Day of the week in surrounding years:
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—MON—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—TUE—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—WED—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—THU—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—FRI—. . . .
1985,1991,. . . .,2002,2008—SAT—2013
1986,1992,1997,2003,. . . .—SUN—2014
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 23 is the 20th 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:
399, 410, 483, 494, 505, 567, 578, 589, 600, 662, 673, 684, 757, 768, 847, 852, 931, 942, 1015, 1026, 1037, 1099, 1110, 1121, 1132, 1194, 1205, 1216, 1289, 1300, 1379, 1384, 1463, 1474, 1547, 1558, 1569, 1583, 1594, 1605, 1667, 1678, 1689, 1735, 1746, 1757, 1803, 1814, 1887, 1898, 1944, 1955, 1966, 1977
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2039, 2050, 2061, 2107, 2118, 2129, 2191, 2259, 2270, 2281, 2327, 2338, 2349, 2411, 2422, 2433, 2495, 2501, 2563, 2574, 2585, 2631, 2642, 2653, 2710, 2721, 2783, 2794, 2805, 2878, 2884, 2889, 2935, 2946, 2957, 3003, 3014, 3025, 3087, 3098, 3155, 3166, 3177, 3250, 3256, 3261, 3307, 3318, 3329, 3459, 3470, 3476, 3481, 3527, 3538, 3549, 3611, 3622, 3628, 3633, 3701, 3774, 3780, 3785, 3842, 3848, 3853, 3910, 3921, 3994, 4000, 4005, 4084, 4089
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Education "Strong schools are as important to our future as a strong defense." — Edward M. Kennedy
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Clinton Bashing "I really don't think that I'm going to be able to cause anybody to take out Bill Clinton. But if I can, I hope their aim is good and I hope the bullet passes through Al Gore first. And if you want a trifecta, take Hillary, too." — Talk Show Host Rollye James, KLBJ Radio, Austin, Texas, 10-15-96. When a caller to the show praised a bumper-sticker reading, "Where is Lee Harvey Oswald now that we need him?" Rollye James enthusiastically agreed and another caller complained, prompting James's response above. Gore, James added, is "more dangerous" than Clinton, because he "really believes in all these socialistic programs." As a result of this, KLBJ fired James, who now has a syndicated show. Michael King, "It Was No Joking Matter," Austin American-Statesman editorial, 10-26-96. {The quotes for the next four days is a letter in response to this editorial.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "Billy Almon has all of his in-law and outlaws here this afternoon." — 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 23, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 94% Age: 58% Rise: 8:54 PM Set: 7:53 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 23, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 95% Age: 57% Rise: 9:09 PM Set: 8:14 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 23, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 95% Age: 57% Rise: 8:50 PM Set: 7:46 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 23, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 95% Age: 57% Rise: 8:25 PM Set: 7:23 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Stereo Space Station
Credit: STS-122, NASA - Stereo Anaglyph: Patrick Vantuyne
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 155 - Martyrdom of Polycarp, an early Church Father who was a disciple of the Apostle John. Arrested at age 86, Polycarp was burned at the stake for refusing to deny the Christian faith.
● 303 - Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
● 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type.
● 1574 - France begins 5th Holy War against Huguenots (French Protestants)
● 1660 - Charles XI becomes King of Sweden.
● 1668 - Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued
● 1672 - Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
● 1685 - Composer George Frideric Handel was born in Germany.
● 1689 - Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England
● 1744 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'There is a God in heaven who over-rules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.'
● 1775 - Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'How great and honorable is the privilege of a true believer! That he has neither wisdom nor strength in himself is no disadvantage, for he is connected with infinite wisdom and almighty power.
● 1775 - Patrick Henry addresses a Virginia convention, uttering the admonition "Give me liberty, or give me death."
● 1778 - American Revolution: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
● 1792 - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
● 1797 - French Forces launch a failed invasion of Britain.
● 1813 - 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham MA
● 1820 - Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
● 1821 - College of Apothecaries organized in Philadelphia; 1st US pharmacy college
● 1822 - Boston is incorporated as a city
● 1830 - Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami University, is incorporated.
● 1834 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in his journal: 'Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?'
● 1836 - The Siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
● 1839 - In Boston, MA, William F. Harnden organized the first express service between Boston and New York City. It was the first express service in the U.S.
● 1846 - Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
● 1847 - Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista - In Mexico, American troops defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
● 1848 - John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, died at age 80 in Washington, D.C., two days after suffering a stroke on the floor of the House of Representatives.
