Day of the week in surrounding years:
1978,. . . .,1989,1995,2000—MON—2006
1979,1984,1990,. . . .,2001—TUE—2007
. . . .,1985,1991,1996,2002—WED—. . . .
1980,1986,. . . .,1997,2003—THU—2008
1981,1987,1992,1998,. . . .—FRI—2009
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—SAT—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,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.
March 6 is the 32nd possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 118 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 19th/20th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
379, 390, 463, 474, 485, 558, 569, 580, 653, 664, 748, 827, 911, 922, 995, 1006, 1017, 1090, 1101, 1112, 1185, 1196, 1280, 1359, 1443, 1454, 1527, 1538, 1549, 1585, 1647, 1658, 1669, 1680, 1715, 1726, 1737, 1867, 1878, 1889, 1935, 1946, 1957
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2019, 2030, 2041, 2052, 2109, 2171, 2182, 2193, 2239, 2250, 2261, 2272, 2307, 2318, 2329, 2402, 2413, 2424, 2486, 2497, 2554, 2565, 2576, 2611, 2622, 2633, 2644, 2701, 2763, 2774, 2785, 2796, 2858, 2869, 2880, 2926, 2937, 2948, 3005, 3016, 3078, 3089, 3135, 3146, 3157, 3168, 3230, 3241, 3252, 3309, 3320, 3382, 3393, 3450, 3461, 3472, 3518, 3529, 3540, 3602, 3613, 3624, 3697, 3765, 3776, 3822, 3833, 3844, 3901, 3912, 3974, 3985, 3996, 4069, 4080
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Free Speech "Free speech is about as good a cause as the world has ever known." — Heywood Broun
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Compassionate Conservatism "One of the major accomplishments of the last Congress was the end to the Federal entitlement to welfare. And I recognize that there are many skeptics, many doomsayers who wail and lament and beat their chests and say that society, specifically those poor and needy in our communities, that they are doomed . . ." — Rep. Kenny Hulshof (R-MD), Congressional Record, H883, 3-11-97—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 "Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus." — 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 6, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 2% Age: 95% Rise: 5:58 AM Set: 5:22 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Mar 6, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 2% Age: 95% Rise: 6:13 AM Set: 5:44 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Mar 6, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 2% Age: 95% Rise: 5:58 AM Set: 5:09 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Mar 6, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 3% Age: 95% Rise: 5:36 AM Set: 4:42 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Vela Supernova Remnant
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar.
● 1205 - Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
● 1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope.
● 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledged allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agreed to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
● 1479 - Treaty of Alcaçovas - Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa.
● 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
● 1579 - Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
● 1590 - Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"
● 1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
● 1629 - In Germany, the Edict of Restitution ordered that all church property secularized since 1552 be restored to the Roman Catholic Church.
● 1646 - Joseph Jenkes, Massachusetts, receives 1st colonial machine patent
● 1664 - King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
● 1714 - Peace of Rastatt: French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
● 1728 - Spain & England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
● 1735 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.'
● 1759 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'There is a wonderful mystery in the manner and circumstances of that mighty working, whereby God subdues all things to himself, and leaves nothing in the heart but his pure love alone.'
● 1775 - 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston
● 1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
● 1799 - Napoleon captures Jaffa Palestine
● 1806 - Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in Durham, England.
● 1810 - Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
● 1816 - Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
● 1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
● 1831 - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy
● 1834 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor.
● 1836 - HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia
● 1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 189 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken. The other side of the coin -- Mexican troops defend their country's abolitionist constitution, defeat foreign slaveholders. San Antonio, Texas. Remember the Alamo.
● 1854 - At the Washington Monument, several men stole the Pope's Stone from the lapidarium.
● 1856 - The University of Maryland, College Park is chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.
● 1857 - Dred Scott decision by U.S. Supreme Court opens federal territory to slavery and denies citizenship to blacks, ruling that blacks are not entitled to protection under the law. The "unhappy Black Race," wrote Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney in his opinion, had never possessed "rights which the white man was bound to respect."
