It is telling what is not said in criticising Abbott to defend a multi million dollar claim for subsidy to a weak SPC Ardmona business. A profitable business is one that secures a future for its' workers. A subsidy won't do that. It is a responsible decision by Mr Abbott and necessary if Australia's budget is ever to be balanced. It is not a decision the ALP would have made. Neither is it a decision the ABC can applaud. Why does anyone care if the ABC applauds a decision? Naturally, unions are claiming that it is the end of industrial relations. Or the beginning. Or something.
It is telling what is not said in criticising the Australian government's border protection policy. Fewer boat people means fewer people drowning and being exploited by pirates. Also, fewer boat people means more refugees from refugee camps being offered a new life they could never have dreamed of from whatever impoverished war torn nation they fled. It is like effective aid. It might be cold and heartless to so completely and ruthlessly expose how bad ALP government had been. Or, how murderous were the ALP policies labelled compassionate. Where are the outspoken church people who promoted the previous devastation? Malcolm Fraser doesn't like it when people aren't drowning or being exploited by pirates, he seems to be upset by refugees being offered a new home and life.
It is telling and it is apparent, that if anyone told the ABC, they weren't listening.
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- 1505 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
- 1534 – Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian soldier, composer, and critic (d. 1612)
- 1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
- 1748 – Elias Stein, Dutch chess player (d. 1812)
- 1784 – Nancy Lincoln, American mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
- 1788 – Robert Peel, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
- 1837 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (d. 1899)
- 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber (d. 1921)
- 1840 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-English inventor, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916)
- 1878 – André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën (d. 1935)
- 1908 – Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twins (d. 1969)
- 1920 – Frank Muir, English comedian and actor (d. 1998)
- 1934 – Hank Aaron. American baseball player
- 1948 – Barbara Hershey, American actress
- 1954 – Cliff Martinez, American drummer and songwriter (Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Dickies, and The Weirdos)
- 1956 – Betty Ong, American flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
- 1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
- 2002 – Davis Cleveland, American actor
Matches
- 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
- 756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
- 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
- 1852 – The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
- 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
- 1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
- 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
- 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
- 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
- 1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
- 1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
- 1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
- 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 1994 – During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
- 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
- 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
Despatches
- 523 – Avitus of Vienne, archbishop of Vienne and poet (b. 470)
- 1578 – Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter (b. 1520)
- 1881 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian (b. 1795)
- 1941 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (b. 1864)
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We can learn from a man who has class
Miranda Devine – Tuesday, February 04, 2014 (8:34pm)
THE vicious attacks on the expert chosen by Christopher Pyne to review the national education curriculum show just how much is at stake for the cultural revolutionaries dumbing down our schools.
Continue reading 'We can learn from a man who has class'ABC’S STRANGE WORLD OF PRIDE AND SHAME
Tim Blair – Wednesday, February 05, 2014 (4:14am)
February 3. ABC head of editorial policy Alan Sunderland defends the billion-dollar broadcaster’s navy torturer smears:
If we relied only on information from official channels then little or nothing would have been reported and the Australian public would have been left in the dark about the dramatic events unfolding on the high seas.From the moment the first claims emerged in this messy affair, it was clear there was a significant story. Thanks to the work of good journalists who did not stop chasing, the public now knows that.When the ABC starts chasing uncomfortable stories, we expect criticism. But it is indeed a strange world when some of those who should be chasing the story seem to think the story is us.
February 4. ABC bosses Mark Scott and Kate Torney regret the billion-dollar broadcaster’s navy torturer smears:
Video obtained exclusively by the ABC, showing asylum seekers with burns, along with reports that Indonesian police were investigating the matter, raised further important questions …The ABC’s initial reports on the video said that the vision appeared to support the asylum seekers’ claims. That’s because it was the first concrete evidence that the injuries had occurred. What the video did not do was establish how those injuries occurred.The wording around the ABC’s initial reporting needed to be more precise on that point. We regret if our reporting led anyone to mistakenly assume that the ABC supported the asylum seekers’ claims.
So it’s the audience’s fault. Further on the ABC’s half-arsed regret here.
CLIMATE CHANGE KILLS A TREE
Tim Blair – Wednesday, February 05, 2014 (3:55am)
FOURTH-HAND DESTROYS ALL WHO SEE IT
Tim Blair – Wednesday, February 05, 2014 (3:40am)
Second-hand smoke is such a yesterday issue. The cool new concern is third-hand smoke.
(Via must-read PWAF)
Hey, Putin, where’s the roof? The floor? The lift?
Andrew Bolt February 05 2014 (3:21pm)
Athletes and reporters
are checking into their Olympic Games accommodation at Sochi. Russia was
never famous for its service culture or efficiency, and the tweets from its Games guests are not flattering:
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Sharman Stone should say sorry
Andrew Bolt February 05 2014 (1:42pm)
Judith Sloan on SPC Ardmona:
===So who is telling lies? Shadow Industry Minister, Kim Carr, and local Liberal MP Sharmon Stone are a tag-team when it comes to accusing the Prime Minister of uttering porkies about the excessive workers’ conditions and restrictive practices. The trouble is that the evidence is there for everyone to read.Why have the many reporters who simply repeated Stone’s claim of Abbott lying not checked for themselves who is actually telling the untruths?
The SPC Ardmona EBA does provide for wages which are 40 per cent above the award; does contain superannuation contributions of 11.5 per cent (above the norm of 9.25 per cent); does allow for some cashing out of sick leave; does provide excessive redundancy payouts for the majority of workers; does provide for a day of leave to attend the Food Preservers’ Picnic and numerous RDOs; and the list goes on. And if the various allowances are so trivial, they should have been cashed out and eliminated years ago.
