The nut job was like any other extreme right wing idiot that ever lived. Born in illinois, to an ethnically French family of Huguenot, Guiteau had been given $1000 and instructed to study in New York by his father. He had listening issues, and struggled as a student. He dropped out and joined a religious cult, but struggled to find his place. He went to Boston and got an easily achieved legal license, but was a failure as a barrister, managing to enrage most of his clients. Next, Guiteau turned to theology and stole material from the cult from which he had been booted. Then he decided to support GOP people. He begged Hayes for political favours, and then Garfield. Garfield had opposed corruption. So Guiteau decided to shoot him.
Guiteau chose a pearl handled revolver for reasons of posterity. He picked his moment, approached Garfield from behind and shot him twice. Garfield would probably have survived but for the medical treatment he received by doctors that had not sterilised their surgery equipment or hands, as would be routine ten years later. It took eleven weeks for Garfield to die. In defence, Guiteau would claim that he was not guilty because "The doctors killed him, I just shot him." The defence failed, and so on this day in 1882, nine months after the shooting, Guiteau was hung. On the morning of his hanging, Guiteau wrote a poem.
I am going to the Lordy, I am so glad,
I am going to the Lordy, I am so glad,
I am going to the Lordy,
Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah!
I am going to the Lordy.
I love the Lordy with all my soul,
Glory hallelujah!
And that is the reason I am going to the Lord,
Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah!
I am going to the Lord.
I saved my party and my land,
Glory hallelujah!
But they have murdered me for it,
And that is the reason I am going to the Lordy,
Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah!
I am going to the Lordy!
I wonder what I will do when I get to the Lordy,
I guess that I will weep no more
When I get to the Lordy!
Glory hallelujah!
I wonder what I will see when I get to the Lordy,
I expect to see most glorious things,
Beyond all earthly conception
When I am with the Lordy!
Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah!
I am with the Lord.
He was the only right wing extremist to assassinate a President of the US. He seemed incapable of rational thought, his application of poetry on a par with another right wing terrorist (McVey) who claimed he was the captain of his soul. Guiteau's case was one of the first attempts at an insanity defence in the US for a high profile case. At nine months he was the longest survivor of an assassination of a US President. ===
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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Matches
- 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
- 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
- 1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.
- 1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
- 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
- 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
- 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
- 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
- 1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
- 1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
- 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
- 1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London
- 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
- 1963 – Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
- 1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
- 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
- 1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
- 1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
- 1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
- 1991 – Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, starts "The Great Gage Park Decency Drive" picketing the park, starting their notorious picketing campaign that would later include funerals of AIDS victims and fallen American military.
- 1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
Hatches
- 1286 – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English politician (d. 1347)
- 1685 – John Gay, English poet and playwright (d. 1732)
- 1899 – Harry Shields, American clarinet player (d. 1971)
- 1917 – Susan Hayward, American actress and singer (d. 1975)
- 1917 – Lena Horne, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Ed Yost, American inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 2007)
- 1936 – Nancy Dussault, American actress and singer
- 1939 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and author (d. 2014)
- 1941 – Peter Pollock, South African cricketer and author
- 1943 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
- 1944 – Glenn Shorrock, English-Australian singer-songwriter (Little River Band, The Twilights, Axiom, Esperanto, and Birtles Shorrock Goble)
- 1953 – Hal Lindes, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dire Straits)
- 1960 – Murray Cook, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Wiggles and Bang Shang a Lang)
- 1963 – Rupert Graves, English actor
- 1966 – Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor
- 1973 – Chan Ho Park, South Korean baseball player
- 1982 – Andy Knowles, English drummer (Franz Ferdinand and Skuta)
- 1983 – Cheryl Cole, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and model (Girls Aloud)
- 1986 – Allegra Versace, Italian-American businesswoman
- 1992 – Lamb Gaede, American singer (Prussian Blue)
- 1992 – Lynx Gaede, American singer (Prussian Blue)
- 1997 – Iryna Shymanovich, Belarusian tennis player
Despatches
- 350 – Nepotianus, Roman ruler
- 1660 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
- 1961 – Lee De Forest, American inventor, invented the audion tube (b. 1873)
CANS OF TIME
Tim Blair – Monday, June 30, 2014 (2:50pm)
Last week’s request for culturally significant kitchen artefacts delivered a bounty of old-timey consumables, beginning with Gordon F.’s September 2013 memorial:
“Here’s my culturally significant artefact from last year’s election,” writes Gordon. “It’s slowly mummifying in my fruit bowl. Funny thing, I’m quite sure the real Kevin O’Lemon is looking younger and younger.”
“Here’s my culturally significant artefact from last year’s election,” writes Gordon. “It’s slowly mummifying in my fruit bowl. Funny thing, I’m quite sure the real Kevin O’Lemon is looking younger and younger.”
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THE MYTHERS
Tim Blair – Monday, June 30, 2014 (2:40pm)
Full marks for insight to Julia Gillard. According to a new book, the ex-PM had this to say on the morning after she was dumped by Labor for her rival Kevin Rudd: “This has been contentless, it’s been all about ego and personalities.”