● 1861 - Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
● 1862 - Battle of Pea Ridge AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
● 1865 - Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
● 1865 - President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball
● 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
● 1870 - Birth of Eugene Humbert, French anarchist militant, Metz. Militant libertarian, pacifist, neo-Malthusian. Killed in prison during WWII Allied bombing, the day before his release.
● 1882 - Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king
● 1884 - Susan B. Anthony and more than 100 other suffragists present President Chester Arthur with a demand that he support women's right to vote. They failed, but the two women's suffrage groups -- the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association -- soon merged and worked for the next 36 years toward passage of the 19th Amendment, in 1920.
● 1885 - Ring Lardner, the American writer and satirist, was born.
● 1886 - 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington MA
● 1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
● 1900 - A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.
● 1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
● 1902 - Census Bureau forms
● 1906 - Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
● 1906 - Nora Blatch becomes 1st woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers
● 1907 - British creditors of the Dominican Republic claimed that the U.S. had failed to collect debts.
● 1913 - Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appears in the IWW's "Little Red Song Book."
● 1915 - Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
● 1918 - US naval collier "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
● 1919 - Death of Julia H. Johnston, 70, American Presbyterian Sunday School leader. She penned about 500 hymns during her lifetime, one of which is still sung today: "Grace Greater Than Our Sin" (a.k.a. "Marvelous Grace of our Loving Lord").
● 1921 - Kamenev and "Snowball" (Trotsky) issue ultimatum to rebelling soldiers and sailors in Kronstadt.
● 1921 - Police in Sunbury PA issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee {As if they had the power to do so! Idiots!!}
● 1921 - The Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
● 1924 - British Labour government cuts military budget
● 1925 - Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmedy, and Sankt Vith.
● 1925 - Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded.
● 1928 - A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fled to Swatow.
● 1929 - Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
● 1930 - A National Trade-Union Unity League council in Madison, Wis., marches around the Capitol Square. During the march, a crowd of Univ. of Wisconsin students attack council leader Lottie Blumenthal, throwing her to the ground, manhandling other demonstrators, and destroying banners and pamphlets. Police arrest five university athletes who led the attack. One of the arrested athletes says (quote) - "We are getting so damned many radical Jews here that something must be done."
● 1930 - Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
● 1930 - Demonstrations by unemployed workers demanding unemployment insurance occur in virtually every major city in the country. Police attacked a crowd of 35,000 in New York City -- others estimated 100,000 attendees -- and 10,000 people engaged in a melee with police in Cleveland. Republican congressman Hamilton Fish, with the support of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), also introduces a measure in Congress to create a committee to investigate radical activities. This is the beginning of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
● 1933 - Death of Amos R. Wells, 71, pioneer U.S. Christian educator. From 1901 until his death, he was editor of "Peloubet's Notes for the International Sunday School Lessons."
● 1933 - Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)
● 1933 - Pres. Roosevelt closes all U.S. banks. Alas, they reopened.
● 1935 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died two days shy of his 94th birthday.
● 1936 - Belgium ends Locarno-pact
● 1939 - In Spain, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek "peace with honor."
● 1940 - 1st US telecast from an airplane, New York NY
● 1940 - Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union.
● 1943 - Battle at Medenine, North-Africa; Rommels assault attack
● 1943 - Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
● 1944 - USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
● 1945 - 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm
● 1945 - A communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
● 1945 - Assassination attempt on Höhere, SS Police führer Rauter
● 1945 - Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
● 1945 - Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee Nazis
● 1946 - Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
● 1947 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of John L. Lewis.
● 1947 - Winston Churchill announced that he opposed British troop withdrawals from India.
● 1947 - XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc CA
● 1948 - USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
● 1951 - Belgium extends conscription to 24 months
● 1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
● 1953 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
● 1956 - West Germany amends constitution to permit military conscription.
● 1957 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula.
● 1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
● 1959 - Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
● 1960 - President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament
● 1960 - Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.
● 1960 - The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam. {All Repugs note, this was during the Eisenhower Administration.}
● 1961 - 1st London minicabs introduced
● 1961 - 'Ukulele king' Formby dies; One of Britain's most popular entertainers, George Formby, has died after suffering a heart attack.
● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1962 - US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
● 1964 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece succeeding Paul I.
● 1964 - Prophet Elijah Muhammad officially gives Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali meaning "beloved of Allah". {Ali has since left the Black Moslem movement and follows a more traditional form of the religion.}
● 1964 - Protest against Sheraton Palace Hotel's discrimination in hiring, San Francisco.
● 1965 - 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
● 1965 - First American soldier "officially" sets foot on battlefield in Vietnam.
● 1967 - Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
● 1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.
● 1969 - Nine thousand march at University of Washington to protest Vietnam War.
● 1970 - Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled Lies: The Love & Terror Cult to help finance his defense.
● 1970 - Police respond violently to a peaceful student protest at Roosevelt High in East Los Angeles, arresting 37 students; many other students are injured.
● 1970 - Rabies ban on British pet imports; The British Government announces an indefinite ban on the importation of domestic pets.
● 1970 - Three Weathermen blow themselves up in Greenwich Village (house of Cathy Wilkerson's father) - Diana Oughton, Cathlyn Wilkerson, Kathy Boudin.
● 1971 - First annual meeting of Nebraskans for Peace.
● 1971 - First national women's liberation demonstration held in Britain.
● 1972 - Supreme Court rules that Squamish tribal courts do not have jurisdiction over crimes committed by non-Indians on reservations, a major blow to protection of inherent sovereignty.
● 1972 - Wildcat strike at Lordstown, Ohio GM plant where workers were not expected to resist work discipline (according to company calculations). The company and the union got a big surprise.
● 1973 - Former Equity Funding Corporation official accuses the company of perpetuating a $120 million swindle involving 60,000 fictitious life insurance policies.
● 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.
● 1974 - Miners' strike comes to an end; UK coal workers bring an end to a 16 week dispute following a pay increase of over 30%.
● 1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.
● 1975 - Nonviolent march demanding the return of democracy, Delhi, India.
● 1978 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia
● 1980 - French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
● 1980 - Islamic militants in Tehran said that they would turn over American hostages to the Revolutionary Council. {Eventually the Council would make a deal with candidate Reagan that would release the hostages after his inauguration. Only the first of his many impeachable offenses.}
● 1981 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
● 1981 - Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
● 1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced a plan to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
● 1981 - Walter Cronkite appeared on his last episode of "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite." He had been on the job 19 years.
● 1982 - Libertarian cult hero Ayn Rand, 77, author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged," dies in New York.
● 1982 - U.N. University for Peace founded. San Jose, Costa Rica.
● 1983 - A woman in New Bedford, Mass., reported being gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern; four men were later convicted.
● 1984 - One-year coal strike begins in England. In the end, Thatcher wins.
● 1985 - Mexican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar
● 1986 - USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
● 1987 - 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100
● 1987 - The British ferry M/S Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds after leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium en route to Dover, England across the English Channel, killing 193.
● 1988 - 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
● 1988 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike in favor of the selection of a deaf university president. The protest is called Deaf President Now.
● 1990 - In Afghanistan, an attempted coup to remove President Najibullah from office failed.
● 1990 - SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
● 1990 - The Russian Parliament passed a law that sanctioned the ownership of private property.
● 1991 - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated; The war is over"
● 1991 - In Paris, five men were jailed for plotting to smuggle Libyan arms to the Irish Republican Army.
● 1992 - Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.
● 1992 - The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
● 1993 - Angolans die in battle for Huambo; Hundreds of people are reported to have died in clashes between the rebel Unita movement and Angolan government forces in the central town of Huambo.
● 1994 - Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
● 1996 - Hundreds demonstrate for an end to all violence, Palestine.
● 1997 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.
● 1997 - Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.
● 1998 - 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
● 1998 - A Connecticut state lottery accountant gunned down three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.
● 2000 - Three white New York police officers were convicted of a cover-up in a police station attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.
● 2002 - Haida nation initiates lawsuit against British Columbia and federal Canadian governments, demanding aboriginal rights not only to their land, but the maritime resources throughout their native Queen Charlottte Islands.
● 2006 - Gov. Mike Rounds signed legislation banning most abortions in South Dakota. (The ban was rejected by the state's voters in November).
