Day of the week in surrounding years:
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—MON—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—TUE—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—WED—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—THU—2010
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—FRI—2011
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—SAT—2012
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—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 12 is the 9th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 127 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 16th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
335, 340, 419, 430, 503, 514, 525, 587, 598, 609, 620, 682, 693, 704, 777, 788, 867, 872, 951, 962, 1035, 1046, 1057, 1119, 1130, 1141, 1152, 1214, 1225, 1236, 1309, 1320, 1399, 1404, 1483, 1494, 1567, 1578, 1592, 1603, 1614, 1625, 1687, 1698, 1755, 1766, 1777, 1812, 1823, 1834, 1902, 1964, 1975, 1986, 1997
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2059, 2070, 2081, 2116, 2127, 2138, 2149, 2206, 2217, 2279, 2290, 2347, 2358, 2369, 2431, 2442, 2453, 2510, 2521, 2583, 2594, 2651, 2662, 2673, 2708, 2719, 2730, 2741, 2803, 2814, 2825, 2898, 2955, 2966, 2977, 3023, 3034, 3045, 3102, 3113, 3175, 3186, 3197, 3270, 3276, 3281, 3327, 3338, 3349, 3406, 3417, 3479, 3490, 3547, 3558, 3569, 3631, 3642, 3653, 3710, 3721, 3794, 3800, 3862, 3868, 3873, 3919, 3930, 3941, 4014, 4020, 4025
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Courage "Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence." — Robert F. Kennedy
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Anti-War Republicans, Clinton Era "Who in America would willing send their son or daughter to die in the Balkans based upon the President's explanation of the events? President Clinton has put our troops in precarious positions over and over again. We should say today that not one service man or woman should be placed in harm's way based upon the President's empty threats or hollow promises." — Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL). Congressional Record, H2413, 4-28-99. {Rep. Stearns has been oddly silent at Bush's empty threats and hollow promises.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "The team has come along slow but fast." — 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 12, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 31% Age: 19% Rise: 9:47 AM Set: no set
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 12, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 30% Age: 19% Rise: 10:14 AM Set: no set
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 12, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 30% Age: 18% Rise: 9:33 AM Set: no set
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 12, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 29% Age: 18% Rise: 9:08 AM Set: no set
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Echoes from RS Pup
Credit: Pierre Kervella (Obs. de Paris), Antoine Mérand (CHARA), et al., ESO
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 55 - Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious curcimstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
● 1049 Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX
● 1111 - German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome
● 1130 - Pope Innocent II elected
● 1354 - Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
● 1429 - English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stuart in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
● 1502 - Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism
● 1502 - Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.
● 1524 - Conquistador Pedro de Alverado kills Mayan leader Tecun Uman, takes over Guatemala.
● 1528 - Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & ecclesiastical power
● 1541 - Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
● 1554 - A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
● 1577 - Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
● 1624 - English parliament comes together
● 1689 - The Convention Parliament convenes and declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
● 1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13th United States colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
● 1737 - The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated.
● 1762 - English fleet occupies Martinique
● 1763 - John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs
● 1771 - Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden when his father Adolf Frederick "[eats] himself to death".
● 1772 - Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
● 1793 - 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
● 1797 - Franz Haydn's AUSTRIAN HYMN was first performed for the Emperor Francis II's fifth birthday. Today, AUSTRIAN HYMN is the most common melody to which we sing the popular hymn, "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken."
● 1807 - Anglican missionary to Persia Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'Amazing patience, He bears with this faithless foolish heart and suffers me to come, laden with sins, to receive new pardon, new grace, every day! Why does not such love make me hate sin that grieves Him and hides me from His sight?'
● 1809 - Birth of Abraham Lincoln, Hardin (now Larue) County, Kentucky. As a strategic move to try to weaken Confederate Army forces after three years of the civil war, decided to proclaim southern slaves free.
● 1809 - Birth of Charles Darwin, who originated the theory of evolution by natural selection, (1809-1882), Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
● 1817 - Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeat Spanish troops on the battle of Chacabuco.
