Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Religion "Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based." — Ambrose Bierce
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Christians Against Pluralism "After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil." — Gary Potter, president of Catholics for Christian Political Action {Lord, please forgive them for they do not realize the profane use of your name.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "They have miscalculated me as a leader." — Hall of Shame Member #1, George W. Bush
Thought for the day: "Every noble work is at first impossible."
{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
The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies
Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 2781 B.C.E. - Presumed start of Egyptian calendar
● 1321 B.C.E. - origin of Era of Menophres
● 514 - St Symmachus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 532 - Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
● 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Rodric of Spain.
● 1333 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill - The final battle of the war.
● 1510 - 38 Jews are burned at the stake in Berlin Prussia
● 1525 - The Catholic princes of Germany formed the Dessau League to fight against the Reformation.
● 1544 - Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
● 1553 - Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed Queen.
● 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The Spanish Armada sighted in the English Channel.
● 1649 - In London, Edward Winslow, governor of the Plymouth Colony, helped organize the Society for Propagating the Gospel in New England, for the purpose of converting the American Indians to Christian faith.
● 1692 - Five Massachusetts women were hanged for witchcraft. Fifteen young girls in the Salem community charged as many as 150 citizens in the area with witchcraft during the greater part of this year.
● 1760 - The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
● 1788 - Prices plunged on the Paris stock market.
● 1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.
● 1816 - Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
● 1825 - The American Unitarian Association was founded by members of the liberal wing of the Congregational churches in New England.
● 1834 - Edgar Degas, the French Impressionist painter and sculptor, was born.
● 1835 - Birth of Jesse Engle, pioneer missionary. In 1898 he led the first party of five missionaries to Africa under sponsorship of the Brethren in Christ Missions.
● 1848 - Women's rights: The two day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York. "Declaration of Sentiments" launches modern women's rights movement.
● 1860 - 1st railroad reaches Kansas
● 1862 - Forrest's 1st raid
● 1863 - American Civil War: Morgan's Raid - At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
● 1867 - Mexican Emporer Maximilian was overthrown and executed.
● 1870 - France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins
● 1873 - William Gosse becomes the first European to discover Ayers Rock (Uluru) and names it in honour of South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers.
● 1875 - Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
● 1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon.
● 1880 - SF Public Library starts lending books
● 1881 - Sitting Bull and 186 followers cross the Canadian border into U.S.; Army breaks its amnesty promise and has him jailed at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory.
● 1882 - J Palisa discovers asteroid #226 Weringia
● 1898 - Birth of philosopher Herbert Marcuse, inspiration to the New Left.
● 1904 - Construction began on the Liverpool Cathedral in England. The cathedral was completed 20 years later and consecrated on this same date in 1924.
● 1907 - K Lohnert discovers asteroid #639 Latona
● 1912 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
● 1918 - German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
● 1919 - Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
● 1919 - General strike in Norway.
● 1919 - Race riots erupt in Washington, D.C.
● 1925 - V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1059 Mussorgskia
● 1928 - H E Wood discovers asteroid #1305 Pongola
● 1937 - Buchenwald concentration camp is established in Germany.
● 1939 - Dr. Roy P. Scholz became the first surgeon to use fiberglass sutures.
● 1940 - World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
● 1940 - World War II: Battle of Cape Spada - The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
● 1941 - 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala)
● 1941 - British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
● 1941 - President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
● 1942 - World War II: Battle of the Atlantic - German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
● 1943 - During World War II, more than 150 B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers attacked Rome for the first time.
● 1945 - Montgomery Ward is seized by United States Army troops at the direction of Attorney General Francis Biddle because of its refusal to obey National War Labor Board orders. Montgomery Ward chairman Seward Avery is carried out of his office by troops.
● 1947 - Burmese nationalist Aung San and 6 of his cabinet members were assassinated.
● 1949 - Laos becomes associated state within French Union
● 1955 - Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
● 1957 - 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
● 1963 - Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
● 1964 - Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
● 1965 - South Korea's first president dies in exile; The former leader of the Republic of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, has died in exile in the US state of Hawaii at the age of 90.
● 1966 - Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
● 1967 - A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over Hendersonville, North Carolina killing 82.
● 1967 - Race riots in Durham NC
● 1967 - US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
● 1968 - In the wake of the King and Kennedy assassinations, the House votes down a bill that would have made mandatory the federal registration of guns. {Remember: Guns don't kill people, people do. If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns.}
● 1969 - Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.
● 1969 - Ten thousand fish killed when Mutrie Motor Transportation, Inc. of Waltham, Massachusetts, spills a highly toxic substance, believed to be a plasticizer, into the Charles River.
