Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Liberals "A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future." — Leonard Bernstein
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "I expect a great reward in heaven." — Paul Hill, former minister executed in Florida for murdering a doctor who performed abortions
Thought for the day: "You are not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others."
{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
Small Worlds Ceres and Vesta
Credit : NASA, ESA, L.McFadden, J.Y.Li (UMCP), M.Mutchler, Z.Levay (STScI), P.Thomas (Cornell), J.Parker, E.Young (SwRI), C.Russell, B.Schmidt (UCLA)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 217 B.C.E. - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom
● 168 B.C.E. - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War
● 431 - Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens
● 816 - Stephen IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1497 - Anti-tax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath.
● 1558 - The French take the French town of Thioville from the English.
● 1559 - In England, Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book was issued. During her 45-year reign, Elizabeth I rejected the Catholic faith, adopting instead the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Anglican Church.
● 1593 - Battle of Sisak: Slovene - Croat troops defeat the Turks
● 1611 - English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
● 1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
● 1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
● 1745 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'I am often weary of this world, and want to leave it on that account; but it is more desirable to be drawn, rather than driven out of it.'
● 1750 - Clergyman Jonathan Edwards was dismissed from his Congregational pulpit in Northampton, MA, after serving there 23 years. Maintaining his ultra- conservative theology, Edwards had grown to become administratively too inflexible for his congregation.
● 1772 - Slavery was outlawed in England.
● 1775 - 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
● 1783 - Poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
● 1807 - British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
● 1808 - Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
● 1812 - Napoleonic Wars- Napoleon invades Russia.
● 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
● 1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
● 1832 - J.I. Howe patented the pin machine.
● 1843 - First General Peace Convention opens, London, England.
● 1847 - Doughnut created
● 1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres
● 1848 - Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
● 1849 - Stephen C Massett opens courthouse using only piano in California
● 1851 - Fire destroys part of San Francisco
● 1865 - The society known today as the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) was first organized. Its purpose is to provide information about the archaeology, the history and the people of the Holy Land.
● 1866 - Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
● 1868 - Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
● 1870 - Scholars began translation work on the English Revised Version of the Bible. Released in 1881, the ERV became the textual basis for the American Standard Version (ASV), first published in the United States in 1901.
● 1870 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Justice.
● 1873 - Prince Edward Island joins Canada
● 1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy.
● 1893 - The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
● 1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
● 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, the German-born author of "All Quiet on the Western Front", was born.
● 1909 - Birth of dance/choreographer Katherine Dunham.
● 1910 - 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
● 1911 - George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.
● 1914 - During WWI, 150,000 Austrian munitions workers strike for immediate peace.
● 1915 - Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
● 1918 - Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois)
● 1922 - Violence erupts during a coal-mine strike at Herrin, Ill. Thirty-six killed, 21 of them non-union miners.
● 1925 - France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
● 1925 - G Shajn discovers asteroid #1058 Grubba
● 1933 - Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.
● 1936 - Virgin Islands receives a constitution from US (Organic Act)
● 1937 - Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France
● 1940 - during World War II, Adolf Hitler gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris. The armistice is signed in the same railroad car where Germany signed the punitive Treaty of Versailles after WWI.
● 1940 - The Nagpur conference of the All India Forward Bloc concludes, declared the Bloc as a socialist party.
● 1941 - Finland invades Karelia
● 1941 - First anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe founded by Croatian partisans near Sisak, Croatia.
● 1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II. The German Army takes the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin by surprise as it begins a massive advance on Moscow.
● 1941 - The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins
● 1941 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
● 1942 - A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
● 1942 - In France, Pierre Laval declared "I wish for a German victory".
● 1942 - V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time.
● 1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre
● 1944 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
● 1945 - During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended after 81 days. 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 83-day campaign.
● 1946 - Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.
● 1947 - 12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
● 1954 - Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
● 1956 - The battle for Algiers began as three buildings in Casbah were blown up.
● 1957 - KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
● 1959 - Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
● 1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113
● 1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, "Tropic of Cancer", could not be banned.
● 1969 - Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance
● 1969 - Judy Garland died from an accidental overdose of prescription sleeping aids. She was 47.
● 1969 - The Cuyahoga River caught fire, which triggered a crack-down on pollution in the river..
● 1970 - Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
● 1973 - Skylab 2's astronauts land safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
● 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
● 1977 - John N. Mitchell became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up. He served 19 months.
● 1978 - James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced
● 1978 - Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill
● 1979 - Thorpe cleared of murder charges; A jury clears former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe of the attempted murder of Norman Scott.
● 1980 - The Soviet Union announceed a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
● 1981 - 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
● 1981 - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
● 1982 - Four children killed by explosion of WWII tank mine, Bedburg-Hau, Lower Rhine, W. Germany.
