Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Meaning "The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Neo-Fascism "Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands." — Jesse Helms, former Republican U.S. senator
Thought for the day: "The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn't."
{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
Cat's Eye Wide and Deep
Credit & Copyright: Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
● 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
● 1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
● 1236 - Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon took Cordoba in Spain.
● 1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
● 1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London, England burns to the ground.
● 1620 - Tobacco growing banned in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly.
● 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
● 1652 - Massachusetts declared itself an independent commonwealth.
● 1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrianian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
● 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
● 1757 - Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Whatever we may undertake with a sincere desire to promote His glory, we may comfortably pursue. Nothing is trivial that is done for Him.'
● 1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts. The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.
● 1776 - Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay
● 1776 - The Virginia state constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was made governor.
● 1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
● 1804 - Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins received 100 lashes on his back and Hall received 50.
● 1810 - In Bradford, Massachusetts, the first U.S. missionary society was organized: the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
● 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
● 1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
● 1854 - Gadsden Purchase (parts of AZ, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
● 1858 - Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
● 1860 - The first iron-pile lighthouse was completed at Minot’s Ledge, MA.
● 1862 - Day 5 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station
● 1863 - Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PA
● 1863 - Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
● 1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
● 1868 - George Ellery Hale, the American astronomer, was born.
● 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
● 1875 - The first 'holiness' conference opened at Keswick, England. Keswick conferences stress a non- charismatic, 'crisis' form of sanctification, in contrast to the older traditional view of Christian sanctification as being a lifelong 'process.'
● 1880 - France annexed Tahiti.
● 1881 - Russia - Anarchist agitator Johann Most sentenced for libeling the Tsar.
● 1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
● 1888 - Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.
● 1891 - 100° F (San Fransisco, CA)
● 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
● 1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
● 1899 - Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
● 1903 - The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
● 1905 - Russian troops intervened as riots erupted in ports all over the country. Many ships were looted.
● 1908 - Birth of Cyrus H. Gordon, American Jewish archaeological scholar. Having taught Assyriology and Egyptology at Dropsie College in Philadelphia, his technical writings include the 'Ugaritic Handbook' (1947).
● 1913 - Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War
● 1914 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #791 Ani
● 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
● 1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for first time.
● 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
● 1917 - The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.
● 1917 - W.E.B. DuBois leads silent march by blacks against lynching, New York City.
● 1922 - France grants 1 square km at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
● 1922 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #979 Ilsewa
● 1925 - Marvin Pipkin filed for a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.
● 1925 - Sixty thousand Belgian metal workers begin general strike.
● 1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
● 1926 - Fascists in Rome added an hour to the work day in an economic efficiency measure.
● 1927 - 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
● 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
● 1929 - 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
● 1931 - 109° F (43° C), Monticello, Florida (state record)
● 1931 - The Unevangelized Fields Mission was founded, in England. UFM missionaries today work primarily in Latin America, Europe and Africa, as well as in Haiti and Indonesia.
● 1932 - Siam’s army seized Bangkok and announced an end to the absolute monarchy.
● 1936 - Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"
● 1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
● 1939 - Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
● 1940 - US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
● 1945 - Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
● 1946 - British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to end alleged terrorism.
● 1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
● 1949 - US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
● 1950 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorized a sea blockade of Korea.
● 1951 - The United States invited the Soviet Union to the Korean peace talks on a ship in Wonson Harbor.
● 1951 - Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was ordained as a priest.
● 1952 - 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
● 1954 - The Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer's access to classified information.
● 1955 - The Soviet Union sent tanks to Pozan, Poland, to put down anti-Communist demonstrations.
● 1956 - The Federal Highway Act authorized the Interstate Highway System, the construction of 42,500 miles of freeways from coast to coast.
● 1959 - Pope John XXIII encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
● 1960 - BBC unveils TV 'factory'; The BBC's new Television Centre will be the "Hollywood" of the small screen, the corporation's director of TV announces.
● 1961 - Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)
● 1962 - 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
● 1963 - Mass "walk-on" (trespass) at chemical and biological warfare facility, Porton Down, Britain.
