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 22 is the 19th 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:
383, 388, 467, 478, 551, 562, 573, 635, 646, 657, 668, 730, 741, 752, 825, 836, 915, 920, 999, 1010, 1083, 1094, 1105, 1167, 1178, 1189, 1200, 1262, 1273, 1284, 1357, 1368, 1447, 1452, 1531, 1542, 1640, 1651, 1662, 1708, 1719, 1730, 1792, 1860, 1871, 1882, 1928, 1939, 1950
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2012, 2023, 2034, 2045, 2102, 2164, 2175, 2186, 2197, 2232, 2243, 2254, 2311, 2322, 2384, 2395, 2406, 2479, 2490, 2536, 2547, 2558, 2569, 2604, 2615, 2626, 2637, 2699, 2756, 2767, 2778, 2789, 2851, 2862, 2873, 2908, 2919, 2930, 2941, 3060, 3071, 3082, 3093, 3128, 3139, 3150, 3161, 3223, 3234, 3245, 3302, 3313, 3375, 3386, 3397, 3443, 3454, 3465, 3511, 3522, 3533, 3595, 3606, 3617, 3679, 3690, 3747, 3758, 3769, 3815, 3826, 3837, 3899, 3905, 3967, 3978, 3989, 4051, 4062, 4073
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Economic Justice "One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't waste a lot of time thinking about the people who built their pyramids, either" — Molly Ivins
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On WMD—Weapons of Mass Destruction "The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons. The Iraqi regime is building the facilities necessary to make more biological and chemical weapons." — George W. "War Criminal" Bush in the Rose Garden, 9-26-02, Dana Priest and Walter Pincus, "Bush Certainty on Iraq Arms Went Beyond Analysts' Views," Washington Post, 6-7-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bull pen." — 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 22, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 98% Age: 54% Rise: 7:53 PM Set: 7:30 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 22, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 98% Age: 54% Rise: 8:11 PM Set: 7:49 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 22, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 98% Age: 54% Rise: 7:45 PM Set: 7:26 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 22, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 99% Age: 54% Rise: 7:20 PM Set: 7:03 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Eclipsed Moonlight
Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
● 1295 B.C.E. - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.
● 57 B.C.E. - Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India)
● 606 - Sabinian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 896 - Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor
● 1071 - Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I
● 1281 - Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
● 1288 - Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
● 1300 - Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree
● 1349 - Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
● 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
● 1561 - William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais
● 1630 - Quadequine introduced popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
● 1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
● 1656 - New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
● 1680 - Death of Thomas Goodwin, 79, famed English Congregational Nonconformist preacher. His last words were: 'Ah, is this dying? How I have dreaded as an enemy this smiling friend.'
● 1732 - Birth of George Washington, Bridges Creek, Virginia. Rich white slave owner, military man, last U.S. President who could not tell a lie.
● 1744 - War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
● 1746 - French troops conquer Brussels
● 1746 - Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen
● 1774 - English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
● 1775 - 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at £10
● 1775 - Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
● 1784 - 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China", sails from New York
● 1805 - Birth of Sarah Flower Adams, English religious writer. Her most enduring verses today comprise the lyrics to the hymn, "Nearer, My God, To Thee."
● 1819 - By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
● 1821 - Former Spanish Florida, including un-ceded Seminole land, becomes U.S. territory.
● 1825 - Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
● 1828 - Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai
● 1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile
● 1836 - Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
● 1840 - Ferdinand August Bebel, early German socialist leader.
● 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexican.
● 1853 - The Washington University is founded in St. Louis as Eliot Seminary.
● 1854 - 1st meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan
● 1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded.
● 1855 - The U.S. Congress voted to appropriate $200,000 for continuance of the work on the Washington Monument. The next morning the resolution was tabled and it would be 21 years before the Congress would vote on funds again. Work was continued by the Know-Nothing Party in charge of the project.
● 1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
● 1859 - U.S. President Buchanan approved the Act of February 22, 1859, which incorporated the Washington National Monument Society "for the purpose of completing the erection now in progress of a great National Monument to the memory of Washington at the seat of the Federal Government."
