Day of the week in surrounding years:
1981,1987,1992,1998,. . . .—MON—2009
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—TUE—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—WED—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—THU—. . . .
1984,1990,. . . .,2001,2007—FRI—2012
1985,1991,1996,2002,. . . .—SAT—2013
1986,. . . .,1997,2003,2008—SUN—2014
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.
March 2 is the 28th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 120 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 18th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
371, 382, 393, 404, 466, 477, 488, 561, 572, 651, 656, 735, 746, 819, 830, 841, 903, 914, 925, 936, 998, 1009, 1020, 1093, 1104, 1183, 1188, 1267, 1278, 1351, 1362, 1373, 1435, 1446, 1457, 1468, 1530, 1541, 1552, 1588, 1650, 1661, 1672, 1718, 1729, 1740, 1808, 1870, 1881, 1892, 1927, 1938, 1949, 1960
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2022, 2033, 2044, 2101, 2112, 2174, 2185, 2196, 2242, 2253, 2264, 2310, 2321, 2332, 2394, 2405, 2416, 2489, 2546, 2557, 2568, 2614, 2625, 2636, 2704, 2766, 2777, 2788, 2861, 2867, 2872, 2929, 2940, 3008, 3081, 3092, 3138, 3149, 3160, 3233, 3239, 3244, 3301, 3312, 3385, 3391, 3396, 3453, 3464, 3521, 3532, 3605, 3616, 3695, 3763, 3768, 3825, 3831, 3836, 3904, 3977, 3983, 3988, 4067, 4072, 4078
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Feminism "One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian." — Shirley Chisholm {Far from being anti-male, feminists are pro-female and pro-human being. Some of the strongest feminists in the world just happen to be enlightened males.}
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On All Hail King George ". . . I'm the commander—see, I don't need to explain—I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." — George W. "War Criminal" Bush. Bob Woodward, "A Course of 'Confident Action'; Bush Says Other Countries Will Follow Assertive U.S. in Combating Terror," Washington Post, 11-19-02.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "That noise in my earphone knocked my nose off, and I had to pick it up and find it." — Jerry Coleman was an infielder for the Yankees (what is it about the Bronx Bombers that turned out such a raft of funny speakers?), and manager of the San Diego Padres. After playing, he made his mark as a radio and TV broadcaster, where his malapropisms, non sequiturs, and other goofs became legendary. Coleman is Hall of Shame member #8.
{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)
Mar 2, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 28% Age: 82% Rise: 3:40 AM Set: 12:53 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Mar 2, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 29% Age: 82% Rise: 3:44 AM Set: 1:26 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Mar 2, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 29% Age: 82% Rise: 3:49 AM Set: 12:30 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Mar 2, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 30% Age: 82% Rise: 3:28 AM Set: 12:02 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass
Credit & Copyright: A. Dimai, (Col Druscie Obs.), AAC
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 871 - Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army
● 986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
● 1121 - Dirk VI becomes count of Holland
● 1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
● 1458 - Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia
● 1498 - Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
● 1629 - English King Charles I leaces house of commons
● 1675 - Prince William III installed as Governor of Overijssel
● 1776 - Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
● 1789 - Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
● 1791 - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
● 1793 - Sam Houston, the first president of the Republic of Texas, was born near Lexington, Va.
● 1795 - Africans revolt in Fedon’s Insurrection against British rule of Grenada.
● 1799 - Congress standardizes US weights & measures
● 1807 - U.S. Congress passes act prohibiting importation of slaves. The first American slave ship, named Desire, sailed from Marblehead, Massachussetts, in 1637. Since then, nearly 15 million blacks have been transported as slaves to the Americas. The African continent, meanwhile, has lost 50 million human beings to slavery and related deaths. But today's Congressional prohibition will go unenforced due to the huge profits it would curtail. Another 250,000 slaves will be imported illegally before the Civil War.
● 1808 - The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.
