Friday, June 28, 2013

June 28 in history


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JUN 27      INDEX      JUN 29
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1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosull.

1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.

1461 – Edward IV is crowned King of England.

1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.

1651 – The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.

1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.

1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: After a forty-seven-day siege, New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg, New France, on Cape Breton Island, now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.

1776 – The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the first decisive American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.

1776 – Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.

1778 – The American Continental Army under command of Gen. George Washington engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.

1807 – Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.

1830 – The first Metropolitan police officer was killed on duty, kicked in the head by a drunk. A jury cleared his assailant, ruling that PC Grantham had been overzealous in the discharge of his duty and therefore it was justifiable homicide. The attack happened less than a year after the Metropolitan Police Force was introduced and reflected the public's lack of respect and dislike for the police at that time.

1838 – Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.

1846 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone

1855 – Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded in North America.

1859 – The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.

1870 – Congress creates the federal holidays of New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.

1880 – The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.

1881 – The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.

1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.

1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.

1895 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.

1895 – Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."

1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.

1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.

1904 – The SS Norge runs aground and sinks.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand
and Duchess Sophie at
Sarajevo, 28 June 1914
1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie ae assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old member of Young Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized and armed by the Black Hand. The assassination led to Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia, which caused the Central Powers (including Germany and Austria-Hungary) and Serbia's allies to declare war on each other, leading to World War I.

1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end in between Germany and the Allies of World War I.

1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.

1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.

1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.

1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.

1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.

1945 – Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.

1948 – The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform. The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.

1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.

1950 – Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.

1950 – Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers, argued to be between 100,000 and 200,000 are executed in the Bodo League massacre.

1950 – Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive.

1950 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducts Seoul National University Hospital Massacre.

1956 – In Poznań, workers from HCP factory went to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.

1964 – Civil rights activist Malcolm X declares, “We want equality by any means necessary” during the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York.

1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson approves the first U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam.

1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.

1969 – Stonewall Riots: The clientele of a New York City gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, rioted after it was raided by police. The event is considered the start of the gay liberation movement.

1971 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of public funds for parochial schools was unconstitutional.

1972 – President Richard Nixon announced that no more draftees would be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteered for service in the Asian nation.

1973 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.

1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.

1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.

1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.

1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.

1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.

1992 – The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.

1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.

1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield's ear during a title fight in Las Vegas.

2000 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America had a constitutional right to exclude gay members.

2001 – Slobodan Milošević is deported to ICTY  [International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia] to stand trial.

2003 – People eager to block telemarketing calls overwhelmed a government website that began accepting phone numbers at the National Do Not Call Registry. The Federal Trade Commission said 735,000 numbers were registered the first day.

2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.

2007 – The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list. Officials of the Interior Department said the eagle, which had been declared endangered in 1967, was flourishing and no longer imperiled.

2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran political crisis. He was in exile in Costa Rica for more than a year.

2012 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the new healthcare law known as the Affordable Care Act.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Leo II, Pope of Rome, and Confessor.     Semi-double.
Commemoration of the Octave of St. John, and of the Eve of the Apostles.


Contemporary Western


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran


Eastern Orthodox


Saints

Venerable Sergius and Herman, Wonderworkers of Valaam (1353)
Saint Sennuphius the Standard-bearer
Saint Paul the Physician of Corinth
Saint Xenophon of Robeika in Novgorod, abbot (1262)
Martyr Pappias
Martyr Macedonius
Saint Vulkian, monk
Saint Moses the Anchorite
Hieromartyr Donatus of Libya
Saint Magnus, monk, who reposed while praying to the Lord
Blessed Sergius the Magistrate, founder of the monastery
      of the Mother of God in Nicomedia


Other commemorations

Translation of the relics of the holy and wonderworking unmercenaries
      Cyrus and John (412)
Synaxis of the Icon of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos
      "Of the Three Hands", Trojeručica




