Day of the week in surrounding years:
1977,1983,. . . .,1994,2000—MON—2005
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—TUE—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—WED—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—THU—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—FRI—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—SAT—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—SUN—2010
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 21 is the 18th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 128 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 13th/14th/15th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
350, 361, 372, 445, 451, 456, 535, 540, 546, 619, 630, 641, 703, 714, 725, 736, 787, 798, 809, 820, 882, 893, 904, 977, 983, 988, 1067, 1072, 1078, 1151, 1162, 1173, 1235, 1246, 1257, 1268, 1319, 1330, 1341, 1352, 1414, 1425, 1436, 1509, 1515, 1520, 1624, 1635, 1703, 1776, 1787, 1798, 1844, 1849, 1855, 1912, 1917, 1996, 2007
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2080, 2091, 2148, 2159, 2216, 2227, 2300, 2368, 2379, 2390, 2452, 2463, 2474, 2520, 2531, 2542, 2672, 2683, 2694, 2740, 2751, 2824, 2835, 2846, 2903, 2914, 2976, 2987, 2998, 3044, 3055, 3066, 3112, 3123, 3134, 3196, 3207, 3218, 3229, 3291, 3348, 3359, 3370, 3381, 3416, 3427, 3438, 3500, 3506, 3568, 3579, 3590, 3652, 3663, 3674, 3685, 3720, 3731, 3742, 3753, 3810, 3883, 3894, 3940, 3951, 3962, 4035, 4046, 4057
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Doubt "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." — Buddha
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On War Is Hell ". . . New Bridge Strategies is providing the flexible and complete solutions as well as entrepreneurial ability necessary for companies seeking to open a path to these unique opportunities and engage in both long and short-term Iraqi business projects." — 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 9 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 "Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight." — Jerry Coleman was an infielder for the Yankees (what is it about the Bronx Bombers that turned out such a raft of funny speakers?), and manager of the San Diego Padres. After playing, he made his mark as a radio and TV broadcaster, where his malapropisms, non sequiturs, and other goofs became legendary. Coleman is Hall of Shame member #8.
{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 21, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Full Moon Percent of Full: 100% Age: 51% Rise: 6:50 PM Set: 7:06 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 21, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Full Moon Percent of Full: 100% Age: 51% Rise: 7:11 PM Set: 7:22 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 21, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Full Moon Percent of Full: 100% Age: 51% Rise: 6:39 PM Set: 7:05 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 21, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Full Moon Percent of Full: 100% Age: 51% Rise: 6:13 PM Set: 6:42 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Orion's Horsehead Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Victor Bertol
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
● 1109 - Death of Anselm of Canterbury, 76, priest and theologian. Best remembered for his 1099 classic, "Cur Deus Homo" ("Why God Became Man"), Anselm is regarded as the most original thinker in the Catholic Church since Augustine. His most often quoted saying was: 'I believe, in order that I may understand.'
● 1173 - Pope Alexander III canonized Thomas Becket (1118-70). As Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket had been martyred three years earlier on orders of English King Henry II a former friend until Becket was elevated to Archbishop in 1162.
● 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, was granted resignation after having confessed to torture and forgery.
● 1431 - England begins trial against Joan of Arc
● 1440 - The Prussian Confederation is formed.
● 1543 - Battle of Wayna Daga - A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeated a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
● 1564 - Philip II routes cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comté
● 1574 - Spanish garrison of Middelburg Netherlands surrenders
● 1583 - Groningen Netherlands begins using Gregorian calendar
● 1598 - Boris Godunov crowned tsar
● 1613 - Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
● 1673 - Michiel A de Ruyter appointed Lieutenant-Admiral-General of Dutch fleet
● 1675 - Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland
● 1795 - Freedom of worship was established in France under the constitution that came out of the French Revolution of 1789.
● 1804 - The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales.
