Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Simplicity "In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homophobia "You should only get AIDS and die, you pig!" — Michael Savage, right-wing MSNBC host, fired after saying this to a gay caller
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "You always write it's bombing, bombing, bombing. It's not bombing, it's air support." — David Opfer, U. S. Air Force colonel, criticizing reporters' coverage of the Vietnam War
Thought for the day: "He who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn`t been asleep."
{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
A Laser Strike at the Galactic Center
Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (ESO)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 431(32?) - Election of St. Pope Sixtus III.
● 768 - [Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
● 781 - The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
● 904 - Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
● 1009 - Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV.
● 1423 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
● 1451 - Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
● 1498 - On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
● 1556 - St. Ignatius of Loyola, co-founder of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuit order of Catholic priests and brothers, died in Rome.
● 1588 - The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
● 1655 - Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it would hold for six years.
● 1658 - Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
● 1667 - Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
● 1703 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
● 1741 - Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
● 1773 - Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Duty is our part; the care is His.'
● 1776 - Francis Salvador, a plantation owner from South Carolina, became the first Jew to die for American independence, when he was killed in a skirmish with the British.
● 1777 - The United States Congress passes a resolution that the services of Marquis de Lafayette, then 19, "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
● 1790 - The first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins for his process for making potash and pearl ashes. The substance was used in fertilizer.
● 1792 - The cornerstone of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, PA, was laid. It was the first building to be used only as a U.S. government building.
● 1809 - 1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Philadelphia
● 1813 - British invade Plattsburgh, NY
● 1856 - Christchurch, New Zealand chartered as a city.
● 1872 - C H F Peters discovers asteroids #122 Gerda & #123 Brunhild
● 1874 - Patrick Francis Healy, SJ was inaugurated president of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in America. Healy at the same time became the first African-American to head a predominantly white university.
● 1875 - Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, died in Carter Station, Tenn., at age 66.
● 1889 - Death of Horatius Bonar, 81, Scottish preacher and author of the hymn, 'I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say.'
● 1913 - The Balkan States sign an armistice at Bucarest.
● 1914 - The New York Stock Exchange closed due to the outbreak of World War I. Trading didn't resume until December.
● 1917 - The Third Battle of Ypres starts in Flanders.
● 1919 - German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14)
● 1919 - Primo Levi, the Italian writer and chemist whose work was influenced by his captivity at Auschwitz, was born.
● 1921 - "No More War" demonstration, Berlin, Germany.
● 1925 - Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
● 1932 - The NSDAP (Nazis) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections making them largest party in Parliament.
● 1935 - C Jackson discovers asteroids #1362 Griqua & #2865
● 1938 - Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanta (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia)
● 1939 - Birth of Eleanor Smeal, feminist leader.
● 1940 - A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading the opposite way, killing 43 people.
● 1941 - Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
● 1942 - German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
● 1944 - Leading scholar Robert C. Merton was born.
● 1945 - John K. Giles attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison.
● 1945 - Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
● 1948 - At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated by President Harry S Truman.
● 1949 - Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills the SS & 3rd baseman
● 1953 - Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created
● 1953 - Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, known as "Mr. Republican," died at age 63.
● 1954 - First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
● 1955 - Marilyn Bell of Toronto, Canada, at age 17, became the youngest person to swim the English Channel.
● 1960 - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
● 1962 - Federation of Malaysia formed
● 1962 - Violence flares at Mosley rally; Former fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley is assaulted at a rally in London's east end.
● 1964 - Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, in Brandon, Mississippi is leveled by a fire, allegedly set by the Ku Klux Klan.
● 1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
● 1964 - Tonkin Gulf Hoax incidents begin. With fresh evidence now available, claims that the Tonkin Gulf incident was deliberately provoked gain new plausibility.
● 1966 - Charles Whitman wounds 46 & kills 5 at University of Texas
● 1966 - Two men pin down 4,000 National Guard troops during week-long sniper campaign in Chicago.
● 1969 - A Moscow police chief reports that thousands of telephone booths have been made inoperable by thieves who have stolen phone parts in order to convert their acoustic guitars to electric.
● 1969 - Mariner 6 flies past Mars
● 1969 - National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, LA
● 1970 - Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
● 1970 - The complete New American Standard Version of the Bible (NASB) was first published. (The completed NASB New Testament had been released earlier, in 1963.)
● 1971 - Men rode in a vehicle on the moon for the first time in a lunar rover vehicle (LRV).
● 1972 - Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures that Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment. {The stigma of psychiatric care has not lessened in the time since.}
● 1973 - Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
● 1973 - Chaotic meeting of Belfast Assembly; Loyalists disrupt the new Northern Ireland Assembly, the first elected body since the British imposed direct rule in March.
● 1974 - Seattle native John Erlichman sentenced to a 20 months to 5 years Country Club term for his role in the burglary at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
● 1975 - In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
● 1976 - Viking program: Viking 1 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
● 1977 - One person is killed in 60,000 strong demonstration against Super-Phenix nuclear reactor, Malville, France.
