Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Liberty "Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying no to any authority – literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political." — Ignazio Silone
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Hate & Intolerance "I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good . . . Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called on by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism." — Randall Terry, founder of anti-abortion group Operation Rescue
Thought for the day: "There is always someone worse off than yourself."
{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
3D Barringer Meteorite Crater
Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip (Astro Meeting)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1305 - Flemish-French peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
● 1314 - Start of the Battle of Bannockburn south of Stirling, Edward II of England & Robert I of Scotland met in battle. Scotland won and Edward fled the field and Scotland.
● 1415 - Bohemian reformer and martyr Jan Hus wrote in a letter: 'It is difficult to...esteem it all joy in various temptations. It is easy to talk about...but difficult to fulfill it.'
● 1532 - Henry VIII & François I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
● 1611 - The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in the Atlantic Ocean; they are never heard from again.
● 1683 - English Quaker William Penn signed his famous treaty with the Lenni Lenape Indians of Pennsylvania. Voltaire once remarked that it was the only treaty never sworn to, and never broken.
● 1700 - Russia gave up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.
● 1713 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada.
● 1738 - Birth of Samuel Medley, English Baptist clergyman and author of the hymn, 'O Could I Speak the Matchless Worth.'
● 1757 - Battle of Plassey - 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey winning control of Bengal.
● 1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
● 1760 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut - Austria beats Prussia.
● 1775 - 1st regatta held on Thames, England
● 1775 - Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'True religion is not a science of the head so much as an inward and heartfelt perception.... Here the learned have no real advantage over the ignorant.'
● 1784 - 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
● 1794 - Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
● 1810 - John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon)
● 1812 - War of 1812: Great Britain had revoked the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
● 1836 - The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.
● 1848 - Beginning of Paris uprising, known as the "June Days," lasts until the 26th.
● 1858 - Six-year-old Edgardo Mortara is seized by Papal authorities.
● 1860 - The U.S. Secret Service was created to arrest counterfeiters.
● 1860 - The US Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
● 1865 - Confederate General Stand Watie, who was also a Cherokee chief, surrendered the last sizable Confederate army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.
● 1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer."
● 1884 - A Chinese Army defeated the French at Bacle, Indochina.
● 1884 - Three thousand miners strike in Hocking Valley, Ohio.
● 1887 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
● 1888 - Clallam chief Chitsamakkan buried at Port Townsend, Wash.
● 1888 - Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.
● 1892 - The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.
● 1894 - Edward VIII, the British monarch who abdicated in 1936 in order to marry American Wallis Simpson, was born.
● 1902 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple Alliance for a 12 year duration.
● 1903 - M Wolf discovers asteroid #512 Taurinensis
● 1904 - The first American motorboat race got underway on the Hudson River in New York.
● 1919 - Defeat of German forces at Cesis in northern Latvia during Estonian Liberation War, now celebrated annually as Estonian Victory Day.
● 1924 - V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1022 Olympiada
● 1925 - British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers.
● 1925 - Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
● 1927 - Choreographer-director Bob Fosse was born in Chicago.
● 1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
● 1934 - Italy gained the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.
● 1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
● 1939 - France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (the Hatay) to Turkey
● 1940 - World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
● 1941 - Lithuanian Activist Front initiates Lithuanian 1941 independence from the Soviet Union; it lasted only briefly as the Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.
● 1942 - World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands in Wales.
● 1942 - World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a trainload of Jews from Paris.
● 1943 - World War II: The British destroyers Eclipse and Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser Newfoundland.
● 1944 - 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
● 1944 - Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen
● 1945 - The Imperial Japanese armed forces ended organized resistance to the U.S. armed forces in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island of Okinawa.
● 1947 - Senate overrides Pres. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. The Act greatly weakened the power of U.S. labor unions in collective bargaining.
● 1949 - 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
● 1951 - British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR
● 1951 - Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
● 1951 - Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposed cease-fire discussions in the Korean War.
● 1952 - The U.S. Air Force bombed power plants on Yalu River, Korea.
● 1954 – 122° F (50° C), Overton, Nevada (state record)
● 1955 - In the Strahov Stadium in Prague the 1st all-national Spartakiáda begins.
● 1955 - Queen Elizabeth sails on schedule; The Queen Elizabeth ocean liner leaves for New York on schedule despite attempts by striking seamen to delay her departure.
● 1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
● 1957 - S B Nicholson discovers asteroid #1647 Menelaus
● 1958 - The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
● 1959 - A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
● 1959 - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career). {He provided key testimony in convicting Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were executed.}
● 1961 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m
● 1964 - Henry Cabot Lodge resigned as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and was succeeded by Maxwell Taylor.
● 1964 - The burned car of three civil rights workers was found prompting the FBI to begin a search. The men had been missing since June 21, 1964. Their bodies were found on August 4, 1964.
● 1966 - Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi were dispersed by tear gas.
● 1967 - Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
● 1967 - Mohawk Airlines Flight 40 crashes due to an incorrectly installed valve, killing all 34 on board.