● 1852 - Fourteen hundred ton paddle-wheel steamer HMS Birkenhead runs aground on rocks near the Cape of Good Hope. As the ship began to sink, soldiers were ordered to stand in ranks on deck while women and children were loaded into lifeboats. Some 200 were saved by lifeboats, and another 30-40 were pulled from the wreckage of boat, but 420 others died, almost all soldiers. This incident established the now traditional concepts of "women and children first" and "going down with the ship."
● 1854 - The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
● 1861 - By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
● 1861 - Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
● 1861 - President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.
● 1866 - Lebanon Valley College is founded in Annville, Pennsylvania.
● 1868 - Birth of black nationalist W.E.B. DuBois, the American sociologist who co-founded the N.A.A.C.P., in Great Barrington, Mass.
● 1869 - Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
● 1870 - Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
● 1874 - Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called "sphairistike," now more commonly called lawn tennis.
● 1875 - J. Palisa discovered asteroid #143 (aka Adria).
● 1883 - Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.
● 1883 - American Anti-Vivisection Society formed in Pennsylvania.
● 1883 - Belgium - In Ganshoren, a bomb being carried by the French anarchists Antoine Cyvoct and Paul Metayer, accidentally explodes. Metayer died the following day, refusing to reveal anything to the police about his activities. Cyvoct was extradited to France to be tried for an attack in Lyon.
● 1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum.
● 1886 - London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad
● 1887 - Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco
● 1887 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
● 1892 - 1st college student government established, Bryn Mawr PA
● 1893 - Leon-Jules Leauthier, young anarchist shoemaker, sentenced to life in prison for stabbing and seriously wounding minister of Serbia in Paris.
● 1893 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.
● 1895 - William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
● 1898 - Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Captain Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
● 1899 - Birth of Erich Kestner (1899-1974). German satirist/poet/novelist, whose military experiences made him pacifist and opponent of totalitarian systems.
● 1900 - In South Africa the Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
● 1900 - Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in San Francisco Bay
● 1903 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity.”
● 1904 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
● 1904 - William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Chronicle begins publishing articles on the menace of Japanese laborers, leading to a resolution of the California Legislature that action be taken against their immigration.
● 1905 - Chicago, Illinois attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
● 1909 - Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
● 1909 - The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
● 1911 - Commanchee chieftain Quanah Parker dies.
● 1915 - Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
● 1915 - Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
● 1916 - Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
● 1916 - French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
● 1917 - First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
● 1918 - First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory.
● 1919 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
● 1921 - 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York NY from San Francisco CA
● 1923 - German Republic day with laws against worker
● 1923 - Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
● 1924 - Egyptian textile strikers seize Alexandria.
● 1927 - The Federal Radio Commission began assigning frequencies, hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters. On July 1, 1934 the name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
● 1929 - Arvo Vaara sentenced to six months in prison for article on illness of King of England.
● 1934 - Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.
● 1936 - 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake NY
● 1936 - Puerto Rican nationals assassinate Puerto Rico's U.S. police chief, E. Francic Riggs.
● 1940 - World War II: Soviet Union troops conquer Lasi Island.
● 1941 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
● 1942 - The first shelling of the U.S. mainland during World War II occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif.
● 1943 - General-Major Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
● 1943 - German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
● 1944 - forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia
● 1945 - 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
● 1945 - Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
● 1945 - Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr
● 1945 - World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań, city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
● 1945 - World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten US Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize.
● 1945 - World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by American forces.
● 1945 - World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.
● 1945 - World War II: The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is bombed by Allied forces (re-opened 1975).
● 1947 - General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170 million in aid for European Jews
● 1947 - International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
● 1954 - Syrian army drives out President Adib el-Shishakli
● 1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
● 1955 - Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1955 - First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
● 1956 - 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
● 1956 - In a cosmic event known as the great flare, the Earth was bombarded with a burst of protons and other nuclei from a solar flare.
● 1956 - Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
● 1957 - The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.
● 1958 - Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina
● 1958 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
● 1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
● 1959 - Macmillan and Khrushchev talk peace; On his ten-day visit to the Soviet Union, the British Prime Minister forges cultural and trade links between East and West.
● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1963 - Shocking wardens could be legal; Peter Hicks, a farmer who electrified his car to ward off traffic wardens in London's Covent Garden may be able to evade the law.
● 1965 - Comedian Stan Laurel died at age 74.
