Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Silence "Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself, so that you can hear it in other people." — Marian Wright Edelman
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." — Pat Robertson
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "Poultry waste . . . is something that continues to threaten our country." — Tom Daschle, senator from South Dakota
Thought for the day: "Too many pray for peace with their fists clenched."
{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 Four Suns of HD 98800
Illustration Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 579 - Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 657 - St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague.
● 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. Indians meet Columbus' sailors at Guanjara, off the coast of Honduras. {Far too many find this to be literally the end of their lives.}
● 1608 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
● 1619 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
● 1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
● 1629 - The Puritans of Salem, Mass. appointed Francis Higginson as their teacher and Samuel Skelton as their pastor. The church covenant, composed afterward by these two men, allowed into communion only those who could prove a sound doctrinal knowledge and an experience of grace in their lives.
● 1718 - Death of William Penn, 74, English Quaker and founder of American colony of Pennsylvania. Penn permitted in his colony all forms of public worship compatible with monotheism and religious liberty.
● 1729 - The city of Baltimore was founded in Maryland.
● 1733 - Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
● 1756 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
● 1792 - The French national anthem "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung by 500 Marseillaisian in Paris.
● 1822 - Pioneer church founder James Varick, 72, was consecrated the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
● 1825 - Malden Island discovered.
● 1836 - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
● 1839 - Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
● 1844 - 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
● 1863 - Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
● 1863 - President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot. {Creating a terrible extension of Gandhi's observation that in a country that practices an eye for an eye, there is a country full of blind men.}
● 1863 - Henry Ford, the American automobile manufacturer who founded the Ford Motor Company, was born.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
● 1866 - Police shoot into an assembly of blacks outside the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans, and a crowd of whites then storm the hall. By the time federal troops restored order, 38 were dead and 136 wounded--almost all of them black.
● 1867 - Congress sets up Peace Commission with three stated objectives - (1) to end Indian Wars by giving them whatever they wanted; (2) to make peaceful farmers of them; and (3) to get their permission to build railroads across the plains. As with most peace commissions, the government ignored the objectives and did what it wanted to anyway.
● 1870 - Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100
● 1874 - 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
● 1892 - Carnegia steelworkers have shoot-out with police, Penn.
● 1905 - M Wolf discovers asteroid #570 Kythera
● 1908 - Around the World Autombile Race ends in Paris
● 1909 - US Army accepts delivery of 1st military airplane
● 1911 - J Palisa discovers asteroid #716 Berkeley
● 1912 - Belgium - Beginning of general strike.
● 1913 - Conclusion of the 2nd Balkan War
● 1916 - G Neujmin discovers asteroid #951 Gaspra
● 1916 - German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
● 1922 - K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #983 Gunila
● 1923 - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
● 1928 - George Eastman demonstrates 1st color movie
● 1932 - G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #2253 Espinette
● 1937 - The American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) was organized as a part of the American Federation of Labor.
● 1938 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1467 Mashona
● 1938 - Hitler presents highest non-citizen award to Henry Ford in Berlin.
● 1942 - German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
● 1942 - The WAVES were created by legislation signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The members of the Women's Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service were a part of the U.S. Navy.
● 1945 - The USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian. Only 316 out of 1,196 men aboard survived the attack.
● 1946 - 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
● 1951 - E L Johnson discovers asteroid #2718
● 1956 - A Joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto.
● 1956 - Birth of Anita Hill, whose testimony of sexual harassment in Judge Clarence Thomas' hearings for confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court became a lightning rod for sexual harassment, gender, and race debate.
● 1965 - U.S. President Johnson signed into law Social Security Act that established Medicare and Medicaid. It went into effect the following year.
● 1967 - Four die during riots in black sections of Milwaukee.
● 1969 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with U.S. military commanders.
● 1970 - Smirnova discover asteroid 1835 Gajdariya, 2032 Ethel & 2349 Kurchenko
● 1971 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
● 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission - David Scott and James Irwin on Lunar module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
● 1973 - Grand Opening of Left Bank Books Collective, Seattle, Washington. A split off from Red and Black Books Collective (before it had even opened).