● 1860 - Shoe-making workers of Lynn, MS, strike successfully for higher wages
● 1861 - On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
● 1862 - Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
● 1864 - 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona MS
● 1864 - Battle at Dalton, Georgia
● 1864 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee
● 1865 - Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
● 1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
● 1872 - 1st national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH)
● 1872 - Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus OH {It seems incredible that Columbus was a hot bed of third parties with two on the same day.}
● 1876 - Birth of Gertrude Bonnin (Red Bird), Sioux activist.
● 1876 - Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
● 1878 - Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)
● 1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
● 1882 - Serbian kingdom refounded.
● 1885 - The Washington Monument was officially dedicated in Washington, DC. It opened to the public in 1889.
● 1887 - Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
● 1888 - General Winn led the parade in San Francisco celebrating the passage of California's eight-hour law.
● 1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
● 1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who personified romantic rebellion, was born.
● 1894 - Marius Monfray dies in Lyons. French anarchist and trade unionist. In November 1886, he was given eight days in prison for organizing an illegal lottery (in support for a colleague on trial). His response, "Vive l'anarchie!," got him two years of prison time for "contempt of court."
● 1898 - Black postmaster lynched, his wife and three daughters shot, Lake City, South Carolina.
● 1900 - Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
● 1900 - Birth of Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996), writer about working-class women and justice seeker.
● 1900 - Hawaii became a US territory
● 1903 - Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
● 1904 - UK recognises the South Orkney Islands as part of Argentina, in 1908 claims them again.
● 1906 - Black evangelist William J. Seymour first arrived in Los Angeles and began holding revival meetings. The "Azusa Street Revival" later broke out under Seymour's leadership, in the Apostolic Faith Mission located at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles. It was one of the pioneering events in the history of 20th century American Pentecostalism.
● 1907 - 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
● 1909 - Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia. {This was the non-too subtle brainchild of Teddy "Walk Softly but carry a big stick" Roosevelt.}
● 1915 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
● 1917 - German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
● 1917 - The Russian Revolution begins with a wave of strikes and protests in Petrograd (St. Petersburg).
● 1918 - Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
● 1920 - In Emeryville, New York, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
● 1921 - Russia - Wave of strikes in Petrograd protesting factory conditions and the discipline of "war communism."
● 1922 - Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
● 1923 - The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.
● 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
● 1927 - Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
● 1928 - 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
● 1928 - Ku Klux Klan announces that, as of today, it would discard its masks and change its name to the "Knights of the Green Forest."
● 1932 - Purple Heart award re-instituted
● 1933 - Göring forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
● 1934 - Revolutionary leader Augusto Sandino is assassinated by Somoza's National Guard, Managua, Nicaragua.
● 1935 - Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
● 1939 - Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
● 1940 - Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
● 1940 - German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
● 1941 - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
● 1941 - German assault on El Agheila Libya
● 1941 - I G Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
● 1941 - Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
● 1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense collapses.
● 1943 - Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old activist at Munich University, is executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government. Scholl was one of several members of the White Rose Society executed.
● 1944 - American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
● 1944 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Heaven enters wherever Christ enters, even in this life.'
● 1945 - Arab League forms (Cairo)
● 1945 - British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
● 1945 - Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
● 1948 - Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
● 1948 - Communist coup in Czechoslovakia
● 1949 - Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.
● 1952 - U.S. Air Force F-84 crashes near Pusan, Korea, hitting a power plant, four homes, and a hospital. Fifteen dead, 20 injured.
● 1955 - American tennis star 'Little Mo' to quit; Maureen Connolly, one of America's greatest tennis players, is to retire from the sport after a horse-riding accident.
● 1955 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
● 1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
● 1958 - Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
● 1965 - USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
● 1966 - Barry Bondhus dumps 10 pounds of his own shit on draft files.
● 1966 - Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
● 1967 - 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
● 1969 - AFL-CIO Executive Council, meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla., dismisses the concept of "black capitalism" as "apartheid, antidemocratic nonsense."
● 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin wins a United States thoroughbred horse race making history as the first woman to do so.
