Day of the week in surrounding years:
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—MON—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—TUE—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—WED—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—THU—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—FRI—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—SAT—. . . .
1985,1991,. . . .,2002,2008—SUN—2013
PASCAL DATE INFORMATION
Easter Sunday for the Western Christian Church is defined as the first Sunday following the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. Lent is defined as the forty days prior to Easter not including Sundays thus Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is 46 days prior to Easter. Calculations for Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday were performed for the 3774 years from 326 to 4099. For the year range 326 to 1582, dates are based on the Julian calendar. For years 1583 to 4099, dates are based on the Gregorian calendar. Ash Wednesday falls in a range of 36 days from February 4 to March 10. Easter Sunday falls in a range of 35 days from March 22 to April 25. The extra day in the Ash Wednesday range is February 29, which only occurs in leap years. February 29 only effects when Ash Wednesday occurs since it is well before the Spring Equinox and has no effect on the date for Easter Sunday. March 10 to March 21 is a twelve-day range that must occur in Lent no matter the timing of Easter Sunday. The entire range of 82 dates from February 4 to April 25 represents all dates with Pascal ramifications.
February 17 is the 14th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 129 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 11th/12th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
359, 364, 443, 454, 527, 538, 549, 611, 622, 633, 644, 706, 717, 728, 801, 812, 891, 896, 975, 986, 1059, 1070, 1081, 1143, 1154, 1165, 1176, 1238, 1249, 1260, 1333, 1344, 1423, 1428, 1507, 1518, 1616, 1627, 1638, 1649, 1706, 1768, 1779, 1790, 1836, 1847, 1858, 1904, 1915, 1926, 1988, 1999
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2010, 2021, 2083, 2094, 2140, 2151, 2162, 2173, 2208, 2219, 2230, 2241, 2360, 2371, 2382, 2393, 2455, 2466, 2477, 2512, 2523, 2534, 2545, 2602, 2613, 2675, 2686, 2697, 2732, 2743, 2754, 2765, 2827, 2838, 2849, 2906, 2917, 2979, 2990, 3047, 3058, 3069, 3104, 3115, 3126, 3137, 3199, 3210, 3221, 3294, 3351, 3362, 3373, 3419, 3430, 3441, 3509, 3571, 3582, 3593, 3655, 3666, 3677, 3723, 3734, 3745, 3802, 3813, 3886, 3892, 3897, 3943, 3954, 3965, 4038, 4044, 4049
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Democrats "America does not need two Republican parties." — John Kerry
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On War Is Hell ". . .
New Bridge Strategies principals have years of public policy experience, have held positions in the Reagan Administration and both Bush Administrations and are particularly well suited to working with international agencies in the Executive Branch, Department of Defense and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the American rebuilding apparatus and establishing early links to Congress. . . . " — 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 5 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 "There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them." — 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 17, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 84% Age: 37% Rise: 2:13 PM Set: 4:48 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 17, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 84% Age: 37% Rise: 2:45 PM Set: 4:53 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 17, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 83% Age: 37% Rise: 1:50 PM Set: 4:55 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 17, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 83% Age: 36% Rise: 1:21 PM Set: 4:34 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester, A. Loll (ASU); Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (Skyfactory)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 197 - Battle of Lugdunum - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats and kills his rival Clodius Albinus, securing full control over the Empire.
● 763 - Shi Chaoyi's head is delivered to Chang'an, ending the An Shi Rebellion.
● 1370 - Battle at Rudau Germany beats Lithuania
● 1495 - Miguel de Cueno, a member of Columbus' second expedition, ships 550 captured Carib Indians to be slaves in Europe. Two hundred die at sea.
● 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt.
● 1568 - Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay annual tribute to Sultan for peace
● 1598 - Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia
● 1600 - Rome: Philosopher Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory and the plurality of worlds, burned at the stake by the Inquisition having been found guilty of heresy.
● 1621 - Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony.
● 1634 - William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histriomastix"
● 1670 - France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
● 1676 - Kings Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
● 1714 - Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree
● 1741 - English revivalist George Whitefield advised in a letter: 'Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."'
● 1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
● 1772 - 1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria
● 1776 - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" published
● 1791 - Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
● 1793 - Alexander McGillivray, Cree Indian leader, dies.
● 1801 - US House of Representatives breaks a tie in the 1800 Presidential election between Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson, selecting the latter on the 35th ballot, when Alexander Hamilton wielded his influence against Burr. It is thought Hamilton and Burr may not have got on well.
● 1814 - Battle of Mormans.