In the news, Friday, June 28, 2013


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from The Jerusalem Post


Aliya on hold as Foreign Ministry strike expands
Immigration of "hundreds" stalled due to labor dispute; Jewish Agency "saddened" by distress caused to new immigrants.
By SAM SOKOL

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Egypt clerics warn of 'civil war' as rivals clash
Is Egypt heading toward Syria-like fate?
Muslim Brothers, anti-Morsi protesters to launch demonstrations.
By REUTERS

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State looks to authorize 40 new homes in Nokdim
Deputy FM Elkin says timing of plans for West Bank settlement homes not linked to US Secretary of State Kerry's visit.
By TOVAH LAZAROFF
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from Daily Mail


Monster lobster Claws, 60, retires to aquarium because he's too big for the cooking pot
Two-and-a-half foot crustacean was hauled out of sea near Lyme Regis
His size and age mean he won't end up on a plate but will stay at aquarium
By HELEN LAWSON

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Gotcha! Spectacular moment a great white shark leaps 8ft in the air as it clamps its jaws around a fleeing seal
15-foot-long great white shark showed its strength as it jumped eight feet
The predator was attempting to catch seals and decoy bait for food
Photographer Peter Verhoog, 58, said that the sight of the great white shark hunting is 'unbelievable' and makes you feel 'humble'.
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

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from Breitbart


FIVE FACTS THE MEDIA AREN'T TELLING YOU ABOUT THE TEXAS ABORTION FILIBUSTER
by JOHN NOLTE

NBC'S KELLY O'DONNELL SNARKS: RICK PERRY PULLED 'SANDRA FLUKE' ON WENDY DAVIS
by JOHN NOLTE


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SENATE PASSES IMMIGRATION BILL
By DAVID ESPO and ERICA WERNER      Associated Press

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SUSAN RICE REJECTS BLAME FOR 100,000 SYRIAN DEATHS
by AWR HAWKINS

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from Chicago Tribune


House says IRS official waived rights, contempt possible
Kim Dixon      Reuters



Tomatoes As Good As Pharmaceuticals For Lowering Blood Pressure

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from Fox News


Taxing Your 2nd Amendment Right!?
Several states are considering measures that would call for new sales taxes on guns and ammo.
BY FOX NEWS INSIDER

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Prosecution Witness: Trayvon Martin Was on Top During Fight
BY FOX NEWS INSIDER

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from Money Talks News


Why Women Are More Likely to Retire Poor Than Men (And What They Can Do About It)
Women face special challenges when it comes to saving for retirement. Take these steps to make sure your funds don't fall short of your goals.
By Angela Colley

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Ask an Expert: Should I Consider a Charge Card Instead of a Credit Card?
People may use the terms interchangeably, but a charge card is not a credit card.

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from Natural Society


Apple Juice Daily Could Significantly Protect the Brain, Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk
by Elizabeth Renter

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from NPR


7 Billion People And Trillions Of Creatures To Be Photographed Together On July 19
by ROBERT KRULWICH

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Joyous 'Bedlam' Expected When San Francisco Gay Marriages Resume
by ALAN GREENBLATT

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A behind-the-scenes look at President Obama's trip to Africa with NPR White House correspondent Ari Shapiro.


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Where gray hair is a plus
Think you need to be in your 20s to launch a hot startup? Not on Capitol Hill.
By ANNA PALMER

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An artist's illustration of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft
CREDIT: NASA
from Space.com


NASA's Voyager 1 Probe Enters New Realm Near Interstellar Space
by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer

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Altair: One of the Summer Triangle Stars

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Pegasus XL rocket with IRIS being prepared for launch
from  a specially modified L-1011.

