shengyi, Chinese actress
● 1983 - Nicki Clyne, Canadian actress
● 1983 - Rafael Van der Vaart, Dutch soccer player
● 1984 - Aubrey O'Day, American singer (Danity Kane)
● 1984 - Matthew Good, American musician (From First to Last)
● 1985 - Mike Richards, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1985 - William Beckett, American singer (The Academy Is...)
● 1989 - Jazz Raycole, American actress
● 1990 - Princess Ayah of Jordan
● 1990 - Q'Orianka Kilcher, American singer (''The New World'')
● 1992 - Blair Dunlop, English actor
● 1992 - Taylor Lautner, Actor (''Cheaper by the Dozen 2'')
DEATHS
● 641 - Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium
● 731 - Pope Gregory II
● 821 - Saint Benedict of Aniane
● 824 - Pope Paschal I
● 1141 - Hugo of St. Victor, German philosopher and theologian
● 1160 - Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (b. 1123)
● 1503 - Elizabeth of York, queen consort of Henry VII of England (b. 1466)
● 1626 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (b. 1552)
● 1650 - René Descartes, French philosopher (b. 1596)
● 1685 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (b. 1638)
● 1713 - Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor of Indai (b. 1664)
● 1755 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (b. 1675)
● 1762 - Johann Tobias Krebs, German composer (b. 1690)
● 1763 - William Shenstone, English poet (b. 1714)
● 1797 - Antoine Dauvergne, French composer (b. 1713)
● 1829 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (b. 1795)
● 1862 - Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829)
● 1868 - Léon Foucault, French astronomer (b. 1819)
● 1879 - Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist and painter (b. 1808)
● 1917 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872)
● 1923 - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (b. 1847)
● 1931 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (b. 1854)
● 1939 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
● 1940 - John Buchan, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1875)
● 1945 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (b. 1891)
● 1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, Latvian film director (b. 1898)
● 1959 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)
● 1960 - Ernst von Dohnányi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1877)
● 1963 - Sylvia Plath, American writer (b. 1932)
● 1968 - Howard Lindsay, American playwright (b. 1888)
● 1972 - Jan Wils, Dutch architect (b. 1891)
● 1973 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1907)
● 1975 - Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy soldier and statesman, assassinated (b. 1931)
● 1976 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (b. 1894)
● 1976 - Frank Arnau, German writer (b. 1894)
● 1976 - Lee J Cobb, American actor (b. 1911)
● 1977 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1902)
● 1978 - Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1904)
● 1978 - James B Conant, American chemist and university president (b. 1893)
● 1982 - Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (b. 1912)
● 1982 - Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
● 1985 - Ben Abruzzo, American businessman and balloonist (b. 1930)
● 1985 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, American composer (b. 1901)
● 1985 - Henry Hathaway, American actor and director (b. 1898)
● 1986 - Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (b. 1942)
● 1986 - Frank Herbert, American author (b. 1920)
● 1987 - Sadequain, famous Pakistani painter and artist. (b. 1930)
● 1989 - George O'Hanlon, American actor and director (b. 1912)
● 1991 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1922)
● 1994 - Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (b. 1946)
● 1994 - Sorrell Booke, American actor (b. 1930)
● 1994 - William Conrad, American actor (b. 1920)
● 1996 - Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (b. 1930)
● 1996 - Cyril Poole, English cricketer (b. 1921)
● 1996 - Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1946)
● 1997 - Barry Evans, English actor (b. 1943)
● 1997 - Don Porter, American actor (b. 1912)
● 2000 - Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (b. 1917)
● 2000 - Roger Vadim, French director (b. 1928)
● 2002 - Barry Foster, British actor (b. 1931)
● 2002 - Frank Crosetti, baseball player (b. 1910)
● 2004 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (b. 1925)
● 2005 - Jack L. Chalker, American author (b. 1944)
● 2006 - Jackie Pallo, wrestler (b. 1926)
● 2006 - Jockey Shabalala, South African singer (b. 1943)
● 2006 - Peter Benchley, American author (b. 1940)
● 2007 - Marianne Fredriksson, a Swedish author (b. 1927)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes.
● St. Adolf of Osnabruck
● St. Ardanus
● St. Calocerus
● St. Desiderius
● St. Gregory II, 89th Roman Catholic Pope (715-31)
● St. Jonas
● St. Lucius
● St. Paschal
● St. Severinus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 29 (Civil Date: February 11)
● Translation of the Relics of Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch.
● St. Laurence, recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● Martyrs Romanus, James, Philotheus, Hyperechius, Abibus, Julian, and Paregorius, at Samosota.
● Martyrs Silvanus, Bishop of Emesa, Luke the deacon, and Mocius (Mucius) the reader.
● St. Aphraates of Persia, monk.
● St. Barsimaeus, Bishop of Edessa.
● Saints Gerasimus, Pitirim, and Jonah, Bishops of Perm.
● New-Martyr Demetrius of Chios.
● St. Andrew Rublev, iconographer.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Sarbelus and his sister Bebaia of Edessa.
● St. Ascepsimus, monk.
● Christian:
● St. Adolph
● St. Theodora, Byzantine empress
● Bangladesh - Shaheed Day
● Cameroon - National Youth Day
● Flint MI - White Shirt Day-end of blue collar sit down strike (1907)
● Florida - Gasparilla Carnival-remembrance of pirates
● Ft. Myers FL - Pageant of Light (1884)
● Iran - Anniversary of Islamic revolution
● Italy - Giorno della Conciliazione Day (1929)
● Japan - National Foundation Day
● Liberia - Armed Forces Day
● Mauritius - Chinese Spring Festival
● United States - National Inventors' Day (honors Edison)
● 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.
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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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