● 1982 - Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
● 1983 - 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
● 1986 - The All Jharkhand Students Union is founded, in order to fight for autonomy for tribal peoples in India.
● 1987 - Actor-dancer Fred Astaire died at age 88.
● 1987 - Ten thousand protesters form 10-mile-long human chain around U.S. airbase, Okinawa.
● 1989 - The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war.
● 1990 - Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a thong bathing suit
● 1991 - Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Phillipines
● 1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
● 1993 - Former first lady Pat Nixon died at age 81.
● 1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted criminal's parole.
● 1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.
● 2001 - Bulger killers to be released; British Parole Board decides that the two schoolboy murderers of James Bulger are to be released.
● 2002 - St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile, 33, was found dead of heart disease.
● 2002 - Syndicated advice columnist Ann Landers died at age 83.
● 2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.
● 2004 - Child killer Dutroux jailed for life; A Belgian court sentences Marc Dutroux to life in prison for the kidnap, rape and murder of young girls.
● 2004 - A federal judge approved a class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit representing 1.6 million female workers against Wal-Mart.
BIRTHS
● 1680 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
● 1684 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
● 1704 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
● 1713 - Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)
● 1738 - Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
● 1757 - George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)
● 1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
● 1805 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (d. 1872)
● 1856 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (d. 1925)
● 1861 - Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
● 1864 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)
● 1871 - William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
● 1879 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962)
● 1884 - James Rector, American athlete (d. 1949)
● 1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
● 1887 – Sir Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
● 1892 - Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)
● 1897 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)
● 1897 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (d. 1990)
● 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German writer; wrote "All Quiet on the Western Front" (d. 1970)
● 1899 - Michał Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)
● 1902 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)
● 1903 - Carl Hubbell, baseball player (d. 1988)
● 1903 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
● 1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (d. 2001)
● 1906 - Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (d. 2002)
● 1907 - Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)
● 1909 - Maurice Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)
● 1910 - John Hunt, English mountaineer, explorer and army officer (d. 1998)
● 1910 - Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
● 1910 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)
● 1916 - Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
● 1919 - Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
● 1920 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (d. 1986)
● 1921 - Gower Champion, American choreographer, dancer and director (d. 1980)
● 1921 - Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
● 1922 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (d. 2002)
● 1927 - Ann Petersen, Belgian actress (d. 2003)
● 1928 - Ralph Waite, Actor ("The Waltons")
● 1930 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
● 1933 - Dianne Feinstein, American politician, U.S. Senator (D-CA)
● 1933 - Libor Pešek, Czech conductor
● 1936 - Kris Kristofferson, American singer, Rhodes Scholar and actor
● 1936 - Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian musician
● 1939 - Don Matthews, American football coach in the CFL
● 1940 - Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter
● 1941 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
● 1941 - Michael Lerner, American actor
● 1943 - Brit Hume, American news anchor and commentator
● 1943 - Eumir Deodato, Brazilian artist, producer and arranger
● 1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
● 1944 - Peter Asher, British singer, guitarist and producer (Peter & Gordon)
● 1946 - Andrew Rubin, Actor
● 1946 - Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
● 1947 - Octavia Butler, American author (d. 2006)
● 1947 - Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana
● 1947 - David Lander, American actor and baseball scout ("Laverne and Shirley")
● 1947 - Howard "Eddie" Kaylan, Pop singer (The Turtles, Flo and Eddie)
● 1947 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
● 1948 - Todd Rundgren, American songwriter and record producer
● 1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
● 1949 - Lindsay Wagner, American actress ("The Bionic Woman")
● 1949 - Alan Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
● 1952 - Graham Greene, Actor
● 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer
● 1954 - Chris Lemmon, Actor
● 1954 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
● 1956 - Tim Russ, American actor
● 1957 - Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist from group INXS
● 1958 - Bruce Campbell, American actor
● 1959 - Wayne Federman, American comedian, actor, author
● 1959 - Alan Anton, Rock musician (Cowboy Junkies)
● 1959 - Nicola Sirkis, French singer, guitarist and lyricist (Indochine)
● 1960 - Tracy Pollan, Actress
● 1960 - Erin Brockovich-Ellis
● 1961 - Stephen Batchelor
