In the Northern hemisphere, there are 88 days in winter (in a non-leap year, 89 in a leap year). We are considered halfway through winter on February 3.
Day of the week in surrounding years:
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—MON—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—TUE—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—WED—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—THU—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—FRI—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—SAT—. . . .
1985,1991,. . . .,2002,2008—SUN—2013
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Church-State Separation "I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." — Original Pledge of Allegiance
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Respecting Our Elders "My grandparents' generation thought being on the government dole was disgraceful, a blight on the family's honor. Today's senior citizens blithely cannibalize their grandchildren because they have a right to get as mush "free" stuff as the political system will them to extract . . . . Big government is the drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms, for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers, and militant senior citizens." — Judge Janice Rogers Brown, Bush nominee for a seat on the Federal Appeals Court in Washington. Her nomination has been filibustered by the Senate Democrats. "Fifty ways to lose your freedom," speech to the Institution of Justice, 8-12-00.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "I was not very good at pulling teeth, but my mother loved my work."—on his early career as a dentist — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was another master of obfuscation, Stengel is Hall of Shame member #7.
{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 3, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 14% Age: 88% Rise: 5:01 AM Set: 2:07 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 3, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 14% Age: 88% Rise: 5:05 AM Set: 2:41 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 3, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 15% Age: 87% Rise: 5:10 AM Set: 1:44 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 3, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 15% Age: 87% Rise: 4:48 AM Set: 1:15 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Light Echoes from V838 Mon
Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 3114 B.C.E. - Reciprocal date for Mayan Creation, the laying out of the ecliptic.
● 1112 - marriage of Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence, uniting the fortunes of those two states
● 1377 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term
● 1377 - More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath). {Unknown how these last two items are connected but rest assured they must be.}
● 1451 - Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
● 1468 - Printing press innovator Johannes Gutenberg dies.
● 1488 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south.
● 1509 - The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
● 1518 - Pope Leo X imposed silence on the Augustinian monks.
● 1547 - Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova
● 1576 - Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
● 1591 - German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau
● 1653 - Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile
● 1660 - General Moncks army reaches London
● 1690 - First paper money issued in America by English colonists in the colony of Massachusetts to pay soldiers in war against Quebec (French colonists).
● 1706 - Swedish forces defeats a superior Saxon-Russian force by deploying a text book example of a double envelopment during the Battle of Fraustadt.
● 1740 - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
● 1743 - Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants.
● 1744 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd explained in a tract: 'God designs that those whom He sanctifies...shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how great the deliverance is, which God has wrought for them.'
● 1752 - Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills
● 1781 - Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by the British
● 1783 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence. {Probably just to piss off the British.}
● 1787 - Shays' Rebellion is crushed, ending an uprising that would prompt negotiations that would result in the drafting of the Constitution of the United States.
● 1807 - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay, following a siege.
● 1809 - Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
● 1811 - Birth of American journalist Horace Greeley. {This is the man who said, "Go West young man," even though he never went further west than Ohio.}
● 1815 - The first commercial cheese factory is founded (Switzerland).
● 1821 - Birth of Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman physician in America.
● 1825 - Dutch North Sea coast floods
● 1830 - The sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol.
● 1834 - The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina establishes the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute, today known as Wake Forest University.
● 1836 - Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
● 1855 - Wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
● 1860 - Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
● 1864 - In Columbus, Ohio, a fellowship of independent Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational and United Brethren churches organized itself into a separate Protestant denomination known as the Christian Union.
● 1864 - Sherman's march through Georgia
● 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens held a peace conference aboard a ship off the Virginia coast. (The talks deadlocked over the issue of Southern autonomy.)
● 1867 - Prince Mutshito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan.
● 1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, grants voting rights regardless of race. {Being male is still a legitimate basis for the franchise.}
● 1874 - Birth of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), writer, lesbian icon, and mentor to the 'Lost Generation' of writers in Paris after World War I. Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
● 1887 - To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act {Too bad the Supreme Court didn't know in 2000.}
● 1892 - Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
● 1899 - -16º F (-27º C), Minden LA (state record)
● 1900 - Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky. Former Secretary of State Caleb Powers was later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel.
● 1901 - Dutch troops under General Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra
● 1902 - Birth of Helene Patou (1902-1975), Liovin (Pas-de-Calais). French writer, militant anarchist and neo-Malthusian.
