Day of the week in surrounding years:
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—MON—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—TUE—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—WED—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—THU—2010
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—FRI—2011
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—SAT—2012
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—SUN—2013
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 5 is the 2nd possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 28 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 34th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
346, 357, 441, 452, 536, 699, 783, 794, 878, 889, 973, 984, 1068, 1231, 1315, 1326, 1410, 1421, 1505, 1516, 1845, 1913
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2600, 2972, 3496, 3564, 3648, 3716
It is unlikely that any living human will experience Ash Wednesday on this date unless they were born prior to 1913.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Civil Rights "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Cakewalk: Ongoing War "The cost of the war will be small. We can afford the war, and we'll put it behind us." — Treasury Secretary John W. Snow before the House Ways and Means Committee. David E. Rosenbaum, "tax cuts and war have seldom mixed," New York Times, 3-9-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head, you might be in the past tense." — 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 5, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 3% Age: 94% Rise: 6:27 AM Set: 4:16 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 5, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 4% Age: 94% Rise: 6:34 AM Set: 4:45 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 5, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 4% Age: 94% Rise: 6:34 AM Set: 3:55 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 5, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 4% Age: 94% Rise: 6:13 AM Set: 3:28 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Three Month Composite of Comet Holmes
Credit & Copyright: John Pane
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 816 - Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity
● 1428 - King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
● 1488 - Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
● 1512 - French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna
● 1556 - Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles
● 1572 - Beggars assault Oisterwijk Netherlands, drive nuns out
● 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France.
● 1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
● 1631 - English clergyman Roger Williams first arrived in America. He soon began questioning Massachusetts' religious policies which fused church and state matters. Williams was banished to Rhode Island five years later, where at Providence he established the first Baptist church in America.
● 1644 - 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
● 1649 - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
● 1663 - Earthquake in Canada
● 1679 - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
● 1736 - The English Wesley brothers, John (32) and Charles (28) first arrived in America at Savannah, GA. They had been invited by Georgia governor James Oglethorpe as missionaries to the American Indians.
● 1777 - Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture
● 1778 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
● 1782 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
● 1783 - Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000
● 1783 - Sweden recognizes US independence
● 1795 - Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French General Michaud
● 1812 - American missionary Adoniram Judson, 23, married schoolteacher Ann Hasseltine, 22. Two weeks later the couple set sail for India under sponsorship of the American Congregational Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
● 1817 - 1st US gas company incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
● 1818 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
● 1825 - Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates 1st detachable shirt collar
● 1826 - New Harmony Community of Equality founded in Indiana.
● 1830 - First daily labor paper, "New York Daily Sentinel," begins publication.
● 1831 - Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30
● 1833 - Montreal Mechanics Mutual Protective Society founded. Beginning of Canadian movement for the 10-hour work day.
● 1846 - Birth of Bavarian-born American anarchist Johann Most. Advocate of "propaganda by the deed."
● 1846 - The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper on the Pacific coast of the United States.
● 1850 - Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
● 1855 - British government of Palmerston forms
● 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities.
● 1861 - 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati
● 1861 - Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia PA
● 1861 - Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
● 1864 - Federals occupy Jackson MS
● 1865 - Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
● 1870 - 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
● 1875 - Birth of Manuel Devaldes (aka Ernest-Edmond Lohy), Evreux, France. Libertarian, pacifist, and neo-Malthusian.
● 1879 - Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
● 1881 - Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated.
● 1885 - King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
● 1885 - News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
● 1887 - Snow falls on San Francisco
● 1887 - The Chicago Evangelization Society was organized by evangelist D. L. Moody, 50. Two years later, the Society established the Bible Institute for Home and Foreign Missions. Moody died in 1899, and in 1900 the school was renamed Moody Bible Institute.
● 1894 - Auguste Vaillant is executed after having thrown a small bomb into the French Chamber of Deputies in Dec. 1893. A symbolic gesture, meant to wound rather than kill, the deputies use the event to suppress the anarchist press.
● 1894 - Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
● 1897 - Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
● 1897 - The Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a measure redefining the area of a circle and the value of pi. (The bill died in the state Senate.) {and these are the people we want to decide what to teach our children?}
● 1900 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson, the American politician and diplomat, was born. {Unsuccessful Democratic nominee in 1952 and 1956, never stood a chance against war hero, Ike Eisenhower.}
● 1900 - British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal
● 1900 - The U.S. and Britain signed the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, which gave the U.S. the right to build a canal in Nicaragua but not the right fortify it.
