Day of the week in surrounding years:
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—MON—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—TUE—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—WED—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—THU—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—FRI—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—SAT—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—SUN—2011
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 13 is the 10th 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:
351, 362, 373, 435, 446, 457, 468, 519, 530, 541, 552, 614, 625, 636, 709, 715, 720, 799, 804, 810, 883, 894, 905, 967, 978, 989, 1000, 1051, 1062, 1073, 1084, 1146, 1157, 1168, 1241, 1247, 1252, 1331, 1336, 1342, 1415, 1426, 1437, 1499, 1510, 1521, 1532, 1619, 1630, 1641, 1709, 1771, 1782, 1793, 1839, 1850, 1861, 1907, 1918, 1929, 1991, 2002
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2013, 2086, 2092, 2097, 2143, 2154, 2165, 2211, 2222, 2233, 2301, 2363, 2374, 2385, 2458, 2464, 2469, 2515, 2526, 2537, 2605, 2678, 2684, 2689, 2735, 2746, 2757, 2830, 2836, 2841, 2904, 2909, 2988, 2993, 3050, 3056, 3061, 3107, 3118, 3129, 3202, 3208, 3213, 3292, 3297, 3354, 3360, 3365, 3422, 3428, 3433, 3501, 3574, 3580, 3585, 3664, 3669, 3726, 3732, 3737, 3805, 3884, 3889, 3946, 3952, 3957, 4036, 4041
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Crime "Crime is naught but misdirected energy." — Emma Goldman
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On War Is Hell "New Bridge Strategies, LLC is a unique company that was created specifically with the aim of assisting clients to evaluate and take advantage of business opportunities in the Middle East following the conclusion of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Its activities will seek to expedite the creation of free and fair markets and new economic growth in Iraq, consistent with the policies of the Bush Administration. . . ." — From the website of New Bridge Strategies, a firm headed by Joe M. Allbaugh, who was George W. Bush's campaign manager in 2000. The firm was founded in May 2003. newbridgestrategies.com.—Part 1 of 9 {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 "If anyone wants me, tell them I'm being embalmed." — 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)
First Quarter Moon: Feb 13, 2008 7:34 PM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 25% Rise: 10:22 AM Set: 12:23 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
First Quarter Moon: Feb 13, 2008 8:34 PM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 25% Rise: 10:53 AM Set: 12:30 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
First Quarter Moon: Feb 13, 2008 9:34 PM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 25% Rise: 10:05 AM Set: 12:24 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
First Quarter Moon: Feb 13, 2008 10:34 PM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 25% Rise: 9:39 AM Set: 12:00 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1132
Credit: NASA, ESA, M. West (ESO, Chile), and CXC / Penn. State / G. Garmire, et al.
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1130 - Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II
● 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
● 1349 - Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland
● 1503 - Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
● 1510 - Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal
● 1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
● 1545 - Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange
● 1566 - St Augustine FL founded
● 1575 - Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims.
● 1601 - John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
● 1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun. {It wasn't until the 1990s that Pope John Paul II apologized for this injustice.}
● 1635 - First public school in the U.S. (the Boston Latin School) is founded.
● 1641 - Iroquois Confederacy begins war against Canada.
● 1651 - Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo
● 1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
● 1678 - Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
● 1689 - British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
● 1689 - William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
● 1692 - Massacre of Glencoe : About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed by the English army early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William (III) of Orange.
● 1693 - College of William & Mary opens
● 1706 - Battle at Fraustadt Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen
● 1755 - Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java
● 1777 - Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
● 1782 - French fleet occupies St Christopher
● 1795 - 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
● 1809 - French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege
● 1815 - The Cambridge Union Society founded.
● 1816 - Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
● 1826 - The American Temperance Society (later renamed the American Temperance Union) was organized in Boston. It quickly grew into a national crusade, and within a decade over 8,000 similar groups had been formed, boasting a total of 1.5 million members.
● 1832 - 1st appearance of cholera at London
● 1837 - Flour riot in New York City, early U.S. riot of the poor against property. Six thousand New Yorkers assault local flour merchants who, they claim, are hoarding flour in order to drive up the price.
● 1849 - Otterbein College was chartered in Westerville, Ohio, under sponsorship of the United Brethren Church.
● 1858 - Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
● 1860 - King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes
● 1861 - 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, Arizona
● 1861 - Abraham Lincoln declared President (electoral college votes)
● 1861 - Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians
● 1862 - Siege of Ft Donelson TN
● 1864 - Meridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt MS
● 1866 - The first daylight robbery in United States history during peacetime takes place in Liberty, Missouri. This is considered to be the first robbery committed by Jesse James and his gang, although James's role is disputed.
