Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Corporate Power "The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations." — Noam Chomsky
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Public Enemy: Public Schools ". . . You know if there was any piece of legislation I would pass it would be to blow up colleges of education. I know that's not politically correct . . ." — Reid Lyon, Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and an advisor on child health and education research to George W. Bush, 11-19-02. excelgov.org.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics:
"The Knights of Peter Claver is a large Catholic organization." — Wilfred Pierre, representative from Louisiana
{followed by}
"I'm a large Catholic, and I don't belong to it." — Juba Diez, representative from Louisiana {Who the hell is Peter Claver?}
{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
To Fly Free in Space
Credit: STS-41B, NASA
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EVENTS
● 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
● 1498 - Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies.
● 1630 - The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
● 1672 - Anne Bradstreet, first woman poet of the American colonies, dies in Andover, Massachusetts, at about age 60.
● 1692 - Eighty-year-old Giles Corey, charged with witchcraft, is crushed to death in Salem, Massachusetts. Corey was crushed to death for refusing to testify during his trial. The Salem witchcraft hysteria lead to 19 hangings. The trials started when Tituba, a slave belonging to Rev. Samuel Parris, is accused of bewitching village girls. Tituba's colorful stories of her native Barbados entertained the young women and prompted them to perform strange antics and bark like dogs. Parris beat and abused Tituba until she admitted she was a witch. She was jailed in Boston for 13 months until someone else bought her.
● 1701 - James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
● 1776 - American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
● 1795 - United Kingdom conquers Cape Town, South Africa.
● 1810 - With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain
● 1812 - Russians set fire to Moscow shortly after midnight - the city is burned completely down days later.
● 1845 - Thomas Osborne Davis dies in Dublin. Irish writer/politician who was the chief organizer and poet of the nationalistic Young Ireland movement.
● 1863 - Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
● 1873 - Birth of Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon.
● 1887 - The first game of softball was played in Chicago, Illinois
● 1893 - Cherokee strip invasion, also called the Oklahoma land rush, begins. Among participants is E. P. McCabe, who founds the all-African-American town of Liberty a few days later.
● 1901 - Alturas, California, incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.
● 1908 - Founding of General Motors.
● 1910 - Mexican revolution ends U.S.-supported dictatorship of Portolio Diaz.
● 1915 - U.S. takes control of customs and finances of Haiti for 10 years.
● 1919 - The American Legion is incorporated.
● 1920 - Bomb explosion outside the J.P. Morgan Company on Wall Street killed 40, injured over 400, and did $2 million worth of damage. Authorities blame "anarchists," including Mario Buda, protesting the indictment of Sacco and Vanzetti. They subsequently fled to Russia.
● 1923 - Japanese anarchist Osugi Sakae murdered by police.
● 1925 - Birth of blues great B.B. King, Indianola, Mississippi.
● 1933 - Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones, is released by United Artists. It is Robeson's first starring movie role and the first major Hollywood production starring an African-American with whites in supporting roles.
● 1940 - Sam Rayburn elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, widely regarded as the most effective Speaker of the House in American history.
● 1941 - Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR occupy Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
● 1952 - Death of Corder Catchpool, British pacifist. Switzerland.
● 1953 - Anti-communist economist and writer Lewis Corey (aka Louis C. Fraina) dies, 61, during deportation proceedings against him because he was a Communist during the early 1920s.
● 1955 - Juan Perón is deposed in Argentina.
● 1963 - Beginning of five-day strike at Folsom state prison, California.
● 1963 - Malaysia is formed from Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak.
● 1964 - East German conscientious objectors allowed to work on road construction.
● 1966 - The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City to the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
● 1970 - King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule due to the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit.
● 1971 - Five thousand farmers and students battle 5,000 police in demonstration at Sanrizuka, Japan, to prevent government taking of land for Tokyo International Airport at Narita. They lost.
● 1974 - A federal judge dismisses all charges against American Indian Movement leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means stemming from the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
● 1974 - Pres. Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S. Vietnam War deserters.
