It was ninety nine years later that Antony had his revenge. Nero had suicided and a tribe of Gauls in Netherlands on Batavia had a leader who sided with Vespasian who had eventually succeeded Nero. Gaius Julius Civilis is a stranger to written history. We do not know of his birth or death, but clearly he was able to claim some Roman citizenry through his name. He led the Batavians in revolt and almost got France to declare itself an independent kingdom. But in betraying Vespasian and with divided followers, Civilis lost and sued for peace. Nothing is known of him after. But he probably changed the world. Vespasian tasked his son Titus to crush Jerusalem, which he did in 70 and Masada in 73.
Today is Minden Day, the Battle being part of the series of fortuitous events of Annus Mirabllis of 1759. It happened in pre unification Germany and the belligerents were Great Britain with Hanover fighting France with Saxony. The miraculous win happened when there was a mistake in orders, leading to a single column of infantry taking on the triple line of cavalry .. and surviving to win. One British General Sackville had been in charge of British cavalry and begged to be court martial-ed over the allegation he had delayed their going to infantry support until it didn't matter. Sackville would later be a failure in the US Revolutionary war. The result of the battle was that France was unable to launch assaults for another year.
Horatio Nelson was born in the Annus Mirabilis of 1759. On this evening in 1798, he had one of his three stunning successes, this one at Aboukir Bay against France in Egypt. France had thirteen ships of the line anchored and ready to broadside any who sailed on the seaward side. Nelson attacked at night from the undefended shore side. The results are telling. Of thirteen ships of the line for Britain, Nelson lost none but 218 killed and 677 wounded. The french lost two ships of the line destroyed, and nine captured, as well as 5000 casualties and 3900 captured. Napoleon was forced to flee Egypt on a small pinnace. Napoleon had intended to colonise Egypt. He decided to invade England. Seven years later Nelson would have his greatest victory over Napoleon at Trafalgar. But until then, Nelson would be given great gifts from the King of two Italies and meet Emma Hamilton and her husband.
There is a difference between inventing and discovering. On this day in 1774, Joseph Priestly discovered Oxygen Gas. In 1800, Britain unified with Ireland. In 1834, Slavery was abolished in the British empire. In 1894 began the first Japanese vs Chinese wars. In 1914, Germany declared war on Russia and the Swiss Army mobilised. In 1927, the Nanchang uprising saw the communists square off against the nationalists, creating the communist Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). In 1946, Stalin had executed Soviet POW officers who had been co-opted to fight with Germans. In 1957 US and Canada form NORAD. In 1961 US forms DIA to coordinate military espionage. In 1966, Charles Whitman went on a shooting spree in the University of Texas. In 1991, US President George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the parliament of the Ukrainian SSR in which he warned against Ukrainian independence.
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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
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
===1842 – A parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, celebrating the end of slavery in the West Indies was attacked by a mob, leading to three days of riots.
1907 – Robert Baden-Powell held the first scout camp at Brownsea Island in Dorset, England, beginning the Scouting movement.
1944 – World War II: The Polish Home Army began the Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw against the Nazi occupation of Poland, a rebellion that lasted 63 days until it was quelled by the Germans.
1991 – US President George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the parliament of the Ukrainian SSR in which he warned against Ukrainian independence. You were warned about your independence. It is ok to rise against tyranny .. but be prepared!. Celebrate the end of slavery. And victory on the Nile.
Matches
- 30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
- 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
- 527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
- 1192 – Richard the Lionheart landed on Jaffa and defeated the army of Saladin
- 1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
- 1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
- 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
- 1620 – The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
- 1664 – Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
- 1759 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
- 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
- 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
- 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-dayLibya.
- 1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
- 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
- 1838 – Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
- 1914 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
- 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
- 1944 – World War II: the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 1946 – Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
- 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organisation.
- 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
- 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
- 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
- 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
- 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
- 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England
- 1991 – US President George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the parliament of the Ukrainian SSR in which he warned against Ukrainian independence.
- 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
- 2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
Hatches
- 10 BC – Claudius, Roman emperor (d. 54)
- 126 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (d. 193)
- 1068 – Emperor Taizu of Jin (d. 1123)
- 1313 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan (d. 1364)
- 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
- 1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and scholar (d. 1622)
- 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi (d. 1676)
- 1659 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (d. 1734)
- 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
- 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (d. 1829)
- 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1843)
- 1819 – Herman Melville, American author (d. 1891)
- 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
- 1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965)
- 1911 – Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
- 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009)
- 1924 – Frank Worrell, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1967)
- 1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1932 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
- 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2009)
- 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (d. 2008)
- 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage) (d. 1995)
- 1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (King Crimson and Bad Company) (d. 2006)
- 1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American businessman and film producer, founded Marvel Studios
- 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist
- 1959 – Yoshihide Ōtomo, Japanese guitarist and songwriter (Ground Zero and Filament)
- 1965 – Sam Mendes, English director and producer
- 1975 – Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress
- 1975 – Ane Dahl Torp, Norwegian actress
- 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
- 1989 – Tiffany, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation and Girls' Generation-TTS)
- 1998 – Khamani Griffin, American actor
Despatches
- 30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
- 371 – Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop and saint (b. 283)
- 527 – Justin I, Byzantine emperor (b. 450)
- 1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
- 1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
- 1807 – John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (b. 1732)
- 1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
- 1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
- 2004 – Alexandra Scott, American cancer patient, founded Alex's Lemonade Stand (b. 1996)
- 2009 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
WE ARE THE SANE
Tim Blair – Friday, August 01, 2014 (4:22pm)
Convicted terrorist, disability pensioner and bludjahideen warrior Khaled Sharrouf explains his cause:
They fight us and harm us we will retaliate we will dedicate our lives to your unrest. We r not mad men or dysfunctional as they portray us to be. By Allah, we are the sane. Anyone who sees what is happening to the muslims around the world ... and sits back and does nothing, he is insane.