● 1966 - Aldo Moro forms Italian government
● 1966 - Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
● 1966 - The Bitar government in Syria was ended with a military coup.
● 1967 - 25th amendment (Presidential succession) declared ratified
● 1967 - US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
● 1969 - Nayif Hawatimah forms Democratic People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
● 1970 - Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
● 1970 - In a costume action by the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front, his Holiness Pope Morris the First goes to First Congregational Church and tacks an invoice for 90 billion dollars on the door. The amount represents 10,000 dollars for each of the nine million known executions of gay people at the instigation of clergy.
● 1970 - The Holy Eucharist was distributed by women for the first time in a Roman Catholic service.
● 1971 - Lt. William Calley confesses he directed a mass execution of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, Viet Nam, and implicates his commanding officer, Capt. Ernest L. Medina, who he says issued the orders to murder. He got his wrists slapped and was sent home; Medina was never charged.
● 1972 - Angela Davis is released from prison (after 16 months). She goes on trial five days later.
● 1972 - Hijackers surrender and free Lufthansa crew; Palestinian hijackers who took over a Lufthansa jet two days ago release the crew at an airfield in the Yemen.
● 1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
● 1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
● 1979 - Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
● 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared that Iran's new parliament would have to decide the fate of the hostages taken on November 4, 1979, at the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
● 1980 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
● 1981 - "White Paper" on El Salvador issued by U.S. State Department defending U.S. intervention in support of death squad government.
● 1981 - 23-F, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
● 1982 - Principality of Wales becomes a nuclear-free zone.
● 1983 - The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.
● 1983 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
● 1985 - US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General
● 1987 - Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
● 1987 - Supernova 1987A in Large Magellanic Cloud 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
● 1990 - Sandanistas lose election after years of U.S. intervention, covert war, and economic sabotage.
● 1991 - During the Persian Gulf War, ground forces crossed the border of Saudi Arabia into the country of Iraq. Less than four days later the war was over due to the surrender or withdraw of Iraqi forces.
● 1991 - In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
● 1992 - The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia.
● 1995 - Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi
● 1997 - A large fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir.
● 1997 - Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian teacher, opened fire on the 86th-floor observation deck of New York City's Empire State Building. He killed one person and wounded six more before killing himself.
● 1997 - Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
● 1998 - A U.N.-brokered deal forces the U.S. to reluctantly give up plans for a new series of military strikes against Iraq.
● 1998 - Kissimmee Tornado Outbreak: Tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
● 1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
● 1998 - Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand
● 1999 - An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
● 1999 - In Ankara, Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan was charged with treason. The prosecutors were seeking the death penalty for the Kurdish rebel leader.
● 1999 - White supremacict John William King was found guilty of kidnapping and murdering James Byrd Jr. Byrd was dragged behind a truck for two miles on a country road in Texas.
● 2004 - Education Secretary Rod Paige likened the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, to a "terrorist organization" during a private White House meeting with governors.
● 2004 - The Army canceled its Comanche helicopter program after sinking $6.9 billion into it over 21 years.
● 2005 - Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President visits Slovakia; Bush and Putin are in attendance.
● 2005 - The New York, NY, city medical examiner's office annouced that it had exhausted all efforts to identify the remains of the people killed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, due to the limits of DNA technology. About 1,600 people had been identified leaving more than 1,100 unidentified.
● 2005 - Vote of the controversial French law on colonialism, repealed start of 2006.
● 2006 - Dubai Ports World agrees to postpone its plans to take over management of six U.S. ports after the proposal ignited harsh bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.
