Day of the week in surrounding years:
. . . .,1982,1988,1993,1999—MON—. . . .
1977,1983,. . . .,1994,2000—TUE—2005
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—WED—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—THU—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—FRI—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—SAT—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—SUN—2009
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 15 is the 12th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 118 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 19th/20th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
332, 394, 405, 416, 489, 500, 579, 584, 663, 674, 747, 758, 769, 831, 842, 853, 864, 926, 937, 948, 1021, 1032, 1111, 1116, 1195, 1206, 1279, 1290, 1301, 1363, 1374, 1385, 1396, 1458, 1469, 1480, 1553, 1564, 1584, 1589, 1668, 1673, 1679, 1736, 1741, 1747, 1804, 1809, 1888, 1893, 1899, 1956, 1961
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2040, 2051, 2108, 2113, 2192, 2260, 2265, 2271, 2328, 2333, 2412, 2417, 2423, 2496, 2564, 2575, 2632, 2643, 2705, 2784, 2795, 2868, 2879, 2890, 2936, 2947, 2958, 3004, 3009, 3015, 3088, 3099, 3156, 3167, 3240, 3251, 3262, 3308, 3319, 3392, 3460, 3471, 3482, 3528, 3539, 3550, 3612, 3623, 3634, 3696, 3702, 3764, 3775, 3786, 3797, 3832, 3843, 3854, 3911, 3984, 3995, 4006, 4068, 4079, 4090
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On The Death Penalty "A system that will take life must first give justice." — John J. Curtin, Jr.
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On War Is Hell ". . .
—Assistance to companies engaging the U.S. Government process to develop post war opportunities
—Identification of market opportunities and potential partners
—On-the-ground support in Iraq
. . . " — 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 3 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 "I've got players with bad watches—they can't tell midnight from noon." — 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 15, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 64% Age: 30% Rise: 12:00 PM Set: 2:48 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 15, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 64% Age: 29% Rise: 12:34 PM Set: 2:51 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 15, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 63% Age: 29% Rise: 11:37 AM Set: 2:55 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 15, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 63% Age: 29% Rise: 11:09 AM Set: 2:32 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud
Credit: NASA JPL-Caltech, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 399 B.C.E. - The philosopher Socrates sentenced to death.
● 590 - Khosrau II crowned as king of Persia
● 732 - Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line
● 1145 - Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
● 1386 - Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
● 1386 - King Jagiello of Lithuania was baptized into the Christian faith. Lithuania being the last heathen nation in Europe, Jagiello's conversion finalized the Macedonian Vision in Acts 16:9, leading St. Paul to begin taking the Gospel to Europe.
● 1539 - Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo
● 1546 - Italian astronomer and polymath Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa.
● 1552 - Dutch coast hit by heavy storm
● 1563 - Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania
● 1637 - Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
● 1677 - King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands
● 1689 - German Parliament declares war on France
● 1762 - Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage.'
● 1763 - Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg
● 1764 - St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
● 1775 - Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI
● 1797 - Battle of Cape St Vincent
● 1799 - Printed ballots were authorized for use in elections in the state of Pennsylvania.
● 1804 - New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
● 1805 - Harmony Society officially formed.
● 1820 - Birth of Susan Brownwell Anthony, early feminist, suffragist and the co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association in Adams, Mass.
● 1842 - Adhesive postage stamps were used for the first time by the City Dispatch Post (Office) in New York City.
● 1845 - Sarah Bagley, who leads the Lowell Female Reform Association, testifies to the Massachusetts legislature on deplorable working conditions in the state's mills. In the end, however, the committee's report will echo industry's concern about putting Massachusetts at a competitive disadvantage with textile mills in other states. The committee will find nothing unhealthy about the long hours, low wages, and the poor working conditions. The Lowell Female Reform Association unanimously passes a resolution chastising the committee, beginning a political campaign that will oust committee chair Col. William Schouler from the legislature.
● 1848 - Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
● 1851 - Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave
● 1852 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient.
● 1860 - Wheaton College was chartered in Illinois under Methodist sponsorship. (The following year the school passed into Congregational control. Today, Wheaton is non-denominational.)
● 1861 - Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
● 1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
● 1864 - Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans
● 1869 - Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped.
● 1870 - Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth MN
● 1879 - Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. {It would be nearly forty years before women received the right to vote.}
● 1882 - 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin
● 1891 - AIK was founded at Biblioteksgatan 8 in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens.