What is happening to Muslims in Syria and Iraq is that Sharrouf and his mates are cutting their heads off. Nothing dysfunctional about that. As for his disability pension, which apparently followed depression and schizophrenia diagnoses, Sharrouf has this to say:
Let them know that I played the government there like ignorant children i was never mentally ill not then nor now. I seen them following me and I was working for Allah right underneath there noses.
And here comes the next generation.
DEPARTMENT OF NOTHING
Tim Blair – Friday, August 01, 2014 (2:24pm)
No agency? No problem:
A Labor-appointed bureaucrat is being paid $28,000 a month to head an agency that no longer exists.In what may well be the world’s best job, Louise Sylvan is earning more than $300,000 a year to be CEO of the Australian National Preventative Health Agency, which was closed down in June.
Sylvan was offered a $200,000 redundancy payout, but presumably checked her contract – which expires in September 2016 – and realised she’d pull down around $750,000 by remaining in her “job”. Even when the agency existed, it basically did nothing:
It wasted $200,000 of taxpayer money on a cookbook which taught people how to cook spaghetti bolognese.It also provided $130,000 in funding for the Summer Nationals street burnout competition in 2012 and 2013.
Of course, Sylvan was a Nicola Roxon appointment.
HAMTASTIC
Tim Blair – Friday, August 01, 2014 (2:16pm)
By God, this is beautiful.
(Via Instapundit)
THEY LOVE DEATH
Tim Blair – Friday, August 01, 2014 (2:40am)
Raised in Florida, 22-year-old Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha recently disassembled himself in a Syrian suicide bombing. Before strapping on his holy vestment of Mo-splosives, Moner recorded this threat to US President Barack Obama:
We are coming for you, mark my words. You think you’ve won? You have never won. You will never defeat Islam.You are nothing but a donkey. You’re just a pig.Know that Islam is coming and will dominate over you. We will come with AKs. We will come with our bombs. We have small weapons, but we will take you down. We have hearts of lions. You are scared of death, while we love death.
Their fondness for death is a frequent theme. It might not be a winning strategy.
FEAR OF WARMIES
Tim Blair – Friday, August 01, 2014 (2:06am)
Mark Steyn names and shames the climate cowards, including timid Nate Silver.
RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE
Tim Blair – Friday, August 01, 2014 (2:02am)
Bill Whittle discusses his struggle with mental illness:
COWS ATTACK
Tim Blair – Friday, August 01, 2014 (1:57am)
I blame global warming:
A 45-year-old German woman died when she was attacked by a herd of 20 cows and calves on Monday afternoon on an Alpine pasture in Tyrol’s Stubaital valley.
The Bolt Report on Sunday, August 3
Andrew Bolt August 01 2014 (5:04pm)
On Sunday on Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm…
Editorial: Gaza and the rise of the Jew haters
My guest: Environment Minister Greg Hunt on defying the greens trying to stop the biggest coal mine in the country
The panel: Tim Wilson and Kimberly Kitching.
NewsWatch: The Daily Telegraph’s Miranda Devine. Taking on some ABC spin and a particularly nasty SMH cartoon.
Plus the genocide the media ignores. And Abbott reaches for a deal while Palmer’s team starts to fray.
The videos of the shows appear here.
===Editorial: Gaza and the rise of the Jew haters
My guest: Environment Minister Greg Hunt on defying the greens trying to stop the biggest coal mine in the country
The panel: Tim Wilson and Kimberly Kitching.
NewsWatch: The Daily Telegraph’s Miranda Devine. Taking on some ABC spin and a particularly nasty SMH cartoon.
Plus the genocide the media ignores. And Abbott reaches for a deal while Palmer’s team starts to fray.
The videos of the shows appear here.
Ricky Muir sacks chief of staff
Andrew Bolt August 01 2014 (2:50pm)
I did wonder how long it would last before Ricky Muir got sick of seeming the puppet of his ambitious staffers:
I’m not sure I trust the word of the equally ambitious Mr Littler:
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Druery tells Sky News that Littler is manouvering to take Muir’s seat, hoping Muir will be so embarrassed by his cluelessness that he’ll quit, leaving Littler as the registered boss of the party to nominate himself as the replacement.
Ho ho.
===SENATOR Ricky Muir has parted ways with his controversial chief of staff, the so-called preference whisperer Glenn Druery.
Senator Muir’s senior adviser Keith Littler said ... “It is indeed the case,’’ Mr Littler, who founded the party, said.
“Ricky wanted his senior advisers to live in Melbourne and for family reasons Glenn prefers to live in Sydney, so that’s what’s happened...”
The decision to part ways with Mr Druery comes as the Victorian branch of Senator Muir’s party has been shut down, amid an ongoing dispute between its members.
I’m not sure I trust the word of the equally ambitious Mr Littler:
Fairfax Media understands that a personality clash had emerged between Mr Druery and Motoring Enthusiast party founder Keith Littler...The nation’s future in their hands....
In an email to Mr Druery on Thursday night, Senator Muir said: ‘’You don’t get along with the staff.’’
Another member of staff, Susan Bloodworth, who works in the Melbourne office, has quit in protest.
Canberra-based policy adviser to Senator Muir, Peter Breen, declined to comment on Friday, but he is understood to be considering his options.
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Druery tells Sky News that Littler is manouvering to take Muir’s seat, hoping Muir will be so embarrassed by his cluelessness that he’ll quit, leaving Littler as the registered boss of the party to nominate himself as the replacement.
Ho ho.
