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 4 is the 1st possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 20 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 35th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
414, 509, 604, 851, 946, 1041, 1136, 1383, 1478, 1573, 1598, 1693, 1761, 1818
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2285, 2353, 2437, 2505, 3029, 3401
It is unlikely that any living human will experience Ash Wednesday on this date.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Civil Liberties "If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Art of Diplomacy "Japan knew how to take an ass-kicking and they were honorable about it instead of jumping up and turning around and spitting in our faces." — Roe Conn, referring to Japan's defeat in WWII and condemning Germany's attitude the Iraq war. "Rode and Gary Show," WLS-AM 890, 3-25-3.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "All right, everybody line up alphabetically according to your height." — 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 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 8% Age: 91% Rise: 5:48 AM Set: 3:10 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 8% Age: 91% Rise: 5:53 AM Set: 3:42 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 8% Age: 91% Rise: 5:56 AM Set: 2:47 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 9% Age: 91% Rise: 5:35 AM Set: 2:18 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
A Spider Shaped Crater on Mercury
Credit: MESSENGER, NASA, JHU APL, CIW
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta.
● 362 - Roman Emperor Julian promulgates an edict that recognizes equal rights to all the religions in the Roman Empire.
● 708 Sisinnius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 960 - The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
● 1194 - Richard I Lion Hearted pays Leopold O Fenrik VI's ransom of 100,000 pounds
● 1441 - Pope Eugene IV published the encyclical "Cantante domino." It asserted that the biblical canon of the Roman Catholic Church contains both the 66 protocanonical books (i.e., the complete Protestant Bible) and 12 deuterocanonical (aka "apocryphal") books 78 writings in all.
● 1454 - In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
● 1508 - Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned
● 1586 - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Netherlands
● 1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
● 1620 - Prince Bethlen Gábor signs peace with emperor Ferdinand II
● 1657 - Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal
● 1697 - 3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
● 1699 - 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow
● 1703 - In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
● 1712 - South Carolina slave traders unable to take Chief Hancock's Tuscarora fort.
● 1782 - British garrison surrenders to French & Spanish fleet
● 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.
● 1783 - Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
● 1787 - 1st Anglican bishops of New York & Pennsylvania consecrated in London
● 1787 - Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
● 1789 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
● 1792 - George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. {Something only done twice in history—both for Washington.}
● 1794 - The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
● 1797 - Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 40,000
● 1801 - John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
● 1810 - British Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
● 1810 - The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized in Tennessee as an outgrowth of the Great Revival of 1800. Standing between Calvinism and Arminianism, the denomination holds a "medium theology" which affirms unlimited atonement, universal grace, conditional election, eternal security of the believer and salvation of all children dying in infancy.
● 1819 - Birth of Emperor Norton I, fanciful San Francisco area monarch (self- proclaimed) of the mid-19th Century.
● 1822 - Emancipated U.S. blacks settle in Liberia, West Africa.
● 1824 - J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public
● 1825 - The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
● 1846 - Mormons leave Nauvoo MO for settlement in the west
● 1847 - 1st US telegraph company established in Maryland
● 1849 - University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
● 1854 - Alvan Bovay proposes the name "Republican Party", Ripon WI
● 1855 - Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
● 1859 - Codex Sinaiticus discovered in Egypt.
● 1861 - American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, Delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form The Confederate States of America.
● 1864 - Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
● 1865 - Hawaiian Board of Education formed
● 1866 - Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible
● 1869 - Birth of Big Bill Haywood, founder of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Salt Lake City, Utah.
● 1873 - Birth of George Bennard, American Methodist evangelist. He penned over 300 Gospel songs during his lifetime, but is primarily remembered today for one: "The Old Rugged Cross."
● 1874 - English poet and devotional writer Frances Ridley Havergal, 37, penned the words to the popular hymn of commitment, "Take My Life and Let It Be [Consecrated, Lord, to Thee]."