The Australian public had come to that conclusion some months previously, but it’s nice that Gillard eventually caught up.
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FOUNTAIN OF TRIUMPH
Tim Blair – Monday, June 30, 2014 (2:23pm)
I was raised in Victoria, so will always claim that AFL is a superior code to rugby league. Yet even I now concede that when it comes to scandals, the NRL has the AFL beat.
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NOBODY WINS
Tim Blair – Monday, June 30, 2014 (1:49pm)
A superb letter to the SMH:
Like many of your respondents in Friday’s letters section, I read Elizabeth Farrelly’s article, ‘’In Tim-speak, we women should shut up’’, but with a slightly different take.While I understand the need to call out sexism, especially when it’s personal, I could not really understand why a sophisticated and cultivated writer would bother crossing swords with an intellectual nobody like Tim Blair. Surely, like a toddler’s tantrum, the rantings of the likes of Mr Blair are best ignored.
Yet Elizabeth cannot resist. Like a truck blocking a bicycle lane, there is no ignoring the intellectual nobody.
JUSTIFY THIS
Tim Blair – Monday, June 30, 2014 (1:09pm)
Last week it was announced that an Islamic extremist would deliver this speech at the Sydney Opera House: “Honour killings are morally justified.” The speech was subsequently cancelled, which must really annoy everybody involved, because now they’ve missed a perfect news angle:
A young couple murdered in Pakistan barely a week after they had married for love were killed as a warning to other girls not to marry without the permission of their parents, according to witnesses.Residents of Satrah, Punjab, said relatives of the bride slit their throats and forced children to watch as they bled to death.
Too bad. This would have been a lovely discussion point for culturally-sensitive Opera House attendees.
(Via Brat)
The throatcutters of the Socialist Alternative
Andrew Bolt June 30 2014 (4:50pm)
The Socialist Alternative is a Marxist group claiming to represent more moral people.
In fact, as I’ve noted many times, it is a natural home of the thug and the vicious. Socialist Alternative members have this year physically attacked Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, physically intimidated and shouted down former Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella as she gave a university lecture, vilified a daughter of the Prime Minister and shut down debate on the ABC’s Q&A.
Now this:
Realise these are barbarians.
And one final thought: remember how the Left used to complain, on the basis of a Ditch the Witch sign, that no prime minister had ever been abused as badly as Julia Gillard?
(Thanks to many readers.)
===In fact, as I’ve noted many times, it is a natural home of the thug and the vicious. Socialist Alternative members have this year physically attacked Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, physically intimidated and shouted down former Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella as she gave a university lecture, vilified a daughter of the Prime Minister and shut down debate on the ABC’s Q&A.
Now this:
Note well the savagery of these totalitarians. Imagine a society in which they were allowed real power.
Realise these are barbarians.
And one final thought: remember how the Left used to complain, on the basis of a Ditch the Witch sign, that no prime minister had ever been abused as badly as Julia Gillard?
(Thanks to many readers.)
Newman Government now behind in polls
Andrew Bolt June 30 2014 (5:43am)
Sloppy politics,
indiscipline and high-handedness has made it much harder for the
Queensland Newman Government to sell the necessarily harsh medicine -
and a dangerous populist is cleaning up:
===Two years after scoring the biggest election win in Australian history, the latest Newspoll shows the LNP is trailing Labor by 49 per cent to 51 per cent after preferences, a swing of almost 14 percentage points since the victory.Michael McKenna:
Primary support has plummeted from the 49.7 per cent support it received at the March 2012 election to just 32 per cent — including an 8 per cent fall since the previous Newspoll in March.
But the latest voters to abandon the Newman government are not turning to Labor — the state opposition’s primary support has declined by 2 per cent to 34 per cent in the past three months.
Instead, support for independents and, to a lesser extent, Clive Palmer’s Palmer United Party, has jumped from 15 per cent in March to 24 per cent, with the Greens remaining static on 8 per cent.
This is a government that has a good story but seems unable to tell it. The economy is turning around, with growth forecast to double next year and a surplus on the horizon. The health and education sectors are free of the scandals that plagued them under Labor.
But the pugnacious Premier has turned off many voters with his “with me or against me’’ tone. In February, Newman privately conceded his government had “scared people’’ with its public service cuts and last year’s crackdown on bikies…
There was [lately] the brawl with doctors over contracts, with lawyers over bikies and worrying changes to the Crime and Misconduct Commission and political donation laws and, finally, with the judiciary over the new chief justice.
Al Gore and Clive Palmer’s nice little earner
Andrew Bolt June 30 2014 (5:24am)
AL Gore, the world’s most famous global warming guru, last week used Australia to trash what’s left of his reputation.
The Nobel prize-winning alarmist didn’t just tell his disciples here more astonishing falsehoods about the climate of the kind that’s good for his business. (See here for his latest whoppers.)
Gore also meddled in our climate politics to the undisclosed benefit of his business partners, and against the interests of Australians.
And in return for a favour, he falsely praised coal baron Clive Palmer as a planet-saver, when Palmer was in fact destroying our biggest schemes to tackle global warming.
