Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Sex "Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best." — Woody Allen
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Undermining Public Education "All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith. . . .That's not the case in a public school where there are so many different kids with different kinds of values." — Rod Paige, secretary of education, appointed by George W. Bush to advocate for the public schools
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "Beginning in February 1976, your assistance benefits will be discontinued. Reason: It has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976." — from a letter from the Illinois Department of Public Aid
Thought for the day: "To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them."
{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
Full Moondark
Credit & Copyright: Frank Barrett
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EVENTS
● 1493 - Great fire in Moscow.
● 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed on order from Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
● 1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
● 1588 - Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
● 1609 - Bermuda is first settled, by survivors of the English Sea Venture, en route to Virginia.
● 1637 - Anne Hutchinson banished from Boston because of her independent religious views.
● 1675 - Death of Bulstrode Whitelocke 69, an influential English lawyer during the Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell. Among Whitelocke's last words: 'There has been one true religion in the world; and that is the work of the Spirit of God in the hearts and souls of men.'
● 1742 - Prussia and Austria end First Schleswig War with Peace of Breslau, Prussia.
● 1750 - Composer Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig, Germany, at age 65.
● 1794 - French Reign of Terror architect Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
● 1809 - Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera - Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a much larger French force under Joseph Bonaparte.
● 1821 - Peru: Jose de San Martin declares independence from Spain. (National Day)
● 1830 - Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe
● 1849 - Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY
● 1851 - Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
● 1862 - Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, MO
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church - The battle begins on this day when Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
● 1865 - The American Dental Association proposed its first code of ethics.
● 1866 - The metric system was legalized by the U.S. Congress for the standardization of weights and measures throughout the United States.
● 1868 - The 14th Amendment, giving equal rights to all non-Indian men, becomes part of the U.S. Constitution. The amendment also guarantees due process of law. {Of course, American native men are still waiting for their equal rights.}
● 1869 - Women shoemakers found Daughters of St. Crispin, one of the earliest national women's unions, in Lynn, Mass., to demand equal pay.
● 1873 - The Japanese government implements land and tax reform as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
● 1878 - Great Britain's William Gowland becomes the first non-Japanese to reach Yarigatake peak (3,180 meters), and he names the mountain the Japanese Alps, a name that is eventually used to refer to the entire mountain range.
● 1881 - Birth of J. Gresham Machen, an American Presbyterian theologian who taught at Princeton and Westminster seminaries. Two of his writings still endure: 'New Testament Greek for Beginners' (1923) and 'The Virgin Birth of Christ' (1932).
● 1883 - Shocks triggered by the volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000
● 1889 - The first Divine Liturgy (worship service) of the Armenian Church in America was celebrated in Worcester, MA. It was led by Rev. Hovsep Sarajian, himself the first Armenian clergyman to come to America.
● 1896 - The city of Miami, FL, was incorporated.
● 1900 - Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
● 1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war.
● 1915 - 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynchings
● 1915 - Haitians revolt and U.S. Marines invade and take control of government. Mass repression of grass roots organizations follows. Marines stay until 1924
● 1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the American first lady noted for her style and elegance, was born.
● 1930 - 114° F (46° C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
● 1931 - Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
● 1932 - Gen. Douglas McArthur and troops, ignoring direct orders from Pres. Herbert Hoover, forcibly evicts bonus marchers from their encampment on other side of the Anacostia River from the capitol. Washington, D.C. {This begins a pattern for McArthur that ends when President Harry Truman fires him for disobeying direct orders from the President.}
● 1934 - 118° F (48° C), Orofino, Idaho (state record)
● 1935 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1386 Storeria
● 1938 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1485 Isa
● 1941 - Plans for the Pentagon were approved by the U.S. House of Representatives.
● 1942 - Death of W. M. Flinders Petrie, 89, English archaeologist. He was regarded by colleague William Foxwell Albright as 'the greatest genius among biblical archaeologists.'
● 1942 - L.A. Thatcher received a patent for a coin-operated mailbox. The device stamped envelopes when money was inserted.
● 1942 - Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Russia
● 1942 - World War II: USSR leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately killed.
● 1943 - Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US
● 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
● 1945 - A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.
● 1945 - Six thousand at "Peace and the People" rally, Trafalgar Square, London.
● 1945 - US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2
● 1948 - I. G. Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
● 1955 - The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
● 1958 - Lord Jellicoe makes his maiden speech in the House of Lords.
● 1959 - In preparation for statehood, Hawaiians voted to send the first Chinese-American, Hiram L. Fong, to the Senate and the first Japanese-American, Daniel K. Inouye, to the House of Representatives.
