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Friday, April 20, 2007

April 20......

April 20 is the 110th (111th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Conscience "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." — Albert Einstein

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Christians Against Pluralism "The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant – Baptism and Holy Communion – must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel." — Gary North, author of Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}


EVENTS

● 295 - 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

● 850 - Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne

● 1139 - 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

● 1303 - The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.

● 1441 - During the Council of Florence (1438-45), Eugenius IV issued the bull "Etsi non dubitemus," which asserted the superiority of the Pope over the Councils.

● 1505 - Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy by Philibert of Luxembourg

● 1534 - Jacques Cartier begins his voyage, in which he will discover Canada and Labrador.

● 1551 - John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal

● 1653 - In England, Oliver Cromwell expelled the Rump Parliament for trying to pass the Perpetuation Bill that would have kept Parliament in the hands of only a few members.

● 1657 - Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

● 1657 - Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).

● 1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.

● 1702 - Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth

● 1718 - Birth of David Brainerd, colonial American missionary to the Indians of New England. Following his premature death from tuberculosis at 29, Brainerd's journal (published in 1649 by the Jonathan Edwards) influenced hundreds to become missionaries after him.

● 1769 - Ottawa Chief Pontiac was murdered by an Illinois Indian in Cahokia.

● 1770 - Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales

● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: the siege of Boston begins, which followed the first battles at Lexington and Concord.

● 1777 - New York adopts new constitution as an independent state

● 1792 - France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.

● 1799 - Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews

● 1809 - Napoleon defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria

● 1810 - The Governors of Caracas declares the national sovereignty from Spain.

● 1812 - Vice President and former New York governor George Clinton died at age 73.

● 1826 - Birth of Erastus Johnson, American hymnwriter. A lifelong student of the Bible, Johnson, at age 47, penned the hymn, "O Sometimes the Shadows are Deep" (a.k.a. "The Rock That Is Higher Than I").

● 1832 - Hot Springs National Park was established by an act of the U.S. Congress. It was the first national park in the U.S.

● 1836 - U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.

● 1853 - Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad

● 1861 - Battle of Norfolk VA

● 1861 - American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.

● 1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.

● 1865 - Safety matches were first advertised.

● 1871 - Civil Rights Act of 1871

● 1871 - 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)

● 1872 - San Francisco Bar Association organized

● 1876 - The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.

● 1879 - 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus

● 1884 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"

● 1889 - Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany who led his country into World War II and was responsible for persecuting and killing millions of Jews and many others, was born in Braunau, Austria.

● 1894 - 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase

● 1898 - US Assay Office in Deadwood SD opens

● 1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.

● 1904 - Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis

● 1910 - Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km

● 1914 - In an attempt to persuade strikers at Colorado's Ludlow Mine Field to return to work, company "guards," engaged by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and other mine operators and sworn into the State Militia for the occasion, attacked a union tent camp with machine guns, then set it afire. Five men, two women and 12 children died as a result.

● 1916 - Sir Roger Casement landed in Ireland to incite rebellion against the British. Casement, a British diplomat, was captured within hours and was hanged for high treason on August 3.

● 1916 - German-British sea battle off Belgian coast

● 1917 - Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")

● 1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.

● 1919 - Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army

● 1920 - Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi

● 1920 - Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate

● 1926 - Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.

● 1928 - René Caillié is first non-Muslim to enter in Timbouctou.

● 1934 - Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police

● 1936 - Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine

● 1940 - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia PA

● 1941 - 100 German bombers attack Athens

● 1942 - Pierre Laval, the premier of Vichy France, in a radio broadcast, establishes a policy of "true reconciliation with Germany."

● 1942 - German occupiers forbid Dutch access to their beach

● 1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta

● 1943 - In Poland, Germans Nazi troops massacred the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

● 1944 - Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death

● 1945 - Soviet troops began their attack on Berlin.

● 1945 - US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany

● 1945 - German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer

● 1945 - US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa

● 1945 - World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.

● 1945 - World War II: U.S. B-29 bombers destroy the Musashi Aircraft plants. Halting production of the Nakajima Ki-84 fighter planes.

