February 4 is the 35th light of day of the assemblage in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 (331 in twig years) life extant in the assemblage on this date.
Day of the hebdomad in nearby eld:
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—MON—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—TUE—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—WED—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—THU—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—FRI—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—SAT—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—SUN—. . . .
PASCAL DATE INFORMATION
Easter Sunday for the duration of the Western Christian Church is circumscribed as the word go Sunday mass the cardinal full-bodied slug after the Spring Equinox. Lent is circumscribed as the cardinal life whilom before to Easter not including Sundays that being so Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is 46 life one-time to Easter. Calculations by reason of Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday were performed suited for the 3774 eld from 326 to 4099. For the assemblage rove 326 to 1582, dates are supported on the Julian calendar. For eld 1583 to 4099, dates are supported on the Gregorian calendar. Ash Wednesday water in a kind of 36 life from February 4 to March 10. Easter Sunday water in a spread of 35 life from March 22 to April 25. The surprisingly prime in the Ash Wednesday migrate is February 29, which at worst occurs in be eager for years. February 29 on the other hand personalty when Ash Wednesday occurs since it is excellently anterior to the Spring Equinox and has no impact on the rendezvous as a remedy for Easter Sunday. March 10 to March 21 is a dozen-daytime stretch that necessity hit in Lent no sum the timing of Easter Sunday. The whole reach of 82 dates from February 4 to April 25 represents every dates with Pascal ramifications.
February 4 is the 1st reachable lover benefit of Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this rendezvous 20 nowadays during the 3774 eld deliberate and is hierarchical 35th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this steady old-fashioned theretofore in the eld:
414, 509, 604, 851, 946, 1041, 1136, 1383, 1478, 1573, 1598, 1693, 1761, 1818
It make manifest itself on this go out with in the days in the eld:
2285, 2353, 2437, 2505, 3029, 3401
It is uncongenial that some experience kind inclination ordeal Ash Wednesday on this date.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Civil Liberties "If the fires of free time and well-mannered liberties fire limited in another lands they forced to be prefabricated brighter in our own." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right suited for the Day: On The Art of Diplomacy "Japan knew how to feel affection an ass-move and they were revered fro it in place of of actuation up and motion in every direction and expulsion in our faces." — Roe Conn, referring to Japan's conquer in WWII and inculpative Germany's view the Iraq war. "Rode and Gary Show," WLS-AM 890, 3-25-3.
Dumbest Thing Said in the direction of the Day: From the on cloud nine of Sports "All fair, everybody trade up alphabetically according to your height." — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was added gaffer of mystification, Stengel is Hall of Shame colleague #7.
{Disclaimer: I would rather attempted to accord trust to the various singular sources that I pinch entries. Any bankruptcy to do so is unintentional. Any allegation capsulate by way of brackets these are the estimation of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}
MOON PHASE
Berkeley, California—Times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)
Feb 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 8% Age: 91% Rise: 5:48 AM Set: 3:10 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 8% Age: 91% Rise: 5:53 AM Set: 3:42 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 8% Age: 91% Rise: 5:56 AM Set: 2:47 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 9% Age: 91% Rise: 5:35 AM Set: 2:18 PM
TO BE ADDED NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE
EVENTS
● 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the safekeeping of his digit fractious sons, Caracalla and Geta.
● 362 - Roman Emperor Julian promulgates an rescript that recognizes rights to every the religions in the Roman Empire.
● 708 Sisinnius ends his prevail as Catholic Pope
● 960 - The investiture of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty era of China that would persist solon than threesome centuries.
● 1194 - Richard I Lion Hearted pays Leopold O Fenrik VI's payout of 100,000 pounds
● 1441 - Pope Eugene IV publicised the missive "Cantante domino." It asserted that the biblical ravine of the Roman Catholic Church contains both the 66 protocanonical books (i.e., the finished Protestant Bible) and 12 deuterocanonical (aka "apocryphal") books 78 writings in all.
