Putting religion aside, if indeed it involves religion, I don't understand why a 46 year old man would marry a 16 year old girl. The world view is completely different for both. The guy is probably particularly rich or immature or both. I get it that some women are forced into bondage, so maybe the girls hasn't much choice. But in this particular case, there was choice and in eight years, she gave him three children. She was 24 years old when he stabbed her repeatedly. He killed her. And then called emergency and said there was a problem with his wife. It is worse than Prince Charles and Diana. The older man chose a mate and then mistreated her. In Australia, one feels that such a situation would be treated fairly, and the man who committed such a crime would get murder. However, in Australia this happened, and the man was only convicted of a lesser charge of manslaughter. The judge accepted the defence that the man had been provoked by having his manhood questioned. If that is the case, perhaps a new charge can be brought against the man under 18c? Or does 18c mean that the woman could have been charged had she lived? Maybe I misunderstand 18c, but with due respect, he was provoked. Something happened. Surely a law which protects people should, um, protect people? Maybe he wasn't able to resort to 18c ("I'm suing you because you are provoking me") and just used the knife instead. So, what was the problem with the wife which required an emergency call? She would never again cook a meal or clean the dishes .. in his defence, she was 24 years old, and so not the same girl he married. Clearly someone does not understand what marriage is. There is no evidence he is gay. If he was a religious man, it would be good to hear his religious teachers speak up and denounce his actions.
There is a western history of women marrying young. Fausta, daughter of Emperor Maximian, was betrothed to Emperor Constantine age 4 in 293 AD. She married him on this day in 307 age 18 after he had divorced his first wife. He had her killed, smothered in a bath when she was 37 years old. The accusation is she had had an affair with a stepson. Maybe she had questioned Constantine's manhood? Even so, as a Christian, I will say Constantine was wrong to kill his wife. But I felt the same way when I was an Atheist too. I'm not saying that the 54 year old should be put to death for the murder of his wife, we don't do that in Australia. But I feel he should be charged with her murder EVEN IF HE WAS PROVOKED. Considering the young age at which he married his wife, I feel that prisoners should be made aware of his pedophile nature too.
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- 250 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman emperor (d. 306)
- 1425 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Italian wife of Francesco I Sforza (d. 1468)
- 1596 – René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1650)
- 1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1750)
- 1732 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
- 1809 – Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian author and playwright (d. 1852)
- 1924 – Charles Guggenheim, American director and producer (d. 2002)
- 1929 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne (d. 2007)
- 1933 – Anita Carter, American singer-songwriter and bassist (Carter Family and The Carter Sisters) (d. 1999)
- 1938 – Arthur B. Rubinstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (The Beepers)
- 1955 – Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter (AC/DC and Marcus Hook Roll Band)
- 1971 – Ewan McGregor, Scottish-American actor
- 1980 – Kate Micucci, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Garfunkel and Oates)
- 1994 – Thomas Batuello, American actor
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- 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
- 627 – Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan.
- 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
- 1492 – Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
- 1717 – A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
- 1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
- 1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
- 1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to Americantrade.
- 1903 – Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
- 1909 – Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
- 1910 – Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
- 1913 – The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of mordernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence. This concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
- 1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
- 1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
- 1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.
- 1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
- 1945 – World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
- 1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
- 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
- 1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
- 1994 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
- 1995 – Selena, an American singer, was murdered by her friend and employee of her boutiques Yolanda Saldívar who was embezzling money from the establishments. The event was named "Black Friday" by Hispanics.
Despatches
- 1340 – Ivan I of Moscow (b. 1288)
- 1631 – John Donne, English lawyer and poet (b. 1572)
- 1671 – Anne Hyde, English wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
- 1703 – Johann Christoph Bach, German organist and composer (b. 1642)
- 1837 – John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
- 1855 – Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
- 1877 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (b. 1801)
- 1913 – J. P. Morgan, American banker and financier, founded J.P. Morgan & Co. (b. 1837)
- 1978 – Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian medical scientist, co-discovered Insulin (b. 1899)
- 1980 – Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Frank Perdue, American businessman (b. 1920)
MY DAY AT ACTIVISM SCHOOL
Tim Blair – Monday, March 31, 2014 (3:30pm)
Activism is back, baby! Following a mostly dormant decade, recent incoherent and obscene March in March demonstrations have returned activism to … well, not the front pages, but at least to page 13.
To learn more about this phenomenon, on Saturday morning I joined a bunch of junior activists at an Activist Training Day at Sydney’s University of Technology, hosted by Greens MLC David Shoebridge and featuring many prominent activism veterans.
Continue reading 'MY DAY AT ACTIVISM SCHOOL'I’M BAD
Tim Blair – Monday, March 31, 2014 (3:19pm)
Fairfax TV reviewer Ben Pobjie:
WORKERS UNITED
Tim Blair – Monday, March 31, 2014 (2:46pm)
Yet more photos of triumphant Work on Wednesday participants (see earlier shots here). Commemorative t-shirts arenow available:
Continue reading 'WORKERS UNITED'TAKE THE EARTH HOUR PLEDGE
Tim Blair – Monday, March 31, 2014 (1:50pm)
More than 30,000 people celebrated Earth Hour this year under the massive lights at ANZ Stadium, where the Sydney Swans lost to Collingwood.
Actually, “celebrated” might be taking things a bit far. It’s a fair bet that few at the match, and also outside of it, knew the annual turn-your-lights-off-for-Gaia festival was even scheduled for Saturday night.
Continue reading 'TAKE THE EARTH HOUR PLEDGE'LOCAL SHARIA
Tim Blair – Monday, March 31, 2014 (4:13am)
A 54-year-old man stabs his 24-year-old wife more than a dozen times, killing her. Some of her wounds are 14 centimetres deep. The young woman, a mother of three who wed her husband when she was just 16, attempted to shield herself with a blanket as she was repeatedly and viciously knifed.
Murder victim Mariam Yousif
The man claims in court he was provoked by his wife questioning his manhood. The court accepts this, reducing his charge from murder to manslaughter and sentencing him to just nine years in prison.
This didn’t happen in the Middle East. It happened in Sydney.
UPDATE. The husband’s emergency call:
Hassan stabbed her at least 14 times then called triple-0 and told the operator “There’s a problem with my wife”.