● 1818 - Bernardo O'Higgins signs the Independence of Chile near Concepción.
● 1825 - The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and are forced to migrate west.
● 1832 - Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
● 1839 - Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick leads to Aroostook
● 1840 - Housatonic Railroad opens
● 1853 - Illinois passes a law that requires any black entering the state and staying more than 10 days to pay a $50 fine. If unable to pay, they would be sold into slavery for a period commensurate with the fine.
● 1861 - State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK
● 1865 - Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Representatives
● 1870 - Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada
● 1870 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory. {This is the ultimate irony as Utah is the state at the forefront in the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)}
● 1873 - Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins
● 1877 - 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem MA
● 1877 - U.S. railroad workers begin strikes protesting wage cuts.
● 1879 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.
● 1879 - News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London
● 1880 - John L. Lewis, President of the CIO and Western Federation of Miners, born.
● 1882 - Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
● 1885 - Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society
● 1886 - 2nd British government of Salisbury forms
● 1892 - Slain President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States.
● 1894 - A week after the execution of Auguste Valiant, Paris anarchist Emile Henry throws bomb into the bourgeois Cafe Terminus, killing one and injuring 17. Arrested and executed May 21.
● 1899 - -47ºF (-44ºC), Camp Clarke NB (state record)
● 1900 - Birth of Fernand Planche (1900-1974), Auvergne. French anarrchist writer/activist, imprisoned the winter of 1939-1940 for inciting soldiers to desert, then interned in Germany as a "subversive element." Helped rebuild the libertarian movement after the war, then moved to New Caledonia in 1950, where he opposed colonialism.
● 1901 - Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed
● 1905 - Birth of Federica Montseny, an important figure in Spanish anarchism.
● 1907 - A collision of the steamer Larchmont and a schooler resulted in the death of more than 300 people. The incident occurred off New England's Block Island.
● 1908 - Anna Jeanes bequeathes $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
● 1909 - Founding of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) by W.E.B. DuBois and others.
● 1909 - Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
● 1912 - the Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
● 1912 - Xuantong Emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
● 1914 - In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
● 1918 - All theatres in New York City were shut down in an effort to conserve coal.
● 1920 - 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike
● 1921 - Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours)
● 1921 - Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies
● 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
● 1925 - 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
● 1925 - Estonia forbids Communist Party {Until the Communist Party forbids Estonian government.}
● 1927 - British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
● 1932 - Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
● 1933 - German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis
● 1934 - France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists
● 1934 - In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista is inaugurated. The council decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española.
● 1934 - The Austrian Civil War begins.
● 1934 - The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
● 1935 - Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean
● 1938 - Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
● 1938 - German troops entered Austria
● 1941 - Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen
● 1941 - Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
● 1942 - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
● 1943 - General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa
● 1944 - Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race {Loses to FDR, who was elected for an unprecedented fourth term.}
● 1945 - San Francisco selected for site of UN Conference
● 1946 - Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
● 1946 - Picket demanding amnesty for jailed war resisters at Danbury Federal Penetentiary, Connecticut.
● 1947 - Between 400 and 500 veterans and conscientious objectors from World Wars I and II burn their draft cards in two demonstrations, in front of the White House in Washington and at the Labor Temple in New York City, in protest of a proposed universal conscription law. First draft card burning in U.S.
● 1947 - Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
● 1948 - 1st Lieutenant Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
● 1948 - The Pentecostal awakening known as the "Latter Rain Movement" traces its origin to this date, when students at the Sharon Orphanage and Schools in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada began experiencing a mass spiritual awakening.
● 1949 - Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio
● 1949 - Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
● 1950 - Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
● 1950 - Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees
● 1951 - Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari marries the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi at Golestan Palace in Teheran at the age of 17.
● 1952 - The Roman Catholic program "Life is Worth Living" debuted on television. Hosted by (then) Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, the half-hour program aired on Tuesday nights. It became the longest-running religious TV series of its day, and ran through February of 1957.
● 1953 - USSR breaks relations with Israel
● 1954 - New authority for atomic energy; A new body is established to control the production and development of atomic energy in the UK.
