Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Courage "Courage is a special kind of knowledge. It's knowing how to fear what you ought to fear and how not to fear what you ought not fear." — David Ben-Gurion
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Killing Big Bird "Mr. Speaker, we would not possibly kill Big Bird if we wanted to kill Big Bird. Nobody wants to kill Big Bird. The fact is that Big Bird generates hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue every single year to the great benefit of the people who created it, and any suggestion that Big Bird is going anywhere is crazy." — Rep. Martin Hoke (R-OH), responding to Rep. Eliot Engle's (D-NY) plea not to drastically cut funds for Public Broadcasting and thus "kill Big Bird." Congressional Record, H3161, 3-15-95.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I don't know anyone here that's been killed with a handgun." — Rep. Avery Alexander, D-New Orleans, to the House of Representatives
{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
Inside Victoria Crater on Mars
Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA
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EVENTS
● 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
● 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, archetypal medieval feminist, dies.
● 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
● 1577 - Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
● 1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
● 1631 - Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.
● 1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
● 1778 - Treaty of Fort Pitt signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware).
● 1787 - Constitution of U.S. is ratified by two-thirds of the colonies and adopted.
● 1796 - George Washington's farewell address, in which he declined to run for a third term as president. He strongly warned against permanent alliances with foreign powers, large public debts, large military establishment and devices of any "small, artful, enterprising minority" to control or change the government.
● 1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
● 1814 - Francis Scott Key finishes his The Star-Spangled Banner poem.
● 1858 - Col. Wright dictates terms of surrender to Indians at Coeur d'Alene mission; 24 chiefs of Yakama, Cayuse, Wallawalla, Palouse and Spokane tribes are shot or hanged.
● 1859 - Joshua A. Norton, who lost his money in an attempt to corner the rice market, today declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. San Francisco.
● 1862 - American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history, more than 23,000 men are killed, wounded, or missing in action in western Maryland.
● 1868 - Working Women's Association formed in U.S.
● 1879 - Birth of Andrew "Rube" Foster, father of Negro Leagues baseball, Galveston, Texas.
● 1894 - Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
● 1896 - Seven hundred thousand Europeans face down soldiers to strike for $200/month minimum wage.
● 1900 - One hundred thousand Pennsylvania anthracite coal miners go on strike. After the Molly Maguire trials in 1876, unionism disappeared from the state's 500 square miles of hard-coal fields. English-speaking workers were replaced by workers from 20 different nations. Suspicious of each other, they appeared almost impossible to organize. But led by Johnny Mitchell in 1898, the United Mine Workers quietly began a campaign. The miners' average annual wage is 250 dollars a year. They are paid by the ton, which Pennsylvania defines as 2,400 pounds but which mine operators have increased to as much as 4,000 pounds.
● 1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
● 1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
● 1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
● 1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
● 1924 - The Border Defence Corps was established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
● 1928 - The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
● 1935 - Birth of hippie bus driver, psychedelician, author Ken Kesey.
● 1938 - Washington state CIO formed.
● 1939 - U.S.S.R. invades Poland, jointly occupying it with Nazis. This completes the terms of the non-aggression pact signed between Hitler/Stalin on August 23. Poland will not be free of Soviet domination for another 60 years.
● 1939 - American aviation hero and Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh makes his first anti-intervention radio speech. The U.S. non-intervention movement was a huge mixed bag. Supported by former president Herbert Hoover, Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., Henry Ford (another Nazi admirer), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (a more rabid pro-Nazi than her husband), and a number of congressmen as well.
● 1939 - World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
● 1941 - A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, was issued
● 1943 - Ammunition at the Naval Air station in Norfolk, Virginia explodes, killing 24 and injuring 250. The second major military disaster in Norfolk in 1943.
● 1943 - Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis.
● 1944 - Allied Airborne troops parachute into Holland as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
● 1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.
● 1948 - Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews.
● 1949 - The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
● 1956 - Television was first broadcast in Australia.
● 1960 - Mobs attack the U.S. embassy in Panama in a dispute over the flying of the U.S. and Panamanian flags.
● 1961 - 1,314 arrested in anti-bomb sit-down, Trafalgar Square, London.
● 1970 - Fighting breaks out along the Syria-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen.
● 1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
● 1978 - The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.
● 1980 - Former Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza assassinated in Paraguay.
● 1983 - Three thousand demonstrate against nuclear power, Hamm-Uentrop, West Germany.
● 1983 - Vanessa Williams named Miss America, the first African-American winner in the history of the meat pageant. Relinquishes her crown after a 1984 scandal.
● 1988 - Haiti's military government overthrown. It'll be back, thanks to the CIA.
● 1989 - Jay Stewart, announcer on "Let's Make a Deal," commits suicide. Couldn't deal with it.
