Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Leadership "A leader is best when people barely know that he exists . . . When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did it ourselves.'" — Lao Tzu
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Arrogance "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal." — Richard M. Nixon
Thought for the day: "To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."
{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.}
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Eris: More Massive than Pluto
Credit & Copyright: Thierry Lombry
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 240 B.C.E. - Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth
● 325 - The month-long Council of Nicea closed. Known as the first ecumenical council in the history of the Church, it formulated the Nicene Creed and established the method for calculating Easter.
● 1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
● 1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
● 1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
● 1566 - Birth of James VI of Scotland. Upon the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, he ascended the English throne as James I. He is best remembered for authorizing the publication known today as the 'King James Version' (KJV) of the Bible.
● 1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
● 1754 - Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois Indians. Benjamin Franklin introduces Albany Plan of Union, based on the Iroquois Confederacy. Plan was rejected, but its essential elements adopted a quarter century later as the U.S. Constitution.
● 1770 - Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
● 1778 - Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
● 1782 - Birth of Jean de Lamennais, leader of European revolutions of 1848.
● 1807 - Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
● 1816 - Battle of Seven Oaks between Northwest Company and Hudson Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
● 1821 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
● 1835 - New Orleans gives US government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
● 1861 - Anaheim Post Office established
● 1862 - U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
● 1864 - CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
● 1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
● 1867 - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
● 1868 - Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC
● 1870 - After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States of America, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
● 1875 - Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
● 1898 - Guam is shelled by the U.S.S. Charleston. The Island's Spanish governor, unaware his country had gone to war with the U.S., apologized for the fact that a lack of ammunition rendered him unable to return the salute. Guam is still a U.S. territory as a result of this war.
● 1902 - Congress provides for allotments on Spokane reservation, freeing up "surplus" land for sale to white farmers.
● 1903 - Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankees first baseman from 1925 to 1939, was born.
● 1910 - In Spokane, Washington, under sponsorship of the Spokane Ministerial Association and the YMCA, Father's Day was observed for the first time. {Ironically A Proud Liberal's father was born and raised in Spokane.}
● 1912 - Eight-hour work day adopted in for federal employees in U.S.
● 1914 - A radiotelegraphic link is established between Germany and the United States and German Emperor Wilhelm II and US President Woodrow Wilson exchange telegrams to mark the event.
● 1917 - During WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor.
● 1925 - Mass arrests and executions of revolutionists, Hankow, China.
● 1926 - Peacemakers Pilgrimage ends in Hyde Park, London.
● 1930 - C Jackson & H E Wood discovers asteroid #1595 Tanga
● 1931 - 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
● 1932 - Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China
● 1934 - The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
● 1938 - "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
● 1938 - Bloody Sunday - Vancouver B.C. police battle unemployed at post office.
● 1943 - Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas.
● 1944 - The Battle of the Philippine Sea takes place.
● 1947 - 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca
● 1950 - A G Wilson discovers asteroid #1980 Tezcatlipoca
● 1953 - Albert W Dent, elected president of Natl Health Council
● 1953 - Black community begins bus boycott in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, two and a half years before the more famous Montgomery, Alabama protest.
● 1953 - Despite widespread international protest and compelling evidence of their innocence, U.S. government executes Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as Soviet spies. Ossining, New York.
● 1959 - Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm
● 1961 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
● 1961 - U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state officeholders to believe in God.
● 1963 - 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
● 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth
● 1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
● 1964 - Two hundred college students leave Oxford, Ohio to join 1,000 total civil rights volunteers as part of Civil Rights "Freedom Summer" to register Negro voters.
● 1967 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army
● 1967 - Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD
● 1968 - 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
● 1968 - Brazil - Violent protests in Rio de Janeiro against alienating culture, confrontations with police result in 22 injuries.
● 1969 - State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances
● 1970 - Shock election win for Heath; Edward Heath becomes the new British prime minister after a surprise victory for the Conservatives in the general election.
● 1970 - A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
● 1970 - The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is signed.
● 1970 - Two banks bombed in Berkeley, Calif.
● 1971 - Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance
● 1973 - French anarchist, hairdresser, and abortion rights advocate Aristide Lapeyre sentenced to five years in prison following the accidental death of a woman upon whom he was performing an illegal abortion. He would die the following year.
● 1975 - Missing Earl guilty of murder; An inquest jury decides Lord Lucan murdered the 29-year-old nanny of his three young children.
● 1976 - US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth
● 1977 - Paul VI canonized John Nepomucene Neumann, the first American-born male saint. As fourth Bishop of the Philadelphia Diocese, Neumann is remembered for developing the parochial school system.
