Day of the week in surrounding years:
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—MON—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—TUE—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—WED—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—THU—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—FRI—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—SAT—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—SUN—2011
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 27 is the 24th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 140 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 2nd of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
328, 401, 407, 412, 491, 496, 502, 575, 586, 597, 659, 670, 681, 692, 743, 754, 765, 776, 838, 849, 860, 933, 939, 944, 1023, 1028, 1034, 1107, 1118, 1129, 1191, 1202, 1213, 1224, 1275, 1286, 1297, 1308, 1370, 1381, 1392, 1465, 1471, 1476, 1555, 1560, 1566, 1591, 1664, 1675, 1686, 1732, 1743, 1754, 1805, 1811, 1884, 1895, 1952, 1963, 1974
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2036, 2047, 2058, 2069, 2104, 2115, 2126, 2188, 2199, 2256, 2267, 2278, 2324, 2335, 2346, 2408, 2419, 2430, 2492, 2560, 2571, 2582, 2593, 2628, 2639, 2650, 2707, 2780, 2791, 2802, 2875, 2886, 2897, 2932, 2943, 2954, 2965, 3011, 3022, 3084, 3095, 3152, 3163, 3174, 3185, 3247, 3258, 3269, 3304, 3315, 3326, 3337, 3399, 3467, 3478, 3489, 3524, 3535, 3546, 3557, 3619, 3630, 3641, 3709, 3771, 3782, 3793, 3839, 3850, 3861, 3907, 3918, 3929, 3991, 4002, 4013, 4075, 4086, 4097
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Faith "Faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of the heart to believe any truth which God may show." — Margaret Deland
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bashing the Clintons ". . .
Hopefully, some other local station will have the good sense and good fortune to hire Rollye James—and keep her. After all, sharp intellect, good humor and the courage not to genuflect to the status quo are rare in radio discourse these days. If Austin radio permanently loses such a talent as Rollye James, the community at large will suffer a "dumbing-down" of media quality." — 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 4 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 "[Manny] Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable." — 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 27, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 66% Age: 70% Rise: no rise Set: 9:40 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 27, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 66% Age: 70% Rise: 12:05 AM Set: 10:11 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 27, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 66% Age: 70% Rise: 12:01 AM Set: 9:21 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 27, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 67% Age: 70% Rise: no rise Set: 8:55 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
The Eagle Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur
Credit & Copyright: IAC, Daniel Lopez
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 280 - Birth of Constantine the Great, the first Roman emperor to be converted (ca. 312) to the Christian faith.
● 837 - 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
● 1526 - Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
● 1531 - Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union
● 1534 - Beginning of Anabaptist "New Jerusalem" on earth in Germany. All Lutherans and Roman Catholics are to be eliminated by driving them out or converting them, so as to create a community bound by love and without sin. Nonbelief or "misbelief" is made a capital offense. It resists besieging armies and lasts over a year.
● 1557 - 1st Russian Embassy opens in London
● 1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
● 1563 - William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
● 1594 - Henry IV is crowned King of France.
● 1617 - Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
● 1626 - Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
● 1665 - Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English
● 1667 - Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
● 1670 - Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
● 1678 - Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower
● 1696 - English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
● 1700 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
● 1703 - The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in Mobile, Alabama.
● 1713 - French troops bomb Willemstad Curaçao
● 1793 - The Giles resolutions are introduced to the United States House of Representatives asking the House to condemn Alexander Hamilton's handling of loans.
● 1801 - Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
● 1803 - Great fire in Bombay, India
● 1807 - Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine.
● 1812 - Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
● 1813 - 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
● 1813 - Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
● 1816 - Dutch regain Suriname
● 1827 - The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana.
● 1838 - Birth of William J. Kirkpatrick, American Methodist sacred composer. He edited his first collection of hymns at age 21, and is still remembered today for composing the melodies to such hymns as: "He Hideth My Soul," "'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus," "Redeemed, How I Love to Proclaim It" and "Lord, I'm Coming Home."
