Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Republicans "Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder." — James Carville
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homophobia "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to Polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. . . .It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist, in my opinion, in the United States Constitution." — Rick Santorum, former U. S. senator and chairman of the Republican Senate Caucus
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well." — Hall of Shame Member #1, George W. Bush
Thought for the day: "Character is what you know you are, Not what others think you are."
{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
Infrared Andromeda
Credit: Pauline Barmby (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) et al., JPL, Caltech, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 356 B.C.E.- A young man called Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
● 230 – St. Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1306 - Philip "The Fair's" secret commission results in the arrest of and confiscation of all the goods and money of, every Jew in France.
● 1403 - Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England
● 1542 - Inquisition established in Rome.
● 1568 - Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen - Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau
● 1571 - Inquisition created for the Portuguese navy.
● 1588 - English fleet defeats Spanish armada
● 1718 - Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
● 1733 - John Winthrop was granted the first honorary Doctor of Law Degree in the U.S. The honor was given by Harvard College in Cambridge, MA.
● 1773 - Clement XIV issued the brief, 'Dominus ac redemptor noster,' officially dissolving the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). This politically-based suppression afterward left conspicuous gaps in Catholic education and foreign missions.
● 1774 - Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
● 1829 - Birth of public school teacher Priscilla Jane Owens. A Methodist who remained in Baltimore all her life, she left behind two enduring hymns: 'We Have an Anchor' and 'Jesus Saves.'
● 1831 - Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians.
● 1832 - Fleeing Black Hawk (Sauk/Fox tribes) overtaken by Gen. J.D. Henry; 68 Indians killed.
● 1836 - 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Quebec
● 1846 - Mormons found 1st English settlement in CA (San Joaquin Valley)
● 1861 - The first major battle of the U.S. Civil War began. It was the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas Junction, VA. The Confederates won the battle.
● 1865 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
● 1867 - City Gardens on Folsom opens
● 1873 - At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West.
● 1877 - After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of 9 rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia. {and now for the rest of the story…}
● 1877 - Militia in Pittsburgh kill 26 striking railroad workers; workers burn yards, drive troops from city, as what originally had been a wildcat strike by West Virginia railroad workers turns into a wave of nationwide strikes and confrontations with police.
● 1878 - Publication of "Eight Hours," the most popular labor song until "Solidarity Forever" is published by the IWW.
● 1880 - Compressed air explosion, kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, New York City.
● 1884 - 120,000 London workers protest to demand election reform.
● 1886 - The cardinal's hat was conferred upon Elzear Alexandre Taschereau, 66, archbishop of Quebec. He was the first Canadian to be made a cardinal in the Catholic Church.
● 1896 - National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's League merge to form National Association of Colored Woman
● 1898 - Spain cedes Guam to US
● 1899 - Ernest Hemingway, the American novelist and short story writer, was born.
● 1899 - Poet Hart Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio.
● 1900 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical to the Greek-Melkite rite
● 1916 - U.S. Marines land in Haiti. Probably "protecting U.S. interests."
● 1919 - Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
● 1925 - Following a sensational 12-day trial, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in his Dayton, TN classroom and was fined $100. The conviction was later overturned.
● 1928 - H E Wood discovers asteroid #1096 Reunerta
● 1930 - The Veterans’ Administration of the United States was established.
● 1930 - Twenty-four hour general strike in Montevideo, Uruguay, protesting imprisonment of anarchists.
● 1934 - 113° F (45° C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
● 1935 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1358 Gaika
● 1940 - Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia were annexed by the Soviet Union.
● 1942 - Eight die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Virginia.
● 1944 - World War II: Battle of Guam - American troops land on Guam starting the battle (ends on August 10).
● 1944 - The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated Sen. Harry S Truman to be vice president.
● 1949 - Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13
● 1954 - First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam, freeing Vietnam ("French Indochina") from French colonial rule.
● 1955 - During the Geneva summit, President Dwight D. Eisenhower presented his "open skies" proposal under which the United States and the Soviet Union would trade information on each other's military facilities.
● 1955 - 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf
● 1958 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'What the devil loves is that vague cloud of unspecified guilt or unspecified virtue, by which he lures us into despair or presumption.'
● 1959 - 1st atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
● 1959 - A U.S. District Court judge in New York City ruled that "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" was not a dirty book.
● 1960 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the first woman prime minister in the world, making her the first elected female national leader in the world (Sri Lanka).
● 1960 - The country of Katanga forms in Africa
● 1961 - Capt. Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying on the Liberty Bell 7. (Grissom returned safely but the capsule sank in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after splashdown.)
● 1962 - 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany GA
● 1964 - IWW blueberry pickers' strike begins near Grand Junction, Michigan.
● 1965 - Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
● 1966 - Gemini X returns to Earth
● 1967 - Death of Albert Luthuli, nonviolent freedom campaigner, South Africa.