● 1903 - Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa
● 1906 - England - Acquisition of a house at London's 165 Jubilee Street, which becomes the "Workers' Friend Club and Institute," a place for meetings, a print shop, and an anarchist school.
● 1908 - U.S. Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act.
● 1909 - Birth of French philosopher, syndicalist Simone Weil (1909-1943), Paris. Despite her rapturous love of Jesus Christ, she never ceased to study the truths of the religions of the East. She stayed outside of any church, but her passionate need to share the sufferings of others led her to fight with the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War, to work as a field hand and an unskilled laborer, and ultimately to die in England at the age of 34 from tuberculosis complicated by her refusing to eat more than Hitler's rations allotted to her countrymen in occupied France.
● 1913 - France - Beginning of the trial of the surviving members of the Bonnot Gang, in Paris.
● 1913 - Opening of "Casa del Obrero Internacional," in Los Angeles. One of the founders is Juan Francisco Moncaleano. Anarchist activities housed here include a Ferrer school and the offices of the newspaper "Regeneracion."
● 1913 - The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect a graduated income tax.
● 1915 - Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
● 1916 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
● 1916 - Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
● 1917 - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
● 1917 - World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after Germany announces a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
● 1918 - The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long).
● 1919 - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
● 1919 - Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
● 1919 - Tube (subway) workers in London, England strike for shorter hours.
● 1924 - Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
● 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, died in Washington, D.C., at age 67.
● 1927 - The Federal Radio Commission was created when U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill.
● 1927 - Uprising against regime of General Carmona in Portugal
● 1929 - Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
● 1930 - The Communist Party of Vietnam was born. {Only after the parties negotiating the Treaty of Versailles refuse to meet with Ho Chi Minh.}
● 1930 - William Howard Taft, resigns as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for health reasons. He is the only person to hold the offices of both President and Chief Justice.
● 1931 - Italy - Michael Schirru is arrested in Rome, with the two bombs discovered in his hotel room intended, by his own admission, for Mussolini. His one-day trial, on May 28th, was presided over by Cristini -- a fascist cutthroat raised to the highest ranks in the government as a reward for his bloody propensities. No jury. No defense. No lawyers and no witnesses are admitted before Mussolini's Special Tribunal. At 2:30 AM the next morning, he was awakened and told that his execution would take place at sunrise. He was taken to the Braschi fortress, where he was executed, eight and a half hours after sentence was passed. He had not killed anybody. The death penalty, as it existed in Italy at that time, could be applied legally only for the murder of the king, the crown prince, and Mussolini.
● 1931 - The Arkansas state legislature passes a motion to pray for the soul of newspaper columnist H. L. Mencken after he calls the state "the apex of moronia." {Thus they prove his point for him.}
● 1931 - The Napier earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
● 1933 - 1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington DC
● 1933 - German minister Göring bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwärts
● 1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin
● 1941 - Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets minimum wages & maximum hours
● 1941 - World War II: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France.
● 1942 - 1st Japanese air raid on Java
● 1943 - The Allied troopship S.S. Dorchester was torpedoed by a German sub and went down with a loss of 600 lives. As it sank, four chaplains gave up their lifejackets to shipmates, thereby also perishing in the icy waters. The bravery of Rev. Clark Poling (Dutch Reformed), Rev. George Lansing Fox (Methodist), Father John Washington (a Catholic priest) and Alexander David Goode (a Jewish rabbi) led Congress afterward to mark February 3rd as "Four Chaplains Day."
● 1944 - World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
● 1945 - World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin.
● 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.
● 1947 - Coldest ever temperature recorded in North America at Snag, Yukon, -63° degrees Celsius, -81.4° Fahrenheit
● 1947 - Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery.
● 1950 - Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
● 1952 - The earliest known tropical storm makes landfall in South Florida.
● 1956 - Autherine J. Lucy becomes the first African American student to attend the University of Alabama. Suspended four days later because of rioting.
● 1957 - Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
● 1959 - American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65
● 1959 - The Day The Music Died: A plane crash kills rock-and-roll performers Buddy Holly, 22; The Big Bopper (aka J.P. Richardson, 29); and Richie Valens, 17, near Mason City, Iowa.
● 1960 - Macmillan speaks of 'wind of change' in Africa; Harold Macmillan outrages South African politicians with a speech warning of the "wind of change" (the ending of white minority rule) in Africa.