● 2007 - A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, United Kingdom, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
● 2007 - Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
BIRTHS
● 1417 - Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
● 1583 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (d. 1656)
● 1633 - Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703)
● 1646 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
● 1648 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
● 1680 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
● 1685 - Georg Friedrich Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)
● 1688 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
● 1723 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
● 1729 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d. 1809)
● 1743 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
● 1809 - William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (d. 1868)
● 1817 - George Frederick Watts, English painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
● 1840 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (d. 1921)
● 1842 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)
● 1850 - César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
● 1868 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)
● 1873 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
● 1874 - Konstantin Päts, Estonian president (d. 1956)
● 1878 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
● 1879 - Norman Lindsay, Australian artist and novelist (d. 1969)
● 1883 - Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (d. 1969)
● 1883 - Victor Fleming, American director (d. 1949)
● 1883(81? NYT) - Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (d. 1969)
● 1889 - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
● 1889 - Victor Fleming, American director (d. 1949)
● 1891 - Harold Horder, Australian Rugby League player (d. 1978)
● 1899 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
● 1899 - Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981)
● 1901 - Edgar Ende, German painter (d. 1965)
● 1904 - Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy (d. 1982)
● 1904 - Terence Fisher, English film director (d. 1980)
● 1904 - William L. Shirer, American historian (d. 1993)
● 1908 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
● 1914 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
● 1915 - Jon Hall, American actor (d. 1979)
● 1915 - Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and Pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima (d. 2007)
● 1918 - Richard G. Butler, American fascist (d. 2004)
● 1920 - Paul Gérin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician
● 1923 - Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician
● 1924 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
● 1924 - Claude Sautet, French film director (d. 2000)
● 1928 - Hans Herrmann, German race car driver
● 1928 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)
● 1931 - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (d. 2004)
● 1932 - Majel Barrett, American actress ("Star Trek" TV and movie series)
● 1937 - Tom Osborne, American football coach and politician
● 1938 - Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)
● 1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor
● 1941 - Ron Hunt, baseball player
● 1943 - Fred Biletnikoff, American football player, coach and Hall of Fame member
● 1944 - Bernard Cornwell, English historical novelist
● 1944 - John Sandford, Author
● 1944 - Johnny Winter, American musician
● 1945 - Allan Boesak, South African activist
● 1946 - Rusty Young, American country-rock guitarist (Poco)
● 1948 - Doug Moench, American comic book writer
● 1949 - Marc Garneau, French Canadian astronaut
● 1950 - Maxi, Irish singer and radio personality
● 1951 - Ed Jones, American football player
● 1951 - Patricia Richardson, American actress (''Home Improvement'')
● 1952 - Brad Whitford, American musician (Aerosmith)
● 1953 - Satoru Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
● 1954 - Howard Jones, Rock singer
● 1954 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
● 1955 - Howard Jones, British pop singer
● 1955 - Tom Bodett, American voice actor, radio personality, and writer
● 1958 - David Sylvian, English singer, musician and composer (Japan, Nine Horses)
● 1958 - Tony Barrell, English writer and journalist
● 1959 - Richard Dodds, British field hockey player
● 1960 - Alan Griffin, Australian politician and member for Bruce in the House of Representatives
● 1960 - Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan
● 1961 - Kelly Hansen, American drummer (Summer Lights)
● 1962 - Michael Wilton, American musician (Queensrÿche)
● 1963 - Bobby Bonilla, former baseball player
● 1963 - Radosław Sikorski, Polish politician
● 1964 - Dusty Drake, Country singer
● 1964 - John Norum, Norwegian guitarist (Europe)
● 1965 - Helena Suková, former Czech tennis player
● 1965 - Kristin Davis, American actress (''Sex and the City'')
● 1965 - Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
● 1965 - Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
● 1968 - Justin Bell, British racing driver
● 1968 - Marc Price, Actor
● 1969 - Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
● 1970 - Marie-Josée Croze, French Canadian actress
● 1970 - Niecy Nash, American actress
● 1971 - Don Maxwell, Canadian cricketer
● 1971 - Jeff Beres, Rock musician (Sister Hazel)
● 1971 - Jeong Chan, South Korean actor
● 1971 - Melinda Messenger, English television presenter
● 1972 - Rondell White, American baseball player
● 1972 - Steve Holy, American country singer
● 1973 - André Tanneberger, German DJ
● 1973 - Jack Case, American artist
● 1973 - Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
● 1974 - Herschelle Gibbs, South African cricketer
● 1974 - Jaime Villarreal, Mexican musician
● 1974 - Leko, American DJ
● 1975 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor
● 1975 - Robert Lopez, American composer
● 1976 - Kelly Macdonald, British actress
● 1977 - Kristina Šmigun, Estonian cross-country skier
● 1978 - Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
● 1978 - René Pérez, Puerto Rican musician (Calle 13)
● 1979 - D-Roc, American rapper (Ying Yang Twins)
● 1981 - Charles Tillman, American football player
● 1981 - Gareth Barry, English footballer
● 1982 - Austin Ryan Fuentes, American heir
● 1983 - Emily Blunt, British actress
● 1983 - Mido, Egyptian footballer