A sisterhood of hypocrites: point out Spicer’s savagery and get a Bath-ing
Andrew Bolt August 01 2014 (1:25pm)
Oh, please. Such
precious petals. Such hypocrites, demanding an immunity from the
criticism they themselves dish out, but with added savagery:
And was I really out of line - just being sexist - by then pointing out Spicer was distributing an obviously photoshopped image to smear Abbott even further?
Should I now warn that men might be driven from the public debate because I’ve been Bath-ed?
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Work with Bath, and risk a Bath-ing:
===Commercial television is still plagued by a male-dominated culture and an obsession with the physical appearance of its female stars, says Seven network presenter Chris Bath.Now read what I criticised Spicer for - her wild abuse of Tony Abbott for winking at Jon Faine about a caller claiming she was a phone sex worker on a pension:
.... the head of news at the ABC, Kate Torney, said ... when she set up ABC’s Insiders 12 years ago she spent weeks trying to get female panelists…
Bath said she understood why women were reluctant: ”If you are on Insiders or anything political you risk the chance of being Bolt-ed. I know Tracey [Spicer] has been Andrew Bolt-ed. If you’re a woman and on a program that requires you to have an opinion – unless you are Michelle Grattan – you get savaged.”
Fairfax columnist Tracey Spicer outdoes even Hanson-Young for extravagantly sanctimonious abuse, calling Abbott “creepy” and perhaps “misogynist” for “disparaging” the choice of work of a granny on a sex line.Is Bath seriously suggesting my criticism was illegitimate? Worse than the criticism Spicer herself expressed?
Memo to Spicer: the wink could well have been just what Abbott says, a “don’t worry” signal to Faine that he can handle this startling call. Or it was a signal that, wow, this was out of left field…
This kind of abuse is not just way over the top but more offensive by far that the wink. And it sure compromises Tracey Spicer as a Sky News anchor:
And was I really out of line - just being sexist - by then pointing out Spicer was distributing an obviously photoshopped image to smear Abbott even further?
Is Jon Faine also a “total creep” and a “misogynist”, or will Sarah Hanson-Young and Tracey Spicer - among thousands of others - now apologise for their vicious over-reaction:It strikes me that Bath represents the worst of the modern feminist movement - a pathetic sense of victimhood and a demand to be excused from the norms of debate.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott ... batted his left eye at 774 talkback host Jon Faine when caller Gloria, 67, said she had to work on a sex hotline to make ends meet.How can Tracey Spicer be a Sky News anchor when she so savagely abuses the Prime Minister on such dodgy evidence - and then unapologetically peddles a photoshopped picture of Abbott allegedly leering at Fiona Scott?
“Look, I was looking at Jon Faine, he was smiling at me and I winked back at him,” Mr Abbott explained on the Today Show…
Mr Faine admitted he raised his eyebrows...
When alerted of the fakery, Spicer eventually deletes it from her account without an apology. In fact, she praises it as clever:
What kind of morality does Spicer - and all the others who peddled this picture - represent?
Here, by the way, is the original picture:
Should I now warn that men might be driven from the public debate because I’ve been Bath-ed?
UPDATE
Work with Bath, and risk a Bath-ing:
I’ve been through 12 different news directors: some of them were fantastic, some of them were complete bloody psychopaths.Why does Bath think that defamation of her male colleagues is acceptable, but my criticisms of Spicer not?
Forget consistency. Fix real problems, one at a time, starting with the worst
Andrew Bolt August 01 2014 (1:12pm)
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest explains why all working-age people on
welfare - and not just Aborigines in dysfunctional communities - should
be banned from spending their welfare on anything but essentials:
===I think we can’t have one policy for Indigenous Australians and another for non-Indigenous Australians.In his next breath:
NEW indigenous-run companies should be given tax-free status to create genuine jobs for Aboriginal Australians without subsidies, Andrew Forrest proposes in his report.Ralph Waldo Emerson:
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
New parenthood: parents take only healthy surrogate baby
Andrew Bolt August 01 2014 (12:45pm)
Weaken the traditional family structure and you weaken the sense of obligation those traditions reinforce:
===Gammy, a six-month-old baby abandoned by his Australian parents, could die because his impoverished Thai surrogate mother cannot pay for medical treatment for his congenital heart condition.
The child will never know his twin sister, who was born healthy with him in a Bangkok hospital and has been taken away by their parents, who are living anonymously in Australia.
[The twins’ surrogate mother] says when she looks at Gammy, who has Down syndrome, she feels sorry for him and guilty.
How many Jews must die before Israel may defend itself?
Andrew Bolt August 01 2014 (7:36am)
Graham Richardson:
And how should Israel manage this, given its technological superiority - a vital edge granted to an open society? By handing over volunteers to Hamas for execution? By letting a few more Hamas rockets actually land in Tel Aviv?
Here’s another “disproportionate” response that don’t seem to have struck Israel’s critics as a crime:
===I don’t care what the rules of war might declare — proportionality does matter. With the Palestinian death toll at more than 1100 and the Israel losses at less than 50, even the hardest-line supporters of Israel begin to question.The European Union:
Israel has the right to protect its population from this kind of attacks. In doing so, it must act proportionately...Let’s get down to tin tacks. Exactly how many Jews do these people want to die for every 100 Palestinians? One for two, or an eye for an eye?
And how should Israel manage this, given its technological superiority - a vital edge granted to an open society? By handing over volunteers to Hamas for execution? By letting a few more Hamas rockets actually land in Tel Aviv?
Here’s another “disproportionate” response that don’t seem to have struck Israel’s critics as a crime:
Around 600,000 German civilians died during the allies’ wartime raids on Germany, including 76,000 German children…Against that toll of 600,000 Germans (or 430,000 according to other sources):
Number of American civilians who died in German bombings of the US: zero.Or how about this “disproportionate” response?