● 1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
● 1965 - USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
● 1966 - March to Paris against French nuclear tests leaves London.
● 1966 - The U.S. bombed fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong.
● 1967 - Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.
● 1967 - Actress Jayne Mansfield, 34, and two male companions died when their car struck a trailer truck east of New Orleans.
● 1969 - 1st Jewish worship service at White House
● 1970 - US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
● 1971 - Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
● 1972 - U.S. Supreme Court rules, 5-4, all current state death penalty laws unconstitutional. A later ruling allows states to rewrite laws to reinstitute capital punishment in 1976.
● 1972 - USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
● 1974 - First female president for Argentina; Isabel Peron is sworn in as interim leader of the Argentine Republic after her husband falls ill.
● 1975 - 20.57 cm (8.10") of rainfall, Litchville, N. Dakota (state 24-hr rec)
● 1976 - The Seychelles becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
● 1977 - Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults
● 1978 - VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East
● 1981 - Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China.
● 1982 - Israel invaded Lebanon.
● 1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
● 1983 - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
● 1984 - USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
● 1985 - NASA launches Intelsat VA
● 1985 - STS 51-F vehicle moves to the launch pad
● 1986 - Branson beats Atlantic speed record; Millionaire Richard Branson smashes the world record for the fastest powerboat crossing of the Atlantic.
● 1992 - A divided Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to abortion, but the justices also weakened the right as defined by the Roe v. Wade decision.
● 1992 - First of ten days of demonstrations demanding the resignation of Pres. Slobodan Milosevic, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
● 1993 - Space Shuttle carries first carbonated beverages into space. Specifically - a root beer float.
● 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission, Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
● 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
● 2001 - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was elected to a second term.
● 2001 - Diana fountain given go-ahead; The government announces a memorial in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, is to be built in London's Hyde Park.
● 2002 - President George W. Bush transferred presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for more than two hours during a routine colon screening that ended in a clean bill of health. {This is despite finding his head firmly lodged inside his colon.}
● 2002 - Naval clashes between North Korea and South Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
● 2003 - Thirteen are killed in a porch collapse in Chicago.
● 2003 - Actress Katharine Hepburn died at age 96.
● 2006- The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violated U.S. and international law.
● 2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned.
BIRTHS
● 1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
● 1517 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
● 1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
● 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
● 1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
● 1818 - Pietro Angelo Secchi, Italian Jesuit and astrophysicist (d. 1878)
● 1849 - John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
● 1858 - George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
● 1861 - William Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
● 1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, supercentenarian (disputed) (d. 1986)
● 1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
● 1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
● 1880 - Ludwig Beck, German general; Hitler opponent (d. 1944)
● 1880 - Helen Keller, Deafblind American author, activist and lecturer (d. 1968)
● 1881 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (d. 1929)
● 1886 - James Van Der Zee, African-American photographer (d. 1983)
● 1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
● 1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer, US Open winner 1925
● 1893 - Helen Hokinson, American cartoonist (d. 1949)
● 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
● 1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
● 1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
● 1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
● 1908 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
● 1910 - Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
● 1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
● 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
● 1912 - John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
● 1914 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
● 1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
● 1915 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
● 1919 - Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
● 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
● 1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
● 1923 - Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
● 1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
● 1924 - Ezra Laderman, American composer
● 1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
● 1925 - Hale Smith, American composer, pianist, educator, arranger, and editor
● 1925 - Cara Williams, American actress
● 1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
● 1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
● 1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
● 1929 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author
● 1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
● 1930 - Robert Evans - American film producer.
