More Iranian 'glory' is related to this day, in 1979, when Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian was executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran. So that it could now be said that no Jews live in Iran. And that is the nation the UN uses to head it's Human Rights committee. And that is the nation Obama is helping to acquire nuclear bombs.
But, today is not terrible or awful, there are many good things that happened too. Mr Punch made his first appearance in 1662. It took time, but along came Judy. In Mumbai in 1874, the first horse drawn bus began work on two routes on this day. In 1904, a european steam train exceeded 100mph for the first time. Sydney trains struggle to reach half that speed a century later. Billy Joel, Howard Carter and JM Barrie also have birthdays today. Cheers. ===
For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Leslie-Ann Stoffel. Born on the same day, across the years, as
- 1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
- 1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (d. 1818)
- 1824 – Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, noted apologist of Rabbinic Judaism (d. 1896)
- 1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company (d. 1895)
- 1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author and playwright (d. 1937)
- 1874 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist (d. 1939)
- 1907 – Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (d. 1976)
- 1928 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995)
- 1945 – Steve Katz, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blues Project, and American Flyer)
- 1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress and producer
- 1949 – Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Hassles and Attila)
- 1997 – Zane Huett, American actor
Matches
- 1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
- 1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
- 1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
- 1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
- 1763 – The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
- 1864 – Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
- 1873 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
- 1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
- 1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
- 1901 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
- 1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
- 1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
- 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
- 1927 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
- 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographerslater use to break coded German messages.
- 1942 – Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
- 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
- 1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
- 1949 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
- 1958 – Film: Vertigo (film) has world premiere in San Francisco.
- 1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
- 1961 – Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
- 1964 – Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
- 1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
- 1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
- 1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
- 1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
- 2001 – In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
- 2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
Despatches
- 1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
- 1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)
On The Bolt Report on Sunday
Andrew Bolt May 09 2014 (4:10pm)
On the show on Sunday – Network 10 at 10am and 4pm....
Wreckers on one side, promise breakers on the other. Which is worse?
Our guest: Immigration Minister Scott Morrison.
Our panel: Janet Albrechtsen of The Australian and former Labor campaign guru Bruce Hawker.
On NewsWatch, Roger Scruton, the world’s leading conservative philosopher, analyses the socialist protesters who stopped Q&A.
And more, including a hypocrisy check on the ABC’s new comedy show.
The videos of the shows appear here.
===Wreckers on one side, promise breakers on the other. Which is worse?
Our guest: Immigration Minister Scott Morrison.
Our panel: Janet Albrechtsen of The Australian and former Labor campaign guru Bruce Hawker.
On NewsWatch, Roger Scruton, the world’s leading conservative philosopher, analyses the socialist protesters who stopped Q&A.
And more, including a hypocrisy check on the ABC’s new comedy show.
The videos of the shows appear here.
Union of smearers
Andrew Bolt May 09 2014 (1:50pm)
Louts:
The Electrical Trades Union has apologised for comparing Prime Minister Tony Abbott to Adolf Hitler, infuriating Jewish groups who condemned the portrayal in the union’s newsletter during a campaign.Demonisation of conservatives also has a very long history.
The ETU released a brief statement on Friday apologising for the newsletter and pulled the offending article from its Facebook page.
“The ETU sincerely and unreservedly apologises,” the statement said.
“The theme of the magazine was to show the demonisation of unions has had a long history.”
The cover of the autumn newsletter for the Victorian branch of the ETU has used a digitally altered picture of Tony Abbott, complete with a tiny moustache and a tattoo on his chest similar to the Third Reich eagle.
Selfies won’t stop Boko Haram
Andrew Bolt May 09 2014 (8:10am)
Monster Hunter Nation doubts a film star holding a sign will stop Boko Haram from enslaving schoolgirls:
I did a lot of research on human trafficking and modern slavery before Mike Kupari and I wrote Swords of Exodus. It is a horrible, evil, and surprisingly gigantic thing. One thing I’m fairly sure of about the kind of people who do that sort of thing for a living, is that they really don’t give a s..t about a bunch of American movie stars taking pouty selfies of themselves holding up signs with hash tag give our girls back. The disapproval of fat, soft, Americans on Facebook really doesn’t move them. They care about getting paid or getting killed, that’s about it. The self-righteous pouting is useless.The Left’s avoidance of the real issues here is startling. Last night on The Project former Democrats leader Natasha Stott-Despoja summed up the lessons to be learned from the kidnapping of more than 200 girls by an Islamist terrorist group that has declared war on Christians, murdered thousands of civilians and massacred boys whose “crime” was to go to school. According to Stott-Despoja, this should remind us that slavery was bad and girls’ education was important. No word about the dead schoolboys. And certainly no mention - again - of Islam.