● 1900 - The United States and the United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal
● 1901 - Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
● 1904 - American occupation of Cuba ends
● 1911 - Mexico - Guadalupe is captured by the revolutionary anarchist forces of Ricardo Flores Magon's Liberal Party.
● 1914 - Birth of William Burroughs, St. Louis, Missouri.
● 1917 - The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States.
● 1917 - The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
● 1918 - First U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson.
● 1918 - Separation of church & state begins in USSR
● 1919 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
● 1922 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest. (Some sources say February 7.)
● 1922 - Fifty-seven thousand Berlin public utility workers strike, stopping light and water.
● 1923 - General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
● 1923 - Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
● 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
● 1930 - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
● 1936 - Charlie Chaplin releases the last movie of the silent film era, Modern Times.
● 1937 - In an attempt to insure rulings favorable to his administration, Franklin D. Roosevelt requested authority to enlarge -- "pack" -- the U.S. Supreme Court. {The size of the court is by statute not constitutionally set. FDR was not successful.}
● 1940 - General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
● 1941 - Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
● 1943 - Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots Nazi General Seyffardt
● 1943 - Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
● 1944 - 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin
● 1944 - German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'Much that worries us beforehand can afterwards, quite unexpectedly, have a happy and simple solution... Things really are in a better hand than ours.'
● 1945 - British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim
● 1945 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
● 1946 - The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
● 1947 - Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland
● 1958 - A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
● 1958 - Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)
● 1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
● 1961 - The Sunday Telegraph publishes its first issue.
● 1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.
● 1962 - Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed
● 1962 - Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16º
● 1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
● 1963 - Soviet lunar probe failure
● 1967 - Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua
● 1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.
● 1969 - US population reaches 200 million
● 1970 - U.S. troops invade Laos.
● 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1971 - Project Apollo: Apollo 14 Mission - Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell aboard LM, Antares land on the Moon at Fra Mauro formation.
● 1972 - Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
● 1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
● 1973 - Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War.
● 1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
● 1974 - British mine strike
● 1974 - John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.
● 1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
● 1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters ever to hit New England, forms.
● 1980 - Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
● 1981 - Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy
● 1982 - DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
● 1982 - Laker Airways collapse owing £270 million ($351 million)
● 1982 - Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Netherlands
● 1983 - Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
● 1985 - Australian Prime Minister Robert Hawke refuses to allow U.S. use of bases to monitor an MX missile test.
● 1986 - Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
● 1987 - Dow Jones average closes above 2,200 for 1st time
● 1987 - Soyuz TM-2 launches
● 1988 - Comic Relief holds the first "Red Nose Day", which raises £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.
● 1988 - Panama's General Manuel Noriega, a CIA asset, is indicted by a grand jury in Miami, Florida on charges of receiving $4.5 million in payoffs from large-scale drug dealers.
● 1988 - The Arizona House of Representatives impeached Gov. Evan Mecham, setting the stage for his conviction in the state Senate.
● 1991 - A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides
● 1991 - Forty-nine German troops conscientiously object to going to Turkey for Gulf War.
● 1992 - Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case
● 1993 - Federal judge Kimba Wood, President Bill Clinton's expected choice for attorney general, withdrew from consideration, saying her baby sitter had been an illegal alien for seven years.
● 1993 - Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160
● 1993 - R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA
● 1994 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. {Thirty-one years too late, justice delayed is justice denied. This bigot even used to flaunt his freedom to Evers' widow. Excellent made for TV movie made with Whoopi Goldberg as Evers' widow.}
● 1994 - Market massacre in Sarajevo; A mortar bomb explodes in the main market square in Sarajevo killing 68 and wounding 200 people.
● 1995 - Japan's Shinshinto Party win local elections
● 1996 - First GM food goes on sale in UK; Two British supermarket chains will be stocking genetically modified tomato puree from today - the first GM food to be sold in this country.
● 1997 - Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter investment banks announce a $10 billion merger.
● 1997 - The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families. {Another sad example of way too little, way too late.}
● 1997 - U.S. Ambassador Pamela Harriman died in Paris at age 76.
● 1999 - Mike Tyson was sentenced to a year in jail for assaulting two people after a car accident on August 31, 1998. Tyson was also fined $5,000, had to serve 2 years of probation, and had to perform 200 hours of community service upon release.