● 1969 - Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
● 1969 - Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
● 1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module.
● 1970 - After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
● 1972 - 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)
● 1972 - Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) around Belfast, Northern Ireland - 22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured.
● 1972 - In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours
● 1973 - In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre.
● 1973 - USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of the red planet
● 1974 - Cyprus conflict spills into London; Thousands of Greek-Cypriots in London protest about the disputed government of Cyprus.
● 1976 - Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
● 1976 - First outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia.
● 1977 - Start of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
● 1978 - US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
● 1979 - N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2585 Irpedina & #3298
● 1979 - National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated
● 1980 - Draft registration began in the United States for 19 and 20-year-old men.
● 1981 - Creationism law requiring equal teaching with evolution passed, Louisiana. {Once proving people are dumb enough to believe science can be legislated.}
● 1982 - Homecoming for HMS Hermes; The flagship of the British taskforce to the Falklands, HMS Hermes, arrives back in Portsmouth.
● 1983 - In Sao Paulo, Brazil, 800,000 take part in general strike against austerity measures.
● 1983 - Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
● 1983 - The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−129°F).
● 1983 - US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
● 1984 - In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in the first documented case of a robot killing a human in the United States.
● 1988 - Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Atlanta.
● 1988 - ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
● 1992 - Fifteen thousand in silent vigil after murder of anti-Mafia leader, Milan, Italy.
● 1994 - Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way to him becoming Prime Minister in 1997.
● 1995 - Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
● 1997 - The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
● 1998 - Astronaut Alan Shepard died at age 74.
● 1999 - The missing plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. was found off of the coast of Martha's Vineyard, MA. The bodies of Kennedy, his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette were found on board. The plane had crashed on July 16, 1999.
● 2000 - Special Counsel John C. Danforth concluded "with 100 percent certainty" that the federal government was innocent of wrongdoing in the siege that killed 80 members of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, in 1993.
● 2000 - NBC announced that they had found nearly all of Milton Berle's kinescopes. The filmed recordings of Berle's early TV shows had been the subject of a $30 million lawsuit filed by Berle the previous May.
● 2002 - Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection about a month after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting.
● 2004 - The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country's armed forces.
● 2004 - White House officials were briefed on the September 11 commission's final report. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within our government." The report was released to the public the next day.
● 2005 - Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers escaped.
● 2007 - The final {hopefully} Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," is released.
BIRTHS
● 356 B.C.E.- Alexander the Great, Greek king and military leader (d. 323 B.C.E.)
● 1414 - Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
● 1515 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (d. 1595)
● 1620 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
● 1664 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
● 1673 - John Weaver, English dancer (d. 1760)
● 1693 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1768)
● 1694 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist (d. 1768)
● 1710 - Paul Möhring, German physician (d. 1792)
● 1810 - Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist (d. 1878)
● 1816 - Paul Julius Reuter, German-born English founder of Reuters news agency (d. 1899)
● 1817 - Sir John Gilbert, English painter and illustrator (d. 1897)
● 1856 - Louise Blanchard Bethune, American architect (d. 1913)
● 1858 - Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
● 1858 - Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain (d. 1929)
● 1858 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (d. 1941)
● 1870 - Emil Orlik, Czech painter (d. 1932)
● 1882 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
● 1888 - Jacques Feyder, French film director (d. 1948)
● 1893 - Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947)
● 1899 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
● 1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
● 1903 - Roy Neuberger, American financier
● 1911 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author (d. 1980)
● 1920 - Constance Dowling, American actress (d. 1969)
● 1920 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)
● 1923 - Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
● 1922 - Kay Starr, American singer
● 1924 - Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
● 1925 - Anne Meacham, American actress
● 1926 - Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
● 1926 - Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general
● 1926 - Paul Burke, American actor
● 1929 - Bob Orton, Sr., wrestler (d. 2006)
● 1932 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
● 1933 - John Gardner, American author (d. 1982)
● 1935 - Norbert Blüm, German politician
● 1935 - Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
● 1938 - Janet Reno, 79th United States Attorney General
● 1939 - John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence
● 1942 - Patricia Elliott, Actress ("One Life To Live")
● 1943 - David Downing, Actor
● 1943 - Edward Herrmann, American actor ("Gilmore Girls")
● 1944 - Tony Scott, British film director
● 1944 - Paul Wellstone, American politician (d. 2002)
● 1945 - Leigh Lawson, Actor
● 1945 - John Lowe, English darts player
● 1946 - Kenneth Starr, American lawyer
● 1947 - Wendell Burton, Actor
● 1948 - Art Hindle, Actor
● 1948 - Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
● 1948 - Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, English singer