For the idiot libprog pussies with the selfies, the world is a violent place, filled with violent men. If you actually want something to be done about these evil people, maybe you shouldn’t bitch, whine, and moan every time our military takes action against evil people....
This kidnapping event made the news, but this sort of thing happens every day somewhere in the world. You’re shocked and outraged about this, but that just shows how little you know about the subject. There are plenty of outrageous acts of evil out there to choose from. You can take useless photos of yourself holding up a sign, but it will do nothing other than prove to your fellow idiots that you care so hard…
But if your selective outrage is really up in arms about this one, movie stars with the hash tag, I’ve got a simple solution for you. Take some of your millions of dollars and hire some mercenaries to go into Africa to shoot all the members of Boko Haram. I wonder how that would trend on Twitter. #gurkhaskillscumbags
This kind of thing is too much even for some stalwarts of the Left:
The Guardian, too, is now angry with its fellow travellors - although even it is still shy of the word “Muslim”:
Writers are typing with one eye over their shoulder: watching their backs to make sure that no one can accuse them of “demonising the other”.
Why does a refugee program put our children in danger?
Andrew Bolt May 09 2014 (7:34am)
The law insists the safety of this “refugee” comes above the safety of Australian children. That’s why he’s still here:
Magistrate Ron Saines stood the matter down in March, advising police if he were hearing the matter he would have reasonable doubt finding Jaffari guilty, citing cultural differences.
The charges were dropped.
===AN evil child sex predator - who cannot be deported thanks to his protection visa - is now targeting footy training, a school, parks, playground and Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre.Is a refugee program which produces these outcomes really in the national interest?
Ali Jaffari, an Afghan refugee on the sex offenders register, is under police investigation over his behaviour towards young children at footy training and Auskick near Albert Park…
And one mum said Jaffari followed her two children after dark in Albert Park, staring and touching himself. “It was truly frightening,” she said.
Jaffari was convicted and placed on the sex offenders register for 15 years over the assault of a boy at Geelong’s Eastern beach in August but received just 300 hours of community service.
Jaffari kissed the boy on the neck, told him he was “sexy” and rubbed himself against him.
In January he was accused of child stealing and unlawful assault of a four-year-old girl at a Geelong West oval…
When interviewed, Jaffari told police: “For us, is not an issue.”
Magistrate Ron Saines stood the matter down in March, advising police if he were hearing the matter he would have reasonable doubt finding Jaffari guilty, citing cultural differences.
The charges were dropped.
Teaching tomorrow’s terrorists
Andrew Bolt May 09 2014 (7:28am)
A wake-up to people who think just signing a peace treaty will guarantee Israel’s safety. From Hamas’ Al Aqsa TV:
===Child host (Rawan): “Tulin, why do you want to be a police officer? Like who?”(Thanks to reader Bob Gorovoi.)
Girl (Tulin): “Like my uncle.” …
Moderator: “OK, so what does a policeman do?”
Girl: “He catches thieves, and people who make trouble.”
Child host: “And shoots Jews. Right?”
Girl: “Yes.”
Child host: “You want to be like him?”
[Girl nods]
Child host: “Allah willing, when you grow up.”
Girl: “So that I can shoot Jews.”
[Nahul, an adult in a giant bee costume, claps his hands]
Child host: “All the Jews? All of them?”
Girl: “Yes.”
Child host: “Good.”
Nation of dependents
Andrew Bolt May 09 2014 (7:25am)
Hit the rich? How about wean the middle-class off handouts instead:
===HALF of Australian families receive more in handouts than they pay in net income tax, new figures reveal.
As the Abbott government sharpens its budget razor on welfare, the figures reveal just how dependent we’ve become.
The exclusive modelling for The Daily Telegraph by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling at the University of Canberra reveals 48 per cent of Australia’s 12.2 million “income units” pay no net tax. Any tax they do contribute is offset by the welfare — pensions, family tax benefits or childcare rebates — they receive.
Wayne Swan shows exactly why we’re in this mess
Andrew Bolt May 09 2014 (7:14am)
Former Labor Treasurer Wayne Swan is in complete denial:
===WE keep hearing from Joe Hockey we need to “fix the budget”. The fact is we left the budget in sound shape.In fact:
The Commission of Audit’s (COA) report ... notes that without reform to Australia’s tax and expenditure system, Australia “faces 16 consecutive years of budget deficits with net debt rising from $190 billion today to $440 billion by 2023-24?.Swan diagnoses his problem:
Optimist! Swan, SMH, yesterday:
LIKE many Australians, I’m an optimist about the Australian economy ..Yes, optimist. Swan, May 11, 2010:
OUR strict spending limits will see the budget return to surplus in three years, three years early — ahead of every major advanced economy.Boundless optimism. Swan, February 7, 2012:
WE’VE got our colours nailed to the mast. That’s what we’re doing. We’re producing a surplus in 2012-13. We’re determined to do that and that’s what we’re going to do..
