Day of the week in surrounding years:
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—MON—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—TUE—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—WED—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—THU—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—FRI—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—SAT—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—SUN—2011
PASCAL DATE INFORMATION
Easter Sunday for the Western Christian Church is defined as the first Sunday following the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. Lent is defined as the forty days prior to Easter not including Sundays thus Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is 46 days prior to Easter. Calculations for Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday were performed for the 3774 years from 326 to 4099. For the year range 326 to 1582, dates are based on the Julian calendar. For years 1583 to 4099, dates are based on the Gregorian calendar. Ash Wednesday falls in a range of 36 days from February 4 to March 10. Easter Sunday falls in a range of 35 days from March 22 to April 25. The extra day in the Ash Wednesday range is February 29, which only occurs in leap years. February 29 only effects when Ash Wednesday occurs since it is well before the Spring Equinox and has no effect on the date for Easter Sunday. March 10 to March 21 is a twelve-day range that must occur in Lent no matter the timing of Easter Sunday. The entire range of 82 dates from February 4 to April 25 represents all dates with Pascal ramifications.
February 6 is the 3rd possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 51 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 31st of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
384, 547, 631, 642, 726, 737, 821, 832, 916, 1079, 1163, 1174, 1258, 1269, 1353, 1364, 1448, 1636, 1704, 1788, 1799, 1856
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2008, 2160, 2228, 2380, 2391, 2475, 2532, 2543, 2695, 2752, 2847, 2915, 2999, 3067, 3124, 3219, 3371, 3439, 3507, 3591, 3675, 3686, 3743, 3754, 3811, 3895, 3963, 4047, 4058
It is likely that this is the earliest date any living human will experience Ash Wednesday in the year 2008.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Class "Class interests are best served when masked as national interests." — Unknown
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Treaties No, New Nukes Yes "To date, more than 50 generals, admirals and senior foreign policy leaders have come out in opposition to the treaty, including, I might add, defense secretaries of every single Republican administration since Nixon . . . ." — Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, responding to President Clinton's call for passage of an international treaty outlawing chemical weapons. Thomas W. Lippman, "Sen. Helms Offers List of Treaty Opponents," Washington Post, 4-5-97.—Part 1 of 2 {Due to the length of some of these nutball quotes, I have decided to split the longer ones into parts. I could have abridged them but I think that would have lessened the impact of showing just how crazy these guys are. Please refer to previous and/or subsequent posts for complete quote.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed and their head gets more stagnant on that side." — 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)
New Moon: Feb 6, 2008 7:45 PM Percent of Full: 0% Age: 100% Rise: 7:02 AM Set: 5:24 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
New Moon: Feb 6, 2008 8:45 PM Percent of Full: 0% Age: 100% Rise: 7:12 AM Set: 5:51 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
New Moon: Feb 6, 2008 9:45 PM Percent of Full: 0% Age: 100% Rise: 7:06 AM Set: 5:06 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
New Moon: Feb 6, 2008 10:45 PM Percent of Full: 0% Age: 100% Rise: 6:44 AM Set: 4:39 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
A Sunspot in the New Solar Cycle
Credit & Copyright: Greg Piepol
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 46 B.C.E. - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio and Juba at Thapsus.
● 337 - Julius I is elected pope.
● 679 - Death of Amandus, the founder of Belgian monasticism. During his 95 years, he established eight abbeys, five in the Southern Netherlands.
● 1508 - Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor
● 1577 - King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots
● 1626 - Huguenot rebels & the French sign Peace of La Rochelle
● 1651 - Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris
● 1685 - James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
● 1693 - Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg VA
● 1716 - England & Netherlands renew alliance
● 1756 - Aaron Burr, America's third vice president, was born in Newark, N.J.
● 1778 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
● 1778 - England declares war on France
● 1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
● 1806 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - Action of 6 February 1806.
● 1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
● 1817 - The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
● 1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
● 1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
● 1820 - US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%)) {With the constitutionally mandated three-fifths rule is applied this number is really 2,952,760.}
● 1832 - 1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland
● 1832 - U.S. ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy.
● 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
● 1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.'
● 1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
● 1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
● 1861 - 1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America
● 1861 - English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships
● 1862 - American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the Battle of Fort Henry. Ten days later he captures Fort Donelson; Grant earns the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant.
● 1862 - Naval Engagement at Tennessee River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle
● 1864 - Birth of gay individualist anarchist novelist/poet John Henry Mackay.