● 1948 - Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist ("Doonesbury")
● 1949 - Al Hrabosky, baseball player
● 1950 - Ubaldo Fillol, Argentinian footballer
● 1951 - Robin Williams, American comedian/actor
● 1953 - Brian Talbot, British footballer
● 1955 - Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003)
● 1955 - Taco Ockerse, Indonesian singer
● 1957 - Jon Lovitz, American comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
● 1957 - George Landress, American songwriter, music producer and sound engineer
● 1959 - Paul "Fatty" Vautin, Australian rugby league player
● 1960 - Lance Guest, American actor
● 1960 - Fritz Walter, German footballer
● 1960 - Matt Mulhern, Actor
● 1961 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer
● 1961 - "Big" Jim Martin, American musician (Faith No More)
● 1963 - Kevin Poole, English footballer
● 1963 - Greg Behrendt, Comedian
● 1964 - Jens Weißflog, German ski jumper
● 1965 - Gudni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer
● 1965 - Mike Bordick, American baseball player
● 1966 - Koen Lieckens, Rock musician (K's Choice)
● 1968 - Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
● 1968 - Lyle Odelein, Canadian hockey player
● 1969 - Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic)
● 1970 - Shawn Stasiak, American professional wrestler
● 1971 - Emmanuel Bangué, French long jumper
● 1971 - Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress and singer
● 1971 - Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio host
● 1972 - Paul Brandt, Country singer
● 1973 - Ali Landry, Actress ("Eve")
● 1978 - Brad Mates, Country singer (Emerson Drive)
● 1978 - Josh Hartnett, American actor
● 1978 - Justin Bartha, American actor
● 1978 - Damian Marley, Jamacian musician
● 1978 - Gary Teale, Scottish football player
● 1979 - David Carr, American football player
● 1979 - Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
● 1980 - C. C. Sabathia, American baseball player
● 1981 - Titus Bramble, English footballer
● 1981 - Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist
● 1981 - Veronica Belmont, CNET TV personality
● 1981 - Blake Lewis, American Idol finalist
● 1981 - Joaquín Sánchez, Spanish footballer
● 1982 - Claudette Ortiz, American soul singer
● 1983 - Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer
● 1983 - Kellen Winslow II, American football player
● 1984 - Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
● 1985 - Vanessa Lengies, Actress ("American Dreams")
● 1985 - Von Wafer, American basketball player
● 1989 - Jamie Waylett, British actor ("Harry Potter" films)
● 1989 - Rory Culkin, American actor
● 1992 - Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
DEATHS
● 1403 - Henry Percy, English soldier (killed in battle)
● 1425 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
● 1688 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
● 1793 - Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
● 1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
● 1798 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
● 1870 - Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1827)
● 1880 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
● 1889 - Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
● 1899 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
● 1899 - Sri Sarada Devi, Saint and wife of Sri Ramakrishna (b. 1853)
● 1932 - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
● 1936 - Georg Michaelis, 6th Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1857)
● 1937 - Louis Vierne, French composer (b. 1870)
● 1938 - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
● 1941 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
● 1943 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
● 1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German army colonel who tried to assassinate Hitler (b. 1907)
● 1944 - Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
● 1946 - Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
● 1948 - David Wark Griffith, American film director (b. 1875)
● 1967 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (b. 1907)
● 1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
● 1967 - Basil Rathbone, English actor (b. 1892)
● 1968 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
● 1970 - Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
● 1970 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
● 1972 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
● 1982 - Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
● 1986 - Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
● 1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923)
● 1998 - Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
● 2001 - Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
● 2003 - John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938)
● 2003 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
● 2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
● 2004 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
● 2005 - Andrzej Grubba, Polish table tennis player (b. 1958)
● 2005 - Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
● 2005 - Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928)
● 2006 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
● 2006 - Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Arbogastus, bishop of Strasburg, confessor
● St. Barhadbesciabus, martyr
● St. Daniel
● Sts. John & Benignus
● St. John of Edessa
● St. Julia, virgin, martyr at Troyes
● St. Lawrence of Brindisi, priest, Doctor of the Church
● St. Praxedes (Praxidis)
● St. Serenedus, confessor
● St. Victor of Marseilles, and companions, martyrs
● St. Wastrada
● St. Zoticus, bishop of Comana, martyr
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 8 (Civil Date: July 21)
● Great-Martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palestine
● St. Procopius, fool-for-Christ, Wonderworker of Ustiug (Vologda).
● St. Theophilus the Myrrh-gusher of Pantocrator Monastery on Mt. Athos.
● New-Martyr Anastasius at Constantinople.
● Righteous Procopius of Usya (Vologda), fool-for-Christ.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Theodosia, mother of Great-Martyr Procopius.
● Appearance of the "Kazan" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Weeping Novgorod Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of Tender Feeling".
● "Peschanskaya" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Belgium: National holiday (1831—inauguration of Léopold I, first king of the Belgians)
● Bolivia: Martyrs' Day
● Bhutan: 3rd King of Bhutan's Death
● Guam: Liberation Day (1944)
● Russia: summer Kazanskaya
● Singapore: Racial Harmony Day
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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