● 1454 - In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a conventional resolution of rebelliousness to the Grand Master.
● 1508 - Maximilian I assumes princelike designate without existence crowned
● 1586 - Robert Dudley, peer of Leicester, becomes controller of Netherlands
● 1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler be introduced to suited for 1st shell of Prague
● 1620 - Prince Bethlen Gábor signs unwarlike with monarch Ferdinand II
● 1657 - Oliver Cromwell grants act to Luis Caravajal
● 1697 - 3 VOC-ships mainstay at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
● 1699 - 350 ungovernable Streltsi executed in Moscow
● 1703 - In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin imprison seppuku (ritual suicide) as rectification as regards avenging their genius's death.
● 1712 - South Carolina hierodule traders powerless to deprecate Chief Hancock's Tuscarora fort.
● 1782 - British emancipationist surrenders to French & Spanish fleet
● 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom formally declares that it wish refrain from ceaselessly hostilities with the United States of America.
● 1783 - Worst limitation in 8 eld kills whatever 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
● 1787 - 1st Anglican bishops of New York & Pennsylvania ordained in London
● 1787 - Shays' Rebellion (of in hock-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
● 1789 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the from the word go President of the United States via the U.S. Electoral College.
● 1792 - George Washington is unanimously elected to a assist relative to as President of the United States beside the U.S. Electoral College. {Something but finished twice in recapitulation—both allowing for regarding Washington.}
● 1794 - The French assembly abolishes thrall entirely every territories of the French Republic.
● 1797 - Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 40,000
● 1801 - John Marshall is bound in as Chief Justice of the United States.
● 1810 - British Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
● 1810 - The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was designed in Tennessee as an consequence of the Great Revival of 1800. Standing between Calvinism and Arminianism, the order holds a "channel subject" which affirms numberless repayment, unlimited breeding, contingent referendum, limitless care of the protagonist and deliverance of every children fading fast in infancy.
● 1819 - Birth of Emperor Norton I, unreal San Francisco locality sovereign (self- proclaimed) of the mid-19th Century.
● 1822 - Emancipated U.S. blacks into order in Liberia, West Africa.
● 1824 - J W Goodrich introduces foam galoshes to the public
● 1825 - The Ohio Legislature authorizes the cerebration of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
● 1846 - Mormons turn one's back on Nauvoo MO for the benefit of village in the west
● 1847 - 1st US setup troop ingrained in Maryland
● 1849 - University of Wisconsin begins in 1 area with 20 students
● 1854 - Alvan Bovay proposes the big shot "Republican Party", Ripon WI
● 1855 - Soldiers throw Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
● 1859 - Codex Sinaiticus unconcealed in Egypt.
● 1861 - American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, Delegates from sextet accustom-absent U.S. states meeting and assemble The Confederate States of America.
● 1864 - Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
● 1865 - Hawaiian Board of Education formed
● 1866 - Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries at near vernissage a bible
● 1869 - Birth of Big Bill Haywood, author of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Salt Lake City, Utah.
● 1873 - Birth of George Bennard, American Methodist evangelist. He enclosed one more time 300 Gospel songs during his period, but is pre-eminently remembered today conducive to individual: "The Old Rugged Cross."
● 1874 - English versifier and devotional pen-pusher Frances Ridley Havergal, 37, enclosed the text to the average anthem of dedication, "Take My Life and Let It Be [Consecrated, Lord, to Thee]."
● 1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes agent prescribed of railroads
● 1895 - 1st actuation elevator unite opens, Chicago
● 1899 - The Philippine-American War begins: Revolt against U.S. trade forces begins in the Philippines. The Islands became a U.S. body as a arise of the Spanish-American War, noticeably fought to emancipated Cuba from unconnected conduct (sic). Explained the chair of the Philippine Commission - "We bid to dwell there indefinitely in employed old-fashioned this respectable that we introduce to do them."
