Day of the week in surrounding years:
. . . .,1982,1988,1993,1999—MON—. . . .
1977,1983,. . . .,1994,2000—TUE—2005
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—WED—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—THU—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—FRI—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—SAT—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—SUN—2009
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 8 is the 5th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 96 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 26th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
327, 338, 411, 422, 433, 495, 506, 517, 528, 590, 601, 612, 685, 696, 775, 780, 859, 870, 943, 954, 965, 1027, 1038, 1049, 1060, 1122, 1133, 1144, 1217, 1228, 1307, 1312, 1391, 1402, 1475, 1486, 1497, 1559, 1570, 1581, 1595, 1606, 1617, 1690, 1758, 1769, 1815, 1826, 1837, 1967, 1978, 1989
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2062, 2073, 2119, 2130, 2141, 2209, 2282, 2293, 2339, 2350, 2361, 2434, 2445, 2502, 2513, 2586, 2597, 2654, 2665, 2711, 2722, 2733, 2806, 2817, 2969, 3026, 3037, 3105, 3178, 3189, 3273, 3330, 3341, 3409, 3493, 3561, 3645, 3713, 3792, 3865, 3922, 3933, 4017, 4096
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Conformity "Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies?" — Edward Young
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Treason, Traitors, Freedom-Fried Frenchmen "The hindsight of history has shown that our efforts in the 1960s to end the war in Vietnam had two practical effects. The first was to prolong the war itself. Every testimony by North Vietnamese generals in the postwar years has affirmed that they knew they could not defeat the United States on the battlefield, and that they counted on the division of our people at home to win the war for them . . . The blood of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of Americans, is on the hands of the anti-war activists who prolonged the struggle and gave victory to the Communists.
. . ." — David Horowitz, "Horowitz's Notepad: An Open Letter to the 'Anti-War' Demonstrators: Think Twice Before You Bring the War Home,' FrontPageMag.com, 9-27-01.—Part 1 of 4 {Due to the length of some of these nutball quotes, I have decided to split the longer ones into parts. I could have abridged them but I think that would have lessened the impact of showing just how crazy these guys are. Please refer to previous and/or subsequent posts for complete quote.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice versa." — 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 8, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 2% Age: 4% Rise: 7:58 AM Set: 7:40 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 8, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 2% Age: 4% Rise: 8:14 AM Set: 8:01 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 8, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 2% Age: 4% Rise: 7:57 AM Set: 7:29 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 8, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 1% Age: 4% Rise: 7:35 AM Set: 7:03 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
The Bay of Rainbows
Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 421 - Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
● 1517 - Hernandez de Cordova sails with three vessels from Cuba to Bahama Islands in search of Indian slaves.
● 1526 - Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die
● 1575 - Universiteit Leiden founded, and given the motto "Praesidium Libertatis".
● 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
● 1600 - Vatican condemns scholar Giordano Bruno to death
● 1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed.
● 1622 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
● 1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
● 1690 - French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire
● 1690 - Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal
● 1692 - A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony declares that three teenage girls are under domination of Satan, leading to the Salem witch trials.
● 1693 - The College of William and Mary was founded in Williamsburg, Virginia for the purpose of educating Anglican clergyman. After Harvard, it is the second oldest institution of higher learning in America.
● 1726 - The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
● 1743 - Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
● 1744 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians, David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'I find that both mind and body are quickly tired with intenseness and fervor in the things of God. Oh that I could be as incessant as angels in devotion and spiritual fervor.'
● 1744 - French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon
● 1750 - Minor earthquake in London
● 1775 - Leidse University 400th anniversary dinner
● 1802 - Simon Willard patents banjo clock
● 1805 - Birth of Louis Auguste Blanque, Paris Commune leader.
● 1807 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
● 1809 - Russians who built a blockhouse on the Hoh River (Olympic Peninsula of what is now Washington state) taken captive by Hoh Indians, and are held as slaves for two years. {One the few cases of turnaround that in no makes up for the tremendous wrongs done to the American Indian.}
● 1817 - Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
● 1837 - The Senate selected Richard Mentor Johnson as vice president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes. (Van Buren administration)
● 1849 - New Roman Republic established.
● 1851 - Birth of American feminist writer Kate Chopin, St. Louis, Missouri.
● 1851 - Death of Alexander Haldane, 83. In 1797 he founded the Society for Propagating the Gospel at Home, after discovering that the Church of Scotland was as little interested in home missions as it was in foreign missions.