The ABC’s priorities
Andrew Bolt February 05 2014 (1:25pm)
The ABC, which refused to report Climategate or a police raid on Julia Gillard’s former law offices under a warrant naming her, finds a story far more suited to its taste.
===Teaching children to worship at the shrine of race
Andrew Bolt February 05 2014 (12:50pm)
A Canberra reader found
the Florey Primary School displaying this declaration, presenting it as
the considered thoughts of its students rather than the grim
instruction of their teachers:
There were agreements - like that struck in what became Melbourne - between original owners and settlers to hand over some land. Why are they not mentioned?
Is this retreat into tribalism, with students of “many cultures” demanding “respect” for “Aboriginal peoples culture and customary law”, to be matched with laws defining us by our “race” and “ethnic origin”? Or is our better future to be found in treating each other as individuals, regardless of “race”, under a common citizenship?
Why is the missing apostrophe in “peoples culture”? Are spelling and grammar taught with the same care as this kind of racial politics? I ask, because apostrophes at this school go missing where you least expect them to:
Are these students demanding “respect” for aspects of Aboriginal law such as polygamy, male dominance, bride-promising, collectivism and payback?
Why do the children use “spiritual totem poles”? If all cultures are to be recognised, why can’t these children swear by a crucifix? Are they appropriating Aboriginal spirituality, or merely being converted?
Could the school get back to teaching, rather than preaching?
UPDATE
Miranda Devine:
===Why did the teachers put these words in the mouths of the children, rather than openly admit the sentiments were their own?
There were agreements - like that struck in what became Melbourne - between original owners and settlers to hand over some land. Why are they not mentioned?
Is this retreat into tribalism, with students of “many cultures” demanding “respect” for “Aboriginal peoples culture and customary law”, to be matched with laws defining us by our “race” and “ethnic origin”? Or is our better future to be found in treating each other as individuals, regardless of “race”, under a common citizenship?
Why is the missing apostrophe in “peoples culture”? Are spelling and grammar taught with the same care as this kind of racial politics? I ask, because apostrophes at this school go missing where you least expect them to:
Given 30 per cent of the students speak English only as a second language, are they more or less likely to integrate into a country they are taught to regard as stolen land belonging to another “race”?
Are these students demanding “respect” for aspects of Aboriginal law such as polygamy, male dominance, bride-promising, collectivism and payback?
Why do the children use “spiritual totem poles”? If all cultures are to be recognised, why can’t these children swear by a crucifix? Are they appropriating Aboriginal spirituality, or merely being converted?
Could the school get back to teaching, rather than preaching?
UPDATE
Miranda Devine:
THE vicious attacks on the expert chosen by Christopher Pyne to review the national education curriculum show just how much is at stake for the cultural revolutionaries dumbing down our schools.If the Left is truly interested in reconciliation, why not start with reconciling itself with conservatives?
Dr Kevin Donnelly ... has been falsely branded a paedophile, Islamophobe, homophobe, misogynist and Christian.
In the sewers of Twitter, people have wished him dead and asked him for his opinion on vibrators…
Among his and Queensland academic Ken Wiltshire’s tasks is to decide whether the three priorities of the new curriculum - sustainability, indigenous history and culture and Asian engagement - make any sense.
Absurdly, even in maths the curriculum claims “sustainability provides rich, engaging and authentic contexts for developing students’ abilities in number and algebra”.
Global warming gives us bigger waves. Or smaller
Andrew Bolt February 05 2014 (9:04am)
In 2011 we were told global warming would give us smaller waves:
(Thanks to reader Steve.)
===CSIRO research commissioned by the federal government ... predicted small but significant falls in likely wave heights as temperatures rose.In 2014 we are told global warming is giving us bigger waves:
Their June 2010 research said wave heights could fall by a “relatively robust” 5mm-10mm along the NSW coast by the end of the century.
“Projected changes are larger and significant on the northern coast,” it said.
Big waves are energetically costly for fish, and there are more big waves than ever…Bigger, smaller, whatever. It’s global warming.
“There has been a lot of recent work in oceanography documenting the fact that waves are becoming more frequent and more intense due to climate change,” says Mr Dominique Roche, PhD candidate from the Research School of Biology.
(Thanks to reader Steve.)
Labor suddenly has the sweats in Griffith
Andrew Bolt February 05 2014 (8:37am)
Labor should not have trouble retaining Kevin Rudd’s seat in the Griffith by-election this weekend:
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
===If history is a guide, the Labor Party should retain Griffith. The only time a government has gained a seat from an opposition was at the 1920 Kalgoorlie by-election.But Labor suddenly seems strangely nervous:
Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten will make last-ditch appeals to the voters of Griffith on Thursday as Labor frets over new internal polling showing Liberal candidate Bill Glasson to be highly popular among locals.Excuses are prepared:
Though history favours Labor’s Terri Butler to hold the Brisbane seat left vacant by the retirement of Kevin Rudd, ALP polling shows Mr Glasson to be far and above the most popular lead character in the battle…
Dr Glasson – an opthalmologist who ran against Mr Rudd at the September 7, 2013 election – has a “net positive” of 35 per cent, according to the polling obtained by the Australian Financial Review. Ms Butler has a net positive of 18.
LABOR is worried Griffith voters are suffering extreme electoral fatigue and may stay at home instead of voting in Saturday’s by-election to replace former prime minister Kevin Rudd…But with the Essential poll showing the Coalition 50-50 with Labor nationally, Griffith should not defy history.
