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Dog Days, ancient Rome (Jul 3 - Aug 11)
Esala Perahera
(Festival of Buddha's Tooth), Sri Lanka (Jul 22 - Aug 1) (2004)
Feast day of Ss Abdon and Sennen, martyrs
Saints Abdon and Sennen, variously written in early calendars and
martyrologies Abdo, Abdus, and Sennes, Sennis, Zennen, respectively,
were coopers,
Persian
martyrs
under Decius,
about 250.
St Abdon is a patron saint of hygiene, barrel makers
and coopers. In the Vosges Mountains of Europe,
the ashes of ferns cut and burned on this feast keep away insects
and unwanted guests.
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Feast day of St Edward
Powell
Feast day of St Hatebrand
Feast day of St Julitta, martyr
(White mullen, Verbuscum
lychnitis, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day of St Leopold
Mandic
Feast day of St Maria
Vicenta of Saint Dorothy Chavez Orozco
Feast day of St Maxima
Feast day of St Peter
Chrysologus
Feast day of St Rheticus
Feast day of St Richard
Featherstone
Feast day of St Rufinus of
Assisi
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Micmac
Tribe Festival of St Anne, Cape Benton, Canada
Indian adoption of St Ann and the god
Glooscap as Mother Goddess
and Father God.
Independence
Day, Vanuatu
International Bog Day
(Source: Wikipedia)
Gion
Matsuri,
Kyoto, Japan (all of July)
Crater Day, Civil War
holiday, Virginia, USA
"Commemorates the
anniversary of the unsuccessful attempt in 1864 by the Union forces
to take Petersburg by blowing up the forts. Named for the craters
that were left by the explosions. Observed by veterans and civic
organizations." Source
National
Tree Day, Australia (2006; date varies annually)
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1511
Giorgio Vasari (d. June
27, 1574),
Italian
painter,
architect
and writer responsible
for the Palazzo
degli Uffizi art gallery in Florence;
known for his famous biographies
of Italian artists
1818 Emily Brontë (d. 1848), English poet and novelist (Wuthering
Heights)
Enough of Thought, Philosopher;
Too long hast thou been dreaming
Unlightened, in this chamber drear
While summer's sun is beaming –
Space-sweeping
soul, what sad refrain
Concludes thy musings once again?
Rest of poem
The
full text of Wuthering Heights
1855 Wilhelm von Siemens, German
industrialist
1857 Thorstein Veblen (d. 1929), economist
 1863 Henry
Ford (d. 1947), American car manufacturer and pioneer
of the assembly-line; notorious
anti-Semite.
Ford devoted much of his semi-retirement from Ford
Motor to the publication of a newspaper, The Dearborn
Independent, which he purchased in 1919. The
paper ran for around eight years, during which it introduced to the
United States a work (not written by Ford himself) called Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion, which has since been discredited by
virtually all historians as a forgery.
The American Jewish Historical Society describes his ideas during
this period as "anti-immigrant, anti-labor, anti-liquor
and anti-Semitic". (See below, 1938)
Source: Wikipedia
"Though Ford apologized for The International Jew and closed the
Dearborn Independent, he later accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Hitler's Nazi government in July, 1938. Some remain skeptical of his apology, claiming that Ford himself neither wrote nor personally signed it.
"Ford again expressed his concern about the circulation of The International Jew following America's entry into the war against Germany, for The Protocols had become a staple of Nazi propaganda. In a 1942 letter to Sigmund Livingston, then ADL national chairman, Ford wrote, 'I do not subscribe to or support, directly or indirectly, any agitation which would promote antagonism against my Jewish fellow citizens.' He pointed out that he 'destroyed copies' of
The International Jew when he first apologized and had refused to give 'permission or sanction to anyone to use my name as sponsoring such publication, or being the accredited author thereof.'
"In the decades following Ford's death in 1947, what was once a privately-owned business became a corporation owned in large part by the public. Since then, the Ford family and the Ford Motor Company have engaged in numerous projects and endeavors in the public interest, including many that have been supportive of Jewish concerns. Ford's grandson, Henry Ford II, consistently supported Jewish charities and cultural organizations. In 1997, for example, the Ford Motor Company sponsored the first screening of Steven Spielberg's 'Schindler's List,' commercial-free, on national network television."
Source
 1881 General Smedley Butler
(d. June
21, 1940),
peace activist best remembered for his book War is
a Racket, one of the first works exposing the military-industrial
complex. Butler was a Major General
in the US
Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated
marine in US history. He
was twice awarded the Medal of Honor.
Smedley
Darlington Butler was one of the most conscience-driven and
controversial men ever to wear the uniform of the US
Marines.