● 1975 - Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
● 1975 - The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
● 1976 - Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir
● 1977 - American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas died in Paris
● 1978 - An earthquake hits the city of Tabas, Iran measuring 7.5-7.9 on the Richter scale killing about 25,000 people.
● 1979 - The New York City ghetto music in which performers chant rhymed and rhythmic verses over prerecorded instrumental dance tracks makes it onto vinyl with the release of the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." Industry warned that rap had no commercial appeal.
● 1982 - Massacre of over 1,000 civilian Palestinian refugees begins, Sabnra and Shatila camps, Lebanon.
● 1987 - The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
● 1991 - Philippine Senate defeats treaty allowing continued operation of U.S. military bases in the Philippines.
● 1991 - The trial of Panamanian "strongman" Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
● 1992 - Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the Deutschmark.
● 2004 - Hurricane Ivan touches land near Pensacola, Florida, becoming the third (now fourth) costliest hurricane to strike the United States.
● 2007 - One-Two-GO_Airlines_Flight_269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
BIRTHS
● 16 - Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38)
● 1098 - Hildegard of Bingen, German magistra and the first componist to be known by name (d. 1179)
● 1387 - King Henry V of England, (d. 1422)
● 1507 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
● 1557 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (d. 1627)
● 1651 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)
● 1666 - Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
● 1678 - Henry St John, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
● 1722 - Gabriel Christie, British general (d. 1799)
● 1725 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
● 1745 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
● 1782 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
● 1823 - Francis Parkman, American historian (d. 1893)
● 1827 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
● 1853 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
● 1858 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
● 1859 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese politician (d. 1916)
● 1875 - James C. Penney, American department store founder (d. 1971)
● 1881 - Clive Bell, English art critic (d. 1964)
● 1883 - T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917)
● 1886 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (d. 1966)
● 1887 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and teacher (d. 1979)
● 1888 - F. E. Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
● 1891 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972)
● 1891 - Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980)
● 1893 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director (d. 1956)
● 1893 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
● 1905 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
● 1906 - Jack Churchill, English soldier (d. 1996)
● 1906 - Project Mayhem, Auctioneer of José Theodore
● 1910 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
● 1910 - Erich Kempka, Adolf Hitler's chauffeur (d. 1975)
● 1914 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (d. 1999)
● 1916 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004)
● 1916 - Robert Bradshaw, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician (d. 1978)
● 1919 - Laurence J. Peter, Canadian born educator and writer (d. 1990)
● 1921 - Jon Hendricks, American jazz singer
● 1922 - Janis Paige, American actress
● 1922 - Marcel Mouloudji, French actor and singer (d. 1994)
● 1923 - Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor of Singapore
● 1924 - Lauren Bacall, American actress
● 1925 - Charlie Byrd, American musician (d. 1999)
● 1925 - B. B. King, American musician
● 1925 - Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 2006)
● 1926 - Tommy Bond, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1927 - Peter Falk, American actor
● 1927 - Jack Kelly, American actor (d. 1992)
● 1928 - Lady Gwen Thompson, British occultist (d. 1986)
● 1930 - Anne Francis, American actress
● 1934 - Elgin Baylor, American basketball player
● 1934 - George Chakiris, American actor
● 1935 - Carl Andre, American artist
● 1935 - Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist
● 1937 - Alexander Medved, Russian wrestler
● 1939 - Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer and painter
● 1941 - Richard Perle, American political advisor
● 1942 - Bernie Calvert, British musician (The Hollies)
● 1943 - James Alan McPherson, American writer
● 1944 - Winston Grennan, Jamaican American drummer
● 1946 - Cathee Dahmen, American fashion model
● 1946 - Mike Reynolds, Australian politician
● 1946 - Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer
● 1947 - Russ Abbot, British comedian
● 1947 - Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and writer
● 1948 - Ron Blair, American bassist
● 1948 - Kenny Jones, English musician (The Small Faces; Faces; The Who)
● 1949 - Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
● 1950 - Loyd Grossman, American television presenter
● 1953 - Eric Vail, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1953 - Nancy Huston, Canadian-born novelist and essayist
● 1954 - Earl Klugh, American jazz guitarist
