Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Insanity "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." — Albert Einstein
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Inanity "When the temptation to masturbate is strong, yell, 'Stop!' to those thoughts as loudly as you can in your mind. Then recite a portion of the Bible or sing a hymn." — Mormon Youth Guide to Self-Control
Thought for the day: "Pale ink beats a good memory."
{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
Great Mountain Moonrise
Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 555 - Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 570 - Birth of Muhammed in Mecca.
● 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
● 1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. {The line was drawn by the Pope at the time on an inaccurate map; Spain ends up with disproportional amount of land as a result and Portugal ends up only with what is modern day Brazil.}
● 1498 - Christopher Columbus left on his third voyage of exploration.
● 1546 - Peace of Ardes ended the war between France and England.
● 1614 - 2nd parliment of King James I, disolves passing no legislation
● 1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
● 1692 - Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured.
● 1712 - Pennsylvania State Assembly bans slavery.
● 1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky
● 1775 - United Colonies change name to United States.
● 1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress, this was the basis for the Declaration of Independence.
● 1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
● 1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
● 1839 - Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
● 1848 - Postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin was born in Paris.
● 1860 - Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF
● 1862 - Former gambler William Bruce Mumford, who tore down a flag flying over the U.S. Mint, was hanged for treason.
● 1862 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
● 1863 - During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
● 1864 - Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.
● 1866 - Death of Duwamish leader Chief Sealth at Port Madison Reservation, on Kitsap Peninsula
● 1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
● 1880 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign) .
● 1887 - Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC
● 1891 - English Baptist clergyman Charles H. Spurgeon preached the last sermon of his 38-year-long ministry at London's Metropolitan Tabernacle. He died the following January.
● 1892 - Homer Plessy was arrested when he refused to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans. The case led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
● 1892 - J.F. Palmer patented the cord bicycle tire.
● 1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
● 1896 - G Harpo & F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days)
● 1898 - Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chicago
● 1900 - Boxer rebels cut the rail links between Peking and Tientsin in China.
● 1901 - M Wolf discovers asteroid #471 Papagena
● 1903 - Professor Pierre Curie revealed the discovery of Polonium.
● 1905 - Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)
● 1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow(Clydebank), Scotland.
● 1909 - Jessica Tandy, the American stage and film actress, was born.
● 1912 - St Pius X encyclical "On the Indians of South America"
● 1912 - US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
● 1913 - Ohio-born Methodist evangelist George Bennard introduced his new hymn, 'The Old Rugged Cross,' during a revival he was conducting at Pokagon, Michigan.
● 1917 - World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
● 1919 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
● 1924 - George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit
● 1929 - The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
● 1932 - Over 7,000 war veterans marched on Washington, DC, demanding their bonuses.
● 1934 - Wycliffe Bible Translators held its first study course in linguistics at Sulphur Springs, Arkansas. The training session lasted 3 months.
● 1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France and received emergency powers to save the franc.
● 1936 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
● 1938 - Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)
● 1938 - The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
● 1939 - King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
● 1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
● 1942 - The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.
● 1942 - Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, as the Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter. The U.S. invaded and recaptured the Aleutians one year later.
● 1944 - Off of the coast of Normandy, France, the Susan B. Anthony sank. All 2,689 people aboard survived.
● 1944 - Nazi Panzer SS troops murder 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy.
● 1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
● 1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state. The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia.
● 1954 - 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
● 1959 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,' why should we not look forward to the arrival?'
● 1962 - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
● 1965 - In the U.S., the Gemini 4 mission was completed with 62 orbits. The mission featured the first spacewalk by an American.
● 1965 - The US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
● 1966 - Former movie star, Ronald Reagan, becomes the 33rd governor of the state of California. {Continues acting in offices he will hold.}
● 1967 - The Israeli forces enter Jerusalem and capture Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
● 1967 - Author-critic Dorothy Parker died at age 73.
● 1968 - In Operation Swift Saber, U.S. Marines swept an area 10 miles northwest of Danang in South Vietnam.
● 1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
● 1968 - Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
● 1971 - Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
● 1971 - The US Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
● 1972 - German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
● 1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
● 1976 - Referendum in Dade County (Miami), Florida, overturns gay rights ordinance.
● 1977 - Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law. {And forever taints Florida orange juice.}
● 1977 - 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Silver Jubilee (25 years) gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II.
● 1979 - Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
● 1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The Israelis charged the facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
● 1982 - President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
● 1983 - A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3152
● 1988 - Palestinian Liberation Organization announces its willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist.
● 1989 - A Surinam Airways DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.