● 2007 - Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. was found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial. {The War Chimp would commute his prison sentence and Scooter would not spend a single day in jail.}
BIRTHS
● 1340 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
● 1405 - King John II of Castile (1406-54) (d. 1454)
● 1459 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
● 1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)
● 1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540)
● 1495 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (d. 1556)
● 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
● 1663 - Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)
● 1706 - George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
● 1716 - Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
● 1724 - Henry Laurens, American President of Continental Congress (1777-78) (d. 1792)
● 1761 - Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General (d. 1828)
● 1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)
● 1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)
● 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)
● 1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
● 1817 - Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
● 1818 - William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
● 1831 - Philip Sheridan, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888)
● 1834 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
● 1844 - Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and editor (d. 1908)
● 1870 - Oscar Straus, Viennese operetta composer (d. 1954)
● 1882 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
● 1885 - Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
● 1899 - Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
● 1903 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
● 1904 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
● 1904 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
● 1905 - Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)
● 1906 - Lou Costello, American actor comedian (d. 1959)
● 1914 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
● 1915 - Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002)
● 1915 - Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, Bohra spiritual leader
● 1917 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
● 1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
● 1919 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
● 1923 - Ed McMahon, American television personality (''The Tonight Show,'' ''Star Search'')
● 1924 - William Webster, Former FBI and CIA director
● 1925 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
● 1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
● 1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
● 1927 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)
● 1927 - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (d. 1975)
● 1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor
● 1931 - Hal Needham, American stuntman
● 1933 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
● 1934 - John Noakes, British television presenter
● 1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete
● 1936 - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (d. 2002)
● 1936 - Jean Boht, English actress
● 1936 - Marion Barry Jr., American politician
● 1937 - Doug Dillard, Country singer
● 1937 - Ivan Boesky, American stock trader
● 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
● 1939 - Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer (d. 2003)
● 1939 - Christopher Bond, U.S. senator, R-MO
● 1939 - Cookie Rojas, baseball player
● 1939 - Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
● 1940 - Joanna Miles, Actress
● 1940 - Willie Stargell, baseball player (d. 2001)
● 1942 - Ben Murphy, American actor
● 1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand singer
● 1944 - Mary Wilson, American singer (Supremes)
● 1945 - Hugh Grundy, Rock musician (The Zombies)
● 1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
● 1947 - Dick Fosbury, American athlete
● 1947 - Kiki Dee, British singer
● 1947 - Martin Kove, American actor
● 1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer
● 1947 - Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
● 1948 - Anna Maria Horsford, American actress
● 1949 - Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer
● 1949 - Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan
● 1951 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
● 1953 - Jacklyn Zeman, American actress
● 1953 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
● 1955 - Alberta Watson, Canadian actress
● 1958 - Eddie Deezen, American actor
● 1959 - Saul Anuzis, American politician
● 1959 - Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
● 1962 - Valerie French, American animatronics art director
● 1963 - D.L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
● 1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician
● 1964 - Skip Ewing, Country songwriter
● 1964 - Yvette Wilson, Actress
● 1966 - Alan Davies, British comedian and actor
● 1967 - Shuler Hensley, Actor
● 1968 - Connie Britton, Actress ("Spin City," "24," "Friday Night Lights")
● 1968 - Michael Romeo, American musician
● 1968 - Moira Kelly, American actress
● 1969 - Amy Pietz, Actress
● 1969 - Andrea Elson, American actress
● 1969 - Greg Scott, British TV personality
● 1969 - Tari Phillips, American basketball player
● 1970 - Shane Brolly, British actor
● 1971 - Darrick Martin, American basketball player
● 1971 - Sean Morley, American professional wrestler
● 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player
● 1972 - Terry Murphy, Northern Irish snooker player
● 1973 - Michael Finley, American basketball player
● 1973 - Trent Willmon, Country singer
● 1974 - Beanie Sigel, Rapper
● 1974 - Sebastian Siegel, British-American actor
● 1974 - Shan Farmer, Country musician (Ricochet)
● 1975 - Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer
● 1976 - Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
● 1977 - Bubba Sparxxx, Rapper
● 1977 - Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer
● 1977 - Marcus Thames, American baseball player
● 1978 - Sage Rosenfels, American Football Player
● 1979 - David Flair, American professional wrestler
● 1979 - Erik Bedard, Canadian baseball player
● 1979 - Ryan Nyquist, American BMX rider