● 1895 - 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
● 1898 - U.S. battleship Maine explodes, sinks in Havana Harbor, killing 266. No evidence of sabotage was found, but the Hearst newspapers claim the ship was intentionally blown up by the Spanish. The accusation increased the newspapers' circulation and drew the U.S. inevitably toward war with Spain. {Spain would suffer a similar fate that Iraq would over a hundred years later, the US would invade their sovereign territory on lies.}
● 1900 - The British threaten to use natives in their war with the Boers. {This was moved along by the poor treatment Australians and other 'colonists' were given in their military service in South Africa, as the British commanders consider them second class and expendable.}
● 1903 - Morris Michtom and his wife Rose introduce the first teddy bear in America.
● 1906 - The British Labour Party organized.
● 1910 - "The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand," the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union Triangle Shirtwaist strike that began September 27, declared officially over by ILGWU; by now 339 manufacturing firms have reached agreements with the union; 13 firms, including Triangle, with 1,100 workers, did not settle.
● 1911 - International protests result in the release of French anarchist Jules Durand, wrongly accused of murder in a 1910 incident. Unfortunately, Durand, forcibly subdued in a strait jacket for 40 days, had become insane and spent the rest of his life in an asylum. A reopening of his case in 1918 cleared his name.
● 1912 - Fram reaches latitude 78º 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
● 1915 - Publication of "Manifesto Against the War," signed by 35 anarchists, including Errico Malatesta, Domela Nieuwenhuis, Louis Lecoin, Alexandre Berkman, Emma Goldman, Alexandre Schapiro, etc. A number of others had issued a manifesto in support of the allies.
● 1917 - U.S. Calvary gallops into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa.
● 1918 - 1st WWI US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
● 1918 - Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt the Gregorian calendar
● 1919 - American Legion organizes in Paris
● 1922 - Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex
● 1926 - Contract air mail service begins in US
● 1930 - Death of Franklin L. Sheppard, 78. He served on the editorial committee of the 1911 edition of the Presbyterian Hymnal, but is better remembered for composing the hymn tune TERRA BEATA, to which "This Is My Father's World" is most commonly sung.
● 1933 - In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
● 1933 - Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party
● 1933 - Signing of original 11-state master trucking agreement, involving 200,000 truckers, which formed the basis for the Teamsters Union.
● 1933 - Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwärts" banned again in Berlin
● 1936 - -60º F (-51º C), Parshall ND (state record)
● 1936 - Hitler announces building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
● 1939 - Alphonse Sauveur Cannone (1899-1939) dies of tuberculosis in Paris. Took part in the 1919 Mutiny of the Sailors in the Black Sea, refusing to fight the Russian revolutionists. Condemned to 10 years in prison, he escaped, was recaptured and given another five years. Released August 1926, fought on the anarchist fronts with the CNT and FAI in the Spanish Revolution of 1936.
● 1939 - German battleship Bismarck was launched
● 1942 - German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
● 1942 - Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
● 1942 - World War II: The Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. The Sook Ching massacre begins.
● 1943 - Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid
● 1944 - 891 British bombers attack Berlin
● 1944 - World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins.
● 1946 - Bank of England nationalized
● 1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
● 1948 - Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan
● 1950 - The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty.
● 1952 - King George VI buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
● 1955 - 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
● 1956 - Urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland
● 1957 - Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
● 1958 - Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra
● 1959 - Antonio Segni forms Italian government
● 1961 - Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, with the entire US Figure Skating team, several coaches & family.
● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1965 - A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
● 1966 - Colombia - Father Camillo Torres killed by government troops.
● 1966 - Nisqually tribe engages in protest "fish-in" to demand treaty fishing rights.
● 1967 - D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber
● 1967 - French Diadème 1-D satellite launches into Earth orbit
● 1970 - "Third World First" launched, London.
● 1970 - A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo, killing 102.
● 1970 - Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
● 1970 - The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) impose a ban against rock concerts at their Washington D.C. auditorium, Constitution Hall, after Sly & the Family Stone arrive five hours late and the crowd inflicts $1,000 worth of damage on the building.
● 1971 - Decimalization of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day abandoning 12-shilling system in use for 1200 years.
● 1972 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos
● 1972 - President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
● 1973 - USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
● 1976 - The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by the national referendum.
● 1977 - Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
● 1978 - Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola FL
● 1978 - Zaire revises constitution
● 1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1980 - Television One and Television Two (formerly South Pacific Television) under the newly formed Television New Zealand goes to air for the first time.
● 1982 - The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.
● 1984 - 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
● 1985 - STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
● 1985 - The Center for Disease Control reported that more than half of all nine-year-olds in the U.S. showed no sign of tooth decay.