● 1864 - Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia
● 1865 - 2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run)
● 1867 - Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South
● 1869 - Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
● 1872 - Birth of Luigi Bertoni (1872-1947), Milan, Italy. Swiss anarchist, typographer. Fought on the Huesca front with Italian comrades during the Spanish Revolution.
● 1878 - General Trepoff, enemy of the Russian popular movement, is shot by Vera Sassulitch.
● 1891 - 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
● 1895 - George Herman 'Babe' Ruth, baseball's great star, was born.
● 1899 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898), a peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.
● 1900 - Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
● 1900 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
● 1900 - U.S. President McKinley appointed W. H. Taft as commissioner to report on the Philippines.
● 1902 - Young Women's Hebrew Association organized in New York NY
● 1904 - Russian-Japanese war began
● 1909 - Act of Congress makes it illegal to sell alcohol to natives of Alaska.
● 1910 - Philadelphia shirtwaist makers voted to accept arbitration offer and end strike as Triangle Shirtwaist strike winds down.
● 1911 - 1st old-age home opened in Prescott AZ
● 1911 - Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
● 1911 - Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born in Tampico, Ill. {Years of conservative regression to follow later.}
● 1918 - Women over the age of 30 are given the right to vote in England.
● 1919 - In one of the largest labor demonstrations in U.S. history, the five day Seattle general strike takes control of the city of Seattle in support of 32,000 striking longshoremen.
● 1920 - Saarland administrated by League of Nations
● 1922 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
● 1922 - The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
● 1923 - On hundred seventy-two revolutionary peasants condemned to death at Chanch, India.
● 1924 - Station KFSG (Kall Four Square Gospel) went on the air. One of the earliest radio stations licensed, it broadcast the services of Angelus Temple, the flagship congregation of the International Foursquare Gospel Church, founded by Aimee Semple Mc Pherson in 1923.
● 1931 - Pioneer American linguist and missionary Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'There is a deep peace that grows out of illness and loneliness and a sense of failure. God cannot get close when everything is delightful. He seems to need these darker hours, these empty-hearted hours, to mean the most to people.'
● 1932 - Fascist coup in the Memel territory
● 1933 - 20th Amendment goes into effect; Presidential term begins in Jan not March
● 1933 - -90ºF (-68ºC), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
● 1933 - Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 meters (112 feet), in Pacific hurricane near Manila
● 1933 - President von Hindenburg & von Papen end Prussian parliament
● 1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
● 1934 - February 6, 1934 political crisis in France. The far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, an attempted coup against the Third Republic.
● 1935 - 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
● 1937 - K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer
● 1938 - Algeria - Han Ryner (1895-1938) dies. French teacher, anticlericalist, pacifist, anarchist, philosopher.
● 1939 - Spain - 130,000 refugees cross the border, fleeing Franco's Fascists. This includes the Spanish government fleeing to France.
● 1941 - Battle of Beda Fomm Italian 10th army destroyed
● 1941 - British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
● 1943 - 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
● 1943 - U.S. government requires the 110,000 Japanese-Americans imprisoned in internment camps to answer loyalty surveys.
● 1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz
● 1945 - Birth of reggae revolutionary Bob Marley, Spanish Town, Jamaica.
● 1945 - Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder
● 1947 - Three shots fired at Minneapolis mayor Hubert Humphrey as he returned home after a political meeting. All three bullets missed their mark, and no trace was ever found of the would-be assassin.
● 1948 - 1st radio-controlled airplane flown
● 1951 - Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago IL
● 1951 - The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
● 1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Illinois), to demonstrate lax in security
● 1952 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Christianity, disruptive in nature, has nonetheless integrating powers for the individual in the culture, though both he and it may expect revolution.'
● 1952 - First session of U.N. Population Commission.
● 1952 - King George VI dies in his sleep; His Majesty, King George VI, dies peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House, aged 56. Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya. England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II.
● 1953 - US controls on wages & some consumer goods were lifted.
● 1956 - Autherine Lucy, the first black student to enter the University of Alabama, is suspended after three days of riots due to her presence. It is not clear why the University, in its vast academic wisdom, did not elect to suspend the rioters.
● 1956 - Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing
● 1956 - French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
● 1956 - St. Patrick Center opened in Kankakee, IL. It was the first circular school building in the United States.
● 1958 - United players killed in air disaster; Seven Manchester United footballers are among 21 dead after an air crash in Munich.
● 1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
● 1959 - Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
● 1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
● 1961 - The jail-in movement begins when students in Rock Hill, South Carolina are arrested and demand jail time rather than fines.