● 1955 - President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam
● 1955 - Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan
● 1957 - Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
● 1958 - General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected President of Guatemala
● 1960 - Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers
● 1961 - Patrice Lumumba, leader of anti-colonial struggle and former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), murdered.
● 1961 - USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
● 1962 - Bus boycott starts in Macon GA
● 1962 - Official Secrets trial of Wethersfield 6 begins, Old Bailey, London, England.
● 1962 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth predicted in a letter: 'The day will come when we shall no longer speak of Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians but simply of Evangelical Christians forming one body and one people.'
● 1963 - Argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron
● 1964 - Deaths follow Cyprus truce breach; Fighting between ethnic Turks and Greeks in the disputed island of Cyprus has left at least 16 people dead.
● 1965 - Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
● 1966 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, announced famous Six Points in Karachi as election manifesto of Awami League that later led to formation of Bangladesh.
● 1971 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney died at the age of 95. The company closed for business for one-half day as a memorial to the company's founder.
● 1973 - The State of Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the U.S. to post metric distance signs.
● 1973 - Vietnam War: The first United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.
● 1974 - After ten years of direct actions to claim treaty fishing rights, Washington state tribes win court decision giving them 50% of allowable salmon catch. Legislators have sought to undermine or overturn the ruling ever since.
● 1976 - Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) proclaims victory over Jonas Savimbi's thuggish U.S.-supported UNITA forces, winning the Angolan Civil War.
● 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1979 - Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
● 1981 - Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA
● 1981 - Cape Verde amends its constitution
● 1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1987 - Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 million damages
● 1989 - Belfast lawyer Finucane murdered; Leading solicitor Pat Finucane is shot dead at his home in north Belfast in front of his wife and children.
● 1989 - Five Pakistani Muslim rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses."
● 1989 - Rev. Barbara Clementine Harris is elevated to the episcopate of the Anglican Church. Harris had long advocated social change in the church and society. She was also a long-time member of the Union of Black Episcopalians, a group formed to promote the participation of blacks in the church and eradicate racism in society.
● 1989 - Tiny Tim declares himself a New York City mayoral candidate.
● 1991 - Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence
● 1993 - In Liverpool, England, a 2-year-old boy, James Bulger, was lured away from his mother at a shopping mall and beaten to death. Two ten-year-old boys were responsible.
● 1994 - Art thieves snatch Scream; One of the world's best-known paintings, The Scream by Edvard Munch, is stolen from a museum in Norway.
● 1995 - PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections
● 1997 - Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgment; {To date this has not been forthcoming.}
● 1997 - Hwang Jang-yop, secretary in the Workers' Party of Korea and a prime architect of North Korea's Juche doctrine, defects at the South Korean embassy in Beijing along with his aide, Kim Dok-hong.
● 1998 - 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt
● 1998 - The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by United States federal judge.
● 1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
● 1999 - Scientists highlight hazards of GM food; A group of international scientists reinforces warnings genetically modified food may be damaging to health.
● 2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
● 2002 - An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119.
● 2002 - Kenneth Lay, former Enron CEO, exercised his constitutional rights and refused to testify to the U.S. Congress about the collapse of Enron.
● 2002 - Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.
● 2002 - Pakistan charged three men in connection with the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi.
● 2002 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco and Franco Knie won a defamation-of-character lawsuit against the Swiss magazine "Facts." The case involved a photomontage created by the magazine.
● 2002 - The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its conclusion.
● 2003 - The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties. The complaint was sent to the Security Council.
● 2004 - Mattel announced the split of Barbie and Ken.