● 1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
● 1895 - 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
● 1899 - The Philippine-American War begins: Revolt against U.S. occupation forces begins in the Philippines. The Islands became a U.S. colony as a result of the Spanish-American War, ostensibly fought to free Cuba from foreign control (sic). Explained the president of the Philippine Commission - "We propose to stay there indefinitely in working out this good that we propose to do them."
● 1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh, the American aviator who became the first man to fly the Atlantic solo nonstop from the United States to Europe, was born.
● 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began after Japan laid seige to Port Arthur.
● 1913 - Birth of Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, Tuskegee, Alabama. Contrary to popular mythology, Parks was not simply a random bus rider. In 1943, she became one of the NAACP's first women members. She also joined the Montgomery Voters League to encourage black registration. In her most famous act of resistance, on December 1, 1955, Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger in a city bus, sparking the successful Montgomery bus boycott. Her activism made it impossible for her to find work in Montgomery. She moved to Detroit and continued working for civil rights.
● 1913 - Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim
● 1914 - US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law. {It is because of this law that my maternal grandmother, born in the US and having never left it, lost her citizenship when she married my yet to be naturalized grandfather. They were later made citizens in the same ceremony.}
● 1915 - Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Mississippi Penitentiary
● 1915 - Germany establishes a submarine blockade around the UK and declares any vessel in it a legitimate target.
● 1917 - Belgium Council of Flanders established
● 1919 - City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown
● 1920 - 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (1½ months)
● 1921 - Birth of Betty Friedan, founder of National Organization for Women. Peoria, Illinois.
● 1922 - Indian peasants at Churi Chauna attack village police, killing 21.
● 1926 - Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany
● 1930 - 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
● 1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
● 1933 - Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts
● 1933 - German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press
● 1936 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
● 1938 - Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
● 1941 - British tanks occupy Maus Libya
● 1941 - Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin
● 1941 - World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
● 1942 - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US General wounded in action in WWII
● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad ends.
● 1944 - US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein
● 1945 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta starting the Yalta Conference
● 1948 - Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
● 1949 - Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia.
● 1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot resolved in his journal: 'I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.'
● 1952 - First meeting of U.N. Disarmament Commission.
● 1956 - White student riot at University of Alabama against court-ordered admission of first Negro student.
● 1957 - Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc., of New York, began selling portable electric typewriters. The first machine weighed 19 pounds.
● 1957 - USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logs her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
● 1959 - Israel begins exporting copper ore
● 1961 - Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure
● 1964 - 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
● 1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1966 - All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
● 1967 - US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
● 1968 - More Kenyan Asians flee to Britain; Another 96 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya arrive in Britain, the latest in a growing exodus of Kenyan Asians fleeing discrimination.
● 1968 - The inspirational genius of the Beat writers, Prankster Neal Cassady, collapses and dies along railroad tracks, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.
● 1968 - The world's largest hovercraft was launched at Cowes, Isle of Wight.
● 1969 - Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
● 1970 - After 35 days, the Menominee Indians end their occupation of an unused Gresham, Wisconsin Roman Catholic novitiate, when the church promises to deed it to them for a tribal hospital.
● 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1971 - Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard & Mitchell)
● 1971 - British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
● 1971 - Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil
● 1971 - National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
● 1972 - 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
● 1972 - Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
● 1973 - Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled
● 1973 - Vietnam observers' struggle for peace; International inspection teams in Vietnam have been sent into the countryside to monitor the truce agreed last Saturday in Paris.
● 1974 - Gas rationing ends in Netherlands
● 1974 - Heiress Patricia Hearst is kidnapped in Berkeley by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which demands that the Hearst family organize and fund a free food program for poor people in Oakland. Several street feeds do take place before the program runs out of money in March.
● 1974 - Soldiers and children killed in coach bombing; Eleven people are killed in a bomb blast on a bus travelling to an army base in North Yorkshire.
● 1976 - Senate subcommittee reveals Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (the predecessor to today's Lockheed Martin) made payments abroad of $22 million in bribes to sell planes. Lockheed admits payments in Japan, Turkey, Italy, and Holland. Today, federal government agencies like the Export-Import Bank make such bribery unnecessary; now, the government does it for them.
