Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Crime "The law does content itself with classifying and punishing crime. It invents crime." — Norman Douglas
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Caring for Our Health "As incredible as this may seem to you and me, the Clintons' health care plan provides for just such penalties and imprisonment. But even worse, your child would suffer or die needlessly. You would be powerless. The government has stripped you of your God-given right to provide for child's care as you see fit. Federal bureaucrats would have more say-so over your child's treatment than you, your spouse, or even or doctor. . . . We must stop the Clinton administration from destroying our rights as parents and our constitutional freedoms as citizens." — John W. Whitehead, President of the Rutherford Institute, in a 3-94 fundraising letter. au.org.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "This amendment does more damage than it does harm." — Cynthia Willard-Lewis, representative from Louisiana
{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
Tungurahua Erupts
Credit & Copyright: Patrick Taschler
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EVENTS
● 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
● 323 - Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
● 1180 - Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
● 1454 - In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
● 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
● 1544 - Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign peace treaty (Truce of Crepy-en-Laonnois)
● 1573 - Spanish attack on Alkmaar.
● 1615 - Thomas Row, the first British messenger came to India.
● 1634 - Spiritual freethinker Anne Hutchinson arrives in Boston.
● 1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France.
● 1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
● 1739 - The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
● 1759 - The British capture Quebec City.
● 1793 - The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
● 1810 - First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it was in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and it is commemorated as such.
● 1812 - Fire of Moscow (1812) fades down after destroying more than three quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from Petrovsky Palace to Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
● 1830 - A horse beats the first U.S.-made locomotive in a race near Baltimore.
● 1837 - Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young in New York City, New York. The store was called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
● 1838 - Under forced removal order of Indiana Governor J. Tipton, Potawatomi are delivered to the ironically named "Immigrant Agency."
● 1838 - Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden.
● 1850 - Fugitive Slave Act is passed, specifying harsh penalties for those who interfere with the apprehension of runaway slaves. A part of the Compromise of 1850, it offers federal officers a fee for captured slaves.
● 1851 - First issue of The New York Times was published, featuring an editorial by a mythical industrialist named "Thomas Friedman."
● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
● 1872 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
● 1873 - Jay Cooke and Company, banking agent for the Northern Pacific Railroad, fails, touching off the Panic of 1873. The New York Stock Exchange closed its doors by the end of the month. 5,183 businesses failed as the nation suffered a severe depression that lasted until 1877.
● 1879 - Blackpool's illuminations were switched on for the first time.
● 1882 - Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
● 1885 - Riots break out in Montreal to protest compulsory smallpox vaccination.
● 1889 - Hull House is opened by Jane Addams and associates with the intention of helping immigrants settle and naturalize in Chicago.
● 1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse (her Indian name was Ga-is- wa-noh--"The Watcher") became the first white woman to be named chief of an Indian tribe. Converse became chief of the Six Nations Tribe at Tonawanda Reservation in New York. She had been adopted by the Seneca tribe seven years earlier because of her efforts on behalf of the tribe.
● 1895 - Booker T. Washington makes a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. Known as the "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Washington advocates acceptance of a subordinate role for African-Americans, espouses peaceful coexistence with white Southerners, and deems agitation for social equality "the extremist folly." The speech reportedly leaves some African-American listeners in tears and incurs the wrath of W.E.B. DuBois and others, but secures his reputation among whites as a successor to Frederick Douglass.
● 1895 - Birth of Daniel David Palmer. Gave the first chiropractic adjustment to Harvey Lillard in Davenport, Iowa--now the home of Palmer Chiropractic College.
● 1898 - Fashoda Incident - Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
● 1906 - A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
● 1910 - In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
● 1911 - Russian Premier Peter Stolypin shot at the Kiev Opera House
● 1911 - All workers go on general strike in Valencia
● 1914 - The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
● 1914 - World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
● 1917 - Aldous Huxley, 23, is hired as a schoolmaster at Eton, where he counts among his unruly pupils Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell).
● 1919 - The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
● 1922 - Hungary admitted to League of Nations.