● 1815 - Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King.
● 1817 - 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin PA
● 1819 - Territory of Arkansas organized
● 1819 - US passed its 1st immigration law
● 1820 - Birth of Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887), best known under his pseudonym, Multatuli (Latin, "I have suffered much"). Great Dutch anarchist writer/novelist, a one-time civil servant who wrote the autobiographical novel "Max Havelaar," reflecting his disgust with Dutch colonialism and racism. Despised middle-class conformism, excoriating religion, the family, and prejudices of all kinds -- racist, sexist or sexual. Multatuli's ideas influenced the socialist and libertarian milieu of his time, and practising his libertarian ideals scandalized his contemporaries, living as he did with two women and their children.
● 1824 - Interstate commerce comes under federal control
● 1829 - New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
● 1831 - John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission
● 1836 - Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico. If only it had stayed that way.
● 1853 - Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory
● 1855 - Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
● 1858 - Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
● 1861 - Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia: Tsar Alexander II signed the emancipation reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom.
● 1861 - Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington DC
● 1861 - US Congress creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories
● 1863 - The United States Congress authorizes track width of 4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm) for Union Pacific Railroad
● 1865 - Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
● 1865 - General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough
● 1865 - Second Taranaki War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
● 1866 - Excelsior Needle Company began making sewing machine needles.
● 1867 - Congress abolishes peonage {a Mexican form of serfdom} in New Mexico
● 1867 - Howard University established
● 1867 - Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah MO, 1 dead
● 1867 - The United States Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act
● 1867 - US Congress creates the Department of Education {there was no debate about this being a Liberal plot to brainwash children}
● 1868 - University of Illinois opens
● 1877 - Despite an apparent Democratic victory at the polls, the Electoral College, swayed by Republican bribery, selects Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, as President. Supporters of Democrat Samuel Tilden claim a stolen election. Sound familiar?
● 1888 - The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
● 1889 - Kansas passes 1st US antitrust laws
● 1893 - 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features
● 1896 - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the Battle of Adwa, marking the first victory of an African nation over a colonial power.
● 1897 - U.S. President Cleveland vetoed legislation that would have required a literacy test for immigrants entering the country.
● 1899 - Congress allows railroad companies blanket approval for rights- of-way through Indian lands.
● 1899 - President McKinley signs bill creating Mount Rainier National Park (5th in US)
● 1899 - U.S. President McKinley signed a measure that created the rank of Admiral for the U.S. Navy. The first admiral was George Dewey.
● 1900 - The U.S. Congress voted to give $2 million in aid to Puerto Rico.
● 1901 - Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens
● 1901 - The Platt Amendment is passed by Congress. The amendment informs Cuba that U.S. troops will not be withdrawn. Cuba unofficially becomes a protectorate of the U.S.
● 1903 - In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
● 1904 - Greatest radical political organizer of all time, Dr. Seuss (Teodore Giesel), born, Springfield, Mass
● 1906 - A tornado in Missouri killed 33 and did $5 million in damage.
● 1907 - General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
● 1907 - In Hamburg, Germany, dock workers went on strike after the end of the night shift. British strike breakers were brought in. The issue was settled on April 22, 1907.
● 1908 - In New York, the Committee of the Russian Republican Administration was founded.
● 1908 - In Paris, Gabriel Lippmann introduced three-dimensional color photography at the Academy of Sciences.
● 1909 - Great Britain, France, Germany & Italy ask Serbia to set no territorial demands
● 1910 - 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington WA, 118 die
● 1915 - British Vice Admiral Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts
● 1915 - Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
● 1917 - The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans, United States citizenship.
● 1917 - (Old Style) Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Michael II of Russia after a series of strikes and protests spread through Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, Russia; the government lasts until October, when it is overthrown by the Bolsheviks.