● 1828 - Premier issue of the "Cherokee Phoenix" published. First U.S. newspaper in a native language, it uses the Cherokee syllabary, developed by Sequoyah, who assigned symbols to 86 Cherokee syllables. The Phoenix will appear weekly until May 1834.
● 1835 - U.S. Senate accepts treaty by which Potawatomi, Ottowa, and Chippewa cede land (including that of the town of Chicago) to U.S. government.
● 1842 - John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
● 1846 - 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell MA
● 1848 - Former President John Quincy Adams suffered a stroke on the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. He died two days later.
● 1848 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.
● 1853 - US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces
● 1857 - Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US
● 1857 - US issues flying eagle cents
● 1858 - Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston MA)
● 1861 - Navaho Indians elect Herrero Grande as chief
● 1862 - Confederate Constitution & Presidency are declared permanent
● 1862 - Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico
● 1864 - 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore MD
● 1864 - Battle at Okolonam MS
● 1866 - Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS (dental) degree
● 1874 - Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
● 1874 - The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.
● 1875 - Jeanne Calment was born, going on to live for 122 years 164 days, the longest confirmed lifespan for any human being in history.
● 1878 - The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
● 1883 - 2nd French government of Ferry begins
● 1885 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
● 1887 - 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
● 1887 - Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
● 1893 - Andres Segovia, the Spanish musician who established the guitar as an important concert instrument, was born.
● 1893 - Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and for a "Stop Device"
● 1895 - North Carolina Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
● 1902 - Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
● 1903 - Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington DC
● 1907 - Poet W.H. Auden was born in York, England.
● 1907 - SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead)
● 1914 - White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
● 1915 - 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
● 1916 - Battle of Verdun (WWI) begins (1 million casualties) The battle ended on December 18, 1916 with a French victory over Germany.
● 1917 - British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
● 1917 - Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
● 1918 - Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine
● 1918 - The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
● 1919 - German National Meeting accepts Anschluss incorporation of Austria
● 1919 - In Munich, the socialist Kurt Eisner, principal in the Bavarian revolution and president of the Republic of Councils, is assassinated by extremists. The Central Council of the Republic declares a general strike and state of siege.
● 1919 - Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
● 1922 - Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die
● 1922 - Great Britain grants Egypt independence
● 1925 - Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
● 1925 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
● 1931 - Alka Seltzer introduced
● 1932 - André Tardieu becomes premier of France
● 1932 - Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
● 1934 - Augusto Cesar Sandino, hero of Nicaraguan independence, and his aides assassinated in Managua by Somoza's National Guard.
● 1934 - Twelve hundred assembly line workers at the Racine, Wisconsin Nash automobile plant go on strike. Plants in Milwaukee and Kenosha, with another 3,400, follow. After eight weeks of federal mediation, all workers receive raises of up to 17 percent, and unions at each plant win sole bargaining rights.
● 1936 - Birth of Barbara Jordan, African-American who was first congresswoman from the Deep South (1972-78).
● 1937 - Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile.
● 1937 - The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
● 1939 - Belgian government of Pierlot forms
● 1941 - US Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General
● 1943 - Battle of Guadalcanal ended.
● 1943 - Dutch Roman Catholic bishops protest against persecution of Jews
● 1943 - German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia
● 1945 - Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties
● 1945 - British Army captures Goch
● 1945 - Death of Eric Liddell, 43, Scottish Olympic champion runner. Later a missionary to China, Liddell was captured by the Japanese during WWII and died of a brain tumor while still imprisoned. (His college running days were portrayed in the 1981 British film, "Chariots of Fire.")
● 1945 - US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line
● 1945 - World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga.
● 1946 - Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt
● 1947 - In New York City Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
● 1951 - South Carolina House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated
● 1952 - In Dhaka, East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) police opened fire on a procession of students, who demanded the establishment of Bengali as the official language, killing four people and starting a country-wide protest which led to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national languages of Pakistan. The day was later declared as "International Mother Language Day" by UNESCO.