Eleven candidates are contesting the election and preferences will be extremely important, with neither of the major parties likely to win a majority in its own right .The Greens, the Secular Party and the Pirate Party are all preferencing the ALP, while Family First will be the only party directly giving its preferences to the LNP .Five parties—Katters Australian, Bullet Train for Australia, and Stable Population parties—as well as independents Travis Windsor and Karel Boele, will all have split tickets, meaning their preferences could go anywhere.
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Academic: only conservatives would say ABC is biased
Andrew Bolt February 05 2014 (8:00am)
A startling non sequitur from Age columnist Sally Young, a Melbourne University associate professor of political science:
Surely Young should conclude that if conservatives use universities and engage with the ABC, they probably know what they are talking about when they note the bias of both.
But what is even stranger about Young is that she actually uses in all seriousness a defence of the ABC which I’ve often suggested as a parody - that the ABC is not biased and only bloody conservatives would say so. I thought even an idiot would get the joke and realise such a defence would actually confirm the bias it denies.
But not Young:
UPDATE
Sinclair Davidson wonders why we have a state-funded ABC:
===The ABC and universities are two consistent targets for conservative criticism in Australia. But this is puzzling because conservatives are big users of both.Young’s argument is that conservatives, by going to university and subjecting themselves to interviews on the ABC, must therefore be fine with the bias they say they detect. May I ask Young what the alternative is for conservatives? To deny themselves a tertiary education and boycott all interviews with the ABC?
Surely Young should conclude that if conservatives use universities and engage with the ABC, they probably know what they are talking about when they note the bias of both.
But what is even stranger about Young is that she actually uses in all seriousness a defence of the ABC which I’ve often suggested as a parody - that the ABC is not biased and only bloody conservatives would say so. I thought even an idiot would get the joke and realise such a defence would actually confirm the bias it denies.
But not Young:
Although numerous internal and external studies of ABC content have found there is no systematic bias, conservative critics won’t be convinced because they perceive bias in a more intangible way - as something that underlies the whole approach used at the ABC, rather than what is measurable (such as equal time or a right of reply)… How ironic though that conservatives are far more radical than ‘’the people’’ in their views towards the ABC and universities.Young wants conservatives critics of the biased ABC to be less “radical” and more in line with the polled opinion of “the people”. But last year she wanted “the people” and the biased media to be more in line with the Left:
Academic Sally Young is mystified why Australians do not connect with a Prime Minister who has cheated them, lied to them, patronised them, set them at each other’s throat, squandered billions of their taxes and now reaches for their super:We all have our biases, but It’s remarkable how unwilling ABC hosts and their defenders are to admit their own, even to themselves.
But how much of the Prime Minister’s much-maligned failure to ‘’connect’’ with the Australian public has to do with how she is represented in the media?… Those media play a powerful role in shaping opinions about her and in recent debates about misogyny in Australian politics, one question that has been raised is just how much the reporting of the Prime Minister and her government has to do with gender.
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Sinclair Davidson wonders why we have a state-funded ABC:
...public broadcasters facilitate the diversion of public resources to political elites and narrow interest groups or distort and manipulate information to benefit and entrench those elites.(Thanks to reader Peter.)
How about a sorry to our navy?
Andrew Bolt February 05 2014 (7:38am)
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has a point about the ABC’s non-apology to the navy:
===The national broadcaster has come under fire over reporting asylum seeker claims they burnt their hands when forced by navy personnel to hold hot engine parts on an asylum seeker vessel.Janet Albrechtsen:
“We regret if our reporting led anyone to mistakenly assume that the ABC supported the asylum seekers’ claims,” a joint statement by the news organisation’s managing director, Mark Scott, and director of news Kate Torney.
Ms Bishop said the statement didn’t go far enough.
“...I thought the ABC would do the right thing and having acknowledged that their reporting was substandard at best that they would apologise,” she told ABC radio.
FOLLOWING the 1996 election, Prime Minister John Howard said of the ABC: “I think one of the weaknesses of the ABC is that it doesn’t have a right-wing Phillip Adams.” It was a gentle yet serious reminder that our taxpayer-funded national broadcaster is charged with reflecting the diversity of the Australian community under section 6 of its Charter.
Almost 18 years on, the ABC has grown in size but has still refused to address the lack of balance in its vast line-up of journalists - unless you count one hour per week of Counterpoint as balance. Instead, as Margaret Simons wrote in her 2005 essay, the then director of radio, Sue Howard, had a cartoon on her office wall. Featuring a cage, broken apart, with two people standing nearby, one says “Oh Lord. The Right-Wing Phillip Adams has escaped.” Presumably, in humorous ABC circles, a person with right-wing views must be locked up.
Seinfeld: “ No interest in gender or race”
Andrew Bolt February 05 2014 (6:56am)
Michael Idato in the Sydney Morning Herald:
===Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee is actually a brilliant show, and even though its guest list has thus far been noticeably male-heavy (Sarah Silverman was a welcome respite in the second season, as was Tina Fey in the third) it is still original and revealing.Jerry Seinfeld:
I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their little calculating – is this the exact right mix? To me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense than ‘are you making us laugh or not?’Idato is right about the Costanza promo, though. Nothing like the show’s best.
Steyn appeal
Andrew Bolt February 05 2014 (6:46am)
What could be more fun than helping to defend a man who mocked a leading alarmist, and is now being sued for his presumption?