● 1919 - The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
● 1921 - Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee forms, The Kronstadt Soviet was due to be renewed, and 16,000 showed up and the mass assembly adopted the Petropavlovsk resolution -- opposed only by two Bolsheviks.
● 1925 - Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
● 1925 - SDAP-Second-Faction (Dutch Socialists) of parliament demands drastic disarmament
● 1925 - Secretary of Agriculture approves first list of United States Numbered Highways
● 1929 - Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
● 1930 - 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building
● 1930 - American missionary Gustav Schmidt, 39, opened the Danzig Instytut Biblijny in the Free City of Danzig (Gdansk), Poland. It was the first Pentecostal Bible institute established in Eastern Europe.
● 1933 - Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
● 1934 - Birthday of Dottie Rambo, contemporary gospel singer and songwriter. She has authored such country gospel favorites as "In the Valley He Restoreth My Soul," "Build My Mansion Next Door to Jesus" and "I Just Came to Talk With You, Lord."
● 1934 - Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
● 1937 - Mexico nationalizes oil
● 1937 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a surprise collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
● 1938 - Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles CA)
● 1938 - Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
● 1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII. {As cardinal he was instrumental in new treaties between the Vatican and the fascist states of Germany and Italy.}
● 1939 - The Massachusetts legislature voted to ratify the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution. These first ten amendments had gone into effect 147 years before.
● 1940 - Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland
● 1941 - World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
● 1942 - Acting under Executive Order 9066, Lt. General John DeWitt proclaims all Japanese-Americans would be required to move away from the West Coast, and recommends, for their own good, they should do so voluntarily. (Any time a government uses the phrase "for their own good," big, big trouble is brewing.)
● 1942 - Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon
● 1943 - 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp
● 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea - United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
● 1944 - Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy
● 1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
● 1945 - Anne Frank dies in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
● 1945 - King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
● 1946 - Dutch troops land on East Bali
● 1946 - Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
● 1946 - Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA
● 1948 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'O God, forgive the poverty and the pettiness of our prayers. Listen not to our words but to the yearnings of our hearts. Hear beneath our petitions the crying of our need.'
● 1949 - Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
● 1949 - The first automatic street light was installed in New Milford, Conn..
● 1955 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
● 1955 - Months before Rosa Parks, teenager Claudette Colvin is arrested in Montgomery, Ala., for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person.
● 1956 - King of Jordan sacks British general; King Hussein of Jordan sacks the British commander of the Arab Legion in an effort to strengthen his own position within the Arab world.
● 1956 - Morocco tears up the Treaty of Féz, declares independence from France
● 1958 - 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
● 1958 - Yemen announces it will join the United Arab Republic
● 1959 - American Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.'
● 1962 - Atmospheric nuclear weapons tests resumed by UK.
● 1962 - In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup.
● 1962 - JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing
● 1964 - Marlon Brando and Bob Satiacum are arrested at a "fish-in" at Frank's Landing, Washington, in support of Native American fishing rights.
● 1965 - Montcalm Community College in Sidney MI, founded
● 1965 - The North Carolina legislature voted to bring Charlotte College into the UNC system, forming the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
● 1966 - 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
● 1966 - A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-8 crashes on landing at Tokyo's Haneda Airport in a thunderstorm one day before the crash of BOAC Flight 911 from the same location.
● 1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1968 - USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world
● 1968 - USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
● 1969 - Chinese-Russian borders fight (approximately 70 die)
● 1969 - In Toulouse, France the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
● 1969 - Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
● 1970 - American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
● 1970 - Ian Smith declares Rhodesia a republic; Prime Minister of Rhodesia Ian Smith declares his country a republic, cutting its last link with the British Crown.
● 1970 - Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
● 1971 - Oriental Student Union protesters occupy Seattle Central Community College.
● 1972 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Central African Republic
● 1972 - The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
● 1973 - "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
● 1974 - 1st class postage raised from 8¢ to 10¢
● 1974 - Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up
● 1974 - Salvador Puig Antich, 24, dies, garrotted at Model de Barcelone despite international protests. Young anarchist militant in the guerilla MIL (Mouvement Iberique de Liberation) fighting the yoke of Francoism.