MEDIA WATCH DOESN’T WATCH MEDIA WATCH
Tim Blair – Monday, March 31, 2014 (3:09am)
Three years ago, then-Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes repeated a Guardian claim that News of the Worldjournalists had deleted messages from Milly Dowler’s mobile phone:
One journalist, at one newspaper – The Guardian’s Nick Davies – kept hammering at the story, and on Tuesday he finally cracked it wide open: “News of the World hacked Milly Dowler’s phone during police hunt”A 13-year-old murder victim’s voicemail messages not only listened to, but deleted, by News of the World journalists.
The Guardian was wrong. Late in 2011, the error-prone British paper published a series of corrections. Eventually,Media Watch also ran a “clarification” – attached to the online transcript of its original story. This “clarification” never appeared during a broadcast, and still isn’t listed at the program’s corrections page.
Current Media Watch host Paul Barry evidently missed his own show’s grudging clarification, along with theGuardian‘s more prominent admissions of error. Nearly two years after the Guardian first published its multiple corrections, appended to 37 stories, Barry recycles the paper’s mistake one more time:
Discussing the News of the World hacking scandal in the UK, Barry said that what had finally “cracked it” was the revelation that the paper had hacked into the phone of a schoolgirl who had gone missing and was subsequently found to have been murdered, Milly Dowler.It “appeared News of the World (a Murdoch paper) had also deleted some of the messages on her phone,” Barry added …At no point in the interview did Barry point out that the original story turned out to be wrong. He left uncorrected his false statement that the News of the World appeared to have done the deletions.
This bloke can’t even follow his own little show, yet the ABC employs him to monitor media Australia-wide.
MIKE LIKES
Tim Blair – Monday, March 31, 2014 (2:38am)
Way back in October, this site declared posh-voiced fake Englishman Mike Carlton to be the Viscount Mike. Nice to see that the SMH columnist has since formally adopted his title.
TWICE AS BAD AS ’NAM
Tim Blair – Monday, March 31, 2014 (12:15am)
Nearly 500 Australians were killed during ten years of the Vietnam War. More than twice that number of asylum seekers drowned during just six years of Labor.
Curiously, leftists wanted to stop the deaths in Vietnam but are upset by successful moves to stop the deaths at sea. Something is wrong with these people.
Is The Age a newspaper or propaganda sheet?
Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (1:44pm)
The Age has
long professed outrage at the “bias” of Murdoch papers. But not only is
it blind to its own bias, it indulges in a partisanship so cartoonish
that that it would be lame even in a university student paper.
Take these examples from today’s Age website, where even a story of a government success can’t be allowed to be told without a mocking picture:
===Take these examples from today’s Age website, where even a story of a government success can’t be allowed to be told without a mocking picture:
The bruvvers, united, can be defeated
Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (11:41am)
Excellent:
===THE militant Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union has been fined $1.25 million for a mixture of civil and criminal contempt offences on the sites of construction giant Grocon in 2012.And the compensation for Grocon?
Greens against jobs
Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (9:39am)
The green faith is not just anti-reason. Des Houghton gives the latest example of the green crusade against humanity itself:
===Greenies and conservation groups have made no secret that they want to delay and disrupt the GVK Hancock coal project in the Galilee which has already won state and federal approval.
This week the Mackay Conservation Group launched a legal challenge to Environment Minister Greg Hunt’s approval of the Abbot Point coal terminal… The parties named in the action – Mackay Conservation Group, Environment Defenders’ Office Queensland and GetUp! – are each signatory to a controversial strategy document, Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom, released last year…
Meanwhile, the North Queensland Conservation Council has taken the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to the Appeals Tribunal in another delaying tactic that threatens the project.
And what would Queenslanders lose?
The Alpha mine and its little brothers at Alpha West and Kevin’s Corner will create 23,000 jobs in the construction phase and 20,000 permanent jobs during the life of the mine. And it will pay up to $40 billion in taxes and royalties. So activists are delaying the arrival of revenues to build our hospitals and schools.
The delays anger Bruce Hedditch, the chief of the Bowen Business Chamber.
“Abbot Point has been running as a coal port for 40 years and the water is crystal clear,’’ he said.
“...So the court actions are not about Abbot Point; it’s about trying to stop a coal mine 500km away...”
That’s not a spending cut. That’s your taxes being saved
Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (9:35am)
The Abbott Government isn’t planning spending cuts but preventing tax rises:
===The average wage earner will have to pay 22 per cent more in income tax by 2023-24 if nothing is done to rein in spending, new figures from the government show. The estimate suggests an average fulltime wage earner, who by then will be earning $112,000, will have to pay 28 per cent in tax, up from 23 per cent now.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
The calculation, released by Treasurer Joe Hockey on Sunday, assumes the government would do nothing about so-called fiscal drag, in which more taxpayers are bumped into higher tax brackets due to inflation or wage gains. Mr Hockey warned that without dramatic policy changes to the budget, spending will outpace government tax receipts every year over the next decade, leaving the budget in deficit for a record 16 straight years.
Bolt Report robbed of panellists. What is this Government doing?
Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (9:27am)
It’s annoying to have some of the most effective conservative warriors being given long service leave:
===FORMER Howard Government Minister Alexander Downer has been appointed the next High Commissioner to the UK, in a shake-up of diplomatic posts…That’s two of my Bolt Report panellists gone, too.
The Abbott Government was last month criticised for stripping former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks of his New York Consul General appointment, instead giving the plum posting to former Finance Minister Nick Minchin.
If I can cop even this, we don’t need muzzles
Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (9:22am)
IF I can do it, who now
can’t? I’ve said our laws against free speech are too tough, and I’d
set an example by not suing for defamation.
Some of our biggest media outlets seemed to take that almost as a dare.
(Read full article here.)
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Now the ABC publishes a claim that I just don’t like powerful and articulate Aboriginals. Some people seemed determined not to understand or honestly describe the argument.
===Some of our biggest media outlets seemed to take that almost as a dare.
(Read full article here.)
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Now the ABC publishes a claim that I just don’t like powerful and articulate Aboriginals. Some people seemed determined not to understand or honestly describe the argument.