● 1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh, the American airman who became the beginning chain to launch the Atlantic unaccompanied uninterrupted from the United States to Europe, was born.
● 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began after Japan ordered seige to Port Arthur.
● 1913 - Birth of Rosa Parks, urbane rights innovator, Tuskegee, Alabama. Contrary to in mythology, Parks was not barely a occasionally charabanc rider. In 1943, she became rhyme of the NAACP's in the beginning women members. She also connected the Montgomery Voters League to give a shot in the arm moonless registration. In her most well-known feigning of guerrillas, on December 1, 1955, Parks refused to comply her accommodate to a off-white rider in a bishopric charabanc, sparking the eminent Montgomery charabanc boycott. Her activism prefabricated it unsolvable to save her to get cultivate in Montgomery. She touched to Detroit and continuing employed seeing that courteous rights.
● 1913 - Louis Perlman patents demountable machine weary-carrying situation rim
● 1914 - US Congress approves Burnett-opposing-migration law. {It is because of this accumulation that my warm gran, dropped in the US and having not at all left-hand it, down the drain her citizenship when she mated my thus far to be foreign grandfather. They were after prefabricated citizens in the word-for-word ceremony.}
● 1915 - Experiments to experience occasion of hypovitaminosis upon at Mississippi Penitentiary
● 1915 - Germany establishes a sub beleaguer about the UK and declares some bark in it a authorized target.
● 1917 - Belgium Council of Flanders established
● 1919 - City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown
● 1920 - 1st abscond from London to South Africa takes-inaccurate (1½ months)
● 1921 - Birth of Betty Friedan, framer of National Organization since Women. Peoria, Illinois.
● 1922 - Indian peasants at Churi Chauna criticize community enforce, bloodshed 21.
● 1926 - Austrian premier Seipel wants to team up with Germany
● 1930 - 1st tieless, quiet, shockless tramcar tracks, New Orleans
● 1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
● 1933 - Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" insurrection after reward cuts
● 1933 - German President Von Hindenburg limits immunity of the press
● 1936 - Radium E. becomes the beginning hot unfavourable weather to be prefabricated synthetically.
● 1938 - Hitler seizes pilot of German grey & puts Nazi in critical posts
● 1941 - British tanks involve Maus Libya
● 1941 - Former Dutch foremost De Geer flies to Berlin
● 1941 - World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to hold American troops.
● 1942 - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US General injured in demeanour in WWII
● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad ends.
● 1944 - US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein
● 1945 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin be introduced to at Yalta play the Yalta Conference
● 1948 - Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes self-sufficient within the British Commonwealth.
● 1949 - Failed defamation take a crack at on Shah of Persia.
● 1950 - American evangelist and excruciate Jim Elliot resolute in his tabloid: 'I haw no individual depend on suave impulses to produce me the Lord. I essential moderately return to principles I differentiate to be without hesitating, whether I note them to be pleasant or not.'
● 1952 - First appointment of U.N. Disarmament Commission.
● 1956 - White apprentice fight at University of Alabama against suite-sequential investiture of initially Negro student.
● 1957 - Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc., of New York, began commerce manageable galvanizing typewriters. The in the beginning make weighed 19 pounds.
● 1957 - USS Nautilus, the first place atomic-supercharged sub, logs her 60,000th navigational knot, corresponding the stamina of the imaginary Nautilus described in Jules Verne's best-seller "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
● 1959 - Israel begins mercantilism conductor ore
● 1961 - Sputnik 7 launches into Earth revolve; plausible Venus enquiry failure
● 1964 - 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
● 1965 - US performs atomic assess at Nevada Test Site
● 1966 - All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 plane plunges into Tokyo Bay, carnage 133.
● 1967 - US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
● 1968 - More Kenyan Asians make oneself scarce to Britain; Another 96 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya prosper in Britain, the stylish in a ontogeny flight of Kenyan Asians fleeing discrimination.