● 2001 - Fifty-four ancient statues of Buddha sledgehammered by Taliban, National Museum, Kabul, Afghanistan.
● 2001 - Four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
● 2002 - A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh, the so-called ''American Taliban,'' on 10 charges, alleging that he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and that he conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans.
● 2003 - Secretary of State Colin Powell urged the U.N. Security Council to move against Iraq, saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was harboring terrorists - claims that later turned out to be false. {Let's be perfectly clear here—he lied.}
● 2004 - Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
● 2004 - Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
BIRTHS
● 976 - Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (d. 1017)
● 1505 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
● 1519 - René of Châlon, (d. 1544)
● 1534 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer (d. 1612)
● 1589 - Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
● 1608 - Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)
● 1626 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French author (d. 1696)
● 1650 - Anne-Jules, French general (d. 1708)
● 1703 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764)
● 1725 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)
● 1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
● 1795 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871)
● 1804 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)
● 1808 - Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)
● 1810 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
● 1837 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899)
● 1840 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (Maxim gun) (d. 1916)
● 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)
● 1848 - Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889)
● 1848 - Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882)
● 1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (d. 1907)
● 1878 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
● 1880 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
● 1889 - Ernest Tyldesley, British cricketer (d. 1962)
● 1898 - Ralph E. McGill, American journalist (d. 1969)
● 1900 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)
● 1903 - Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (d. 1975)
● 1906 - John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
● 1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (d. 1969)
● 1910 - Charles Leblond, Canadian Cell Biologist (d. 2007)
● 1910 - Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
● 1911 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
● 1914 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1998)
● 1914 - William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)
● 1915 - Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)
● 1919 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
● 1919 - Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
● 1919 - Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)
● 1920 - Frank Muir, British comedian (d. 1998)
● 1921 - John Pritchard, British conductor (d. 1989)
● 1922 - Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (d. 1994)
● 1923 - Claude King, American musician
● 1927 - Ruth Fertel, American entrepreneur (d. 2002)
● 1928 - Andrew Greeley, American priest and novelist
● 1929 - Al Worthington, baseball player
● 1929 - Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician
● 1929 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
● 1930 - John A. Gambling, American radio show host (d. 2004)
● 1933 - Jörn Donner, Finnish writer/director
● 1934 - Don Cherry, Canadian hockey commentator
● 1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player
● 1937 - Stuart Damon, American actor (''General Hospital'')
● 1937 - Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist
● 1940 - H.R. Giger, Swiss artist
● 1941 - Barrett Strong, Singer-songwriter
● 1941 - David Selby, American actor
● 1941 - Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist
● 1941 - Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor
● 1941 - Stephen J. Cannell, TV writer-producer
● 1942 - Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night)
● 1942 - Roger Staubach, American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1943 - Craig Morton, American football player
● 1943 - Michael Mann, American film director
● 1943 - Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer
● 1944 - Al Kooper, American musician
● 1946 - Charlotte Rampling, British actress
● 1947 - Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver
● 1948 - Barbara Hershey, American actress
● 1948 - Christopher Guest, American actor
● 1948 - Errol Morris, American film director
● 1948 - Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
● 1949 - Nigel Olsson, drummer
● 1952 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter (d. 1986)
● 1953 - John Beilein, American basketball coach
● 1954 - Cliff Martinez, American musician
● 1955 - Jorge Ferreira, Portuguese-American singer
● 1955 - Mike Heath, baseball player
● 1956 - Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver
● 1959 - Jennifer Granholm, Governor of Michigan
● 1960 - Aris Christofellis, Greek countertenor
● 1961 - Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager
● 1961 - Tim Meadows, Actor-comedian (''Saturday Night Live'')
● 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
● 1963 - Steven Shainberg, American film director
● 1964 - Alexia, Cypriot singer
● 1964 - Duff McKagen, American musician (Guns N' Roses)
● 1964 - Laura Linney, American actress
● 1965 - Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
● 1966 - Apostolos Nanos, Greek archer
● 1966 - Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
● 1968 - Chris Barron, Rock singer (Spin Doctors)
● 1968 - Eyþór Guðjónsson, Icelandic actor
● 1968 - Roberto Alomar, baseball player
● 1969 - Bobby Brown, American singer
● 1969 - Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
● 1971 - Sara Evans, American singer
● 1972 - Koriki Chōshū, Japanese comedian
● 1972 - Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
● 1973 - Richard Matvichuk, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1973 - Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch singer