Coalition recovers out West
Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (9:13am)
Support in WA for the Coalition has rebounded strongly
over the past three months, putting the Abbott Government in a strong
position to keep all three WA Senate seats at the rerun Senate election
on Saturday. More importantly, Labor could struggle to win a crucial
second:
===In the January-March period, primary support for the Coalition rose from 41 to 46 per cent after dropping 10 points in the October-December quarter. At the September election, the Coalition received a 51.2 per cent primary vote in WA.
Labor’s primary support dropped from 36 per cent three months ago to 29 per cent — equal to its election result. Greens support jumped from 10 per cent before Christmas, the same as its election result, to 15 per cent while support for “others’’ dropped from 13 per cent to 10 per cent, the same as the election result:
Turnbull warns ABC board: tackle the bias
Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (9:02am)
Malcolm Turnbull is perfectly right, of course:
===COMMUNICATIONS Minister Malcolm Turnbull says ABC board members who do not want to get involved in ensuring news content on the public broadcaster is accurate and impartial should get off the board.Terry McCrann gives the most glaring example of the board’s failure to take responsibility - Media Watch and its host Paul Barry:
Revealing he receives hundreds of complaints about the ABC each week, Mr Turnbull said “the law of the land” couldn’t be clearer — the board needed to take responsibility for addressing issues of accuracy and impartiality.
“Some people have said to me, ‘The directors don’t want to get involved’, so I said to the directors, ‘Look, if you don’t want to get involved you don’t have to be on the board’,” Mr Turnbull told The Australian.
“Section 8 of the ABC Act says one of the board’s duties is to ensure the ABC’s news and information services are impartial and accurate, according to the standards of objective journalism…
“My very strong view is that the ABC board must take responsibility.”
Barry is obsessed, utterly obsessed, with Rupert Murdoch and what Barry perceives as the failings of the man as well as his newspapers…
It is an obsession ... simply undeniable on any measure of the number of Media Watch segments — by definition, negative — devoted to the News Corp Australia papers…
As a consequence of his obsession, he is fundamentally compromised as the public face of Media Watch in its purported, self-ordained role as a disinterested observer of the Australian media and objective arbiter of what it claims to be journalistic high crimes and misdemeanours.
He ... should have been removed when his unrelenting agenda became obvious, embarrassing and undeniable.
That responsibility lay first with the ABC’s managing director Mark Scott, in his twin role as editor-in-chief of the organisation. His failure to act has left him in breach of the corporation’s statutory obligations. The failure by the board of directors to subsequently discharge its responsibilities now leaves it collectively in breach as well.
Meet Noah, the original eco-loon, and his sinister green God
Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (8:58am)
AMAZING. Hollywood just killed God, and almost no critic noticed how it quietly slipped a green human-hater in his place.
I never thought you could make a two-hour film about Noah and his ark without mentioning “God” even once, but director Darren Aronofsky has managed it in his $142 million epic, which opened last week.
His Noah, played by a muttering Russell Crowe, prays to a different deity, a much nastier one called “the Creator” who seems to brood on global warming.
Hey, what a coincidence! So does Aronofsky, who last year declared, “climate change as an enemy of the people”. So does Crowe, tweeting in most unbiblical language: “F--- denial of climate change.”
And in their film, Noah, they give us their creator, a vegetarian who really does want to “f--- denial of climate change” and put filthy humans in their place so, as Crowe’s Noah rasps, “creation will be left alone — safe. Beautiful”.
As an agnostic, I should barely care which invisible being Crowe talks to, but this switcheroo is freaky.
(Read full article here.)
On the media and the unfortunate result of my dog catching a possum
Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (8:57am)
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Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (8:16am)
Derryn Hinch is astonished by another example of the new drive to retribalise Australia - to treat each other as representatives of “races” rather than individuals:
===I’VE HAD TROUBLE coming to grips with a dreadful court decision out of the Geelong Magistrate’s Court this week... The [Geelong Advertiser] ... lead read:(Thanks to reader norm.)
‘REGISTERED sex offender, Ali Jaffari, accused of attempted child-stealing, has had all charges against him dropped after a Magistrate told prosecutors he would have trouble finding Jaffari guilty.This was a case involving a convicted sex offender. A child stalker who was placed on the sex offenders register only last year after being convicted of sexually assaulting two teenage boys at a local beach.
Magistrate Ron Saines said if he was hearing the matter, he would have reasonable doubt, citing ‘cultural differences’ as one factor, which would result in the charges being dismissed’.
On that occasion he walked free with community service…
Apparently Jaffari is an Afghan refugee with cultural differences. Is it culturally acceptable there for adults to sexually assault children? I doubt it. But even if it were, it is abhorrent here and our laws say so…
According to the Advertiser, the 35-year-old paedophile was convicted in Geelong Magistrates’ Court in August last year of indecently assaulting one boy and attempting to indecently assault another.
He was placed on a two-year Community Corrections Order with 300 hours unpaid community work…
In court this week he was charged with child stealing, attempted child stealing and unlawful assault.
He allegedly went to Bakers Oval in Geelong West about 6.30pm on January 27, 2013 where a four-year-old girl was playing cricket with her father and brother. While the father was throwing the ball to his son in the nets, the little girl was playing nearby with her own bat. Jaffari took away her bat, grabbed her hand and began to lead her away before she looked up, saw it wasn’t her father, started crying and pulled her hand away…
The prosecutor said, that when interviewed, Jaffari told police, ‘For us is not an issue.”
Magistrate Saines said the prosecution case fell short of criminality and cited cultural differences as a possible mitigating factor.
Consensus cools
Andrew Bolt March 31 2014 (8:07am)
In time more scientists will not want their reputation sullied by association with alarmism:
I can see why Tol has quit. One of the most alarmist predictions in the draft Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is that global warming will cause more golfers:
===One of the authors of a U.N. draft report on climate change pulled out of the writing team, saying his colleagues were issuing unfounded “alarmist” claims at the expense of real solutions.UPDATE
“The drafts became too alarmist,” said Richard Tol, a Dutch professor of economics at Sussex University in England…
Mr. Tol was part of a team of 70 authors working on revisions to a U.N. report on climate change, to be issued in Japan on March 31. The final draft, which is the copy that Mr. Tol found objectionable, included findings that a warming global temperature will lead to disruption in food supplies and stagnating economies — and that coral reefs and lands in the Arctic may already have suffered irreversible damages...