● 1815 - In deciding the legal case "Terrett v. Taylor," the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional an act of the Virginia Legislature which denied property rights to Protestant Episcopal churches in the state. The Court ruled that religious corporations, like other corporations, have rights to their property.
● 1816 - Birth of Edward Hopper, American Presbyterian clergyman. He is remembered today as author of the hymn, "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me."
● 1817 - Baltimore is first U.S. city to illuminate its streets with gas. And you thought it was Boston...
● 1819 - The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise.
● 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania
● 1848 - Toscane gets liberal Constitution
● 1854 - British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
● 1864 - American Civil War: H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
● 1865 - American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
● 1865 - Battle of Charleston SC
● 1867 - Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary
● 1867 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
● 1870 - Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge
● 1870 - Mississippi becomes 9th state re-admitted to US after Civil War
● 1871 - The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
● 1874 - Thomas J. Watson, Sr., the American industrialist who built I.B.M., was born.
● 1876 - Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport ME)
● 1878 - 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones
● 1879 - Russian nihilists unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate Czar Alexander in St. Petersburg.
● 1883 - A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London
● 1885 - Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa
● 1889 - Billy Sunday, 27, baseball player-turned-preacher, made his first appearance as an evangelist in Chicago. A strong fundamentalist, Sunday preached temperance and opposed scientific evolution. Over 100 million are estimated to have heard Sunday preach before his death in 1935.
● 1895 - Swan Lake, with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, is first performed at full length in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
● 1896 - London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective
● 1897 - The National Congress of Mothers was organized in Washington, DC, by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. It was the forerunner of the National PTA.
● 1899 - Anti-Imperialist League is founded.
● 1905 - Frances Willard becomes 1st woman honored in National Statuary Hall
● 1906 - Western Federation Mineworker (WFM) leaders Haywood, Moyer, and Pettibone framed on murder charges in Idaho.
● 1909 - Geronimo, Apache leader, dies at about age 80.
● 1911 - 1st amphibian flight to & from a ship, by Glenn Curtiss, San Diego
● 1913 - 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
● 1913 - The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists (such as Picasso, Matisse and Duchamp) who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
● 1915 - Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WWI, is mortally wounded
● 1926 - Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham UT, 40 die
● 1930 - French government of Tardieu, falls
● 1932 - "Baby Face" Nelson escapes from prison.
● 1933 - Hermann Goering endorses Nazi terrorism after two weeks of violence against labor unions and leaders. Coverage of Nazi concentration camps appeared in magazines such as AIZ in 1933. This publicly available information did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of Hitler's financial supporters (such as Henry Ford) or press agents (or supporters like Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh) in Europe and the U.S. Meanwhile, U.S. journalists like George Seldes, who documented the ties between American companies and the Nazis, were suppressed. Seldes' stories were censored by the U.S. press, and his 170,000-subscriber newsletter was driven out of business by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.
● 1933 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
● 1934 - 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College PA)
● 1936 - -58º F (-50º C), McIntosh SD (state record)
● 1936 - Goodyear sit-down strike begins. Akron, Ohio.
● 1936 - The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics.
● 1938 - 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)
● 1940 - British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway
● 1940 - Canada - Emma Goldman suffers a severe stroke. After growing up in the U.S., and then being deported by the government during the Red Scare years, she had been banned from the country since 1931, except for a brief visit in 1934. Goldman died three months later in Toronto; she was finally allowed back into the U.S., after her death, for burial in the Waldheim Cemetery, next to the Haymarket Martyrs in Chicago.
● 1942 - African Americans moving into the Sojourner Truth low-cost housing project in Detroit are attacked by armed whites.
● 1942 - Birth of Huey Newton, co-founder of Black Panther Party. New Orleans, Louisiana.
● 1942 - Silent indoor commemoration of martyred compatriots leaves public places deserted, Oslo, Norway.
● 1943 - Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews
● 1943 - General-Major Bradley flies to Washington DC
● 1943 - Hitler visits field marshal von Mansteins headquarters in Zaporozje
● 1944 - Italy - Pietro Bruzzi captured and shot by the fascists, in Melegnano. Young anarchist who spent several years in France and in 1936 fought in Spain. Extradited to Italy and sent to the island of Ponza during WWII. He escaped and joined the anarchist resistance in Lombardy.
● 1944 - World War II: Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
● 1944 - World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk (Chuuk), Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
● 1946 - Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam
● 1947 - Dutch Roman Catholic bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"
● 1947 - The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union.
● 1949 - Chaim Weizman elected 1st President of Israel
● 1950 - 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center, New York
● 1957 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.