Mark Steyn writes:
===Mark Steyn writes:
Don’t forget, we’re moving into the discovery phase of fake Nobel Laureate Michael Mann’s defamation lawsuit against me for mocking his global warm-mongering “hockey stick”, so if you’ve any suggestions as to what we should be asking for - third tree-ring on the left, etc - do pass them along to me via email at steyn@marksteyn.com.Steyn says he stands by all he wrote about Mann’s “hockey stick”.
I believe I’m also the first ne’er-do-well to attempt to fund his legal defense entirely by sales of his Christmas album. But, if there’s only so much “Marshmallow World” you can take, you can also support the cause via our SteynOnline gift certificates, starting at $25. It looks like the Scopes Monkey Trial of the 21st century (as The New York Times billed it) is going ahead, and I promise you full value for money.
ABC gets advice from Murdoch man
Andrew Bolt February 05 2014 (6:34am)
Interesting appointment. It suggests to me the ABC is perhaps feeling the heat:
===The ABC’s admission came as it was revealed the broadcaster had poached The Australian’s media editor Nick Leys to handle its media relations.
The move shocked many observers given the hostile relationship over recent years between the ABC and The Australian, published by News Corp Australia.
Paul Barry’s cunning cover
Andrew Bolt February 04 2014 (8:31pm)
Nifty bit of tactical voting by the host of the ABC’s Media Watch, under attack for his Leftist bias:
But then things become clear about Barry the closet conservative in an election at the end of the disastrous Rudd-Gillard reign:
===[Paul] Barry responded to a description of the ABC as a “Greens-Left activist complex”.I’d believe him.
“OK, it’s a fair cop. I admit the crime,” Barry said. ”I only voted Liberal at the last election as a cover.”
But then things become clear about Barry the closet conservative in an election at the end of the disastrous Rudd-Gillard reign:
Better evidence of your non-Leftism needed, Paul. That fools no one.
An ABC apology as unbelievable as the “torture”
Andrew Bolt February 04 2014 (8:01pm)
It’s the kind of modern apology - the worthless kind - that is conditioned by the word “if”:
And what so many ABC apologists refuse to acknowledge is that such “mistakes” are more likely to be made by people with a predisposition to believe the worst of this government and its policies.
===The [ABC’s] admission the ABC’s reporting should have been ‘‘more precise’’ comes five days after Prime Minister Tony Abbott leapt upon the ABC’s reports as evidence the public broadcaster “instinctively takes everyone’s side but Australia’s"…Not good enough. The ABC gave highly improbable, hotly denied and very damaging allegations a prominence and a weight they did not deserve, and when contradictory information emerged it played it down and make another absurd allegation instead.
The ABC has been criticised for claiming in news reports aired on January 22 that new footage of asylum seekers’ burnt hands ‘‘appears to back up’’ the allegations of mistreatment…
In a statement posted online on Tuesday afternoon, ABC managing director Mark Scott and head of news Kate Torney said: ‘‘The ABC’s initial reports on the video said that the vision appeared to support the asylum seekers’ claims. That’s because it was the first concrete evidence that the injuries had occurred. What the video did not do was establish how those injuries occurred.
‘‘The wording around the ABC’s initial reporting needed to be more precise on that point. We regret if our reporting led anyone to mistakenly assume that the ABC supported the asylum seekers’ claims. The ABC has always presented the allegations as just that – claims worthy of further investigation.’’
Scott and Torney insisted that the ABC was right to broadcast the video and air the asylum seekers’ claims.
‘‘Claims of mistreatment by the Australian military are very serious and a responsible media, acting in the public interest, will need to seek an official response and pursue the truth of the claims,’’ they said in their statement.
And what so many ABC apologists refuse to acknowledge is that such “mistakes” are more likely to be made by people with a predisposition to believe the worst of this government and its policies.
If Toyota workers won’t save themselves, why should taxpayers help?
Andrew Bolt February 04 2014 (7:52pm)
If
workers won’t make the sacrifices to save their own jobs, why should
other workers make the sacrifices to bail them out with subsidies?
===TOYOTA workers have launched new legal action to safeguard themselves from any further attempts by the motor giant to remove some of their entitlements.
Amid increased uncertainty about the carmaker’s future in Australia, the industrial dispute playing out in the Federal Court has taken another turn with shop stewards launching a cross appeal against the decision which last year blocked Toyota’s move to cut some of their enterprise agreement’s conditions.
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February 5: Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins (2014)
- 62 – Pompeii was severely damaged by a strong earthquake, which may have been a precursor to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the town 17 years later.
- 1923 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford (pictured) made 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class score.
- 1941 – Second World War: British and Free French forces began the Battle of Keren to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian Eritrea.
- 2004 – The Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front captured Gonaïves, Haiti, starting a coup d'état against the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
- 2008 – Eighty-seven tornadoes occurred over the course of the Super Tuesday tornado outbreak across multiple U.S. states, causing 56 deaths and over $1 billion in damage.
Events[edit]
- 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
- 756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
- 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
- 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
- 1631 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
- 1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- 1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
- 1783 – In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
- 1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
- 1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- 1849 – University of Wisconsin-Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
- 1852 – The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
- 1859 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
- 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
- 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
- 1900 – The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal.