I can see why Tol has quit. One of the most alarmist predictions in the draft Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is that global warming will cause more golfers:
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WHAT TYPE OF SICK GOVERNMENT INTRODUCES A NEW TAX TO FORCE UP THE COSTS OF KID'S SWIMMING LESSONS ? Craig KellyPhoto - At Menai Swim Centre with owner Noel Harris and Ian Macfarlane Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources.
Labor’s Carbon will add $10,000 to the electricity bills of Menai Swim Centre this year alone.
And remember, under Labor’s punishing plans, their Carbon Tax increases every year.
Therefore using Labor’s own modelling, Menai Swim Centre will be forced to pay $100,000 in Carbon Tax charges between now and 2020 to stay open.
So either they increase the costs of children’s swimming lessons(with families in the Menai area being slugged an additional $100,000 to pay for the Carbon Tax on kids swimming lessons) or they close their doors.
Last year 284 Australians drowned - and the 'Australian Water Safety Strategy' is to reduce drowning deaths by 50% by 2020.
But with Labor’s Carbon Tax increasing the costs of swimming lessons for children – this will simply result in less children being able to afford to attend swimming lessons, undermining The Australia Water Safety Council’s target of reducing deaths by drowning in Australia.
So what type of sick Government introduces a new tax to force up the costs of kids swimming lessons ?
Answer – the Gillard Labor Government; the worst, the most dishonest, the most dysfunctional and most divided Government in our nation’s history.
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The Brand New Doctor Who Website - http://www.doctorwho.tv
Doctor Who YouTube Channelhttp://www.youtube.com/user/doctorwho
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- 627 – Muslim–Quraish Wars: A confederation of tribes began an ultimately unsuccessful siege of Yathrib (now Medina) againstMuhammad and his army.
- 1854 – U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry (Japanese depiction pictured) and the Tokugawa shogunate signed theConvention of Kanagawa, forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade.
- 1910 – Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county boroughcalled Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type.
- 1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashed in Chase County, Kansas, US, and killed eight people, including football coach Knute Rockne, stimulating advances in aircraft design and development.
- 1964 – Brazilian Armed Forces led an overthrow of Brazilian President João Goulart and established a military government that would last for 21 years.
Events[edit]
- 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
- 627 – Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan.
- 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
- 1492 – Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
- 1561 – The city of San Cristóbal, Táchira is founded.
- 1717 – A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
- 1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
- 1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
- 1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to Americantrade.
- 1866 – The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
- 1877 – The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
- 1885 – The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
- 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
- 1899 – Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
- 1901 – 1901 Black Sea earthquake
- 1903 – Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
- 1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
- 1909 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1909 – Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
- 1910 – Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
- 1913 – The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence. This concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
- 1917 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
- 1918 – Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
- 1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
- 1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
- 1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.
- 1931 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
- 1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
- 1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
- 1945 – World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
- 1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
- 1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
- 1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
- 1958 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
- 1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
- 1964 – A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco.
- 1965 – An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants.
- 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
- 1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
- 1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
- 1979 – The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
- 1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
- 1985 – The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
- 1986 – A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 167.
- 1986 – Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
- 1990 – Approximately 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
- 1991 – Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
- 1994 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
- 1995 – TAROM Flight 371 crashed, killing all of the ten crew and 50 passengers on board.
- 1995 – Selena, an American singer, was murdered by her friend and employee of her boutiques Yolanda Saldívar who was embezzling money from the establishments. The event was named "Black Friday" by Hispanics.
- 2004 – Iraq War in Anbar Province - In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
Births[edit]
- 250 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman emperor (d. 306)
- 1360 – Philippa of Lancaster (d. 1415)
- 1425 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Italian wife of Francesco I Sforza (d. 1468)
- 1499 – Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)
- 1504 – Guru Angad, Indian guru (d. 1552)
- 1519 – Henry II of France (d. 1559)
- 1536 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
- 1576 – Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau (d. 1644)
- 1596 – René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1650)
- 1621 – Andrew Marvell, English poet and politician (d. 1678)
- 1651 – Charles II, Elector Palatine, German husband of Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark (d. 1685)
- 1675 – Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
- 1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1750)
- 1718 – Mariana Victoria of Spain (d. 1781)
- 1723 – Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
- 1730 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783)
- 1732 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
- 1740 – Panoutsos Notaras, Greek statesman (d. 1849)
- 1747 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German pianist and composer (d. 1800)
- 1752 – Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (d. 1849)
- 1777 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (d. 1859)
- 1778 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
- 1794 – Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1852)
- 1809 – Edward FitzGerald, English poet (d. 1883)
- 1809 – Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian author and playwright (d. 1852)
- 1809 – Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer (d. 1864)
