Day of the week in surrounding years:
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—MON—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—TUE—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—WED—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—THU—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—FRI—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—SAT—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—SUN—. . . .
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 25 is the 22nd possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 112 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 24th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
347, 358, 369, 380, 442, 453, 464, 537, 548, 627, 632, 711, 722, 795, 806, 817, 879, 890, 901, 912, 974, 985, 996, 1069, 1080, 1159, 1164, 1243, 1254, 1327, 1338, 1349, 1411, 1422, 1433, 1444, 1506, 1517, 1528, 1626, 1632, 1637, 1705, 1784, 1789, 1846, 1852, 1857, 1903, 1914, 1925, 1998, 2004
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2009, 2088, 2093, 2099, 2150, 2156, 2161, 2218, 2224, 2229, 2376, 2381, 2460, 2465, 2528, 2533, 2601, 2680, 2685, 2691, 2742, 2748, 2753, 2832, 2837, 2843, 2905, 2984, 2995, 3052, 3057, 3120, 3125, 3204, 3215, 3288, 3299, 3356, 3367, 3424, 3429, 3435, 3576, 3587, 3660, 3671, 3682, 3728, 3739, 3801, 3807, 3880, 3891, 3948, 3953, 3959, 4032, 4043, 4054
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Equality "From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert you neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous at your own." — Carl Schurz
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bashing the Clintons ". . .
Rollye James had become a problem, not because of her flippantly satirical discussion of an extremely anti-Clinton bumper sticker, but because of her thinly-veiled on-air support of Republican candidates; husband, John Doggett (who testified against Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearings), had been getting national television coverage as a reporter and local radio exposure guest-hosting shows on a competing Austin station.
. . ." — Cliff Sparks, Travis County Republican Party Executive Committeeman. Letters, Austin American-Statesman, 11-1-96. {Letter was in response to editorial quote February 23 blog entry.}—Part 2 of 4 {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 "That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres—two doubles and a triple." — 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 25, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 82% Age: 64% Rise: 10:56 PM Set: 8:40 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 25, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 83% Age: 64% Rise: 11:06 PM Set: 9:07 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 25, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 83% Age: 64% Rise: 10:57 PM Set: 8:28 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 25, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 83% Age: 63% Rise: 10:34 PM Set: 8:03 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Dawn of the Large Hadron Collider
Credit & Copyright: Maximilien Brice, CERN
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
● 1095 - Council of Rockingham bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
● 1358 - Dalmatië flees Venice
● 1497 - Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France
● 1502 - Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine
● 1540 - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola México
● 1570 - Queen Elizabeth I of England was excommunicated by Pope Pius V for her severe persecution of Roman Catholics in England and absolves her subjects from allegiance. (It was the last such judgment made against a reigning monarch by any pope.)
● 1605 - Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen
● 1623 - Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts
● 1634 - Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
● 1643 - Massacre of friendly Indians by Dutch Gov. Kiert of New York and soldiers of Staten Island; 120 Wecquaesgeek men, women and children asleep in their wigwams die. Eyewitness David P. deVries wrote - "...about midnight I heard a great shrieking, and I ran to the ramparts of the fort...Saw nothing but firing, and heard the shrieks of the savages murdered in their sleep. When it was day the soldiers returned to the fort, having massacred or murdered 80 Indians, and considering they had done a deed of Roman valor, in murdering so many in their sleep; where infants were torn from mother's breasts, and hacked to pieces in the presence of the parents, and the pieces thrown into the fire and in the water, and other sucklings, being bound top small boards, were cut, stuck, pierced, and miserably massacred in a manner to move a heart of stone...Some came to our people in the country with their hands, some with their legs cut off, and some holding their entrails in their arms, and others had such horrible cuts and gashes, that worse than they were could never happen."
● 1667 - Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River
● 1738 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'God, I find, has a people everywhere; Christ has a flock, though but a little flock, in all places.'
● 1746 - Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen
● 1778 - Birth of Jose de San Martin, liberator of Argentina, Chile, Peru.
● 1791 - 1st Bank of US chartered
● 1793 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States in his home.
● 1797 - Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 French surrender two days after the Last Invasion of Britain
● 1799 - 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
● 1799 - Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
● 1803 - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
● 1804 - Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus
● 1824 - The Baptist General Tract Society was organized in Washington, D.C. In 1826 the society was moved to Philadelphia, and by 1840, the organization had issued over 3.5 million copies of 162 different tracts.
● 1825 - Robert Owen announces New Harmony utopian plan in Indiana to government dignitaries in the Hall of the U.S. House of Representatives.
● 1828 - John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House
● 1836 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.
