Today, June 21, is the Feast Day of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Owing to the manner of his death, he has always been considered a patron saint of plague victims. For his compassion and courage in the face of an incurable disease, Aloysius Gonzaga has become the patron both of AIDS sufferers and their caregivers. Today is Go Skateboarding Day; World Giraffe Day; International Surfing Day; World Music Day; The first day of Summer; and World Hydrography Day. On this date in: 1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States; 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill; 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons; 1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi; 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland; and 1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York. Born on this date: 1850 – Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, co-founded the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1941); 1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author (d. 1980); 1921 – Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (d. 1965); 1921 – Jane Russell, American actress and singer (d. 2011); 1938 – Ron Ely, American actor; 1940 – Mariette Hartley, American actress; 1947 – Meredith Baxter, American actress and producer; and 1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007). Died on this date: 1527 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author (b. 1469); 1934 – Thorne Smith, American author best known today for the two Topper novels (b. 1892); 2001 – Carroll OConnor, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1924); and 2003 – Leon Uris, American author (b. 1924).
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 03:27:29 +0000
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