● 1968 - The inspirational capacity of the Beat writers, Prankster Neal Cassady, collapses and dies along gauge tracks, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.
● 1968 - The superb's maximal craft was launched at Cowes, Isle of Wight.
● 1969 - Yasser Arafat takes in excess of as chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
● 1970 - After 35 life, the Menominee Indians supersede their appropriation of an brand new Gresham, Wisconsin Roman Catholic period, when the faith promises to performance it to them a tribal hospital.
● 1970 - US performs atomic prove at Nevada Test Site
● 1971 - Apollo 14 town Antares lands on Moon (Shepard & Mitchell)
● 1971 - British heap concern Rolls Royce proclaimed itself bankrupt
● 1971 - Government show second to cerebration collapses, kills 65 in Brazil
● 1971 - National Guard mobilized to compose disorder in Wilmington NC
● 1972 - 6th circle of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
● 1972 - Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
● 1973 - Reshef, Israel's ballistic missile vessel, unveiled
● 1973 - Vietnam observers' in support of pacific; International scrutiny teams in Vietnam induce been dispatched into the countryside to supervise the agreement united stay Saturday in Paris.
● 1974 - Gas rationing ends in Netherlands
● 1974 - Heiress Patricia Hearst is seize in Berkeley through the Symbionese Liberation Army, which demands that the Hearst dearest develop and scratch a unfetter eats information in the direction of star-crossed grouping in Oakland. Several road feeds do look like advance on the eve of the information runs non-functioning of paper money in March.
● 1974 - Soldiers and children killed in guide onslaught; Eleven grouping are killed in a explosive completely on a charabanc nomadic to an grey ribald in North Yorkshire.
● 1976 - Senate subcommittee reveals Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (the forerunner to today's Lockheed Martin) prefabricated payments at large of $22 meg in bribes to furnish planes. Lockheed admits payments in Japan, Turkey, Italy, and Holland. Today, agent regime agencies the Export-Import Bank place much felony supererogatory; instantly, the sway does it owing them.
● 1976 - US performs atomic check-up at Nevada Test Site
● 1976 - Violent seism strikes Guatemala City, Guatemala, 24,000 grouping, injuring 50,000. The ability rendered as such as -ordinal of the native land's people homeless. Thousands solon killed beside aftershocks in the mass days. Deaths transpire wholly both Guatemala and Honduras.
● 1977 - Elevated teach jumps run down, crashes onto Chicago thoroughfare (11 diminish, 200 hurt)
● 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini obloquy Abolhassan Banisadr as chair of Iran.
● 1982 - Suriname chancellor Chin A Sen flees
● 1983 - José Happart becomes politician of Voeren Belgium
● 1983 - Pop songster Karen Carpenter, 32, dies of pity neglect brought on nearby anorexia nervosa.
● 1985 - 20 countries (but not US) conspicuous UN pact outlawing torture
● 1985 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan's accumulation budget titled in favour of a tripling of the outgoings on the "Star Wars" dig into program.
● 1985 - Visit nearby U.S.S. Buchanan refused apropos to non-atomic refuge system, New Zealand.
● 1986 - Israeli fighters head off Libyan fly (passenger plane)
● 1987 - Congress overrides Pres. Reagan's interdict of Clean Water Act.
● 1987 - Gay player, approach fool Liberace dies.
● 1988 - Defiant seamen affect on; Thousands of seamen at vital British ports are continuing to sit-down strike placid all the same their seam has titled an incessantly to the action.
● 1988 - Panamanian chief Manuel Noriega indicted on slip someone a Mickey Finn charges
● 1990 - 10 Israeli tourists murdered impending Cairo
● 1990 - Colombian administration recognizes natal rights to 69,000 rectangle miles (slightly large than precinct of structure of Washington) in Amazon Basin, to 55,000 people.
● 1991 - The Baseball Hall of Fame votes to embargo Pete Rose.
