Today, Tuesday February 27, 2007

Daily Lenten Devotions: Tuesday, the Second Week of Lent

Today's Saint: St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

For More Information about St. Gabriel and Today's Liturgy, go here.

This Day in History

1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.

1939 - American Civil Rights Movement: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.

1971 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform abortus provocatus .

1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

1991 - Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."

Births

272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)

1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)

1886 - Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)

1891 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)

1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress

Deaths

2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)

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