Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Materialism "He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little." — Horace
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Ineptitude "I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue." — Richard M. Nixon
Thought for the day: "The plural of spouse is spice."
{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
Neon Saturn
Credit: VIMS Team, U. Arizona, ESA, NASA
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EVENTS
● 363 - The death of Roman Emperor Julian brought an end to the Pagan Revival.
● 678 – St. Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1299 - In his encyclical 'Scimus fili,' Pope Boniface VIII claimed that Scotland owed allegiance to the Catholic Church.
● 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik founded
● 1542 - Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain.
● 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
● 1739 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Christ's servants have always been the world's fools.'
● 1743 - War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally led troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
● 1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
● 1760 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.'
● 1787 - Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It was published the following May.
● 1801 - British forces defeated the French and took control of Cairo, Egypt.
● 1806 - The British capture Buenos Aires.
● 1833 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Conn.
● 1844 - Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, and his brother Hyrum were lynched by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, resulting in part from the community's moral outrage at Smith's recent authorization of polygamous Mormon marriages.
● 1847 - New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
● 1857 - H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia
● 1862 - Day 3 of the 7 Days-Battle of Gaines' Mill
● 1864 - Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
● 1867 - Bank of California opens doors
● 1867 - The Bank of California is created.
● 1869 - Birth of Emma Goldman, anarchist, feminist and anti-militarist. St. Petersburg, Russia.
● 1871 - The yen became the new form of currency in Japan.
● 1880 - Deaf, mute, blind socialist Helen Keller born, Tuscumbia, Alabama. American author, activist, socialist.
● 1884 - J Palisa discovers asteroid #237 Coelestina
● 1885 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent for the gramophone. It was granted on May 4, 1886.
● 1893 - The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business. Beginning of four-year depression.
● 1898 - The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
● 1905 - (June 14 according to the Julian calendar): Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
● 1905 - Industrial Workers of the World, radical union, founding convention begins in Chicago.
● 1914 - US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
● 1915 – 100° F (38° C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)
● 1918 - Physician Marie Eui (anarchist, IWW officer and "out" lesbian) arrested for anti-war speech, Portland, Ore.
● 1918 - Two German pilots were saved by parachutes for the first time.
● 1920 - Sixty-four San Francisco railroad workers arrested for “outlaw” strike.
● 1922 - Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
● 1923 - Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch was wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade.
● 1924 - Democrats offered Mrs. Leroy Springs for vice presidential nomination. She was the first woman considered for the job.
● 1927 - The U.S. Marines adopted the English bulldog as their mascot.
● 1929 - Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York revealed a system for transmitting television pictures.
● 1930 - P Parchomenko discovers asteroid #1166 Sakuntala
● 1931 - Igor Sikorsky filed U.S. Patent 1,994,488, which marked the breakthrough in helicopter technology.
● 1934 - Federal Savings & Loan Association created
● 1940 - Robert Pershing Wadlow was measured by Dr. Cyril MacBryde and Dr. C. M. Charles. They recorded his height at 8' 11.1." He was only 22 at the time of his death on July 15, 1940.
● 1940 - USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar
● 1942 - The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
● 1944 - During World War II, American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the German army.
● 1948 - Australia - Coal workers strike until mid-August when the government calls out the troops to suppress it.
● 1949 - W Baade discovers asteroid #1566 Icarus
● 1950 - Pres. Harry Truman ordered U.S. air and naval units to South Korea, which had been invaded by North Korea. He also announces the dispatch of a 35-man military mission to the newly formed state of Vietnam, to teach the use of U.S. weapons.
● 1951 - M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1588 Descamisada
● 1953 - Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1954 - Forces directed and supplied by the CIA overthrow the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Decades of government-sponsored genocide against Guatemalan Indians follow.
● 1954 - The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
● 1955 - The state of Illinois enacted the first automobile seat belt legislation.
● 1957 - Smoking 'causes lung cancer'; The link between smoking and lung cancer is one of 'direct cause and effect', a report by the Medical Research Council finds.
● 1957 - More than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey hit the coastal area of Louisiana and Texas.
● 1960 - British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
● 1960 - Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
● 1961 - In England, Arthur Michael Ramsey was enthroned as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury, the principal see of the Established Church of England.
● 1962 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
● 1963 - Warm welcome for JFK in Ireland; The US President John F Kennedy visits his ancestral homeland in County Wexford.
● 1963 - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
● 1967 - The world's first cash dispenser was installed at Barclays Bank in Enfield, England. The device was invented by John Sheppard-Barron. The machine operated on a voucher system and the maximum withdrawal was $28.
● 1967 - Two hundred people were arrested during a race riot in Buffalo, NY.
● 1969 - 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival
● 1969 - Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police. This incident is considered to be the birth of the homosexual rights movement.
● 1971 - T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2121 Sevastopol
● 1973 - Nixon vetoed a Senate ban on bombing Cambodia.