This fraud started on Wednesday, when Palmer presented Gore at a press conference called to announce whether he’d help the Abbott Government axe the carbon tax.
The warmist journalists there, notably from Fairfax newspapers and the ABC, were completely fooled by the surprise appearance of their warmist god.
(Read full article here.)
===The Nobel prize-winning alarmist didn’t just tell his disciples here more astonishing falsehoods about the climate of the kind that’s good for his business. (See here for his latest whoppers.)
Gore also meddled in our climate politics to the undisclosed benefit of his business partners, and against the interests of Australians.
And in return for a favour, he falsely praised coal baron Clive Palmer as a planet-saver, when Palmer was in fact destroying our biggest schemes to tackle global warming.
This fraud started on Wednesday, when Palmer presented Gore at a press conference called to announce whether he’d help the Abbott Government axe the carbon tax.
The warmist journalists there, notably from Fairfax newspapers and the ABC, were completely fooled by the surprise appearance of their warmist god.
(Read full article here.)
What Gore got wrong. Again
Andrew Bolt June 30 2014 (5:20am)
FORMER US vice-president Al Gore got rich by predicting global warming doom — but also got reckless.
His film, An Inconvenient Truth, was found by a British judge to have nine significant errors, and Gore may have become even more unreliable.
Here are just some of the astonishingly false claims Gore made in a lecture last week to Climate Reality Project presenters in Melbourne.
(Read full article here.)
===His film, An Inconvenient Truth, was found by a British judge to have nine significant errors, and Gore may have become even more unreliable.
Here are just some of the astonishingly false claims Gore made in a lecture last week to Climate Reality Project presenters in Melbourne.
(Read full article here.)
Just another day on the globe we’re told is warming to hell
Andrew Bolt June 30 2014 (5:05am)
Jo Nova:
===Nils-Axel Mörner has a new paper out (his 589th). For 60 years he has been tracking the coastlines close to him, and carefully isolated the exact part which appears to be the most stable. From that he shows that the real sea-level rise in Northern Europe is less than 1 millimeter a year since 1890. This is less that the 1.6mm trend in 182 NOAA tide gauges, and far below the estimates of the IPCC reports.There is also no sign of acceleration in sea-levels for the last 50 years…Meanwhile, there’s record sea ice around Antarctica:
If anything, Nils work shows how difficult it is to measure true sea-level rise on land that shifts.
(Thanks to reader Rocky.)
The new record anomaly for Southern Hemisphere sea ice, the ice encircling the southernmost continent, is 2.074 million square kilometers and was posted for the first time by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s The Cryosphere Today early Sunday morning.
New Labor speaks
Andrew Bolt June 30 2014 (5:00am)
Christian
Kerr on the Labor Senator the Leftist media adopted as the heroine in
her battle against fellow Labor Senator Joe Bullock, a conservative:
===DESPITE all the attention she grabbed in the special Senate election back in April, Labor’s Louise Pratt was virtually ignored when she gave her valedictory speech last week. So let the record show: Pratt thanked the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the Maritime Union of Australia, the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, the Community and Public Sector Union, the Electrical Trades Union, the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union, Emily’s List and other party groups. About the only mob she missed were the voters.
ABC standards up in smoke
Andrew Bolt June 30 2014 (5:00am)
The ABC sets the standard once again:
===THE ABC appears to have shrugged its shoulders over an internet video in which its high-profile star Wil Anderson appears to smoke marijuana.Reader Peter of Bellevue Hill:
A spokesman from the ABC said there was “no comment” yesterday relating to the video of Anderson apparently using pipes and a bong to smoke marijuana, during an interview on the online US show Getting Doug With High.
AB, just as well Anderson’s a pot-smoking ABC presenter rather than a cigar-smoking conservative politician. ABC News Breakfast might think the matter at least worthy of a Facebook post otherwise.
Can Palmer honor his promise to Gore?
Andrew Bolt June 30 2014 (4:33am)
Clive Palmer gave Al
Gore a reward for blessing his destruction of the carbon tax - a promise
to defend the Renewable Energy Target that forces us to use expensive
wind and solar power.
As I explained yesterday, Gore’s investment business involved with super funds that are heavy investors in exactly those sorts of projects:
The Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party’s Ricky Muir - and his assertive new staffer - could rebel against Palmer, too:
===As I explained yesterday, Gore’s investment business involved with super funds that are heavy investors in exactly those sorts of projects:
But Jacqui Lambie may rebel against her string-pulling leader:
TONY Abbott and his cabinet face new pressure on climate policy, with 25 Coalition MPs urging a reduction in the Renewable Energy Target and a key Palmer United Party senator-elect breaking ranks to call for Tasmania to be exempt from the scheme.
The 25 Coalition MPs, comprising about half the government backbench in the lower house, have written to Environment Minister Greg Hunt and Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane calling for the RET to be dramatically scaled back to enable a full exemption for the aluminium industry…
Tasmanian PUP senator-elect Jacqui Lambie broke ranks with her leader to call for changes to the RET… Ms Lambie ... warned she would seek exemptions from the RET for businesses in her home state of Tasmania, underlining the potential for the balance-of-power party to split.