● 1964 - France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel.
● 1967 - Cultural Revolution in Albania
● 1968 - Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam
● 1968 - Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one
● 1971 - NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft, Apollo 14, and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.
● 1972 - Over 500,000 irate letters arrive at CBS-TV, when word leaks out the network would air an edited-for-TV version of the X-rated movie, The Demand.
● 1973 - Two hundred American Indian Movement protesters clash with police for three days in Custer, S. Dak., over murder of Wesley Bad Heart; 37 arrested.
● 1974 - Dutch speed limit set at 100 km/hr due to oil crisis
● 1974 - US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
● 1975 - Heline Patou (1902-1975) dies. French writer, militant anarchist and neo-Malthusian.
● 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1976 - Native American activist Leonard Peltier is captured in Canada and, on the basis of fictitious affidavits generated by the FBI, is later extradited to the U.S.
● 1978 - Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Senator-D-MN) takes his office
● 1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
● 1979 - Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto
● 1983 - 'Butcher of Lyon' returns to face trial; War criminal and former Gestapo commandant, Klaus Barbie, arrives in France to stand trial for crimes committed 37 years previously.
● 1984 - Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
● 1985 - Peace camp evicted by army at CIA base, Molesworth, Britain.
● 1985 - Steve Wozniak leaves Apple Computer.
● 1985 - The French mineral water company, Perrier, debuted its first new product in 123 years. The new items were water with a twist of lemon, lime or orange.
● 1987 - No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
● 1987 - President Ronald Reagan turned 76 years old this day and became the oldest U.S. President in history.
● 1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
● 1989 - Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government
● 1989 - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman died at age 77.
● 1992 - The Saami people of Scandinavia have an official day celebrating their existence.
● 1993 - Tennis hall-of-famer Arthur Ashe died at age 49.
● 1994 - José Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica
● 1994 - Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland
● 1996 - A Turkish Airlines Boeing 757 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Dominican Republic killing 189.
● 1996 - Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence
● 1997 - Widow allowed dead husband's baby; The Court of Appeal makes an historic judgment in favor of Diane Blood who will be allowed to be inseminated with her dead husband's sperm.
● 1998 - In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna.
● 1998 - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7½ years
● 1998 - President Bill Clinton signed a bill changing the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
● 1999 - Excerpts of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky's videotaped testimony were shown at President Clinton's impeachment trial.
● 1999 - Heavy fighting resumed along the common border between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
● 1999 - King Hussein of Jordan transferred full political power to his oldest son the Crown Prince Abdullah.
● 2000 - In Finland, Foreign Minister Tarja Halonen became the first woman to be elected president.
● 2000 - Russia's acting President Vladimir Putin announced that Russian forces had captured Grozny, Chechnya. The capital city had been under the control of Chechen rebels.
● 2000 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton formally declared that she was a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from the state of New York.
● 2001 - Ariel Sharon was elected Israeli prime minister.
● 2002 - A federal judge ordered John Walker Lindh to be held without bail pending trial. Lindh was known as the "American Taliban."
● 2003 - ABC's ''20/20'' aired a British documentary on Michael Jackson in which the singer revealed he sometimes let children sleep in his bed.
● 2004 - In Russia, a suicide-attack in a Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on Chechen separatist groups.
● 2005 - Blair is Labour's longest-serving PM; British Prime Minister Tony Blair marks 2,838 days in his post at Number 10.
● 2005 - Jerrick De Leon, born 13 weeks premature, becomes the world's smallest infant to survive an open-heart procedure called an arterial switch.
● 2006 - The Conservative Party of Canada becomes a minority government in Canada's Parliament, replacing the Liberals after 13 years in power. Stephen Harper becomes the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada.
● 2007 - A denial-of-service attack is mounted against the Internet's DNS root servers.