● 1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Most of God's people are content to be saved from the hell that is without. They are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.'
● 1844 - Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
● 1849 - William Jewell College was chartered in Liberty, Missouri, under Baptist sponsorship.
● 1854 - Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
● 1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
● 1861 - A crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule over Poland is fired upon by Russian troops, killing five protesters.
● 1861 - US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
● 1864 - 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
● 1864 - American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. {The Union used the commandant of this camp as their victor's revenge by having him hanged for the atrocities committed there, which were no worse than rebels prisoners were treated in Union POW camps.}
● 1865 - Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon MO
● 1867 - Birth of anarchist Paulin Mailfait (1867-1927), Charleville, France. Did eight months in prison for helping a soldier desert in 1892.
● 1867 - Dr. William G. Bonwill invented the dental mallet.
● 1869 - John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
● 1871 - Meeting of Alabama claims commission
● 1872 - Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U
● 1873 - Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
● 1876 - Birth of anarchist Francois Segond Casteu (1876-1935), Nice, France. His remarks often caused problems with authorities, and in September 1927, he was imprisoned at Amiens for a series of anticlerical articles. Casteu was released following a hunger strike.
● 1877 - US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner Presidential election
● 1879 - Constantine Fahlberg announces discovery of saccharin (artificial sweetener)
● 1880 - Birth of African American lesbian poet Angelina Weld Grimke. Like most black woman writers, her works will have very little visibility. Nonetheless, Grimke wins acclaim for two dramas, several short stories, and a great number of poems. Her play "Rachel" angrily dramatizes the personal impact of lynching.
● 1881 - Battle at Amajuba, South Africa Boers vs British army under General Colley
● 1886 - Hugo Black, who served 34 years as a U.S. Supreme Court judge and was known as a champion of civil liberties, was born.
● 1894 - Birth of Ernst Friedrich, founder of Berlin peace museum, Germany.
● 1896 - The "Charlotte Observer" published a picture of an X-ray photograph made by Dr. H.L. Smith. The photograph showed a perfect picture of all the bones of a hand and a bullet that Smith had placed between the third and fourth fingers in the palm.
● 1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
● 1900 - The British Labour Party is founded.
● 1900 - The FC Bayern München (Munich) is founded.
● 1902 - Birth of John Steinbeck, Salinas, California. Novelist, story writer, playwright, essayist, and screenplay writer. Best known for "The Grapes of Wrath," his first overtly political tract, which decried the treatment of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression and led to some (but obviously not enough) reform.
● 1902 - Birth of Marian Anderson, African American opera singer famously banned by the Daughters of the American Revolution from performing at Constitution Hall; she sang before 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday instead.
● 1906 - France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
● 1908 - Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
● 1912 - Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
● 1921 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
● 1922 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
● 1922 - Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
● 1923 - Formation in New York of the Mohegan Colony Association, based on anarchist principles.
● 1924 - Belgium's Theunis government falls
● 1925 - Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
● 1929 - Russia & US sign trade agreement
● 1929 - Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
● 1930 - Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
● 1932 - Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
● 1933 - Nazis set fire to Berlin's Reichstag parliament building, blame it on communists as a ploy in their steady consolidation of total power.
● 1934 - Birth of consumer activist and 1996/2000 Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader. Winsted, Conn.
● 1934 - Birth of Native-American author N. Scott Momaday, Lawton, Oklahoma. His first novel, "House Made of Dawn," is one of the first works by a Native American author describing contemporary reservation life to draw widespread acclaim.
● 1938 - Britain and France recognize Franco and his fascist government in Spain.
● 1938 - English Bible expositor Arthur W. Pink wrote in a letter: 'Slackness and carelessness are inexcusable in a child of God. He should ever present a model and example of conscientiousness, painstaking care, and exactness.'
● 1939 - American Civil Rights Movement: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
● 1939 - Belgian government of Pierlot falls
● 1939 - English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire
● 1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14
● 1942 - 1st transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany
● 1942 - J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun
● 1942 - World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied (ABDA) strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies. The USS Langley, the first United States aircraft carrier, is sunk by Japanese warplanes.