The price of a Rudd brain-wave
Andrew Bolt May 09 2014 (6:53am)
Another Labor hot-money scheme:
===KEVIN Rudd’s botched insulation scheme left one installer so traumatised his revival as prime minister last year made her physically ill.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
In emotional evidence to the royal commission, small business owner Kellie Jackson described how the $2.8 billion program devastated her health and sparked the near-collapse of her and her husband’s decade-old company…
Ms Jackson said she and her husband were forced to dismiss most of their 20 staff, ask for loans from their parents and the bank, and chase the federal government for $100,000 in unpaid subsidies…
In February 2010, she travelled to Canberra with other installers to protest about the program’s cancellation. Mr Rudd addressed the rally — and Ms Jackson, personally — assuring them help in the form of an assistance package was on its way. It never arrived. Eventually, the Jacksons were offered $440 in compensation from the government.
Hockey tweets an argument for cuts, not tax rises
Andrew Bolt May 09 2014 (12:01am)
So why raise taxes with a debt levy and fuel excise rise?
UPDATE
This is what voters expected:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/budget-2014/joe-hockey-to-swing-axe-on-public-sector/story-fnmbxr2t-1226911035265” title="MORE than 200 spending programs will be slashed “>MORE than 200 spending programs will be slashed in next week’s federal budget as Joe Hockey vows to shrink the size of government in a “big, structural change” to save billions of dollars.Those are the kind of cuts we voted for. But these are the tax rises we didn’t:
Agencies will be closed and thousands of staff retrenched over the coming months in a drastic overhaul that will start with the loss of 3000 positions in the Treasurer’s own portfolio.
The axe will fall in major portfolios including environment, transport, industry, agriculture and indigenous affairs.
Mr Hockey told The Australian that spending cuts would do the “heavy lifting” in fixing the deficit, despite growing criticism of looming tax hikes including a lift in fuel excise.
As foreshadowed in The Australian yesterday, fuel excise will be increased to raise an estimated $2.4 billion over four years, amid accusations that the move would be another breach of Tony Abbott’s election pledge to keep taxes down.How does the debt tax meet this promise?
The decision is another hit on top of an income tax increase likely to apply to incomes over $180,000 despite warnings from Liberal MPs against the idea.
“If there is a change of government, Australian families will be better off. Their weekly and fortnightly budgets will be under less pressure because the carbon tax will go and no one’s personal tax will go up and no one’s fortnightly pension or benefit will go down,” Mr Abbott said.David Crowe says Joe Hockey himself explained what the Government’s real mandate would be:
The Treasurer’s message has been clear since he warned of the end of the “age of entitlement” in a London speech more than two years ago…
Hockey’s vow to “rebuild fiscal discipline” came with an assurance that raising taxes was not the way ahead.
“Budget surpluses must be restored, ideally until the debt is repaid,” he said.
“This can only be achieved by cutting spending or by raising taxes. And given the general acceptance that the increased drag from higher taxes would compromise economic growth, the clear mandate is to lower expenditure.”
49 more good calls like this and we won’t need that fuel excise increase
Andrew Bolt May 08 2014 (8:50pm)
That’s more like it:
===The Abbott government is set to scrap the ABC’s Australia Network international broadcasting service in next Tuesday’s budget.
Cabinet approved the decision in a meeting on Wednesday, according to a report in The West Australian. The ABC has a 10-year, $223 million contract to run the network, which broadcasts to 44 countries in the Asia Pacific.
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ALP CRIME ENDEMIC
PM Julia Gillard and her hero, Big Bill Ludwig, are no strange bedfellows when it comes to crime and NSW’s Eddie Obeid and his army of corrupt ALP mates should not feel left out. Nor Should the HSU’s Williamson and Thomson. And if you believe that Combet endorsed a dodgy coal mine without knowing it was dodgy then go play with the fairies at the bottom of your garden.
But now it’s Queensland and a series of ALP rorts involving 200 million dodgy dollars that's about to suffer the microscope of a Newman Commission of Inquiry.
No prizes for guessing who’s involved. Yep, Bill Ludwig, the racing industry (RQL) and the Bligh Government.