● 1971 - B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #2259 Sofievka
● 1974 - Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3118
● 1974 - Martha Tranquill jailed nine months for tax refusal over Vietnam War, Sacramento, California.
● 1974 - The House Judiciary Committee recommended that U.S. President Richard Nixon should stand trial in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
● 1975 - The Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts separated after being linked in orbit for two days.
● 1975 - The Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories and the Metis Association issue the Dene Declaration, calling for aboriginal peoples of the Northwest Territories to form a nation with the right to self- government. Nineteen years later, the Canadian government would agree to create a new First Nations territory, Nunavut, from the eastern 2/3 of the NW Territories; but would reserve for the Canadian governments the rights to almost all mining, logging, and other resource extraction.
● 1976 - Fight for fishing rights in Europe; British fishermen are urging the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Crosland, to secure a 50-mile fishing zone around the UK.
● 1976 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
● 1977 - N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2228 Soyuz-Apollo
● 1977 - OAS Human Rights Treaty comes into force.
● 1979 - Collision between the Atlantic Empress and the Aegean Captain, off Trinidad and Tobago, resulted in the release of 300,000 tons of crude oil into the Caribbean Sea.
● 1979 - The Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after U.S. supported President Anastasio Somoza fled the country; mass celebrations in streets of Managua.
● 1979 - Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW
● 1982 - David S Dodge becomes the 1st American hostage in Lebanon
● 1983 - Flesh-eating dinosaur resurrected; A gigantic new dinosaur skeleton is unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London.
● 1984 - 1st female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
● 1984 - Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic Party to become the first woman from a major political party to run for the office of U.S. Vice-President.
● 1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.
● 1985 - The Val di Stava dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
● 1989 - 112 people were killed when a United Airline DC-10 airplane crashed in Sioux City, Iowa. 184 people did survive the accident.
● 1989 - Charles Sturt University, Australia established in honour of explorer Charles Sturt.
● 1990 - BASF plant in Cincinnatti explodes in flames, 1 dies
● 1990 - Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentenced to 5 months for tax evasion
● 1990 - Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif
● 1991 - Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape
● 1993 - President Bill Clinton announced the "don't ask, don't tell," which allows homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrain from homosexual activity.
● 1994 - Four 26-pound ceiling tiles fall from the roof of the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington, just hours before a scheduled Seattle Mariners game.
● 1996 - 'War criminal' Karadzic resigns; Bosnian Serb President and wanted war criminal Radovan Karadzic is forced out of office.
● 1997 - IRA declares ceasefire; The IRA makes a surprise announcement of a ceasefire in Northern Ireland—the second in three years.
● 1998 - Founding convention of Black Radical Congress.
● 2005 - President George W. Bush announced his choice of federal appeals court judge John Roberts to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. (Roberts ended up succeeding Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in September 2005).
● 2006 - President George W. Bush issued his first presidential veto, rejecting a bill that could have multiplied federal money for embryonic stem cell research.
BIRTHS
● 1670 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
● 1688 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
● 1759 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
● 1789 - John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
● 1814 - Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
● 1817 - Mary Ann Bickerdyke, American Civil War nurse (d. 1901)
● 1819 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
● 1827 - Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
● 1834 - Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
● 1846 - Edward Charles Pickering, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1919)
● 1860 - Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (d. 1927)
● 1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
● 1875 - Alice Nelson Dunbar, American novelist, poet and essayist (d. 1935)
● 1876 - Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
● 1877 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
● 1883 - Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
● 1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
● 1894 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
● 1894 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
● 1896 - A.J. Cronin, Scottish writer (d. 1981)
● 1898 - Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
● 1905 - Edgar Snow, American journalist and author (d. 1972)
● 1914 - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
● 1917 - William Scranton, American politician
● 1919 - Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
● 1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1922 - George McGovern, American politician
● 1924 - Pat Hingle, Actor
● 1924 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
● 1926 - Helen Gallagher, American actress, (Ryan's Hope)
● 1926 - Sue Thompson, Country singer
● 1934 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
● 1937 - George Hamilton IV, Country singer
● 1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
● 1940 - Dennis Cole, Actor
● 1941 - Vikki Carr, American singer
● 1941 - Neelie Kroes, Dutch EU Commissioner for Competition
● 1944 - Commander Cody, Country singer, musician
● 1945 - George Dzundza, Actor
● 1946 - Alan Gorrie, Scottish musician (Average White Band)
● 1946 - Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1947 - Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles)