● 1980 - Gunbattle at British embassy in Iraq; Three gunmen who attacked the British embassy in Baghdad are shot dead by Iraqi security forces.
● 1981 - Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified
● 1981 - European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit
● 1981 - India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
● 1982 - 'God's banker' found hanged; Roberto Calvi, a senior Italian banker, is found dead under Blackfriars Bridge in London more than a week after he went missing from Milan.
● 1982 - In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
● 1982 - One thousand landowners occupy key islands in protest against French nuclear tests, Kwajalein Atoll, South Pacific.
● 1984 - 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)
● 1986 - University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias, the second pick in the NBA draft, suffered a fatal cocaine-induced seizure.
● 1987 - ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
● 1987 - The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring public schools to teach creationism if they taught evolutionism. The court ruled that the state law violated the First Amendment.
● 1988 - Haitian civilian government overthrown by U.S.-backed military coup.
● 1991 - 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie
● 1997 - Victory for McDonald's - at a cost; Fast food chain McDonald's wins a partial victory in its epic libel trial against two environmental campaigners.
● 2000 - The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, barred officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games.
BIRTHS
● 1301 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)
● 1507 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (d. 1566)
● 1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625)
● 1606 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
● 1623 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
● 1633 - Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (d. 1712)
● 1717 - Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)
● 1764 - José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)
● 1771 - Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
● 1783 - Thomas Sully, American portrait painter (d. 1872)
● 1792 - Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)
● 1815 - Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
● 1816 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
● 1834 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
● 1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
● 1850 - David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932)
● 1851 - Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
● 1856 - Elbert Hubbard, American editor, publisher and author (d. 1915)
● 1861 - Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British soldier (d. 1928)
● 1861 - José Rizal, Filipino poet and national hero (d. 1896)
● 1865 - Dame May Whitty, English entertainer (d. 1948)
● 1874 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941)
● 1877 - Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
● 1881 - James J. Walker, American politician; mayor of New York City (1925-32) (d. 1946)
● 1896 - Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
● 1897 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
● 1897 - Moe Howard, American actor (d. 1975)
● 1898 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)
● 1900 - Laura Hobson, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1986)
● 1902 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian bandleader (d. 1977)
● 1903 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
● 1903 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
● 1903 - Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
● 1905 - Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
● 1906 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
● 1906 - Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)
● 1907 - Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985)
● 1909 - Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
● 1910 - Abe Fortas, American lawyer and associate justice of the Supreme Court (1965-69) {Lost his place on court with lame duck appointment as Chief Justice was not approved.} (d. 1982)
● 1910 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
● 1912 - Don Gutteridge, American baseball player
● 1914 - Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church
● 1914 - Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
● 1914 - Lester Flatt, American musician (d. 1979)
● 1915 - Julius Schwartz, American editor and agent (d. 2004)
● 1919 - Louis Jourdan, French actor
● 1919 - Pauline Kael, American movie critic (d. 2001)
● 1922 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1924 - Leo Nomellini, American football player (d. 2000)
● 1925 - Charlie Drake, British actor, writer and singer (d. 2006)
● 1928 - Tommy DeVito, American musician and singer (The Four Seasons)
● 1928 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
● 1928 - Barry Took, English comedy writer (d. 2002)
● 1929 - Thelma Barlow, English former Coronation Street actress.