● 2004 - On National Freedom to Marry Day, two days after Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, California, issued a directive to the county clerk, the City and County of San Franciso begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
● 2006 - A powerful Nor'easter Winter Storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
BIRTHS
● 1074 - Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101)
● 1218 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
● 1567 - Thomas Campion, English composer and poet (d. 1620)
● 1585 - Caspar Bartholin, Danish physician/theologian (d. 1629)
● 1606 - John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676)
● 1637 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (d. 1680)
● 1663 - Cotton Mather, New England minister (d. 1728)
● 1665 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (d. 1721)
● 1704 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772)
● 1728 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (d. 1799)
● 1753 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798)
● 1768 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835)
● 1775 - Louisa Adams, First Lady of the United States, wife of John Quincy Adams (d. 1852)
● 1777 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German poet (d. 1843)
● 1785 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (d. 1838)
● 1788 - Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (d. 1869)
● 1791 - Peter Cooper, American Industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1883)
● 1794 - Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player (d. 1867)
● 1804 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (d. 1865)
● 1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)
● 1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist who documented evolution (d. 1882)
● 1818 - Otto Ludwig, German writer
● 1828 - George Meredith, English writer (d. 1909)
● 1843 - John Graham Chambers, English sportsman and journalist (d. 1883)
● 1857 - Bobby Peel, English cricketer (d. 1943)
● 1861 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born author (d. 1937)
● 1865 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish poet and writer (d. 1940)
● 1876 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933)
● 1880 - John L. Lewis, American labor union leader (d. 1969)
● 1881 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931)
● 1884 - Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American politically influential daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1980)
● 1884 - Johan Laidoner, Estonian military commander (d. 1953)
● 1884 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (d. 1957)
● 1884 - Max Beckmann, German artist (d. 1950)
● 1893 - Omar Bradley, American general (d. 1981)
● 1897 - Louis Buchalter, American crime boss (d. 1944)
● 1897 - Vola Vale, American actress (d. 1970)
● 1898 - Roy Harris, American composer/teacher (d. 1979)
● 1898 - Wallace Ford, English-born actor (d. 1966)
● 1900 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (d. 1980)
● 1902 - William Collier, American stage and film actor (d. 1987)
● 1903 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (d. 1973)
● 1903 - Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
● 1904 - Ted Mack, American television host (d. 1976)
● 1908 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (d. 1982)
● 1908 - Jacques Herbrand, French logician and mathematician (d. 1931)
● 1908 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (d. 1982)
● 1909 - Sigmund Rascher, German SS doctor (d. 1945)
● 1911 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (d. 1968)
● 1912 - R. F. Delderfield, English author (d. 1972)
● 1914 - Arvid Pardo, Maltese diplomat, a.k.a "Father of the Law of the Sea Conference" (d. 1999)
● 1914 - Tex Beneke, American musician and band leader (d. 2000)
● 1915 - Lorne Greene, American actor (d. 1987)
● 1916 - Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998)
● 1917 - Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (d. 2006)
● 1918 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
● 1919 - Forrest Tucker, American actor (d. 1986)
● 1920 - Pran, Indian actor
● 1920 - William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor (d. 2000)
● 1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director and designer
● 1925 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (d. 1984)
● 1926 - Charles Van Doren, American quiz show contestant
● 1926 - Joe Garagiola, American baseball player and announcer
● 1926 - Paul Kurtz, American philosopher
● 1930 - Arlen Specter, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania {Author of the magic bullet theory for Warren Commission and critical not guilty vote in Clinton Impeachment trial.}
● 1931 - Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch author
● 1932 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (d. 2003)
● 1932 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (d. 1998)
● 1933 - Costa-Gavras, Greek-born director and writer
● 1934 - Anne Krueger, American economist
● 1934 - Annette Crosbie, Scottish actress