● 1991 - US item raises from 25¢ to 29¢
● 1992 - A Coup d'état is diode alongside Hugo Chávez Frías, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
● 1993 - Admiral Studeman, ends stipulations as performing executive of CIA
● 1993 - Russian scientists unfurled a Amazon reproduction in path and flashed a shine of light crossways Europe during the night. Observers truism it sole as an fleeting flash.
● 1994 - 20 cease become extinct in brachiate violation on masjid in Khartum Sudan
● 1996 - Major storm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties every-time after time phonograph record ineffective temperature at -26°F (-22°C).
● 1996 - Start of hebdomad of marches also in behalf of peaceableness away thousands, Grozny, Chechnya.
● 1997 - After at in the first place contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes defiance victories in the November 1996 elections.
● 1997 - En direction to Lebanon, digit Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 crowd-transferral helicopters smack into in mid-ventilate ended Federal Galilee, Israel murder 73.
● 1997 - O J Simpson ground responsible in murders of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson. {There is even no fairness in this for fear that b if of commission override as small amounts of payment are every that deceive benn paid.}
● 1997 - Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she solely unconcealed that her grandparents were Jewish.
● 1998 - An seism activity 6.1 on the Richter Scale in north Afghanistan kills solon than 5,000.
● 1998 - While in Brussels Belgium, Bill Gates is abused by way of a Belgian human beings and smash in the change one's expression with a toiletries pie.
● 1999 - Gary Coleman was sentenced to a $400 great, a suspended 90-daytime nick decree, and sequential to look after 52 make one's blood boil-directors classes. The decision stemmed from Coleman assaulting an sign person on July 30, 1998. {Coleman would after be on the disavowal balloting that unseated Gray Davis and mortgage an Austrian bulk stuff in the California controller's chair.}
● 1999 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan expeditionary and legislator, is elected President of Venezuela.
● 1999 - The New Carissa runs shipwrecked lean towards Coos Bay, Oregon
● 1999 - Warplanes from Israel attacked southward Lebanon decent after rockets were fired toward Israel. No casualties were claimed on either side.
● 2000 - Austrian President Thomas Klestil swore in a alinement guidance that included Joerg Haider's here-virtuousness Freedom Party. European Union sanctions were a emerge of the action.
● 2000 - German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed as a replacement for mortal with a view attempted ruin and extortion in link with the throw a spanner into the works of German rail lines.
● 2002 - After a prior surge of supervise shootings of non-ghostly suspects, New York City mistakenly bud and write 'finis' to outsider Amadou Diallo in a unusually gross for fear of the fact of tribal profiling; 15 life of courtly rebelliousness feature changes in the bishopric's monitor procedures.
● 2003 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a unfamiliar constitution.
● 2004 - The Massachusetts high-class suite proclaimed that gays were entitled to marriage.
● 2006 - A panic occurs in the ULTRA Stadium within reach of Manila slaughter 88.
● 2006 - Thousands of Syrians maddened before caricatures of Islam's reverend prognosticator torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. In Gaza, Palestinians marched toe the streets, storming European buildings and enthusiastic German and Danish flags.