● 1969 - One thousand students and 200 faculty rally protesting presidential appointment at Rice University.
● 1971 - Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
● 1972 - IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks; Five women and an army priest are killed in an IRA bomb attack on army premises in Hampshire.
● 1972 - Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
● 1972 - President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
● 1973 - Cold War: Following United States President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
● 1973 - Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 killing 108
● 1974 - 44-year-old Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
● 1974 - Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
● 1974 - Hearst 'ransom' provokes violence; Fighting breaks out around food distribution points in California as newspaper tycoon Randolph Hearst pays a $2 million ransom for his kidnapped daughter Patty.
● 1974 - Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit conference starts in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate.
● 1974 - Sam Lovejoy topples weather tower for proposed nuclear power plant, Montague, Massachusetts. First act of civil disobedience against nuclear power in U.S.
● 1974 - Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
● 1977 - Following a trade-union open meeting in Naples, Italy, luxury shops are plundered.
● 1978 - 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly TN
● 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
● 1980 - Afghanistan declares martial law
● 1980 - American Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'None of us are normal, even after we are Christians if we mean by that being perfect. What is possible, however, is for us to live in the fullness of life in the circle of who we are, constantly pressing on the border lines to try to take further steps.'
● 1980 - The United States ice hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".
● 1982 - NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful)
● 1983 - Four years after the Three-Mile-Island nuclear power plant meltdown, the Salem-One reactor in Massachusetts almost causes another disaster when its automatic-shutdown system fails. The circuit breakers are supposed to trigger control rods that shut down the reactor. They were designed to be oiled every six months, but an investigation reveals they have been lubricated only once in the past seven years -- and the wrong lubricant was used.
● 1983 - Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary
● 1983 - Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India
● 1984 - The U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed that the state of Alaska was the fastest growing state of the decade with an increase in population of 19.2 percent.
● 1986 - Filipino coup leaders tell Marcos to go; Two senior members of the government take refuge in the defence ministry building after demanding President Marcos step down following controversial elections.
● 1987 - Pop artist Andy Warhol died at age 58.
● 1989 - Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
● 1989 - In the apex of the Embarrassing Eighties, Bobby McFerron's "Don't Worry, Be Happy" wins the Grammy award for Song of the Year.
● 1989 - U.K. physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud."
● 1989 - US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
● 1991 - Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal
● 1992 - Ceasefire agreed in Croatia.
● 1993 - The U.N. Security Council approved creation of an international war crimes tribunal to punish those responsible for atrocities in the former Yugoslavia.
● 1994 - The U.S. Justice Department charged Aldrich Ames and his wife with selling national secrets to the Soviet Union. Ames was later convicted to life in prison. Ames' wife received a 5-year prison term.
● 1995 - Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
● 1995 - Britain and Northern Ireland announce peace plan.
● 1995 - Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
● 1996 - STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
● 1997 - Nearly 100,000 march in Paris against new anti-immigration bill sponsored by fascist far right.
● 1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly, the first cloned sheep to be born was born in July 1996.
● 2001 - A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court.
● 2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines, killing all 10 aboard.
● 2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
● 2002 - Police in San Diego arrested David Westerfield in connection with the disappearance of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. (Westerfield was later convicted of kidnapping and murder and sentenced to death.)
● 2005 - A Virginia man was charged with plotting with al-Qaida to kill President George W. Bush. (Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was later convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison.)
● 2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
● 2006 - Dushanbe synagogue demolished.
● 2006 - Insurgents destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off an unprecedented spasm of sectarian violence.