● 1961 - 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
● 1962 - President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
● 1964 - Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools
● 1965 - Interstate 5 opens from Everett to downtown Seattle. Massive traffic jams soon develop.
● 1965 - One hundred five cadets resign from the Air Force Academy after being caught cheating.
● 1965 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
● 1965 - Over 2,600 arrests, many of them schoolchildren, in week-long voter registration demonstrations in Selma, Alabama.
● 1966 - 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US)
● 1966 - Soviets land probe on Moon; The Soviet Union makes the first controlled landing of a space probe on the Moon, but refuses to release the pictures it sends back.
● 1967 - Ronald Ryan, who shot and killed a prison guard while trying to escape from a Melbourne prison, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
● 1969 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
● 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1973 - President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act, now itself endangered. {but not quite as much as Nixon}
● 1974 - Science fiction author Philip K. Dick reportedly has a gnostic religious experience or theophany, later recounted in his books Valis (1981) and Radio Free Albemuth (1985).
● 1977 - After legal secretary Iris Rivera loses job for refusing to make coffee, secretaries across Chicago join in protest.
● 1978 - Sadat in US for Mid East talks; Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat arrives in Washington DC to discuss the Middle East peace process with US President Jimmy Carter.
● 1980 - Muhammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy
● 1981 - Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway
● 1981 - Striking Telecommunications Workers Union occupy offices of telephone company in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
● 1982 - Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
● 1982 - Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
● 1984 - 1st baby conceived by embryo transplant born in Long Beach CA
● 1984 - Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission - Astronauts, Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
● 1985 - In South Africa, Desmond Tutu, 53, became Johannesburg's first black Anglican bishop.
● 1986 - Pope and Mother Teresa feed the sick; The Pope meets Mother Teresa in Calcutta and visits her home for the sick and dying.
● 1986 - President Reagan announces formation of Committee on Challenger Accident
● 1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.
● 1988 - Nurses protest for better pay; Nurses across the UK take part in a day of industrial action to secure more money for themselves and the NHS.
● 1989 - After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa.
● 1989 - Military coup overthrows long-time U.S.-backed Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, who had been in power since 1954.
● 1989 - Salvadorans protest U.S. intervention and arrival of Vice President Dan "Las Papaes" Quayle.
● 1991 - In Italy, the Italian Communist Party is dissolved, and split into the Democratic Party of the Left and the Communist Refoundation Party.
● 1992 - Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in the war on drugs"
● 1992 - Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
● 1992 - Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
● 1993 - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles CA
● 1994 - Nearly two decades after the fall of Saigon, Pres. Clinton announces the lifting of a 19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam. Amazingly, this is considered controversial.
● 1994 - STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit with a woman, Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, in the pilot's seat for the first time.
● 1995 - STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
● 1997 - Sixth general elections held in Pakistan under 1973 constitution.
● 1998 - Cavalese cable-car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 21 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
● 1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. {George W Bush, then governor of Texas mocked her pleas for clemency because she had found Jesus.}
● 1999 - In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived.
● 2000 - The Senate voted 89-4 to confirm Alan Greenspan for a fourth term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
● 2003 - Abandoning a two-month-long general strike that failed to oust President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's workers returned to work in all sectors but the vital oil industry.
● 2004 - Jóannes Eidesgaard becomes Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
● 2005 - Alberto Gonzales won Senate confirmation as attorney general. {Let the torture begin in earnest.}
● 2006 - An Egyptian passenger ferry sank in the Red Sea during bad weather, killing more than 1,000 passengers.