● 1960 - Inauguration of Brasilia.

● 1947 - Frederik IX becomes King of Denmark

● 1948 - UAW president Walter P Reuther shot & wounded at his home in Detroit

● 1948 - NYC hikes subway fare from 5¢ to 10¢

● 1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak Atoll

● 1951 - Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators

● 1953 - Members of Communist Party U.S.A. forced to register as "foreign agents."

● 1953 - U.S. House of Representatives repeals ban on selling guns and ammunition to Indians.

● 1953 - Operation Little Switch began in Korea. It was the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of war. Thirty Americans were freed.

● 1958 - Buses replace Key System trains in San Francisco area at 3 AM

● 1958 - Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops

● 1961 - Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US troops against Cuba.

● 1961 - American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight

● 1961 - FM stereo broadcasting was approved by the FCC.

● 1962 - The New Orleans Citizens' Council offered a free one-way ride for blacks to move to northern states.

● 1962 - NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to an altitude of 63,250 meters

● 1962 - New Orleans Citizens Company gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North

● 1962 - OAS-leader ex-General Salan arrested in Algiers

● 1963 - All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda

● 1964 - 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools

● 1965 - People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid

● 1966 - Six U.S. pacifists, including Barbara Deming and 82-year-old A.J. Muste, deported for anti-war protests, Saigon, South Vietnam.

● 1967 - US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during the Vietnam War

● 1967 - US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon

● 1967 - French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia

● 1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

● 1967 - A Swiss Britannia turboprop crashes at Toronto, Canada, killing 126.

● 1968 - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek, South-West Africa, killing 122.

● 1968 - English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech a hard-hitting speech attacking the government's immigration policy.

● 1968 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM

● 1969 - People's Park planted, Berkeley.

● 1970 - Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria

● 1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that school busing is a constitutionally acceptable method of integrating public schools.

● 1971 - Students march downtown from Seattle's Garfield High School to protest shootings of blacks by Seattle police.

● 1972 - A rally of 2,000 Univ. of Washington students against renewed bombing of Hanoi votes to strike and to support a Vietnamese student, Nguyen Thai Binh, resisting possible deportation for anti-war activity. Nguyen is killed on July 2 while attempting to hijack an airliner to Hanoi.

● 1972 - Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2 after a seven-hour crisis which nearly aborts the mission.

● 1973 - Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit

● 1974 - 'Troubles' death toll hits 1,000; The conflict in Northern Ireland has claimed its 1,000th victim, a petrol station owner from County Fermanagh.

● 1977 - Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on New Hampshire licenses

● 1978 - Korean Air Flight 902 shot down by Soviets.

● 1980 - Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift

● 1982 - Seven women arrested in an anti-nuclear protest outside Mather Air Force Base, near Sacramento.

● 1983 - Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock

● 1983 - President Ronald Reagan signs a $165 billion bail-out for Social Security

● 1984 - Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghánistán

● 1984 - In Washington, terrorists bombed an officers club at a Navy yard.

● 1984 - Britain announced that its administration of Hong Kong would cease in 1997.

● 1985 - Some 250,000 march in Washington to protest U.S. policy in Central America.

● 1985 - In Madrid, Santiago Carillo was purged from the Communist Party. Carillo was a founder of Eurocommunism.

● 1985 - ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.

● 1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1987 - In Columbus, OH, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) was organized, making it the largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S. It represented the merger of three smaller Lutheran bodies, and was officially born on Jan 1, 1988.

● 1987 - Sri Lanka Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead

● 1987 - US deports Karl Linnas, charged with Nazi war crimes, to USSR

● 1987 - In Argentina, President Raul Alfonsin quelled a military revolt.

● 1988 - The U.S. Air Forces' Stealth (B-2 bomber) was officially unveiled.

● 1988 - US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians

● 1989 - Scientist announced the successful testing of high-definition TV.

● 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet head of state to visit South Korea.