- 1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
- 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
- 1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
- 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
- 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- 1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
- 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
- 1937 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
- 1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
- 1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
- 1946 – The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
- 1958 – Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
- 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
- 1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
- 1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
- 1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
- 1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
- 1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
- 1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
- 1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
- 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
- 1994 – During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
- 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
- 2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
- 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
- 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
Births[edit]
- 1505 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
- 1519 – René of Châlon, (d. 1544)
- 1534 – Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian soldier, composer, and critic (d. 1612)
- 1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
- 1594 – Biagio Marini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1663)
- 1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)
- 1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696)
- 1650 – Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (d. 1708)
- 1703 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-American religious leader (d. 1764)
- 1725 – James Otis, Jr., American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)
- 1744 – John Jeffries, American physician and surgeon (d. 1819)
- 1748 – Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer and conductor (d. 1798)
- 1748 – Elias Stein, Dutch chess player (d. 1812)
- 1784 – Nancy Lincoln, American mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
- 1788 – Robert Peel, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
- 1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871)
- 1804 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)
- 1808 – Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)
- 1827 – Peter Lalor, Irish-Australian politician and activist (d. 1889)
- 1810 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (d. 1880)
- 1824 – Alfonso Capecelatro, Italian archbishop, author, and librarian (d. 1912)
- 1837 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (d. 1899)
- 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber (d. 1921)
- 1840 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-English inventor, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916)
- 1847 – Eduard Magnus Jakobson, Estonian wood engraver and missionary (d. 1903)
- 1848 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (d. 1907)
- 1848 – Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean soldier (d. 1882)
- 1848 – Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889)
- 1866 – Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Irish politician, 3rd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1963)
- 1878 – André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën (d. 1935)
- 1880 – Gabriel Voisin, French engineer (d. 1973)
- 1885 – Burton Downing, American cyclist (d. 1929)
- 1889 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962)
- 1897 – Dirk Stikker, Dutch businessman and politician, 3rd Secretary General of NATO (d. 1979)
- 1900 – Adlai Stevenson, American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois (d. 1965)
- 1903 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1975)
- 1906 – John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
- 1906 – Margit Danÿ, Hungarian fencer (d. 1975)
- 1907 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
- 1908 – Mietje Baron, Dutch swimmer (d. 1948)
- 1908 – Bob Dunn, American trombonist and guitarist (d. 1971)
- 1908 – Peg Entwistle, English actress (d. 1932)
- 1908 – Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twins (d. 1969)
- 1909 – Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish composer and violinist (d. 1969)
- 1910 – Charles Leblond, Canadian biologist (d. 2007)
- 1910 – Francisco Varallo, Argentinian footballer (d. 2010)
- 1911 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
- 1914 – William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)
- 1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- 1915 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
- 1917 – Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
- 1919 – Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1919 – Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (d. 2002)
- 1919 – Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1919 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
- 1920 – Leda Mileva, Bulgarian diplomat (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Frank Muir, English comedian and actor (d. 1998)
- 1921 – Ken Adam, German-born British motion picture production designer
- 1921 – John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)
- 1922 – Alain de Changy, Belgian race car driver (d. 1994)
- 1923 – Fatmawati, Indonesian wife of Sukarno, 1st First Lady of Indonesia (d. 1980)
- 1923 – Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Basil Copper, English journalist and author (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (d. 2012)
- 1927 – Robert Allen, American pianist and composer (d. 2000)
- 1927 – Ruth Fertel, American businesswoman, founded Ruth's Chris Steak House (d. 2002)
- 1927 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch pilot (d. 1977)
- 1928 – Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, and author (d. 2013)
- 1928 – P. J. Vatikiotis, Israeli-American historian and political scientist (d. 1997)
- 1929 – Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician, 23rd Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Al Worthington, American baseball player
- 1930 – John A. Gambling, American radio host (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Rostislav Yankovsky, Ukrainian-Russian actor
- 1932 – Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager
- 1933 – Jörn Donner, Finnish director and screenwriter
- 1933 – Norm Grabowski, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1933 – B. S. Johnson, English novelist and writer (d. 1973)
- 1934 – Hank Aaron. American baseball player
- 1934 – Don Cherry, Canadian sportscaster
- 1935 – Alex Harvey, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
- 1935 – Michel Steininger, Swiss fencer
- 1936 – K. S. Nissar Ahmed, Indian poet
- 1936 – Norma Thrower, Australian hurdler
- 1937 – Stuart Damon, American actor
- 1937 – Larry Hillman, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1937 – Gaston Roelants, Belgian runner
- 1937 – Alar Toomre, Estonian-American astronomer and mathematician
- 1937 – Wang Xuan, Chinese computer scientist (d. 2006)
- 1938 – Andrew Morritt, English former Chancellor of the High Court
- 1938 – Colin Semper, English retired Anglican priest
- 1939 – Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist
- 1940 – H. R. Giger, Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer
- 1940 – Grady Johnson, American wrestler (d. 2006)
- 1940 – Dick Warlock, Canadian actor and stuntman
- 1941 – Jaap Blokker, Dutch businessman (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Stephen J. Cannell. American actor, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2010)
- 1941 – David Selby, American actor
- 1941 – Vadim Gulyaev, Russian water polo player (d. 1998)
- 1941 – Kaspar Villiger, Swiss businessman and politician
- 1942 – Roger Staubach, American football player
- 1942 – Susan Hill, English author
- 1942 – Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night)
- 1943 – Nolan Bushnell, American businessman, founded Atari, Inc.
