Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Self "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." — Albert Camus
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Obtuseness "Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. . . .Only atheists could accept this satanic theory." — Jimmy Swaggart {I find that ignorance re-enforced by religious faith to be the most dangerous kind.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." — Dwight D. Eisenhower {A man so gullible as to believe that Tricky Dick was honest and made him vice president for two full terms.}
Thought for the day: "There are two sides to every question, politicians take both."
{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
Hot Stars in the Rosette Nebula
Credit: Zoltan Balog (Univ. of Arizona / Univ. of Szeged) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA
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EVENTS
● 657 - Battle of Siffin.
● 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I is slain, his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded.
● 920 - Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
● 1139 - Afonso, then a count, is proclaimed first king of Portugal and declares independence from Castile.
● 1309 - Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
● 1469 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor - Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV.
● 1488 - Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier
● 1529 - Queen of Spain executes the Capitulation, which defined the powers and privileges of Pizarro in Peru.
● 1581 - Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Oath of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.
● 1603 - James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of England. He then 'authorized' an English translation of the Scriptures, first published in 1611 and known since as the 'King James Version' of the Bible.
● 1741 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Venture daily upon Christ, go out in His strength, and He will enable you to do wonders.'
● 1757 - Battle of Plassey.
● 1775 - A postal system was established by the 2nd Continental Congress of the United States. The first Postmaster General was Benjamin Franklin.
● 1788 - New York became the 11th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
● 1790 - US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts
● 1803 - The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London.
● 1822 - José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
● 1829 - In Michigan Territory, the Chippewa, Ottowa, and Potawatomi cede much of their land to U.S. government.
● 1833 - Slavery abolished in all British dominions.
● 1835 - 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
● 1847 - Republic of Liberia, a West African nation founded by freed American slaves, formally becomes a country with the issuance of a Declaration of Independence closely modeled on the American Declaration.
● 1848 - 1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
● 1856 - Playwright George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland.
● 1861 - American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
● 1862 - James Barr, pacifist pastor, born, Scotland.
● 1863 - American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends - At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
● 1865 - Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium)
● 1869 - In England, the Disestablishment Bill was passed, officially dissolving the Church of Ireland. (Organized opposition to this legislation coined one of longest words in the English language: antidisestablishmentarianism.)
● 1874 - Order given that friendly Indians were to remain in fixed camps at Wichita Agency, Oklahoma (Indian) Territory, and answer periodic roll calls.
● 1875 - Carl (Gustav) Jung , one of the founders of analytic psychology, was born.
● 1877 - Police kill 20 striking workers, Chicago.
● 1878 - In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
● 1881 - Thomas Edison and Patrick Kenny execute a patent application for a facsimile telegraph (U.S. Pat. 479,184).
● 1887 - L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Dr. Esperanto's International Language".
● 1891 - France annexes Tahiti.
● 1893 - Commercial production of the Addressograph started in Chicago, IL.
● 1894 - Aldous Huxley born. English novelist/critic, pacifist. Godalming, Surrey, England.
● 1905 - P Gotz discovers asteroid #568 Cheruskia
● 1907 - The Chester was launched. It was the first turbine-propelled ship.
● 1908 - United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
● 1914 - Serbia and Bulgaria interrupts diplomatic relationship.
● 1918 - Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed)
● 1926 - National Bar Association incorporates
● 1926 - The sanctuary of Our Lady of Victory, in Lackawanna, NY, became the first Roman Catholic church in the U.S. to be consecrated a basilica.
● 1929 - General strike in Rosario, Argentina is marked with “great violence and bloodshed.”
● 1934 - Assassination of Austrian Chancellor engelbert Dollfuss.
● 1935 - The Open Bible Standard Churches was formed when two smaller revival movements with similar objectives merged. OBSCI is headquartered today in Des Moines.
● 1936 - The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
● 1937 - End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
● 1941 - World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
● 1943 - 120° F (49° C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record)
● 1944 - The first German V-2 hits Great Britain.
● 1944 - World War II: Soviet army enters Lviv, major city of western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jewish survivors left, out of 160,000 Jews in Lviv prior to Nazi occupation.
● 1945 - The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
● 1945 - The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
● 1947 - Department of Defense established
● 1947 - U.S. armed forces consolidated in newly created Department of Defense, replacing the previous U.S. War Department. The same legislation, the National Security Act, also establishes the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and numerous other secret "black budget" government agencies outside public review.
● 1948 - André Marie becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1948 - Pres. Truman issues Executive Order 9981, directing equality of opportunity in armed forces. This is a direct order to desegregate the armed services.
● 1949 - C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1951 Lick
● 1952 - Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
● 1952 - Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.