● 1990 - Three countries lift beef export ban; France, West Germany and Italy lift a ban on British beef-on-the-bone after reaching a deal in Brussels.
● 1991 - Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.
● 1994 - South Africa unveils plans to grant amnesty for political crimes committed during apartheid era.
● 1994 - The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia declared the RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMST) salvor-in-possession of the wreck and the wreck site of the RMS Titanic.
● 1996 - The Clinton White House acknowledged it had obtained the FBI files of prominent Republicans, calling it "an innocent bureaucratic mistake."
● 1997 - Seven activists are arrested outside the pro-nuclear Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico, for passing out copies of the Bill of Rights. They were protesting the prior arrest of anti-nuclear activists for leafletting outside the museum.
● 1998 - James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime. On February 25, 1999 John William King was sentenced to the death penalty for the racial crime.
● 2000 - Blair 'handbagged' by the WI; The UK prime minister is heckled and criticized by Women's Institute members as he gives a speech at their conference.
● 2001 - Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election.
● 2002 - A yearlong hostage crisis in the Philippines involving three Americans came to a bloody end as Filipino commandos managed to save only one of the captives.
● 2002 - Michael Skakel was convicted of beating his neighbor Martha Moxley to death in 1975. The two were 15 years old at the time.
● 2003 - In a national first, New Hampshire Episcopalians elected an openly gay man, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, to be bishop.
● 2006 - The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
● 2006 - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.
BIRTHS
● 1502 - Gregory XIII, Italian pope; promulgated the Gregorian Calendar (1572-85) (d. 1585)
● 1529 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615)
● 1662 - Celia Fiennes, English travel writer (d. 1741)
● 1761 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
● 1770 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
● 1778 - Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840)
● 1811 - James Young Simpson, British obstetrician (d. 1870)
● 1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
● 1837 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
● 1840 - Carlota, Belgian wife of emperor Maximilian of Mexico (d. 1927)
● 1845 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
● 1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
● 1854 - Max Kretzer, German Expressionist writer (d. 1941)
● 1862 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
● 1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
● 1877 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
● 1879 - Knud Rasmussen, Greenland-born explorer (d. 1933)
● 1883 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
● 1886 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
● 1892 - Kevin O'Higgins, Irish statesman (d. 1927)
● 1894 - Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (d. 1974)
● 1896 - Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
● 1896 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
● 1896 - Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
● 1897 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970)
● 1899 - Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d. 1973)
● 1900 - Glen Gray, Jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (d. 1963)
● 1902 - Herman B Wells, president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)
● 1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d. 1974)
● 1909 - Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)
● 1909 - Jessica Tandy, English-born actress (d. 1994)
● 1911 - Brooks Stevens, automotive designer (d. 1995)
● 1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
● 1917 - Dean Martin, American actor (d. 1995)
● 1920 - Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)
● 1921 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (d. 1998)
● 1922 - Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1923 - Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)
● 1927 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
● 1928 - James Ivory, American film director
● 1928 - Reg Park, British bodybuilder
● 1929 - John Turner, seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada
● 1929 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager (d. 1983)
● 1931 - Virginia McKenna, Actress
● 1931 - Malcolm Morley, English-born painter
● 1935 - Harry Crews, American author
● 1935 - Thomas Kailath, American engineer
● 1937 - Bert Sugar, Boxing journalist
● 1937 - Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
● 1938 - Goose Gonsoulin, American football player
● 1940 - Tom Jones, Welsh singer
● 1943 - Nikki Giovanni, American poet
● 1943 - Ken Osmond, Actor
● 1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria
● 1945 - Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
● 1946 - Jenny Jones, Palestinian-born comedian and talk show host
● 1947 - Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
● 1950 - Gary Graham American actor
● 1951 - Anne Twomey, Actress
● 1952 - Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
● 1953 - Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster
● 1953 - Johnny Clegg, South African musician
● 1953 - Colleen Camp, Actress
● 1954 - Louise Erdrich, American author
● 1955 - William Forsythe, Actor
● 1955 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
● 1956 - L.A. Reid, American music producer
● 1957 - Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican musician
● 1958 - Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
● 1958 - Prince, American musician
● 1961 - Dave Catching, American musician
● 1964 - Ecstacy, Rapper (Whodini)
● 1964 - Judie Aronson, American actress
● 1964 - Gia Carides, Greek-Australian actress
● 1965 - Mick Foley, American professional wrestler
● 1966 - Eric Kretz, Rock musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
● 1966 - Stephane Richer, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1967 - Dave Navarro, American musician (The Panic Channel, Jane's Addiction)
● 1969 - Kim Rhodes, American actress
● 1969 - Prince Joachim of Denmark