● 1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
● 1861 - A Cheyenne delegation and some Arapohoe leadeers accepted a new settlement (Treaty of Fort Wise) with the U.S. Federal government. The deal ceded most of their land but secured a 600-square mile reservation and annuity payments.
● 1861 - Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery AL
● 1862 - Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
● 1865 - 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
● 1865 - Birth of Lewis E. Jones, American YMCA director. Jones was also a writer of hymns, and his most enduring contribution (which he both wrote and composed) was "Power in the Blood."
● 1865 - In the U.S., Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
● 1867 - The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
● 1878 - Martin Buber, the German-Jewish religious philosopher, was born.
● 1879 - Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
● 1883 - Louis Waterman begins experiments to invent the fountain pen
● 1886 - "Black Monday" - A meeting of 3-5000 unemployed workers in London's Trafalgar Square met by 600 police officers, ends in a riot. Demonstrations in Trafalgar Square banned.
● 1887 - Pres. Grover Cleveland signs the Dawes Land Allotment Act, dissolving Indian tribes as legal entities. It distributes territory held in common by American Indian nations to individual families. Each family is to get 160 acres. All other land will be sold, with proceeds going to an educational trust fund. The Act ultimately results in the loss of tens of millions of acres of treaty land. The congressional committee that proposed the law included, among its goals, that "lands unnecessarily reserved for [tribes should be] opened to the pioneer [so that] intelligence and thrift may find lodging there."
● 1889 - Flood ravages Dutch coast
● 1894 - Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier for whites to disenfranchise blacks.
● 1898 - John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming machine (Massachusetts)
● 1900 - British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
● 1904 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
● 1905 - Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
● 1909 - France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
● 1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
● 1911 - U.S. helps overthrow Honduran Pres. Miguel D. Vila.
● 1912 - 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville FL
● 1912 - Vigilantes beat IWW organizers for exercising free speech rights in San Diego, Calif. Some are tarred and feathered, forced to kiss the American flag, and run out of town by the good citizens.
● 1914 - General Zamon becomes President of Haiti
● 1915 - D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
● 1916 - French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
● 1917 - Igal Roodenko, nonviolent activist and WWII CO, born, New York.
● 1918 - The Stars and Stripes newspaper publishes for the first time.
● 1919 - "La Canadienne" strike in Barcelona, Spain, taking its name from the principle electrical company involved, begins. Lasts 44 days, and extends to other companies, becoming a general strike -- paralyzing the whole city and industry. The government responds by imprisoning 3000 strikers of the anarchist CNT, and declares martial law. Eventually the government gives in, granting all workers a wage increase and eight-hour day; those imprisoned during the strike are also to be released. Over 20,000 people turn out to greet the release of the CNT leaders.
● 1919 - General strike in Butte, Montana, caused by dollar per day wage cut.
● 1920 - Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
● 1921 - Death of Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist. His funeral five days later, attended by 100,000 people, is the last non-state-sponsored mass assembly in Russia for 70 years.
● 1922 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
● 1923 - Coal mine explosion at Dawson NM kills 120
● 1924 - 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
● 1924 - Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
● 1926 - German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
● 1927 - Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
● 1928 - 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale NY
● 1928 - Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV
● 1931 - Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000
● 1933 - 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
● 1933 - -23ºF (-31ºC), Seminole TX (state record)
● 1934 - Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington DC
● 1934 - Gaston Doumergue forms new French government
● 1936 - Jay Berwanger becomes the first person to be selected by a National Football League draft, by the Philadelphia Eagles.
● 1936 - Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
● 1940 - Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
● 1941 - Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
● 1941 - NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins Nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
● 1942 - House Un-American Activities Committee recommends removing Japanese nationals from the Pacific Coast states for the duration of World War II, and interning them at least 500 miles inland.
● 1942 - Lucien Barbedette (1890-1942) dies, Luxeuil-the-Baths. French professor, anarchist.
● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Army encircles the troops of Paulus. The Germans surrender.
● 1944 - 1st black reporter accredited to the White House, Harry McAlpin
● 1944 - U-762 sunk off Ireland
● 1945 - Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald
● 1946 - Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties
● 1949 - Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary sentenced for treason to life in prison.
● 1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Sin in a Christian makes God seem distant, deaf. In the body, sin saps animation, as cancer. In the soul, sin stifles the affections; as corrosion in the spirit, sin solidifies the attitudes, as a callous.'