While Ms Lambie insisted her PUP colleagues understood her position, Mr Palmer yesterday reaffirmed the party’s commitment to the existing target to source 20 per cent of the nation’s energy needs from renewable sources such as wind and solar power by 2020.
The Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party’s Ricky Muir - and his assertive new staffer - could rebel against Palmer, too:
Back in March, Palmer was actually against the RET:
In a challenge to the agenda set out by Clive Palmer, the AMEP senator-elect is refusing to signal his position on any issue ahead of debate on the floor of the Senate.
Mr Muir and his adviser, Glenn Druery, held their first detailed talks with the government late last week and appear likely to meet the Prime Minister in Canberra in the coming days…
While the AMEP has declared its solidarity with the Palmer United Party, this does not force Mr Muir to vote with Mr Palmer’s group on key issues, including climate change and spending cuts.
CLIVE Palmer has been pounced on for contradicting his lead candidate for the West Australian Senate election over renewable energy targets.What a blight on the landscape:
Palmer United Party’s Dio Wang said on Tuesday that the existing Renewable Energy Target ... was the right scheme for maintaining and improving the nation’s environment, and should stay as it is… Mr Palmer said he believed the target should be voluntary. “We don’t agree with people being compelled to do anything,” he told reporters.
Clive Palmer’s decision to protect the Renewable Energy Target – leaving it as the government’s default climate change policy – is expected to lead to the equivalent of 40 new wind farms around Australia...And what a waste:
With the carbon tax set to be repealed, all that remains of the greenies’ grand design is the RET; but preliminary modelling for the RET review estimates that over the period to 2040, the RET increases electricity costs by $12.8bn. Since the abatement it causes could be purchased internationally for some $2bn, over 80 per cent of that $12.8bn is pure waste.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
From India? Then no
Andrew Bolt June 30 2014 (4:26am)
We should be be accepting alleged refugees from a democracy such as India:
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
===Sri Lankan high commissioner Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe pledged his government’s continued support for the border protection policies of “close friend” Australia, including the swift return of boatpeople, amid claims that 153 Tamils were being held aboard an Australian vessel close to Christmas Island after a two-week journey from India.But be sure there will be a concerted effort from some in the media to use this as a battering ram to smash open our doors again.
There were reports yesterday that two asylum-seeker boats had been intercepted by border protection authorities — including the one from India, which refugee advocates said had encountered mechanical problems, and a second from Indonesia with about 50 passengers…
Sri Lankan human rights lawyer and refugee advocate Lakshan Dias said in the past 12 months Australia had deported numerous formerly India-based Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers to Sri Lanka.
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
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Dr John Mendoza, the former Chief Executive of the Mental Health Council and of the Australian Sports Drug Agency, told Adelaide radio that in his opinion Kevin Rudd was a sociopath. Heavy language, not repeated in other media although they reported some of his diagnosis.
John Mendoza, who resigned as Rudd’s mental health adviser, says the former PM is “not fit for office” and he will “leave the country” if Rudd returns to The Lodge. “There was constantly work being done on ridiculous timetables,” he says. “There’s a litany of discarded policy and wasted effort during the Rudd years. The public was never told the truth.”
Mendoza told ABC radio yesterday he quit from the Mental Health Council because Mr Rudd’s leadership was dysfunctional, erratic and chaotic.
Kevin Rudd’s one-time senior adviser on mental health says the former prime minister was removed from the top job for his “own wellbeing”.
“The Australian public is now starting to understand that he (Mr Rudd) wasn’t knifed in the back, in fact he was removed for his own wellbeing and the Government of the country had to function,” Professor Mendoza said.
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The Milwaukee art museum at sunset. This city was a pleasant surprise during my travels with Yahoo! as the designated weather photographer. This space age, strange looking architectural edifice actually has moving parts I was told. I would have liked to have stayed longer to see it move its' wings. — at Milwaukee Art Museum.
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I'm not asking for help. I'm just venting. Thursday I realized I was having a gout attack. Usually, I just keep to bed for a day and it goes. But I've now been bed ridden for two days and it looks like hanging around. It is my left knee, which is unusual. I know how to navigate around my right one. But I sat in a chair at 2:30 am and couldn't get out of it until 9:30. Then I am assaulted on the net by a former student who wants to be helpful but who isn't. I know far more about this than he does. And a former friend starts making really bizarre attacks .. It is lucky I don't own a gun. The pain is so intense! I'd do something I would regret .. But one thing I don't regret is embracing God. Prayer support would be good.
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Taken while on tour with Yahoo! on their OTR campaign. I left my heart in New York City... — atHunters Point, Long Island City, New York.
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- 1651 – Khmelnytsky Uprising: Ukrainian Cossacks and theirCrimean Tatar allies were annihilated by a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army in the Battle of Berestechko, probably the largest land battle in the17th century.
- 1860 – Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England.
- 1934 – Adolf Hitler violently purged members of the Sturmabteilung, its leader Ernst Röhm (pictured), and other political rivals in the Night of the Long Knives, executing at least 85 people.