BIRTHS
● 1040 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (d. 1105)
● 1403 - Charles VII of France, King of France from 1422 to 1461 (d. 1461)
● 1440 - Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1457)
● 1500 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
● 1612 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
● 1705 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
● 1714 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
● 1732 - George Washington, First President of the United States (d. 1799)
● 1756 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
● 1778 - Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)
● 1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
● 1796 - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1838)
● 1796 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
● 1806 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
● 1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
● 1819 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
● 1825 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)
● 1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
● 1840 - August Bebel, German co-founder of the Social Democratic Party (d. 1913)
● 1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
● 1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
● 1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Boy Scouts (d. 1941)
● 1864 - Jules Renard, French author (d. 1910)
● 1874 - Bill Klem, Major League Baseball Hall of Fame umpire (d. 1951)
● 1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
● 1879 - Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)
● 1880 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
● 1882 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
● 1883 - Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (d. 1940)
● 1886 - Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)
● 1887 - Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
● 1888 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (d. 1961)
● 1889 - Olave Baden-Powell, English Chief Girl Guide (d. 1977)
● 1891 - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
● 1892 - David Dubinsky, Russian-born American labor leader (d. 1982)
● 1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)
● 1895 - Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician, founder of APRA party (d. 1979)
● 1897 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
● 1899 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
● 1899 - Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943)
● 1899 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
● 1900 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983)
● 1900 - Sean O'Faolain, Irish short-story writer and teacher (d. 1991)
● 1902 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
● 1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
● 1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)
● 1903 - Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
● 1904 - Peter Hurd, American painter, printmaker and illustrator (d. 1984)
● 1907 - Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
● 1907 - Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
● 1908 - Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
● 1911 - Bill Baker, baseball player (d. 2006)
● 1913 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (d. 2001)
● 1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
● 1917 - Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (d. 1973)
● 1918 - Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
● 1918 - Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (''Saturday Night Live'' & "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In")
● 1918 - Robert Wadlow, tallest person in history (d. 1940)
● 1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
● 1921 - Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
● 1921 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
● 1921 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
● 1922 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
● 1925 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)
● 1926 - Bud Yorkin, American film director
● 1926 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
● 1928 - Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer
● 1928 - Clarence 13X, founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths (d. 1969)
● 1928 - Paul Dooley, American actor
● 1929 - James Hong, Chinese American actor
● 1929 - Rebecca Schull, American actress
● 1930 - James McGarrell, American painter
● 1930 - Marni Nixon, American singer
● 1932 - Ted Kennedy, U.S. senator from Massachusetts
● 1933 - Bobby Smith, English footballer
● 1933 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent
● 1934 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager and Hall of Fame member
● 1936 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
● 1936 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
● 1938 - Ishmael Reed, American writer
● 1938 - Pierre Vallières, founding member of the Front de libération du Québec (d. 1995)
● 1940 - Billy Name, American photographer and Andy Warhol archivist
● 1940 - Johnson Mlambo, South African politician
● 1941 - Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic
● 1942 - Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
● 1943 - Horst Köhler, President of Germany
● 1943 - Terry Eagleton, British theorist
● 1944 - Jonathan Demme, American director
● 1944 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
● 1944 - Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
● 1945 - Leslie Charleson, American actress
● 1945 - Oliver, American singer (d. 2000)
● 1947 - Carol Burns, Australian actress
● 1948 - John Ashton, American actor
● 1949 - Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver, three-time F1 world champion and airline entrepreneur
● 1949 - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
● 1950 - Ellen Greene, American actress
● 1950 - Genesis P-Orridge, English performer, musician and artist
● 1950 - Julie Walters, English actress
● 1950 - Julius Erving, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1950 - Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
● 1950 - Miou-Miou, French actress
● 1952 - Bill Frist, U.S. senator from Tennessee
● 1953 - Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire)
● 1953 - Nigel Planer, British actor
● 1955 - Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1959 - Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
● 1959 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
● 1961 - Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
● 1962 - Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder
● 1962 - Les Wallace, Scottish darts player
● 1962 - Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006)
● 1963 - Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
● 1964 - Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rican tennis player
● 1965 - Pat LaFontaine, American ice hockey player and Hall of Fame member
● 1966 - Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor
● 1966 - Brian Greig, Australian politician
● 1966 - Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne (''Saturday Night Live'')
● 1967 - Alf Poier, Austrian comedian
● 1968 - Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
● 1968 - Jeri Ryan, American actress ("Shark," "Boston Public," and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine")
● 1968 - Shawn Graham, Canadian politician
● 1969 - Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
● 1969 - Byron Stroud, American bassist
● 1969 - Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
● 1969 - Thomas Jane, Actor
● 1970 - Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1971 - Jose Solano, Actor
● 1971 - Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer
● 1972 - Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater
● 1972 - Michael Chang, American tennis player
● 1973 - Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer, currently playing for Southampton F.C.