Number of British civilians who died in German bombings of Britain: 60,000.
Number of American civilians killed in Japanese bombings of the US: fewer than 70So: how many Jews do Israel’s critics want to die before Israel is allowed to defend itself? A figure would be useful. Is 6 million about right?
Number of Japanese civilians killed in American bombings of Japan: 337,000
There is no jail. Just a dysfunctional culture
Andrew Bolt August 01 2014 (7:26am)
This kind of language is poison:
We see this too often - that the blame for a general dysfunction in Aboriginal communities is put not on Aboriginal culture but non-Aborigines.
This is not merely false. It also encourages us to fix everything but the real problem.
The blunt truth is that the “stronger” the Aboriginal culture the poorer a community tends to be.
===Mining magnate Andrew Forrest ... told The Australian that indigenous people in remote communities were being “economically jailed” and suffering the “blight of disparity”.If there is a jail there is a jailer. If there is suffering there is a victim.
We see this too often - that the blame for a general dysfunction in Aboriginal communities is put not on Aboriginal culture but non-Aborigines.
This is not merely false. It also encourages us to fix everything but the real problem.
The blunt truth is that the “stronger” the Aboriginal culture the poorer a community tends to be.
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RUDD THE WRECKER – DESTROYS 20% OF LOCALLY MADE AUSTRALIAN CAR SALES
The Australia car industry has confirmed the significant damage of the Rudd Government’s recent changes to FBT arrangements, concluding that sales of locally manufactured cars will be slashed by close to 20 per cent.
Labor’s surprise spur of the moment decision – made without any consultation – to change the pre-existing FBT rules has caused devastation across the car industry since its announcement two weeks ago.
On the back of new analysis it has undertaken, the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) has today described Labor’s decision as “terrible news” for the industry and concluded it could have “a dire effect on Australian car production, including the manufacturing supply chain”.
The problem is, that Rudd has a complete inability to admit he makes any mistakes - therefore he will push ahead with this destructive policy regardless of the obvious damage he is doing.
If only Rudd the Wrecker was as effective in destroying the business model of the people smugglers, as he is with wrecking the business model of the Australian Car industry, we might be getting somewhere.
NB : If elected the Coalition the not proceed with this poorly thought through policy.
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THIS DAY IN HOLOCAUST HISTORY, 1942: German industrialist Eduard Schulte, whose company has mines near Auschwitz, reveals to a Swiss colleague that Hitler and the German Reich have decided to round up the millions of Jews of Occupied Europe, concentrate them in the East, and murder them using prussic acid starting in the fall of 1942. The information is soon communicated to Swiss World Jewish Congress representative Gerhart Riegner.
This telegram from Gerhart Riegner, Secretary of the World Jewish Congress in Geneva, was received by the Foreign Office in August 1940. The telegram was among the first pieces of unambiguous evidence received by the Allies that the Nazi Government planned a 'final solution' to the "Jewish question".
Some comments within the file show officials suggested the telegram be used to influence the Vatican to condemn German atrocities more strenuously. Another civil servant dismisses Riegner's report as a "rather wild story".
Samuel Sydney Silverman, the telegram's intended recipient, was the Labour MP for the Lancashire constituency of Nelson and Colne. Silverman was a campaigner for Jewish rights, amongst other causes including opposition to capital punishment.
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This photo was taken at Jaffa Gate, at the entrance to The Old City in Jerusalem, Israel.
Where else in the Middle East could Arab school girls stand around so freely and safely?
Only in “Apartheid” Israel.
Travelling in Israel on a visit from the US, Audrey M was often shocked
seeing scenes that were so different than those she was familiar with in the media.
“Where are we now?” she kept asking herself.
We plan to share more of these photos,
real ones that you will not find on the evening news,
the ones that do not fit the “narrative.”
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A few characters on the side of a 3,000-year-old earthenware jug dating back to the time of King David have stumped archaeologists until now -- and a fresh translation may have profound ramifications for our understanding of the Bible.
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over who benefits from the law. Poor blacks who live in high crime urban areas are not only the most likely victims of crime, they are also the ones who benefit the most from Stand Your Ground laws. It makes it easier for them to protect themselves when the police can't be there fast enough. Rules that make self-defense more difficult would impact blacks the most.>===
Imagine if any political leader would say: "No blacks will be allowed to live in my state". He would be denounced correctly, as a racist, a bigot.
That does not seem to include Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Arab leader of Ramallah, who on the verge of the new "peace talks" in Washington just declared: "In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli - civilian or soldier - on our lands".
This is not "peace", but pure Nazism, it is ethnic cleansing. And instead of the expression "final resolution", Abbas should have said what he really means, "final solution".
===Confronting Israel's Precarious Future: An Interview With Dr. Martin Sherman: Part One - The Inquisitr
"The Myth of Palestinian Homeland:
Article 16 of the original version of the Palestinian National Covenant sets out the desire of the people of Palestine “who look forward to…restoring the legitimate situation to Palestine, establishing peace and security in its territory, and enabling its people to exercise national sovereignty..”
However, since the Covenant was adopted in 1964, well before Israel “occupied” a square inch of the “West Bank” or Gaza, the question is precisely what is meant by “its territory” in which the Palestinians were “looking forward… to exercise national sovereignty”.
Indeed in Article 24, they state specifically what this territory did not include, and where they were not seeking to exercise “national sovereignty”.