- 1974 – Municipal workers in Baltimore, Maryland, went on strikeseeking higher wages and better conditions.
- 2007 – In an attempted terrorist attack, a car loaded with propanecanisters was driven into the terminal of Scotland's Glasgow International Airport and set ablaze.
Events[edit]
- 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
- 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
- 1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.
- 1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
- 1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
- 1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising – the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
- 1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
- 1758 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
- 1794 – Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
- 1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
- 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
- 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
- 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
- 1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
- 1892 – The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
- 1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
- 1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
- 1912 – The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
- 1917 – World War I: Greece declares war on the Central Powers.
- 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
- 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
- 1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
- 1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
- 1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London
- 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
- 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
- 1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both planes. It is the worst-ever aviation disaster at that point in time.
- 1959 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
- 1960 – Congo gains independence from Belgium.
- 1963 – Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
- 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
- 1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
- 1969 – Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
- 1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
- 1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
- 1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
- 1974 – The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.
- 1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
- 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
- 1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
- 1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
- 1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
- 1991 – Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, starts "The Great Gage Park Decency Drive" picketing the park, starting their notorious picketing campaign that would later include funerals of AIDS victims and fallen American military.
- 1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
- 1998 – Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada is sworn in as the 13th President of the Philippines.
Births[edit]
- 1286 – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English politician (d. 1347)
- 1470 – Charles VIII of France, King of France (d. 1498)
- 1503 – John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)
- 1588 – Giovanni Maria Sabino, Italian organist, composer, and educator (d. 1649)
- 1641 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-English general (d. 1719)
- 1685 – John Gay, English poet and playwright (d. 1732)
- 1755 – Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
- 1789 – Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1863)
- 1801 – Frédéric Bastiat, French economist (d. 1850)
- 1803 – Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet, playwright, and physician (d. 1849)
- 1807 – Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German author, poet, and playwright (d.1887)
- 1817 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (d. 1911)
- 1823 – Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian businessman (d. 1901)
- 1843 – Ernest Mason Satow, English diplomat (d. 1929)
- 1864 – Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect and archaeologist (d. 1945)
- 1880 – Franz Kröwerath, German rower (d. 1945)
- 1883 – Johan Olin, Finnish wrestler (d. 1928)
- 1884 – Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
- 1890 – Paul Boffa, Maltese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1962)
- 1891 – Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler (d. 1953)
- 1891 – Ed Lewis, American wrestler (d. 1966)
- 1892 – Pierre Blanchar, French actor (d. 1963)
- 1892 – Bo Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mississippi Sheiks) (d. 1962)
- 1892 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (d. 1951)
- 1893 – Walter Ulbricht, German politician (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1899 – Harry Shields, American clarinet player (d. 1971)
- 1906 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
- 1906 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (d. 1967)
- 1907 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (d. 1950)
- 1908 – Winston Graham, English author (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1912 – Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (d. 2003)
- 1912 – Dan Reeves, American businessman (d. 1971)
- 1913 – Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Colombia (d. 2007)
- 1913 – Harry Wismer, American sportscaster (d. 1967)
- 1914 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (d. 2001)
- 1914 – Allan Houser, American sculptor and painter (d. 1994)
- 1914 – Bill Monti, Australian rugby player (d. 1977)
- 1917 – Susan Hayward, American actress and singer (d. 1975)
- 1917 – Lena Horne, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Ed Yost, American inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 2007)
- 1925 – Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Paul Berg, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 – Walter G. Church, Sr., American politician (d. 2012)
- 1927 – James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (d. 1998)
- 1927 – Bob Willoughby, American photographer (d. 2009)
- 1930 – Thomas Sowell, American economist, philosopher, and author
- 1931 – Yo-Yo Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Andrew Hill, American pianist and composer (d. 2007)
- 1931 – James Loughran, Scottish conductor
- 1933 – Barry Hines, English writer
- 1933 – Lea Massari, Italian actress
- 1933 – M. J. K. Smith, English cricketer
- 1933 – Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1934 – Harry Blackstone, Jr., American magician (d. 1997)
- 1935 – John Harlin, American pilot and mountaineer (d. 1966)
- 1936 – Assia Djebar, Algerian author and director
- 1936 – Nancy Dussault, American actress and singer
- 1936 – Tony Musante, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
- 1937 – Michael von Biel, German cellist and composer
- 1938 – Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