● 1952 - The government of Winston Churchill abolishes Identity Cards (instituted in 1939) in the UK to "set the people free".
● 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
● 1956 - After suffering legal harassments and personal threats, Martin Luther King Jr. is indicted on conspiracy charges in Montgomery bus boycott.
● 1958 - Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser President (99.9% vote)
● 1958 - Peace symbol designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
● 1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba.
● 1961 - Gabon adopts constitution
● 1961 - Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry test reaches 172 km
● 1962 - J. Edgar Hoover wins a George Washington Award from the Freedom Foundation for "the most outstanding individual contribution to American freedom during 1961." Hoover also won the award in 1958. Don't know which dress he wore.
● 1962 - Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Netherlands
● 1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1965 - Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
● 1966 - Indonesia's President Sukarno fires General Nasution
● 1968 - 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin
● 1969 - 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
● 1970 - Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
● 1970 - Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich, Switzerland.
● 1971 - International march in support of arrested Spanish conscientious objector Pepe Beunza leaves Geneva, Switzerland, for Spain.
● 1971 - More than 3,000 from U.S. and Canada protest at Blaine (Wash.) border crossing against oil tanker traffic between Alaska and Puget Sound.
● 1971 - Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi & Louisiana killing 117
● 1971 - The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
● 1972 - Beginning of the trial of Fr. Philip Berrigan and six other nonviolent activists (The "Harrisburg Seven") in Harrisburg, PA for an alleged plot to kidnap Henry Kissinger. Proceedings later end in a mistrial. Trial against Kissinger still pending.
● 1972 - Pres. Richard Nixon visits Communist China as American bombers carry out saturation bombing raids against the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam. The cordial welcome given Nixon by the Chinese Stalinists was a rebuke to North Vietnam and the NLF, China's supposed allies. By opening diplomatic relations with Beijing, the U.S. hoped to isolate the NLF and pressure it into accepting a negotiated deal to end the war in Vietnam, while preserving imperialist interests in the region.
● 1972 - The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
● 1973 - Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108.
● 1974 - Silver hits record $5.965 an ounce in London
● 1974 - The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal in carrying out a truce with Egypt.
● 1974 - Yugoslavia adopts constitution
● 1975 - Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up.
● 1976 - Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht
● 1977 - 74 Unification Church couples wed in New York NY
● 1979 - Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km)
● 1981 - "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured
● 1981 - Charles Rocket, portraying the gunshot victim in a Saturday Night Live parody of the "Who Shot J.R." plot on the program Dallas, said, "I'd like to know who the fuck did it," during the live feed of the "goodnights" segment. Afterward, everyone except Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo was fired.
● 1981 - Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)
● 1981 - NASA launches Comstar D-4
● 1986 - AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
● 1987 - Syrian army marches into Beirut
● 1988 - During a live TV broadcast, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart (age 52) admitted to visiting a prostitute, then announced he would be leaving his ministry for an unspecified length of time. (Defrocked in April by the Assemblies of God, he was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but returned after only three months)
● 1989 - U.S. President Bush called Ayatollah Khomeini's death warrant against "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie "deeply offensive to the norms of civilized behavior." {Yeah we do it without making public proclomations.}
● 1989 - US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value)
● 1991 - USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable
● 1994 - Government officials and Zapatistas begin peace talks in Chiapas, Mexico.
● 1995 - Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by three far right National Front activists.
● 1995 - RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado
● 1995 - Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria; 4 guards and 96 prisoners killed in a day and a half.
● 1995 - Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
● 1996 - Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit
● 1997 - Bridgewater Three freed; Three men jailed 18 years ago for the murder of 13-year-old paper boy Carl Bridgewater are released after their convictions are ruled unsafe.
● 1997 - STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands
● 1999 - India's Prime Minister Atal Bihair Vajpayee concluded two days of meeting with Pakistan's Prime Minister Mohammad Nowaz Sharif.