Just days before the QLD electorate delivered a death sentence to the Bligh Government, $20 million was transferred from QLD Treasury to Racing Queensland Limited’s trust account.
Was Anna Bligh was trying to make something favourite at Doomben? Not really. More likely to line the pockets of her corrupt supporters on the QLD Racing Board and her government employees who were about to be thrown on the job heap.
RQL and the Bligh Government then entered into funding contracts for over $60 million of public works in key Labor electorates.
Interesting also is the arrangement between RQL and Sunshine Coast engineering firm, Contour Consulting. This little deal involved tens of millions of dollars and more than 30 contracts that were awarded without one going to tender.
Coincidentally, two key executives resigned from RQL and immediately took up positions with guess who, Contour Consulting.
The two executives were handed astoundingly large payouts by RQL, the subject of which is now under investigation by ASIC. But there’s more!
The Inquiry will also probe Queensland Race Product Co’s (a non-profit subsidiary of RQL) grant of almost $100 million in deductions to gaming giant Tatts Group. And against legal advice.
Now stay with me here... the boss of QRL is the notorious Bob Bentley and Mr Bentley is also on the board of Tatts Group.
Bob Bentley remained boss of QRL for over ten years without ever facing re-election as required under the RQL’s Constitution.
Both Bill Ludwig and Bob Bentley have insisted they did nothing wrong. Phew! For a moment I was a bit worried there.
Of course Julia has learnt from her friend Anna how to empty Treasury coffers prior to the dreaded conservatives taking over.
Anna was a friend of mine but I guess not now she reads this and Julia hated me anyway.
Bugger, I don’t seem to have much luck with some women.
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SWAMI VIKEVANANDA was made famous when he made a speech, over 100 years ago, at a world wide conference of religions. He, more than anyone, called for religious tolerance. His speech made headlines in the major newspapers. His own religious orientation was mystic Hinduism (Vedanta) which calls for nonviolence - AND YET here is what he had to say about the followers of Islam:
“...Every step forward (for the Mohamadeans) was made with the word of the Koran in the one hand and the sword in the other. Take the Koran, or you must die; there is no alternative”. [The speech, delivered in the Universalist Church, Pasadena, California, USA, on 28th January, 1890]
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ALLEGED MJ ABUSE: A key Australian witness and supporter of Michael Jackson during his 2005 molestation trial, is now saying he was a victim.
Read more on Ninemsn:http://ninem.sn/0KgYAOg
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- 1671 – Irish-born Colonel Thomas Blood (pictured) was caught trying to steal the English Crown Jewels from theTower of London.
- 1877 – An 8.5 Ms earthquake struck the northern portion of Chile, resulting in the death of 2,541 people, including victims of the ensuing tsunami as far away as Hawaii and Japan
- 1949 – Rainier III became Prince of Monaco, beginning a 56-year reign, which would make him one of the longest ruling monarchs of the 20th century.
- 1964 – Ngô Đình Cẩn, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngô Đình Diệm before the family's toppling, was executed.
- 2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, the first President of the Chechen Republic, and about 30 others were killed by a bomb during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny.
Events[edit]
- 1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
- 1450 – 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
- 1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
- 1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
- 1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
- 1763 – The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
- 1864 – Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
- 1873 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
- 1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
- 1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
- 1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
- 1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
- 1901 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
- 1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
- 1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
- 1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
- 1918 – World War I: Germans repel the British's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
- 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
- 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
- 1927 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
- 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
- 1940 – World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
- 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographerslater use to break coded German messages.
- 1942 – Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
- 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
- 1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
- 1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
- 1948 – Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
- 1949 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
- 1950 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
- 1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
- 1958 – Film: Vertigo (film) has world premiere in San Francisco.
- 1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
- 1961 – Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
- 1961 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
- 1964 – Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
- 1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
- 1974 – Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against PresidentRichard Nixon.