● 1975 - Adam Carson, American musician (AFI)
● 1975 - Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer
● 1976 - Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
● 1976 - Brian Moorman, American football player
● 1976 - John Aloisi, Australian footballer
● 1976 - Tony Jaa, Thai actor
● 1977 - Adam Everett, American baseball player
● 1977 - Ahmad Merritt, American football player
● 1977 - Ben Ainslie, British sailor
● 1978 - Brian Russell, American football player
● 1978 - Shawn Reaves, American actor
● 1980 - Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer
● 1980 - Jo Swinson, British politician
● 1980 - Prince Peter, American-born Yugoslav royalty
● 1980 - Robin Vik, Czech tennis player
● 1981 - Loukas Vyntra, Greek football player
● 1981 - Nora Zehetner, American actress
● 1982 - Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007)
● 1982 - Kevin Everett, American football player
● 1982 - Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer
● 1982 - Tomas Kopecky, Ice hockey player
● 1984 - Carlos Tévez, Argentinine footballer
● 1984 - Nate Salley, American football player
● 1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
● 1985 - Crystal Hunt, American actress
● 1985 - Laurence Maroney, American football player
● 1985 - Lindsey Cardinale, American singer
● 1986 - Billy Sharp, English footballer
● 1986 - Billy Sharp, English footballer
● 1986 - Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
● 1986 - Reed Sorenson, American racecar driver
● 1989 - Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress
● 1989 - Jeremy Sumpter, American actor (''Peter Pan'')
DEATHS
● 995 - William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
● 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
● 1578 - Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter
● 1705 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
● 1766 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
● 1775 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)
● 1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
● 1807 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725)
● 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)
● 1892 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807)
● 1915 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
● 1917 - Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
● 1922 - Christiaan De Wet, South African general (b. 1854)
● 1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
● 1927 - Inayat Khan, Indian sufi
● 1937 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)
● 1938 - Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)
● 1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)
● 1946 - George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868))
● 1948 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
● 1957 - Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
● 1962 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)
● 1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
● 1969 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905)
● 1970 - Rudy York, baseball player (b. 1913)
● 1972 - Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)
● 1976 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)
● 1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
● 1981 - Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
● 1984 - Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta "Santo", Mexican wrestler and film actor (b. 1917)
● 1985 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (b. 1907)
● 1987 - William Collier, American film and stage actor (b. 1902)
● 1991 - Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
● 1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
● 1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909)
● 1993 - Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958)
● 1995 - Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
● 1997 - Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920)
● 1998 - Tim Kelly, American musician; Lead guitar player for Slaughter from 1988-1998 (b. 1963)
● 1999 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)
● 2000 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)
● 2003 - Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer
● 2004 - John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
● 2005 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
● 2006 - Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
● 2006 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
● 2007 - Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)
● 2007 - Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983–1995) (b. 1930)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abraham
● St. Adelaide of Bellich
● St. Agatha of Sicily, patron saint of firework makers and glass blowers.
● St. Avitus of Vienne
● St. Bertolf
● St. Jeanne de Valois, French foundress
● St. Leo Karasuma
● St. Louis Ibachi
● St. Modestus
● St. Philip of Jesus
● St. Vodoaldus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 23 (Civil Date: February 5)
● Hieromartyr Clement, Bishop of Ancyra, and Martyr Agathangelus.
● St. Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola.
● St. Mausimas the Syrian, monk.
● St. Salamanes the Silent of the Euprates, monk.
● St. Gennadius of Kostroma, monk.
● Commemoration of the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
● St. Eusubius, recluse of Mt.
● Coryphe near Antioch.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Theoctistus, Bishop of Novgorod.
● St. Lupicinus of Lipidiaco (Gaul).
● Repose of Abbot Damascene of Valaam (1881).
● Anglican and Lutheran:
● 26 martyrs of Japan killed by Tagosama
● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Philip of Jesus, 1st Christian martyr in Japan
● Baptist:
● Roger Williams Day
● Kashmir Day observed as public holiday in Pakistan.
● Finland celebrates the birth of its national poet, Johan Ludvig Runeberg. (1804)
● Japan : Japanese Martyrs Day (26 martyrs-1597)
● México : Constitution Day (1857 & 1917)
● Roman calendar : Nonae Februarius
● San Marino : Liberation Day
● Tanzania : Birth of the Afro Shirazi Party
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - ( Sunday )
● World : Boy Scouts Day (1910) - ( 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.
This Previous Day in History Post With
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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