● 1934 - Bill Russell, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1935 - Gene McDaniels, American singer
● 1936 - Joe Don Baker, American actor
● 1936 - Paul Shenar, American actor
● 1937 - Charles Dumas, American athlete (d. 2004)
● 1938 - Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver
● 1938 - Judy Blume, American author
● 1938 - Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris, British politician
● 1939 - Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors)
● 1940 - Richard Lynch, American actor
● 1941 - Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer
● 1942 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
● 1942 - Pat Dobson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
● 1944 - Moe Bandy, American singer
● 1945 - David Friedman, American economist
● 1945 - Cliff DeYoung, Actor
● 1945 - Maud Adams, Swedish actress
● 1946 - Ajda Pekkan, Turkish singer
● 1946 - Cliff DeYoung, American actor and musician
● 1946 - Jean Eyeghe Ndong, Prime Minister of Gabon
● 1947 - Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indian leader of Damdami Taksal (d. 1984)
● 1948 - Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author
● 1949 - Joaquin Sabina, Spanish singer and songwriter
● 1950 - Michael Ironside, Canadian actor
● 1950 - Steve Hackett, English guitarist (Genesis)
● 1951 - Steven Parent, Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
● 1952 - Michael McDonald, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)
● 1952 - Simon MacCorkindale, British actor
● 1953 - Joanna Kerns, Actress (''Growing Pains'')
● 1953 - Nabil Shaban, British actor
● 1953 - Robin Thomas, American actor
● 1954 - Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
● 1954 - Tzimis Panousis, Greek musician and stand-up comedian
● 1955 - Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host
● 1955 - Bill Laswell, American bassist and record producer
● 1955 - Chet Lemon, American baseball player
● 1956 - Brian Robertson, Scottish musician (Thin Lizzy and Motörhead)
● 1958 - Bobby Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1958 - Grant McLennan, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) (d. 2006)
● 1958 - Steve Grand, English computer scientist
● 1959 - Sigrid Thornton, Australian actress
● 1961 - Jim Harris, Canadian politician
● 1962 - Jimmy Kirkwood, Irish-born field hockey player
● 1963 - Ed Lover, American radio personality
● 1965 - Christine Elise, Actress
● 1967 - Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician
● 1967 - Chris McKinstry, Canadian computer scientist
● 1968 - Christopher McCandless, American nomad, subject of biography Into the Wild (d. 1992)
● 1968 - Chynna Phillips, American singer (Wilson Philips)
● 1968 - Grégory Charles, French Canadian singer, dancer, pianist, radio and television host
● 1968 - Josh Brolin, American actor
● 1969 - Brad Werenka, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1969 - Darren Aronofsky, American director and writer
● 1969 - Hong Myung-Bo, Korean footballer
● 1969 - Meja, Swedish singer
● 1970 - Jim Creeggan, Canadian bassist (Barenaked Ladies)
● 1970 - Judd Winick, writer and artist
● 1971 - Keri Lewis, R&B musician
● 1972 - Ajay Naidu, Indian-American actor
● 1972 - Owen Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1973 - Gianni Romme, Dutch speed skater
● 1973 - Kath Soucie, American voice actress
● 1973 - Tara Strong, Canadian-born voice actress
● 1974 - Toranosuke Takagi, Japanese race car driver
● 1976 - Anna Benson, American model
● 1976 - Christian Cullen, New Zealand rugby union footballer
● 1976 - Silvia Saint, Czech actress
● 1978 - Brett Hodgson, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1978 - Gethin Jones, British (Welsh) television presenter
● 1978 - Silver Meikar, Estonian politician
● 1979 - Antonio Chatman, American football player
● 1979 - Jesse Spencer, Australian actor
● 1979 - Matt Mauck, American football player
● 1980 - Christina Ricci, American actress
● 1980 - Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
● 1982 - Louis Tsatoumas, Greek long jumper
● 1982 - Onil Joseph, Dominican baseball player
● 1984 - Peter Vanderkaay, American mid-distance swimmer
● 1991 - Faisal ibn Hamad Al Khalifah, prince of Bahrain (d. 2006)
● 1993 - Jennifer Stone, American actress
DEATHS
● 1538 - Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter
● 1554 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (executed) (b. 1537)
● 1554 - Lord Guilford Dudley, consort of Lady Jane Grey (executed) (b. 1536)
● 1571 - Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)
● 1590 - François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (b. 1524)
● 1595 - Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553)
● 1612 - Christopher Clavius, German astronomer (b. 1538)
● 1624 - George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b. 1563)
● 1630 - Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (b. 1566)
● 1700 - Aleksei Shein, Russian general and statesman (b. 1662)
● 1724 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648)
● 1728 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (b. 1653)