● 1952 - New Queen proclaimed for UK; Princess Elizabeth proclaims herself Queen at a ceremony in St James's Palace, London.
● 1952 - Parliament votes to make a "defense contribution," West Germany.
● 1955 - Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him
● 1955 - The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
● 1956 - Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
● 1958 - Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
● 1958 - French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
● 1958 - Midair collision involves jettisoning of nuclear weapon part into ocean near Savannah, Georgia. The unexploded weapon was never recovered.
● 1960 - Congress opens hearings looking into payola
● 1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
● 1962 - Charonne massacre. 9 trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
● 1962 - South Vietnam - U.S. Defense Dept. sets up the Military Defense Command.
● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1963 - 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
● 1963 - Military coup in Iraq topples regime of Abdel Karim Kassem.
● 1963 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
● 1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1964 - Representative Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
● 1965 - Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
● 1965 - South Vietnam - "Operation Rolling Thunder" begins using jet bombers inside the country, along with saturation bombing of the North, for strikes against "VC" targets.
● 1967 - French Diadème D-1C satellite launches into Earth orbit
● 1967 - Indira Gandhi struck in face by rock thrown at rally, India.
● 1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1968 - South Carolina highway patrolmen kill four and wound 33 as black students protest at a segregated bowling alley in Orangeburg.
● 1969 - Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, México
● 1969 - The last weekly issue of the Saturday Evening Post hits magazine stands.
● 1971 - Laos - South Vietnamese Army, aided by U.S. air support, launches an attack into the country.
● 1971 - National Guard ends four days of black rioting in Wilmington, North Carolina.
● 1971 - The NASDAQ stock market index debuts.
● 1973 - Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
● 1974 - After 84 days in space, the crew of the temporary American space station Skylab return to Earth.
● 1974 - Military coup in Upper Volta.
● 1974 - The three-man crew of the Skylab 4 space station returned to Earth after 84 days.
● 1976 - Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR
● 1977 - Earthquake in San Francisco CA, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
● 1978 - Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
● 1978 - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
● 1979 - Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
● 1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced a plan to re-introduce draft registration.
● 1982 - Guatemala - Founding of the National Patriotic United Front.
● 1983 - Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days
● 1983 - Sharon quits after massacre inquiry; Ariel Sharon is removed from office in the Israeli government following a tribunal into the 1982 killings of hundreds of people in two refugee camps.
● 1984 - 1984 Summer Olympics head of the LAPD bomb squad, Arleigh Mccree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit were killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs when they responded to a call. McCree was recognized as one of the top explosive experts in the world.
● 1984 - 1st time 8 people in space
● 1984 - Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
● 1985 - Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
● 1986 - 1984 Summer Olympics head of the LAPD bomb squad, Arleigh McCree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit were killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs when they responded to a call. McCree was recognized as one of the top explosive experts in the world.
● 1988 - NASA launches DOD-2
● 1988 - Withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan announced by U.S.S.R.
● 1989 - 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
● 1989 - An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal, killing 144.
● 1992 - Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
● 1993 - General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
● 1993 - Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
● 1994 - Police probe MP's suspicious death; Forensic scientists investigate the "suspicious circumstances" of the death of Conservative MP for Eastleigh Stephen Milligan.
● 1995 - 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
● 1996 - The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
● 1996 - The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
● 1999 - The Senate heard closing arguments in President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.
● 2005 - Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire.
● 2006 - Palestinians attack Temporary International Presence in Hebron offices in Hebron; International observers end decade-long presence.