BIRTHS
● 1524 - Luis de Camões, Portugal's large poet. (d. 1580)
● 1575 - Pierre de Bérulle, French leading and politico (d. 1629)
● 1620 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish politico (d. 1667)
● 1646 - Hans Erasmus Aßpedagogue, Freiherr von Abschatz, German politico and elegist (d. 1699)
● 1677 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)
● 1688 - Pierre de Marivaux, French litt�rateur (d. 1763)
● 1725 - Dru Drury, English zoologist (d. 1804)
● 1746 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish, Belarusian and Lithuanian citizen star (d. 1817)
● 1778 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss biologist (d. 1841)
● 1799 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese essayist (d. 1854)
● 1802 - Mark Hopkins, American pedagogue and theologiser (d. 1887)
● 1841 - Clément Ader, French travel start (d. 1926)
● 1846 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
● 1848 - Jean Aicard, French rimester (d. 1921)
● 1849 - Jean Richepin, French rhymester (d. 1926)
● 1859 - Timofei Mikhailov, Russian insurrectionist, colleague of Narodnaya Volya
● 1871 - Friedrich Ebert, German bureaucrat, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
● 1873 - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian player (d. 1905)
● 1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953)
● 1881 - Fernand Léger, French master (d. 1955)
● 1882 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian lyrist (d. 1964)
● 1883 - George Kennedy Bell, English Anglican bishop of Chichester (d. 1958)
● 1892 - Andreu Nin, Catalan politico (d. 1937)
● 1893 - Raymond Dart, Australian-born. South African man anthropologist (d. 1988)
● 1895 - Nigel Bruce, English person (d. 1953)
● 1896 - Friedrich Glauser, German-interaction Swiss newsman (d. 1938)
● 1896 - Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
● 1897 - Ludwig Erhard, 2nd Bundeskanzler of Germany (d. 1977)
● 1900 - Jacques Prévert, French sonneteer and lyricist (d. 1977)
● 1902 - Charles Lindbergh, American wheelman {and Nazi ally} (d. 1974)
● 1902 - Hartley Shawcross, British solicitor and bureaucrat (d. 2003)
● 1904 - MacKinlay Kantor, American pencil-pusher (d. 1977)
● 1905 - Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)
● 1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, American physicist (d. 1997)
● 1906 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologiser (d. 1945)
● 1908 - Julian Bell, British sonneteer (d. 1937)
● 1912 - Byron Nelson, American participant (d. 2006)
● 1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian musician (d. 1993)
● 1912 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)
● 1912 - Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian selectman (d. 1999)
● 1913 - Rosa Parks, American urbane rights reformist (d. 2005)
● 1914 - Alfred Andersch, German essayist (d. 1980)
● 1915 - Norman Wisdom, English person and comedian
● 1915 - William Talman, American person (1968)
● 1916 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st basic of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi Order (d. 1980)
● 1917 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1980)
● 1918 - Ida Lupino, English pic actress and Mr Big (d. 1995)
● 1918 - Janet Waldo, American actress
● 1918 - Luigi Pareyson, Italian Athenian (d. 1991)
● 1921 - Betty Friedan, American reformist (d. 2006)
● 1921 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)
● 1922 - William Phipps, Actor
● 1923 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-dropped actor
● 1925 - Russell Hoban, American writer
● 1929 - Jerry Adler, American actor
● 1931 - Isabel Martínez de Perón, ordinal woman of Argentine overlord Juan Perón
● 1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish voice (d. 1989)
● 1936 - David Brenner, American comedian
● 1936 - Gary Conway, American actor
● 1937 - David Newman, American producer (d. 2003)
● 1938 - Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
● 1940 - George Romero, American chief honcho, scriptwriter and producer
● 1940 - John Schuck, American person (M*A*S*H, McMillian and Wife)
● 1941 - John Steel, British performer (The Animals)
● 1943 - Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese chair of the regional oversight of Madeira
● 1943 - Ken Thompson, American machine scientist
● 1944 - Florence LaRue, American minstrel (The Fifth Dimension)
● 1945 - David Brenner, Comedian
● 1947 - Dan "p-o-t-a-t-o-e" Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States
● 1948 - Alice Cooper, American musician
● 1949 - Michael Beck, American actor
● 1950 - Pamela Franklin, British actress
● 1951 - Dariush Eghbali, Iranian vocalist and musician
● 1951 - Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
● 1951 - Phil Ehart, American performer (Kansas)
● 1951 - Stan Papi, American ballgame player
● 1952 - Jerry Shirley, drummer of their heels join Humble Pie.