● 1836 - US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth.
● 1837 - First U.S. electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport.
● 1839 - Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay FL, to the West
● 1847 - State University of Iowa is approved
● 1859 - Dan Sickles becomes first man in the U.S. to use now largely discarded plea of insanity to prove innocence.
● 1862 - Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
● 1862 - Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln
● 1863 - Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
● 1870 - Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
● 1874 - Skokomish reservation established (near Shelton, Wash.).
● 1875 - Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
● 1879 - Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
● 1885 - US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
● 1888 - John Foster Dulles, the American Secretary of State from 1953-1959, was born.
● 1892 - Birth of Andre Soudy (1892-1913), Beaugency, Loiret. French anarchist illegalist, member of the Bonnot Gang. Soudy first met Bonnot and other gang members at the anarchist Romainville colony. In Mar. 1912, Soudy took part in an attack in which two people were killed. He was captured five days later, sentenced to death the following February, and guillotined with Callemin and Monier in April 1913.
● 1896 - Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea
● 1902 - Birth of Oscar Cullmann, German New Testament scholar. Best known for pioneering a "salvation history" view of the NT, Cullmann's two best-known publications were "Christ and Time" (1946) and "Christology of the New Testament" (1959).
● 1902 - The mill manager of the George A. Whiting Paper Company in Plover, Wisconsin, discharges a shipping clerk who is trying to organize workers in the plant. His outraged co-workers hold a protest rally at which they form a lodge of the United Brotherhood of Paper Makers and demand that the company reinstate the clerk. When nothing happens, 25 union men shut down the plant and walk out, followed by about 20 women employed in the finishing room. By April, strikes disrupt plants up and down the Wisconsin River Valley. The American Federation of Labor and the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor send support, but the companies stand firm and, by the end of April, defeat the strikers.
● 1905 - Netherlands Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
● 1907 - US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
● 1908 - 1st tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
● 1910 - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
● 1912 - Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
● 1913 - British feminist Emmeline Pankhurst accused in Surrey bombing plot.
● 1913 - IWW silk workers strike begins in Paterson, New Jersey.
● 1913 - Pioneer missionary Eduard L. Arndt first arrived in Shanghai, China, 10 months after having founded the Evangelical Lutheran Missions for China. He afterward established missions and schools in the Hankow territory, and translated hymns and sermons into Chinese. (In 1917 the Missouri Synod took over the ELMS mission.)
● 1913 - The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing a graduated income tax, is ratified.
● 1915 - Clydeside armament workers strike for more pay.
● 1916 - German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
● 1919 - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
● 1919 - Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
● 1919 - Released conscientious objectors return pay for non-combatant service to U.S. government.
● 1919 - Russia - The Cheka closes down the newspaper "Vsegda Vpered." This marks a return to despotic rule by Bolsheviks. In January the Mensheviks had been "legalized" and allowed to publish this paper in Moscow, but the short-lived era of relative freedom is no more.
● 1920 - Arrest of Andrea Salsedo and Roberto Elia, anarchist editors, for "interrogation" about the anarchist attacks in the U.S. over the previous year. Andrea Salsedo was suicided two months later, defenestrated from the 14th floor of the Department of Justice where he was being questioned.
● 1921 - Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
● 1923 - Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 Marks
● 1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska.
● 1925 - The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established.
● 1926 - Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain
● 1926 - Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords
● 1927 - Gdansk & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
● 1928 - Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
● 1930 - Check photographing device patented
● 1932 - Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
● 1932 - British volunteers Herbert Gray, Maude Royden, and Dick Sheppard organize nonviolent "Peace Army" to attempt to intervene in fighting in China.
● 1932 - Pierre Lariviere (1884?-1932) dies. French anarchist, painter, and caricaturist.
● 1933 - The USS Ranger is launched, becoming the first custom-built aircraft carrier.
● 1938 - British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
● 1939 - 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
● 1941 - February strike: First general & physical protest against Nazi anti-Jewish behaviour & -laws (Amsterdam)
● 1943 - Beatles guitarist George Harrison was born in Liverpool, England.
● 1943 - Holocaust: 158 Norwegian Jews were deported from Norway to death camp Auschwitz by the vessel Gutenland. Altogether the total number of Jews deported from Norway was 767. Of these 30 survived.
● 1943 - Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
● 1944 - US 1st Army completes invasion plan
● 1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
● 1945 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
● 1948 - The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends, C. Gottwald becomes premier.
● 1949 - WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
● 1954 - Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
● 1956 - In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces the actions of Joseph Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference.
● 1957 - Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
● 1957 - U.S. Supreme Court voids Michigan law banning sale of books that might corrupt youth.