BIRTHS
● 412 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 487)
● 1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
● 1291 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
● 1405 - Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last reigning Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1453)
● 1487 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
● 1552 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
● 1577 - Robert Burton, English cleric and writer (d. 1640)
● 1586 - Jacob Praetorius, German composer (d. 1651)
● 1591 - Il Guercino, Italian fresco painter (d. 1666)
● 1649 - Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
● 1677 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
● 1685 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (d. 1770)
● 1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)
● 1720 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
● 1792 - Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873)
● 1804 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834)
● 1807 - Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)
● 1819 - John Ruskin, English author (d. 1900)
● 1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman, American Union general (d. 1891)
● 1822 - Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and journalist (d. 1894)
● 1828 - Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
● 1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
● 1847 - Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902)
● 1851 - Kate Chopin, American author (d. 1904)
● 1878 - Martin Buber, German philosopher (d. 1965)
● 1880 - Franz Marc, German painter (d. 1916)
● 1883 - Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Austrian economist (d. 1950)
● 1886 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970)
● 1888 - Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)
● 1890 - Claro M. Recto, Filipino nationalist (d. 1960)
● 1893 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
● 1894 - King Vidor, American film director (d. 1982)
● 1894 - Ludwig Marcuse, German author and philosopher (d. 1971)
● 1895 - Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (d. 1945)
● 1900 - Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director (d. 1987)
● 1902 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
● 1903 - Greta Keller, Austrian-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)
● 1906 - Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1968)
● 1911 - Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d. 1979)
● 1918 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
● 1920(21? NYT) - Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)
● 1922(26? NYT) - Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)
● 1925 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)
● 1926 - Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
● 1927 - Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (d. 1976)
● 1930 - Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor (d. 1987)
● 1930 - James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000)
● 1931 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
● 1932 - Cliff Allison, British racing driver (d. 2005)
● 1932 - John Williams, American composer and conductor
● 1933 - Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano
● 1933 - Jack Larson, American actor
● 1937 - Manfred Krug, German actor
● 1939 - José Maria Sison, Filipino communist
● 1940 - Ted Koppel, American journalist
● 1941 - Nick Nolte, American actor
● 1941 - Tom Rush, American singer and songwriter
● 1942 - Robert Klein, American comedian
● 1942 - Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (d. 2004)
● 1943 - Creed Bratton, American actor and musician
● 1943 - Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and VC of Karachi University
● 1944 - Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor
● 1944 - Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian documentary photographer
● 1948 - Dan Seals, American singer
● 1948 - John Ford Coley, American singer
● 1948 - Lynda Lyon Block, American convicted murderer (d. 2002)
● 1948 - Ron Tyson, American singer (The Temptations)
● 1949 - Brooke Adams, American actress
● 1950 - Cristina Ferrare, American former supermodel and actress
● 1951 - Z'EV, American text/sound artist (born Stefan Weisser)
● 1953 - Mary Steenburgen, American actress
● 1953 - Roger Clavet, Quebecois politician
● 1955 - John Fox, Football coach
● 1955 - John Grisham, American writer
● 1960 - Dino Ciccarelli, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1961 - Bruce Timm,TV Producer (DC Animated Universe)
● 1961 - Sammy Llanas, Rock musician (The BoDeans)
● 1961 - Vince Neil, American singer (Mötley Crüe)
● 1963 - Joshua Kadison, American pianist and singer-songwriter
● 1963 - Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer
● 1964 - Trinny Woodall, British fashion guru
● 1966 - Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer
● 1966 - Kirk Muller, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1968 - Claudette Pace, Maltese singer
● 1968 - Gary Coleman, American actor (''Different Strokes'')
● 1969 - Mary McCormack, Actress
● 1969 - Shiva Rose, American actress
● 1970 - Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player
● 1971 - Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country skier
● 1971 - Mika "Gas" Karppinen, Finnish drummer for the band HIM
● 1972 - Paul Wight, American professional wrestler
● 1973 - Keith McDonald, American baseball player
● 1974 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk)
● 1974 - Jamey Carroll, American baseball player
● 1974 - Seth Green, American actor ("Austin Powers" movies)
● 1974 - Ulises de la Cruz, Ecuadorian footballer
● 1976 - Adam Piatt, American baseball player
● 1976 - Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricketer
● 1977 - Barry Hall, Australian rules footballer
● 1977 - Bridgette Kerkove, American actress
● 1977 - Dave Farrell (Phoenix), American musician (Linkin Park)
● 1977 - Mathieu Turcotte, Canadian short-track speed skater
● 1977 - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist
● 1979 - Aaron Cook, American baseball player
● 1980 - Cameron Muncey, Australian guitarist (Jet)
● 1980 - Ralf Little English Actor/Comedian
● 1980 - Stephen Wright, English footballer
● 1981 - Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer
● 1982 - Eric Alexander, American football player
● 1982 - Satomi Kōrogi, Japanese voice actress
● 1982 - Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor
● 1983 - Jim Verraros, American singer
● 1984 - Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player
● 1987 - Carolina Kostner, Italian European champion figure skater
● 1988 - Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer
● 1988 - Ryan Pinkston, Actor
● 1989 - Danielle Harmer, English actress
● 1992 - Karle Warren, Actress (''Judging Amy'')
● 1995 - Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress
DEATHS
● 1204 - Alexius IV Angelus, deposed Eastern Roman Emperor (b. circa 1182)
● 1250 - Robert I of Artois, French crusader (b. 1216)
● 1250 - William II Longespee
● 1265 - Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217)
● 1296 - King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
● 1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478)
● 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542)
● 1599 - Robert Rollock, Scottish educator
● 1623 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)
● 1696 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
● 1709 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658)
● 1725 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (b. 1672)
● 1749 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682)
● 1750 - Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685)
● 1768 - George Dance the Elder, English architect (b. 1695)
● 1772 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719)
● 1849 - France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (b. 1800)
● 1849 - François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (b. 1781)
● 1856 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)
● 1907 - Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (b. 1854)
● 1910 - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854)
● 1921 - George Formby (Senior), English entertainer (b. 1876)
● 1921 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)
● 1929 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
● 1932 - Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, New York City gangster from County Donegal in Ireland (b. 1908)
● 1956 - Connie Mack, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1862)
● 1957 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
● 1957 - Walther Bothe, German physicist and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
● 1960 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1880)
● 1963 - George Dolenz, American actor, father of Micky Dolenz (b. 1908)
● 1964 - Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (b. 1888)
● 1964 - Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (b. 1888)
● 1972 - Markos Vamvakaris, Greek musician and songwriter (b. 1905)
● 1973 - Max Yasgur, American Woodstock Festival host (b. 1919)
● 1975 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
● 1977 - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)
● 1980 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (b. 1936)
● 1982 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (b. 1904)
● 1984 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
● 1985 - William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1901)
● 1987 - Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (b. 1905)
● 1990 - Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)
● 1992 - Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist (b. 1924)
● 1993 - N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader
● 1994 - Raymond Scott, American composer (b. 1908)
● 1996 - Del Ennis, American baseball player (b. 1925)
● 1998 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
● 1998 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
● 1999 - Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919)
● 2000 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
● 2000 - Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
● 2001 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (b. 1920)
● 2002 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930)
● 2002 - Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (b. 1936)
● 2004 - Julius Schwartz, American comic book and science fiction editor (b. 1915)
● 2005 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
● 2005 - Keith Knudsen, American drummer, vocalist and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1948)
● 2006 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
● 2006 - Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
● 2007 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model, actress, and entertainer (b. 1967)
● 2007 - Ian Stevenson, professor and reincarnation expert (b. 1918)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Cointha
● St. Cuthman
● St. Dionysius
● St. Elfleda
● St. Honoratus
● St. Jacoba (d. 1239)
● Sts. Jacut and Guethenoc
● St. Jerome Emiliani
● St. John of Matha, confessor/ransomer of captives
● St. Juventius
● St. Kigwe
● St. Llibio
● St. Meingold of Huy
● St. Nicetius of Besancon
● St. Oncho
● Sts. Paul Lucius, and Cyriacus
● St. Paul of Verdun
● St. Peter Igneus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 26 (Civil Date: February 8)
● St. Xenophon and his wife, St. Mary, and their two sons, Saints Arcadius and John, of Constantinople.
● St. Symeon "the Ancient" of Mt. Sinai.
● Martyrs Ananias presbyter, Peter, and seven soldiers, in Phoenicia.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Theodore, abbot of the Studion.
● St. Joseph, Bishop of Thessalonica, brother of St. Theodore of the Studion.
● St. Gabriel, abbot at Jerusalem, and St. Ammon, disciple of St. Anthony the Great.
● St. David III, king of Georgia.
● New-Martyr Cyril, Metropolitan of Kazan (1937).
● New Hieromartyr Arcadius (1938).
● New-Martyr Matushka Maria of Gatchina (1930).
● Greek Calendar:
● Two Martyrs of Phrygia.
● St. Clement of Mt. Stirion, monk.
● St. Xenophon of Robika, monk.
● Repose of Metropolitan Gabriel of Novgorod and Petersburg (1801).
● Christian:
● Feast of Bl. Jacoba (Bl. Jacqueline)
● Nirvana Day - an annual Buddhist festival.
● Slovenia - Prešeren Day, the Slovenian cultural holiday.
● Boy Scouts of America - Scout Sunday; The Sunday preceding February 8 is designated as Scout Sunday and the following Saturday is designated as Scout Sabbath.
● Iraq - Ramadan Revolution
● Norway - Narvik Sun Pageant Day
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Boy Scouts Day (1910) - ( Sunday )
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Roman Catholic Saint of the Day
Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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