● 1973 - Final deal for thalidomide victims; An 11-year legal battle ends with more than £20 million compensation for victims of thalidomide.
● 1974 - The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Nixon for blocking the Watergate investigation and for abuse of power.
● 1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
● 1974 - Peace deal for Cyprus; Greek, Turkish and UK foreign ministers sign a peace agreement for Cyprus.
● 1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
● 1976 - Death of Rudolf Bultmann, 92, German Bible scholar and one of the three major pioneers of modern form 'criticism' (i.e., 'analysis') of the New Testament Gospels.
● 1980 - British New Hebrides becomes independent & takes name Vanuatu
● 1983 - Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif
● 1984 - Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
● 1985 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
● 1986 - Parents appeal for missing agent; The parents of missing London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh make an emotional appeal for her safe return.
● 1990 - Women and children massacred by army, Liberia, Africa.
● 1991 - Quebec natives announce they will determine their own course if Quebec secedes from Canada.
● 1996 - A federal law enforcement source said that security guard Richard Jewell had become the focus of the investigation into the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park. Jewell was later cleared as a suspect.
● 1996 - Four Ploughshares activists in England acquitted of all charges on the basis of preventing a greater crime, after having extensively damaged an F-16 fighter jet set to be sold to the Indonesian government in its genocidal occupation of East Timor. Liverpool, England.
● 1996 - Actress Claudette Colbert died at age 92.
● 1997 - 14 Israelis were killed in a double suicide bombing in a Jerusalem marketplace. The Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility for the bombings.
● 1997 - Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
● 1998 - A group of Ohio machine-shop workers (who call themselves the Lucky 13) won the $295.7 million Powerball jackpot. It was the largest-ever American lottery.
● 1998 - Appeal Court quashes conviction of Derek Bentley, 45 years after he was hanged, London, Britain.
● 1998 - "Buffalo Bob" Smith, the cowboy-suited host of "The Howdy Doody Show," died at age 80.
● 2002 - Expelled from Congress a week earlier, an unrepentant James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption.
● 2002 - The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" was signed into law by United States President George W. Bush.
● 2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
● 2003 - Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, who discovered Elvis Presley, died at age 80.
● 2004 - A gas explosion kills 16 people in Belgium.
● 2006 - At least 28 Lebanon civilians, including 16 children, were killed when Israel Air Force attacked a building in Qana in what is called the Second Qana massacre.
BIRTHS
● 1470 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (d. 1505)
● 1511 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (d. 1574)
● 1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
● 1641 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
● 1691 - Brendan Byrne, Irish writer (d. 1949)
● 1763 - Samuel Rogers, English author (d. 1855)
● 1818 - Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
● 1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
● 1856 - Richard Burdon Haldane, Scottish lawyer, philosopher, and statesman (d. 1928)
● 1857 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)
● 1859 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
● 1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
● 1880 - Robert McCormick, American newspaper editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune (d. 1955)
● 1881 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
● 1889 - Franz Masereel, Belgian painter (d. 1972)
● 1889 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist (d. 1982)
● 1890 - Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975)
● 1893 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
● 1895 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
● 1898 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
● 1899 - Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)
● 1904 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
● 1904 - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (d. 1918)
● 1909 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian (d. 1993)
● 1910 - Edgar de Evia, American mountain climber (d. 2003)
● 1914 - Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (d. 1999)
● 1916 - Dick Wilson, American actor
● 1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
● 1921 - Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
● 1925 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)
● 1926 - Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
● 1927 - Richard Johnson, Actor
● 1928 - Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
● 1929 - Sid Krofft, Canadian children's television producer
● 1930 - Thomas Sowell, American economist
● 1933 - Edward Byrnes, American actor
● 1934 - Bud Selig, baseball commissioner
● 1936 - Buddy Guy, American guitarist and singer
● 1936 - Infanta Pilar of Spain
● 1937 - Keizo Obuchi, 84th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
● 1938 - Hervé de Charette, French politician
● 1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
● 1939 - Eleanor Smeal, Feminist activist
● 1940 - Pat Schroeder, American politician
● 1940 - Clive Sinclair, British entrepreneur
● 1941 - Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
● 1945 - David Sanborn, American musician
● 1946 - Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
● 1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and Governor of California