- 1819 – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (d. 1901)
- 1823 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (d. 1886)
- 1847 – Hermann de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (d. 1904)
- 1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
- 1855 – Alfred E. Hunt, American businessman (d. 1899)
- 1865 – Anandi Gopal Joshi, First Indian and Hindu woman to obtain a degree in Western medicine (d. 1887)
- 1871 – Arthur Griffith, Irish politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (d. 1922)
- 1872 – Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet manager and critic, founded the Ballets Russes (d. 1929)
- 1872 – Alexandra Kollontai, Russian diplomat (d. 1952)
- 1876 – Borisav Stanković, Serbian author (d. 1927)
- 1878 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946)
- 1884 – Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
- 1885 – Pascin, Bulgarian-American painter (d. 1930)
- 1890 – William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
- 1891 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian-American actor (d. 1976)
- 1893 – Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954)
- 1893 – Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian (d. 1982)
- 1895 – Vardis Fisher, American author (d. 1968)
- 1900 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974)
- 1902 – Alfred Praks, Estonian wrestler (d. 1998)
- 1903 – John Harron, American actor (d. 1939)
- 1905 – Robert Stevenson, English film writer and director (d. 1986)
- 1906 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- 1907 – Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1908 – Red Norvo, American vibraphone player and composer (d. 1999)
- 1911 – Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
- 1912 – William Lederer, American author (d. 2009)
- 1913 – Etta Baker, American singer and guitarist (d. 2006)
- 1914 – Octavio Paz, Mexican author, poet, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- 1915 – Albert Hourani, English historian and author (d. 1993)
- 1915 – Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese sergeant (d. 1997)
- 1916 – Lucille Bliss, American voice actress (d. 2012)
- 1916 – John H. Wood, Jr., American lawyer and judge (d. 1979)
- 1919 – Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
- 1920 – Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
- 1920 – Paul Zorner, German soldier and pilot (d. 2014)
- 1921 – Peggy Rea, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Richard Kiley, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1923 – Shoshana Damari, Yemenite-Israeli singer (d. 2006)
- 1923 – François Sermon, Belgian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Leo Buscaglia, American author (d. 1998)
- 1924 – Charles Guggenheim, American director and producer (d. 2002)
- 1925 – Jean Coutu, Canadian actor (d. 1999)
- 1926 – John Fowles, English author (d. 2005)
- 1926 – Beni Montresor, Italian artist (d. 2001)
- 1926 – Rocco Petrone, American engineer (d. 2006)
- 1927 – Cesar Chavez, American activist (d. 1993)
- 1927 – William Daniels, American actor
- 1927 – Elmer Diedtrich, American politician (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Bud MacPherson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
- 1928 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975)
- 1928 – Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1929 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne (d. 2007)
- 1929 – Bert Fields, American lawyer
- 1931 – Miller Barber, American golfer
- 1932 – John Jakes, American author
- 1932 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1933 – Anita Carter, American singer-songwriter and bassist (Carter Family and The Carter Sisters) (d. 1999)
- 1933 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
- 1934 – Richard Chamberlain, American actor and singer
- 1934 – Shirley Jones, American actress and singer
- 1934 – John D. Loudermilk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1934 – Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1935 – Herb Alpert, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player
- 1935 – Judith Rossner, American author (d. 2005)
- 1936 – Marge Piercy, American author and poet
- 1936 – Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1936 – Sandayū Dokumamushi, Japanese actor
- 1937 – Willem Duyn, Dutch singer-songwriter (Mouth & MacNeal) (d. 2004)
- 1938 – Patrick Bateson, English biologist
- 1938 – Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Delhi
- 1938 – Joel Godard, American television announcer
- 1938 – Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2005)
- 1938 – Tõnno Lepmets, Estonian basketball player (d. 2005)
- 1938 – Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actress
- 1938 – Arthur B. Rubinstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (The Beepers)
- 1938 – David Steel, Scottish politician
- 1939 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician, 1st President of Georgia (d. 1993)
- 1939 – Israel Horovitz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1939 – Walker David Miller, American judge (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Volker Schlöndorff, German director and producer
- 1939 – Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, German footballer
- 1940 – Brian Ackland-Snow, English production designer (d. 2013)
- 1940 – Barney Frank, American politician
- 1940 – Patrick Leahy, American politician
- 1941 – Franco Bonvicini, Italian illustrator (d. 1995)
- 1941 – Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician
- 1942 – Hugh McCracken, American guitarist and producer (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Michael Savage, American radio host and author
- 1943 – Roy Andersson, Swedish film director
- 1943 – Deirdre Clancy, British costume designer
- 1943 – Christopher Walken, American actor
- 1944 – Pascal Danel, French singer-songwriter
- 1944 – Mick Ralphs, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mott the Hoople and Bad Company)
- 1945 – Edwin Catmull, American computer scientist
- 1945 – Valerie Curtin, American actress and screenwriter
- 1945 – Gabe Kaplan, American actor
- 1945 – Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (d. 1995)
- 1946 – Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984)
- 1946 – Bob Russell, English politician
- 1947 – Kristian Blak, Danish-Faroese pianist, composer, and producer (Yggdrasil)
- 1947 – Don Foster, English politician
- 1947 – César Gaviria, Colombian politician, 36th President of Colombia
- 1947 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt Israeli physicist (d. 2011)
- 1948 – Gary Doer, Canadian politician and diplomat, 20th Premier of Manitoba
- 1948 – Natalia Dubova, Russian ice dancer and coach
- 1948 – David Eisenhower, American author and educator
- 1948 – Al Gore, American politician, 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1948 – Rhea Perlman, American actress
- 1948 – Gustaaf Van Cauter, Belgian cyclist
- 1949 – Gilles Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1949 – Bert Massie, English disability rights campaigner
- 1950 – András Adorján, Hungarian chess player and author
- 1950 – Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor
- 1952 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor (d. 1998)
- 1952 – Vanessa del Rio, American pornographic actress
- 1954 – Laima Vaikule, Latvian actress, singer, director, and choreographer
- 1955 – Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer
- 1955 – Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter (AC/DC and Marcus Hook Roll Band)
- 1957 – Alan Duncan, English politician
- 1957 – Marc McClure, American actor
- 1957 – Kyle Secor, American actor
- 1958 – Tony Cox, American actor
- 1958 – Sylvester Groth, German tenor and actor
- 1959 – Markus Hediger, Swiss poet and translator
- 1959 – Ali McMordie, Irish bass player (Stiff Little Fingers and Friction Groove)