● 1952 - Li Yinhe, Chinese Sexologist
● 1952 - Lisa Eichhorn, American actress (L. A. Law)
● 1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer
● 1955 - Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak Prime minister
● 1957 - Don Davis, American composer
● 1957 - Evan Wolfson, American professional and activist
● 1958 - Tomasz Pacyńrunner, Polish writer
● 1959 - Lawrence Taylor, American sport athlete and Hall of Fame member
● 1959 - Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
● 1960 - Jenette Goldstein, American actress
● 1960 - Jonathan Larson, American composer of "RENT" and another musicals (d. 1996)
● 1960 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish litt�rateur (d. 2007)
● 1960 - Tim Booth, British balladeer (James)
● 1961 - Denis Savard, Canadian cover hockey player
● 1961 - Henry Bogdan, Rock musician
● 1961 - Stewart O'Nan, American author
● 1962 - Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian
● 1962 - Clint Black, American musician
● 1962 - Michael Riley, Canadian actor
● 1963 - Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier
● 1964 - Noodles, American player (The Offspring)
● 1965 - Jerome Brown, American sport trouper (d. 1992)
● 1966 - Dave Buchanan, Country performer (Yankee Grey)
● 1966 - Kyoko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
● 1966 - Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist
● 1967 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian work out b decipher skater (d. 1995)
● 1968 - Marko Matvere, Estonian actor
● 1969 - Dallas Drake, cover hockey player
● 1969 - Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace)
● 1970 - Gabrielle Anwar, English actress
● 1971 - David Garza, Rock singer
● 1971 - Michael A. Goorjian, American actor
● 1971 - Rob Corddry, American person and comedian
● 1972 - Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
● 1973 - Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-dropped boxer
● 1974 - Eric Townsend, American performer and list producer
● 1975 - Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
● 1975 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian performer and actress
● 1975 - Rick Burch, Rock performer (Jimmy Eat World)
● 1976 - Cam'Daffo, American rapper
● 1977 - Gavin DeGraw, American musician
● 1978 - Danna Garcia, Colombian actress
● 1979 - Andrei Arlovski, Russian opposing pugnacious artist
● 1979 - Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing buggy driver
● 1979 - Jacques Copeau, French actor/critic/director (d. 1949)
● 1981 - Jason Kapono, America Professional Basketball Player
● 1981 - Tom Mastny, Indonesian ballgame player
● 1982 - Chris Sabin, American pro wrestler
● 1982 - Kimberly Wyatt, American chorister and partner (Pussycat Dolls)
● 1982 - Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian maven low road racing cyclist
● 1984 - Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
● 1985 - Bug Hall, American actor
● 1986 - Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer
● 1987 - Lucie Šafářová, Czech sport player
● 1988 - Alexandros Pagalis, Greek footballer
● 1988 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast
● 1988 - Eoin McDowell, Irish football player
DEATHS
● 211 - Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)
● 708 - Pope Sisinnius
● 856 - Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz
● 869 - Saint Cyril, Greek preacher to the Slavs (b. 827)
● 1508 - Conrad Celtes, German philosophy pedagogue (b. 1459)
● 1590 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)
● 1615 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
● 1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian physicist (b. 1535)
● 1694 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
● 1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English legislator and Athenian (b. 1671)
● 1774 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
● 1781 - Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (b. 1737)
● 1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French creator (b. 1728)
● 1894 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian legal document concern (b. 1814)
● 1905 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French artist (b. 1841)
● 1928 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1853)
● 1933 - Archibald Sayce, English pedagogue (b. 1846)
● 1936 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German director of the Swiss Nazi team (b. 1895)
● 1940 - Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
● 1943 - Frank Calder, the foremost NHL President (b. 1877)
● 1944 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian litt�rateur (b. 1872)
● 1944 - Yvette Guilbert, French chanteuse and actress (b. 1867)
● 1958 - Henry Kuttner, American architect (b. 1915)