● 1947 - William Atherton, American actor
● 1948 - Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
● 1948 - Otis Taylor, Blues guitarist
● 1950 - Frank Stallone, American singer and actor
● 1954 - Ken Olin, Actor
● 1956 - Delta Burke, American actress ("Designing Women")
● 1956 - Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1956 - Anita Hill, American author
● 1957 - Nery Pumpido, Argentine football goalkeeper
● 1957 - Rat Scabies, British musician
● 1957 - Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
● 1958 - Kate Bush, British musician
● 1958 - Daley Thompson, English decathlete
● 1958 - Richard Burgi, Actor
● 1958 - Neal McCoy, Country singer
● 1960 - Richard Linklater, American director
● 1961 - Laurence Fishburne, American actor
● 1962 - Alton Brown, American television host and chef
● 1963 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress ("Friends")
● 1963 - Chris Mullin, basketball player
● 1963 - Danny Roberts, Country musician (The Grascals)
● 1964 - Vivica A. Fox, American actress
● 1964 - Jürgen Klinsmann, German football player and manager
● 1964 - Dwayne O'Brien, Country musician (Little Texas)
● 1968 - Terry Crews, Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris")
● 1968 - Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
● 1969 - Simon Baker, American actor
● 1970 - Christopher Nolan, British film director ("Batman Begins," "Memento")
● 1971 - Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
● 1971 - Christine Taylor, American actress
● 1973 - Markus Naslund, Swedish icehockey player
● 1973 - Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor
● 1973 - Dean Edwards, Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
● 1974 - Hilary Swank, American actress
● 1974 - Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer
● 1975 - Graham Nicholls, British artist
● 1975 - Cherie Priest, American writer
● 1977 - Jaime Pressley, American actress
● 1979 - Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish professional golfer
● 1979 - Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
● 1980 - Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
● 1981 - Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
● 1982 - Matthew Johnson, American rapper
● 1983 - Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
● 1984 - Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
● 1985 - Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
● 1986 - Adam Nelson, English Maestro
● 1990 - Martin Stosch, German singer
● 2002 - Young Crown Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, second in line to the Nepalese throne
DEATHS
● 578 - Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
● 579 - Pope Benedict I
● 1540 - Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
● 1540 - Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
● 1550 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
● 1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
● 1680 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
● 1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
● 1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
● 1715 - Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652)
● 1718 - William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
● 1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
● 1811 - Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
● 1875 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
● 1898 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
● 1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
● 1912 - Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
● 1918 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
● 1947 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
● 1965 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
● 1970 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
● 1971 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
● 1983 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
● 1983 - Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
● 1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
● 1989 - Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
● 1992 - Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914)
● 1993 - Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
● 1996 - Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)
● 1997 - Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
● 2003 - Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
● 2005 - John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
● 2005 - Anthony Walker, hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
● 2005 - Ray Cunningham, baseball player (b. 1905)
● 2006 - Al Balding, Canadian professional golfer (b. 1924)
● 2006 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Sts. Abdon and Sennen, martyrs
● St. Ermengytha
● St. Hatebrand
● St. Helena of Skoefde, widow, martyr
● St. Ingeborg
● St. Julitta, martyr (d. 350)
● St. Leopold Mandic
● St. Maxima
● St. Olaf of Sweden
● St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop, Doctor of the Church (died 450)
● St. Rheticus
● St. Rufinus
● St. Tatwine
● Sts. Thomas Abel, Edward Powell and Richard Featherstone, martyrs
● St. Ursus, bishop of Auxerre, confessor
● Bl. Everard Hanse
● 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).
● Anglican: Commemoration of William Wilberforce
● Buddhist-Bhutan : Buddha's 1st preaching
● Cuba: Day of Martyrs of the Revolution
● France: Marseillaise Day (1792)
● Thailand: Asalha Puja
● Vanuatu - Independence Day (formerly Anglo-French condominium of the New Hebrides).
● Virginia: Crater Day (1864)
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival - ( Friday )
IN FICTION
● 1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Naval Treaty"
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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