● 2000 - David Letterman returns to The Late Show over a month after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery.
● 2001 - Ban follows foot-and-mouth outbreak; The European Commission bans all British milk, meat and livestock exports following the UK's first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease for two decades.
● 2002 - The State Department declared that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was dead, a month after he'd been abducted by Islamic extremists in Pakistan.
● 2003 - Over 100 concert goers in Rhode Island die in a fire during a performance of the rock band Great White.
● 2004 - The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.
● 2006 - New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg unveils a brand new sign on the corner of West 66th Street called Peter Jennings Way in honor of the late ABC News anchor Peter Jennings.
● 2006 - President George W. Bush endorsed the takeover of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports by a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates, and pledged to veto any bill Congress might approve to block the agreement.
● 2007 - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.
BIRTHS
● 1484 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (d. 1535)
● 1556 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (d. 1615)
● 1621 - Rebecca Nurse, American accused witch (d. 1692)
● 1675 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
● 1688 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
● 1705 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)
● 1721 - John McKinly, American physician (d. 1796)
● 1723 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
● 1728 - Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
● 1779 - Friedrich Karl von Savigny, German jurist and legal scholar (d. 1861)
● 1783 - Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
● 1791 - Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (d. 1857)
● 1794 - Antonio Lopez Santa Anna, Mexican army officer, statesman and politician (d. 1876)
● 1801 - John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1890)
● 1817 - Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish dramatist (d. 1893)
● 1821 - Charles Scribner, American publisher (d. 1871)
● 1823 - Pierre Laffitte, French philosopher (d. 1903)
● 1836 - Léo Delibes, French composer (d. 1891)
● 1844 - Charles-Marie Widor, French composer (d. 1937)
● 1860 - Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor
● 1860 - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927)
● 1865 - John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967)
● 1867 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire (d. 1934)
● 1875 - Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian and longest-lived human on record (d. 1997)
● 1876 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian abstract sculptor (d. 1957)
● 1876 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
● 1878 - The Mother, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973)
● 1880 - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
● 1885 - Sacha Guitry, Russian dramatist (d. 1957)
● 1888 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965)
● 1892 - Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and teacher (d. 1949)
● 1893 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
● 1893 - Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (d. 1979)
● 1895 - Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
● 1900 - Madeleine Renaud, French theater actress (d. 1994)
● 1903 - Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977)
● 1903 - Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977)
● 1903 - Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (d. 1976)
● 1903 - Tom Yawkey, American sportsman and owner of the Boston Red Sox (1933-76) (d. 1976)
● 1907 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
● 1910 - Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (d. 1979)
● 1910 - Douglas Bader, British pilot (d. 1982)
● 1910 - Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986)
● 1913 - Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (d. 1997)
● 1915 - Ann Sheridan, American actress (d. 1967)
● 1917 - Lucille Bremer, American actress (d. 1996)
● 1924 - Robert Mugabe first President of Zimbabwe
● 1925 - Sam Peckinpah, American director (d. 1984)
● 1927 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996)
● 1927 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
● 1927 - Pierre Mercure, French-Canadian musician and composer (d. 1966)
● 1929 - James Beck, English actor (d. 1973)
● 1929 - Roberto "Chespirito" Carlos Bolanõs, Mexican actor
● 1933 - Bob Rafelson, Director
● 1933 - Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003)
● 1934 - Rue McClanahan, American actress (''The Golden Girls'')
● 1935 - Jean Pelletier, French Canadian political operative
● 1935 - Mark McManus, Scottish actor (d. 1994)
● 1936 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (d. 1996)
● 1937 - Gary Lockwood, American actor
● 1937 - King Harald V of Norway
● 1940 - John Lewis, American politician
● 1940 - Peter Gethin, British racing driver
● 1940 - Peter McEnery, Actor
● 1941 - James Wong, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004)
● 1942 - Margarethe von Trotta, German actress and film director
● 1943 - David Geffen, American record producer
● 1945 - D'Anna Fortunato, American mezzo-soprano
● 1945 - Paul Newton, British musician (Uriah Heep)
● 1946 - Alan Rickman, English actor
● 1946 - Anthony Daniels, British actor (C-3PO in the"Star Wars" films)
● 1946 - Bob Ryan, Boston sports columnist
● 1946 - Tricia Nixon Cox, Daughter of President Nixon
● 1946 - Tyne Daly, American actress (''Judging Amy,'' ''Cagney and Lacey'')
● 1946 - Vito Rizzuto, Sicilian-born alleged mafia boss
● 1947 - Johnny Echols, American musician (Love)
● 1947 - Olympia Snowe, American politician
● 1947 - Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
● 1949 - Jerry Harrison, American musician (Talking Heads)
● 1949 - Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer
● 1951 - Vince Welnick, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 2006)
● 1952 - Jean Jacques Burnel, British musician (The Stranglers)
● 1953 - Christine Ebersole, American actress
● 1953 - William Petersen, American actor (''C.S.I.'')