● 1967 - Paul VI issued the encyclical 'Sacerdotalis Caelibatus,' reaffirming the Catholic Church's requirement of celibacy with the priesthood.
● 1967 - Police battle with 10,000 anti-war protesters greeting President Johnson at a Los Angeles speech.
● 1967 - Senate voted, 92-5, to censure Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut for "conduct contrary to the accepted morals"--using campaign and testimonial funds for his own personal benefit.
● 1968 - 74 are killed and 150 injured in a soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
● 1969 - Cook Inlet, Alaska, suffers its second massive oil spill in one year.
● 1969 - Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren.
● 1970 - Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary
● 1970 - In U.S., 100 women invade conference on "Profit Possibilities in Childcare."
● 1970 - On the eleventh day of protests against a new U.S.-Japan defense treaty, more than 750,000 Japanese take to the streets in numerous cities.
● 1970 - Rocker Chubby Checker arrest for marijuana pocession
● 1972 - 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
● 1972 – British Chancellor orders pound flotation; The Chancellor, Anthony Barber, announces his decision to temporarily float the pound.
● 1972 - Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
● 1972 - Life magazine publishes photos of South Vietnamese children running from napalm.
● 1972 - New Zealand yacht Grant Davidson, attempting to enter nuclear test site, rammed by French Navy, Mururoa, South Pacific.
● 1972 - Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
● 1972 - Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
● 1973 - A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
● 1973 - International Court of Justice grants injunction, requested by Australia and New Zealand governments, against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
● 1976 - CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
● 1981 - NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
● 1982 - -117° F; All time low at the South Pole
● 1983 - Pope meets banned union leader Walesa; Pope John Paul II holds a private meeting with the founder of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, on a visit to Poland.
● 1984 - Two thousand protest against arrival of nuclear warship U.S.S. Kittyhawk in Fremantle, Australia.
● 1985 - A bomb planted by terrorists in Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, blew-up 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, South of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
● 1986 - Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
● 1987 - W Landgraf discovers asteroid #3683 Baumann
● 1990 - Moldavia declares independence.
● 1992 - John Gotti was sentenced in New York to life in prison after being convicted of racketeering charges.
● 1993 - Lorena Bobbitt slices off her husband's penis with a kitchen knife, making international news out of their marital drama.
● 1995 - Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine against polio, died at age 80.
● 1997 - Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, died in New York of burns suffered in a fire set by her 12-year old grandson. She was 61.
● 2004 - The U.S. proposed that North Korea agree to a series of nuclear disarmament measures over a three-month period in exchange for economic benefits.
● 2005 - Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
BIRTHS
● 47 BC - Pharaoh Ptolemy XV of Egypt
● 1433 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
● 1456 - Margaret of Denmark, wife of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)
● 1534 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
● 1596 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (d. 1641)
● 1612 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660)
● 1625 - John Fell, English Anglican priest, author and typographer (d. 1686)
● 1668 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
● 1683 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
● 1716 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789)
● 1750 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801)
● 1763 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (d. 1814)
● 1799 - John Milton Bernhisel, Mormon Physician and Representative to Congress (d. 1881)
● 1800 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
● 1824 - Carl Reinecke, German musician and composer (d. 1910)
● 1876 - Irvin S. Cobb, American journalist and humorist (d. 1944)
● 1884 - Cyclone Taylor, professional ice hockey player (d. 1979)
● 1888 - Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
● 1889 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966)
● 1894 - Alfred Charles Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
● 1894 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
● 1902 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969)
● 1903 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (d. 1992)
● 1907 - James Edward Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
● 1909 - David Lewis, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1981)
● 1910 - Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
● 1910 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
● 1910 - Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000)
● 1912 - Alan Turing, English mathematician (d. 1954)
● 1916 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
● 1919 - Muhammad Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992)
● 1922 - Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
● 1927 - Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d. 1987)
● 1929 - June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
● 1935 - Maurice Ferre, former Puerto Rican mayor of Miami
● 1936 - Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece
● 1937 - Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland
● 1940 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
● 1940 - Diana Trask, Country singer
● 1940 - Lord Irvine of Lairg, Scottish Lord Chancellor
● 1940 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
● 1940 - Stuart Sutcliffe, first bassist with The Beatles (d. 1962)
● 1941 - Robert Hunter, American lyricist and poet (The Grateful Dead)
● 1943 - James Levine, American conductor
● 1943 - Vint Cerf, American Internet pioneer
● 1944 - Rosetta Hightower, R&B singer (The Orlons)
● 1945 - Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and writer.