BIRTHS
● 1577 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)
● 1608 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
● 1611 - Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
● 1639 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
● 1664 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d, 1703)
● 1665 - Queen Anne of England (d. 1714)
● 1695 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
● 1732 - Charles Lee, General in the American Revolution (d. 1782)
● 1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
● 1748 - Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
● 1756 - Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
● 1757 - Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)
● 1802 - Sir Charles Wheatstone, English physicist (d. 1875)
● 1811 - Henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898)
● 1818 - William Maxwell Evarts, American lawyer/statesman (d. 1901)
● 1833 - James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart, American Confederate general (d. 1864)
● 1833 - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
● 1834 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)
● 1838 - Sir Henry Irving, British actor (d. 1905)
● 1838 - Sir Henry Irving, British actor, inspiration for Dracula (d. 1905)
● 1838 - Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
● 1843 - F. W. H. Myers, English writer/cofounder of the Society for Psychical Research (d. 1901)
● 1853 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
● 1861 - George Tyrrell, Irish-born English Jesuit priest/philosopher (d. 1909)
● 1875 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
● 1887 - Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
● 1892 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
● 1894 - Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
● 1895 - Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
● 1897 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
● 1898 - Melvin Tolson, African-American poet (d. 1966)
● 1899 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)
● 1901 - Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)
● 1902 - George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974)
● 1903 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
● 1905 - Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
● 1908 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister (d. 1999)
● 1910 - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
● 1910 - Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
● 1911 - Ronald Reagan, American radio broadcaster, film actor, governor of California and 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
● 1912 - Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
● 1913 - Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
● 1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
● 1916 - John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
● 1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian actress
● 1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
● 1922 - Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer
● 1922 - Denis Norden, British television personality
● 1922 - Patrick Macnee, British actor
● 1924 - Billy Wright, English former footballer (d. 1994)
● 1925 - Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author (d. 2006)
● 1926 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
● 1926 - Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
● 1929 - Pierre Brice, French actor
● 1931 - Mamie Van Doren, American actress
● 1931 - Rip Torn, American actor (''The Larry Sanders Show'')
● 1932 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
● 1932 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
● 1933 - Leslie Crowther, British comedian (d. 1996)
● 1934 - Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000)
● 1936 - J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman
● 1936 - Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1939 - Mike Farrell, American actor (''M*A*S*H,'' ''Providence'')
● 1939 - Orlando Parga, Vice President of the Puerto Rico Senate
● 1940 - Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian
● 1940 - Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman
● 1941 - Gigi Perreau, American actress
● 1942 - Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
● 1943 - Fabian, American singer
● 1943 - Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
● 1944 - Christine Boutin, French politician
● 1944 - Michael Tucker, American actor (''L.A. Law'')
● 1944 - Willie Tee, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007)
● 1945 - Bob Marley, Jamaican musician (d. 1981)
● 1946 - Jim Turner, American politician
● 1946 - Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk music singer and songwriter
● 1949 - Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
● 1950 - Natalie Cole, American singer
● 1951 - Jacques Villeret, French film actor (d. 2005)
● 1951 - Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer
● 1952 - Ricardo Lavolpe, Argentine football coach
● 1955 - Michael Pollan, American journalist
● 1956 - Jon Walmsley, Actor (''The Waltons'')
● 1957 - Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian
● 1957 - Robert Townsend, American actor
● 1957 - Simon Phillips, Rock musician (Toto)
● 1958 - Barry Miller, American actor
● 1958 - Cecily Adams, American actress (d. 2004)
● 1959 - Ken Nelson, English record producer
● 1960 - Megan Gallagher, American actress
● 1961 - Bill Lester, American racecar driver
● 1962 - Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
● 1962 - Richie McDonald, Country singer (Lonestar)
● 1963 - Kevin Trudeau, American entrepreneur
● 1966 - Rick Astley, British singer
● 1967 - Anita Cochran, American singer
● 1967 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
● 1968 - Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
● 1968 - Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer
● 1969 - Tim Brown, Rock musician (Boo Radleys)
● 1970 - Kitty Yung, American pornographic actress
● 1970 - Per Frandsen, Danish footballer
● 1971 - Brad Hogg, Australian cricket player
● 1971 - Brian Stepanek, American actor
● 1971 - Dana Eskelson, American actress
● 1972 - David Binn, American football player
● 1975 - Brett Hawke, Australian swimmer
● 1975 - Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist
● 1975 - Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
● 1976 - Colin Teo, Singaporean D1 Professional Grand Prix drifter
● 1976 - Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
● 1976 - Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder
● 1977 - Jason Euell, English-born footballer
● 1979 - Dan Bălan, Moldovan singer and musician O-Zone
● 1980 - Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
● 1980 - Luke Ravenstahl, American politician
● 1980 - Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu
● 1980 - Ryan O'Reilly, American wrestler
● 1981 - Calum Best, American model
● 1981 - Jens Lekman, Swedish musician
● 1981 - Ty Warren, defensive lineman for the New England Patriots
● 1982 - Alice Eve, English actress
● 1982 - Tank, Mandopop singer.