- 1939 – Tunku Annuar, Malaysian son of Badlishah of Kedah (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Tony Hatch, English pianist, composer, and producer
- 1939 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and author (d. 2014)
- 1940 – Mark Spoelstra, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)
- 1941 – Peter Pollock, South African cricketer and author
- 1941 – Otto Sander, German actor (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Robert Ballard, American lieutenant and oceanographer
- 1942 – Ron Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1942 – Dennis Rogan, Irish politician
- 1943 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
- 1943 – Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Indian director and screenwriter
- 1943 – Eddie Rambeau, American singer-songwriter, and actor
- 1943 – Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi author, poet, and critic (d. 2001)
- 1944 – Terry Funk, American wrestler and actor
- 1944 – Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist and author
- 1944 – Glenn Shorrock, English-Australian singer-songwriter (Little River Band, The Twilights, Axiom, Esperanto, and Birtles Shorrock Goble)
- 1944 – Ron Swoboda, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1945 – Christopher Lloyd, British art historian
- 1945 – Sean Scully, Irish painter
- 1947 – Barry Bremen, American businessman (d. 2011)
- 1947 – David Meara, British Anglican prelate
- 1948 – Vilen Künnapu, Estonian architect
- 1948 – Murray McLauchlan, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1949 – Uwe Kliemann, German footballer, coach, and manager
- 1949 – Andy Scott, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sweet)
- 1950 – Leonard Whiting, English actor
- 1951 – Stanley Clarke, American bass player and composer (Return to Forever, Animal Logic, and SMV)
- 1952 – Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician
- 1952 – David Garrison, American actor
- 1953 – Jane Denton, British nurse and midwife
- 1953 – Lin Feng-jiao, Taiwanese actress
- 1953 – Hal Lindes, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dire Straits)
- 1954 – Stephen Barlow, English conductor
- 1954 – Pierre Charles, Dominican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
- 1954 – Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia
- 1954 – Wayne Swan, Australian politician, 14th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
- 1955 – David Alan Grier, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
- 1955 – Brian Vollmer, Canadian singer (Helix)
- 1956 – David Lidington, English politician
- 1957 – Bud Black, American baseball player and manager
- 1957 – Sterling Marlin, American race car driver
- 1957 – Rich Vos, American comedian
- 1958 – Tommy Keene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1958 – Lina Nikolakopoulou, Greek composer
- 1958 – Wilhelm Reisinger, German footballer
- 1958 – Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
- 1959 – Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1959 – Daniel Goldhagen, American political scientist and author
- 1959 – Brendan Perry, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Dead Can Dance and The Scavengers)
- 1959 – Sakis Tsiolis, Greek footballer and manager
- 1959 – Sandip Verma, Indian-born British politician
- 1960 – Murray Cook, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Wiggles and Bang Shang a Lang)
- 1960 – David Headley, American-Pakistani terrorist
- 1960 – Jack McConnell, Scottish politician, 3rd First Minister of Scotland
- 1962 – Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player
- 1962 – Deirdre Lovejoy, American actress
- 1962 – Julianne Regan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (All About Eve)
- 1963 – Rupert Graves, English actor
- 1963 – Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Steeler and Alcatrazz)
- 1964 – Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
- 1964 – Mark Waters, American director and producer
- 1965 – Steve Duchesne, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
- 1965 – Anna Levandi, Russian figure skater
- 1965 – Gary Pallister, English footballer and sportscaster
- 1965 – Mitch Richmond, American basketball player
- 1966 – Cheryl Bernard, Canadian curler
- 1966 – Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
- 1966 – Wendy Davis, American actress
- 1966 – Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor
- 1967 – David Busst, English footballer and manager
- 1967 – Nitin Ganatra, Kenyan born British actor
- 1968 – Phil Anselmo, American singer-songwriter and producer (Pantera, Arson Anthem, Down, and Superjoint Ritual)
- 1969 – Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
- 1969 – Uta Rohländer, German sprinter
- 1969 – Sébastien Rose, Canadian director and screenwriter
- 1970 – Brian Bloom, American actor and screenwriter
- 1970 – Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer
- 1970 – Mark Grudzielanek, American baseball player
- 1971 – Megan Fahlenbock, Canadian actress
- 1971 – Anette Michel, Mexican actress
- 1971 – Monica Potter, American actress
- 1972 – Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer
- 1972 – James Martin, English chef
- 1973 – Robert Bales, American soldier
- 1973 – Chan Ho Park, South Korean baseball player
- 1973 – Frank Rost, German footballer and manager
- 1973 – Noam Zylberman, Israeli-Canadian actor
- 1974 – Tony Rock, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1975 – James Bannatyne, New Zealand footballer
- 1975 – Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver
- 1975 – Rami Shaaban, Swedish-Egyptian footballer
- 1977 – Mark van Gisbergen, New Zealand-English rugby player
- 1977 – Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer
- 1978 – Ben Cousins, Australian footballer
- 1978 – Claudio Rivalta, Italian footballer
- 1979 – Matisyahu, American rapper and actor
- 1979 – Sylvain Chavanel, French cyclist
- 1979 – Rick Gonzalez, American actor
- 1979 – Allari Naresh, Indian actor
- 1979 – Faisal Shahzad, Pakistani-American terrorist, attempted the Times Square bombing
- 1980 – Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
- 1980 – Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer
- 1981 – Can Artam, Turkish race car driver
- 1981 – Tom Burke, English actor
- 1981 – Matt Kirk, Canadian football player
- 1981 – Karolina Sadalska, Polish canoe racer
- 1981 – Ben Utecht, American football player
- 1982 – Willam Belli, American drag queen performer and singer (DWV)
- 1982 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress
- 1982 – Ignacio Carrasco, Mexican footballer
- 1982 – Andy Knowles, English drummer (Franz Ferdinand and Skuta)
- 1982 – Mitch Maier, American baseball player
- 1982 – Delwyn Young, American baseball player
- 1983 – Marcus Burghardt, German cyclist
- 1983 – Cheryl Cole, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and model (Girls Aloud)
- 1983 – Marlin Jackson, American football player
- 1983 – Katherine Ryan, Canadian comedienne
- 1983 – Patrick Wolf, English singer-songwriter
- 1984 – Miles Austin, American football player
- 1984 – Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer
- 1984 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer and actress
- 1985 – Trevor Ariza, American basketball player
- 1985 – Rafał Blechacz, Polish pianist
- 1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer
- 1985 – Cody Rhodes, American wrestler and actor
- 1985 – Fabiana Vallejos, Argentinian footballer
- 1986 – Alicia Fox, American wrestler and model
- 1986 – Fredy Guarín, Colombian footballer
- 1986 – Jamai Loman, Dutch singer and actor
- 1986 – Nicola Pozzi, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Hugh Sheridan, Australian actor and singer
- 1986 – Allegra Versace, Italian-American businesswoman
- 1987 – Ryan Cook, American baseball player
- 1987 – Andrew Hedgman, New Zealand runner
- 1988 – Jack Douglass, American comedian and actor
- 1988 – Jeff Kobernus, American baseball player
- 1988 – Sean Marquette, American actor
- 1989 – Steffen Liebig, German rugby player
- 1989 – David Myers, Australian footballer
- 1989 – Miguel Vítor, Portuguese footballer
- 1990 – Petra Krejsová, Czech tennis player
- 1991 – Kaho, Japanese actress
- 1991 – David Witts, English actor
- 1992 – Holliston Coleman, American actress
- 1992 – Lamb Gaede, American singer (Prussian Blue)
- 1992 – Lynx Gaede, American singer (Prussian Blue)
- 1994 – Rhys Jones, Welsh sprinter
- 1995 – Alexandra Kiick, American tennis player
- 1997 – Iryna Shymanovich, Belarusian tennis player
Deaths[edit]
- 350 – Nepotianus, Roman ruler
- 1181 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, Welsh politician (b. 1147)
- 1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, German monk and bishop (b. 1185)
- 1364 – Arnošt of Pardubice, Czech archbishop (b. 1297)
- 1538 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
- 1607 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
- 1660 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
- 1666 – Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
- 1670 – Princess Henrietta of England (b. 1644)
- 1704 – John Quelch, English pirate (b. 1665)
- 1708 – Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
- 1709 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh botanist, linguist, and geographer (b. 1660)
- 1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Georgia (b. 1696)
- 1796 – Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1724)
- 1857 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist (b. 1802)
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
- 1882 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
- 1890 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
- 1899 – E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author (b. 1819)
- 1913 – Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (b. 1873)
- 1917 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
- 1919 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
- 1932 – Bruno Kastner, German actor, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1890)
- 1934 – Karl Ernst, German SS officer (b. 1904)
- 1934 – Erich Klausener, German politician (b. 1885)
- 1934 – Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1862)
- 1934 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
- 1934 – Gregor Strasser, German politician (b. 1892)
- 1941 – Yefim Fomin, Belarusian politician (b. 1909)
- 1941 – Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian military commander and politician (b. 1875)
- 1943 – Carlo Wieth, Danish actor (b. 1885)
- 1949 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (b. 1868)
- 1951 – Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler (b. 1884)
- 1953 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and civil servant (b. 1874)
- 1953 – Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator of children's books (b. 1874)
- 1954 – Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1873)
- 1956 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (b. 1880)
- 1959 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican politician (b. 1882)
- 1961 – Lee De Forest, American inventor, invented the audion tube (b. 1873)
- 1966 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906)
- 1971 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
- 1971 – Herbert Biberman, American director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
- 1971 – Georgy Dobrovolsky Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (b. 1928)
- 1971 – Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
- 1971 – Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (b. 1933)
- 1971 – Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1935)
- 1973 – Nancy Mitford, English author (b. 1904)
- 1973 – Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (b. 1903)
- 1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer (b. 1890)
- 1976 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1984 – Lillian Hellman, American author and playwright (b. 1905)
- 1985 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)
- 1993 – Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Beyond) (b. 1962)
- 1993 – George McFarland, American actor and singer (b. 1928)
- 1995 – Georgy Beregovoy, Ukrainian general and astronaut (b. 1921)
- 1995 – Gale Gordon, American actor and singer (b. 1906)
- 1995 – Phyllis Hyman, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1949)
- 1996 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1932)
- 1997 – Larry O'Dea, Australian wrestler (b. 1944)
- 2000 – Robert L. Manahan, American voice actor (b. 1956)
- 2001 – Chet Atkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924)
- 2001 – Joe Henderson, American saxophonist (b. 1937)
- 2002 – Chico Xavier, Brazilian medium and author (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Buddy Hackett, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Robert McCloskey, American author and illustrator (b. 1915)
- 2004 – Jamal Abro, Pakistani author (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Robert Gernhardt, German poet (b. 1937)
- 2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
- 2009 – Pina Bausch, German dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1940)
- 2009 – Robert DePugh, American activist (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Harve Presnell, American actor and singer (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer (b. 1977)
- 2011 – Barry Bremen, American businessman (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Richard Eardley, American politician (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Miguel S. Demapan, American jurist (b. 1953)
- 2012 – Ivan Sekyra, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist (Abraxas) (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Yomo Toro, Puerto Rican cuatro player (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (b. 1917)
- 2013 – Akpor Pius Ewherido, Nigerian politician (b. 1963)
- 2013 – Juggie Heen, American politician (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Kathryn Morrison, American educator and politician (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Thompson Oliha, Nigerian footballer (b. 1968)
- 2013 – Iván Ruttkay, Hungarian speed skater (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Keith Seaman, Australian politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (b. 1920)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Army Day (Guatemala)
- Christian Feast Day:
- General Prayer Day (Central African Republic)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Democratic Republic of the Congo from Belgium in 1960.