● 1959 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
● 1966 - Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American chair of the National Geographic Society (b. 1875)
● 1967 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
● 1968 - Neal Cassady, American pen-pusher (b. 1926)
● 1969 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905)
● 1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)
● 1975 - Howard Hill, American bowman (b. 1899)
● 1975 - Louis Jordan, American performer (b. 1908)
● 1977 - Brett Halliday, American author (b. 1904)
● 1982 - Alex Harvey, Scottish performer (b. 1935)
● 1982 - Georg Konrad Morgen, German decree (b. 1909)
● 1983 - Karen Carpenter, American nightingale and performer (Carpenters) (anorexia) (b. 1950)
● 1984 - Anna Anderson, claimant to the vest of Russia
● 1987 - Carl Rogers, American linguist (b. 1902)
● 1987 - Liberace, American performer (b. 1919)
● 1990 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian maven combatant (b. 1917)
● 1992 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish scale model (b. 1911)
● 1995 - Godfrey Brown, British player and dominie (b. 1915)
● 1995 - Patricia Highsmith, American initiator (b. 1921)
● 2000 - Carl Albert, American statesman, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
● 2000 - Doris Coley, American chorus-member (Shirelles) (b. 1941)
● 2000 - Phil Tonken, American transistor and small screen presenter (b. 1919)
● 2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and creator (b. 1922)
● 2001 - J. J. Johnson, American talking instrumentalist and composer (b. 1924)
● 2002 - George Nader, American veil and video receiver person (b. 1921)
● 2003 - Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian civil servant (b. 1920)
● 2003 - Charlie Biddle, Canadian talking bassist (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Ossie Davis, American person (b. 1917)
● 2006 - Betty Friedan, American reformist (b. 1921)
● 2006 - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
● 2007 - Barbara McNair, American minstrel and actress (b. 1934)
● 2007 - Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poetess and polyglot (b. 1959)
● 2007 - José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup player (b. 1925)
● 2007 - Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-dropped American synopsize master and artist (b. 1922)
● 2007 - Steve Barber, American ballgame ballplayer (b. 1938)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aldate
● St. Andrew Corsini, bishop of Fiesole/confessor
● St. Aventinus of Chartres
● St. Eutychius
● St. Gilbert of Sempringham (d. 1189)
● St. Joan of Valois
● St. John de Britto, Portuguese Jesuit
● St. John Stone
● St. Joseph of Leonissa
● St. Liephard
● St. Modan
● St. Nicholas Studites
● St. Nithard
● St. Obitius
● St. Rembert of Torhout
● St. Theophilus the Penitent
● St. Veronica, protector fear of photographers
● St. Vincent of Troyes
● St. Vulgis
● Bl. John Speed
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for the duration of January 22 (Civil Date: February 4)
● Apostle Timothy of the Seventy.
● Monk-excruciate Anastasius the Persian.
● Martyrs Manuel, Parodus, presbyters; and 377 companions in Bulgaria.
● Martyr Anastasius the deacon of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Macarius, archimandrite of Zhabyn.
● St. Ioasaph, Enlightener of Alaska and the American land.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Joseph Samakus the Sanctified of Crete.
● Anglican:
● Cornelius the Centurion
● Ancient Latvia - Biezputras Diena observed.
● Angola - Anniversary of the Outbreak of Armed Struggle against Portuguese Colonialism.
● Sri Lanka - Independence Day (1948).
● US - Kosciuszko Day
● World Cancer Day
● This Holiday is only relevant on a fact "epoch of the hebdomad"
● Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates result of season - ( Sunday )
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING EIGHT SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
This Previous Day in History Post With
This Original Wikipedia List framework the heart of this post.
Additional facts enchanted from:
Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this broad daylight that you not had to rote in school.
Roman Catholic Saint of the Day
Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
Liberal Quotes of the Day charmed from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled on William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day infatuated from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled before Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the benefit of the Day charmed from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited not later than Steven D. Price ©2004
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