● 1991 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
● 1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland.
● 2001 - The New York Stock Exchange opened for the first time since the September 11 attacks; the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its biggest point drop in its history, closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70.
● 2004 - Tamil is declared first classical language in India.
BIRTHS
● 64 - Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
● 879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
● 1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
● 1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
● 1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
● 1580 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
● 1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
● 1639 - Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
● 1657 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
● 1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
● 1687 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
● 1688 - Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)
● 1730 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
● 1739 - John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
● 1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
● 1771 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
● 1820 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
● 1826 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
● 1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
● 1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
● 1868 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
● 1869 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938)
● 1879 - Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
● 1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
● 1883 - William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
● 1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
● 1890 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
● 1897 - Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
● 1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
● 1900 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
● 1901 - Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
● 1903 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
● 1903 - Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
● 1906 - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
● 1907 - Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
● 1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
● 1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
● 1922 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
● 1923 - Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
● 1926 - Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
● 1926 - Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)
● 1927 - George Blanda, American football player
● 1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
● 1929 - Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
● 1929 - Pat Crowley, American actress
● 1930 - Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
● 1930 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
● 1930 - Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
● 1931 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
● 1933 - Chuck Grassley, American politician
● 1933 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
● 1933 - Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
● 1934 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
● 1935 - Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
● 1937 - Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
● 1938 - Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
● 1939 - Shelby Flint, American singer
● 1939 - David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
● 1941 - Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
● 1942 - Des Lynam, English television presenter
● 1942 - Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher
● 1944 - Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber
● 1945 - David Emerson, Canadian politician
● 1945 - Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach
● 1945 - Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
● 1946 - Billy Bonds, English footballer
● 1947 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
● 1948 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
● 1948 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
● 1949 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
● 1950 - Narendra Modi, Indian politician
● 1950 - Chris Heister, Swedish politician
● 1950 - Fee Waybill, American musician (The Tubes)
● 1953 - Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
● 1954 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
● 1955 - Charles Martinet, American actor
● 1956 - Rita Rudner, American comedian
● 1959 - Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor
● 1960 - Damon Hill, English race car driver
● 1960 - John Franco, American baseball player
● 1961 - Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
● 1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
● 1962 - Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor
● 1963 - Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1963 - Michael Adler, American businessman
● 1963 - Amy Roloff, American reality star
● 1963 - Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator
● 1965 - Bryan Singer, American director
● 1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
● 1966 - Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
● 1967 - Malik Yoba, American actor
● 1973 - Anastacia, American singer
● 1968 - Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
● 1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
● 1969 - Keith Flint, Member of the British hard dance/rave band The Prodigy
● 1969 - Matthew Settle, American actor
● 1970 - Mark Brunell, American football player
● 1971 - Adriana Sklenaříková, Slovak supermodel
● 1971 - Mike Catt, English rugby player
● 1971 - Ian Whyte (actor), Welsh actor and basketball player
● 1973 - Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
● 1973 - Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
● 1974 - Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
● 1974 - Mirah, American musician
● 1974 - Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer
● 1975 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
● 1975 - Austin St. John, American actor
● 1975 - Constantine Maroulis, American singer
● 1976 - Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress
● 1977 - Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
● 1978 - Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1979 - Akin Ayodele, American football player
● 1979 - Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
● 1980 - Danny Haren, American baseball player
● 1981 - Bakari Koné, Ivory Coast footballer
● 1981 - Casey Janssen, American baseball player
● 1982 - Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1983 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
● 1984 - Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel
● 1985 - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
● 1985 - Jon Walker, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)
● 1986 - Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
● 1987 - Paul Huntington, English footballer
● 1991 - Jordan McCoy, American entertainer
DEATHS
● 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
● 1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
● 1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria
● 1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
● 1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)
● 1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
● 1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
● 1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
● 1665 - Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
● 1679 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
● 1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
● 1762 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
● 1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
● 1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
● 1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
● 1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
● 1863 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
● 1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
● 1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
● 1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
● 1899 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
● 1907 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
● 1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
● 1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
● 1938 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
● 1951 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
● 1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
● 1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
● 1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
● 1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
● 1982 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
● 1984 - Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
● 1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
● 1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
● 1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
● 1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
● 1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
● 1998 - Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
● 2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
● 2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
● 2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
● 2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
● 2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite, widow of Peter Lawford and sister of JFK (b. 1924)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Hildegard of Bingen.
● St. Lambert (martyr)
● Christian:
● Socrates and Stephen, martyrs
● The fourth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greek mythology, when the initiates sacrificed a pig.
● Angola - National Heroes' Day.
● Netherlands - Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day.
● United States - Constitution Day (observed on the previous Friday if it falls Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday), Citizenship Day, Von Steuben Day.
● United States - National Apple Dumpling Day.
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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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