● 1962 - India Congress Party wins elections
● 1962 - Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
● 1964 - Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
● 1964 - Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida, and is crowned the heavyweight champion of the world.
● 1966 - Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
● 1968 - 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
● 1968 - Discussing the war capacity of a country that had been fighting for 23 years and had just staged the massive Tet Offensive, U.S. General William C. Westmoreland states {lies} - "I do not believe Hanoi can hold up under a long war."
● 1968 - Makarios re-elected President of Cyprus
● 1969 - Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.
● 1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
● 1970 - Isla Vista, Santa Barbara Bank of America burning.
● 1971 - The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
● 1972 - Miners call off crippling coal strike; Miners vote overwhelmingly in favour of a pay settlement after a seven-week strike that has seriously affected power supply.
● 1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
● 1975 - Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad dies. {Idiocy continues unabated.}
● 1977 - Fire aboard the Wawaiin Patriot, in the northern Pacific, results in a 99,000 ton oil spill.
● 1977 - Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
● 1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
● 1980 - The Suriname government ( elected after gaining independance from the Netherlands in 1975 ) was overthrown by a military coup which was initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship of the coast of the nations capital; Paramaribo
● 1981 - Apple Computer's first CEO Michael Scott fired 40 employees from the Apple II group personally, in belief that they were redundant. Following these actions, he was moved to position of Vice Chairman.
● 1981 - L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
● 1981 - Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
● 1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1982 - Parents can stop school beatings; The European Court of Human Rights rules corporal punishment in Britain's schools is a violation of the Human Rights Convention.
● 1983 - Playwright Tennessee Williams was found dead in his New York hotel suite at age 71.
● 1984 - Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
● 1986 - EDSA Revolution: Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president. Mass demonstrations overthrow U.S.-backed Marcos dictatorship, Manila, Philippines. Marcos and wife Imelda flee for Hawaii, leaving lots of shoes but taking billions in money stolen from the Filipino people over 23 years.
● 1986 - Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
● 1986 - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
● 1987 - US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
● 1988 - South Korea adopts constitution
● 1989 - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
● 1989 - Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
● 1990 - Nicaraguan voters elect opponent Violetta Chamorro, dump Sandinistas, replace Daniel Ortega as president. Vote was in part a consequence of Nicaraguans' realization that re-electing Sandanistas would mean ongoing war with the United States.
● 1991 - Agreement to dissolve Warsaw Pact is signed.
● 1991 - Birmingham Six on verge of freedom; After 17 years in prison, the Birmingham Six may soon be released after government law officers say their convictions cannot be considered safe.
● 1991 - Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Marines and Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
● 1992 - Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
● 1994 - Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli settler Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opens fire with an assault rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. Subsequent rioting kills 26 more Palestinians and 9 Israelis. For some reason, Israeli government does not rush to declare martial law and bulldoze Jewish homes in response.
● 1994 - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
● 1995 - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
● 1995 - Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
● 1999 - In Moscow, China's Prime Minister Zhu Rongji and Russia's President Boris Yeltsin discussed trade and other issues.
● 1999 - William King was sentenced to death for the racial murder of James Byrd Jr in Jasper, TX. Two other men charged were later convicted for their involvement.
● 2000 - In Albany, NY, a jury acquitted four New York City police officers of second-degree murder and lesser charges in the February 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo.
● 2000 - The Swedish political party New Democracy is declared financially bankrupt.
● 2002 - Former NBA star Jayson Williams was charged in the shooting death of a limousine driver. (Williams was later acquitted of manslaughter, but the jury deadlocked on another; prosecutors are seeking a retrial.)
● 2005 - Dennis Rader was arrested for the BTK serial killings that terrorized Wichita, Kan. (He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 life prison terms.)
● 2006 - The world's estimated population reaches 6.5 billion.