● 1978 - Gunman shoots his way into the Iraqi Embassy in Paris
● 1979 - N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2402 Satpaev & #2416 Sharonov
● 1980 - Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
● 1981 - Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of the Natl Bar Assn
● 1981 - General Omar Torrijos of Panama dies in a plane crash.
● 1982 - 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide in France
● 1987 - A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
● 1987 - Newspaper caught in Spycatcher row; The Government sues the Sunday Telegraph over secret service memoirs.
● 1988 - 32 people were killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapsed in Butterworth, Malaysia.
● 1989 - A pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a videotape reportedly showing the hanged body of American hostage William R. Higgins.
● 1989 - U.S. socialist leader Michael Harrington dies.
● 1991 - START I nuclear arms reduction treaty signed by George H W Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. {Giving George W "War Criminal" Bush something else to unilaterally void.}
● 1992 - A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
● 1996 - MIL-STD-1750A is declared inactive for use in new designs.
● 1997 - In New York City, NY, police seized five bombs believed to be bound for terrorist attacks on city subways.
● 1998 - More than 50 people died in Kashmir due to crossfire between India and Pakistan.
● 1998 - UK imposes total ban on landmines; The British Government announces a total ban on landmines, a month before the first anniversary of the death of Princess Diana.
● 1999 - The spacecraft Lunar Prospect crashed into the moon. It was a mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface. The craft had been launched on January 6, 1998.
● 2002 - A bomb exploded inside a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine people, including five Americans.
● 2006 - Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana [La Pequeña Habana in Spanish], Miami, Florida, where many Cuban-Americans participated. {We tend to forget that the majority of Cubans that object to Castro are those who had power in the oligarchy he replaced, they hope to return to those days not establish democracy.}
BIRTHS
● 1143 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
● 1396 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
● 1526 - Augustus, Elector of Saxony & leader of Protestant Germany (d. 1586)
● 1527 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
● 1598 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
● 1702 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768)
● 1704 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
● 1718 - John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
● 1724 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
● 1803 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
● 1804 - George Baxter, English engraver and printer (d. 1867)
● 1811 - Jane Currie Hoge, American welfare worker & fundraiser for the Union (d. 1890)
● 1816 - George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
● 1822 - Abram Stevens Hewitt, American industrialist & philanthropist who became mayor of N. Y. C. (d. 1903)
● 1835 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912)
● 1835 - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903)
● 1843 - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918)
● 1858 - Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist (d. 1936)
● 1860 - Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (d. 1940)
● 1867 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966)
● 1875 - Jacques Villon, French painter and printmaker & brother of Marcel Duchamp (d. 1963)
● 1883 - Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965)
● 1884 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (d. 1945)
● 1887 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969)
● 1900 - Elmo Roper, American who developed political forecasting by polls (d. 1971)
● 1901 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
● 1904 - Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)
● 1911 - George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983)
● 1912 - Bill Brown, Australian cricketer
● 1912 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2006)
● 1912 - Irv Kupcinet, American newspaper columnist (d. 2003)
● 1913 - Bryan Hextall, Canadian hockey player (d. 1984)
● 1914 - Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (d. 1983)
● 1916 - Billy Hitchcock, baseball player, coach, and official (d. 2006)
● 1916 - Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
● 1916 - Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist, and writer
● 1918 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
● 1918 - Hank Jones, American pianist
● 1919 - Curt Gowdy, American sports announcer (d. 2006)
● 1919 - Primo Levi, Italian author and chemist (d. 1987)
● 1919 - Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney
● 1921 - Whitney Young, American civil rights activist (d. 1971)
● 1921 - Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
● 1923 - Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-born record company executive
● 1929 - Don Murray, American actor
● 1929 - José Santamaria, Uruguayan footballer
● 1929 - Lynne Reid Banks, British author
● 1930 - Oleg Popov, Russian clown
● 1931 - Kenny Burrell, American guitarist
● 1931 - Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
● 1933 - Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer
● 1935 - Yvon Deschamps, French Canadian author, comedian and humorist
● 1935 - Geoffrey Lewis, Actor
● 1936 - Vic Davalillo, baseball player
● 1936 - Sir Richard Greenbury, British retailing giant
● 1939 - France Nuyen, French actress
● 1941 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician
● 1943 - William Bennett, 3rd United States Secretary of Education
● 1943 - Susan Flannery, American actress
● 1943 - Lobo, American singer and songwriter
● 1944 - Robert C. Merton, Leading Scholar and Nobel Prize Winner
● 1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
● 1945 - Gary Lewis, American drummer and vocalist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
● 1945 - William Weld, Former Massachusetts governor
● 1946 - Bob Welch, American musician
● 1946 - Karen Zerby, current leader of Children of God
● 1950 - Steve Miller, American writer
● 1951 - Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Australian tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1951 - Barry Van Dyke, American actor
● 1952 - Chris Ahrens, American ice hockey player
● 1952 - Alan Autry, American football player, actor, and Mayor of Fresno, California
● 1952 - Helmuts Balderis, Latvian hockey player
● 1952 - João Barreiros, Portuguese writer
● 1953 - James Read, American actor
● 1954 - Derek Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1956 - Michael Biehn, American actor
● 1956 - Deval Patrick, Massachusetts Governor
● 1956 - Bill Callahan, College football coach
● 1957 - Daniel Ash, gothic rock artist in such bands as Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets
● 1957 - Leon Durham, baseball player
● 1958 - Bill Berry, American drummer (R.E.M.)