- 1943 – Michael Mann, American director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1943 – Craig Morton, American football player
- 1944 – J. R. Cobb, American guitarist (Classics IV and Atlanta Rhythm Section)
- 1944 – Al Kooper, American singer-songwriter and producer (Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- 1944 – Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (d. 1971)
- 1944 – Henfil, Brazilian author, journalist, and illustrator (d. 1988)
- 1945 – Douglas Hogg, English politician
- 1946 – Amnon Dankner, Israeli journalist and author (d. 2013)
- 1946 – Charlotte Rampling, English actress
- 1947 – William Strauss, American historian and author (d. 2007)
- 1947 – Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver
- 1947 – Regina Duarte, Brazilian actress
- 1947 – Clemente Mastella, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Justice
- 1948 – Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish footballer and manager
- 1948 – Dennis Ferguson, Australian sex offender (d. 2012)
- 1948 – Christopher Guest, American actor and director
- 1948 – Barbara Hershey, American actress
- 1948 – Errol Morris, American director
- 1948 – Tom Wilkinson, English actor
- 1949 – Kurt Beck, German politician
- 1949 – Yvon Vallières, Canadian politician
- 1950 – Jonathan Freeman, American actor
- 1951 – Russell Grant, English astrologer and author
- 1951 – Robin Sachs, English actor (d. 2013)
- 1951 – Elizabeth Swados, American composer, author, musician, and director
- 1952 – Daniel Balavoine, French singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1986)
- 1953 – John Beilein, American basketball player and coach
- 1953 – Takashi Ishikawa, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1953 – Loretta Tofani, American journalist
- 1953 – Gustavo Benítez, Paraguayan footballer and manager
- 1954 – Cliff Martinez, American drummer and songwriter (Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Dickies, and The Weirdos)
- 1955 – Mike Heath, American baseball player
- 1956 – Betty Ong, American flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
- 1956 – Hector Rebaque, Mexican race car driver
- 1956 – David Wiesner, American author
- 1957 – Jüri Tamm, Estonian hammer thrower and politician
- 1959 – Jennifer Granholm American politician, 47th Governor of Michigan
- 1960 – Armando Husillos, Argentinian footballer and manager
- 1960 – Aris Christofellis, Greek male soprano
- 1960 – Micky Hazard, English footballer
- 1961 – Tim Meadows, American actor
- 1961 – Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager
- 1961 – Albert Anderson, New Zealand rugby player
- 1962 – Jacqui Dankworth, English jazz singer
- 1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
- 1962 – Martin Nievera, Filipino-American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1963 – Steven Shainberg, American director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1963 – Tebaldo Bigliardi, Italian footballer
- 1964 – Laura Linney, American actress
- 1964 – Duff McKagan, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Loaded, and Neurotic Outsiders)
- 1964 – Helena Bergström, Swedish actress
- 1964 – Alexia Vassiliou, Cypriot singer-songwriter
- 1964 – Piotr Trzaskalski, Polish film director
- 1964 – Bernhard van Treeck, German psychiatrist
- 1965 – Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
- 1965 – Svetlana Paramygina, Belarusian biathlete
- 1965 – Keith Moseley, American bass player and songwriter (The String Cheese Incident)
- 1965 – Andreas Vogler, German footballer
- 1966 – Apostolos Nanos, Greek archer
- 1966 – Jonathan Morgan, American pornographic actor and director
- 1966 – Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
- 1966 – José María Olazábal, Spanish golfer
- 1967 – Chris Parnell, American actor
- 1968 – Roberto Alomar, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1968 – Marcus Grönholm, Finnish rally driver
- 1968 – Eyþór Guðjónsson, Icelandic actor
- 1968 – Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor
- 1968 – Qasim Melho, Syrian actor
- 1969 – Bobby Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (New Edition)
- 1969 – Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
- 1970 – Jean-Marc Jaumin, Belgian basketball player and coach
- 1971 – Michel Breistroff, French ice hockey player (d. 1996)
- 1971 – Sara Evans, American singer-songwriter
- 1972 – Kristopher Carter, American composer
- 1972 – Koriki Choshu, Japanese comedian
- 1972 – Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
- 1973 – Richard Matvichuk, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 – Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch singer
- 1974 – Juha Tapio, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1975 – Brainpower, Belgian-Dutch rapper
- 1975 – Alison Hammond, English television host
- 1975 – Adam Carson, American drummer (AFI and Tiger Army)
- 1975 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer
- 1976 – John Aloisi, Australian footballer
- 1976 – Altan Aksoy, Turkish footballer
- 1976 – Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor and producer
- 1976 – Tony Jaa, Thai actor and martial artist
- 1976 – Brian Moorman, American football player
- 1977 – Ben Ainslie, English sailor
- 1977 – Adam Everett, American baseball player
- 1977 – Andrejs Prohorenkovs, Latvian footballer
- 1977 – Ahmad Merritt, American football player
- 1978 – Shawn Reaves, American actor
- 1978 – Brian Russell, American football player
- 1978 – Samuel Sánchez, Spanish cyclist
- 1980 – Stefano Di Fiordo, Italian footballer
- 1980 – Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer, created LiveJournal
- 1980 – Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
- 1980 – Jo Swinson, Scottish politician
- 1980 – Paul Kirui, Kenyan runner
- 1980 – Robin Vik, Czech tennis player
- 1981 – Loukas Vyntra, Czech-Greek footballer
- 1981 – Nora Zehetner, American actress
- 1981 – Julie Zenatti, French singer
- 1981 – Mia Hansen-Løve, French director and screenwriter
- 1982 – Wheesung, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer
- 1982 – Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007)
- 1982 – Deidra Dionne, Canadian skier
- 1982 – Kevin Everett, American football player
- 1982 – Marc Kennedy, Canadian curler
- 1982 – Tomáš Kopecký, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1982 – Dionysis Makris, Greek singer
- 1982 – Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer
- 1983 – Baby K, Singaporean-Italian singer-songwriter
- 1984 – Nate Salley, American football player
- 1984 – Carlos Tévez, Argentinian footballer
- 1985 – Lindsey Cardinale, American singer
- 1985 – Crystal Hunt, American actress
- 1985 – Robert Lijesen, Dutch swimmer
- 1985 – Julia Kova, Russian model and singer, Miss Universe Russia 2003
- 1985 – Laurence Maroney, American football player
- 1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
- 1985 – Paul Vandervort, American actor and model
- 1986 – Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian footballer
- 1986 – Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
- 1986 – Madison Rayne, American wrestler
- 1986 – Billy Sharp, English footballer