● 1946 - Ted Shackleford, American actor
● 1947 - Bryan Brown, Australian actor
● 1948 - Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
● 1948 - Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author and professor of music education
● 1948 - Myles Goodwyn, Canadian guitarist and vocalist (April Wine)
● 1949 - Gordon Bray, Australian sports broadcaster
● 1955 - Glenn Danzig, American musician (The Misfits and Danzig)
● 1955 - Jordan, British actress and model
● 1955 - Jean Tigana, French footballer
● 1955 - Pierre Corbeil, Quebec politician
● 1956 - Randy Jackson, American music producer, judge on American Idol
● 1957 - Frances McDormand, American actress ("Fargo")
● 1961 - Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist
● 1962 - Chuck Billy, American singer
● 1962 - Kari Takko, Finnish ice hockey player
● 1962 - Kevin Yagher, TV/film special effects technician
● 1962 - Paul La Greca, Actor
● 1962 - Steve Shelley, Rock musician (Sonic Youth)
● 1963 - Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
● 1963 - Steve Shelley, American musician (Crucifucks and Sonic Youth)
● 1964 - Joss Whedon, American producer, director, and screenwriter
● 1964 - Yun Lou, Chinese gymnast
● 1965 - Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis)
● 1966 - Chico DeBarge, American musician (DeBarge)
● 1967 - Paul King, New Zealand politician
● 1967 - Helen Geake, British archaeologist
● 1969 - Martin Klebba, American actor
● 1970 - Robert Brooks, Green Bay Packers Wide Receiver
● 1970 - Yann Tiersen, French musician
● 1971 - Felix Potvin, Canadian professional hockey goaltender
● 1972 - Selma Blair, American actress
● 1972 - Dylan Gilbertson, professional golfer
● 1972 - Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
● 1972 - Selma Blair, Actress
● 1973 - Marie N, Latvian singer
● 1974 - Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
● 1975 - Kevin Dyson, American football player
● 1975 - K.T. Tunstall, Scottish singer and songwriter
● 1975 - Virgo Williams, R&B singer (Ghostowns DJs)
● 1976 - Brandon Stokley, American football player
● 1976 - Patrick Monahan, British comedian
● 1976 - Patrick Vieira, French footballer
● 1977 - Jason Mraz, American singer and songwriter
● 1977 - Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer
● 1978 - Memphis Bleek, American rapper
● 1979 - LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
● 1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
● 1988 - Isabella Leong Lok-Sze, Hong Kong-based Macau born singer, actress and model
● 1988 - Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
DEATHS
● 79 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9)
● 1018 - Henry I of Austria
● 1516 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
● 1555 - Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
● 1582 - Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
● 1615 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
● 1677 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
● 1686 - William Coventry, English statesman
● 1707 - John Mill, English theologian
● 1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
● 1770 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
● 1775 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
● 1806 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)
● 1856 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1806)
● 1832 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
● 1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
● 1893 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)
● 1926 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
● 1956 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
● 1959 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920)
● 1969 - Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907)
● 1970 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895)
● 1980 - Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
● 1980 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894)
● 1981 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)
● 1989 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (b. 1903)
● 1992 - Eric Andolsek, American football player (b. 1966)
● 1995 - Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914)
● 1995 - Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
● 1996 - Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
● 1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
● 1999 - Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. 1920)
● 2001 - Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
● 2002 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
● 2003 - Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938)
● 2005 - Shana Alexander, American columnist (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (b. 1925)
● 2006 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
● 2006 - Luke Graham, wrestler, and 1-half of first-ever Tag Team Champions (b. 1940)
● 2006 - Harriet, a 175 year old tortoise (b. 1830)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agrippina
● St. Ethelreda (Audrey), virgin
● St. Hiduiphus
● St. James of Toul
● St. John
● St. Jonas Day - especially celebrated in Lithuania
● St. Joseph Cafasso, priest
● St. Lietbert of Brakel (died 1076)
● St. Moelray
● St. Peter of Juilly
● St. Thomas Garnet
● St. Walhere
● Bl. Mary of Oignies (died 1213)
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 10 (Civil Date: June 23)
● Hieromartyr Timothy, Bishop of Prusa.
● Martyr Alexander and Virgin Martyr Antonina at Constantinople.
● St. Bassian, Bishop of Lodi in Lombardy.
● St. Theophanes, monk of Antioch, and St. Pansemne, the former harlot of Antioch.
● St. John Maximovitch, Metropolitan of Tobolsk.
● St. Silvanus of the Kiev Caves.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Neaniscus the Wise of Alexandria.
● St. Canides, monk of Cappadocia.
● St. Apollo, Bishop, St. Alexius of Bithynia, Bishop
● Hieromartyr Metrophanes, the first Chinese priest, and the Chinese New-Martyrs of the Boxer Uprising, at Peking and other places, in 1900.
● Namesday of Blessed Archbishop John Maximovitch.
● Repose of Elder Nahum of Solovki (1853) and Schemamonk Sergius of Valaam (1860).
● Midsummer's Eve, Christianized the eve of the feast of Saint John the Baptist, is celebrated in much of Northern Europe and the British Islands
● Jāņi (Līgo) - Latvia
● Victory Day - Estonia
● Father's Day - Poland, Nicaragua and Uganda
● Denmark : Midsummer Eve
● Finland, Latvia, Scandinavia : Midsummer Eve/St John's Eve
● Luxembourg : Official birthday of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Newfoundland : Discovery Day (1497-John Cabot) - ( 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
Permanent Backlink to Post
No comments:
Post a Comment