● 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1976 - Violent earthquake strikes Guatemala City, Guatemala, killing 24,000 people, injuring 50,000. The quake rendered as much as one-sixth of the country's population homeless. Thousands more killed by aftershocks in the following days. Deaths occur throughout both Guatemala and Honduras.
● 1977 - Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago street (11 die, 200 hurt)
● 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
● 1982 - Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees
● 1983 - José Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium
● 1983 - Pop singer Karen Carpenter, 32, dies of heart failure brought on by anorexia nervosa.
● 1985 - 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
● 1985 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan's defense budget called for a tripling of the expenditure on the "Star Wars" research program.
● 1985 - Visit by U.S.S. Buchanan refused due to non-nuclear port policy, New Zealand.
● 1986 - Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)
● 1987 - Congress overrides Pres. Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act.
● 1987 - Gay pianist, fashion victim Liberace dies.
● 1988 - Defiant seamen strike on; Thousands of seamen at major British ports are continuing to strike even though their union has called an end to the action.
● 1988 - Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges
● 1990 - 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
● 1990 - Colombian government recognizes native rights to 69,000 square miles (slightly larger than area of state of Washington) in Amazon Basin, home to 55,000 native people.
● 1991 - The Baseball Hall of Fame votes to ban Pete Rose.
● 1991 - US postage raises from 25¢ to 29¢
● 1992 - A Coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez Frías, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
● 1993 - Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA
● 1993 - Russian scientists unfurled a giant mirror in orbit and flashed a beam of sunlight across Europe during the night. Observers saw it only as an momentary flash.
● 1994 - 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan
● 1996 - Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at -26°F (-22°C).
● 1996 - Start of week of marches for peace by thousands, Grozny, Chechnya.
● 1997 - After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
● 1997 - En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
● 1997 - O J Simpson found liable in murders of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson. {There is still no justice in this case of jury nullification as miniscule amounts of settlement are all that have benn paid.}
● 1997 - Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish.
● 1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
● 1998 - While in Brussels Belgium, Bill Gates is assaulted by a Belgian man and hit in the face with a cream pie.
● 1999 - Gary Coleman was sentenced to a $400 fine, a suspended 90-day jail sentence, and ordered to attend 52 anger-management classes. The sentence stemmed from Coleman assaulting an autograph seeker on July 30, 1998. {Coleman would later be on the recall ballot that unseated Gray Davis and put an Austrian body builder in the California governor's chair.}
● 1999 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela.
● 1999 - The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon
● 1999 - Warplanes from Israel attacked south Lebanon just after rockets were fired toward Israel. No casualties were claimed on either side.
● 2000 - Austrian President Thomas Klestil swore in a coalition government that included Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party. European Union sanctions were a result of the action.
● 2000 - German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
● 2002 - After a previous wave of police shootings of non-white suspects, New York City police mistakenly shoot and kill immigrant Amadou Diallo in a particularly egregious case of racial profiling; 15 days of civil disobedience bring changes in the city's police procedures.
● 2003 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
● 2004 - The Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marriage.
● 2006 - A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 88.
● 2006 - Thousands of Syrians enraged by caricatures of Islam's revered prophet torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. In Gaza, Palestinians marched through the streets, storming European buildings and burning German and Danish flags.