● 1961 - Jimmy Sommerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards)
● 1962 - Clyde Drexler, former NBA player for the Cazenovia Lakers
● 1962 - Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor and director
● 1964 - Amy Brenneman, Actress ("Judging Amy")
● 1964 - Dan Brown, American author ("The Da Vinci Code")
● 1964 - Mike Edwards, Rock musician (Jesus Jones)
● 1965 - Lubomir Moravcik, Slovakian footballer
● 1966 - Michael Park, WRC co-pilot (d. 2005)
● 1966 - Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
● 1968 - Paula Irvine, Actress
● 1968 - Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player
● 1970 - Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
● 1970 - Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician, artist, producer and businessman
● 1971 - Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress ("24")
● 1971 - Kurt Warner, Football player
● 1972 - Miguel Del Toro, Mexican baseball player
● 1973 - Carson Daly, American television personality ("Last Call with Carson Daly")
● 1973 - Chris Traynor, Rock musician
● 1974 - Donald Faison, American actor ("Scrubs")
● 1974 - Alicia Goranson, Actress
● 1975 - Andreas Klöden, German professional road bicycle racer
● 1975 - Laila Rouass, Moroccan-Indian actress
● 1976 - Natasha Firman, British racing driver
● 1978 - Champ Bailey, American football player
● 1978 - Jai Rodriguez, American TV personality ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy")
● 1978 - Dan Wheldon, British race car driver
● 1979 - Joey Cheek, American speed skater
● 1979 - Thomas Voeckler, French road bicycle racer
● 1979 - Brad Hawpe, American baseball player
● 1981 - Chris Urbanowicz, guitarist of british rock band Editors
● 1982 - Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
● 1982 - Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
● 1985 - Lindsay Ridgeway, Actress
DEATHS
● 431 - Paulinus of Nola, Roman poet
● 1276 - Pope Innocent V
● 1429 - Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
● 1535 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed)
● 1632 - James Whitelocke, English judge (b. 1570)
● 1634 - Johann Graf von Aldringen, Austrian soldier (b. 1588)
● 1699 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
● 1714 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b. 1662)
● 1868 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)
● 1874 - Howard Staunton, English chess master (b. 1810)
● 1892 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
● 1894 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)
● 1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
● 1913 - Ştefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
● 1925 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
● 1928 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
● 1931 - Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841)
● 1933 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (b. 1896)
● 1935 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
● 1959 - Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
● 1961 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
● 1963 - Maria Tănase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (b. 1913)
● 1964 - Havank, Dutch writer (b. 1904)
● 1965 - David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)
● 1969 - Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
● 1974 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
● 1979 - Louis Chiron, Monaco race car driver (b. 1899)
● 1984 - Joseph Losey, American theater and film director (b. 1909)
● 1987 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
● 1988 - Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
● 1989 - Lucien Saulnier, French Canadian politician (b. 1916)
● 1990 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
● 1992 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (b. 1927)
● 1993 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
● 1994 - Otto Bradfisch, Nazi leader (b. 1903)
● 1995 - Al Hansen, American artist (b. 1927)
● 1997 - Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1919)
● 1997 - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (b. 1956)
● 2002 - Darryl Kile, American baseball player (b. 1968)
● 2002 - Ann Landers, American columnist (b. 1918)
● 2004 - Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
● 2004 - Bob Bemer, computer scientist (b. 1920)
● 2004 - Kim Sun-il, South Korean translator (b. 1970)
● 2006 - Moose (dog actor), Dog Actor popular for role on Frasier (b. 1990)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aaron of Aleth (6th century)
● St. Alban
● Martyrs of Ararat
● St. Consortia
● St. Eberbard
● St. Flavius Clemens
● St. John Fisher, bishop, martyr (died 1535)
● St. Nicetas
● St. Paulinus of Nola, bishop, confessor (died 431)
● St. Sighild
● St. Thomas More, martyr (died 1535)
● Bl. Lambert (died 1125)
● Bl. Nangatang (died 1426)
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 9 (Civil Date: June 22)
● St. Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria
● St. Cyril, abbot of White Lake (Byelozersk).
● St. Alexander, abbot of Kushta (Vologda).
● Five nuns beheaded in Persia: Martyrs Thecla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary, and Enmatha.
● Righteous Cyril of Velsk or Vazhesk (Vologda).
● Greek Calendar:
● Hieromartyr Alexander of Prusa.
● Martyr Ananias.
● St. Cyril, monk.
● Three Virgin Martyrs of Chios.
● Repose of Hieromonk Vitaly of Valaam (1856).
● Anglican: Feast of St. Alban, 1st martyr of Britain
● Wiccan: Alban Hefin sabbat
● Anti-fascist struggle day in Croatia
● World Wide VW Beetle Day
● Congo : Army Day
● El Salvador : School Teacher's Day/D¡a del Maestro
● Haiti : Sovereignty Day/President's Day
● Virgin Islands : Organic Act Day (1954)
● Yemen PDR : Corrective Move Day
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Newfoundland : Discovery Day (1497-John Cabot) - ( Monday )
IN FICTION
● 1342 - Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning)
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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