● 1874 - U.S. troops land in Honolulu, in the independent country of Hawai'i.
● 1875 - Mrs. Edna Kanouse gave birth to America’s first quintuplets. All five of the baby boys died within two weeks.
● 1880 - Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
● 1881 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert.
● 1886 - Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversy over use of male nudes in a coed art class
● 1889 - Norman Coleman became the first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
● 1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
● 1899 - -16ºF (-27ºC), Minden LA (state record)
● 1899 - -1ºF (-18ºC) New Orleans LA
● 1899 - Tallahassee, Florida records its all time coldest temperature of -2° Fahrenheit.
● 1900 - The Anglo-German accord of 1899 was ratified by Reichstag, in which Britain renounced rights in Samoa in favor of Germany and the U.S.
● 1901 - May be the day after a truncated January 19, 2038 on Unix and Unix-like computer systems still suffering from the year 2038 problem
● 1905 - -29ºF (-34ºC) Pond AR (state record)
● 1905 - -40ºF (-40ºC) Lebanon KS (state record)
● 1905 - -40ºF (-40ºC) Warsaw MO (state record)
● 1907 - English suffragettes storm British Parliament; sixty women are arrested.
● 1910 - Enormous demonstration for women's suffrage in Berlin, Germany.
● 1910 - William Shockley, the controversial Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work led to the miniaturization of radio, TV and computer circuits, was born.
● 1914 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
● 1917 - Strikes and meetings held in Petrograd factories - beginning of the Russian Revolution.
● 1920 - League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland when Switzerland rejoins League of Nations.
● 1920 - The Negro National League is formed.
● 1924 - King Tut's tomb opened
● 1925 - US Congress makes Supreme Court appeal more difficult
● 1927 - Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated
● 1929 - Cruiser Act OKs construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier
● 1934 - Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party
● 1934 - The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
● 1935 - 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland OH
● 1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
● 1936 - The Lutheran Army and Navy Commission was organized by the Missouri Synod for the purpose of commissioning chaplains for military service and to minister to Lutheran personnel among the military overseas. In 1947 its name was changed to the Armed Services Commission.
● 1941 - Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
● 1942 - Hitler's Operation Seelöwe (invasion of England) cancelled
● 1943 - German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front
● 1943 - Women's Marine Corps created
● 1945 - Over 135,000 killed, mostly civilians, in Allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany. In a three-day period, 3,400 tons of explosives and incendiaries were dropped, reducing six square miles of the city to rubble. Many Allied officials were outraged--Germany was clearly on the verge of collapse, and Dresden was not a German war production city. Dresden had been famous for its artwork and historic buildings until it became the victim of the single most destructive air raid of World War II.
● 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis.
● 1946 - Isaac Woodard blinded by Atlanta police while being abused in custody, less than three hours after the African-American soldier had received his honorable discharge from the armed forces. Immortalized in a Woody Guthrie song, "The Blinding of Isaac Woodard."
● 1948 - Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England
● 1949 - Ecuadorian mob burns down radio station following broadcast of "War of the Worlds."
● 1951 - Death of Lloyd C. Douglas, 74, American Congregational clergyman and novelist. He published his first religious novel "Magnificent Obsession" in 1929, followed later by "The Robe" (1942) and "The Big Fisherman" (1948).
● 1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
● 1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
● 1959 - Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns
● 1960 - France becomes the fourth nuclear power, conducting first nuclear test in Algeria's Sahara Desert.
● 1961 - Ex-Congo PM declared dead; Officials in the Congolese province of Katanga declare former Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba dead.
● 1961 - Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
● 1966 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
● 1967 - Carrying huge photos of napalmed Vietnamese children, 2,500 members of the group Women Strike for Peace storm the Pentagon, demanding to see (quote) "the generals who send our sons to Vietnam." WSP members always dressed neatly and appeared as they were -- middle-class homemakers. When Pentagon guards lock the main-entrance doors, the women took off their shoes and banged on the doors with their heels. They were finally allowed inside, but Defense Secretary Robert McNamara would not meet with them. Sen. Jacob Javits agrees to meet a few hundred of the women, but he was roundly booed and heckled when he denies the U.S. was using toxic gas in Vietnam.