● 1973 - Einar Kristian Tveitå, Norwegian athlete
● 1973 - Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
● 1974 - Chris Moyles, English DJ
● 1974 - James Blunt, English musician
● 1975 - Drew Barrymore, American actress
● 1975 - Liza Huber, Actress (''Passions'')
● 1976 - Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player
● 1979 - Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
● 1979 - Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
● 1980 - Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer
● 1982 - Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
● 1982 - Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player
● 1986 - Miko Hughes, American actor
● 1986 - Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
● 1988 - Maiara Walsh, American actress
● 1988 - Przemysław Kazimierczak, Polish footballer
● 1989 - Anna Sundstrand, Swedish singer and model
● 1990 - Daniel E. Smith, Actor (''John Q.'')
DEATHS
● 965 - Odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
● 1071 - Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle) (b. c. 1055)
● 1111 - Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
● 1371 - King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)
● 1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)
● 1627 - Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
● 1674 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
● 1680 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c. 1640)
● 1690 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)
● 1727 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
● 1731 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
● 1732 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
● 1742 - Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
● 1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
● 1799 - Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
● 1816 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
● 1875 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
● 1875 - Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)
● 1890 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
● 1890 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
● 1892 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
● 1903 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
● 1904 - Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
● 1913 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (b. 1857)
● 1919 - Julia, Princess of Serbia (b. 1831)
● 1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
● 1923 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
● 1934 - Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
● 1939 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
● 1942 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
● 1943 - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)
● 1943 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1918)
● 1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1921)
● 1945 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
● 1960 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
● 1961 - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
● 1965 - Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
● 1968 - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
● 1973 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
● 1973 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
● 1974 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
● 1976 - Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
● 1976 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)
● 1980 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (b. 1886)
● 1982 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
● 1983 - Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
● 1983 - Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
● 1984 - Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)
● 1985 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)
● 1985 - Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
● 1985 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
● 1987 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
● 1994 - Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
● 1995 - Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
● 1997 - Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
● 1998 - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
● 1999 - Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
● 2000 - Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
● 2002 - Chuck Jones, American animator (b. 1912)
● 2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
● 2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)
● 2002 - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
● 2003 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
● 2004 - Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
● 2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
● 2005 - Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
● 2005 - Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
● 2005 - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)
● 2006 - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
● 2007 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
● 2007 - George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)
● 2007 - Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
● 2007 - Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch.
● Martyrs of Arabia
● St. Aristion
● St. Athanasius
● St. Baradates
● St. Elwin
● St. Isabel of France, Blessed (died 1270)
● St. Margaret of Cortona, Franciscan tertiary
● St. Maximian of Ravenna
● St. Papias
● St. Raynerius
● Sts. Thalassius & Limuneus
● Bl. John the Saxon
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 9 (Civil Date: February 22)
● Opening of the Relics of St. Innocent of Irkutsk.
● Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch.
● Hieromartyrs Marcellus, Bishop of Sicily, Philagrius, Bishop of Cyprus, and Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina.
● Martyr Peter Damascene.
● Saints Nicephorus and Gennadius, monks of Vazheozersk (Vologda).
● St. Pancratius, hieromonk of the Kiev Caves.
● Saints Aemilianus and Braccchio of Tours (Gaul).
● Repose of Maria, desert-dweller of Olonets (1860).
● The Scouting movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts celebrate this day as "World Thinking Day", "B.-P. day", or "Founder's Day", as it is the shared birthday of the Scouts' founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell and his wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide.
● British Commonwealth - Girl Guides Thinking Day (1857)
● Central African Republic - President's Birthday
● Egypt, Syria - Unity Day (1958)
● India - Mothers Day
● México - National Mourning Day (Francisco I Madero-1913)
● Qatar - Amir's Assumption of Amirship (1972)
● St. Lucia - Independence Day (1979)
● United States - Washington's Birthday (traditionally).
● Virgin Island - Donkey Races Day
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Brotherhood Day (1934) - ( Sunday )
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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