● 1991 - 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire

● 1993 - Uranus passes Neptune (this occurs once every 171 years)

● 1994 - Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5

● 1994 - Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed

● 1994 - Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands

● 1998 - TAME Boeing 727-200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53.

● 1998 - German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.

● 1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves in the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado.

● 1999 - Largest bombing of Kosovo by the United States in the Kosovo War.

● 2002 - More than 75,000 march in Washington to protest War on Terror, globalization, and U.S. policies in the Middle East.

● 2004 - In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92.

● 2005 - President George W. Bush signed a bill making it harder for debt-ridden people to wipe clean their financial slates by declaring bankruptcy.

● 2006 - Bowing to intense pressure, Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari agreed to abandon his claim to another term.


BIRTHS

● 570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam (d. 632) (date disputed)

● 702 - Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765)

● 1494 - Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)

● 1586 - Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)

● 1633 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)

● 1650 - William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)

● 1668 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)

● 1718 - David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)

● 1723 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1781)

● 1745 - Philippe Pinel, French physician (d. 1826)

● 1808 - Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (d. 1873)

● 1818 - Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)

● 1840 - Odilon Redon, French painter, lithographer and etcher (d. 1916)

● 1850 - Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (d. 1931)

● 1851 - Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)

● 1860 - Charles G. Curtis, American inventor; devised a steam turbine (d. 1953)

● 1870 - Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Urdu, Pakistani scholar (d.1961)

● 1879 - Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)

● 1882 - Holland Smith, U.S. General (d. 1967)

● 1889 - Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist (d. 1996)

● 1889 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born dictator who ruled Nazi Germany during the Second World War (d. 1945)

● 1890 - Maurice Duplessis, premier of Québec, known as "Le Chef" (d. 1959)

● 1891 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (d. 1970)

● 1892 - Howard Vickery, American naval officer; vice admiral of the Navy (1944-46) (d. 1946)

● 1893 - Harold Lloyd, American actor (d. 1971)

● 1893 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter (d. 1983)

● 1895 - Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)

● 1896 - Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)

● 1904 - Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972)

● 1904 - George Stibitz, American scientist (d. 1995)

● 1907 - William Dollar, American ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet master (d. 1986)

● 1908 - Lionel Hampton, American musician (d. 2002)

● 1914 - Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)

● 1915 - Joseph Wolpe, South African-born psychotherapist (d. 1997)

● 1918 - Edward L. Beach, Jr., American naval officer, author (d. 2002)

● 1918 - Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1920 - John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

● 1920 - Ronald Speirs, WWII Veteran

● 1923 - Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster

● 1923 - Tito Puente, American musician (d. 2000)

● 1924 - Leslie Phillips, English actor ("Harry Potter" films)

● 1924 - Nina Foch, Actress

● 1925 - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (d. 2006)

● 1927 - Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1928 - Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (d. 2003)

● 1936 - Pat Roberts, U.S. senator, R-Kan.

● 1939 - Johnny Tillotson, Singer

● 1939 - Peter S. Beagle, American author

● 1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway

● 1940(37? NYT) - George Takei, American actor ("Star Trek")

● 1941 - Ryan O'Neal, American actor

● 1943 - John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor

● 1943 - Edie Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1971)

● 1944 - Doyle Lawson, Bluegrass musician (Quicksilver)

● 1945 - Michael Brandon, American actor

● 1945 - Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach

● 1947 - Björn Skifs, Swedish singer (Blue Swede)

● 1947 - Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author

● 1948 - Craig Frost, American musician (Grand Funk & Bob Seger)

● 1948 - Adolf Lu Hitler Marak, Indian politician

● 1948 - Gregory Itzin, American actor ("24")

● 1949 - Massimo D'Alema, Prime Minister of Italy

● 1949 - Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater and artist

● 1949 - Jessica Lange, American actress

● 1950 - Veronica Cartwright, American actress

● 1950 - Steve Erickson, American novelist

● 1950 - Aleksandr Lebed, Russian general, politician (d. 2002)

● 1951 - Luther Vandross, American singer (d. 2005)