In it they explicitly proclaim that they do not desire to “exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, [or] on the Gaza Strip…” - Dr. Martin Sherman
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Don't let her killer escape justice- ed
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How would Bangladesh treat such behaviour? Is that why he is a refugee? - ed
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Nobody thinks that he said it would be a good idea to adopt Nazi policy .. but .. they scent blood from an idiot.- ed
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He did not have sex with that woman? - ed
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Symbolic of God's promise .. ed
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The Washing Machine.
I dedicate this image to my beach loving friend Darvin Atkeson who is now officially fully moved into the Sierras as of today.
Somehow when I visit my mom we always wind up at the beach. Today we explored some places that we hadn't been to in our past travels, and found this incredible place. I hope to return soon, as that I forgot to take along my tripod and lenses. The tide was riding very high and I was getting soaked a good bit as well.
The colors of the water and sky combined were nothing short of phenomenal. — with Leslie Bell atGerstle Cove Reserve.
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What lengths will Weiner go to?
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August 1: Lughnasadh (Northern Hemisphere); Imbolc (Southern Hemisphere); Independence Day in Benin (1960); Lammas in England and Scotland
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- 902 – Led by Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, the Aghlabidscaptured the Byzantine stronghold of Taormina, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
- 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley liberatedoxygen gas, corroborating the discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
- 1834 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into force, officially abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire.
- 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire,North West England.
- 2007 – Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across theMississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, suffered acatastrophic failure and collapsed (pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145.
Events[edit]
- 30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
- 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
- 527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
- 1192 – Richard the Lionheart landed on Jaffa and defeated the army of Saladin
- 1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
- 1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
- 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
- 1620 – The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
- 1664 – Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
- 1759 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
- 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
- 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
- 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-dayLibya.
- 1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
- 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
- 1838 – Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
- 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
- 1914 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
- 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
- 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
- 1944 – World War II: the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 1946 – Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
- 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
- 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
- 1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
- 1964 – The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
- 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
- 1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
- 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
- 1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
- 1980 – A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland.
- 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
- 1980 – Patrick Depailler, French Grand Prix driver was killed in a crash at Hockenheim during a private test session.
- 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
- 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England
- 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
- 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
- 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
- 2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
- 2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
Births[edit]
- 10 BC – Claudius, Roman emperor (d. 54)
- 126 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (d. 193)
- 1068 – Emperor Taizu of Jin (d. 1123)
- 1313 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan (d. 1364)
- 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
- 1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and scholar (d. 1622)
- 1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
- 1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1644)
- 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi (d. 1676)
- 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician (d. 1673)
- 1659 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (d. 1734)
- 1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780)
- 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
- 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
- 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (d. 1829)
- 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (d. 1838)
- 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1843)
- 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German historian (d. 1851)
- 1809 – William B. Travis, American colonel and lawyer (d. 1836)
- 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1882)
- 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
- 1819 – Herman Melville, American author (d. 1891)
- 1841 – Lilli Suburg, Estonian journalist, writer and feminist (d. 1923)
- 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
- 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
- 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (d. 1937)
- 1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
- 1861 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
- 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
- 1877 – George Hackenschmidt, Estonian-English wrestler and strongman (d. 1968)
- 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
- 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
- 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
- 1892 – Gin Kanie, Japanese centenarian (d. 2001)
- 1892 – Kin Narita, Japanese centenarian (d. 2000)
- 1893 – Alexander of Greece (d. 1920)
- 1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
- 1899 – Raymond Mays, English race car driver (d. 1980)
- 1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965)
- 1901 – Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer (d. 1925)
- 1903 – Paul Horgan, American author (d. 1995)
- 1907 – Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer (d. 1977)
- 1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter (d. 1974)
- 1910 – Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
- 1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
- 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
- 1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal
- 1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
- 1918 – T. J. Jemison, American clergyman and activist (d. 2013)
- 1918 – Richard Pearson, Welsh actor (d. 2011)
- 1919 – Stanley Middleton, English author (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Jeffrey Segal, English actor
- 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Arthur Hill, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1923 – Val Bettin, American voice actor
- 1924 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1924 – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
- 1924 – Frank Worrell, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1967)
- 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian poet (d. 2000)
- 1926 – Theo Adam, German opera singer
- 1926 – George Hauptfuhrer, American basketball player and lawyer (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Anthony G. Bosco, American bishop (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Afghanistan (d. 1979)
- 1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Lionel Bart, English composer (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (d. 2002)
- 1930 – Julie Bovasso, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American lieutenant and politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
- 1930 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (d. 1996)
- 1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1931 – Trevor Goddard, South African cricketer
- 1932 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
- 1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
- 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2009)
- 1933 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
- 1933 – Teri Shields, American actress and producer (d. 2012)
- 1933 – Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
- 1933 – Pierluigi Vigna, Italian judge (d. 2012)
- 1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
- 1934 – Derek Birdsall, English graphic designer