● 1954 - Frank Reed, American singer (Chi-Lites)
● 1955 - Ron Brewer, American basketball player
● 1955 - Janet Ellis, British television presenter
● 1955 - Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer
● 1955 - Robin Yount, American baseball player
● 1956 - David Copperfield, American magician
● 1956 - Mickey Rourke, American actor
● 1957 - David McCreery, Irish footballer
● 1958 - Orel Hershiser, American baseball player
● 1958 - Neville Southall, Welsh footballer
● 1958 - Jennifer Tilly, American actress
● 1959 - Tim Raines, American baseball player
● 1960 - Danny John-Jules, British actor
● 1960 - Kurt Busiek, American comic book writer
● 1963 - Richard Marx, American singer
● 1964 - Molly Shannon, American actress
● 1964 - Mary Coustas, Austalian entertainer
● 1965 - Katy Kurtzman, American actress
● 1968 - Marc Anthony, American singer
● 1968 - Walt Becker, American director and writer
● 1970 - Mark Schultz, American musician
● 1971 - Amy Poehler, American comedian (Saturday Night Live)
● 1973 - Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakh cyclist
● 1973 - Justin Haythe, American writer
● 1975 - Shannon Noll, Australian singer and songwriter
● 1976 - Tina Barrett, Former S Club 7 Member
● 1976 - Greg Buckner, American basketball player
● 1976 - Heather Hopper, American actress
● 1978 - Dan Dickau, American basketball player
● 1978 - Matthew Rogers, American singer
● 1980 - Patrik Stefan, Czech hockey player
● 1981 - Alexis Bledel, American actress (Gilmore Girls)
● 1981 - Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress
● 1982 - Leon Knight, English footballer
● 1983 - Bou, Former guitarist (Antic Cafe)
● 1984 - Katie Melua, Georgian-British singer
● 1984 - Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
● 1985 - Madeline Zima, American actress
● 1986 - Kyla Pratt, American actress
● 1987 - Anthony Padilla, American comedian and co-founder of Smosh
● 1988 - Sarah Steele, American actress
● 1988 - Teddy Geiger, American singer
● 1992 - Nicholas Jonas, American Musician, The Jonas Brothers
● 2005 - Princess Jalilah bint Ali, of Jordan
DEATHS
● 96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
● 307 - Flavius Valerius Severus, deposed Roman Emperor (murder)
● 1087 - Pope Victor III (b. 1026)
● 1100 - Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054)
● 1345 - John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
● 1380 - King Charles V of France (b. 1338)
● 1394 - Avignon Pope Clement VII (b. 1342)
● 1406 - Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)
● 1589 - Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
● 1672 - Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet (b. 1612)
● 1701 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
● 1736 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686)
● 1775 - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)
● 1782 - Farinelli, Italian castrato singer (b. 1705)
● 1803 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)
● 1824 - King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
● 1829 - Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (b. 1771)
● 1864 - John Hanning Speke, English explorer (b. 1827)
● 1865 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
● 1898 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
● 1911 - Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (b. 1840)
● 1925 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
● 1932 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
● 1933 - George Gore, baseball player (b. 1857)
● 1944 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
● 1945 - John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884)
● 1950 - Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
● 1957 - Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
● 1965 - Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)
● 1975 - Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)
● 1977 - Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
● 1977 - Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
● 1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
● 1987 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)
● 1992 - Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)
● 1993 - Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (b. 1966)
● 1996 - McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (b. 1919)
● 1996 - Gene Nelson, American actor (b. 1920)
● 2000 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
● 2001 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)
● 2002 - James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
● 2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
● 2003 - Sheb Wooley, singer and actor (b. 1921)
● 2005 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (b. 1920)
● 2006 - Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
● 2006 - Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
● 2007 - Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Pope Cornelius
● St. Cyprian
● St. Ludmila.
● In ancient Greece, the third day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates walked to the sea at Phaleron and purified themselves in the water.
● Mexico - Independence Day (from Spain; proclaimed 1810, recognized 1821, instituted 1825).
● Papua New Guinea - Independence Day (from Australia, 1975).
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING FIVE SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
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Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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