● 1977 - Libya amends constitution
● 1978 - Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
● 1979 - Over 1,100 Christian organizations combined to form the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA). This oversight agency was created to demonstrate to the public that religious groups wanted to make themselves accountable for the funds they raise and spend. {Some preachers today still refuse to open their books to ECFA; one might think they have something to hide.}
● 1981 - Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists
● 1982 - Philip K. Dick dies, Santa Ana, California, American science fiction writer par excellence, known for creation of eerily prescient (so far) dystopias.
● 1982 - Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru
● 1983 - Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced {Cooperation between two companies avoid VHS/Betamax type of fight.}
● 1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
● 1984 - Iran offensive against Iraq fails
● 1985 - The U.S. government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus that allowed possibly contaminated blood to be kept out of the blood supply.
● 1986 - Corazon Aquino was sworn into office as president of the Philippines. Her first public declaration was to restore the civil rights of the citizens of her country.
● 1986 - Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
● 1987 - Chrysler acquires American Motors.
● 1988 - Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
● 1989 - Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
● 1989 - Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
● 1990 - Greyhound Bus goes on strike
● 1990 - Nelson Mandela elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
● 1990 - Univ. of California-Berkeley campus police attack poetry reading at Barrington Hall co-op.
● 1991 - Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings end to the 1991 Gulf War.
● 1991 - Sri Lankan hardliner among 19 killed in blast; The Tamil Tigers are being blamed for the assassination of Sri Lanka's Deputy Defence Minister, Ranjan Wijeratne.
● 1991 - UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
● 1992 - Moldova joins the United Nations.
● 1992 - Rally against ethnic barricades, Sarajevo, Bosnia.
● 1992 - Uzbekistan joins the United Nations.
● 1994 - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcast; it is, but he doesn't
● 1994 - William Natcher, (Representative-Democrat-KY), casts his 18,401 & last consecutive vote
● 1995 - Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
● 1995 - Last United Nations "peacekeepers" leave Somalia.
● 1995 - Nick Leeson is arrested for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank.
● 1995 - Proposal to reinstate death penalty loses in Iowa.
● 1995 - Russian anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev was killed by a gunman in Moscow.
● 1995 - Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
● 1996 - All members of Brazilian rock band Mamonas Assassinas die in a plane crash near São Paulo.
● 1996 - Establishment of Ranabima Royal College, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
● 1996 - John Howard is appointed as Prime Minister of Australia.
● 1997 - It was revealed that Vice President Al Gore had made fund-raising calls for the 1996 election on phones installed in government buildings for that purpose.
● 1997 - Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)
● 1998 - Images from the American spacecraft Galileo indicated that the Jupiter moon Europa has a liquid ocean and a source of interior heat.
● 1998 - The U.N. Security Council endorses U.N. chief Kofi Annan's deal to open Iraq's presidential palaces to arms inspectors.
● 2000 - In Great Britain, Chile's former President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was freed from house arrest and allowed to return to Chile. Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw had concluded that Pinochet was mentally and physically unable to stand trial. Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland had sought the former Chilean leader on human-rights violations.
● 2002 - Eleven Israelis were killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.
● 2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
● 2003 - Over the Sea of Japan, there was a confrontation between four armed North Korean fighter jets and a U.S. RC-135S Cobra Ball. No shots were fired in the encounter in international airspace about 150 miles off North Korea's coast. The U.S. Air Force announced that it would resume reconnaissance flights on March 12. {I am always surprised that news sources have to note the other guy is "armed" and ignore the fact we always are.}
● 2003 - The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics is held at Chung Cheng University.
● 2004 - NASA announced that the Mars rover Opportunity had discovered evidence that water had existed on Mars in the past.