- 1935 – Geoff Pullar, English cricketer
- 1936 – W. D. Hamilton, Egyptian-English biologist (d. 2000)
- 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (d. 2008)
- 1936 – Laurie Taylor, English sociologist and radio presenter
- 1937 – Al D'Amato, American lawyer and politician
- 1939 – Terry Kiser, American actor
- 1939 – Stephen Sykes, English prelate, 70th Bishop of Ely
- 1939 – Robert James Waller, American author
- 1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire
- 1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli director and screenwriter
- 1940 – Henry Silverman, American businessman, founded the Cendant Corporation
- 1941 – Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1996)
- 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage) (d. 1995)
- 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian politician (d. 1998)
- 1944 – Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer
- 1945 – Sandi Griffiths, American singer
- 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (King Crimson and Bad Company) (d. 2006)
- 1946 – Rick Coonce, American drummer (The Grass Roots) (d. 2011)
- 1946 – Richard O. Covey, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1946 – Peter Scott, British educationalist
- 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
- 1947 – Chris Barnard, Welsh footballer
- 1947 – Terrance W. Gainer, former Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate
- 1947 – Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet
- 1947 – Dennis Zine, American politician
- 1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American businessman and film producer, founded Marvel Studios
- 1948 – Cliff Branch, American football player
- 1948 – David Gemmell, English author (d. 2006)
- 1948 – Alex Wilkie, English mathematician
- 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan
- 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player (d. 2009)
- 1950 – Bunkhouse Buck, American wrestler
- 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and author (d. 2009)
- 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball player and coach
- 1951 – Tim Bachman, Canadian singer and guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Brave Belt)
- 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang) (d. 1976)
- 1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
- 1952 – Yajurvindra Singh, Indian cricketer
- 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist
- 1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist and author
- 1954 – James Gleick, American journalist and author
- 1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer and manager
- 1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (d. 2006)
- 1955 – Arun Lal, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
- 1956 – Janet Beer, British academic and public servant
- 1956 – Ok-Hee Ku, South Korean golfer (d. 2013)
- 1957 – C. J. Laing, American porn actress
- 1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio host
- 1956 – Lewis Smith, American actor
- 1957 – Taylor Negron, American actor
- 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
- 1958 – Adrian Dunbar, Irish actor
- 1958 – Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian skier
- 1958 – Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Doll Congress)
- 1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player and coach
- 1959 – Joe Elliott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Def Leppard, Atomic Mass, and Down 'n' Outz)
- 1959 – Yoshihide Ōtomo, Japanese guitarist and songwriter (Ground Zero and Filament)
- 1960 – Chuck D, American rapper and producer (Public Enemy, The Bomb Squad, and Confrontation Camp)
- 1960 – Suzi Gardner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (L7)
- 1960 – Professor Griff, American rapper (Public Enemy and Confrontation Camp)
- 1962 – Jesse Borrego, American actor and singer
- 1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer (d. 2013)
- 1963 – Coolio, American rapper, producer, and actor (WC and the Maad Circle)
- 1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor
- 1963 – John Carroll Lynch, American actor
- 1963 – Lynette Sadleir, New Zealand swimmer
- 1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut and engineer
- 1963 – Dean Wareham, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta)
- 1964 – Adam Duritz, American singer-songwriter and producer (Counting Crows and The Himalayans)
- 1964 – Kaspar Capparoni, Italian actor
- 1964 – Fiona Hyslop, Scottish politician
- 1965 – Sam Mendes, English director and producer
- 1965 – Brandt Jobe, American golfer
- 1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author
- 1966 – George Ducas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1967 – Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player and coach
- 1967 – José Padilha, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
- 1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player and coach
- 1968 – Dan Donegan, American guitarist (Disturbed, Fight or Flight, and Vandal)
- 1968 – Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player
- 1969 – Andrei Borissov, Estonian footballer
- 1969 – Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
- 1969 – Graham Thorpe, English cricketer and journalist
- 1969 – Stuart Wade, English actor
- 1969 – David Wain, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1970 – Quentin Coryatt, American football player
- 1970 – David James, English footballer and manager
- 1970 – Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician, Fields Medalist
- 1971 – Ágúst Gylfason, Icelandic footballer
- 1971 – Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, Mexican drug lord
- 1971 – Charles Malik Whitfield, American actor
- 1972 – Devon Hughes, American wrestler
- 1972 – Martin Damm, Czech tennis player
- 1972 – Nicke Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hellacopters The Solution, The Hydromatics, and Imperial State Electric)
- 1972 – Christer Basma, Norwegian footballer
- 1972 – Todd Bouman, American football player
- 1972 – Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
- 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator
- 1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American soccer player and coach
- 1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
- 1973 – Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian runner
- 1973 – Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
- 1973 – Kris Holden-Ried, Canadian actor
- 1973 – Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
- 1974 – Marek Galiński, Polish cyclist (d. 2014)
- 1974 – Dennis Lawrence, Trinidadian footballer and coach
- 1974 – Beckie Scott, Canadian skier
- 1975 – Vhrsti, Czech author and illustrator
- 1975 – Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress
- 1975 – Ane Dahl Torp, Norwegian actress
- 1976 – Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
- 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
- 1976 – Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer and manager
- 1976 – Don Hertzfeldt, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
- 1976 – David Nemirovsky, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 – Cristian Stoica, Romanian-Italian rugby player
- 1977 – Haspop, French-Moroccan dancer, choreographer, and actor
- 1977 – Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1977 – Darnerien McCants, American-Canadian football player
- 1977 – Damien Saez, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1977 – Marcel Schlutt, German porn actor and model
- 1977 – Yoshi Tatsu, Japanese wrestler and boxer
- 1978 – Andy Blignaut, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1978 – Björn Ferry, Swedish biathlete
- 1978 – Dhani Harrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thenewno2, Traveling Wilburys, and Fistful of Mercy)
- 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
- 1978 – Chris Iwelumo, Scottish footballer
- 1978 – Jonathan Wilkes, English singer and actor
- 1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
- 1979 – Bernadette Flynn, Irish dancer
- 1979 – Jason Momoa, American actor
- 1979 – Honeysuckle Weeks, Welsh actress
- 1980 – Romain Barras, French decathlete
- 1980 – Krisztina Fazekas Zur, Hungarian-American canoe racer
- 1980 – Bryan Fisher, English-American actor
- 1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Esteban Paredes, Chilean footballer
- 1981 – Brett Chukerman, American actor
- 1981 – Dean Cox, Australian footballer
- 1981 – Vaiko Eplik, Estonian singer-songwriter
- 1981 – Taylor Fry, American actress
- 1981 – Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
- 1981 – Christofer Heimeroth, German footballer
- 1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
- 1981 – Jamie Jones-Buchanan, English rugby player
- 1981 – Miracle Laurie, American actress
- 1981 – Ashley Parker Angel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (O-Town)
- 1981 – Sally Pressman, American actress and dancer
- 1982 – Basem Fathi, Jordanian footballer
- 1982 – Kimberly Holland, American model
- 1982 – Montserrat Lombard, English actress
- 1982 – Oluchi Onweagba, Nigerian model
- 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
- 1983 – Bobby Carpenter, American football player
- 1983 – Craig Clarke, New Zealand rugby player
- 1983 – Julien Faubert, French footballer
- 1983 – David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete
- 1984 – Steve Feak, American game designer
- 1984 – Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist
- 1984 – Brandon Kintzler, American baseball player
- 1984 – Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican-American actress and singer
- 1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