● 1986 - Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
● 1986 - Living Bibles International moved to its present headquarters in Naperville, IL. Founded in 1968 by Ken Taylor, editor of the Living Bible, LBI is an interdenominational Bible distributing agency, working in 45 countries.
● 1986 - Printers and police clash in Wapping; Eight police officers are injured in the worst outbreak of violence yet outside the News International printing plant in Wapping, east London.
● 1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1989 - Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
● 1989 - Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops had left Afghanistan.
● 1990 - Secret Service raids Craig Neidorf, editor of "Phrack" on-line magazine.
● 1991 - Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die
● 1991 - The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
● 1992 - Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys
● 1993 - Bombings by Mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogotá Colombia
● 1994 - Russia annexed Tartarstan by integrating it into its so-called federation, start of War of Independence and War of Liberation
● 1994 - US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
● 1995 - Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
● 1995 - Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
● 1995 - Nabla Djanine, president of Algerian women's group Cris de Femmes, shot. One of a wave of assassinations of prominent Algerian women by Islamic fundamentalists.
● 1995 - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
● 1995 - The FBI arrested Kevin Mitnick and charged him with cracking security in some of the nation's most protected computers. He served five years in jail.
● 1996 - Arms-to-Iraq report published; The long-awaited report into the sale of arms-to-Iraq in the 1980s is published and contains strong criticisms of the ministers involved.
● 1996 - At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashed into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
● 1996 - Mortar attack on the US Embassy in Athens, Greece.
● 1996 - The oil tanker Sea Empress runs aground in Wales, spilling 72,000 tons of crude oil.
● 1997 - In "Railway Tracks Action Day," some 15,000 in Wendland, Germany block and dismantle railroad lines scheduled to be used for shipment of nuclear waste.
● 1999 - Abdullah Ocalan, PKK leader, arrested in Kenya. Turkish advocate for independent Kurdistan, arrested and extradited to face Turkish charges of terrorism.
● 2000 - Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
● 2002 - At the Tri-State Crematory in La Fayette, Georgia, investigators find uncremated bodies disposed of in the woods and buildings on the crematorium's property. The discovery reveals one of the worst incidents of abuse in the funeral service industry.
● 2002 - President George W. Bush approved Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the site for long-term disposal of highly radioactive nuclear waste.
● 2003 - In the single largest day of protests in world history, millions on six continents demonstrate against U.S./U.K. plans to invade Iraq. Reported totals include one to two million in London and Rome; 1.3 million in Barcelona, Spain (a city of 1.5 million); a half million in Berlin, Paris, Madrid, and New York. Smaller demonstrations are held in over 600 cities and towns across the U.S., including tens of thousands in several cities and 150,000 the following day in San Francisco.
● 2005 - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley was sentenced in Boston to 12 to 15 years in prison on child rape charges.
● 2005 - YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.
BIRTHS
● 1458 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
● 1471 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)
● 1519 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Spanish sailor and founder of St. Augustine, Fla. (d. 1574)
● 1543 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)
● 1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist and polymath (d. 1642)
● 1571 - Michael Praetorius, German composer (d. 1621)
● 1620 - François Charpentier, French archaeologist (d. 1702)
● 1705 - Charles-André van Loo, French painter (d. 1765)
● 1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
● 1723 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)
● 1725 - Abraham Clark, American founding father (d. 1794)
● 1734 - William Stacy, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1802)
● 1739 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (d. 1813)
● 1748 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher, economist and exponent of Utilitarianism (d. 1832)
● 1759 - Friedrich August Wolf, German archaeologist (d. 1824)
● 1797 - Henry Steinway, German-born American piano builder (d. 1871)
● 1803 - John Sutter, California pioneer (d. 1880)
● 1809 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (d. 1857)
● 1809 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
● 1812 - Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler (d. 1902)
● 1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar (d. 1874)
● 1820 - Susan B. Anthony, American feminist and suffragist (d. 1906)
● 1825 - Carter Harrison, Sr., Mayor of Chicago (d. 1893)
● 1826 - George Johnstone Stoney, Irish/English physicist (d. 1911)
● 1835 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1908)
● 1841 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (d. 1913)
● 1845 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1937)
● 1847 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (d. 1927)