● 1967 - National Student Association reveals it has "secretly and indirectly" received more than $3 million from the CIA over a 15-year period. NSA President Eugene Grove denies any of the money was used for intelligence work.
● 1967 - U.S.S.R. and China exchange gunfire on Manchurian border.
● 1968 - Five soldiers arrested at pray-in for peace, Fort Jackson, SC.
● 1968 - US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
● 1969 - Suriname government of Pengel resigns
● 1969 - Thirty-three arrested at administration building sit-in, Univ. of Massachusetts.
● 1970 - Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
● 1970 - Women take over underground rock station WBCN in Boston.
● 1971 - Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2
● 1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
● 1973 - The National Council of U.S. Catholic Bishops announced that anyone undergoing or performing an abortion would be excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
● 1973 - US dollar devalues 10%
● 1974 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
● 1975 - A fire erupts in the World Trade Center in New York City, New York.
● 1975 - Cyprus premier Denktash proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation
● 1975 - Miners set for 35 per cent pay rises; British mineworkers' leaders agree to accept the coal board's latest pay offer of up to 35%.
● 1978 - Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
● 1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1979 - The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
● 1981 - A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
● 1981 - Longest sentence ever published by the New York Times - 1,286 words.
● 1982 - Fifteen thousand blacks and whites attend the funeral of South African trade union organizer Neill Aggett to protest and commemorate his death.
● 1984 - 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
● 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
● 1985 - Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
● 1985 - South African police arrest 13 leaders of the United Democratic Front (a main opposition group).
● 1988 - European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992 {doesn't happen}
● 1989 - Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
● 1989 - Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
● 1989 - Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients.
● 1990 - 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa
● 1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
● 1991 - During the Gulf War, approximately 400 Iraqi civilians, mostly women and children, are killed during a U.S. laser-guided missile attack on the Amirayah (al-Firdos) fortified bunker on the west side of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.
● 1991 - Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
● 1994 - Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
● 1995 - Chase Manhattan Bank distances itself from a newsletter produced by its Emerging Markets Group calling on Mexico to "eliminate the Zapatista" rebels in Mexico, according to the New York Times. Authored by Riordan Roett, director of Latin American Studies at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, analysts pointed to the uprising in Chiapas as a major element in the flight of foreign investors that weakened the Mexican peso. Mexican security forces began a large-scale takeover of former rebel areas on February 9, less than a month after the memo was published. Mexican security forces engaged in widespread violation of the human rights of citizens in the region (which still continues to this day.) Roett also suggested the Mexican government might not find it convenient to honor the results of upcoming elections.
● 1996 - The Nepalese Civil War began.
● 1997 - Space Shuttle program: STS-82 Mission - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
● 1999 - A bomb exploded just outside a government-owned bank in southern Kosovo. Nine people were killed.
● 2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
● 2001 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
● 2001 - Landmark AIDS case begins in Scotland; A man goes on trial in Glasgow for knowingly infecting a woman with the HIV virus in a case believed to be the first of its kind in Scotland.
● 2002 - Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.
● 2002 - In Alexandria, VA, John Walker Lindh plead innocent to a 10-count federal indictment. He was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and aiding Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.
● 2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
● 2005 - Final results showed clergy-backed Shiites and independence-minded Kurds had swept to victory in Iraq's landmark elections.