BIRTHS
● 1524 - Luis de Camões, Portugal's greatest poet. (d. 1580)
● 1575 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1629)
● 1620 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)
● 1646 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. 1699)
● 1677 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)
● 1688 - Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (d. 1763)
● 1725 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
● 1746 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish, Belarusian and Lithuanian national hero (d. 1817)
● 1778 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)
● 1799 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (d. 1854)
● 1802 - Mark Hopkins, American educator and theologian (d. 1887)
● 1841 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (d. 1926)
● 1846 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
● 1848 - Jean Aicard, French poet (d. 1921)
● 1849 - Jean Richepin, French poet (d. 1926)
● 1859 - Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya
● 1871 - Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
● 1873 - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905)
● 1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953)
● 1881 - Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)
● 1882 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)
● 1883 - George Kennedy Bell, English Anglican bishop of Chichester (d. 1958)
● 1892 - Andreu Nin, Catalan politician (d. 1937)
● 1893 - Raymond Dart, Australian-born. South African physical anthropologist (d. 1988)
● 1895 - Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)
● 1896 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (d. 1938)
● 1896 - Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
● 1897 - Ludwig Erhard, 2nd Bundeskanzler of Germany (d. 1977)
● 1900 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and lyricist (d. 1977)
● 1902 - Charles Lindbergh, American pilot {and Nazi sympathizer} (d. 1974)
● 1902 - Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
● 1904 - MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (d. 1977)
● 1905 - Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)
● 1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
● 1906 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (d. 1945)
● 1908 - Julian Bell, British poet (d. 1937)
● 1912 - Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006)
● 1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)
● 1912 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)
● 1912 - Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian politician (d. 1999)
● 1913 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
● 1914 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980)
● 1915 - Norman Wisdom, English actor and comedian
● 1915 - William Talman, American actor (1968)
● 1916 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi Order (d. 1980)
● 1917 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1980)
● 1918 - Ida Lupino, English film actress and director (d. 1995)
● 1918 - Janet Waldo, American actress
● 1918 - Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher (d. 1991)
● 1921 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)
● 1921 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)
● 1922 - William Phipps, Actor
● 1923 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-born actor
● 1925 - Russell Hoban, American writer
● 1929 - Jerry Adler, American actor
● 1931 - Isabel Martínez de Perón, third wife of Argentine dictator Juan Perón
● 1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
● 1936 - David Brenner, American comedian
● 1936 - Gary Conway, American actor
● 1937 - David Newman, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
● 1938 - Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
● 1940 - George Romero, American director, screenwriter and producer
● 1940 - John Schuck, American actor (M*A*S*H, McMillian and Wife)
● 1941 - John Steel, British musician (The Animals)
● 1943 - Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese president of the regional government of Madeira
● 1943 - Ken Thompson, American computer scientist
● 1944 - Florence LaRue, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
● 1945 - David Brenner, Comedian
● 1947 - Dan "p-o-t-a-t-o-e" Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States
● 1948 - Alice Cooper, American musician
● 1949 - Michael Beck, American actor
● 1950 - Pamela Franklin, British actress
● 1951 - Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer and musician
● 1951 - Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
● 1951 - Phil Ehart, American musician (Kansas)
● 1951 - Stan Papi, American baseball player
● 1952 - Jerry Shirley, drummer of rock band Humble Pie.
● 1952 - Li Yinhe, Chinese Sexologist
● 1952 - Lisa Eichhorn, American actress (L. A. Law)
● 1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer
● 1955 - Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak Prime minister
● 1957 - Don Davis, American composer
● 1957 - Evan Wolfson, American attorney and activist
● 1958 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer
● 1959 - Lawrence Taylor, American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1959 - Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
● 1960 - Jenette Goldstein, American actress
● 1960 - Jonathan Larson, American composer of "RENT" and other musicals (d. 1996)
● 1960 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (d. 2007)
● 1960 - Tim Booth, British singer (James)
● 1961 - Denis Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1961 - Henry Bogdan, Rock musician
● 1961 - Stewart O'Nan, American author
● 1962 - Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian
● 1962 - Clint Black, American musician
● 1962 - Michael Riley, Canadian actor
● 1963 - Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier
● 1964 - Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)
● 1965 - Jerome Brown, American football player (d. 1992)
● 1966 - Dave Buchanan, Country musician (Yankee Grey)
● 1966 - Kyoko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
● 1966 - Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist
● 1967 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995)
● 1968 - Marko Matvere, Estonian actor
● 1969 - Dallas Drake, ice hockey player
● 1969 - Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace)
● 1970 - Gabrielle Anwar, English actress
● 1971 - David Garza, Rock singer
● 1971 - Michael A. Goorjian, American actor
● 1971 - Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian
● 1972 - Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
● 1973 - Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-born boxer