● 1954 - Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (d. 1976)
● 1954 - Mike Pickering, English disc jockey and musician (Quando Quango, M People)
● 1955 - Kelsey Grammer, American actor (''Fraiser'')
● 1955 - Sir Steven Fayburgh, British diplomat
● 1958 - Alan Trammell, baseball player and manager
● 1958 - Jack Coleman, American actor
● 1958 - Jake Burns, Irish singer (Stiff Little Fingers)
● 1958 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer
● 1959 - Emmett McAuliffe, American radio show host and lawyer
● 1959 - José María Cano, Spanish musician (Mecano)
● 1960 - Steve Wynn, American singer (The Dream Syndicate)
● 1961 - Bertha Faye, American wrestler (d. 2001)
● 1961 - Christopher Atkins, American actor
● 1961 - Chuck Palahniuk, American writer
● 1961 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
● 1961 - Martha Hackett, American actress
● 1961 - Ranking Roger, Rock singer (General Public, English Beat)
● 1962 - Chuck Palahniuk, American writer
● 1962 - David Foster Wallace, American writer
● 1962 - Jim Starr, American gladiator
● 1962 - Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter
● 1963 - William Baldwin, American actor
● 1964 - Jane Tomlinson, British cancer campaigner (d. 2007)
● 1964 - Mark E. Kelly and Scott J. Kelly, American astronauts
● 1967 - Leroy Burrell, American runner
● 1967 - Michael Ward, Rock musician (Wallflowers)
● 1969 - Corey Harris, Blues guitarist
● 1969 - Eric Wilson, American musician (Sublime)
● 1969 - James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers)
● 1969 - Tony Meola, American footballer
● 1970 - Eric Heatherly, Country singer
● 1970 - Eric Wilson, Rock musician (Sublime)
● 1970 - Michael Slater, Australian cricketer
● 1972 - Seo Taiji, Korean musician
● 1973 - Bowie Tsang, Taiwanese singer and TV host
● 1973 - Heri Joensen, Faroese musician (Týr)
● 1973 - Tad Kinchla, Rock musician (Blues Traveler)
● 1974 - Iván Campo, Spanish footballer
● 1974 - Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
● 1975 - Affirmed, American race horse (d. 2001)
● 1975 - Chris (CP) Powell, American columnist
● 1976 - Ryan Smyth, Canadian hockey player
● 1977 - Chad Hutchinson, baseball and football player
● 1977 - Kevin Rose, American television host and Internet entrepreneur
● 1977 - Steve Francis, American basketball player
● 1978 - Kim Ha Neul, South Korean actress
● 1978 - Nicole Parker, American actress
● 1978 - Park Eun-hye, South Korean actress
● 1979 - Carly "Carlito" Colón, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
● 1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress ("Ghost Whisperer")
● 1979 - Lonnie Ford, American football player
● 1979 - Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer
● 1980 - Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1980 - Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer
● 1982 - Bernhard Auinger, Austrian racing driver
● 1983 - Braylon Edwards, American football player
● 1983 - Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player
● 1984 - Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby union player
● 1984 - David Odonkor, German footballer
● 1985 - Bob Burton, American speedcuber
● 1985 - Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
● 1986 - Charlotte Church, Welsh singer
● 1986 - Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
● 1987 - Anthony Walker, British murder victim (d. 2005)
● 1987 - Ellen Page, Canadian actress
● 1988 - Daniel Rose, English footballer
● 1989 - Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
● 1989 - Josh Walker, English footballer
● 1989 - Kristin Herrera, American actress
DEATHS
● 1437 - King James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
● 1471 - John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop
● 1513 - Pope Julius II (b. 1443)
● 1543 - Ahmed Gragn, Sultan of Adal
● 1554 - Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (b. 1498)
● 1595 - Robert Southwell, English Jesuit priest and poet (executed)
● 1668 - John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616)
● 1677 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632)
● 1715 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637)
● 1730 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