● 1943 - Mine disaster kills 75 workers at Red Lodge, Montana.
● 1943 - The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
● 1943 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
● 1945 - Battle of US 94 Infantry
● 1947 - Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized
● 1948 - The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia.
● 1949 - Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President
● 1950 - General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
● 1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
● 1953 - Spelling bill passes second reading; A proposal to simplify English spelling has cleared its second hurdle in parliament.
● 1956 - Female suffrage in Egypt
● 1957 - Mao's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"
● 1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
● 1960 - Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
● 1961 - The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
● 1962 - South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed
● 1963 - Argoud charged over de Gaulle plot; Antoine Argoud, President De Gaulle's arch enemy and a former colonel in the French Army, is charged with an assassination attempt.
● 1963 - The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
● 1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
● 1965 - Dutch Marijnen government resigns
● 1965 - France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
● 1967 - Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
● 1967 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
● 1967 - Rio de la Plata Treaty
● 1969 - Berkeley police charge University of California student picket lines, club and arrest two Chicano leaders.
● 1969 - General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup
● 1969 - President Nixon visits West-Berlin
● 1969 - Students at the University of Chicago march in the streets.
● 1969 - Thousands rampage thru nine University of Wisconsin buildings, in Madison, over black enrollment policy.
● 1970 - New York Times (falsely) reports U.S. Army has ended its illegal domestic surveillance.
● 1971 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
● 1972 - President Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
● 1973 - Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
● 1973 - Village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota occupied by 300 Oglala Sioux and other American Indian Movement activists, in response to campaign of terror and murder by tribal and FBI officials. The village was the site of the last major massacre of Indians by whites in 1890.
● 1975 - PC murder linked to IRA bomb factory; Scotland Yard says the man who shot dead a police officer in London yesterday had been staying in a flat used as a "bomb factory" by the IRA.
● 1976 - The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
● 1976 - The Inuit Tapirisat of Canada presents claim to immense area in Canada's Arctic.
● 1977 - Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
● 1978 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
● 1980 - Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe
● 1980 - Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
● 1981 - Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
● 1981 - Massive protest march against military coup attempt, Madrid, Spain.
● 1982 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
● 1982 - Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA
● 1984 - Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
● 1985 - Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief {They still vote for Reagan/Republican despite their being the root cause of their woes.}
● 1985 - Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
● 1986 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
● 1987 - Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff {He lost the battle with Nancy Reagan for control.}
● 1987 - The Tower Commission Report, detailing the Iran-Contra Scandal, finds Pres. Reagan confused and uninformed. {In other words, his usual self.} It faults White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane, and his successor Admiral John Poindexter, and CIA Director William Casey. Casey had resigned three weeks previously for health reasons; McFarlane attempted suicide a week later; and Regan resigned the day the report was released.
● 1989 - German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland
● 1989 - Ontario Court of Appeal finds the Temeaugma Anishnabe "Bear Island people" (Ojibwa) lost title to their land in 1850, although a treaty was never signed.
● 1989 - Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo.
● 1990 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on five criminal counts.
● 1991 - Bangladesh elect new parliament in first democratic transition of power.
● 1991 - Gulf War ends as Saudi army enters Kuwait City. U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."
● 1994 - Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
● 1995 - Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
● 1996 - Satoshi Tajiri creates the hit media franchise Pokémon.
● 1997 - In Ireland, divorce became legal.
● 1997 - Legislation banning most handguns in Britain went into effect.
● 1998 - FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
● 1998 - With the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as a first-born son.
● 1999 - Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently directed by Ann Clapper.
● 1999 - Nigerians vote to break with military; Voters flock to polling stations in Nigeria to elect a civilian president as Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983 and end military rule that has lasted 15 years.
● 1999 - While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
● 2002 - A Muslim mob attacks a train a few minutes after it leaves the Godhra railway station, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya; retaliatory riots lead to the death of at least 1000 people, mostly Muslims.