- 1986 – Sekope Kepu, Australian-New Zealand rugby player
- 1986 – Reed Sorenson, American race car driver
- 1986 – Carlos Villanueva, Chilean footballer
- 1987 – Darren Criss, American actor and singer
- 1987 – Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1988 – Johnathan Haggerty, American football player
- 1988 – Kevin J. Maclean, Scottish singer-songwriter
- 1989 – Marina Melnikova, Russian tennis player
- 1989 – Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress
- 1989 – Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
- 1990 – Marvin Knoll, German footballer
- 1990 – Dmitry Andreikin, Russian chess player
- 1990 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian cricketer
- 1990 – Jordan Rhodes, Scottish footballer
- 1991 – Alba Riquelme, Paraguayan model, Miss Paraguay 2011
- 1992 – Neymar, Brazilian footballer
- 1992 – Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer
- 1993 – Ty Rattie, Canadian Ice Hockey Player
- 1994 – Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer (Cute, Guardians 4, and Petitmoni)
- 1995 – Trayvon Martin, American homicide victim (d. 2012)
- 1995 – Adnan Januzaj, Belgian-Albanian footballer
- 2002 – Davis Cleveland, American actor
Deaths[edit]
- 523 – Avitus of Vienne, archbishop of Vienne and poet (b. 470)
- 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, Swedish politician (b. 1493)
- 1578 – Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter (b. 1520)
- 1705 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
- 1751 – Henri François d'Aguesseau, French politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
- 1754 – Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)
- 1766 – Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
- 1775 – Eusebius Amort, German theologian (b. 1692)
- 1790 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
- 1807 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican military leader and politician (b. 1725)
- 1881 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian (b. 1795)
- 1882 – Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish diplomat (b. 1841)
- 1892 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (b. 1807)
- 1915 – Ross Barnes, American baseball player (b. 1850)
- 1917 – Jaber II Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti sheikh (b. 1860)
- 1922 – Christiaan De Wet, South African general (b. 1854)
- 1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer (b. 1871)
- 1927 – Inayat Khan, Indian educator (b. 1882)
- 1931 – Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1849)
- 1933 – Joseph Roffo, French rugby player (b. 1879)
- 1933 – Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (b. 1863)
- 1937 – Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1861)
- 1938 – Hans Litten, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1903)
- 1941 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (b. 1864)
- 1941 – Otto Strandman, Estonian politician (b. 1875)
- 1946 – George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)
- 1948 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
- 1952 – Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (b. 1877)
- 1955 – Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885)
- 1957 – Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
- 1962 – Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)
- 1967 – Leon Leonwood Bean, American businessman, founded L.L.Bean (b. 1872)
- 1967 – Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917)
- 1969 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902)
- 1970 – Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
- 1972 – Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)
- 1976 – Rudy Pompilli, American saxophonist (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)
- 1977 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
- 1981 – Ella T. Grasso, American politician, 83rd Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
- 1982 – Neil Aggett, South African medical doctor and trade union organiser (b. 1953)
- 1984 – Santo, Mexican wrestler and actor (b. 1917)
- 1985 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
- 1987 – William Collier, American actor (b. 1902)
- 1991 – Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1992 – Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
- 1993 – Seán Flanagan, Irish footballer and politician (b. 1922)
- 1993 – Marcel Léger, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
- 1993 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1909)
- 1993 – William Pène du Bois, American children's author (b. 1916)
- 1993 – Tip Tipping, English actor and stuntman (b. 1958)
- 1995 – Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
- 1997 – Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (b. 1920)
- 1997 – René Huyghe, French historian and author (b. 1906)
- 1998 – Tim Kelly, American guitarist (Slaughter) (b. 1963)
- 1999 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 2000 – Claude Autant-Lara, French director (b. 1901)
- 2001 – Jean Davy, French actor (b. 1911)
- 2003 – Helge Boes, American CIA officer (b. 1970)
- 2004 – John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
- 2005 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Togolese politician, President of Togo (b. 1937)
- 2005 – Henri Rochon, Canadian tennis player (b. 1912)
- 2006 – Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2007 – Fred Ball, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Leo T. McCarthy, New Zealand-American politician, 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1930)
- 2007 – Alfred Worm, Austrian journalist (b. 1945)
- 2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. 1918)
- 2010 – Brendan Burke, Canadian ice hockey player and activist (b. 1988)
- 2010 – Ian Carmichael, English actor (b. 1920)
- 2010 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 13th South Africa Ambassador to United States (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Brian Jacques, English author (b. 1939)
- 2011 – Peggy Rea, American actress (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Blaine, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1937)
- 2012 – Sam Coppola, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Al De Lory, American keyboard player, producer, and conductor (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Bill Hinzman, American actor and director (b. 1936)
- 2012 – John Turner Sargent, Sr., American publisher (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Jiang Ying, Chinese opera singer (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Jo Zwaan, Dutch sprinter (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist (b. 1914)
- 2013 – Reinaldo Gargano, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Gerry Hambling, English film editor (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Egil Hovland, Norwegian composer (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Charles Longbottom, English politician (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Tom McGuigan, New Zealand politician (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Leda Mileva, Bulgarian diplomat (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Paul Tanner, American trombonist (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1917)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Constitution Day (Mexico)