● 2007 - The Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
BIRTHS
● 1338 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)
● 1677 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)
● 1690 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)
● 1721 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
● 1747 - Samuel Osgood American patriot
● 1754 - George Crabbe, English naturalist (d. 1832)
● 1795 - Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830)
● 1807 - Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate general (d. 1891)
● 1808 - Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar, Princess of Prussia (d. 1877)
● 1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
● 1811 - Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)
● 1817 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)
● 1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (d. 1910)
● 1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (d. 1910)
● 1842 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (d. 1881)
● 1843 - William Cornelius Van Horne, American-born railway pioneer and executive (d. 1915)
● 1859 - Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)
● 1862 - James Clark McReynolds, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946)
● 1872 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
● 1874 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (d. 1946)
● 1876 - William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (d. 1937)
● 1887 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914)
● 1887 - Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)
● 1887 - Naruhiko Higashikuni, Japanese imperial prince/prime minister (d. 1990)
● 1893 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
● 1894 - Juan Negrin, Spanish Republican prime minister during Spanish Civil War (d. 1956)
● 1894 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978)
● 1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
● 1899 - Doris Speed, English actress (d.1994)
● 1899 - João Café Filho, Brazilian president (m.1970)
● 1899 - Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
● 1904 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
● 1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
● 1905 - Arne Beurling, American mathematician(d. 1986)
● 1907 - James Michener, American author (d. 1997)
● 1909 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (d. 1989)
● 1909 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
● 1911 - Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940)
● 1911 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)
● 1912 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (d. 1990)
● 1913 - Richard Seaman, British racing driver (d. 1939)
● 1918 - Helen Stephens, American runner
● 1918 - Joey Bishop, American entertainer, last member of the Rat Pack to die (d. 2007)
● 1920 - Henry Heimlich, American physician
● 1920 - Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver
● 1923 - Alys Robi, Quebec singer
● 1924 - Martial Asselin, French Canadian politician and lieutenant governor of Quebec
● 1925 - John Fiedler, American voice actor (d. 2005)
● 1925 - Keith Dunstan, Australian author and journalist
● 1925 - Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council
● 1926 - Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician
● 1926 - Shelley Berman, American comedian
● 1927 - Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003)
● 1927 - Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker
● 1927 - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
● 1930 - Gillian Ayres, English painter
● 1932 - Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
● 1933 - Paul Sarbanes, American politician
● 1938 - Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer
● 1938 - Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982)
● 1939 - Michael Cimino, American film director
● 1940 - Fran Tarkenton, American football player and Hall of Fame member.
● 1941 - Bridget Hanley, Actress
● 1941 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
● 1943 - Blythe Danner, American actress
● 1943 - Dennis Edwards, American singer (The Temptations)
● 1943 - Shawn Phillips, American singer, guitarist and songwriter {One of A Proud Liberal's esoteric favorites.}
● 1944 - Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
● 1945 - Bob Griese, American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1945 - Johnny Cymbal, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)
● 1947 - Dave Davies, British musician (The Kinks)
● 1947 - Melanie Safka, American singer-songwriter
● 1947 - Paul Auster, American novelist
● 1948 - Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor politician, Nobel Peace laureate
● 1948 - Henning Mankell, Swedish author
● 1949 - Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
● 1950 - Morgan Fairchild, American actress
● 1951 - Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
● 1952 - Fred Lynn, American baseball player
● 1953 - Savvas Tsitouridis, Greek politician
● 1954 - Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey players
● 1955 - Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist
● 1955 - Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
● 1956 - John Jefferson, American football player
● 1956 - Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)
● 1956 - Nathan Lane, American actor
● 1957 - Chico Serra, Brazilian racing driver
● 1957 - Steven Stapleton, British musician (Nurse With Wound)
● 1958 - Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (d. 2004)
● 1958 - N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist
● 1959 - Laurence Tolhurst, British musician (The Cure)
● 1959 - Thomas Calabro, American actor
● 1959 - Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five)
● 1960 - Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1993)
● 1961 - Jay Adams, American skateboarder
● 1961 - Keith Gordon, American actor
● 1962 - Michele Greene, American actress (''L.A. Law'')
● 1964 - Matraca Berg, Country singer
● 1965 - Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician
● 1965 - Maura Tierney, American actress (''ER,'' ''Newsradio'')
● 1967 - Bob Taylor, English footballer
● 1968 - Vlade Divac, Serbian professional basketball player
● 1969 - Retief Goosen, professional golfer
● 1970 - Oscar Cordoba, Colombian footballer