● 1983 - Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
● 1986 - Holly Brook, American musician
● 1986 - Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese idol, (member of KAT-TUN)
● 1989 - Evan Bates, American ice dancer
● 1994 - Dakota Fanning, American child actress
DEATHS
● 943 - Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)
● 1011 - Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz
● 1100 - Emperor Zhezong of China (b. 1076)
● 1270 - Saint Isabel of France, daughter of Louis VIII of France (b. 1225)
● 1447 - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
● 1447 - Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
● 1464 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (b. 1427)
● 1526 - Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies
● 1554 - Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician (executed) (b. c. 1515)
● 1572 - Pierre Certon, French composer
● 1603 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
● 1669 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b. 1600)
● 1704 - Georg Muffat, French composer (b. 1653)
● 1730 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
● 1766 - Stanislaw Leszczynski, King of Poland (b. 1677)
● 1781 - George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (bc. 1716)
● 1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
● 1800 - Joseph Warton, English literary critic (b. 1722)
● 1821 - John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
● 1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
● 1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
● 1859 - Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812)
● 1879 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
● 1897 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (b. 1828)
● 1908 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
● 1922 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
● 1930 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)
● 1931 - Nellie Melba, Australian opera soprano (b. 1861)
● 1934 - Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
● 1944 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (b. 1863)
● 1946 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885)
● 1948 - John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (b. 1866)
● 1955 - Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
● 1957 - Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918)
● 1960 - Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (b. 1898)
● 1965 - Stan Laurel, British born actor and comedian (b. 1890)
● 1969 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
● 1973 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
● 1974 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
● 1976 - LS Lowry, English artist (b. 1887)
● 1979 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)
● 1983 - Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)
● 1990 - José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
● 1990 - Laura Palmer, Prom queen in home town of Twin Peaks (b. 1990)
● 1992 - Markos Vafiadis, Greek politician (b. 1906)
● 1995 - James Herriot, English writer (b. 1916)
● 1995 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1942)
● 1997 - Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (b. 1945)
● 1999 - Carlos Hathcock, USMC Sniper, 93 Confirmed Kills (b. 1942)
● 2000 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
● 2000 - Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
● 2001 - Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
● 2003 - Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (b. 1955)
● 2003 - Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)
● 2004 - Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)
● 2004 - Carl Liscombe, Canadian hockey player (b. 1915)
● 2004 - Don Cornell, American singer (b. 1919)
● 2004 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)
● 2004 - Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)
● 2006 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)
● 2006 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
● 2007 - John Ritchie, British footballer (b. 1941)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexander Akimetes
● St. Boswell
● St. Cerneuf
● St. Dositheus
● St. Felix of Brescia
● St. Florentius
● St. Jurmin
● St. Lazarus Zographos (d. 867)
● St. Martha
● St. Medrald
● St. Milburga
● St. Ordonius
● St. Peter Damian
● St. Polycarp of Smyrna (died 155)
● St. Romana
● St. Serenus the Gardener
● Martyrs of Sirmium
● St. Willigis
● St. Zebinus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 10 (Civil Date: February 23)
● Hieromartyr Charalampus, Bishop of Magnesia in Thessaly, and Martyrs Porphyrius and Baptus.
● Martyrs Ennatha, Valentina, and Paula of Palestine.
● St. Prochorus of the Kiev Caves.
● Saints Joachim, Luke, Germanus, Arcadius, Gregory, Martyrius, Anthony, Basil and Symeon, Bishops of Novgorod.
● St. Anna, wife of Yaroslav I.
● St. Longinus, monk of Koryazhemsk (Vologda).
● New-Martyr Anatole, Metropolitan of Odessa (1938).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Charalampus (another) and three women companions.
● St. Anastasius, Archbishop of Jerusalem.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Areovindus.
● Hieromartyr Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste.
● St. Demetrius, monk, wonderworker of Priluki (Vologda).
● St. Vsevelod (in holy baptism Gabriel), wonderworker of Pskov.
● St. Theodora, wife of Emperor Theophilus the Iconoclast.
● New-Martyr George of Serbia.
● St. George, abbot in Serbia.
● Repose of Archbishop Simon of Shanghai and Peking (1933).
● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Peter Damian, bishop of Ostia/confessor/doctor
● Lutheran:
● St. Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, martyr
● Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, missionary
● Anglican:
● St. Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, martyr
● Roman Empire - Terminalia held in honor of Terminus in some modern circles known as Andrewary.
● Brunei - National Day.
● Guyana - Mashramani-Republic Day.
● Italy - Feast of the Incappucciati.
● Russia - Defender of the Fatherland Day (formerly Red Army Day or Day of Soviet Army and Navy).
● US - Iwo Jima Day (1945)
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Brotherhood Day (1934) - ( Sunday )
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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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