● 1983 - Brodie Croyle, American football player
● 1983 - Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
● 1983 - Myron Wolf Child, Canadian politician
● 1983 - S Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
● 1984 - Brandon Hammond, Actor
● 1984 - Daisy Marie, American pornographic actress
● 1984 - Darren Bent, English footballer
● 1984 - Piret Järvis, Estonian singer
● 1985 - Kris Humphries, American basketball player
● 1985 - Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
● 1986 - Alice Greczyn, American actress
● 1986 - Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
● 1988 - Allison Holker, American dancer
● 1988 - Allison Holker, American dancer
● 1989 - Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer
● 2004 - Princess Louise of Belgium
DEATHS
● 891 - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople
● 1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
● 1497 - Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1410)
● 1515 - Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
● 1585 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
● 1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
● 1593 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
● 1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
● 1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
● 1740 - Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
● 1775 - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
● 1783 - Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
● 1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
● 1807 - John Reid, British army general and composer (b. 1721)
● 1816 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
● 1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
● 1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
● 1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
● 1899 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
● 1899 - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (b. 1874)
● 1916 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
● 1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
● 1927 - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
● 1938 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
● 1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
● 1952 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
● 1958 – The following were all killed in the same plane crash:
● David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
● Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
● Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
● Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
● Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
● Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
● Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
● Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
● Walter Crickmer, Manchester United club secretary
● 1963 - Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician
● 1964 - Emilio Aguinaldo, First President of the 1st Philippines Republic (b. 1869)
● 1967 - Martine Carol, French film actress (b. 1920)
● 1976 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)
● 1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
● 1981 - Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer and orchestra leader (b. 1925)
● 1985 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
● 1986 - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
● 1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
● 1989 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)
● 1989 - Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
● 1989 - Chris Gueffroy, last person killed escaping over the Berlin wall (b. 1968)
● 1989 - Osbourne Ruddock, AKA "King Tubby", Dub pioneer (b. 1941)
● 1991 - Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
● 1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1912)
● 1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
● 1994 - Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
● 1994 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
● 1995 - James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
● 1996 - Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
● 1997 - Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
● 1998 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
● 1998 - Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
● 1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
● 2001 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
● 2001 - Fulgence Charpentier, Quebec journalist, editor and publisher (b. 1897)
● 2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1914)
● 2005 - Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
● 2005 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
● 2007 - Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
● 2007 - Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
● 2007 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
● 2007 - Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amand, Apostle of the Franks
● St. Antholian
● St. Anthony Dainan
● St. Bonaventure of Miako
● St. Cosmas
● St. Dorothea, patron saint of florists
● St. Francis Nagasaki
● St. Francis of St. Michael
● St. James Kisai
● St. John Soan de Goto
● St. Martin de Aguirre
● St. Martin Loynaz of the Ascension
● St. Matthias of Meako
● St. Mel
● St. Michael Kozaki
● St. Mun
● St. Paul Miki & his companions, martyrs
● St. Peter Shukeshiko
● St. Philip of Jesus, 1st Christian martyr in Japan
● St. Relindis
● Sts. Saturninus & Revocata
● St. Tanco
● St. Theophilus the Lawyer
● St. Thomas Danki
● St. Thomas Kozaki
● St. Vedastus
● Bl. Diego De Avezedo
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 24 (Civil Date: February 6)
● St. Xenia of Rome and her two female slaves.
● St. Macedonius, hermit of Syria.
● Martyrs Babylas of Sicily and his two disciples, Timothy and Agapius.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Anastasius the Persian.
● Martyrs Paul, Pausirius, and Theodotian, of Egypt.
● St. Philo, Bishop of Kalpa in Cyprus.
● St. Philippicus the presbyter.
● Martyr Barsimaeus of Syria and his two brothers.
● St. Zosimas, Bishop of Babylon in Egypt.
● St. Dionysius of Olympus and Platina (and Mt. Athos).
● Martyr John of Kazan.
● St. Gerasimus, Bishop of Perm.
● St. Xenia of Petersburg, fool-for-Christ.
● St. Felician, Bishop of Foligno in Italy.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Hermogenes and Mamas.
● St. Neophytecluse of Cyprus.
● Repose of Abbess Sophia of Shamordina Convent (1888)
● Repose of Bishop Nektary of Seattle (1983).
● Traditional Catholic:
● St. Titus, bishop of Crete, confessor
● Christian:
● St. Vaast (St. Gaston)
● St. Vedastus
● Bob Marley Day in Rastafarianism (Jamaica and Ethiopia)
● Sami National Day (known as Lapps; in Finland and Scandinavia)
● Massachusetts - Ratification Day (1788)
● New Zealand - Waitangi Day-New Zealand Day (1840)
● 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.
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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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