● 1970 - Warwick Davis, British actor
● 1971 - Elisa Donovan, American actress
● 1971 - Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor
● 1971 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)
● 1971 - Sean Dawkins, former American football wide receiver
● 1972 - Mart Poom, Estonian football player
● 1973 - Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist
● 1974 - Elisa Donovan, American actress
● 1974 - Konrad Gałka, Polish swimmer
● 1974 - Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress
● 1976 - Dwayne Rudd, American football player
● 1976 - Isla Fisher, Australian actress
● 1976 - Mathieu Dandenault, Canadian hockey player
● 1977 - Grant Barry, Musician (Reel Big Fish)
● 1977(76? NYT) - Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican musician
● 1978 - Adrian R'Mante, American actor
● 1978 - Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer
● 1980 - Sarah Lewitinn, American writer
● 1981 - Maurice Ross, English footballer
● 1982 - Alan Gurr, Australian V8 Supercar driver
● 1982 - Jessica Harp, American singer (The Wreckers)
● 1983 - Silambarasan Rajendar,famous south Indian actor
● 1989 - Ryne Sanborn, American actor
● 1989 - Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer
● 1990 - Sean Kingston, American reggae rapper
● 1991 - Adrian Quaife-Hobbs, British racing driver
DEATHS
● 619 - Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury
● 699 - Saint Werburgh
● 1014 - King Sweyn I of Denmark
● 1116 - King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
● 1399 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340)
● 1428 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)
● 1451 - Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)
● 1468 - Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher
● 1566 - George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
● 1619 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
● 1737 - Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)
● 1802 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (b. 1723)
● 1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b. 1774)
● 1866 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)
● 1874 - Lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)
● 1889 - Belle Starr, American outlaw (b. 1848)
● 1922 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
● 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
● 1929 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
● 1935 - Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)
● 1936 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
● 1945 - Roland Freisler, Nazi leader (b. 1893)
● 1947 - Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (b. 1887)
● 1956 - Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
● 1956 - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916)
● 1959 - Also known as The Day the Music Died because of the deaths of:
● Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)
● Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
● J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930)
● 1960 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
● 1964 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880)
● 1967 - Joe Meek, English record producer (b. 1929)
● 1969 - Eduardo Mondlane Mozambique independence founder (b. 1920)
● 1975 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)
● 1985 - Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
● 1989 - John Cassavetes, American actor (b. 1929)
● 1989 - Lionel Newman, American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger (b. 1916)
● 1991 - Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
● 1991 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies) (b. 1921)
● 1993 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (b. 1916)
● 1996 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1926)
● 1998 - Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (b. 1959)
● 2000 - Richard Kleindienst, American politician (b. 1923)
● 2003 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (b. 1962)
● 2004 - Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)
● 2005 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)
● 2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist (b. 1904)
● 2005 - Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
● 2006 - Al Lewis, American actor, grandpa on the Munsters (b. 1923)
● 2007 - George Becker, American president of United Steelworkers (1993–2001) (b. 1928)
● 2007 - Pedro Knight, Cuban-American musician, husband of legendary singer Celia Cruz (b. 1921)
● 2007 - Ralph de Toledano, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author (b. 1916)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anatolius
● St. Ansgar, patron saint of Denmark
● St. Berlinda
● St. Blaise, bishop of Sebaste, Armenia, martyr, Catholics visit churches to have their throats blessed.
● St. Caellainn
● St. Celerinus
● St. Deodatus
● St. Hadelin
● St. Laurentinus
● St. Lawrence of Spoleto
● St. Liafdag
● Sts. Lupicinus & Felix
● St. Margaret of England
● Sts. Nona and Celsa
● St. Oliver
● St. Philip of Vienne
● Sts. Tigides & Remedius
● St. Werburg
● Bl. John Nelson
● Bl. Odoric of Pordenone
● Bl. Rabanus Maurus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 21 (Civil Date: February 3)
● St. Maximus the Confessor.
● Martyr Neophytus of Nicaea.
● Martyrs Eugene, Candidus, Valerian and Aquila at Trebizond.
● Martyr Anastasius, disciple of St. Maximus the Confessor.
● Virgin Martyr Agnes of Rome.
● St. Neophytus of Vatopedi (Mt. Athos).
● St. Maximus the Greek.
● Synaxis of the Church of the Holy Peace by the Sea in Constantinople.
● Repose of desert-dweller Timon of Nadeyev (1840).
● Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Land.
● Christian:
● St. Laurentius, 2nd archbishop of Canterbury (604-619)
● Anglican and Lutheran:
● Anskar, Hamburg archbishop, Denmark/Sweden
● Syriac Orthodox Church
● St. Aaron the Illustrious
● Japan - the festival of Setsubun before spring.
● Mozambique - Heroes' Day.
● Paraguay : Patron's Day/San Blas, patrón
● Puerto Rico : Fiesta de San Blas, protector of harvest (316)
● US : 4 Chaplains Memorial Day
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - ( Sunday )
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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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