Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Sexism "When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch." — Bette Davis
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bigotry, Chauvinism, & Theocracy "Those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Islam or to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation. For they shall live under [God's law]." — Ruhollah Khomeini, ayatollah who led an Islamic revolution in Iran
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." — Charles de Gaulle, former president of France
Thought for the day: "Never despair. If you do, you work on in despair."
{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 Center of Centaurus A
Credit: E.J. Schreier (AUI) et al., HST, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock.
● 1030 - Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad - King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
● 1565 - Mary Queen of Scots, widowed, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
● 1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
● 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
● 1693 - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen - France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
● 1715 - 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by hurricane
● 1754 - The first international boxing match was held. The 25-minute match was won when Jack Slack of Britain knocked out Jean Petit from France.
● 1773 - The first schoolhouse to be located west of the Allegheny Mountains was built in Schoenbrunn, OH.
● 1775 - The U.S. Army Chaplaincy was founded, making it the second oldest branch of that service, after the Infantry.
● 1776 - Pioneer Methodist bishop Francis Asbury remarked in his journal: 'My present mode of conduct is...to read about 100 pages a day; usually to pray in public five times a day.... If it were in my power, I would do a thousand times as much for such a gracious and blessed Master.'
● 1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
● 1830 - Abdication of Charles X of France.
● 1835 - 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
● 1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
● 1847 - Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847, only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
● 1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
● 1851 - Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
● 1858 - 1st commercial treaty between US & Japan signed, the Harris Treaty; US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan
● 1864 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
● 1866 - Birth of Thomas O. Chisholm, American Methodist pastor, teacher, editor and poet. Of the 1,200 sacred verses he penned, one later became the popular hymn: 'Great Is Thy Faithfulness.'
● 1874 - Major Walter Copton Winfield of England received U.S. patent for the lawn-tennis court.
● 1890 - Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France.
● 1895 - First National African American women's meeting, Boston, Mass.
● 1899 - The First Hague Convention is signed.
● 1900 - In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
● 1901 - U.S. Socialist Party established.
● 1905 - Birth of Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish diplomat and Secretary-General of the U.N.(1953-61). His spiritual journal 'Markings' was published in 1964, three years after his untimely death in a plane crash.
● 1914 - The first transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated when two people held a conversation between New York, NY and San Francisco, CA.
● 1915 - US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924
● 1920 - "No more war" demonstrations by disabled veterans, Germany, and in 80 towns throughout Britain.
● 1920 - 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
● 1920 - Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
● 1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
● 1923 - "No more war" demonstrations held in 23 countries.
● 1930 - 115° F (46° C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
● 1932 - Great Depression: In Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
● 1937 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1431 Luanda
● 1938 - Olympic National Park established
● 1947 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
● 1947 - Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Va
● 1951 - Conference of Africans, Indians and Coloureds agrees on mass campaign for end of oppressive new "apartheid" laws, South Africa.
● 1952 - 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
● 1956 - Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
● 1957 - International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
● 1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.
● 1958 - Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
● 1958 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was authorized by the U.S. Congress.
● 1959 - First congressional elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
● 1960 - J Schubart discovers asteroid #2000 Herschel
● 1961 - Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
● 1965 - Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
● 1965 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
● 1967 - At the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela was shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
● 1967 - Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
● 1968 - Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
● 1968 - Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's stance against artificial methods of birth control.
● 1968 - Riots rock Seattle's Central Area after a police raid on the local Black Panther Party headquarters. Seattle BPP leader Aaron Dixon is arrested for possession of a stolen typewriter. (He is later acquitted.) Sixty-nine are arrested in riots over the following three days.
● 1969 - Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
● 1970 - 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
● 1970 - After a five-year strike, United Farm Workers sign contract with grape growers, California.
● 1972 - U.S. Supreme Court declares death penalty unconstututional.
● 1973 - Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
● 1974 - 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee
● 1974 - Former Treasury Secretary John Connally indicted on charges involving the acceptance of a bribe, perjury, and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
● 1974 - The first eleven women priests in the Episcopal Church were ordained in Philadelphia's Church of the Advocate.
● 1975 - Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
● 1975 - OAS (Organization of American States) members voted to lift collective sanctions against Cuba. The U.S. government welcomed the action and announced its intention to open serious discussions with Cuba on normalization.
● 1976 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
● 1976 - Fire engulfs Southend Pier; Fire has destroyed the famous pierhead at the end of the world's longest pier, in Southend on the UK's southeast coast.