● 1969 - Helen Baxendale, Actress
● 1970 - Mike Modano, American ice hockey player
● 1970 - Cafu, Brazilian footballer
● 1970 - Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
● 1971 - Alex X. Mooney, American politician
● 1972 - Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
● 1973 - Song Yun-ah, South Korean model and actress
● 1973 - Bear Grylls, British survivor
● 1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
● 1975 - Allen Iverson, American basketball player
● 1976 - Necro, Jewish American rapper
● 1976 - Eric Johnson, Rock musician (The Fruit Bats, The Shins)
● 1977 - Marcin Baszczyński, Polish soccer player
● 1977 - Joe Horgan, baseball player
● 1977 - Odalis Pérez, baseball player
● 1978 - Tony An, Korean singer H.O.T
● 1979 - Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer
● 1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
● 1981 - Larisa Oleynik, Ukrainian-born actress
● 1981 - Stephen Bywater, British goalkeeper
● 1981 - Tyler Johnson, baseball player
● 1981 - Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
● 1983 - Mark Lowe, American baseball player
● 1985 - Charlie Simpson, British pop singer
● 1988 - Michael Cera, Canadian actor ("Arrested Development")
● 1989 - Shelley Buckner, Actress ("Summerland")
● 1993 - Jordan Fry, American actor
DEATHS
● 1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
● 1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
● 1394 - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367)
● 1618 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
● 1676 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
● 1711 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
● 1779 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
● 1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
● 1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
● 1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
● 1840 - King Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
● 1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
● 1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
● 1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
● 1896 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
● 1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
● 1916 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
● 1927 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
● 1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
● 1937 - Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
● 1942 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
● 1951 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (b. 1892)
● 1954 - Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
● 1963 - Zasu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
● 1965 - Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
● 1966 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
● 1967 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
● 1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
● 1968 - Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
● 1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
● 1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
● 1979 - Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)
● 1980 - Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
● 1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
● 1989 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
● 1993 - Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
● 1995 - Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
● 1996 - Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
● 1999 - Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (b. 1942)
● 2001 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
● 2001 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
● 2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
● 2003 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
● 2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (b. 1966)
● 2006 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
● 2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born terrorist (b. 1966)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anthony Mary Gianelli
● St. Colman, bishop of Dromore
● St. Deochar
● St. Fortunatus, bishop, confessor
● St. Godoald, bishop, confessor
● St. Gotteschalk
● St. Landulf of Yariglia
● St. Luciana, virgin, martyr
● St. Lycarion
● St. Maximinus, bishop of Aix, confessor
● St. Meriadoc
● St. Paul of Constantinople
● St. Peter
● St. Procopius
● St. Robert, abbot of Chichester
● St. Servatius, bishop, confessor or martyr
● St. Vulphy
● St. Willibald
● St. Wulstan, bishop of Worcester, confessor
● Bl. Anna of St. Bartholomaeus (died 1626)
● Bl. Godeschalc, prince of the Vandals, martyr
● Bl. Maria Theresia of Soubiran (died 1889)
● Bl. Meriadec, bishop of Vannes
● Bl. Paul, bishop of Constantinople, martyr
● Bl. Robert, abbot of Newminster, Northumberland
● Bl. Willibald
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 24 (Civil Date: June 7)
● St. Symeon Stylites (the Younger) of Wonderful Mountain.
● St. Nicetas Stylites, wonderworker of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski.
● Martyrs Meletius Stratelates, Stephen, John, and 1,218 soldiers with women and children, including: Serapion the Egyptian, Callinicus the magician, Theodore, Faustus, the women Marciana, Susanna, and Palladia, two children, Cyriacus and Christian, and twelve tribunes, Faustus, Festus, Marcellus, Theodore, Meletius, Sergius, Marcellinus, Felix, Photinus, Theodoriscus, Mercurius, and Didymus, all of whom suffered in Galatia.
● St. Gregory, Archbishop of Novgorod.
● St. Vincent of Lerins.
● Lutheran: Commemoration of Seattle, Chief of the Duwamish
● Roman Empire - first day of the Vestalia (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta.
● Chad : National Day
● Malta - Sette giugno - Riot in Malta that began the road to self government and then independence.
● Norway - Union Dissolution Day, observing the 1905 decision to dissolve the Union between Sweden and Norway.
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Western Australia : Foundation Day (1838) - ( Monday )
● Massachusetts : Teachers' Day - ( Sunday )
● Ireland : Bank Day - ( Monday )
● Bahamas : Labour Day - ( Friday )
● New Zealand : Queen's Birthday - ( 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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