● 2004 - War in Iraq: A United Nations report from the weapons inspection teams states that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction of any significance after 1994, despite US President George W. Bush's and Prime Minister Blair's objection to the contrary before the invasion.
● 2004 - War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
● 2005 - The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 1,500.
● 2006 - President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a landmark civilian nuclear cooperation deal in New Delhi.
● 2006 - Sir Menzies Campbell is elected the new leader of the United Kingdom Liberal Democrats.
BIRTHS
● 1316 - Robert II of Scotland, (d. 1390)
● 1409 - John II of Alençon, French soldier (d. 1476)
● 1459 - Pope Adrian VI, Dutch - Elected Pope in 1522 (d. 1523)
● 1545 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (d. 1613)
● 1578 - George Sandys, English colonist and poet (d. 1644)
● 1705 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1793)
● 1760 - Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (d. 1794)
● 1769 - DeWitt Clinton, American who presided over construction of the Erie Canal (d. 1828)
● 1770 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (d. 1826)
● 1779 - Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist (d. 1851)
● 1793 - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863)
● 1800 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844)
● 1810 - Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903)
● 1816 - Alexander H. Bullock, 26th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1882)
● 1820 - Multatuli, Dutch writer (d. 1887)
● 1824 - Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1884)
● 1829 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (d. 1906)
● 1836 - Henry Billings Brown, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1913)
● 1842 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (d. 1914)
● 1843 - Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (d. 1911)
● 1849 - Robert Means Thompson, U.S. naval officer (d. 1930)
● 1859 - Sholom Aleichem, Russian novelist (d. 1916)
● 1860 - Susanna M. Salter, American politician (d. 1961)
● 1862 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
● 1862 - John Jay Chapman, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1933)
● 1876 - Pope Pius XII (d. 1958)
● 1878 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1944)
● 1886 - Willis O'Brien, American animator (d. 1962)
● 1900 - Kurt Weill, German composer (d. 1950)
● 1902 - Edward Condon, American physicist (d. 1974)
● 1902 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (d. 1972)
● 1904 - Dr. Seuss, American author (d. 1991)
● 1905 - Geoffrey Grigson, English poet, editor, and literary critic (d. 1985)
● 1908 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (d. 1968)
● 1908 - Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
● 1909 - Mel Ott, American baseball player (d. 1958)
● 1913 - Celedonio Romero, Spanish guitarist (d. 1996)
● 1913 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch author and television personality (d. 1971)
● 1913 - Mort Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1958)
● 1914 - Martin Ritt, American director (d. 1990)
● 1917 - David Goodis, American writer (d. 1967)
● 1917 - Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor and bandleader (d. 1986)
● 1917 - Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (d. 1976)
● 1918 - Peter O'Sullevan, Irish horse racing commentator
● 1919 - Jennifer Jones, American actress
● 1919 - Tamara Toumanova, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1996)
● 1921 - Ernst Haas, Austrian-born photojournalist (d. 1986)
● 1923 - Orrin Keepnews, American writer and critic
● 1923 - Robert H. Michel, American politician
● 1926 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
● 1927 - Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist
● 1928 - Father John Romanides, Greek priest and professor (d. 2001)
● 1930 - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (d. 2007)
● 1930 - John Cullum, American actor and singer (''Northern Exposure'')
● 1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
● 1931(30? NYT) - Tom Wolfe, American author
● 1935 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (d. 2001)
● 1937 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
● 1938 - Lawrence Payton, American singer and songwriter (The Four Tops) (d. 1997)
● 1938 - Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile
● 1939 - Barbara Luna, Actress