● 1930 - Gena Rowlands, American actress
● 1932 - Pier Angeli, Italian-born actress (d. 1972)
● 1932 - Marisa Pavan, Italian-born actress
● 1933 - Viktor Patsayev, Russian cosmonaut; died in space (d. 1971)
● 1936 - Shirley Goodman, American singer (d. 2005)
● 1938 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (d. 2002)
● 1939 - Al Wilson, R&B singer
● 1941 - Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President
● 1942 - Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, musician (Spanky and Our Gang)
● 1944 - Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
● 1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel laureate
● 1945 - Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician
● 1947 - Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
● 1947 - Salman Rushdie, Indian author
● 1948 - Phylicia Rashad, American actress ("The Cosby Show")
● 1948 - Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
● 1950 - Ann Wilson, American singer (Heart)
● 1951 - Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
● 1953 - Larry Dunn, American musician (Earth, Wind and Fire)
● 1954 - Kathleen Turner, American actress
● 1956 - Doug Stone, American singer
● 1957 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
● 1959 - Mark DeBarge, R&B singer
● 1960 - Luke Morley, British guitarist
● 1962 - Paula Abdul, American singer ("American Idol")
● 1962 - Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
● 1963 - Rory Underwood, English rugby union footballer
● 1964 - Boris Johnson, British politician
● 1964 - Brian Vander Ark, American musician (Verve Pipe)
● 1965 - Andy Lauer, Actor
● 1965 - Sadie Frost, English actress
● 1966 - Joichi Ito, Japanese entrepreneur
● 1967 - Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
● 1967 - Mia Sara, American actress
● 1968 - Alastair Lynch, Australian rules footballer
● 1969 - Lara Spencer, American TV personality
● 1970 - Quincy Watts, American athlete
● 1970 - Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
● 1970 - Brian Welch, American guitarist (ex-KoЯn)
● 1970 - Antonis Remos, Greek singer
● 1972 - Robin Tunney, Actress
● 1972 - Brian McBride, American soccer player
● 1972(75? NYT) - Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress ("Without a Trace")
● 1972 - Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish musician (Refused)
● 1973 - Jahine Arnold, American football player
● 1974 - Bumper Robinson, Actor
● 1974 - Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player
● 1975 - Anthony Parker, American basketball player
● 1976 - Bryan Hughes, English footballer
● 1977 - Peter Warrick, American football player
● 1978 - Zoe Saldana, Actress
● 1978 - Tyson Dux, Canadian professional wrestler
● 1978 - Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
● 1978 - Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
● 1979 - John Duddy, Northern Irish boxer
● 1979 - Quentin Jammer, American football player
● 1980 - Adel Abdulaziz, Emiratie football player
● 1980 - Dante Robinson, American football player
● 1982 - David Pollack, American football player
● 1983 - Mark Selby, British snooker player
● 1984 - Paul Dano, American actor ("Little Miss Sunshine")
● 1985 - Ben Andrews, American gay porn star
● 1986 - Marvin Williams, American basketball player
● 1992 - Mariah Stanley, American singer
● 1995 - Blake Woodruff, American actor
DEATHS
● 1312 - Piers Gaveston, French favorite of Edward II of England
● 1542 - Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
● 1545 - Abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
● 1584 - François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
● 1608 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
● 1650 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
● 1747 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
● 1762 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
● 1768 - Benjamin Tasker, provincial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
● 1805 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
● 1820 - Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
● 1844 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
● 1867 - Maximilian I, Mexican Emperor (b. 1832), Executed
● 1902 - Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
● 1921 - Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)
● 1937 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (b. 1860)
● 1939 - Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
● 1952 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
● 1953 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1918)
● 1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1915)
● 1956 - Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (b. 1874)
● 1966 - Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
● 1968 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
● 1975 - Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
● 1977 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
● 1977 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English Chief Girl Guide (b. 1889)
● 1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
● 1986 - Coluche, French comedian (b. 1944)
● 1986 - Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
● 1987 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
● 1988 - Fernand Seguin, French Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
● 1988 - Gladys Spellman, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1918)
● 1993 - William Golding, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
● 1995 - Peter Townsend, RAF officer (b. 1914)
● 1996 - G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)
● 1997 - Bobby Helms, American singer (b. 1933)
● 2001 - John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (b. 1916)
● 2003 - Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
● 2007 - El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
● 2007 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Deodatus
● St. Didier
● St. Gervase, martyr
● St. Hildegrin
● St. Humphrey Middlemore, Blessed
● St. Juliana Falconieri. virgin
● St. Protase, martyr
● St. Romuald, abbot (died 1027)
● St. Ursicinus
● St. Zosimus
● Bl. Odo of Cambrai
● Bl. Remi Isoré (died 1900)
● Bl. Sebastian Newdigate
● Bl. Thomas Woodhouse
● Bl. William Exmew
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 6 (Civil Date: June 19)
● St. Bessarion the Wonderworker of Egypt.
● St. Hilarion the New, abbot of the Dalmatian Monastery.
● Virgin Martyrs Archelais, Thecla, and Susanna, beheaded at Salerno.
● St. Paisius, abbot of Uglich.
● St. Jonah, abbot of Klimetzk.
● St. Jonah, Bishop of Perm.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Barlaam, abbot of Khutyn (Novgorod).
● Greek Calendar:
● Five virgins of Caesarea in Palestine: Martha, Mary, Cyria, Valeria, and Marcia.
● St. Attalus the Wonderworker.
● Martyr Gelasius.
● St. Photius, monk.
● Algeria : Anniversary of the Revolution (1965)
● Kuwait : Independence Day (1961)
● Texas : Juneteenth Day/Emancipation Day (1865)
● Trinidad & Tobago : Labor Day
● Uruguay : Artigas Day (1764)
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : Father's Day (Remind the guy how much you care) - ( Sunday )
IN FICTION
● 1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Man with the Twisted Lip"
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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