- 1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player
- 1985 – Adam Jones, American baseball player
- 1985 – Hyun Jyu-ni, South Korean singer and actress
- 1985 – Cole Kimball, American baseball player
- 1985 – Gegard Mousasi, Armenian mixed martial artist
- 1985 – Tendai Mtawarira, South African rugby player
- 1985 – Kris Stadsgaard, Danish footballer
- 1985 – Dušan Švento, Slovak footballer
- 1986 – Damien Allen, English footballer
- 1986 – Elijah Kelley, American actor, singer, and dancer
- 1986 – Jonas Plass, German sprinter
- 1986 – Jörn Schlönvoigt, German actor and singer
- 1986 – Lucas Simón, Argentinian footballer
- 1986 – Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1986 – Andrew Taylor, English footballer
- 1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
- 1986 – Mike Wallace, American football player
- 1986 – Karen Carney, English footballer
- 1987 – Jakov Fak, Croatian-Slovenian biathlete
- 1987 – Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese actress
- 1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
- 1987 – Stan, Greek singer
- 1987 – Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
- 1988 – Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
- 1988 – Charlie Carver, American actor
- 1988 – Max Carver, American actor
- 1988 – Sasha Jackson, English-American actress
- 1988 – Patryk Małecki, Polish footballer
- 1989 – Tiffany, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation and Girls' Generation-TTS)
- 1989 – Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
- 1989 – Tomoka Kurokawa, Japanese actress
- 1990 – Jean Hugues Gregoire, Mauritian swimmer
- 1990 – Elton Jantjies, South African rugby player
- 1990 – Jack O'Connell, English actor
- 1990 – Aledmys Díaz, Cuban baseball player
- 1991 – Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
- 1992 – Austin Rivers, American basketball player
- 1993 – Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
- 1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
- 1994 – Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
- 1994 – Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer (S/mileage, Hello Pro Kenshūsei, and Shugo Chara Egg!)
- 1995 – Derrick Monasterio, Filipino actor, singer, and dancer
- 1996 – Katie Boulter, British tennis player
- 1996 – Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
- 1996 – Ellona Santiago, Filipino-American singer
- 1998 – Khamani Griffin, American actor
Deaths[edit]
- 30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
- 371 – Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop and saint (b. 283)
- 527 – Justin I, Byzantine emperor (b. 450)
- 946 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Persian vizier (b. 859)
- 1137 – Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
- 1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
- 1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian explorer (b. 1180)
- 1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, English son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
- 1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian educator (b. 1406)
- 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1386)
- 1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian and scholar (b. 1493)
- 1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish author (b. 1490)
- 1580 – Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
- 1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
- 1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
- 1787 – Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1696)
- 1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
- 1796 – Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, English colonel and politician (b. 1720)
- 1798 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (b. 1753)
- 1807 – John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (b. 1732)
- 1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
- 1851 – William Joseph Behr, German publicist (b. 1775)
- 1866 – John Ross, American tribal chief (b. 1790)
- 1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
- 1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
- 1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (b. 1843)
- 1917 – Frank Little, American union leader (b. 1879)
- 1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
- 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer, journalist, and reformer (b. 1856)
- 1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
- 1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
- 1938 – John Aasen, American actor (b. 1890)
- 1938 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter (b. 1862)
- 1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
- 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
- 1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian actor (b. 1883)
- 1959 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
- 1963 – Theodore Roethke, American author and poet (b. 1908)
- 1966 – Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
- 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
- 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
- 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
- 1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
- 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German politician (b. 1893)
- 1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
- 1977 – Francis Gary Powers, American pilot (b. 1929)
- 1980 – Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
- 1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
- 1982 – T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1933)
- 1983 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla and activist (b. 1954)
- 1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
- 1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
- 1990 – Graham Young, English serial killer (b. 1947)
- 1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
- 1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
- 1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
- 1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
- 1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
- 1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
- 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi−English author (b. 1897)
- 2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
- 2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
- 2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (b. 1913)
- 2004 – Alexandra Scott, American cancer patient, founded Alex's Lemonade Stand (b. 1996)
- 2005 – Al Aronowitz, American journalist (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
- 2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter and sculptor (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Jason Rhoades, American sculptor (b. 1965)
- 2006 – Ferenc Szusza, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Bob Thaves, American illustrator (b. 1924)
- 2006 – Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and activist (b. 1949)
- 2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish singer and poet (b. 1932)
- 2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
- 2008 – Gertan Klauber, Czech-born, English actor (b. 1932)
- 2009 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican revolutionary(b. 1919)
- 2010 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (b. 1910)
- 2012 – Joan Bernard, English academic (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Don Erickson, American baseball player (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
- 2012 – Riccardo Ruotolo, Italian bishop (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Abel Salinas, Peruvian politician (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Douglas Townsend, American composer (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Barry Trapnell, English cricketer and academic (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (b. 1926)
- 2013 – John Amis, English journalist and critic (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Chua Boon Huat, Malaysian field hockey player (b. 1980)
- 2013 – John Dengate, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Mike Hinton, American guitarist (b. 1956)
- 2013 – Dick Kazmaier, American football player (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Babe Martin, American baseball player (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Colin McAdam, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
- 2013 – Toby Saks, American cellist (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Wilford White, American football player (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
- Armed Forces Day or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army (People's Republic of China)
- Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time (British West Indies):
- Earliest day on which Caribana celebration can fall, celebrated on the first Weekend of August. (Toronto)
- Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Anguilla, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands)
- Emancipation Day (Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago)
- Earliest day on which August Bank Holiday can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Ireland)
- Earliest day on which Civic Holiday can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Canada)
- Earliest day on which Commerce Day, or Frídagur verslunarmanna, can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Iceland)
- Earliest day on which Farmer's Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Zambia)
- Earliest day on which International Beer Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Friday of August.