● 1762 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (b. 1693)
● 1763 - Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
● 1771 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (b. 1710)
● 1789 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (b. 1738)
● 1799 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (b. 1729)
● 1804 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (b. 1724)
● 1894 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1830)
● 1896 - Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (b. 1811)
● 1903 - Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish poet, dramatist and statesman (b. 1834)
● 1915 - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (b. 1837)
● 1916 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (b. 1831)
● 1929 - Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
● 1931 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (b. 1855)
● 1933 - Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848)
● 1935 - Auguste Escoffier, French chef (b. 1846)
● 1949 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
● 1951 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (b. 1897)
● 1954 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)
● 1957 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American author, folklorist (b. 1872)
● 1958 - Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (b.1897)
● 1971 - James C. Penney, American department store founder (b. 1875)
● 1976 - Sal Mineo, American actor (b. 1939)
● 1979 - Jean Renoir, French director (b. 1894)
● 1980 - Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (b. 1913)
● 1982 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)
● 1983 - Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)
● 1984 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
● 1985 - Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (b. 1924)
● 1989 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist (b. 1931)
● 1991 - Roger Patterson, American death metal bass player (b. 1968)
● 1992 - Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907)
● 1992 - María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
● 1993 - James Bulger, English murder victim (b. 1990)
● 1994 - Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (b. 1950)
● 1995 - Philip Taylor Kramer, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1952)
● 1995 - Robert Bolt, English writer (b. 1924)
● 1996 - Bob Shaw, Northern Irish science fiction writer (b. 1931)
● 2000 - Charles Schulz, American comics author (b. 1922)
● 2000 - Oliver, American pop singer (b. 1945)
● 2000 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American musician (b. 1929)
● 2000 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
● 2001 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (b. 1912)
● 2003 - Vali Myers, Australian painter (b. 1930)
● 2005 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (b. 1964)
● 2005 - Sammi Smith, American country music singer (b. 1943)
● 2007 - Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1905)
● 2007 - Randy Stone, American actor and casting director (b. 1958)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexis of Moscow
● St. Ammonius
● St. Anthony Kauleas
● St. Anthony of Saxony
● St. Benedict of Aniane
● St. Benedict Revelli
● St. Buonfiglio Monaldo
● St. Damian of Alexandria
● St. Ethelwald
● St. Febronia
● St. Humbeline
● St. James Feun, Blessed
● St. John of Nicomedia
● St. Julian
● St. Juventius of Pavia
● St. Ludan
● St. Meletius of Antioch
● St. Modestus
● Bl. Thomas Hemerford
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 30 (Civil Date: February 12)
● Synaxis of the Three Hierarchs: Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom.
● Hieromartyr Hippolytus, pope of Rome, and with him Martyrs Censorinus, Sabinus, Ares, the virgin Chryse, and with her Martyrs Felix, Maximus, Herculianus, Venerius, Styracius, Mennas, Commodus, Hermes, Maurus, Eusebius, Rusticus, Monagrius, Amandinus, Olympius, Cyprus, Theodore the Tribune, Maximus the Presbyter, Archelaus the deacon, and Cyriacus the bishop, all beheaded at Ostia.
● Martyr Theophilus the New in Cyprus.
● St. Zeno, hermit of Antioch.
● New-Martyr Theodore of Mitylene (Mt. Athos).
● St. Peter, king of Bulgaria.
● St. Zeno the Faster of the Kiev Caves.
● "Tinos" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Blessed Pelagia of Diviyevo (1884).
● Old Roman Catholic:
● Seven Founders of the Servite Order
● Christian:
● St. Eulalia
● United States - Lincoln's Birthday (traditionally).
● Booneville Indiana - Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial Day
● Burma - Union Day (1947)
● Georgia (US state) - Georgia Day/Oglethorpe Day (1733)
● National Freedom to Marry Day (unofficial).
● Darwin Day.
● Red Hand Day
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
On 8 March 2008 this post was edited to reflect the actual birth date of David Friedman to 12 Feb 1945 instead of 2 Feb 1945. This was based on this comment:
David Friedman said...
Actually, I was born on February 12th, not February 2nd. Apparently Wikipedia has misprints.
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