- 1960 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
- 1961 – Suzanne Westenhoefer, American comedian
- 1961 – Gary Winick, American director and producer (d. 2011)
- 1961 – Howard Gordon, American television writer and producer
- 1962 – John Taylor, American football player
- 1963 – Paul Mercurio, Australian actor and dancer
- 1964 – Mark Hoban, English politician
- 1964 – Brad Slaight, American comedian and actor
- 1964 – Fez Whatley, American radio host and producer
- 1964 – Paul Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Beyond)
- 1965 – Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player and coach
- 1965 – Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006)
- 1965 – William McNamara, American actor
- 1965 – Steven T. Seagle, American author and screenwriter
- 1966 – Roger Black, English runner
- 1966 – Nick Firestone, American race car driver
- 1968 – Naoya Ogawa, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
- 1968 – J. R. Reid, American basketball player and coach
- 1969 – Samantha Brown, American television host
- 1969 – Nyamko Sabuni, Burundian-Swedish politician
- 1969 – Steve Smith, American basketball player
- 1970 – Damon Herriman, Australian actor
- 1970 – Patrick Lachman, American singer and guitarist (Damageplan and Halford)
- 1971 – Demetris Assiotis, Cypriot footballer
- 1971 – Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
- 1971 – Craig McCracken, American animator, screenwriter, and producer
- 1971 – Ewan McGregor, Scottish-American actor
- 1972 – Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-Spanish director and screenwriter
- 1972 – Andrew Bowen, American actor
- 1972 – Ze Frank, American comedian and blogger
- 1972 – Luca Gentili, Italian footballer and coach
- 1972 – Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower
- 1972 – Evan Williams, American businessman, co-founded Twitter and Pyra Labs
- 1973 – Christopher Hampson, English ballet dancer and choreogrpher
- 1974 – Benjamin Eicher, German director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1974 – Adrian Holmes, Welsh-Canadian actor
- 1974 – Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bass player (Placebo)
- 1975 – Emma Atkins, English actress
- 1975 – Prodromos Dreliozis, Greek basketball player
- 1975 – Toni Gardemeister, Finnish rally driver
- 1975 – Adam Green, American director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1975 – Nathan Grey, Australian rugby player
- 1975 – Cameron Murray, Scottish rugby player
- 1975 – Ryan Rupe, American baseball player
- 1976 – Rich Clementi, American mixed martial artist
- 1976 – Howard Frier, American basketball player
- 1976 – Josh Saviano, American actor and lawyer
- 1976 – Igors Sļesarčuks, Latvian-Russian footballer
- 1976 – Guy Mariano, Italian-American skateboarder
- 1976 – Shawty Lo, American rapper
- 1977 – Toshiya, Japanese bass player, songwriter, and producer (Dir en grey)
- 1977 – Garth Tander, Australian race car driver
- 1978 – Stephen Clemence, English footballer
- 1978 – Daniel Mays, English actor
- 1978 – Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
- 1978 – Tony Yayo, American rapper (G-Unit)
- 1978 – Jarrod Cooper, American football player
- 1979 – Josh Kinney, American baseball player
- 1979 – Charlie Manning, American baseball player
- 1979 – Alexis Ferrero, Argentine footballer
- 1979 – Omri Afek, Israeli footballer
- 1979 – Euan Burton, Scottish judoka
- 1979 – Tanya Tate, English pornographic actress and model
- 1980 – Trenyce, American singer and actress
- 1980 – Dean Clark, English footballer
- 1980 – Martin Albrechtsen, Danish footballer
- 1980 – Kate Micucci, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Garfunkel and Oates)
- 1980 – Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
- 1980 – Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
- 1981 – Ryan Bingham, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1981 – Gerard McCarthy, Irish actor
- 1981 – Thomas Chatelle, Belgian footballer
- 1981 – Pa Dembo Touray, Gambian footballer
- 1981 – Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer
- 1982 – Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer
- 1982 – Ryland Blackinton, American guitarist (Cobra Starship and This Is Ivy League)
- 1982 – Bam Childress, American football player
- 1982 – Audrey Kawasaki, American painter
- 1982 – Lennon Murphy, American singer-songwriter
- 1983 – Hashim Amla, South African cricketer
- 1983 – Silver Leppik, Estonian basketball player
- 1983 – Jeff Mathis, American baseball player
- 1983 – Anthony Lewis, English actor
- 1983 – Noah "40" Shebib, Canadian hip-hop producer
- 1983 – Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast
- 1983 – Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
- 1983 – Thierry Issiémou, Gabonese footballer
- 1983 – Melissa Ordway, American actress and model
- 1983 – Nigel Plum, Australian rugby player
- 1984 – Jack Antonoff, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steel Train and Fun)
- 1984 – Dario Bova, Italian footballer
- 1984 – David Clarkson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 – Eddie Johnson, American soccer player
- 1984 – James Jones, American football player
- 1984 – Kaie Kand, Estonian heptathlete
- 1984 – Alberto Junior Rodríguez, Peruvian footballer
- 1984 – Osama Hawsawi, Saudi Arabian footballer
- 1984 – Ed Williamson, English rugby player
- 1984 – Yanin Vismitananda, Thai actress and martial artist
- 1985 – Stephanie Bendixsen, Australian television host
- 1985 – Jessica Szohr, American actress
- 1985 – Jesper Hansen, Danish footballer
- 1985 – Jalmar Sjöberg, Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler
- 1985 – Kory Sheets, American football player
- 1985 – Jo-Lonn Dunbar, American football player
- 1985 – Steve Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Paulo Machado, Portuguese footballer
- 1986 – Matthew Collins, Welsh footballer
- 1986 – Andreas Dober, Austrian footballer
- 1986 – Romeo Filipović, German-Croatian footballer
- 1986 – James King, Scottish rugby player
- 1986 – Jay Rock, American rapper
- 1987 – Nordin Amrabat, Dutch footballer
- 1987 – Hugo Ayala, Mexican footballer
- 1987 – Amaury Bischoff, Portuguese footballer
- 1987 – The Child of Lov, Belgian-Dutch singer (d. 2013)
- 1987 – Koneru Humpy, Indian chess player
- 1987 – Georg Listing, German bass player (Tokio Hotel)
- 1987 – Winston Venable, American football player
- 1987 – Justin Braun, American soccer player
- 1987 – Allison Falk, American soccer player
- 1987 – Eros Pisano, Italian footballer
- 1987 – Aridane Santana, Spanish footballer
- 1987 – Carl Dickinson, English footballer
- 1987 – Kirill Starkov, Danish ice hockey player
- 1987 – Nelli Zhiganshina, Russian figure skater
- 1988 – Hogan Ephraim, English footballer
- 1988 – DeAndre Liggins, American basketball player
- 1988 – Dorin Dickerson, American football player
- 1988 – Louis van der Westhuizen, Namibian cricketer
- 1988 – Thomas De Corte, Belgian footballer
- 1989 – Alfredo Marte, Dominican baseball player
- 1989 – Josmil Pinto, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1989 – Kidd, Danish rapper
- 1989 – Alyn Camara, German long jumper
- 1989 – Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer
- 1989 – Alberto Martín Romo García Adámez, Spanish footballer
- 1989 – Nejc Vidmar, Slovenian footballer
- 1990 – Kylie Bisutti, American model
- 1990 – Balázs Megyeri, Hungarian footballer
- 1990 – George Iloka, American football player
- 1990 – Sandra Roma, Swedish tennis player
- 1990 – Bang Yong-guk, South Korean rapper, actor, and dancer (B.A.P)
- 1991 – Rodney Sneijder, Dutch footballer
- 1991 – Milan Milanović, Serbian footballer
- 1991 – Renato Kelić, Croatian footballer
- 1991 – Lukas Rotpuller, Austrian footballer
- 1991 – Jan Šebek, Czech footballer
- 1991 – Nichaon Jindapon, Thai badminton player
- 1992 – Henri Laaksonen, Swiss-Finnish tennis player