● 1940 - Tony Croatto, Italian-born composer (d. 2005)
● 1941 - David Satcher, 16th United States Surgeon General
● 1941 - Jon Finch, Actor
● 1942 - John Irving, American author
● 1942 - Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist
● 1942 - Luc Plamondon, French Canadian lyricist
● 1942 - Peter Guber, American film producer
● 1943 - Peter Straub, American author
● 1943 - Tony Meehan, English drummer (The Shadows) (d. 2005)
● 1943 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (d. 2005)
● 1944 - Uschi Glas, German actress
● 1947 - Harry Redknapp, English football manager
● 1948 - Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
● 1948 - Larry Carlton, American guitarist
● 1948 - Rory Gallagher, Irish guitarist (d. 1995)
● 1949 - Alain Chamfort, French singer
● 1949 - Eddie Money, American singer
● 1949 - Gates McFadden, American actress
● 1949 - J. P. R. Williams, Welsh rugby union footballer
● 1950 - Jeffrey Chodorow, American restaurateur and financier
● 1950 - Karen Carpenter, American singer (The Carpenters) (d. 1983)
● 1951 - Cassie Yates, Actress
● 1952 - Laraine Newman, American actress
● 1952 - Mark Evanier, American writer
● 1953 - Russ Feingold, American politician
● 1955 - Jay Osmond, American musician (The Osmonds)
● 1955 - Ken Salazar, American politician
● 1955 - Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader
● 1956 - John Cowsill, American musician (The Cowsills)
● 1956 - Mark Evans, Australian bassist (AC/DC)
● 1958 - Ian Woosnam, Welsh golfer
● 1958 - Peter Arnold, American architect
● 1959 - Larry Stewart, Country singer (Restless Heart)
● 1961 - Simone Young, Australian conductor
● 1962 - Al Del Greco, American football player
● 1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, American musician (Bon Jovi)
● 1962 - Michael Salinger, American Poet
● 1962 - Morioka Hiroyuki, Japanese writer
● 1962 - Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
● 1962 - Scott Sterling, American musician (Scott La Rock)
● 1963 - Tanyu Kiryakov, Bulgarian pistol shooter
● 1963 - Tuff Hedeman, American bull rider
● 1964 - Megan Leigh, American porn star (d. 1990)
● 1964 - Mike Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1987)
● 1965 - Lembit Öpik, British politician
● 1965 - Ron Gant, American baseball player
● 1968 - Daniel Craig, English actor
● 1971 - Dave Gorman, English documentary comedian
● 1971 - Elizabeth Lackey, American actress
● 1972 - Amber Smith, American actress and model
● 1973 - Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player
● 1973 - Trevor Sinclair, English footballer
● 1974 - Hayley Lewis, Australian swimmer
● 1974 - Monika Niederstätter, Italian athlete
● 1976 - Casey, Rock musician (Jimmie's Chicken Shack)
● 1976 - Glenn Rubenstein, American writer and journalist
● 1977 - Andrew Strauss, English cricket player
● 1977 - Chris Martin, English musician (Coldplay)
● 1977 - Heather McComb, American actress (''Party of Five'')
● 1977 - Jay Gibbons, American baseball player
● 1978 - Claudio Sanchez, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
● 1978 - Giannis Skopelitis, Greek footballer
● 1979 - Damien Duff, Irish footballer
● 1980 - Édson Nobre, Angolan footballer
● 1980 - Lance Cade, American professional wrestler
● 1981 - Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress
● 1982 - Ben Roethlisberger, American football player
● 1982 - Corey Webster, American football player
● 1982 - Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
● 1982 - Kevin Kurányi, German footballer
● 1983 - Glen Perkins, American baseball player
● 1984 - Elizabeth Jagger, English Model and Actress
● 1985 - Luke Pritchard, British singer (The Kooks)
● 1985 - Reggie Bush, American football player
● 1985 - Robert Iler, American actor (''The Sopranos'')
● 1988 - Keith Jack, British singer and actor
● 1988 - Markéta Irglová, Czech songwriter and actress
● 1988 - Nadine Samonte, Filipino actress
● 1989 - Will Makar, American singer
DEATHS
● 855 - Lothair, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 795)
● 1316 - Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1296)
● 1572 - Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil
● 1589 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (b. 1520)
● 1729 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)
● 1730 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
● 1755 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (b. 1675)
● 1758 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (b. 1679)
● 1791 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)