● 1960 - American Trappist Thomas Merton wrote in a letter: 'I can depend less and lesson my own power and sense of direction... It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way.'
● 1960 - Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon
● 1962 - 19 die in a train crash in Steelton Pa
● 1962 - Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
● 1964 - Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
● 1965 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
● 1966 - Riots break out in black sections of Baltimore.
● 1968 - American Indian Movement (AIM) founded in Minneapolis to deal with problems of relocated urban Indians.
● 1972 - National dock strike begins; Thousands of British dockers begin an official strike to safeguard jobs.
● 1973 - Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched
● 1974 - 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)
● 1976 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
● 1977 - 1st oil flow through the Alaska pipeline
● 1977 - Roy Wilkins turned over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks
● 1978 - Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3188 & #3422
● 1980 - Fernando Terry becomes president of Peru
● 1983 - NASA launches Telstar-3A
● 1986 - NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
● 1988 - Ashdown to lead Britain's third party; The MP for Yeovil, Paddy Ashdown, is elected the first leader of the new Social and Liberal Democrat Party.
● 1988 - Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
● 1988 - Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
● 1988 - Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
● 1989 - NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
● 1990 - Blackout hits Chicago
● 1995 - A jury in Union, S.C., sentenced Susan Smith to life in prison for drowning her two young sons.
● 1996 - Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
● 1997 - Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1998 - Monica Lewinsky received blanket immunity from prosecution to testify before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton.
● 1998 - Serbian military forces seized the Kosovo town of Malisevo.
● 2000 - Last prisoners leave the Maze; Nearly 80 men imprisoned for terrorist offences are freed from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
● 2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, were rescued after 77 hours underground.
● 2004 - The Democratic National Convention in Boston nominated Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry for president.
● 2005 - A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
● 2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (The PIRA) call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
● 2006 - Researchers announced that two ancient reptiles had been found off Australia. The Umoonasaurus and Opallionectes were the first of their kind to be found in the period soon after the Jurassic era.
● 2006 - Actor-director Mel Gibson launched an anti-Semitic tirade as he was arrested in Malibu, Calif., for driving drunk; Gibson later apologized and was sentenced to probation and alcohol treatment.
● 2061 - 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet {It will be if we survive to record it.}
BIRTHS
● 1456 - Jacopo Sannazzaro, Italian poet (d. 1530)
● 1609 - Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
● 1659 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
● 1746 - Thomas Heyward, Jr., American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809)
● 1750 - Fabre d'Églantine French dramatist and politician, creator of the French Republican calendar (d. 1794)
● 1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
● 1815 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
● 1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
● 1857 - Ballington Booth, co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
● 1860 - Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
● 1863 - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
● 1866 - Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
● 1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
● 1872 - Albert Sarraut, French politician (d. 1962)
● 1874 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (d. 1945)
● 1879 - Lucy Burns, American woman suffragist (d. 1966)
● 1887 - Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
● 1896 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
● 1901 - Harry Bridges, Australian-born American labor leader (d. 1990)
● 1901 - Rudy Vallee, American entertainer (d. 1986)
● 1901 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
● 1902 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
● 1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1990)
● 1907 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
● 1909 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (d. 1957)
● 1914 - Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
● 1914 - Woody Strode, American actor (d. 1994)
● 1915 - Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1915 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician (d. 1998)
● 1916 - David Brown, American film producer
● 1920 - Andrew V. McLaglen, Director
● 1922 - Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born undersea explorer
● 1925 - Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
● 1927 - John Ashbery, American poet
● 1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
● 1930 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
● 1930 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
● 1931 - Darryl Hickman, Actor
● 1934 - Jacques d'Amboise, American choreographer
● 1935 - Simon Dee, British television broadcaster
● 1936 - Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
● 1936 - Garfield Sobers, Barbadian West Indies cricketer
● 1938 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
● 1938 - Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician and Former Prime Minister of Thailand
● 1940 - Philip Proctor, American comedian
● 1941 - Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
● 1942 - Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
● 1943 - Mike Bloomfield, American musician (d. 1981)
● 1943 - Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
● 1943 - Richard Wright English musician (Pink Floyd)
● 1945 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist ("Garfield")
● 1945 - Rick Wright, Rock musician (Pink Floyd)
● 1946 - Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist
● 1946 - Linda Kelsey, American actress ("Lou Grant")
● 1946 - Jonathan Edwards, Singer
● 1947 - Dick Ebersol, TV producer
● 1948 - Georgia Engel, American actress ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
● 1948 - Sally Struthers, American actress ("All in the Family")
● 1949 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (d. 1980)
● 1949 - Vida Blue, American baseball player
● 1949 - Simon Kirke, Rock musician (Bad Company)
● 1951 - Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