● 1856 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926)
● 1861 - Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1947)
● 1861 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1938)
● 1873 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1964)
● 1874 - Sir Ernest Shackleton, British polar explorer (d. 1922)
● 1882 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
● 1883 - Sax Rohmer, English author (d. 1959)
● 1890 - Robert Ley, head of the Nazi German Labour Front (d. 1945)
● 1892 - James Forrestal, United States Secretary of Defense (d. 1949)
● 1893 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (d. 1947)
● 1895 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
● 1896 - Arthur Shields, Irish actor (d. 1970)
● 1898 - Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982)
● 1898 - Totò, Italian actor, writer, and composer (d. 1967)
● 1899 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (d. 1985)
● 1899 - Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983)
● 1904 - Antonin Magne, French cyclist (d. 1983)
● 1905 - Harold Arlen, American composer (d. 1986)
● 1907 - Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
● 1907 - Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (d. 1991)
● 1908 - Sarto Fournier, Quebec politician (d. 1980)
● 1909 - Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish footballer (d. 1966)
● 1909 - Miep Gies, Dutch biographer of Anne Frank
● 1910 - Irena Sendler, aided Jewish children during the Holocaust
● 1911 - Leonard Woodcock, labor union official, ambassador to China (d. 2001)
● 1913 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian-born chess player (d. 1997)
● 1914 - Hale Boggs, American politician (d. 1972)
● 1914 - Kevin McCarthy, American actor
● 1916 - Mary Jane Croft, American actress (d. 1999)
● 1918 - Allan Arbus, American actor
● 1918 - Hank Locklin, American country music singer and songwriter
● 1919 - Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
● 1921 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian, thinker and writer (d. 1985)
● 1922 - John Bayard Anderson, American politician
● 1923 - Yelena Bonner, Russian human rights activist, widow of physicist Andrei Sakharov
● 1927 - Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian (''The Carol Burnett Show'')
● 1929 - Graham Hill, English two-time F1 World Champion (d. 1975)
● 1929 - James Schlesinger, American politician (d. 2007)
● 1930 - Nico Minardos, American actor
● 1931 - Claire Bloom, British actress
● 1931 - Geoff Edwards, American television game show host
● 1934 - Graham Kennedy, Australian actor (d. 2005)
● 1934 - Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist
● 1935 - Roger Chaffee, astronaut, killed in Apollo I fire (d. 1967)
● 1935 - Susan Brownmiller, American feminist and writer
● 1937 - Gregory Mcdonald, American author
● 1939 - Ole Ellefsæter, Norwegian cross-country skier
● 1940 - Hamzah Haz, Indonesian politician
● 1940 - John Hadl, American football player
● 1941 - Brian Holland, American songwriter and producer
● 1941 - Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress
● 1944 - Henry Threadgill, Jazz saxophonist
● 1944 - Mick Avory, British drummer (The Kinks)
● 1945 - Douglas Hofstadter, American academic and writer
● 1945 - John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp)
● 1946 - Esko Seppänen, Finnish politician
● 1946 - Marisa Berenson, American actress
● 1947 - David Brown, American musician (Santana) (d. 2000)
● 1947 - John Coolidge Adams, American composer
● 1947 - Rusty Hamer, American actor (d. 1990)
● 1948 - Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist
● 1948 - Ron Cey, baseball player
● 1949 - Hans Graf, Austrian conductor
● 1949 - Ken Anderson, American football player
● 1950 - Hark Tsui, Hong Kong film director
● 1951 - Jane Seymour, British actress (''Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'')
● 1951 - Melissa Manchester, American singer
● 1953 - Tony Adams, Irish film producer (d. 2005)
● 1954 - Matt Groening, American cartoonist (''The Simpsons'')
● 1955 - Christopher McDonald, American actor (''Family Law'')
● 1955 - Janice Dickinson, Model (''The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency'')
● 1956 - Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (d. 1992)
● 1957 - Jake E. Lee, guitarist
● 1957 - Jimmy Spencer, American race car driver
● 1958 - Chrystine Brouillet, Quebec novelist
● 1959 - Ali Campbell, British musician (UB40)
● 1959 - Brian Propp, Canadian hockey player
● 1959 - Hugo Savinovich, Ecuadorian wrestler
● 1959 - Joseph R. Gannascoli, Actor ("The Sopranos")
● 1960 - Mikey Craig, British musician (Culture Club)
● 1964 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
● 1964 - Michael Reynolds, Country singer (Pinmonkey)
● 1967 - Jane Child, Canadian musician
● 1967 - Michael Easton, Actor
● 1968 - Axelle Red, Belgian singer and songwriter
● 1969 - Bryan Williams, founder of Cash Money Records
● 1969 - Josh Marshall, American journalist
● 1970 - Craig Gass, American impressionist/comedian
● 1971 - Ray Sefo, New Zealand kick boxer
● 1971 - Renée O'Connor, American actress and director
● 1972 - Jaromír Jágr, Czech hockey player
● 1973 - Alex Borstein, American actress and animator
● 1973 - Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer
● 1973 - Kateřina Neumannová, Czech cross country skier
● 1973 - Sarah Wynter, Australian actress
● 1974 - Alexander Wurz, Austrian race car driver
● 1974 - Gina Lynn, American porn actress
● 1974 - Miranda July, American performance artist, film director, musician and writer
