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Diena ('Porridge Day'), Latvia
Traditionally on this day, any new shepherd was tricked by his fellows in a game similar to
'hunting the gowk', a Scottish custom of fooling young and naive
people which is associated with April Fools' Day.
The novice shepherd was asked to take any uneaten porridge
from the dwellings, into
the hills to feed the shepherds all summer. However, the porridge
was actually
replaced in the pails with water and after his burdensome trip up
the long hills the new shepherd was initiated by being doused with the
water. In this way it bears some similarities, too, to Poland's Dyngus Day (Easter Monday),
a day for drenching others with water.
Festival of the Lênaia to Dionysus,
god of wine and pleasure, ancient
Greece (c. Jan 28 - Feb 5)
Festivals in ancient Greece
Feast day of St Aldate
Feast day of St Andrew
Corsini, bishop
Feast day of St Aquilinus
Feast day of St Aventinus
of Chartres
Feast day of St Aventinus
of Troyes
Feast day of St Donatus
Feast day of St Eutychius of Rome
Feast day of St Gelasius
Feast day of St Geminus
Feast day of St Gilbert, abbot in England
Feast day of St Isidore of
Pelusium
Feast day of St Jane of
Valois (or Joan), queen of France
(Goldilocks, Polytricum commune,
is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day of St John Speed
Feast day of St John de
Britto
Feast day of St Joseph of
Leonissa
Feast day of St Liephard
Feast day of St Magnus
Feast day of St Maria de
Mattias
Feast day of St Modan,
abbot in Scotland
Feast day of St Nicholas
Studites
Feast day of St Nithard of Corbie
Feast day of St Obitius
Feast day of SS Phileas and Philoromus,
martyrs in Egypt
Feast day of St Rabanus
Maurus
Feast day of St Rembert, archbishop of
Bremen
Feast day of St Simon of Saint Bertin
Feast day of St Theophilus
the Penitent
Feast day of St Veronica (according to Acta
Sanctorum)
St Veronica derives from a late-medieval legend. She was supposedly a woman of Jerusalem; when Christ passed carrying the cross on his way to
Golgotha, she wiped his face of sweat and blood with her veil (or a towel). His image stayed on the cloth, which became Vera-Icon (Latin: true image) and is still a relic at
St Peter's Basilica in Rome.
The Acta Sanctorum published by the Bollandists
has Veronica's feast day listed under February 4. Other sources give
July 12
(qv) which is where there is more in the Book of Days.
Feast day of St Vincent of Troyes
Feast day of St Vulgis of Lobbes
Click for Eastern Orthodox liturgical days Shop saints
Iroquois
Midwinter Festival (Jan 30 - Feb 8)
Shiwasu Matsuri, Mikado Jinja, Nango,
Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan (Jan 20 - Feb 20)
Feast
of Our Lady of the
Purification, Santo Amaro, Brazil (Feb 1 - 4)
Owase Yaya
Matsuri (Shouting Festival), Japan (Feb 1 - 8)
Sounkyo Ice
Festival, Sounkyo Onsen (spa), Hokkaido, Japan (Jan 29 - Mar 5)
King Frost Day, London, England
A fair in honour of King Frost was held on the
frozen River Thames. The day became King Frost Day, a celebration
that was carried on until World War I.
Bake Agathas today
Cakes shaped liked breasts, commemorating the torture of St Agatha,
were baked in some places, and called 'Agathas'. My
online fellow almanackist Granny
Moon writes that these loaves were blessed and distributed on
the next day, St Agatha's
Day, to friends of an ill woman … Read on
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about IBC, an often fatal form of breast cancer that is not widely
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Independence
Day, Sri
Lanka (1948)
Anniversary of the Outbreak of Armed
Struggle against Portuguese
Colonialism,
Angola
World Cancer Day
1575
Pierre de Bérulle (d.
1629), French cardinal and
statesman
1620
Gustaf Bonde (d.
1667), Swedish statesman
1646
Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz
(d.
1699), German statesman
and poet
1677
Johann Ludwig Bach (d.
1731), German composer
1688
Pierre de Marivaux (d.
1763), French writer
1725
Dru Drury (d.
1804), English
entomologist
1746
Tadeusz Kościuszko (d.
1817), Polish national
hero
1778
AP de Candolle (d.
1841), Swiss botanist
1799
Almeida Garrett (d.
1854), Poruguese writer
1840
Hiram Stevens Maxim (d.
1916), American weapons
inventor
1859
Timofei Mikhailov (d.
1881),
Russian revolutionary, member of
Narodnaya Volya
1841
Clément Ader (d.
1926), French aviation
pioneer
1846
Nikolay Umov (d.
1915), Russian physicist
1849
Jean Richepin (d.
1926), French poet
1869 Big Bill Haywood,
American labor activist, closely associated for years with the
'Wobblies' (IWW, which was heavily
influenced by anarcho-syndicalism),
who abandoned anarchist tendencies, going to the authoritarian
Marxist-Leninist Socialist
Party of America (which itself was riven by factionalism for
decades). Haywood was associated with many Communists of his day,
such as Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn.