- 1977 – Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
- 1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
- 1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
- 1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
- 1987 – An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin IL-62M, Tadeusz Kościuszko (SP-LBG), crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
- 1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
- 2001 – In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
- 2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
- 2012 – A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
Births[edit]
- 1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
- 1540 – Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (d. 1597)
- 1740 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
- 1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (d. 1818)
- 1763 – János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)
- 1800 – John Brown, American activist (d. 1859)
- 1801 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English politician, founded the town of Fleetwood (d. 1866)
- 1824 – Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, noted apologist of Rabbinic Judaism (d. 1896)
- 1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company (d. 1895)
- 1845 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (d. 1913)
- 1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author and playwright (d. 1937)
- 1866 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian politician (d. 1915)
- 1873 – Anton Cermak, Czech-American politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
- 1874 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist (d. 1939)
- 1882 – George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
- 1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman and shipbuilder (d. 1967)
- 1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
- 1884 – Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor (d. 1917)
- 1886 – Francis Biddle, American lawyer and judge, 58th United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
- 1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma (d. 1989)
- 1893 – William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1947)
- 1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1963)
- 1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
- 1895 – Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
- 1896 – Richard Day, Canadian art director (d. 1972)
- 1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (d. 1964)
- 1904 – Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator (d. 1988)
- 1906 – Eleanor Estes, AMerican children's author (d. 1988)
- 1907 – Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (d. 1976)
- 1907 – Baldur von Schirach, German Nazi leader (d. 1974)
- 1907 – Fred Warngård, Swedish hammer thrower (d. 1950)
- 1908 – Mary Scheier, American sculptor (d. 2007)
- 1909 – Don Messer, Canadian violinist (d. 1973)
- 1912 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (d. 1963)
- 1912 – Per Imerslund, Norwegian author (d. 1943)
- 1912 – Géza Ottlik, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1990)
- 1914 – Denham Fouts, American prostitute (d. 1948)
- 1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (d. 2005)
- 1914 – Hank Snow, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
- 1916 – William Pène du Bois, American children's author (d. 1993)
- 1917 – Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
- 1918 – Moisis Michail Bourlas, Greek soldier (d. 2011)
- 1918 – Orville Freeman, American soldier and politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2003)
- 1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist and game show host (d. 2012)
- 1919 – Clifford Chadderton, Canadian army officer
- 1919 – Arthur English, English actor (d. 1995)
- 1920 – Richard Adams, English author
- 1920 – William Tenn, English-American author (d. 2010)
- 1921 – Daniel Berrigan, American priest and activist
- 1921 – Sophie Scholl, German student and activist (d. 1943)
- 1921 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
- 1923 – Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Barbara New, English character actress (d. 2010)
- 1924 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997)
- 1926 – John Middleton Murry, Jr., English writer (d. 2002)
- 1927 – Manfred Eigen, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1928 – Ralph Goings, American painter
- 1928 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995)
- 1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Kay Dotrice, English-American actress (d. 2007)
- 1929 – Anthony Lloyd, British judge
- 1930 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
- 1930 – Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan historian and linguist (d. 2010)
- 1931 – Vance D. Brand, American pilot and astronaut
- 1931 – Alistair MacFarlane, British academic
- 1932 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress
- 1932 – David Plastow, British businessman, chairman of the Medical Research Council
- 1933 – Jessica Steele, English author
- 1934 – Alan Bennett, English actor, screenwriter, and author
- 1934 – Nathan Dean, American politician (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Roy Massey, British organist and conductor
- 1935 – Nokie Edwards, American guitarist and actor (The Ventures)
- 1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
- 1936 – Terry Downes, English boxer
- 1936 – Albert Finney, English actor
- 1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
- 1937 – Sonny Curtis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect, designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Valladolid Science Museum
- 1937 – Dave Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (d. 1988)
- 1938 – Geoffrey Holland, British civil servant
- 1938 – Charles Simic, Serbian-American poet
- 1939 – Ralph Boston, American long jumper
- 1939 – Pierre Desproges, French journalist, comedian, and actor (d. 1988)
- 1939 – Ion Țiriac, Romanian tennis player and manager
- 1940 – James L. Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1940 – Alan Ryan, British professor of politics
- 1941 – Pete Birrell, English bass player (Freddie and the Dreamers)
- 1941 – Dorothy Hyman, British sprinter
- 1941 – John Wheatley, British judge
- 1942 – John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General
- 1942 – Jerry Buchek, American baseball player
- 1942 – Tommy Roe, American singer-songwriter
- 1943 – Vince Cable, English politician
- 1943 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (d. 2009)
- 1943 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014)
- 1944 – Richie Furay, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Poco, Buffalo Springfield, and Souther–Hillman–Furay Band)
- 1944 – Laurence Owen, American figure skater (d. 1961)
- 1945 – Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Iranian politician