BIRTHS
● 1398 - Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)
● 1591 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)
● 1643 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
● 1649 - Johann Philipp Krieger, German composer (d. 1725)
● 1663 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)
● 1682 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
● 1692 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)
● 1707 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer (d. 1793)
● 1714 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
● 1714 - Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet, British admiral (d. 1782)
● 1725 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (d. 1798)
● 1752 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
● 1778 - José de San Martín, Argentine general and liberator of South America (d. 1850)
● 1841 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1919)
● 1842 - Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
● 1845 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918)
● 1855 - Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet (d. 1886)
● 1855 - George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (d. 1912)
● 1860 - Sir William Ashley, economic historian (d. 1927)
● 1866 - Benedetto Croce, Italian historian, humanist, and philosopher (d. 1952)
● 1873 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
● 1877 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935)
● 1883 - Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)
● 1888 - John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State (1953-59) (d. 1959)
● 1888 - John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 1959)
● 1889 - Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator (d. 1982)
● 1890 - Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965)
● 1890 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
● 1894 - Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1969)
● 1895 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (d. 1984)
● 1895 - Marcel Paul Pagnol, French writer and film producer/director (d. 1974)
● 1901 - Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)
● 1903 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
● 1908 - Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist (d. 2001)
● 1910 - Millicent Fenwick, American fashion editor and politician (d. 1992)
● 1912 - Brenda Joyce, American actress
● 1913 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (d. 1988)
● 1913 - Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
● 1914 - John Arlott, English cricket journalist (d. 1991)
● 1916 - Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991)
● 1917 - Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993)
● 1918 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
● 1918 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
● 1918 - Rena Kyriakou, Greek pianist (d. 1994)
● 1919 - Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist
● 1919 - Monte Irvin, Baseball hall-of-famer
● 1920 - Gérard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005)
● 1921 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)
● 1925 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)
● 1927 - Ralph Stanley, American musician
● 1928 - Larry Gelbart, American comedy writer
● 1929 - Christopher George, American actor (d. 1983)
● 1929 - Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (d. 2007)
● 1932 - Faron Young, American singer (d. 1996)
● 1932 - Tony Brooks, English race car driver
● 1934 - Bernard Bresslaw, English actor (d. 1993)
● 1934 - Tony Lema, American golfer (d. 1966)
● 1935 - Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
● 1937 - Barbara Piasecka Johnson, widow of John Seward Johnson I
● 1937 - Bob Schieffer, American broadcast journalist
● 1937 - Tom Courtenay, English actor
● 1938 - Diane Baker, American actress
● 1938 - Herb Elliott, Australian runner
● 1940 - Billy Packer, American sports broadcaster
● 1940 - Danny Cater, American baseball player
● 1940 - Ron Santo, American baseball player
● 1942 - Carl Eller, former American football player
● 1942 - Karen Grassle, American actress
● 1943 - George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001)
● 1943 - Wilson da Silva Piazza, Brazilian footballer
● 1944 - Karen Grassle, Actress (''Little House on the Prairie'')
● 1945 - Elkie Brooks, English singer
● 1945 - Herbert Léonard, French singer
● 1946 - Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist
● 1946 - Jean Todt, French executive director of Scuderia Ferrari
● 1947 - Doug Yule, American bass guitarist (The Velvet Underground)
● 1947 - Lee Evans, American athlete
● 1948 - Aldo Busi, Italian writer
● 1948 - Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
● 1949 - Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
● 1950 - Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)
● 1950 - Neil Jordan, Irish director
● 1950 - Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina
● 1951 - César Cedeño, Dominican baseball player
● 1951 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
● 1951 - James Brown, American sportscaster
● 1952 - Inger Segelström, Swedish politician
● 1952 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
● 1953 - José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain
● 1953 - Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor
● 1954 - John Doe, American musician
● 1958 - Jeff Fisher, Football coach
● 1958 - Kurt Rambis, American basketball player
● 1959 - Mike Peters, Welsh musician (The Alarm)
● 1960 - Stefan Blöcher, German field hockey player
● 1960 - Tony Grimaud, Maltese-born singer and songwriter
● 1961 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
● 1961 - Todd Blackledge, American football player
● 1962 - Birgit Fischer, German kayaker
● 1963 - Nancy O'Dell, American reporter and television personality
● 1964 - Don Majkowski, American football player
● 1964 - Lee Evans, English comedian
● 1965 - Veronica Webb, Actress
● 1965(67? NYT) - Carrot Top, American Comedian
● 1966 - Alexis Denisof, American actor (''Angel'')
● 1966 - Nancy O'Dell, American reporter and television personality
● 1966 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (d. 2003)
● 1966 - Téa Leoni, American actress
● 1968 - Evridiki, Greek Cypriot singer
● 1968 - Lesley Boone, Actress (''Ed'')
● 1968 - Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress
● 1969 - Paul Trimboli, Australian soccer player
● 1970 - Julie Hesmondhalgh, English actress
● 1971 - Daniel Powter, Canadian musician
● 1971 - Dave Harris, American disc jockey