● 1973 - President Nixon's former counsel, John W. Dean III, tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list," releases 1971 memo proposing the use of "available federal machinery to screw our political enemies." Twenty persons were to be "screwed" with IRS audits, litigation, prosecution, or denial of federal grants, and a separate list contained 200 additional names.
● 1974 - U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
● 1976 - Palestinian extremists hijacked an Air France plane in Greece. There were 246 passengers and 12 crew onboard. The plane eventually was taken to Entebbe, Uganda where Israeli commandos stormed it on July 4. The raid resulted in the deaths of seven pasengers.
● 1977 - 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
● 1977 - Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)
● 1977 - Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
● 1977 - Home Secretary jeered on picket line; Home Secretary Merlyn Rees appeals for calm following two weeks of violent clashes outside the Grunwick factory in north London.
● 1978 - Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
● 1978 - US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit
● 1980 - A commercial DC-9 (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870) crashes near Ustica, Italy, killing 81
● 1980 - U.S. President Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.
● 1982 - 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 launched
● 1982 - Rally against war in Lebanon. Tel Aviv, Israel.
● 1983 - Maxie Anderson & Don Ida die during a balloon race
● 1983 - NASA launches space vehicle S-205
● 1983 - Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
● 1984 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
● 1984 - The Federal Communications Commission moved to deregulate U.S. commercial TV by lifting most programming requirements and ending day-part restrictions on advertising.
● 1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual colleges could make their own TV package deals, ending NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
● 1985 - 1st hotel strike in NY
● 1985 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to limit the use of combat troops in Nicaragua.
● 1985 - Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passed into history as officials decertified the road.
● 1986 - In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
● 1986 - The World Court ruled that the U.S. had broken international law by aiding Nicaraguan rebels.
● 1986 - US informs New Zealand it will not defend it against attack {New Zealand response: "So what!"}
● 1987 - Supreme Court Justice Powell retires
● 1988 - 59 are killed and 55 are injured as a runaway train in Gare de Lyon, France plows into a packed rush-hour train.
● 1990 - Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims
● 1991 - Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court. He had been appointed in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson.
● 1991 - Slovenia, after declaring independence two days previous, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
● 1992 - The body of kidnapped Exxon executive Sidney J. Reso was found buried in a makeshift grave in a state park in New Jersey. Arthur and Irene Seale were later convicted and sentenced to prison for the crime.
● 1995 - Qatar's Crown Prince Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani ousted his father in a bloodless palace coup.
● 1995 - Two Operation Homestead activists are arrested in downtown Seattle for occupying the rooftop of a low-income housing building, the Payne Apartments, slated for demolition to make way for a parking lot. They are later acquitted of charges.
● 1998 - An English woman was impregnated with her dead husband's sperm after two-year legal battle over her right to the sperm.
● 1998 - In a live joint news conference in China U.S. President Clinton and President Jiang Zemin offered an uncensored airing of differences on human rights, freedom, trade and Tibet.
● 1998 - Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia.
● 2001 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
● 2001 - Actor Jack Lemmon died at age 76.
● 2002 - In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission required companies with annual sales of more than $1.2 billion to submit sworn statements backing up the accuracy of their financial reports.
● 2003 - More than 735,000 phone numbers were registered on the first day of a national do-not-call list aimed at blocking unwelcome solicitations from telemarketers.
● 2005 - BTK serial killer Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to 10 murders that spread fear across Wichita, Kan., beginning in the 1970s. (Rader later received multiple life sentences.)
● 2005 - AMD files broad antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
● 2005 - In Alaska's Denali National Park, a roughly 70-million year old dinosaur track was discovered. The track was form a three-toed Cretaceous period dinosaur.