● 1788 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
● 1821 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
● 1824 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (b. 1781)
● 1846 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
● 1862 - Justinus Kerner, German poet (b. 1786)
● 1901 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
● 1920 - Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910)
● 1926 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
● 1938 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (b. 1868)
● 1941 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891)
● 1944 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873)
● 1945 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (b. 1902)
● 1946 - José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911)
● 1949 - Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894)
● 1958 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
● 1960 - Jacques Becker, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
● 1965 - Malcolm X, American black activist (assassinated) (b. 1925)
● 1966 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (b. 1895)
● 1967 - Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
● 1968 - Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmocologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898)
● 1972 - Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891)
● 1972 - Eugène Tisserant, French Catholic candinal (b. 1884)
● 1974 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
● 1978 - Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901)
● 1980 - Alfred Andersch, German writer
● 1982 - Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922)
● 1984 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
● 1985 - Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909)
● 1986 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895)
● 1986 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, also the world's oldest man ever (b. 1865)
● 1989 - Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
● 1991 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
● 1994 - Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (b.1913)
● 1994 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1948)
● 1996 - Morton Gould, American composer (b. 1913)
● 1999 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
● 1999 - Wilmer David Mizell, baseball player (b. 1930)
● 2000 - Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933)
● 2002 - Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939)
● 2002 - John Thaw, English actor (b. 1942)
● 2003 - Eddie Thomson, Scottish football player and coach (b. 1947)
● 2004 - Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (b. 1933)
● 2004 - John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)
● 2005 - Ara Berberian, American opera singer (b. 1930)
● 2005 - Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (b. 1929)
● 2005 - Gérard Bessette, Quebec novelist and poet (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (b. 1929)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Avitus II of Clermont
● St. Felix of Metz
● St. Gundebert
● St. Paterius
● St. Pepin of Landen
● St. Peter Damiani, bishop of Ostia, confessor/doctor
● St. Peter the Scribe
● St. Randoald
● St. Robert Southwell, English Jesuit, martyr
● St. Severian
● St. Valerius and Companions
● Bl. Pepin of Landen
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 8 (Civil Date: February 21)
● Great-Martyr Theodore Stratelites ("the General") and Prophet Zachariah.
● (services combined) St. Sabbas II, Archbishop of Serbia.
● Martyrs Nicephorus and Stephen.
● Martyrs Philadelphus and Polycarp.
● St. Macarius, Bishop of Paphus.
● St. Pergetus.
● Christian:
● Bl. Noel
● Language Martyrs' Day - A day celebrated by Bengali speaking people for gaining right of mother tongue.
● International Mother Language Day (UNESCO).
● Bangladesh - Bangladesh Martyrs Day/National Mourning Day (1952)
● There Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Brotherhood Day (1934) - ( Sunday )
● 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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