● 1974 - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (d. 2002)
● 1974 - Tomi Putaansuu, Finnish singer (Lordi)
● 1974 - Ugueth Urbina, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
● 1975 - Brendon Small, American comedian and creator of the cartoons Home Movies and Metalocalypse
● 1975 - Serge Aubin, National Hockey League player
● 1976 - Brandon Boyd, American musician (Incubus)
● 1976 - Óscar Freire, Spanish cyclist
● 1976 - Ronnie Vannucci Jr., American musician (The Killers)
● 1977 - Brooks Wackerman, American drummer
● 1978 - Kimberly Goss, American singer and musician (Sinergy)
● 1978 - Tuan Le, American poker player
● 1979 - Alenka Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
● 1979 - Gordon Shedden, Scottish Race Car Driver
● 1979 - Josh Low, English footballer
● 1980 - Conor Oberst, American singer and songwriter (Bright Eyes)
● 1981 - Diego Martínez, Mexican footballer
● 1981 - Jenna Morasca, American model
● 1981 - Matt Hoopes, American musician (Relient K)
● 1981 - Olivia Longott, American singer
● 1983 - Ashley Lyn Cafagna-Tesoro, Actress
● 1983 - Meera Jasmine, Indian actress
● 1983 - Russell Martin, Canadian born baseball player
● 1984 - Dorota Rabczewska, Polish singer (Virgin)
● 1984 - Meera Jasmine, Indian actress
DEATHS
● 380 - Peter II, Patriarch of Alexandria
● 1145 - Pope Lucius II
● 1621 - Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571)
● 1637 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
● 1738 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
● 1775 - Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
● 1781 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (b. 1729)
● 1818 - Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
● 1835 - Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
● 1839 - Chevalier de Lorimier, Quebec notary and Patriote (b. 1803)
● 1843 - Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general in the Greek War of Independence (b. 1770)
● 1844 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
● 1847 - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
● 1848 - Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)
● 1849 - Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (b. 1804)
● 1857 - Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
● 1869 - Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)
● 1911 - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (b. 1859)
● 1928 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
● 1932 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (b. 1865)
● 1939 - Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
● 1959 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1879)
● 1964 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1880)
● 1965 - Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
● 1966 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (b. 1909)
● 1971 - Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (b. 1885)
● 1973 - Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
● 1973 - Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
● 1974 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
● 1981 - Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
● 1981 - Mike Bloomfield, American musician (b. 1943)
● 1984 - Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
● 1988 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1918)
● 1992 - María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
● 1992 - William Schuman, American composer (b. 1910)
● 1996 - Lucio Agostini, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1913)
● 1996 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
● 1996 - Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
● 1998 - Louie Spicolli, American professional wrestler
● 1999 - Big L (Lamont Coleman), American rapper (b. 1974)
● 1999 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1926)
● 2002 - Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
● 2002 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
● 2004 - Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
● 2004 - Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and International Court of Justice judge (b. 1917)
● 2005 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
● 2005 - Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
● 2007 - Walker Edmiston, actor (b. 1926)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agape
● St. Berach
● St. Claude de la Colombière, Blessed
● St. Craton
● St. Decorosus
● St. Dochow
● St. Druthmar
● St. Eusebius
● St. Euseus
● St. Farannan
● Sts. Faustin and Jovita
● St. Georgia
● St. Jordan
● St. Joseph of Antioch
● St. Quinidius
● St. Saturninus
● St. Siegfried of Sweden
● St. Walfrid
● St. Winaman
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 2 (Civil Date: February 15)
● THE MEETING OF OUR LORD GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.
● New-Martyr Jordan of Trebizond.
● New-Martyr Gabriel at Constantinople.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Agathadorus of Cappadocia.
● Repose of Schemamonk Seraphim of Valaam (1860).
● Christian:
● St. Georgia (St. Georgette)
● Anglican:
● Thomas Bray, priest/missionary
● Lupercalia
● Canada - Flag Day
● Massachusetts - Spanish-American War Memorial Day (1898)
● Serbia - National Day
● Singapore - Total Defence Day
● US - Battleship Day, Remember the Maine (1898)
● Vanuatu - John Frum Day
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : Presidents' Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday - ( Monday )
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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