● 1978 - Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings
● 1979 - New Left theorist and radical hero Herbert Marcuse dies. Makes "The Communist Manifesto" sexier and gives Freud more class.
● 1981 - Both houses of Congress pass Reagan's tax-cut legislation. The bill, the largest tax cut in the nation's history, was expected to reduce taxes by$37.6 billion in fiscal year 1982, and save taxpayers $750 billion over the next five years. {Basic arithmetic was never a strong point of Reagan.}
● 1985 - 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
● 1985 - General Motors announced that Spring Hill, TN, would be the home of the Saturn automobile assembly plant.
● 1987 - British PM Margaret Thatcher and French president François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
● 1987 - Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issue.
● 1988 - FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
● 1988 - Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989
● 1988 - Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
● 1990 - U.S. Ambassador April Gillespie infers to Iraqi Pres. Saddam Hussein that the Bush Administration has no objection to his plan to invade Kuwait.
● 1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible." His death sentence was thrown out and he was set free.
● 1993 - Lawrence murder suspects freed; Charges are dropped against two youths accused of murdering black teenager Stephen Lawrence.
● 1996 - The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
● 1997 - Minamata Bay in Japan was declared free of mercury 40 years after contaminated food fish were blamed for deaths and birth defects.
● 1998 - The United Auto Workers union ended a 54-day strike against General Motors. The strike caused $2.8 billion in lost revenues.
● 1998 - Choreographer Jerome Robbins died at age 79.
● 1999 - Day trader Mark O. Barton killed nine people and wounded 13 others in a shooting rampage in Atlanta, GA. He wife and two children had been found bludgeoned to death earlier in the day.
● 2004 - U.S. Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts accepts the Democratic nomination for President of the United States at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
● 2005 - Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris, a possible tenth planet. {Larger than Pluto it is now classified a dwarf planet as is Pluto.}
● 2006 - The U.S. command announced it was sending 3,700 troops to Baghdad to try to quell sectarian violence sweeping the Iraqi capital.
BIRTHS
● 1166 - Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
● 1605 - Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
● 1763 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)
● 1801 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
● 1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
● 1825 - George Pendleton, American legislator and sponsor of the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 (d. 1889)
● 1843 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
● 1849 - Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
● 1865 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
● 1869 - Booth Tarkington, American author (d. 1946)
● 1872 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
● 1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
● 1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (d. 1949)
● 1878 - Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
● 1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
● 1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
● 1884 - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
● 1885 - Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
● 1887 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
● 1892 - William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
● 1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
● 1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
● 1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
● 1900 - Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
● 1900 - Owen Lattimore, American writer, lecturer, sinologist; and victim of McCarthyism (d. 1989)
● 1904 - J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
● 1905 - Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
● 1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
● 1905 - Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935)
● 1905 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
● 1906 - Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
● 1907 - Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
● 1911 - Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
● 1913 - Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
● 1914 - Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian
● 1916 - Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
● 1916 - Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
● 1918 - Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968)
● 1920 - Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974)
● 1923 - Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification.
● 1924 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
● 1924 - Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
● 1924 - Robert Horton, Actor
● 1925 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
● 1925 - Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player
● 1927 - Harry Mulisch, Dutch author
● 1929 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
● 1930 - Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
● 1932 - Nancy Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas
● 1933 - Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
● 1933 - Colin Davis, British racing driver
● 1934 - Robert Fuller, Actor
● 1935 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
● 1936 - Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
● 1937 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
● 1938 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist (d. 2005)
● 1941 - David Warner, Canadian actor
● 1942 - Tony Sirico, American actor
● 1943 - David Taylor, English snooker player
● 1946 - Neal Doughty, Rock musician (REO Speedwagon)
● 1947 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006)
● 1949 - Marilyn Quayle, Wife of former Vice President Dan Quayle {and the only brains in the family}
● 1950 - Mike Starr, Actor
● 1951 - Dan Driessen, American baseball player
● 1953 - Ken Burns, American producer and director
● 1953 - Geddy Lee, Canadian musician (Rush)
● 1953 - Patti Scialfa, Rock singer, musician (The E Street Band)
● 1955 - Dave Stevens, American illustrator
● 1956 - Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
● 1956 - Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