Haywood lived his last years
in the Soviet Union,
where he became an advisor to the Bolshevik
government, and died in Moscow in 1928. Half
of his ashes were buried in the Kremlin and
an urn containing the other half of his ashes was sent to Chicago
and buried near a monument to the Haymarket
martyrs, who, ironically, were anarchists such as those long
persecuted by the Kremlin.
1881 Fernand Léger, French cubist painter,
sculptor and filmmaker
1893
Raymond Dart
(d.
November 22,
1988),
Australian
anatomist and
anthropologist best known for his
discovery in 1924 of a fossil of
Australopithecus (extinct
hominids closely related to humans) at
Taung in Northwestern
South Africa
1900 Jacques Prevert, French surrealist poet, lyricist and
author (d. 1977). He worshiped freedom and
glorified the spirit of rebellion and revolt. Prevert participated
with the surrealists,
but refused to join the Communist Party with
André Breton, whom he
made fun of in Mort d'un monsieur. He was also a talented
screen writer, whose credits include The Children of Paradise.
1902 Charles Lindbergh (d. 1974), American aviator,
first person to fly the Atlantic
1902
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross (Lord Shawcross; Hartley William
Shawcross; Lord Shawcross of Friston; d.
July 10,
2003),
E,
PC,
KC,
lawyer and politician, brilliant chief British prosecutor at the
Nuremberg trial of the Nazi leadership in 1945 - '46. At the age of 95
he eloped with a younger woman to escape his family's opprobrium and
legal constraints, and enjoyed married life till his death at the
age of 101.
"During the debate on the third
reading in April 1946, he made his most notorious foot-in-mouth
remark. He said: 'We are the masters at the moment, and not only
at the moment but for a very long time to come.' In the press
this was condensed to 'We are the masters now', a highly
controversial claim in a country where a socialist government,
even with a huge majority, was still having trouble establishing
its legitimacy.
"… in
1975 Shawcross himself recalled his own outburst: 'I've said a
lot of bloody stupid things in my life, and I think that was the
most stupid thing I've ever said.' It was certainly arrogant;
and his ownership – in the late 1940s – of a yacht called
Vanity V was suggestive. Hugh Dalton dubbed him Sir Peacock and
thought him 'very able, obstinate and self-important, too keenly
conscious of his good brains and his good looks' …
"He certainly did not abandon his distaste for living alone,
acquiring, after his second wife's death, the long-term
companionship of Susanne Monique Huiskamp, some 25 years
younger. When they decided to marry, at Eastbourne in March
1997, his children won a court ruling, after the humiliation of
medical and psychological tests, that Shawcross, then 95, was
incapable of rational decision. The following month, the couple
eloped to Gibraltar, where the courts ruled the opposite." Source
1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer (d. 1945), German
theologian
1906 Clyde Tombaugh (d. 1997), American astronomer
who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930. He
made the discovery at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
1913 Rosa
Parks, American civil rights activist
1918
Ida Lupino,
English actress and director (Jennifer;
The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes; High
Sierra; The
Sea Wolf)
1921
Betty Friedan
(d. February 4,
2006), American feminist author; founder of the
National Organization
for Women (NOW); long-term Marxist intellectual/activist who, in her
seminal book
The Feminine Mystique
(1963), passed
herself off as a regular Amerian housewife
"While young, she was active in
Marxist
and radical
Jewish circles. Later, she presented herself as a
housewife who had realized that homemaking was not fulfilling."
Wikipedia
1931
Isabel Perón,
third wife of Juan Perón
and President
of Argentina from July 1, 1974 to March 24, 1976
1947
Dan Quayle, 44th
Vice President of the United States
1948 Alice
Cooper,
born Vincent Furnier, American shock-rock singer
1949
Michael Beck, American actor
1950
Pamela Franklin, British actress
1951
Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
1951
Phil Ehart, American musician (Kansas)
1951
Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer and
musician
1952
Li
Yinhe, Chinese sexologist
1952
Lisa Eichhorn, American actress
1953
Kitaro, Japanese composer
1957
Don Davis, American composer
1957
Evan Wolfson, American attorney and
activist
1958
Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer
1959
Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
1960
Jonathan Larson (d.
1996),
American composer
1960
Siobhan Dowd, Irish author
1961
Stewart O'Nan, American author
1962
Clint Black, American musician
1964
Noodles, American guitarist (The
Offspring)
1966
Kyoko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
1968
Marko Matvere, Estonian actor
1969
Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our
Lady Peace)
1970
Gabrielle Anwar, English actress
1971
Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian
1971
Michael Goorjian, American actor
1975
Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and
actress
1976
Cam'ron, American rapper
1977
Gavin DeGraw, American musician
1978
Danna Garcia, Colombian actress
1982
Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer
(Pussycat
Dolls)
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