● 1952 - King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
● 1953 - Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders a law enforcement crackdown on Short Creek, Arizona, home to a polygamous sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
● 1953 - Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba
● 1953 - Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba. Castro eventually ousted Batista six years later.
● 1956 - Following the World Bank's decline to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
● 1957 - Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
● 1957 - USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
● 1958 - Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
● 1959 - C Hoffmeister discovers asteroid #2183
● 1963 - Earthquake in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (at the time part of Yugoslavia) - 1100 dead
● 1963 - Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
● 1963 - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
● 1964 - Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund.
● 1964 - Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
● 1965 - Martin Luther King, Jr., leads protests against housing segregation, Chicago.
● 1965 - Full independence was granted to the Maldives. The Maldives became a British Protectorate in 1887. The British made an agreement in which they pledged not to interfere with the internal affairs of the Maldives, while on foreign affairs the British were to be consulted. In return the British assured of security and protection from any colonial intimidation.
● 1966 - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
● 1967 - French president DeGaulle endorses Quebec independence from Canada.
● 1968 - Beginning of several days of student riots in Mexico City; police arrest over a thousand and kill dozens.
● 1968 - Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
● 1969 - Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
● 1971 - Apollo Program: Apollo 15 Mission - Launch of Apollo 15.
● 1971 - N Chernykh discovers asteroid #1836 Komarov
● 1974 - Greek Prime Minister Constantin Caramanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
● 1974 - USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
● 1975 - Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal.
● 1975 - Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
● 1977 - The National Assembly of Quebec imposes use of French in administration.
● 1979 - Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record)
● 1979 - Leonard Peltier recaptured six days after his escape from prison.
● 1981 - 2 climbers rappel 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
● 1981 - E Bowell discovers asteroids #2845 Franklinken & #2882 Tedesco
● 1981 - NY Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
● 1982 - Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
● 1983 - Mother loses contraception test case; A mother of 10 fails to prevent doctors prescribing contraception to under-16s without parental consent.
● 1983 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
● 1986 - Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
● 1989 - "Day of Action" riot in Berkeley, Calif.
● 1989 - A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
● 1990 - Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) becomes law.
● 1990 - The House of Representatives reprimanded Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., for ethics violations.
● 1990 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a young woman, later identified as Kimberly Bergalis, had been infected with the AIDS virus apparently by her dentist.
● 1991 - Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater
● 1993 - Italian Democrazia Cristian changes its name to People's Party.
● 1994 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin accepts to retire Russian troops from Estonia.
● 1994 - Israel's London embassy bombed; A car bomb explodes outside the Israeli embassy in London injuring 14 people.
● 1998 - AT&T and British Telecommunications PLC announced they were forming a joint venture to combine international operations and develop a new Internet system.
● 1998 - Legislative elections in Cambodia
● 2000 - A federal judge approved a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and more than a half million plaintiffs who alleged the banks had hoarded money deposited by Holocaust victims.
● 2005 - Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
● 2005 - Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
● 2006 - A jury in Houston found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning of her children in a bathtub in the second trial she faced on the charges; she was committed to a state mental hospital.
BIRTHS
● 1030 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)
● 1678 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
● 1782 - John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
● 1791 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer (d. 1844)
● 1802 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
● 1829 - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1912)
● 1855 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
● 1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1950)
● 1865 - Philipp Scheidemann, 1st Chancellors of the Weimar Republic (d. 1939)
● 1874 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951)
● 1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
● 1875 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
● 1880 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
● 1886 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
● 1892 - Sad Sam Jones, baseball player (d. 1966)
● 1894 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
● 1895 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
● 1896 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933)
● 1897 - Paul Gallico, American author (d. 1976)
● 1902 - Gracie Allen, Vaudeville, radio, television and stage actress (d. 1964)
● 1903 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963)
● 1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
● 1909 - Vivian Vance, American actress (d. 1979) (''I Love Lucy'')
● 1909 - Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
● 1914 - Erskine Hawkins, Jazz trumpeter (d. 1993)
● 1914 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (d. 1968)
● 1920 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (d. 1983)
● 1921 - Jean Shepherd, American writer (d. 1999)
● 1922 - Blake Edwards, American film director
● 1922 - Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
● 1923 - Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball player (d. 2002)
● 1925 - Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (d. 2000)
● 1926 - James Best, American actor
● 1928 - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980)
● 1928 - Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of the Italian Republic