- 1945 – Steve Katz, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blues Project, and American Flyer)
- 1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German footballer and manager
- 1945 – Nicholas Wilson, British judge
- 1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress and producer
- 1946 – Clint Holmes, English-American singer-songwriter
- 1946 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (d. 2002)
- 1947 – Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat
- 1948 – Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
- 1948 – Tania Maria, Brazilian singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader
- 1948 – Calvin Murphy, American basketball player and radio host
- 1949 – Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Hassles and Attila)
- 1949 – Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat (d. 2013)
- 1950 – James Butts, American triple jumper
- 1950 – Jorie Graham, American poet
- 1950 – Matthew Kelly, English actor and television presenter
- 1950 – Tato Laviera, Puerto Rician-American poet (d. 2013)
- 1950 – Tom Petersson, American bass player and songwriter (Cheap Trick)
- 1951 – Alley Mills, American actress
- 1952 – Linda Finnie, Scottish mezzo-soprano
- 1952 – Patrick Ryecart, English actor
- 1953 – Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper
- 1953 – Amy Hill, American actress
- 1953 – Connie Kaldor, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1954 – Nicholas Crane, English geographer, writer and broadcaster
- 1954 – Andrew Dillon, British National Health Service administrator
- 1954 – Lawrence Dutton, American violist and educator (Emerson String Quartet)
- 1954 – Marc Sinden, English film director, actor and theatre producer
- 1955 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1955 – Kevin Reed, American theologian and author
- 1955 – Anne Sofie von Otter, Swedish soprano
- 1956 – Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress and producer
- 1958 – Graham Smith, Canadian swimmer
- 1959 – Ulrich Matthes, German actor
- 1960 – Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach
- 1960 – Jillian Lane, Welsh psychic (d. 2013)
- 1961 – Sean Altman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rockapella)
- 1962 – John Corbett, American actor and singer
- 1962 – Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter (Depeche Mode)
- 1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter (The Housemartins and Beautiful South)
- 1963 – Joe Cirella, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1963 – Sanja Doležal, Croatian singer and television host (Novi fosili)
- 1965 – Ken Nomura, Japanese race car driver
- 1965 – Janu Tornell, American model, Miss Nevada USA 1989
- 1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
- 1966 – Mark Tinordi, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1968 – David Benoit, American basketball player
- 1968 – Ruth Kelly, British politician
- 1968 – Marie-José Pérec, French runner
- 1969 – Amber, Dutch-German singer-songwriter and producer
- 1969 – Hudson Leick, American actress
- 1970 – Curtis Bray, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
- 1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player
- 1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper and actor (Wu-Tang Clan and Theodore Unit)
- 1971 – Paul McGuigan, English bass player (Oasis and The Rain)
- 1972 – Lisa Ann, American porn actress
- 1972 – Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and singer
- 1972 – Dana Perino, American politician and journalist, 27th White House press secretary
- 1972 – Daniela Silivaş, Romanian gymnast
- 1973 – Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan long-distance runner
- 1973 – Leonard Myles-Mills, Ghanaian sprinter
- 1973 – Chu Sang-mi, South Korean actress
- 1974 – Dylan Lauren, American businesswoman, founded Dylan's Candy Bar
- 1974 – Stéphane Yelle, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 – Tamia, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1975 – Brian Deegan, American motocross rider
- 1975 – Chris Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor
- 1975 – Lane Kiffin, American football player and coach
- 1976 – Ott Kadarik, Estonian architect
- 1977 – Averno, Mexican professional wrestler
- 1977 – Asal Badiee, Iranian actress (d. 2013)
- 1977 – Maggie Dixon, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
- 1977 – Choi Jeong-yoon, South Korean actress
- 1977 – Iñigo Landaluze, Spanish cyclist
- 1977 – Svein Tuft, Canadian cyclist
- 1978 – Marwan al-Shehhi, Emirati terrorist, hijacker of United Airlines Flight 175 (d. 2001)
- 1978 – Leandro Cufré, Argentinian footballer
- 1978 – Santiago Dellapè, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
- 1978 – Aaron Harang, American baseball player
- 1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Simple Plan and Reset)
- 1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress and singer
- 1979 – Ara Mina, Filipino actress and singer
- 1979 – Matt Morris, American singer-songwriter
- 1979 – Brandon Webb, American baseball player
- 1979 – Andrew W.K., American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
- 1980 – Jo Hyun-jae, South Korean actor
- 1980 – Angela Nikodinov, American figure skater
- 1980 – Kate Richardson-Walsh, British hockey player
- 1980 – Tony Schmidt, German race car driver
- 1981 – Bill Murphy, American baseball player
- 1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
- 1981 – You Yokoyama, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Kanjani Eight)
- 1982 – Rachel Boston, American actress
- 1982 – Beatriz Pascual, Spanish race walker
- 1982 – Gu Yuan, Chinese hammer thrower
- 1983 – Giacomo Brichetto, Italian footballer
- 1983 – Alan Campbell, British sculler
- 1983 – Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player
- 1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
- 1983 – Christos Marangos, Cypriot footballer
- 1983 – Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player
- 1983 – Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player
- 1985 – Jake Long, American football player
- 1985 – Audrina Patridge, American model and actress
- 1985 – Henrique Andrade Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Grace Gummer, American actress
- 1986 – Vladimir Sidorkin, Estonian swimmer
- 1988 – J. R. Fitzpatrick, Canadian race car driver
- 1989 – Ellen White, English footballer
- 1991 – Stasia Rage, Latvian figure skater
- 1992 – Chris Gutierrez, American-Filipino actor
- 1993 – Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor, singer, and dancer (NYC and Hey! Say! JUMP)
- 1993 – Bonnie Rotten, American pornographic actress and model
- 1994 – Ryan Auger, English footballer
- 1996 – Saron Läänmäe, Estonian footballer
- 1997 – Zane Huett, American actor
Deaths[edit]
- 1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
- 1446 – Mary of Enghien (b. 1368)
- 1657 – William Bradford, English-American politician, 2nd Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)