- Crown Princess Mary's birthday (Denmark)
- Kashmir Day (Pakistan)
- Liberation from the Alberoni Occupation (San Marino)
- National Weatherperson's Day (United States)
- Runeberg's Birthday, where Runeberg's tart are made specially for the holiday. (Finland)
- Unity Day (Burundi)
“For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” - Psalm 18:1-2
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Morning and evening by Charles Spurgeon
February 4: Morning
"The love of the Lord." - Hosea 3:1
Believer, look back through all thine experience, and think of the way whereby the Lord thy God has led thee in the wilderness, and how he hath fed and clothed thee every day--how he hath borne with thine ill manners--how he hath put up with all thy murmurings, and all thy longings after the flesh-pots of Egypt--how he has opened the rock to supply thee, and fed thee with manna that came down from heaven. Think of how his grace has been sufficient for thee in all thy troubles--how his blood has been a pardon to thee in all thy sins--how his rod and his staff have comforted thee. When thou hast thus looked back upon the love of the Lord, then let faith survey his love in the future, for remember that Christ's covenant and blood have something more in them than the past. He who has loved thee and pardoned thee, shall never cease to love and pardon. He is Alpha, and he shall be Omega also: he is first, and he shall be last. Therefore, bethink thee, when thou shalt pass through the valley of the shadow of death, thou needest fear no evil, for he is with thee. When thou shalt stand in the cold floods of Jordan, thou needest not fear, for death cannot separate thee from his love; and when thou shalt come into the mysteries of eternity thou needest not tremble, "For I am persuaded, that neither death; nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Now, soul, is not thy love refreshed? Does not this make thee love Jesus? Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God? Surely as we meditate on "the love of the Lord," our hearts burn within us, and we long to love him more.
Evening
"Your refuge from the avenger of blood." - Joshua 20:3
It is said that in the land of Canaan, cities of refuge were so arranged, that any man might reach one of them within half a day at the utmost. Even so the word of our salvation is near to us; Jesus is a present Saviour, and the way to him is short; it is but a simple renunciation of our own merit, and a laying hold of Jesus, to be our all in all. With regard to the roads to the city of refuge, we are told that they were strictly preserved, every river was bridged, and every obstruction removed, so that the man who fled might find an easy passage to the city. Once a year the elders went along the roads and saw to their order, so that nothing might impede the flight of any one, and cause him, through delay, to be overtaken and slain. How graciously do the promises of the gospel remove stumbling blocks from the way! Wherever there were by-roads and turnings, there were fixed up hand-posts, with the inscription upon them--"To the city of refuge!" This is a picture of the road to Christ Jesus. It is no roundabout road of the law; it is no obeying this, that, and the other; it is a straight road: "Believe, and live." It is a road so hard, that no self-righteous man can ever tread it, but so easy, that every sinner, who knows himself to be a sinner may by it find his way to heaven. No sooner did the man-slayer reach the outworks of the city than he was safe; it was not necessary for him to pass far within the walls, but the suburbs themselves were sufficient protection. Learn hence, that if you do but touch the hem of Christ's garment, you shall be made whole; if you do but lay hold upon him with "faith as a grain of mustard seed," you are safe.
"A little genuine grace ensures
The death of all our sins."
Only waste no time, loiter not by the way, for the avenger of blood is swift of foot; and it may be he is at your heels at this still hour of eventide.
"A little genuine grace ensures
The death of all our sins."
Only waste no time, loiter not by the way, for the avenger of blood is swift of foot; and it may be he is at your heels at this still hour of eventide.
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Nahum
[Nā'hum] - compassionate, comforter or full of comfort.
1. The prophet who was born at Elkosh in Galilee, and who prophesied against Nineveh (Nah. 1:1).
The Man Who Preached Doom
Nothing is known of this Minor Prophet outside of what we find in the opening of his small yet strong book. He was born at Elkosh, a village of Palestine. But although Nahum is among the notable unknown of the Bible, he was a student of the history of his time and was raised up to comfort God's people. He prophesied against Nineveh about 150 years after Jonah's revival there. At that time the city was still at the height of its glory (Nah. 3:16-17 ). The empire was extremely cruel. The people gloated that "space failed for corpses of their enemies." They made "pyramids of human heads." Pillars were covered with the flayed skins of their rivals.
Nahum's mission was to declare the terrible doom of Nineveh and one hundred years later it fell. So great was the destruction of the city of the most ferocious, sensual, diabolically atrocious race of men that ever lived, that Alexander the Great marched by and did not know that a great city was under his feet. Lucian wrote, "Nineveh is perished and there is no trace left where once it was." Nahum, convinced that God was slow to anger but would yet take vengeance on His adversaries, "focusses the light of God's moral government upon wicked Nineveh and chants the death and dirge of the world's greatest oppressor."
The leading lessons to be gleaned from the Book of Nahum are encouraging to faith:
I. The goodness and unchangeableness of Jehovah.
II. The limits of divine forbearance.
III. Right prevails in the end.
IV. Darkness comes before the dawn.
V. The universality of God's government, its gracious purpose: its retributive character.
VI. Man's extremity is faith's hour and God's opportunity.
2. Another Nahum. In the A. V. Naum is mentioned as an ancestor of Jesus Christ (Luke 3:25).
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Today's reading: Exodus 34-35, Matthew 22:23-46 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Exodus 34-35
The New Stone Tablets
1 The LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2 Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. 3 No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain."
4 So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands....
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 22:23-46
Marriage at the Resurrection
23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24 "Teacher," they said, "Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?"
29 Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God...."
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