NASA Launches Sun-Watching Telescope to Probe Solar Secrets
by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer

earlier:

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Building PayPal Galactic for Off-World Payments Will Take Years
by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer

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from The Wall Street Journal


The Luxury Log Cabin
New rustic homes offer modern layouts—without sacrificing their nostalgic, woodsy appeal
By ALYSSA ABKOWITZ

Luxury Log-Cabin Homes
(slideshow)

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from The Weekly Standard


Let the People Decide
From the dissenting opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia in U.S. v. Windsor
BY ANTONIN SCALIA, FOR THE EDITORS

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from KHQ Local News


Legislature Approves New Rules For DUI Offenders

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from KREM 2 News


State House OKs suspension of teacher raises
by Associated Press

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Richland gay wedding flowers case goes to court
by Associated Press

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from KXLY 4 News


SPY PROGRAM GATHERED AMERICANS' INTERNET RECORDS
By KIMBERLY DOZIER and LOLITA C. BALDOR
(shared by KXLY from The Big Story)

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TripAdvisor Names Manito Top U.S. Park
Submitted by Camille Troxel

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from Columbia Basin Herald


Distress signals from Soap Lake
Editorial Board

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from The Spokesman-Review


to be added


Thursday, June 27, 2013

June 24 in history


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JUN 23      INDEX      JUN 25
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217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.

109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome.

474 – Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

637 – The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dalriada. It is claimed to be the largest battle in the history of Ireland.

972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.

1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: Forces led by Alfonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernando Pérez de Traba. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" that will be reached in 1139 after the Battle of Ourique.

1230 – The Siege of Jaén started in the context of the Spanish Reconquista.

1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce, though England did not recognize Scottish independence until 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.

1340 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys: The French fleet is almost completely destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.

1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

1497 – John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.

1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.

1531 – The city of San Juan del Río, Mexico, is founded.

1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.

1571 – Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.

1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).

1604 – Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

1622 – Battle of Macau: The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.

1675 –A group of Wampanoag Indians under their chief, who was known as King Phillip, raided the settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts and massacred the English colonists there, beginning what became known as King Phillip’s War. 

1717 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London.

1762 – Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats French forces in Westphalia.

1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.

1793 – The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.

1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.

1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.

1821 – The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.

1853 – President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles of land from Mexico that are now Arizona and New Mexico.

1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.

1866 – Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.

1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.

1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.

1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.

1902 – Businessman George Dayton founds what is now Target Corporation as Goodfellow Dry Goods in Minneapolis, MN.

1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.

1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.

1916 – World War I: The Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.

1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.

1932 – A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).

1938 – Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.

1939 – Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the country's third prime minister.

1940: World War II: Franco-Italian Armistice: France signs an armistice with Italy, in effect from 25 June, ending the brief Italian invasion of France.

1940 – World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.

1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.

1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.

1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.

1954 – First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Vietminh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M. 100 of France in An Khê.

1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

1963 – The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.

1967 – The worst caving disaster in British history takes six lives at Mossdale Caverns.

1973 – The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Thirty-two people die as a result of fire or smoke inhalation.

1975 – Eastern Airlines Flight 66 from New Orleans to New York City crashes in turbulent weather while on approach to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport killing 113 of the 124 people on board,

1981 – The Humber Bridge is opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years.

1982 – "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.

1989 – Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests.

1995 – "Rugby World Cup final": South Africa defeats New Zealand, Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb-Ellis trophy in an iconic post-apartheid moment.

2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.

2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.

2010 – John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.

2010 – Julia Gillard assumed office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.

2012 – Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies.

2013 – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and having sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western



Birth of St. John the Baptist.      Double of the First Class.


Contemporary Western

Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox


Saints

Birth of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John
Martyrs Orentius, Pharnacius, Eros, Firmus, Firminus, Cyriacus,
      Longinus, and others in Georgia (4th c.)
Saint Anthony of Dymsk in Novgorod, abbot (1224)
Saint Nicetas of Remesian, bishop (420)
Saint John of Yaransk in Solovki, monk
Righteous youths John and James of Meniugi in Novogorod
Saint Michael of Tver, Great Prince
Martyr Panagiotes of Caesarea in Cappadocia (1765)
Synaxis of the Righteous Zechariah and Elizabeth, parents of John the Baptist