● 1971 - Sean Astin, American actor (''Lord of the Rings'' movies)
● 1973 - Anson Mount, American actor
● 1973 - Julio José Iglesias, Spanish singer
● 1973 - Justin Jeffre, American singer (98 Degrees)
● 1973 - Normann Stadler, German triathlete
● 1973 - Richard Liles, Rock musician (3 Doors Down)
● 1974 - Shannon Stewart, Baseball player
● 1975 - Chelsea Handler, American comedian and actress
● 1976 - Chris Pitman, American keyboardist and member of Guns N' Roses
● 1976 - Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model, musician (''The Office'')
● 1977 - Josh Wolff, American footballer
● 1977 - Kim Hee-sun, South Korean actress
● 1977 - Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer
● 1980 - Antonio Burks, American basketball player
● 1981 - Jamie Lynn, American model
● 1981 - Misty Giles, American beauty queen and Survivor contestant
● 1981 - Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer
● 1981 - Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor
● 1982 - Anton Volchenkov, Russian ice hockey player
● 1982 - Bert McCracken, American singer (The Used)
● 1982 - Chris Baird, Irish footballer
● 1982 - Maria Kanellis, American model and professional wrestler
● 1983 - Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-born Croatian footballer
● 1984 - Logan Leistikow, American director and actor
● 1984 - Lovefoxxx, Brazilian singer (CSS)
● 1985 - Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby player
● 1985 - Joakim Noah, American basketball player
● 1985 - Moorea Wolfe, Canadian fitness model
● 1986 - Danny Saucedo, Swedish singer
● 1986 - James and Oliver Phelps, English actors (''Harry Potter'' movies)
● 1986 - Justin Berfield, American actor (''Malcolm in the Middle'')
● 1987 - Eva Avila, Canadian singer
● 1998 - Brendon Baerg, American actor
DEATHS
● 1246 - Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
● 1522 - William Lilye, English classical scholar
● 1536 - Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)
● 1553 - Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)
● 1558 - Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
● 1577 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)
● 1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)
● 1634 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (b. 1583)
● 1643 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)
● 1655 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
● 1682 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639)
● 1713 - King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657)
● 1715 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)
● 1723 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (b. 1632)
● 1756 - Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)
● 1798 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)
● 1805 - Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
● 1831 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
● 1850 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)
● 1852 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (b. 1779)
● 1860 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)
● 1899 - Paul Julius Reuter, German-born journalist (b. 1816)
● 1912 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
● 1919 - Josef Christiaens, Belgian racing driver (b. 1879)
● 1922 - Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (b. 1869)
● 1934 - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)
● 1945 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)
● 1950 - George Minot, American physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
● 1953 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
● 1957 - George "Bugs" Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
● 1964 - Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
● 1966 - James D. Norris, American sports businessman (b. 1906)
● 1970 - Mark Rothko, American painter (b. 1903)
● 1971 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
● 1975 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (b. 1897)
● 1978 - Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., American general (b. 1920)
● 1983 - Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
● 1987 - James Coco, American actor (b. 1930)
● 1993 - Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
● 1994 - Baruch Goldstein, American-born mass killer (b. 1956)
● 1994 - Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914)
● 1996 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-born actor (b. 1940)
● 1999 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
● 2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
● 2003 - Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (b. 1920)
● 2003 - Tom O'Higgins, Irish Chief Justice (b. 1916)
● 2004 - Donald Hings, Canadian inventor (b. 1907)
● 2005 - Peter Benenson, English founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)
● 2006 - Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)
● 2006 - Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
● 2007 - Mark Spoelstra, American singer/songwriter (b. 1940)
● 2007 - William R. Anderson, c/o USS Nautilus submarine, US Congressman (b. 1921)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Ember Day
● St. Adeltrude
● St. Ananias II
● St. Ananias III
● St. Aventanus
● St. Caesarius of Nazianzus
● St. Donatus
● St. Klaudian
● St. Matthias the Apostle (leap years)
● St. Tarasius
● St. Victorinus
● St. Walburga, abbess
● Bl. Constantius
● Bl. Didacus Carvalho
● Bl. Dominic Lentini
● Bl. Romeo
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 12 (Civil Date: February 25)
● St. Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch.
● St. Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow and wonderworker of All Russia.
● St. Anthony, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● St. Mary, nun (who was called Marinus), and her father, St. Eugene, monk, at Alexandria.
● New-Martyr Chrestos at Constantinople.
● St. Bassian, abbot of Ryabovsky Forest Monastery, Uglich.
● New-Martyr Alexius, Bishop of Voronezh (1930).
● New-Martyr Archpriest Mitrophan (1931).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Saturninus and Plotinus.
● Iveron Icon (Moscow) of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Repose of cave-dweller Anastasia Logacheva (1875).
● Anglican:
● Ember Day
● Lutheran:
● Elizabeth Fedde, deaconess,
● Christian:
● St. Avertanus
● Bl. Romeo
● Kuwait - National day
● México - Coronado Day (1540)
● Philippines - People Power Day, special holiday
● 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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