● 2002 - In Boston, twenty people working at Logan International Airport were charged with lying to get their jobs or security badges.
● 2002 - Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
● 2003 - Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic was sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison.
● 2003 - Fred Rogers, the host of TV's "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" died at age 74.
● 2003 - Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church.
● 2004 - A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines kills 116, its worst terrorist attack.
● 2004 - Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans for a Better Barbuda.
● 2005 - Pre-pay price capping on the Transport for London Oyster card is introduced.
● 2007 - The Chinese Correction the Shanghai Stock Exchange tumbled 9% the largest drop in 10 years.
● 2007 - The general strike against Lansana Conté in Guinea ends.
BIRTHS
● 272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)
● 1691 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (d. 1754)
● 1711 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
● 1779 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1842)
● 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
● 1847 - Ellen Terry, English actress (d. 1928)
● 1861 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (d. 1925)
● 1862 - Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (d. 1937)
● 1869 - Alice Hamilton, American pathologist who worked on industrial diseases (d. 1970)
● 1886 - Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)
● 1888 - Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950)
● 1888 - Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976)
● 1888 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
● 1890 - Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
● 1891 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)
● 1891 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d. 1971)
● 1892 - William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983)
● 1897 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)
● 1899 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
● 1901 - Marino Marini, Italian artist (d. 1980)
● 1902 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
● 1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
● 1903 - Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
● 1904 - André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
● 1904 - Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
● 1904 - James T. Farrell, American writer (d. 1979)
● 1904 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
● 1905 - Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
● 1907 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
● 1910 - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works; d. 1990)
● 1910 - Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
● 1910 - Kelly Johnson, American aircraft engineer (d. 1990)
● 1910 - Peter De Vries, American writer (d. 1993)
● 1910 - Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
● 1912 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)
● 1913 - Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)
● 1913 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (d. 1989)
● 1913 - T. B. Ilangaratne, Sri Lankan novelist and politician (d. 1992)
● 1917 - John Connally, Governor of Texas (d. 1993)
● 1922 - Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
● 1923 - Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)
● 1925 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
● 1926 - David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1927 - Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
● 1927 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
● 1928 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
● 1929 - Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
● 1930 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
● 1930 - Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
● 1930 - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
● 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
● 1933 - Raymond Berry, American football player
● 1934 - N. Scott Momaday, American writer
● 1934 - Ralph Nader, American consumer activist
● 1934 - Van Williams, American actor
● 1934 - Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
● 1935 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
● 1936 - Roger Mahony, fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles
● 1936 - Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer
● 1937 - Barbara Babcock, American actress
● 1937 - David Ackles, American singer songwriter (d. 1999)
● 1939 - Peter Revson, American racecar driver (d. 1974)
● 1940 - Bill Hunter, Australian actor
● 1940 - Howard Hesseman, American actor ("Head of the Class," "WKRP in Cincinnati")
● 1941 - Paddy Ashdown, British politician
● 1942 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
● 1942 - Michel Forget, French Canadian actor
● 1942 - Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1943 - Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
● 1943 - Morten Lauridsen, American composer
● 1944 - Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
● 1945 - Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
● 1947 - Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
● 1949 - Debra Monk, Actress
● 1951 - Steve Harley, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel)
● 1952 - Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
● 1953 - Gabriela Svobodová, Czech cross country skier
● 1954 - Neal Schon, American musician (Journey)
● 1955 - Peter Christopherson, English musician, video director and designer
● 1957 - Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)
● 1957 - Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator
● 1957 - Timothy Spall, English actor
● 1957 - Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
● 1958 - Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious (killed by Sid Vicious) (d. 1978)
● 1959 - Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
● 1960 - Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
● 1960 - Paul Humphreys, Rock musician
● 1962 - Adam Baldwin, American actor
● 1962 - Grant Show, American actor ("Melrose Place")