● 2007 - Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigned as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. {He was prematurely indicted since his hero George W. showed him indictments should wait until after you leave office.}
BIRTHS
● 1457 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482)
● 1480 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542)
● 1599 - Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)
● 1672 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
● 1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter, illustrator and designer (d. 1754)
● 1721 - John Reid, British army general and composer (d. 1807)
● 1728 - John Hunter, English surgeon and founder of pathological anatomy (d. 1793)
● 1743 - Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820)
● 1766 - Thomas Robert Malthus Demographer and Political Economist (d. 1834)
● 1768 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835)
● 1769 - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844)
● 1805 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (d. 1859)
● 1835 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908)
● 1849 - Lord Randolph Churchill, English politician and father of Winston Churchill (d. 1895)
● 1855 - Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922)
● 1870 - Leopold Godowsky, Russian-born American pianist and composer (d. 1938)
● 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (d. 1938)
● 1876 - Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
● 1879 - Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1949)
● 1881 - Eleanor Farjeon, English author (d. 1965)
● 1884 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman (d. 1961)
● 1885 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman (d. 1982)
● 1888 - Georgios Papandreou, Greek Prime Minister three times (d. 1968)
● 1891 - Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985)
● 1892(91? NYT) - Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
● 1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989)
● 1906 - Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994)
● 1906 - Pauline Frederick, American television news correspondent (d. 1990)
● 1910 - William Shockley, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1989)
● 1911 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani Urdu poet, Lenin Peace Prize winner (d. 1984)
● 1913 - George Barker, British poet (d. 1991)
● 1915 - Aung San, Burmese general and politician (d. 1945)
● 1915 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (d. 2003)
● 1918 - Patty Berg, American golfer
● 1918 - Patty Berg, American golfer (d. 2006)
● 1919 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach (d. 2007)
● 1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
● 1920 - Eileen Farrell, American opera soprano (d. 2002)
● 1922 - Francis Pym, British Foreign Secretary 1982-83
● 1922 - Gordon Tullock, American economist
● 1923 - Chuck Yeager, American fighter & test pilot, and the first person to break the "sound barrier" in level flight (1947)
● 1923 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (d. 2002)
● 1923 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003)
● 1924 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (d. 2006)
● 1925 - Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987)
● 1928 - Dorothy McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
● 1929 - Omar Torrijos, Panamanian ruler (d. 1981)
● 1930 - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist
● 1932 - Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
● 1933 - Caroline Blakiston, British actress
● 1933 - Costa Gavras, Greek-French filmmaker
● 1933 - Kim Novak, American actress
● 1933 - Paul Biya, President of Cameroon
● 1934 - George Segal, American actor (''Just Shoot Me'')
● 1935 - Dr. Don Panoz, American entrepreneur and motorsports impresario (ALMS)
● 1937 - Ali El-Maak, Sudanese writer, academic (d. 1992)
● 1937 - Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
● 1938 - Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
● 1939 - Beate Klarsfeld, German Holocaust investigator/Nazi hunter
● 1941 - Andrea Conte, First Lady of Tennessee 2003 - present
● 1941 - Sigmar Polke, German painter
● 1942 - Bo Svenson, Actor
● 1942 - Carol Lynley, American actress
● 1942 - Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees)
● 1943 - Geoff Edwards, American game show host
● 1944 - Bo Svenson, Swedish-born actor
● 1944 - Jerry Springer, American television host
● 1944 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (d. 2006)
● 1944 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (d. 1983)
● 1944 - Stockard Channing, American actress
● 1945 - King Floyd, American musician (d. 2006)
● 1946 - Colin Matthews, British composer
● 1946 - Louis Kondos, Greek actor
● 1947 - Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
● 1950 - Peter Gabriel, English musician (Genesis), composer and humanitarian
● 1951 - David Naughton, American actor and singer
● 1951 - Greg Fulginiti, American mastering engineer
● 1952 - Freddy Maertens, Belgian cyclist
● 1953 - Rico J. Puno, Filipino pop singer
● 1954 - Donnie Moore, American baseball player (d. 1989)
● 1954 - Eric Johnson, American artist
● 1955 - Joe Birkett, American lawyer
● 1956 - Liam Brady, Irish footballer
● 1956 - Peter Hook, English bassist (Joy Division and New Order)
● 1956 - Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member
● 1956 - Yiannis Kouros, Greek-Australian runner
● 1957 - Denise Austin, American fitness expert
● 1958 - Derek Riggs, British artist
● 1958 - Pernilla August, Swedish actress
● 1958 - Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (d. 1993)
● 1959 - Gaston Gingras, National Hockey League defenceman
● 1959 - Gord Hampson, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1960 - Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player
● 1960 - Gary Patterson, American football coach
● 1960 - Matt Salinger, American actor
● 1960 - Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee
● 1960 - Terry Carroll, UK, account manager
● 1961 - Henry Rollins, American musician
● 1961 - Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
● 1962 - Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, American politician
● 1964 - Mark Patton, American actor
● 1964 - Ylva Johansson, Swedish politician
● 1966 - Freedom Williams, Rock singer (C&C Music Factory)
● 1966 - Jeff Waters, Canadian musician (Annihilator)
● 1966 - Neal McDonough, Actor
● 1967 - Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian soccer player and coach
● 1968 - Kelly Hu, American actress