Although he rose to the rank of Major General and was a two-time
winner of the Medal
of Honor, Butler is remembered today as a vocal critic of
colonialism and American foreign policy.
By the time of his retirement in 1931, in
bitter reflection on a 33-year military career, he realized that far
from "making the world safe for democracy" he had spent his
entire adult life fighting dirty little wars all over Asia and Latin
America whose true purpose was to enrich a handful of wealthy
industrialists.
In 1934 Butler came forward and reported to
the USA Congress that the American Liberty League, a group of
wealthy pro-nazi industrialists, including
George W Bush's
grandfather,
Prescott Bush, had been plotting to overthrow the government of
President Franklin D Roosevelt in a military coup. Even though the
congressional investigating committee corroborated most of the
specifics of his testimony, no further action was taken.
Source: The Daily Bleed
et al
Prescott Bush and the plot to make the USA a fascist state
(listen online)
1889 Franz Masereel (d. 1972),
Flemish
painter and woodcut
artist
1898 Henry
Moore (d. 1986), British sculptor
1909 C Northcote Parkinson (d. 1993),
British author best known for the book Parkinson's Law in which he
says that work expands to fill the time available for its completion
1914 Béatrix Beck, writer
1929 Werner Tübke, painter
1930 Thomas Sowell, economist
1933
Edd Byrnes, American actor
1934 Bud
Selig, baseball team owner and commissioner
1936 Buddy
Guy, guitarist, singer
1939 Peter Bogdanovich,
American film and theatre director (films: The Last Picture Show; Paper Moon)
He got his first filmmaking job with Roger Corman.
Bogdanovich's big-budget directorial debut, The Last
Picture Show, (1971), an elegaic post-Western, was one of the
most impressive Hollywood movies of its era, and remains the high
point of Bogdanovich's critical reputation. Source
1941 Paul
Anka, American pop idol of 1950s
1945 David Sanborn, musician, Grammy Award winner
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Austrian-born American actor and former Mister Universe; 38th Governor of California, USA
1948 Jean
Reno, actor
1956 Delta
Burke, actress
1956 Anita
Hill, American law professor, author
1958 Kate
Bush, singer
1961 Laurence Fishburne, actor
1963 Lisa
Kudrow, actress
1964 Vivica A. Fox, actress
1974 Hilary Swank, Academy Award winning actress
1975 Graham Nicholls, British artist
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578 Death of Jacob
Baradaeus, bishop
of Edessa.
1233
The murder of German
inquisitor
Konrad von Marburg
(English: Conrad of Marburg), and his assistant Gerhard Lutelholb, on the road
from Mainz to Marburg,
Germany. The knights might have been in the service of Heinrich
II, Count of Sayn,
whom Conrad had accused of participating in satanic orgies.
Konrad had held considerable sadistic
power over St Elisabeth
of Hungary, to whom he acted as religious advisor and confessor.
Hof Kapelle near Marburg, the place of this
assassination, was locally long believed to be haunted and is allegedly today on
certain days the site of black rites. It is marked with a stone within the
premises of a private farm.
1419 Hussite
Wars: Jan
Žižka and others threw several town councillors out the window at the
first
Defenestration
of Prague.
1502 Native Americans met Christopher
Columbus's sailors at Guanjara, off the
coast of Honduras.
1619 New World: In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative
assembly in the Americas,
the House of Burgesses, convened for the first time.
1729 Baltimore, Maryland was founded.
1733 The first Freemasons lodge opened in what would become the United
States.
1771 Death of Thomas Gray, poet and letter-writer (b. 1716).
 1796
New South
Wales colony: The play
Jane Shore
and others were performed in
Sydney as the main
attraction at
Australia's first purpose-built theatre, just eight years after
the colony was founded. The playbill, discovered recently in
Canada's National Library and Archives inside a 150-year-old
scrapbook of a former Victorian British botanist's scrapbook that
was acquired by the archives in 1973, is considered a national
treasure as it is the earliest surviving document printed in
Australia. The playbill was presented to Prime Minister
John Howard
on September 11, 2007 as a gift to the nation by Canada's Prime
Minister,
Stephen Harper. The playbill advertises the plays Jane Shore,
The Wapping Landlady and The Miraculous Cure, so it
would have been a big night out.
It is likely that the advertisement was
printed by convict George Hughes, who ran Australia's first printing
press, which came out on the
First Fleet.
Rough and ready colony had theatrical flair
Canada returns oldest printed document
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1825 Malden
Island was discovered.
1838 England: A reported rain of frogs in London.
1842 A system of representative
government began in New South Wales, Australia.
1858 John Hanning Speke
discovered and named Lake
Victoria.
1863 USA's Indian Wars:
Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe
signed the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing
the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union
forces attempted to break Confederate lines by exploding a large
bomb under their trenches.
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