● 1956 - Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician

● 1957 - Geraint Wyn Davies, American actor

● 1958 - Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player

● 1959 - Clint Howard, Actor

● 1961 - Don Mattingly, American baseball player

● 1961 - Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor

● 1963 - Mauricio Gugelmin, Brazilian racing driver

● 1964 - Crispin Glover, American actor

● 1964 - Andy Serkis, English actor

● 1964 - Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater

● 1965 - Ralph Cirella, stylist and friend of Howard Stern

● 1965 - Adrian Fernández, Mexican racing driver

● 1967 - Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player

● 1967 - Mike Portnoy, American drummer (Dream Theater)

● 1967 - Lara Jill Miller, American actress

● 1969 - Wade Hayes, Country singer

● 1970 - Shemar Moore, Actor

● 1970 - Adriano Moraes, Brazilian rodeo performer

● 1971 - Mikey Welsh, Rock musician

● 1971 - Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer

● 1971 - Allan Houston, basketball player

● 1972 - Carmen Electra, American actress

● 1972 - Le Huynh Đuc, Vietnamese footballer

● 1972 - Stephen Marley, Jamaican musician

● 1975 - Marty Crandall, Rock musician (The Shins)

● 1976 - Joey Lawrence, American actor

● 1976 - Shay Given, Irish footballer

● 1977 - Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli, Professional wrestler

● 1978 - Mirei Kuroda, Japanese gravure idol

● 1980 - Jasmin Wagner, German singer

● 1981 - Veronica Cerda, actress

● 1981 - Matus Valent, male fitness model

● 1985 - Tony Craig, English footballer


DEATHS

● 1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)

● 1314 - Pope Clement V (b. 1264)

● 1521 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491)

● 1534 - Elizabeth Barton, English nun (executed)

● 1558 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)

● 1643 - Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)

● 1703 - Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)

● 1765 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)

● 1769 - Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa

● 1831 - John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)

● 1887 - Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)

● 1873 - William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)

● 1899 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)

● 1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)

● 1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)

● 1932 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)

● 1947 - King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)

● 1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)

● 1964 - Eddie Dyer, baseball player (b. 1899)

● 1977 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897)

● 1982 - Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892)

● 1984 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)

● 1986 - Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916)

● 1989 - Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and Fighter Pilot (b. 1945)

● 1991 - Steve Marriott, British musician and actor (b. 1945)

● 1991 - Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912)

● 1992 - Benny Hill, British comedian (b. 1924)

● 1993 - Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor (b. 1911)

● 1994 - Jean Carmet, French actor (b. 1920)

● 1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne (b. 1920)

● 1999 - Victims of the Columbine High School massacre

● 1999 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)

● 1999 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)

● 2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)

● 2002 - Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)

● 2003 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)

● 2003 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)

● 2005 - Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)

● 2005 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943)

● 2006 - Anna Svidersky, American murder victim


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agnes of Montepulciano
● St. Francis Page
● St. Hugh of Anzy le Duc
● St. Marcellinus
● St. Marcian of Auxerre
● St. Marian
● St. Theodore Trichinas
● St. Theotimus (died 407)
● St. Victor (d. 303)
● Bl. John Finch
● Bl. Oda (d. 1158)
● Bl. Robert Watkinson

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 7 (Civil Date: April 20)
● St. George, Bishop of Mitylene.
● Martyr Calliopus at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia.
● Martyrs Rufinus deacon, Aquilina, and 200 soldiers at Sinope.
● St. Serapion of Egypt, monk.
● St. Daniel, abbot of Peryaslavl-Zalesski.
● St. Nilus, abbot of Sora.
● St. Leucius, abbot of Volokolamsk.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod.
● Repose of Schemamonk Agapitus the Blind of Valaam (1905).
● Our Holy Father Gregory the Sinaite.

● Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá'í Faith).

● Many cannabis users smoke marijuana on April 20th, in keeping with the expression four-twenty.

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts, Maine: Patriots Day-Boston Marathon run (1775) - (Monday)



Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:


On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right" Compiled by William P. Martin 2004

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