- Earliest day on which International Forgiveness Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday of August.
- Earliest day on which International Friendship Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday of August.
- Earliest day on which Kadooment Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August (Barbados)
- Earliest day on which Labor Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August (Samoa)
- Feast of Kamál (Perfection); First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
- Emancipation of the slaves by Haile Selassie I. (Rastafari movement)
- National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960.
- National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.
- Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga (Tonga)
- Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodoxy)
- Statehood Day (Colorado)
- The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere (Neopagan Wheel of the Year):
- The first day of Carnaval del Pueblo (Burgess Park, London, England)
- World Scout Scarf Day (International)
- Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England)
“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” John 1:12-13 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"I in them."John 17:23
If such be the union which subsists between our souls and the person of our Lord, how deep and broad is the channel of our communion! This is no narrow pipe through which a thread-like stream may wind its way, it is a channel of amazing depth and breadth, along whose glorious length a ponderous volume of living water may roll its floods. Behold he hath set before us an open door, let us not be slow to enter. This city of communion hath many pearly gates, every several gate is of one pearl, and each gate is thrown open to the uttermost that we may enter, assured of welcome. If there were but one small loophole through which to talk with Jesus, it would be a high privilege to thrust a word of fellowship through the narrow door; how much we are blessed in having so large an entrance! Had the Lord Jesus been far away from us, with many a stormy sea between, we should have longed to send a messenger to him to carry him our loves, and bring us tidings from his Father's house; but see his kindness, he has built his house next door to ours, nay, more, he takes lodging with us, and tabernacles in poor humble hearts, that so he may have perpetual intercourse with us. O how foolish must we be, if we do not live in habitual communion with him. When the road is long, and dangerous, and difficult, we need not wonder that friends seldom meet each other, but when they live together, shall Jonathan forget his David? A wife may when her husband is upon a journey, abide many days without holding converse with him, but she could never endure to be separated from him if she knew him to be in one of the chambers of her own house. Why, believer, dost not thou sit at his banquet of wine? Seek thy Lord, for he is near; embrace him, for he is thy Brother. Hold Him fast, for he is thine Husband; and press him to thine heart, for he is of thine own flesh.
Evening
"And these are the singers ... they were employed in that work day and night."1 Chronicles 9:33
Well was it so ordered in the temple that the sacred chant never ceased: for evermore did the singers praise the Lord, whose mercy endureth forever. As mercy did not cease to rule either by day or by night, so neither did music hush its holy ministry. My heart, there is a lesson sweetly taught to thee in the ceaseless song of Zion's temple, thou too art a constant debtor, and see thou to it that thy gratitude, like charity, never faileth. God's praise is constant in heaven, which is to be thy final dwelling-place, learn thou to practise the eternal hallelujah. Around the earth as the sun scatters his light, his beams awaken grateful believers to tune their morning hymn, so that by the priesthood of the saints perpetual praise is kept up at all hours, they swathe our globe in a mantle of thanksgiving, and girdle it with a golden belt of song.
The Lord always deserves to be praised for what he is in himself, for his works of creation and providence, for his goodness towards his creatures, and especially for the transcendent act of redemption, and all the marvellous blessing flowing therefrom. It is always beneficial to praise the Lord; it cheers the day and brightens the night; it lightens toil and softens sorrow; and over earthly gladness it sheds a sanctifying radiance which makes it less liable to blind us with its glare. Have we not something to sing about at this moment? Can we not weave a song out of our present joys, or our past deliverances, or our future hopes? Earth yields her summer fruits: the hay is housed, the golden grain invites the sickle, and the sun tarrying long to shine upon a fruitful earth, shortens the interval of shade that we may lengthen the hours of devout worship. By the love of Jesus, let us be stirred up to close the day with a psalm of sanctified gladness.
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Today's reading: Psalm 54-56, Romans 3 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 54-56
1 Save me, O God, by your name;
vindicate me by your might.
2 Hear my prayer, O God;
listen to the words of my mouth.
vindicate me by your might.
2 Hear my prayer, O God;
listen to the words of my mouth.
3 Arrogant foes are attacking me;
ruthless people are trying to kill me--
people without regard for God.
ruthless people are trying to kill me--
people without regard for God.
4 Surely God is my help;
the Lord is the one who sustains me.
the Lord is the one who sustains me.
5 Let evil recoil on those who slander me;
in your faithfulness destroy them....
in your faithfulness destroy them....
Today's New Testament reading: Romans 3
God's Faithfulness
1 What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? 2 Much in every way! First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.
3 What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God's faithfulness? 4 Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written:
"So that you may be proved right when you speak
and prevail when you judge."
and prevail when you judge."
5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) 6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? 7Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?" 8 Why not say-as some slanderously claim that we say-"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is just!
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