● 1957 - Suez Canal reopens
● 1958 - First meeting of Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
● 1958 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi (1193~1253) the patron saint of television.
● 1959 - Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 - The first weather satellite launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
● 1959 - Turkish leader involved in fatal crash; Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes survives an air crash near London that killed 12 people.
● 1962 - A storm kills more than 300 people in Hamburg, West Germany.
● 1964 - In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population. {I have often wondered why this was even a question before the court since it seems self-evident, but lawyers and lawmakers have a way making things very convoluted.}
● 1964 - US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights
● 1965 - US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
● 1966 - French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
● 1967 - Kosmos 140 (Soyuz test) launches into Earth orbit
● 1969 - Russian-born, Milwaukee-raised Golda Meir (nee Mabovitch [Myerson]), 70, was sworn in as Israel's first female prime minister. (She would hold the office for five embattled years.)
● 1970 - Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughters
● 1970 - Seventy-six are arrested and 20 injured in a downtown confrontation between Seattle police and an anti-war demonstration organized by the Seattle Liberation Front.
● 1972 - British Parliament votes to join European Common Market
● 1972 - President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China
● 1972 - Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of Ford Model-T.
● 1974 - 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
● 1974 - Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter.
● 1975 - Several hundred residents of Wyhl, Germany, occupy the construction site of a nuclear power plant. Police responded with water cannons and arrests; by the following week, 28,000 had joined the occupation, and police withdrew for over a year. This is believed to have been the first such plant occupation in the world.
● 1976 - Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
● 1976 - Organic statute makes Macao autonomous
● 1979 - China invades Vietnam; China sends hundreds of troops into Vietnam after weeks of tension and a military build-up along the border.
● 1981 - Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history
● 1982 - Polish troops arrest 3,500 in martial law raids.
● 1983 - Netherlands adopts constitution
● 1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1984 - Workers at a Coca-Cola plant in Guatemala seize it for collective operation.
● 1985 - 1st class postage rises from 20¢ to 22¢
● 1985 - 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
● 1986 - Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad
● 1987 - Tamils strip off at Heathrow; A group of Tamils seeking asylum in Britain protest at Heathrow airport by removing their clothes as they are about to be deported.
● 1988 - US Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists & later killed
● 1989 - 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
● 1989 - Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market
● 1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
● 1992 - In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. In November of 1994, he was beaten to death in prison.
● 1993 - Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die
● 1993 - Wang Dan and Guo Haifeng, leaders of 1989 Chinese student protests, released from prison.
● 1995 - Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.
● 1995 - Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive & manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
● 1995 - The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.
● 1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
● 1997 - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena CA
● 1997 - Pepperdine University announced that Kenneth Starr was leaving the Whitewater probe to take a full-time job at the school. Starr reversed the announcement four days later.
● 1998 - Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
● 1998 - Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax
● 2002 - The new Transportation Security Administration took over supervision of aviation security from the airline industry and the Federal Aviation Administration.
● 2003 - Twenty-one people were killed in a stampede at a crowded nightclub in Chicago.
● 2005 - Iraq's electoral commission certified the results of the Jan. 30 elections and allocated 140 of 275 National Assembly seats to the United Iraqi Alliance, giving the Shiite-dominated party a majority in the new parliament.
● 2005 - U.S. President George W. Bush named John Negroponte as the first national intelligence {something that Negroponte or Shrub has never possessed} director.
● 2006 - Over 1,000 people perished and buried alive in the town of St. Bernard in Southern Leyte, Philippines mudslide.