● 1979 - Tim Howard, American soccer player
● 1980 - Ross Mawhinney, British-born Italian radio DJ
● 1981 - Ellen Muth, American actress
● 1983 - Andranik Teymourian, Iranian footballer
● 1984 - Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
● 1985 - Albert Reed, American model
● 1986 - Eli Marienthal, American actor
● 1986 - Jimmy Galeota, Actor
● 1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer
● 1996 - Savanah Stehlin, American actress
DEATHS
● 766 - Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop of Metz
● 1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
● 1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
● 1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador
● 1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
● 1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
● 1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
● 1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
● 1796 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
● 1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786) {Killed defending the Alamo}
● 1836 - James Butler Bonham, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1807) {Killed defending the Alamo}
● 1836 - Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796) {Killed defending the Alamo}
● 1836 - William Barret Travis, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1809) {Killed defending the Alamo}
● 1842 - Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
● 1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)
● 1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
● 1866 - William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (b. 1794)
● 1881 - Horatia Nelson, the illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
● 1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
● 1895 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
● 1899 - Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
● 1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1834)
● 1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
● 1932 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
● 1933 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
● 1935 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
● 1939 - Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (b. 1852)
● 1941 - Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)
● 1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)
● 1950 - Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
● 1951 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
● 1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
● 1952 - Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (executed) (b. 1895)
● 1961 - George Formby, British comedian and singer (b. 1904)
● 1964 - King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
● 1965 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
● 1967 - John Haden Badley, English author and educator (b. 1865)
● 1967 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
● 1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
● 1969 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
● 1970 - William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
● 1971 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
● 1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
● 1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
● 1981 - George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
● 1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
● 1985 - Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905)
● 1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
● 1993 - Douglas Marland, American writer (b. 1935)
● 1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, political activist, and politician (b. 1920)
● 1997 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
● 1997 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
● 1998 - Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
● 1999 - Dennis Viollet, former footballer (b. 1933)
● 1999 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)
● 2000 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
● 2001 - Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
● 2002 - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
● 2003 - John Sanford, American author (b. 1904)
● 2004 - Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
● 2004 - Ray Fernandez, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
● 2005 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
● 2005 - Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
● 2005 - Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)
● 2006 - Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
● 2006 - King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
● 2006 - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
● 2007 - Allen Coage (aka "Bad News Brown"), American professional wrestler and judoka (b. 1943)
● 2007 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
● 2007 - Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator and photographer (b. 1929)
● 2007 - Kevin Megeney, Canadian Solider (b. 1982)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Baldred
● St. Balther
● St. Basil
● St. Bilfrid
● St. Cadroe
● St. Chrodegang
● St. Colette aka St. Coleta of Ghent
● St. Conon
● St. Evagrius
● St. Fridolin
● Sts. Kyneburga, Kyneswide, & Tibba
● St. Marcian
● St. Olegarius
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 23 (Civil Date: March 6)
● Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna.
● Saints John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses and Damian, ascetics of the Syrian deserts.
● St. Alexander, founder of the Order of the Unsleeping Ones.
● St. Gorgonia, sister of St. Gregory the Theologian.
● St. Damian of Esphigmenou Skete on Mt. Athos.
● St. Moses, monk of Byelozersk.
● St. Polycarp, monk of Briansk.
● New-Martyr Damian, monk of Mt. Athos, who suffered at Larissa.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Clement.
● Martyr Thea.
● Repose of Abbot Nazarius of Valaam (1809).
● Old Roman Catholic:
● Feast of Sts. Perpetua & Felicitas, martyrs (now 3/7)
● Panamá : Jesus Nazarene of Atalaya
● Ghana - Independence Day (from Britain, 1957)
● Guam - Magellan Day/Discovery Day (1521)
● Texas - Alamo Day
● US - Stoneware Pottery Appreciation Day
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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