- 1707 – Dieterich Buxtehude, German-Danish organist and composer (b. 1637)
- 1736 – Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese politician (b. 1658)
- 1745 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
- 1747 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
- 1760 – Nicolaus Zinzendorf, German bishop (b. 1700)
- 1789 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery officer and engineer (b. 1715)
- 1790 – William Clingan, American politician (b. 1721)
- 1791 – Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (b. 1737)
- 1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German poet, playwright, and historian (b. 1759)
- 1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
- 1850 – Garlieb Merkel, Baltic German writer and activist (b. 1769)
- 1861 – Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)
- 1889 – William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
- 1914 – C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
- 1915 – François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist (b. 1887)
- 1918 – George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
- 1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1933 – John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
- 1938 – Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)
- 1949 – Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
- 1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883)
- 1955 – Kate Booth, English Salvation Army officer (b. 1858)
- 1957 – Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan banker and businessman (b. 1887)
- 1957 – Ezio Pinza, Italian opera singer (b. 1892)
- 1959 – Bhaurao Patil, Indian activist and educator (b. 1887)
- 1964 – Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)
- 1965 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1902)
- 1968 – Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
- 1968 – Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (b. 1878)
- 1968 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894)
- 1968 – Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1885)
- 1970 – Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
- 1970 – Walter Reuther, American union leader (b. 1907)
- 1976 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
- 1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, German militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
- 1977 – James Jones, American author (b. 1921)
- 1978 – Giuseppe Impastato, Italian activist (b. 1948)
- 1978 – Aldo Moro, Italian politician, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
- 1979 – Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1883)
- 1981 – Nelson Algren, American author (b. 1909)
- 1981 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
- 1985 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)
- 1987 – Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
- 1989 – Keith Whitley, American singer, guitarist, and producer (b. 1955)
- 1993 – Jacques Dextraze, Canadian general (b. 1919)
- 1994 – Elias Motsoaledi, South African activist (b. 1924)
- 1997 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (b. 1926)
- 1997 – Marco Ferreri, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
- 1997 – Rina Lasnier, Canadian poet (b. 1915)
- 1998 – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (b. 1915)
- 1998 – Rommie Loudd, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
- 1998 – Talat Mahmood, Indian singer and actor (b. 1924)
- 2000 – Arthur Davis, American animator and director (b. 1905)
- 2002 – Dan Devine, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Russell B. Long, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (b. 1951)
- 2004 – Alan King, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2005 – Nasrat Parsa, Afghan singer (b. 1969)
- 2007 – Dwight Wilson, Canadian soldier (b. 1901)
- 2007 – Edith Rodriguez, American medical patient (b. 1964)
- 2008 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist and producer (b. 1942)
- 2008 – Pascal Sevran, French singer, television host, and author (b. 1945)
- 2009 – Chuck Daly, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
- 2009 – Evgenios Spatharis, Greek puppeteer (b. 1924)
- 2010 – Lena Horne, American singer, actress, and dancer (b. 1917)
- 2010 – Otakar Motejl, Czech lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
- 2011 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
- 2012 – Carl Beane, American sportscaster (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Geoffrey Henry, Cook Islander politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Alan Abelson, American journalist (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Ramón Blanco Rodríguez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Indian singer (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Grete Dollitz, German-American guitarist and radio host (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Sanaullah Haq, Pakistani prisoner in India (b. 1961)
- 2013 – Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (b. 1933)
- 2013 – George M. Leader, American politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Humberto Lugo Gil, Mexican politician, 23rd Governor of Hidalgo (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer, founded Missoni (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Huguette Oligny, Canadian actress (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Malcolm Shabazz, American criminal and activist, grandson of Malcolm X (b. 1984)
- 2013 – Andrew Simpson, English sailor (b. 1976)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Anniversary of Dianetics (Church of Scientology)
- Christian Feast Day
- Beatus of Lungern
- Beatus of Vendome
- Christopher (Αγιος Χριστόφορος) (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- George Preca
- Gerontius of Cervia
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Doctor, Bishop of Constantinople, 389 CE (commemoration, Episcopal Church (USA))
- Nicolaus Zinzendorf (Lutheran)
- Pachomius
- Tudy of Landevennec
- May 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Europe Day, commemorating the Schuman Declaration. (European Union)
- Independence Day, celebrating the declaration of independence of Romania from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. (Romania)
- Liberation Day, commemorating the end of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II). (Guernsey, Liberation Day (Jersey))
- One of the three days of the Feast of the Lemures. (Roman Empire)
- Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Israel,Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
- Victory and Peace Day, mark the capture of Shusha in the Karabakh War and the end of World War II. (Armenia)
“Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” - Colossians 4:5-6
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"He that was healed wist not who it was."