● 1958 - Mark Cuban, American businessman, producer, and basketball team owner
● 1959 - Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
● 1960 - Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1962 - John Chiang, American politician
● 1962 - Kevin Greene, professional American football player
● 1962 - Wesley Snipes, American actor
● 1963 - Brian Skrudland, professional ice hockey player
● 1963 - Chad Brock, Country singer
● 1963 - Fatboy Slim, Rock musician
● 1964 - Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
● 1965 - John Laurinaitis, American professional wrestler
● 1965 - J. K. Rowling, British novelist ("Harry Potter" books), richest woman in the world
● 1965 - Scott Brooks, former pro basketball player
● 1966 - Dean Cain, American actor
● 1967 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
● 1969 - David Cash, American professional wrestler
● 1969 - Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician
● 1969 - Loren Dean, Actor
● 1970 - Ben Chaplin, Actor
● 1971 - Gus Frerotte, American football player
● 1971 - John Lowery (John 5), American guitarist
● 1973 - Chandra North, American supermodel
● 1974 - Emilia Fox, English actress
● 1974 - Jonathan Ogden, American football player
● 1975 - Simon Hirst, British radio DJ (hit40uk)
● 1975 - Randy Flores, baseball player
● 1975 - Mike Lincoln, baseball player
● 1975 - Annie Parisse, Actress ("Law and Order")
● 1976 - Joshua Cain, American guitarist (Motion City Soundtrack)
● 1976 - Annie Parisse, American actress
● 1976 - Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
● 1977 - Tim Couch, American football player
● 1977 - Robert Telfer, Actor
● 1978 - Justin Wilson, English race car driver
● 1978 - Will Champion, English drummer (Coldplay)
● 1979 - Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer
● 1979 - Per Krøldrup, Danish footballer
● 1979 - J.J. Furmaniak, professional baseball player
● 1979 - Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
● 1979 - B. J. Novak, Actor, writer ("The Office")
● 1980 - Mils Muliaina, New Zealand and Waikato rugby player
● 1981 - Ira Losco, Maltese singer
● 1981 - Matthew "M. Shadows" Sanders, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold)
● 1982 - Blessing Mahwire, Zimbabwean cricketer
● 1982 - Melanie Vallejo, Australian TV actress
● 1983 - Blaire Stroud, Country singer (3 of Hearts)
● 1985 - Shannon Curfman, Rock singer
● 1986 - Evgeni Malkin, Russian hockey player
● 1990 - Olga Galchenko, Russian juggler
DEATHS
● 855 - Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
● 1099 - El Cid, Spanish warrior (b. 1044)
● 1396 - William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
● 1508 - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1494)
● 1547 - King Francis I of France (b. 1494)
● 1556 - Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest and co-founder of the Jesuits
● 1653 - Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
● 1726 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
● 1750 - King John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
● 1784 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (b. 1713)
● 1875 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
● 1886 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
● 1914 - Jean Jaurès, French politician (d. 1859)
● 1917 - Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
● 1917 - Hedd Wyn (Ellis Humphrey Evans), Welsh poet (b. 1887)
● 1944 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
● 1953 - Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889)
● 1954 - Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
● 1964 - Jim Reeves, American singer (b. 1923)
● 1972 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
● 1980 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
● 1980 - Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
● 1981 - Omar Torrijos, Panamanian military leader
● 1986 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
● 1986 - Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
● 1993 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)
● 2001 - Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
● 2003 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (b. 1933)
● 2004 - Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
● 2004 - Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)
● 2005 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker and 1st president of the European Central Bank (b. 1935)
● 2006 - Paul Eells, "Voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks" sportscaster for 38 years (b. 1935)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Martyrs of Syria
● St. Banthus, confessor at Trier
● St. Calimerius
● St. Democritus
● St. Emmanuel Phung
● St. Everard Hanse, martyr
● St. Fabius
● St. Firmus of Tagaste
● St. Germanus (died 448), bishop of Auxerre, confessor
● St. Helen of Skofde also Helena of Skoefde, widow, martyr
● St. Ignatius of Loyola, co-founder of the Jesuits
● St. Joan Antidea Thouret
● St. Joseph of Arimathaea
● St. Justin de Jacobis
● St. Neotus, abbot, confessor
● St. Peter Quy
● St. Tertullinus, priest, martyr
● Bl. John Columbini (died 1367)
● No entry for Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for (Civil Date: July 30)
● Anglican:
● St. Joseph of Arimathaea
● St. Ignatius of Loyola, co-founder of the Jesuits
● Buddhist-Thailand : Buddhist Lent
● Wicca: Lughnasadh, sabbat
● Republic of the Congo - Upswing of the Revolution.
● Hawaii: La Hae Hawai‘i - Hawaiian Flag Day.
● Malaysia: Hari Pahlawan; warrior's day.
● Mexico : Day of National Mourning (1811-Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla)
● 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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