● 1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
● 1928 - Don Beauman, British racing driver (d. 1955)
● 1929 - Alexis Weissenberg, French pianist--born in Bulgaria
● 1931 - Takashi Ono, Japanese gymnast
● 1936 - Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998)
● 1938 - Bobby Hebb, American musician
● 1938 - Darlene Love, American singer
● 1939 - John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
● 1939 - Bob Lilly, American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1940 - Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969)
● 1940 - Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer
● 1940 - Dobie Gray, R&B Singer
● 1941 - Darlene Love, R&B singer, actress
● 1941 - Brenton Wood, American singer-songwriter
● 1942 - Vladimír Mečiar, Slovak prime minister
● 1942 - Teddy Pilette, Belgian racing driver
● 1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
● 1943 - Peter Hyams, Movie director
● 1943 - Mike McConnell, Director of national intelligence
● 1945 - Helen Mirren, English actress
● 1949 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
● 1949 - Thaksin Shinawatra, ex-Prime Minister of Thailand
● 1950 - Nelinho, Brazilian football player
● 1950 - Susan George, Actress
● 1953 - Robert Phillips, classical guitarist
● 1956 - Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater
● 1957 - Nana Visitor, American actress
● 1959 - Rick Bragg, American writer
● 1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
● 1959 - Michael Ross, American serial killer (d. 2005)
● 1961 - Gary Cherone, American musician (Extreme)
● 1961 - Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer
● 1961 - Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
● 1964 - Sandra Bullock, American actress
● 1964 - Danny Woodburn, American actor
● 1964 - Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer
● 1965 - Jeremy Piven, American actor ("Entourage")
● 1966 - Wayne Wonder, Rapper, reggae singer
● 1969 - Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
● 1970 - Craig Yarnold, Canadian-born musician
● 1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress
● 1973 - Lenka Šarounová, Czech astronomer
● 1974 - Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
● 1977 - Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
● 1977 - Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer
● 1979 - Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1979 - Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player
● 1980 - Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum41)
● 1980 - Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor
● 1981 - Abe Forsythe, Australian actor/director
● 1982 - Chez Starbuck, American actor
● 1983 - Delonte West, American NBA player
● 1983 - Roderick Strong, professional wrestler
● 1985 - Gaël Clichy, French footballer
● 1987 - Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
● 1988 - Lara Jean Marshall, Australian actress
● 1993 - Taylor Momsen, American actress
DEATHS
● 796 - Offa, King of Mercia
● 811 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle)
● 1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
● 1471 - Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
● 1592 - Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
● 1611 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
● 1680 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647)
● 1684 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
● 1712 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b. 1631)
● 1723 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
● 1863 - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793)
● 1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
● 1919 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
● 1925 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848)
● 1925 - William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)
● 1925 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
● 1932 - Frederick S. Duesenberg automotive pioneer (b. 1876)
● 1935 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
● 1941 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
● 1942 - Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
● 1952 - Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919)
● 1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
● 1960 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (b. 1879)
● 1960 - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (b. 1893)
● 1864 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (b. 1884)
● 1969 - Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
● 1971 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (suicide) (b. 1923)
● 1977 - Karac Plant, Robert Plant's son, stomach infection (b. 1972)
● 1980 - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
● 1984 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901)
● 1984 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
● 1986 - Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891)
● 1988 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
● 1990 - Brent Mydland, Keyboardist from 1979-1990 for the Grateful Dead (b. 1952)
● 1992 - Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
● 2001 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
● 2001 - Rex Barber, American WW II aviator (b. 1917)
● 2005 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
● 2005 - Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Bartholomea Capitanio
● St. Beatus, confessor (at Trier)
● St. Eobanus, martyr
● St. Erastus
● St. Etherius, bishop of Auxerre, confessor
● St. Exuperius, bishop of Bayeux
● St. Germain / Germanus, bishop of Auxerre
● St. Hycinthus, martyr
● Sts. Joachim and Anne (parents of the Virgin Mary)
● St. Jodocus, priest, confessor
● St. Lupus, bishop of Troyes, confessor
● St. Marcellus, bishop of Paris, confessor
● St. Pastor, priest, confessor
● St. Rheticius, bishop of Autun, confessor
● St. Symphronius and companions, martyrs
● St. Valens
● Bl. John Ingram
● Bl. William Ward
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 13 (Civil Date: July 26)
● Synaxis of the Holy Archangel Gabriel
● St. Stephen of St. Sabbas' Monastery.
● Martyr Serapion.
● Martyr Marcian of Iconium.
● St. Julian, Bishop of Cenomanis (LeMans) in Gaul.
● Virgin Abbess Sarah of Scete in Libya.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Axion Estin" ("it is Truly Meet").
● Athens, Texas : Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree starts
● Cuba : Anniversary of Moncada Barracks attack (1953); Day of the National Rebellion
● India - Vijay Divas (end of Kargil War)
● Liberia : Independence Day (1847)
● Maldives : National Day (1965)
● New York : Ratification Day (1788)
● Sweden : Bellman Day- honoring Carl Michael Bellman
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day - ( Monday )
● Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival - ( Friday )
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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