● 1957 - Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
● 1957 - Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
● 1959 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
● 1959 - Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
● 1959 - Dave LaPoint, American baseball player
● 1959 - John Sykes, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang)
● 1962 - Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
● 1963 - Graham Poll, English referee
● 1963 - Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
● 1963 - Alexandra Paul, Actress
● 1965 - Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
● 1965 - Luis Alicea, baseball coach
● 1965 - Gail Simone, comic book writer
● 1966 - Martina McBride, American singer
● 1966 - Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor
● 1967 - Chris Gorman, Rock musician
● 1969 - Adele Stevens, English model and erotic actress
● 1972 - Wil Wheaton, American actor ("Star Trek: The Next Generation")
● 1973 - Stephen Dorff, American actor
● 1973 - Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
● 1974 - Josh Radnor, Actor ("How I Met Your Mother")
● 1975 - Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
● 1976 - Josh Radnor, American actor
● 1977 - Danger Mouse, DJ (Gnarls Barkley)
● 1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
● 1979 - Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
● 1979 - Ronald Murray, American basketball player
● 1980 - Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
● 1980 - Rachel Miner, American actress
● 1981 - Fernando Alonso, Spanish race car driver
● 1981 - Andrés Madrid, Argentine footballer
● 1982 - Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
● 1982 - Janez Aljančič, Slovenian footballer
● 1982 - Allison Mack, American actress ("Smallville")
● 1983 - Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player
● 1991 - Miki Ishikawa, American actress and singer
DEATHS
● 238 - Pupienus, Roman Emperor
● 238 - Balbinus, Roman Emperor
● 1030 - Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)
● 1099 - Pope Urban II (b. 1042)
● 1108 - Philip I of France (b. 1052)
● 1507 - Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
● 1612 - Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
● 1644 - Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
● 1752 - Peter Warren, British admiral
● 1781 - Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
● 1792 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
● 1813 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
● 1833 - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
● 1839 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
● 1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
● 1856 - Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
● 1857 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
● 1887 - Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
● 1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
● 1900 - King Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
● 1913 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
● 1938 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
● 1950 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
● 1951 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (b. 1883)
● 1954 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
● 1964 - Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
● 1970 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
● 1973 - Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
● 1974 - Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941)
● 1974 - Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
● 1975 - James Blish, American writer (b. 1921)
● 1976 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
● 1979 - Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898)
● 1979 - Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
● 1981 - Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)
● 1982 - Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor (b. 1920)
● 1982 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist and inventor (b. 1889)
● 1983 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (b. 1900)
● 1983 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
● 1983 - David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
● 1984 - Fred Waring, American band leader and inventor (b. 1900)
● 1990 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
● 1994 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1910)
● 1994 - Megan Kanka, rape victim, basis of Megan's Law (b. 1986)
● 1996 - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
● 1996 - Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
● 1996 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
● 1998 - Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (b. 1918)
● 2001 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
● 2001 - Wau Holland, German hacker (b. 1951)
● 2003 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
● 2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Beatrice of Nazareth
● St. Callinicus
● St. Domnius, bishop of Salona, martyr
● St. Eugenius / Eugeus, king
● St. Faustinus
● St. Felix I, pope, and companions, Sts. Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrice (siblings), martyrs
● St. Kilian
● St. Ladislas, king, confessor
● St. Lazarus
● St. Lucilla & Companions
● St. Lupus, bishop of Troyes, confessor
● St. Martha Wang
● St. Martha, host of Christ, sister of Lazarus, patron St. of cooks, domestic staff and dieticians
● St. Olaf II of Norway, king of Norway, martyr, patron of woodcarvers
● St. Olaf of Sweden, king of Sweden, martyr
● St. Pantaleon
● St. Serafina
● St. Suliavus, abbot, confessor
● St. William Pinchon, bishop of Saint-Brieuc, confessor
● Bl. John Baptist Lo
● Bl. Joseph Tshang
● Bl. Louis Bertran
● Bl. Mancius of the Holy Cross
● Bl. Paul Tcheng
● Bl. Peter of the Holy Mother of God
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 16 (Civil Date: July 29)
● Hieromartyr Athenogenes, Bishop of Heracleopolis, and his ten disciples.
● Martyrs Paul and two sisters, Chionia (Thea) and Alevtina (Valentina), at Caesaria in Palestine.
● Martyr Antiochus, physician of Sebaste.
● Martyr Faustus.
● Virgin Martyr Julia of Carthage.
● Greek Calendar:
● 1015 Martyrs of Pisidia.
● Martyr Athenogenes.
● Repose of Elder Theodore of Glinsk Hermitage (1859).
● Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka: opening of the Løgting session.
● Norway : Olsok Eve Festival (1030)
● Romania - National Anthem Day
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● 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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