John 5:13
John 5:13
Years are short to the happy and healthy; but thirty-eight years of disease must have dragged a very weary length along the life of the poor impotent man. When Jesus, therefore, healed him by a word, while he lay at the pool of Bethesda, he was delightfully sensible of a change. Even so the sinner who has for weeks and months been paralysed with despair, and has wearily sighed for salvation, is very conscious of the change when the Lord Jesus speaks the word of power, and gives joy and peace in believing. The evil removed is too great to be removed without our discerning it; the life imparted is too remarkable to be possessed and remain inoperative; and the change wrought is too marvellous not to be perceived. Yet the poor man was ignorant of the author of his cure; he knew not the sacredness of his person, the offices which he sustained, or the errand which brought him among men. Much ignorance of Jesus may remain in hearts which yet feel the power of his blood. We must not hastily condemn men for lack of knowledge; but where we can see the faith which saves the soul, we must believe that salvation has been bestowed. The Holy Spirit makes men penitents long before he makes them divines; and he who believes what he knows, shall soon know more clearly what he believes. Ignorance is, however, an evil; for this poor man was much tantalized by the Pharisees, and was quite unable to cope with them. It is good to be able to answer gainsayers; but we cannot do so if we know not the Lord Jesus clearly and with understanding. The cure of his ignorance, however, soon followed the cure of his infirmity, for he was visited by the Lord in the temple; and after that gracious manifestation, he was found testifying that "it was Jesus who had made him whole." Lord, if thou hast saved me, show me thyself, that I may declare thee to the sons of men.
Evening
"Acquaint now thyself with him."
Job 22:21
Job 22:21
If we would rightly "acquaint ourselves with God, and be at peace," we must know him as he has revealed himself, not only in the unity of his essence and subsistence, but also in the plurality of his persons. God said, "Let us make man in our own image"--let not man be content until he knows something of the "us" from whom his being was derived. Endeavour to know the Father; bury your head in his bosom in deep repentance, and confess that you are not worthy to be called his son; receive the kiss of his love; let the ring which is the token of his eternal faithfulness be on your finger; sit at his table and let your heart make merry in his grace. Then press forward and seek to know much of the Son of God who is the brightness of his Father's glory, and yet in unspeakable condescension of grace became man for our sakes; know him in the singular complexity of his nature: eternal God, and yet suffering, finite man; follow him as he walks the waters with the tread of deity, and as he sits upon the well in the weariness of humanity. Be not satisfied unless you know much of Jesus Christ as your Friend, your Brother, your Husband, your all. Forget not the Holy Spirit; endeavour to obtain a clear view of his nature and character, his attributes, and his works. Behold that Spirit of the Lord, who first of all moved upon chaos, and brought forth order; who now visits the chaos of your soul, and creates the order of holiness. Behold him as the Lord and giver of spiritual life, the Illuminator, the Instructor, the Comforter, and the Sanctifier. Behold him as, like holy unction, he descends upon the head of Jesus, and then afterwards rests upon you who are as the skirts of his garments. Such an intelligent, scriptural, and experimental belief in the Trinity in Unity is yours if you truly know God; and such knowledge brings peace indeed.
===Today's reading: 2 Kings 4-6, Luke 24:36-53 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: 2 Kings 4-6
The Widow's Olive Oil
1 The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the LORD. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves."
2 Elisha replied to her, "How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?"
"Your servant has nothing there at all," she said, "except a small jar of olive oil."
3 Elisha said, "Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don't ask for just a few. 4 Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side...."
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 24:36-53
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."
37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have."
40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence....
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