- 1992 – Stijn de Looijer, Dutch footballer
- 1993 – Jonatan Isenia, Dutch baseball player
- 1993 – Mikael Ishak, Swedish footballer
- 1994 – Thomas Batuello, American actor
Deaths[edit]
- 1340 – Ivan I of Moscow (b. 1288)
- 1547 – Francis I of France (b. 1494)
- 1567 – Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1504)
- 1621 – Philip III of Spain (b. 1578)
- 1631 – John Donne, English lawyer and poet (b. 1572)
- 1671 – Anne Hyde, English wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
- 1703 – Johann Christoph Bach, German organist and composer (b. 1642)
- 1723 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, English-American politician, 14th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1661)
- 1741 – Pieter Burman the Elder, Dutch scholar (b. 1668)
- 1797 – Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian merchant, author, and activist (b.1745)
- 1837 – John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
- 1850 – John C. Calhoun, American politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
- 1850 – Miguel Pedrorena, Spanish-American soldier (b. 1808)
- 1855 – Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
- 1877 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (b. 1801)
- 1880 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1835)
- 1885 – Franz Abt, German composer and conductor (b. 1819)
- 1913 – J. P. Morgan, American banker and financier, founded J.P. Morgan & Co. (b. 1837)
- 1915 – Wyndham Halswelle, English-Scottish runner (b. 1882)
- 1917 – Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
- 1924 – George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (b. 1855)
- 1929 – Pablo de Escandón, Mexican polo player (b. 1856)
- 1930 – Ludwig Schüler, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1836)
- 1931 – Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (b. 1888)
- 1935 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman and diplomat, founded Prince Matchabelli perfume (b. 1885)
- 1935 – Concordia Selander, Swedish actress and manager (b. 1861)
- 1944 – Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
- 1945 – Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- 1945 – Frank Findlay, New Zealand politician (b. 1884)
- 1950 – Robert Natus, Baltic German architect (b. 1890)
- 1952 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877)
- 1956 – Ralph DePalma, Italian race car driver (b. 1884)
- 1968 – Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
- 1972 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932)
- 1975 – Percy Alliss, English golfer (b. 1897)
- 1976 – Paul Strand, American photographer and director (b. 1890)
- 1978 – Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian medical scientist, co-discovered Insulin (b. 1899)
- 1980 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
- 1980 – Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (b. 1913)
- 1981 – Enid Bagnold, English author and playwright (b. 1889)
- 1983 – Christina Stead, Australian author (b. 1902)
- 1984 – Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944)
- 1986 – O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer-songwriter (The Isley Brothers) (b. 1937)
- 1986 – Jerry Paris, American actor and director (b. 1925)
- 1988 – William McMahon, Australian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
- 1993 – Chichay, Filipino actress (b. 1918)
- 1993 – Brandon Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1965)
- 1993 – Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (b. 1900)
- 1995 – Selena, American singer-songwriter (Selena y Los Dinos) (b. 1971)
- 1996 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (b. 1958)
- 1998 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
- 1998 – Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
- 1999 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (b. 1922)
- 2001 – David Rocastle, English footballer (b. 1967)
- 2001 – Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- 2002 – Barry Took, English comedian and screenwriter (b. 1928)
- 2002 – Moturu Udayam, Indian politician and activist (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian geometer (b. 1907)
- 2003 – Anne Gwynne, American actress (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Tommy Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Sir Henry and his Butlers) (b. 1949)
- 2004 – Scott Helvenston, American soldier (b. 1965)
- 2005 – Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
- 2005 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)
- 2005 – Frank Perdue, American businessman (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Terri Schiavo, American medical patient (b. 1963)
- 2006 – Angela Devi, American model (b. 1975)
- 2006 – Jackie McLean, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1931)
- 2007 – Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1921)
- 2008 – Jules Dassin, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1911)
- 2008 – Bill Keightley, American equipment manager (b. 1926)
- 2009 – Jarl Alfredius, Swedish journalist (b. 1943)
- 2009 – Raúl Alfonsín, Argentine lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (b. 1927)
- 2009 – Choor Singh, Indian-Singaporean judge (b. 1911)
- 2010 – Shirley Mills, American actress (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Tony Barrell, English-Australian journalist and broadcaster (b. 1940)
- 2011 – Gil Clancy, American boxing trainer (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Alan Fitzgerald, Australian journalist and author (b. 1935)
- 2011 – Oddvar Hansen, Norwegian footballer and coach (b. 1921)
- 2011 – Claudia Heill, Austrian martial artist (b. 1982)
- 2011 – Vassili Kononov, Russian war criminal (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Ishbel MacAskill, Scottish singer and activist (b. 1941)
- 2011 – Mel McDaniel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
- 2011 – Boško Radonjić, Serbian mobster (b. 1943)
- 2011 – Edward Stobart, English businessman (b. 1954)
- 2011 – Henry Taub, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Judith Adams, New Zealand-Australian nurse and politician (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Dale R. Corson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914)
- 2012 – Bernard O. Gruenke, American stained glass artist (b. 1914)
- 2012 – Jerry Lynch, American baseball player (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Halbert White, American economist and educator (b. 1950)
- 2013 – Rod Berry, American lawyer and politician (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Charles Amarin Brand, French archbishop (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Ernie Bridge, Australian singer and politician (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Helena Carroll, Scottish-American actress (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Bob Clarke, American illustrator (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Dick Duden, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Ahmad Sayyed Javadi, Iranian lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
- 2013 – Michael Jenkins, English diplomat (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Mack McInnis, American politician (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Ronnie Ray Smith, American sprinter (b. 1949)
- 2013 – Dmitri Uchaykin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1980)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day
- Freedom Day (Malta)
- King Nangklao Memorial Day (Thailand)
- Thomas Mundy Peterson Day (New Jersey)
- Transfer Day (US Virgin Islands)
- César Chávez Day (United States of America)
- Geologists Day (in the Soviet Union)
“He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.” -Isaiah 53:3-4
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"He was numbered with the transgressors."