● 1947 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
● 1948 - Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1980)
● 1948 - Beverly Archer, Actress
● 1949 - Ivar Kants, Australian actor
● 1950 - Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
● 1950 - Freddy Moore, American songwriter
● 1951 - Abel Ferrara, American filmmaker
● 1952 - Allen Collins, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)
● 1952 - Robert A. Ficano, County Executive for Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit and environs)
● 1954 - Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist
● 1956 - Nikki Sudden, English musician (d. 2006)
● 1956 - Peter Barton, Actor
● 1958 - Reuben Kane, American professional wrestler
● 1958 - David Robertson, American symphony conductor
● 1960 - Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker
● 1960 - Kevin Haskins, Rock musician
● 1961 - Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
● 1961 - Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
● 1961 - Campbell Scott, American actor
● 1961 - Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
● 1962 - Anthony Edwards, American actor ("ER")
● 1963 - Kelly Shiver, Country singer
● 1965 - Clea Lewis, Actress
● 1965 - Stuart Scott, American sportscaster
● 1966 - Nancy Walls, American actress
● 1967 - Yael Abecassis, Israeli actress and model
● 1968 - Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
● 1968 - Jim Norton, American comedian and radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
● 1971 - Urs Buhler, Classical singer (Il Divo)
● 1971 - Andrew Kavovit, Actor
● 1973 - Peter Forsberg, Hockey player
● 1973 - Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
● 1973 - Scott Walker, Canadian hockey player
● 1974 - Preston Wilson, baseball player
● 1976 - Vinessa Shaw, American actress
● 1976 - Kostas Bantas, Greek footballer
● 1977 - Charles John Spencer, American professional wrestler
● 1977 - Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer
● 1977 - Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
● 1978 - Nené, Brazilian footballer
● 1979 - Luke Young, English footballer
● 1979 - Rick Ankiel, baseball pitcher
● 1980 - Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing driver
● 1980 - Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
● 1981 - Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
● 1981 - Chris Spicuzza, American musician (Chimaira)
● 1982 - Jared Padalecki, American actor ("Gilmore Girls")
● 1982 - Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
● 1990 - Steven Anthony Lawrence, Actor
DEATHS
● 514 - Pope Symmachus, Italian clergy (b. 498)
● 931 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
● 1374 - Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
● 1415 - Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
● 1543 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
● 1631 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
● 1742 - William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
● 1810 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
● 1814 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
● 1838 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (b. 1785)
● 1850 - Margaret Fuller, American writer (b. 1810)
● 1857 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
● 1868 - Soji Okita, Japanese samurai (b. 1842 or 1844)
● 1896 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
● 1910 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)
● 1947 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
● 1947 - U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
● 1965 - Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (b. 1875)
● 1972 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
● 1980 - Nihat Erim, Prime Minister of Turkey (assassinated) (b. 1912)
● 1985 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
● 1989 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
● 1990 - Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
● 1998 - Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
● 2002 - Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
● 2003 - Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
● 2003 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
● 2004 - Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
● 2004 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
● 2005 - John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
● 2006 - Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Ambrose Aut-pert
● St. Arsenius the Great, abbot, confessor, died 449
● St. Aurea
● St. Bernulf, died 1054
● St. Christine, virgin, martyr
● St. Epagaphras
● St. Felix of Verona
● St. Jerome of Pavia
● St. John Plessington
● St. Justine
● St. Kirdjun, converted thief and martyr
● St. Macrina the Younger
● St. Margaret, virgin, martyr
● St. Martin of Trier, bishop of Trier, martyr
● St. Rufina, virgin, martyr
● St. Symmachus, pope
● St. Vincent de Paul
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 6 (Civil Date: July 19)
● St. Sisoes the Great.
● Virgin Martyr Lucy, and Rixius, and those with them at Rome: Martyrs Anthony, Lucian, Isidore, Dion, Diodorus, Cutonius, Arnosus, Capicus, Satyrus, and others.
● Martyr Cointus (Quintus) of Phrygia.
● Martyrs Marinus and Martha, and their children Audifax and Abbacum (Habbakuk) and those with them at Rome: Cyrinus, Valentine, and Asterius the presbyter.
● Martyrs Isaurus the deacon, Innocent, Felix, Hermias, Basil, Peregrinus, Rufus, and Rufinus of Apollonia in Macedonia.
● Opening of the Relics of Princess Juliana Olshanskaya.
● St. Sisoes of the Kiev Caves.
● New-Martyr Bishop Simon of Ufa (1921).
● Greek Calendar:
● Synaxis of the Apostles Archippus, Philemon, and Onesimus.
● Martyrs Apollonius, Alexander, and Epimachus.
● Roman festivals - Lucaria.
● Burma : Martyrs' Day
● Laos : Independence Day (1949)
● Malaysia - Birthday of the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan.
● Myanmar - Burmese Martyrs' Day.
● Nicaragua - National Liberation Day.
USE IN MODERN CULTURE
● In an episode of Father Ted, it is suggested that July 19th is the day that the Ice Age ended.
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
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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