● 1793 - Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist
● 1797 - Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (b. 1717)
● 1830 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (b. 1755)
● 1835 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
● 1840 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (b. 1758)
● 1865 - Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)
● 1880 - Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)
● 1894 - William McMurdo, British army officer (b. 1819)
● 1895 - Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)
● 1895 - Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (b. 1830)
● 1921 - Champ Clark, American politician (b. 1850)
● 1921 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)
● 1930 - D. H. Lawrence, English writer (b. 1885)
● 1938 - Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (b. 1871)
● 1939 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (b. 1874)
● 1945 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (b. 1871)
● 1946 - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1895)
● 1953 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
● 1958 - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (b. 1888)
● 1959 - Eric Blore, English actor (b. 1887)
● 1960 - Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (b. 1874)
● 1962 - Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1866)
● 1967 - José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
● 1973 - Cleo A. Noel, Jr., US Chief of Mission to Sudan, assassinated (b. 1918)
● 1974 - Salvador Puig Antich, Spanish anarchist (b. 1948)
● 1975 - Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Kenyan politician (b.1929)
● 1979 - Christy Ring Irish hurler (b. 1920)
● 1982 - Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)
● 1987 - Randolph Scott, American actor and director (b. 1898)
● 1991 - Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. 1928)
● 1992 - Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1937)
● 1994 - Anita Morris, American actress (b. 1943)
● 1997 - Bloodshed, American rapper (b. 1975)
● 1999 - David Ackles, American singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
● 1999 - Dusty Springfield, English singer (b. 1939)
● 2001 - John Diamond, British journalist (b. 1953)
● 2003 - Hank Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)
● 2003 - Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (b. 1931)
● 2004 - Cormac McAnallen, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer (b. 1980)
● 2004 - Marge Schott, American baseball team owner {and well known racist} (b. 1928)
● 2004 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1916)
● 2005 - Martin Denny, American musician (b. 1911)
● 2005 - Rick Mahler, American baseball player (b. 1953)
● 2006 - Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
● 2006 - Milton Katims, American violist and conductor (b. 1909)
● 2007 - Clem Labine, American baseball player (b. 1926)
● 2007 - Henri Troyat, French writer, dean of the Académie française (b. 1911)
● 2007 - Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
● 2007 - Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abdalon
● St. Agnes of Boheinia
● Martyrs of Campania
● St. Chad
● St. Cynibild
● St. Fergna
● St. Gilstlian
● Sts. Jovinus & Basileus
● Sts. Paul, Heraclius, and Companions
● St. Willeic
● Bl. Charles the Good, Count of Flanders
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 19 (Civil Date: March 2)
● Apostles Archippus and Philemon of the Seventy, and Martyr Apphia.
● St. Dositheus of Palestine, disciple of St. Abba Dorotheus.
● St. Rabulas of Samosata.
● Saints Eugene and Macarius, presbyters, confessors at Antioch.
● Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, Hesychius, and Asclepiodota of Adrianopolis.
● St. Conon, abbot in Palestine.
● St. Philothea, nun of Athens.
● New Hieromartyr Nicetas of Epirus.
● Repose of Hieromonk Theodore of Sanaxar Monastery (1791).
● Anglican:
● St. Chad, Bishop of Lichfield
● Lutheran:
● Charles Wesley
● John Wesley
● Bahá'í Faith:
● Feast of 'Alá (Loftiness) - First day of the 19th month of the Bahá'í calendar.
● Beginning of the Fast (sunrise to sunset fast for 19 days).
● Burma - Peasant's Day
● Ethiopia - Battle of Aduwa Day (1896)
● Morocco - Independence Day (1956)
● Texas - Independence Day (1836)
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:
Information on 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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