● 1951 - Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
● 1952 - Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
● 1952 - Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
● 1954 - Steve Morse, American guitarist (Deep Purple)
● 1954 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
● 1954 - Bruce Abbott, American actor
● 1954 - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
● 1955 - Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
● 1957 - Scott Pelley, Broadcast journalist ("60 Minutes")
● 1958 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist (d. 1981)
● 1961 - Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
● 1962 - Rachel Sweet, American singer
● 1963 - Michael Hayden, Actor
● 1964 - Lori Loughlin, American actress
● 1965 - Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
● 1965 - Delfeayo Marsalis, jazz musician
● 1966 - Armando J. Tirado, American lawyer
● 1967 - Taka Hirose, Japanese musician (Feeder)
● 1969 - Garth Snow, American ice hockey player
● 1969 - Alexis Arquette, American actor
● 1970 - Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
● 1971 - Stephen Lynch, American musician
● 1972 - Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
● 1972 - Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
● 1972 - Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress
● 1973 - Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1974 - Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
● 1974 - Afroman, Rapper, singer
● 1974 - Dan Konopka, Rock musician (OK Go)
● 1975 - Todd Anderson, Country musician (Heartland)
● 1975 - Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
● 1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
● 1977 - Tiago Andres Vaz, Brazilian composer
● 1977 - Emanuel Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
● 1977 - Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
● 1979 - Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
● 1979 - Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
● 1981 - Michael Carrick, English footballer
● 1981 - Jo In Sung, South Korean actor
● 1981 - Carly Goodwin, Country singer
● 1982 - Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
● 1984 - DeMeco Ryans, American football player
● 1984 - Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
● 1985 - Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
● 1985 - Tynisha Keli, American singer
● 1986 - Alexandra Chando, American actress
● 1988 - Ayla Brown, American singer
● 1991 - Jesse Morden, Black Republican
DEATHS
● 450 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)
● 1057 - Pope Victor II
● 1128 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
● 1230 - Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
● 1285 - Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
● 1527 - Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador
● 1540 - Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman
● 1631 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
● 1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
● 1667 - Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
● 1675 - Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
● 1685 - Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
● 1718 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
● 1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
● 1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
● 1762 - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
● 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
● 1794 - Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767)
● 1818 - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
● 1835 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
● 1842 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
● 1844 - Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
● 1849 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
● 1869 - Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
● 1878 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
● 1930 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
● 1934 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
● 1942 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
● 1957 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
● 1965 - Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
● 1967 - Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942)
● 1968 - Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
● 1969 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)
● 1971 - Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
● 1972 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
● 1972 - Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
● 1982 - Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1953)
● 1997 - Seni Pramoj, Thai politician, Thai Prime Minister (b. 1905)
● 1996 - Marguerite "Marge" Ganser, American singer (Shangri-Las) (b. 1948)
● 1999 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
● 2000 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and science historian (b. 1918)
● 2002 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
● 2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled (b. 1918)
● 2004 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
● 2004 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
● 2004 - Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
● 2006 - David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Seven Sleepers, martyrs
● St. Ada
● St. Anne
● St. Arduinus
● St. Botwid, martyr
● St. Camelianus (Himerius), bishop of Troyes
● Sts. Celsus & St. Nazarius
● St. Columba, virgin at Sens, martyr
● St. Eustace
● St. Lucidius
● St. Lyutis
● St. Michael Abba Ghebra, martyr
● Sts. Nazarius and Celsus, martyrs
● St. Pantaleon, martyr
● St. Peregrinus, priest, confessor
● St. Samson, bishop of Dol, confessor
● St. Ursus, abbot, confessor
● Sts. Victor I and Innocent I, popes, martyrs
● Bl. Anthony della Chiesa
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 15 (Civil Date: July 28)
● Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Great Prince Vladimir (in holy baptism Basil), Enlightener of the Russian Land
● Martyrs Cyricus (Quiricus) and his mother Julitta of Tarsus
● Martyr Abudimus of the isle of Tenedos.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Lollianus.
● Finding of the head of St. Matrona of Chios.
● Bermuda - Admiral George Somers Day (1609)
● Canada - Commemoration of the deportation of the Acadians
● Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka Eve
● Peru : Independence Day (1824)
● San Marino : Fall of Fascism Day (1943)
● US : Joseph Lee Day-honors playgrounds (1937)
● US : Volunteers of America founders day (1859)
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day - ( Monday )
● Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival - ( Friday )
IN FICTION
● 1898 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Retired Colourman"
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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