Isaiah 53:12
Isaiah 53:12
Why did Jesus suffer himself to be enrolled amongst sinners? This wonderful condescension was justified by many powerful reasons. In such a character he could the better become their advocate. In some trials there is an identification of the counsellor with the client, nor can they be looked upon in the eye of the law as apart from one another. Now, when the sinner is brought to the bar, Jesus appears there himself. He stands to answer the accusation. He points to his side, his hands, his feet, and challenges Justice to bring anything against the sinners whom he represents; he pleads his blood, and pleads so triumphantly, being numbered with them and having a part with them, that the Judge proclaims, "Let them go their way; deliver them from going down into the pit, for he hath found a ransom." Our Lord Jesus was numbered with the transgressors in order that they might feel their hearts drawn towards him. Who can be afraid of one who is written in the same list with us? Surely we may come boldly to him, and confess our guilt. He who is numbered with us cannot condemn us. Was he not put down in the transgressor's list that we might be written in the red roll of the saints? He was holy, and written among the holy; we were guilty, and numbered among the guilty; he transfers his name from yonder list to this black indictment, and our names are taken from the indictment and written in the roll of acceptance, for there is a complete transfer made between Jesus and his people. All our estate of misery and sin Jesus has taken; and all that Jesus has comes to us. His righteousness, his blood, and everything that he hath he gives us as our dowry. Rejoice, believer, in your union to him who was numbered among the transgressors; and prove that you are truly saved by being manifestly numbered with those who are new creatures in him.
Evening
"Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord."
Lamentations 3:40
Lamentations 3:40
The spouse who fondly loves her absent husband longs for his return; a long protracted separation from her lord is a semi-death to her spirit: and so with souls who love the Saviour much, they must see his face, they cannot bear that he should be away upon the mountains of Bether, and no more hold communion with them. A reproaching glance, an uplifted finger will be grievous to loving children, who fear to offend their tender father, and are only happy in his smile. Beloved, it was so once with you. A text of Scripture, a threatening, a touch of the rod of affliction, and you went to your Father's feet, crying, "Show me wherefore thou contendest with me?" Is it so now? Are you content to follow Jesus afar off? Can you contemplate suspended communion with Christ without alarm? Can you bear to have your Beloved walking contrary to you, because you walk contrary to him? Have your sins separated between you and your God, and is your heart at rest? O let me affectionately warn you, for it is a grievous thing when we can live contentedly without the present enjoyment of the Saviour's face. Let us labour to feel what an evil thing this is--little love to our own dying Saviour, little joy in our precious Jesus, little fellowship with the Beloved! Hold a true Lent in your souls, while you sorrow over your hardness of heart. Do not stop at sorrow! Remember where you first received salvation. Go at once to the cross. There, and there only, can you get your spirit quickened. No matter how hard, how insensible, how dead we may have become, let us go again in all the rags and poverty, and defilement of our natural condition. Let us clasp that cross, let us look into those languid eyes, let us bathe in that fountain filled with blood--this will bring back to us our first love; this will restore the simplicity of our faith, and the tenderness of our heart.
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Luke, Lucas
[Lo̅o̅ke, Lo̅o̅'cas ] - light-giving or luminous.
The Man Who Wrote the Most Beautiful Book in the World
Less is known of Luke than any other New Testament writer. This we do know, he was a Gentile and probably the brother of Titus (2 Cor. 8:16; 12:18). Paul speaks of him as a "beloved physician." Luke must have been a man of some wealth, otherwise he could not have traveled with Paul as his friend and useful companion (Acts 1:1; Col. 4:14; 2 Tim. 4:11;Philem. 24 ). Tertullian said of this native of Antioch that he received his illumination from Paul.
Luke was a man of learning and knowledge, an exact observer and faithful recorder. His medical training taught him to be exact. He is in the first rank as a reliable historian, scholarly, skilful and sympathetic (Luke 1:1-3; Acts 1:1-3 ). His gospel is the most literary of the four. With his Greek mind he had a sense of form, a beautiful style - studied and elaborate. A poet, he was unsurpassed as a word-painter. Luke's gospel has been described as the most wonderful book ever written, the most beautiful book in the world. Above it and within it we hear the rustle of the angels'wings, the music of angels'songs.
Luke's qualifications for his great ministry were manifold. Above and beyond all else, he had the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Then there was his long and close companionship with Paul, and Luke the follower of Paul set down in a book the Gospel which Paul loved to preach. Luke also had abundant opportunities for personal acquaintance with other apostles. His liberal education also indicated that in him God had a proper vessel for the accomplishment of His plan. The wisdom of the divine choice was justified.
Luke's mission was to proclaim Christ's humanity. His is The Gentile Gospel, thus he traces Christ's lineage back to Adam, and gives prominence to the sympathy and sociableness of Jesus as the Man (Luke 15:1) who came to save (Luke 19:10). As the representative of Grecian reason and culture, Luke presented Christ as the true Representative of universal man.
Luke wrote both the gospel bearing his name and the Book of Acts (Luke 1:1; Acts 1). The characteristic features of his gospel are clearly defined.
I. Its gratuitousness. It is par excellence the gospel of pardon and redemption (Luke 1:28; 2:40).
II. Its sympathy. Christ is before us as the Healer of broken hearts and the Sharer of our woes. Luke is the gospel of philanthropy.
III. Its joyfulness. How full of praise the Gospel of Luke is! Angelic joy is prominent (Luke 1:14; 2:10, 13; 15:7).
IV. Its thanksgiving. The Church continues the hymns of high praise Luke taught her to sing.
V. Its teaching of the holy spirit. It is profitable to gather out all Luke's references to the special missions of the Spirit (Luke 1:15, 35, 41; 2:23, 26; 3:22; 4:1).
===Today's reading: Judges 9-10, Luke 5:17-39 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Judges 9-10
Abimelek
1 Abimelek son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother's brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother's clan, 2"Ask all the citizens of Shechem, 'Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal's sons rule over you, or just one man?' Remember, I am your flesh and blood."
3 When the brothers repeated all this to the citizens of Shechem, they were inclined to follow Abimelek, for they said, "He is related to us." 4 They gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who became his followers. 5He went to his father's home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding. 6 Then all the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo gathered beside the great tree at the pillar in Shechem to crown Abimelek king.
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 5:17-39
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man
17 One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. 18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19 When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven."
21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
Today's Lent reading: Luke 1-3 (NIV)
View today's Lent reading on Bible GatewayIntroduction
1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. 3 With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold
5 In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. 6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord's commands and decrees blamelessly. 7 But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old....
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