BIRTHS
● 1040 - King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
● 1350 - Manuel II Palaiologos, Eastern Roman Emperor
● 1462 - King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
● 1550 - King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
● 1696 - William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)
● 1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
● 1767 - Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory (d. 1843)
● 1838 - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
● 1846 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish independence fighter (d. 1891)
● 1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (d. 1904)
● 1850 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
● 1862 - May Irwin, American comedian and music-hall performer (d. 1938)
● 1869 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist and feminist (d. 1940)
● 1869 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
● 1880 - Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d. 1968)
● 1882 - Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and educator (d. 1963)
● 1884 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
● 1888 - Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946}
● 1892 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985)
● 1899 - Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
● 1913 - Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (d. 1993)
● 1914 - Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)
● 1914 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (d. 1988)
● 1920 - I.A.L. Diamond, Romanian-born American screenwriter (d. 1988)
● 1923 - Jacques Berthier, French composer (d. 1994)
● 1924 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (d. 2003)
● 1924 - Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
● 1926 - Frank O'Hara, American poet and critic (d. 1966)
● 1927 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (d. 2004)
● 1928 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
● 1929 - William Afflis, American wrestler (d. 1991)
● 1930 - Ross Perot, American businessman and politician
● 1931 - Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist
● 1931 - Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prizelaureate
● 1932 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
● 1932 - Eddie Kasko, baseball player
● 1935 - Laurent Terzieff, French actor
● 1936 - John Shalikashvili, Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
● 1938 - Bruce Babbitt, Former US Interior Secretary, Attorney General and Governor of Arizona
● 1938 - Tommy Cannon, British comedian
● 1939 - Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and actor (d. 1994)
● 1941 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
● 1941 - Bill Baxley, American politician
● 1941 - Avi Lerner, Israeli-born American film producer
● 1942 - Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
● 1942 - Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer
● 1943 - Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
● 1943 - Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress
● 1944 - Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist
● 1948 - Camile Baudoin, American musician
● 1949 - Vera Wang, American fashion designer
● 1951 - Julia Duffy, Actress ("Newhart")
● 1951 - Mary McAleese, Irish politician
● 1955 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
● 1956 - Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
● 1956 - Brad Childress, American football coach
● 1958 - Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
● 1959 - Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer
● 1959 - Lorrie Morgan, American country music singer
● 1960 - Brian Drillinger, Actor
● 1961 - Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress
● 1961 - Margo Timmins, Canadian folk-rock singer (Cowboy Junkies)
● 1962 - Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
● 1962 - Michael Ball, British singer
● 1963 - Johnny Benson, American NASCAR driver
● 1964 - Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch film producer and director
● 1964 - Chuck Person, American basketball player
● 1966 - J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
● 1967 - Sylvie Fréchette, French-Canadian synchronized swimmer
● 1968 - Pascale Bussières, French-Canadian actress
● 1970 - Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
● 1971 - Yancey Arias, Actor
● 1974 - Big Moe, American musician (Screwed Up Click)
● 1975 - Tobey Maguire, American actor ("Spider-Man" movies)
● 1975 - Daryle Ward, American baseball player
● 1975 - Ace Darling, American professional wrestler
● 1975 - Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer
● 1976 - Leigh Nash, Rock singer
● 1976 - Johnny Estrada, American baseball player
● 1977 - Raúl, Spanish footballer
● 1977 - Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footbaler
● 1978 - Stefan Arason, Icelandic composer
● 1979 - Kim Gyu-ri, South Korean actress
● 1979 - John Warne, American musician (Relient K; Ace Troubleshooter)
● 1980 - Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
● 1980 - Craig Terrill, American football player
● 1983 - Alsou, Russian singer
● 1983 - Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
● 1983 - Evan Taubenfeld, American musician
● 1984 - Julie Ordon, Swiss model
● 1984 - Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
● 1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
● 1985 - Nico Rosberg, German race car driver
● 1986 - Drake Bell, American actor and musician
● 1988 - Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
● 1991 - Madylin Sweeten, American actress ("Everybody Loves Raymond")
DEATHS
● 1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
● 1458 - King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
● 1574 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
● 1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop, writer, and diplomat (b. 1539)
● 1627 - John Hayward, English historian
● 1655 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
● 1672 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)
● 1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
● 1773 - Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706)
● 1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
● 1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
● 1827 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
● 1829 - James Smithson, English scientist and philanthropist (b. 1765)
● 1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
● 1844 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
● 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
● 1907 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
● 1912 - George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b. 1855)
● 1917 - Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (b. 1896)
● 1920 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadien lyricist (O Canada) (b. 1839)
● 1944 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
● 1952 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
● 1954 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881)
● 1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
● 1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
● 1984 - Alan Dennison, English professional wrestler (b. 1932)
● 1991 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (b. 1953)
● 1996 - Cubby Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
● 1999 - George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
● 2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author, the creator of the Moomins (b. 1914)
● 2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
● 2002 - John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (b. 1944)
● 2003 - David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)
● 2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
● 2005 - Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
● 2005 - John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
● 2005 - Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
● 2005 - Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
● 2006 - Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Perpetual Help
● St. Anectus
● St. Arialdus
● St. Crescens
● St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop and doctor
● St. Deodatus
● St. Emma
● St. Ferdinand of Aragon
● St. John of Chinon
● St. Joseph Hien
● St. Ladislas
● St. Ladislas I (St. Lazlo), king of Hungary
● St. Samson
● St. Zoilus
● Bl. Thomas Toan
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 14 (Civil Date: June 27)
● Prophet Elisha
● St. Methodius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● St. Niphon of Mt. Athos.
● St. Mstislav-George, prince of Novgorod.
● St. Elisha, monk of Sumsk (Solovki).
● St. Methodius, abbot of Peshnosha.
● St. Julitta (Julia) of Tabenna in Egypt.
● St. Joseph, Bishop of Thessalonica.
● National HIV Testing Day in United States
● National Veterans' Day in the United Kingdom
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Iowa : Independence Sunday (1776) - ( Sunday )
● 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
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