● 1974 - Eric Townsend, American musician and record producer
● 1975 - Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
● 1975 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress
● 1975 - Rick Burch, Rock musician (Jimmy Eat World)
● 1976 - Cam'ron, American rapper
● 1977 - Gavin DeGraw, American musician
● 1978 - Danna Garcia, Colombian actress
● 1979 - Andrei Arlovski, Russian mixed martial artist
● 1979 - Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing car driver
● 1979 - Jacques Copeau, French actor/critic/director (d. 1949)
● 1981 - Jason Kapono, America Professional Basketball Player
● 1981 - Tom Mastny, Indonesian baseball player
● 1982 - Chris Sabin, American professional wrestler
● 1982 - Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
● 1982 - Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist
● 1984 - Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
● 1985 - Bug Hall, American actor
● 1986 - Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer
● 1987 - Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
● 1988 - Alexandros Pagalis, Greek footballer
● 1988 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast
● 1988 - Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player
DEATHS
● 211 - Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)
● 708 - Pope Sisinnius
● 856 - Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz
● 869 - Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827)
● 1508 - Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)
● 1590 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)
● 1615 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
● 1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian physicist (b. 1535)
● 1694 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
● 1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671)
● 1774 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
● 1781 - Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (b. 1737)
● 1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
● 1894 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker (b. 1814)
● 1905 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
● 1928 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1853)
● 1933 - Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)
● 1936 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
● 1940 - Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
● 1943 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (b. 1877)
● 1944 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
● 1944 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
● 1958 - Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)
● 1959 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
● 1966 - Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American president of the National Geographic Society (b. 1875)
● 1967 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
● 1968 - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
● 1969 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905)
● 1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)
● 1975 - Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
● 1975 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
● 1977 - Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)
● 1982 - Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)
● 1982 - Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge (b. 1909)
● 1983 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and musician (Carpenters) (anorexia) (b. 1950)
● 1984 - Anna Anderson, claimant to the throne of Russia
● 1987 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
● 1987 - Liberace, American musician (b. 1919)
● 1990 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1917)
● 1992 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)
● 1995 - Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher (b. 1915)
● 1995 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
● 2000 - Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
● 2000 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941)
● 2000 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
● 2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (b. 1922)
● 2001 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (b. 1924)
● 2002 - George Nader, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
● 2003 - Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (b. 1920)
● 2003 - Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Ossie Davis, American actor (b. 1917)
● 2006 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)
● 2006 - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
● 2007 - Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
● 2007 - Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959)
● 2007 - José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup footballer (b. 1925)
● 2007 - Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
● 2007 - Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (b. 1938)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aldate
● St. Andrew Corsini, bishop of Fiesole/confessor
● St. Aventinus of Chartres
● St. Eutychius
● St. Gilbert of Sempringham (d. 1189)
● St. Joan of Valois
● St. John de Britto, Portuguese Jesuit
● St. John Stone
● St. Joseph of Leonissa
● St. Liephard
● St. Modan
● St. Nicholas Studites
● St. Nithard
● St. Obitius
● St. Rembert of Torhout
● St. Theophilus the Penitent
● St. Veronica, patron saint of photographers
● St. Vincent of Troyes
● St. Vulgis
● Bl. John Speed
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 22 (Civil Date: February 4)
● Apostle Timothy of the Seventy.
● Monk-martyr Anastasius the Persian.
● Martyrs Manuel, Parodus, presbyters; and 377 companions in Bulgaria.
● Martyr Anastasius the deacon of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Macarius, abbot of Zhabyn.
● St. Ioasaph, Enlightener of Alaska and the American land.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Joseph Samakus the Sanctified of Crete.
● Anglican:
● Cornelius the Centurion
● Ancient Latvia - Biezputras Diena observed.
● Angola - Anniversary of the Outbreak of Armed Struggle against Portuguese Colonialism.
● Sri Lanka - Independence Day (1948).
● US - Kosciuszko Day
● World Cancer Day
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - ( Sunday )
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING EIGHT SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
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This Original Wikipedia List form the core of this post.
Additional facts taken from:
Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
Roman Catholic Saint of the Day
Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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