● 1970 - Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer
● 1971 - Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
● 1971 - Sonia, British singer
● 1971 - Todd Williams, American baseball player
● 1972 - Charlie Garner, American football player
● 1972 - Todd Harrell, Rock musician (3 Doors Down)
● 1973 - Eric Johnson, American artist
● 1974 - Gus Hansen, Danish professional poker player
● 1974 - Jeff Duran, American radio personality, comedian
● 1974 - Robbie Williams, English singer
● 1975 - Iván González, Puerto Rican writer and musician
● 1976 - Dave Padden, Canadian musician (Annihilator)
● 1976 - Feist, Canadian singer and songwriter
● 1976 - Martin Sastre, Uruguayan artist
● 1977 - Ben Collins, British racing driver
● 1977 - Randy Moss, American football player
● 1978 - Mini Anden, Swedish model and actress
● 1979 - D-Roc, American rapper (Ying Yang Twins)
● 1979 - Mena Suvari, American actress
● 1979 - Natalie Stewart, Emcee (Floetry)
● 1979 - Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
● 1980 - Sebastian Kehl, German footballer
● 1981 - Liam Miller, Irish footballer
● 1981 - Luisão, Brazilian footballer
● 1981 - Luke Ridnour, American basketball player
● 1982 - Lanisha Cole, American model
● 1982 - Michael Turner, Running Back for the San Diego Chargers
● 1985 - Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer
● 1985 - Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress
● 1986 - Luke Moore, English footballer
● 1987 - Ryan Buchter, American baseball player
● 1989 - Carly McKillip, Canadian actress
DEATHS
● 858 - Kenneth I of Scotland
● 1130 - Pope Honorius II
● 1141 - Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)
● 1219 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
● 1332 - Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1259)
● 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer
● 1539 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
● 1542 - Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. 1525)
● 1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
● 1585 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515)
● 1592 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter
● 1600 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
● 1602 - Alexander Nowell, English clergyman
● 1608 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
● 1624 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
● 1657 - Miles Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell
● 1660 - King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
● 1662 - Elizabeth Stuart (b. 1596)
● 1727 - William Wotton, English scholar (b. 1666)
● 1728 - Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663)
● 1732 - Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
● 1787 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
● 1787 - Ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
● 1813 - Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
● 1818 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752)
● 1826 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)
● 1837 - Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809
● 1845 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773)
● 1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
● 1888 - Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe (b. 1814)
● 1905 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
● 1950 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875)
● 1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
● 1952 - Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896)
● 1958 - Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
● 1964 - Gerald Gardner, British writer (b. 1884)
● 1964 - Werner Heyde, German psyhiatrist (b. 1902)
● 1968 - Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)
● 1975 - André Beaufre, French General (b. 1902)
● 1976 - Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904)
● 1976 - Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938)
● 1980 - David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
● 1984 - Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946)
● 1989 - Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911)
● 1991 - Arno Breker, German Sculptor (b. 1900)
● 1992 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
● 1996 - Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
● 1997 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920)
● 2000 - James Cooke Brown, American author and inventor (b. 1921)
● 2002 - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
● 2003 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932)
● 2003 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926)
● 2003 - Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (b. 1916)
● 2004 - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952)
● 2005 - Dick Weber, American professional bowler (b. 1929)
● 2005 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
● 2005 - Lúcia Santos, Carmelite nun (b. 1907)
● 2005 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
● 2005 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943)
● 2006 - Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946)
● 2006 - Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist, the "Father of Chinese Language Laser Typesetting"
● 2007 - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b. 1923)
● 2007 - Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
● 2007 - Richard Gordon Wakeford, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force (b. 1922)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agabus
● St. Amelric
● St. Beatrice
● St. Benignus
● St. Catherine de Ricci
● St. Dyfnog
● St. Ermengild
● St. Fulcran
● St. Gosbert
● St. Huno
● St. Julian of Lyons
● St. Lezin
● St. Martinian
● St. Modomnoc
● St. Polyeuctus
● Bl. Archangela Girlani
● Bl. John Lantrua of Triora
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 31 (Civil Date: February 13)
● Holy wonderworkers and unmercenaries Cyrus and John.
● Martyrs Athanasia and her daughters Theoctiste, Theodotia and Eudoxia, at Canopus in Egypt.
● St. Nicetas of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Novgorod.
● Martyrs Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, and Papias of Egypt.
● Martyr Tryphaenes at Cyzicus.
● St. Pachomius, abbot of Keno Monastery.
● New-Martyr Elias Ardunis of Mt. Athos.
● Repose of Elder Codratus of Karakallou Monastery, Mt. Athos. (1930).
● Christian:
● St. Catherine de Ricci, virgin/mystic
● St. Martinian
● Anglican:
● Absalom Jones, priest,
● St Augustine FL : Fiesta de Menendez
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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