● 1963 - Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
● 1964 - Todd Bodine, American race car driver
● 1965 - Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist
● 1965 - Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound editor, sound designer and musician
● 1965 - Mike Cross, Rock musician (Sponge)
● 1965 - Noah Emmerich, American actor
● 1966 - Donal Logue, Canadian actor
● 1968 - Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player
● 1969 - Brad Vander Ark, American musician
● 1970 - Michael A. Burstein, American writer
● 1970 - Patricia Petibon, French opera singer
● 1971 - Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist
● 1971 - Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, American singer (TLC)
● 1972 - Jennifer Lyon, American Survivor contestant
● 1972 - Jeremy Dean, Rock musician (Nine Days)
● 1973 - Ali Tabatabaee, American Iranian rapper (Zebrahead)
● 1973 - Eric Lindros, Hockey player
● 1973 - Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby union footballer
● 1973 - Peter André, English singer - Husband to Katie Price, Glamour model
● 1973 - Roderick Clark, R&B singer
● 1975 - Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
● 1975 - Shelby Walker, American mixed martial artist (d. 2006)
● 1976 - Tony Gonzalez, American football player
● 1977 - Ji Sung, South Korean actor
● 1977 - Lance Hoyt, American professional wrestler
● 1978 - James Beattie, English footballer
● 1980 - Bobby Valentino, American singer
● 1980 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton
● 1981 - Josh Groban, American singer
● 1983 - Hayley Angel Wardle, English actress
● 1983 - Kate Mara, Actress
● 1984 - Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer
● 1984 - David Noel, American basketball player
● 1984 - Juliana Imai, Brazilian model
● 1984 - Lotta Schelin, Swedish female footballer
● 1985 - Abe Asami, Japanese singer and actress
● 1985 - Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer
● 1986 - Nicole Linkletter, America's Next Top Model
● 1988 - JD Natasha, American musician
● 1989 - Kelly Breeding, American singer from B5
DEATHS
● 1659 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
● 1699 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625)
● 1706 - John Evelyn, English diarist (b. 1620)
● 1720 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
● 1735 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)
● 1844 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (b. 1786)
● 1887 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
● 1892 - Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
● 1902 - Breaker Morant, Anglo-Australian soldier executed in Boer War under controversial circumstances (b. 1864)
● 1921 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
● 1932 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
● 1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
● 1936 - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
● 1941 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
● 1943 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
● 1964 - Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
● 1968 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (b. 1942)
● 1969 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)
● 1970 - Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
● 1972 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
● 1977 - John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
● 1978 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
● 1980 - George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
● 1981 - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
● 1985 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)
● 1986 - Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
● 1987 - Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
● 1989 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
● 1989 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
● 1990 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
● 1992 - S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
● 1993 - Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
● 1998 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
● 1998 - J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
● 2002 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
● 2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)
● 2003 - John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
● 2004 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
● 2006 - Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
● 2006 - Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
● 2006 - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
● 2007 - Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
● 2007 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexander
● St. Anne Line
● St. Antigone
● St. Augustus Chapdelaine
● St. Baldomerus
● St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (non-leap years)
● St. Honorina
● St. John of Gorze
● St. Julian
● St. Leander of Seville
● St. Thalelaeus
● Bl. Mark Barkworth
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 14 (Civil Date: February 27)
● St. Cyril, Equal-to-the Apostles, teacher of the Slavs.
● St. Auxentius, monk of Bithynia.
● St. Isaac, recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Maron, hermit of Syria.
● St. Abraham, Bishop of Charres in Mesopotamia.
● Translation of the Relics of Martyr Michael and his counsellor Theodore of Chernigov.
● Martyr Philemon, Bishop of Gaza.
● New-Martyr George of Mitylene, at Constantinople.
● New-Martyr Nicholas of Corinth.
● Christian:
● St. Leander
● Anglican:
● George Herbert, priest
● Bahá'í Faith - Day 2 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) - days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
● Roman Empire - Equirria; horse races in honor of the war god Mars were held.
● Denmark - Street Urchins' Carnival.
● Dominican Republic - Independence Day (National Day) (1844).
● Russia - First day of Maslenitsa (2006)
● St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla: Statehood Day (1967)
● St. Kitts & Antigua - Independence Day (1967)
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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