BIRTHS
● 1490 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (d. 1527)
● 1519 - Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)
● 1524 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)
● 1581 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)
● 1646 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)
● 1653 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713)
● 1718 - Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)
● 1723 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762)
● 1752 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)
● 1754 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
● 1766 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (d. 1834)
● 1781 - René Laënnec, French physician (d. 1826)
● 1792 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876)
● 1796 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866)
● 1817 - King William III of the Netherlands (d, 1890)
● 1818 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist (d. 1895)
● 1820 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal (d. 1898)
● 1820 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (d. 1881)
● 1821 - Lola Montez, Mexican dancer, actress, friend of monarchs (d. 1861)
● 1836 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870)
● 1844(43? NYT) - Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder (d. 1913)
● 1848 - Louisa Lawson, Australian feminist, suffragist, and writer (d. 1920)
● 1854 - Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1902)
● 1861 - Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany (d. 1922)
● 1863 - Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)
● 1864 - Andrew Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941)
● 1864 - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)
● 1874 - Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (d. 1956)
● 1877 - André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)
● 1877 - Isabelle Eberhardt, explorer and writer who spent a lot of time in North Africa (d. 1904)
● 1885 - Steve Evans, American baseball player (d. 1943)
● 1887 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)
● 1888 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
● 1889 - H. L. Hunt, American oil tycoon (d. 1974)
● 1904 - Hans J. Morgenthau, German-born American political scientist and historian
● 1908 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
● 1908 - Red Barber, American baseball announcer (d. 1992)
● 1910 - Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (d. 1979)
● 1910 - Marc Lawrence, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1911 - Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born American literary scholar (d. 1984)
● 1912 - Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005)
● 1914 - Arthur Kennedy, American actor (d. 1990)
● 1914 - Wayne Morris, American actor (d. 1959)
● 1916 - Raf Vallone, Italian actor (d. 2002)
● 1917 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher(d. 2002)
● 1917 - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (d. 1965)
● 1919 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (d. 2001)
● 1920 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director
● 1922 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
● 1922 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
● 1922 - Tommy Edwards, American singer (d. 1969)
● 1924 - Margaret Truman, American novelist and Daughter of President Truman {and poor pianist}
● 1925 - Hal Holbrook, American actor
● 1925 - Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
● 1928 - Marta Romero, Puerto Rican actress & singer
● 1929 - Chaim Potok, American author (d. 2002)
● 1929 - Patricia Routledge, English actress
● 1930 - Roger Craig, American baseball player and manager
● 1930 - Ruth Rendell, English writer
● 1932 - Buck Trent, American banjo player
● 1933 - Bobby Lewis, American singer
● 1933 - Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
● 1934 - Alan Bates, English actor (d. 2003)
● 1934 - Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian
● 1934 - Dame Edna, Comedian
● 1935 - Christina Pickles, British actress
● 1935 - Johnny Bush, Country singer
● 1936 - Jim Brown, American football player and Hall of Fame member.
● 1939 - John Leyton, British singer
● 1939 - Mary Ann Mobley, American actress and beauty queen
● 1940 - Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006)
● 1941 - Julia McKenzie, English actress and theatre director
● 1942 - Huey P. Newton, American political activist (d. 1989)
● 1944 - Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
● 1945 - Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
● 1945 - Zina Bethune, American actress
● 1948 - José José, Mexican singer and actor
● 1948 - Rick Majerus, American basketball coach
● 1949 - Fred Frith, English musician and composer
● 1952 - Karin Janz, East German gymnast
● 1953 - Janice Dickinson, American model
● 1953 - Norman Pace, British actor and comic
● 1954 - Rene Russo, American actress
● 1955 - Mo Yan, Chinese novelist
● 1956 - Richard Karn, American actor
● 1957 - Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician
● 1959 - Aryeh Deri, Israeli rabbi and politician
● 1959 - Neil Lomax, American football player
● 1962 - Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer (d. 1995)
● 1962 - David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (d. 1999)
● 1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
● 1962 - Samuel Bayer, American music video director
● 1962 - Tyrone "Ty" Jones, American screenwriter
● 1963 - Daniel Whitney, aka Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian
● 1963 - Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian
● 1963 - Michael Jordan, American basketball player
● 1964 - Buster Olney, American sports columnist
● 1965 - Michael Bay, American film director
● 1966 - Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
● 1966 - Luc Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1966 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (d. 2004)
● 1967 - Chanté Moore, American singer
● 1969 - Tuesday Knight, American actress
● 1970 - Dominic Purcell, English-born actor ("Prison Break")
● 1970 - Tim Mahoney, American musician (311)
● 1970 - Tommy Moe, American Olympic skier
● 1971 - Denise Richards, American actress
● 1971 - Jeremy Edwards, British actor
● 1971 - Martyn Bennett, Canadian composer (d. 2005)
● 1972 - Billie Joe Armstrong, American musician (Green Day)
● 1972 - Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater
● 1972 - Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters)
● 1972 - Valeria Mazza, Argentinian model