- Philippine–Spanish Friendship Day (Philippines)
“The LORD will vindicate me; your love, LORD, endures forever— do not abandon the works of your hands.” Psalm 138:8 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
Let us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise," is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint. They "sleep in Jesus," but their souls are before the throne of God, praising him day and night in his temple, singing hallelujahs to him who washed them from their sins in his blood. The body sleeps in its lonely bed of earth, beneath the coverlet of grass. But what is this sleep? The idea connected with sleep is "rest," and that is the thought which the Spirit of God would convey to us. Sleep makes each night a Sabbath for the day. Sleep shuts fast the door of the soul, and bids all intruders tarry for a while, that the life within may enter its summer garden of ease. The toil-worn believer quietly sleeps, as does the weary child when it slumbers on its mother's breast. Oh! happy they who die in the Lord; they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them. Their quiet repose shall never be broken until God shall rouse them to give them their full reward. Guarded by angel watchers, curtained by eternal mysteries, they sleep on, the inheritors of glory, till the fulness of time shall bring the fulness of redemption. What an awaking shall be theirs! They were laid in their last resting place, weary and worn, but such they shall not rise. They went to their rest with the furrowed brow, and the wasted features, but they wake up in beauty and glory. The shrivelled seed, so destitute of form and comeliness, rises from the dust a beauteous flower. The winter of the grave gives way to the spring of redemption and the summer of glory. Blessed is death, since it, through the divine power, disrobes us of this work-day garment, to clothe us with the wedding garment of incorruption. Blessed are those who "sleep in Jesus."
Evening
"Howbeit, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart."
2 Chronicles 32:31
2 Chronicles 32:31
Hezekiah was growing so inwardly great, and priding himself so much upon the favour of God, that self-righteousness crept in, and through his carnal security, the grace of God was for a time, in its more active operations, withdrawn. Here is quite enough to account with the Babylonians; for if the grace of God should leave the best Christian, there is enough of sin in his heart to make him the worst of transgressors. If left to yourselves, you who are warmest for Christ would cool down like Laodicea into sickening lukewarmness: you who are sound in the faith would be white with the leprosy of false doctrine; you who now walk before the Lord in excellency and integrity would reel to and fro, and stagger with a drunkenness of evil passion. Like the moon, we borrow our light; bright as we are when grace shines on us, we are darkness itself when the Sun of Righteousness withdraws himself. Therefore let us cry to God never to leave us. "Lord, take not thy Holy Spirit from us! Withdraw not from us thine indwelling grace! Hast thou not said, I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day'? Lord, keep us everywhere. Keep us when in the valley, that we murmur not against thy humbling hand; keep us when on the mountain, that we wax not giddy through being lifted up; keep us in youth, when our passions are strong; keep us in old age, when becoming conceited of our wisdom, we may therefore prove greater fools than the young and giddy; keep us when we come to die, lest, at the very last, we should deny thee! Keep us living, keep us dying, keep us labouring, keep us suffering, keep us fighting, keep us resting, keep us everywhere, for everywhere we need thee, O our God!"
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Ahilud
[Ahī'lud] - a brother of one born.
[Ahī'lud] - a brother of one born.
- The father of Jehoshaphat, the recorder under David and Solomon (2 Sam. 8:16; 20:24; 1 Kings 4:3; 1 Chron. 18:15).
- Father of Baana, one of Solomon's twelve purveyors (1 Kings 4:12).
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Today's reading: Job 14-16, Acts 9:22-43 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Job 14-16
1 "Mortals, born of woman,are of few days and full of trouble.
2 They spring up like flowers and wither away;
like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.
3 Do you fix your eye on them?
Will you bring them before you for judgment?
4 Who can bring what is pure from the impure?
No one!
5 A person's days are determined;
you have decreed the number of his months
and have set limits he cannot exceed.
6 So look away from him and let him alone,
till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 9:22-43
22 Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.
23 After many days had gone by, there was a conspiracy among the Jews to kill him, 24 but Saul learned of their plan. Day and night they kept close watch on the city gates in order to kill him. 25 But his followers took him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall....
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