● 1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord
● 1933 - Bob Shaw, baseball player
● 1933 - John Bradshaw, American theologian
● 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
● 1939 - Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
● 1940 - L. Russell Brown, Songwriter
● 1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
● 1941 - Stokely Carmichael, Black Panther member (d. 1998)
● 1942 - Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
● 1943 - Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
● 1944 - Gary Busey, American actor
● 1944 - Sean O'Malley, current Archbishop of Boston
● 1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
● 1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
● 1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, President of Panama from 1994 to 1999
● 1947 - Richard Lewis, American comedian
● 1947 - Michael Carter, British actor
● 1948 - Fred Grandy, Actor ("The Love Boat"), former US congressman
● 1948 - Ian Paice, drummer (Deep Purple)
● 1949 - Dan Dierdorf, Football Hall of Famer
● 1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, current mayor of Barcelona
● 1949 - Ann Veneman, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
● 1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
● 1953 - Colin Hay, guitarist and singer (Men at Work)
● 1953 - Don Dokken, Rock singer (Dokken)
● 1954 - Rick Honeycutt, baseball player
● 1955 - Charles J. Precourt, Deputy Manager, International Space Station Program
● 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Prime Minister of Portugal
● 1956 - Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
● 1957 - Maria Conchita Alonso, Actress
● 1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
● 1960 - Evelyn "Champagne" King, American singer
● 1961 - Kimberlin Brown, actress
● 1961 - Sharon Lawrence, Actress ("NYPD Blue")
● 1961 - Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
● 1962 - Amanda Donohoe, British actress
● 1962 - George Zamka, astronaut
● 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
● 1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German mistaken for a suspected terrorist
● 1964 - Stedman Pearson, British singer (Five Star)
● 1964 - Kathleen Wilhoite, Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
● 1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician
● 1966 - John Part, Canadian darts player
● 1967 - Melora Hardin, Actress ("The Office")
● 1967 - Jeff Burton, auto racer
● 1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
● 1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
● 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American adult actress
● 1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician
● 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
● 1972 - Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl (d. 1985)
● 1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
● 1973 - George Hincapie, American cyclist
● 1977 - Oleg Korenfeld, poet
● 1978 - Sam Farrar, American bassist
● 1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer, dancer, and actress (Pussy Cat Dolls)
● 1978 - Todd Sansom, Country musician (Marshall Dyllon)
● 1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
● 1979 - Matthew Bode, Australian Rules Football player
● 1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
● 1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
● 1980 - James Courtney, Australian racing driver
● 1981 - Joe Johnson, American basketball player
● 1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
● 1982 - Andrea Butjko, Hungarian porn star
● 1983 - Aundrea Fimbres, American singer (Danity Kane)
● 1984 - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
● 1984 - Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
● 1987 - Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
DEATHS
● 69 - Saint Peter, Apostle and 1st Bishop of Rome
● 1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
● 1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
● 1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
● 1509 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
● 1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
● 1744 - André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
● 1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
● 1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
● 1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
● 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
● 1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
● 1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
● 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
● 1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
● 1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
● 1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
● 1933 - Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
● 1935 - Jack O'Neill, baseball player (b. 1873)
● 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
● 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and compozer (b. 1860)
● 1960 - Frank Patrick, professional ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
● 1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
● 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
● 1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
● 1969 - Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
● 1969 - Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
● 1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
● 1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
● 1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (Little Feat) (b. 1945)
● 1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
● 1990 - Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
● 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1919)
● 1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
● 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
● 1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
● 1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
● 2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
● 2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
● 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
● 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
● 2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
● 2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
● 2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
● 2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Cassius
● St. Cocha
● St. Hemma
● St. Mary
● Sts. Peter and Paul, i.e. the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the diamond workers
● Sts. Salome & Judith
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 16 (Civil Date: June 29)
● St. Tychon, Bishop of Amathus in Cyprus.
● St. Tikhon (Tychon) of Luchlv.
● St. Tikhon of Kaluga or Medin.
● St. Tikhon of Krestogorsk (Vologda).
● Martyrs Tigirius and Eutropius of Constantinople.
● St. Mark the Just of Apollonias, nephew of Apostle Barnabas.
● New-Martyr Hermogenes (Germogen), Bishop of Tobolsk (1918).
● Greek Calendar:
● Five Martyrs of Nicomedia.
● Forty Martyrs of Rome.
● Repose of Archimandrite Moses, founder of Optina Skete (1862) and of Elder Gerasimus of St. Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery (1898).
● Anglican and Lutheran: Solemnity of Sts. Peter & Paul, apostles
● Seychelles - Independence Day.
● The Netherlands - Veterans Day.
● Malta - l-Imnarja
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Iowa : Independence Sunday (1776) - ( Sunday )
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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