● 1974 - Bryan White, American singer
● 1974 - Jerry O'Connell, American actor
● 1974 - Kaoru, Japanese musician
● 1975 - Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress
● 1975 - Todd Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1975 - Vaclav Prospal, Czech ice hockey player
● 1975 - Wish Bone, American rapper
● 1976 - Kelly Carlson, American actress
● 1976 - Scott Williamson, American baseball player
● 1978 - Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim
● 1979 - Josh Willingham, American baseball player
● 1980 - Al Harrington, American basketball player
● 1980 - Jason Ritter, American actor (''Joan of Arcadia'', "The Class")
● 1981 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor (''3rd Rock From the Sun'')
● 1981 - Lupe Fiasco, American rapper
● 1981 - Paris Hilton, American actress and heiress {what a waste of human flesh}
● 1982 - Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
● 1982 - Brian Bruney, American baseball player
● 1983 - Gérald Cid, French footballer
● 1983 - Marios Kaperonis, Greek boxer
● 1984 - AB de Villiers, South African Cricketer
● 1984 - Jimmy Jacobs, American professional wrestler
● 1984 - Kenta Kamakari, Japanese actor and seiyuu
● 1986 - Joey O'Brien, Irish footballer
● 1991 - Bonnie Wright, British actress
● 1992 - Meaghan Jette Martin, American child actress and singer
● 1996 - Sasha Pieterse, South African child actress
DEATHS
● 197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman usurper (killed in battle)
● 364 - Jovian, Roman Emperor
● 440 - Mesrop Mashtots
● 1339 - Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)
● 1371 - Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
● 1596 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)
● 1600 - Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)
● 1609 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
● 1624 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
● 1659 - Abel Servien, French diplomat (b. 1593)
● 1673 - Molière, French playwright (b. 1622)
● 1680 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)
● 1680 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (b. 1637)
● 1715 - Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (b. 1646)
● 1732 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)
● 1768 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (b. 1691)
● 1780 - Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b. 1706)
● 1841 - Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist (b. 1770)
● 1854 - John Martin, English painter (b. 1789)
● 1856 - Heinrich Heine, German writer (b. 1797)
● 1874 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796)
● 1883 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (b. 1806)
● 1883 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b. 1845)
● 1890 - Christopher Sholes, American inventor (b. 1819)
● 1909 - Geronimo, Apache leader (b. 1829)
● 1912 - Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer (b. 1876)
● 1919 - Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
● 1934 - King Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
● 1934 - Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (b. 1862)
● 1939 - Willy Hess, German violinist (b. 1859)
● 1943 - Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (b. 1888)
● 1943 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
● 1958 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (b. 1876)
● 1961 - Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1897)
● 1962 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (b. 1876)
● 1970 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1901)
● 1970 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
● 1977 - Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (shot) (b. 1922)
● 1982 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian-born actor (b. 1901)
● 1982 - Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (b. 1922)
● 1982 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)
● 1989 - Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
● 1990 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (b. 1906)
● 1990 - Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1901)
● 1994 - Randy Shilts, American author and activist (AIDS) (b. 1951)
● 1996 - Hervé Bazin, French writer (b. 1911)
● 1997 - Zein Isa, Palestinian militant imprisoned in the United States for the honor killing of his daughter
● 1998 - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (b. 1921)
● 1998 - Ernst Jünger, German author (b. 1895)
● 2001 - Bob Geary, Canadian football player and manager (b. 1933)
● 2001 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (brain aneurysm) (b. 1948)
● 2004 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (b. 1919)
● 2005 - Omar Sivori, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
● 2006 - Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (b. 1948)
● 2006 - Harold Hunter, American professional skateboarder (b. 1974)
● 2006 - Ray Barretto, Puerto Rican musician (congas) (b. 1929)
● 2007 - Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born Canadian musician, producer and songwriter (b. 1943)
● 2007 - Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (b. 1961)
● 2007 - Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
● 2007 - Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● The Seven Founders of the Servite Order
● St. Alexis Falconieri (d. 1310)
● St. Benedict of Cagliari
● St. Constabilis
● St. Donatus
● St. Evermod
● St. Faustinus & Companions
● St. Fintan
● St. Fortchern
● St. Habet Deus
● St. Hugh dei Lippi Uggucioni
● St. Julian of Caesarea
● St. Loman
● St. Manettus
● St. Polychronius
● St. Silvinus
● St. Theodulus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 4 (Civil Date: February 17)
● St. Isidore of Pelusium, monk.
● St. George, prince of Vladimir.
● St. Cyril, abbot, wonderworker of Novoezersk (Novgorod).
● St. Nicholas the Confessor, abbot of the Studion.
● Martyr Jadorus.
● Hieromartyr Abramius, Bishop of Arbela in Assyria.
● St. John, Bishop of Hirenopolis.
● St. Abraham & St. Coprius, monks of Pechenga (Vologda).
● New-Martyr Joseph of Aleppo.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Theoctistus.
● St. Jasim the Wonderworker.
● Repose of Royal Recluse Dosithea of Moscow (1810).
● Christian:
● St. Silvinus
● Commemoration of Flight into Egypt
● Ancient Latvia - Tanis Diena observed.
● Roman Empire - Quirinalia in honor of Quirinus.
● Sri Lanka - Maha Shivaratree
● Random Acts of Kindness 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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