● 1928 - Juan de la Cierva makes first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
● 1931 - The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
● 1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign.
● 1934 - USSR admitted to League of Nations.
● 1939 - World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
● 1939 - William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast.
● 1940 - World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
● 1942 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized.
● 1943 - World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
● 1943 - World War II: Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews.
● 1944 - World War II: British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed.
● 1945 - Voline, Russian revolutionary and anarchist historian, dies. He had been arrested on Jan. 14 by military agents of Stalin and dragged from one prison to another. Trotsky already had ordered his execution, and according to Voline, he escaped death only by sheer accident - in 1921 the Red Trade Union International held a Congress in Moscow. The delegates included representatives of some anarcho-syndicalist organizations in Spain, France, and other countries, who had come to ascertain whether an alliance with this new International was feasible. They arrived just as anarchists in the Taganka prison went on a hunger strike for over 10 days. The Bolsheviks, publicly embarrassed and embroiled with the scandal in the Congress, released the hunger-strikers on the condition that they leave Russia. It was the first time political prisoners were deported from the vaunted Red Fatherland of the Proletariat.
● 1945 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
● 1945 - In Gary, Indiana, 1000 whites walk out of schools to protest integration.
● 1947 - The United States Air Force becomes an independent service.
● 1947 - Country singers Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City, making it the venue's first country performance.
● 1948 - Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
● 1948 - Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
● 1948 - Ralph Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator for Palestine and Israel.
● 1948 - Yoni Abramski, 12-year-old Israeli boy, shot and killed by Jordanian sniper in Jerusalem.
● 1958 - Termination without tribal consent was ended "in spirit" (but not in practice) by U.S. Secretary of Interior.
● 1959 - Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit.
● 1960 - Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
● 1961 - U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
● 1962 - Rwanda, Burundi and Jamaica admitted to the United Nations.
● 1964 - Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
● 1964 - North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
● 1968 - After two months of protests, Mexican federal troops occupy National University in Mexico City, taking 3,000 prisoners, including professors and parents. The students, in alliance with poor workers, made a last stand in the suburb of Tlatelolco, which left 20 dead and 75 wounded.
● 1970 - Rock legend Jimi Hendrix dies of an accidental barbiturate overdose, London. At least it was his own vomit.
● 1971 - Three police killed, hundreds hurt protesting Narita airport plan, which would destroy farmlands northeast of Tokyo.
● 1972 - First Ugandans expelled by Idi Amin arrive in the UK.
● 1973 - East and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
● 1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
● 1975 - Eighteen months after her abduction, San Francisco police "rescue" kidnapped heiress-turned-revolutionary Patty Hearst, killing most of her Symbionese Liberation Army comrades in the process.
● 1975 - George Jackson Brigade bombs a Seattle Safeway store in solidarity with the grape boycott.
● 1976 - Mao Tse Tung's funeral takes place in Beijing.
● 1977 - Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together.
● 1978 - Leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David.
● 1980 - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (Cuban Cosmonaut Arnoldo Tamayo becomes first Black in space.) to Salyut 6 space station.
● 1981 - Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France
● 1982 - Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon.
● 1984 - Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
● 1985 - U.S. and U.S.S.R. reach a tentative agreement on a world-wide ban of medium-range nuclear missiles. Hopes of reducing the number of missiles soon ended in Iceland when Soviet Premier Gorbachev called for a limit on the development of "Star Wars" weapons and Ronald Reagan refused.
● 1987 - Pope John Paul II, whose authority rests solely on 2,000 years of Christian tradition, speaks to Native American leaders in Phoenix, Arizona, urging them to forget the past.
● 1987 - Ronald Reagan announces joint destruction of nuclear warheads by USA and USSR.
● 1988 - End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) were killed by the Tatmadaw.
● 1989 - Hurricane Hugo hits Puerto Rico, killing six.
● 1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
● 1991 - Native American political prisoner Eddie Hatcher is stabbed four times in back by a prisoner paid by the prison administration, North Carolina.
● 1991 - Yugoslavia began a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
● 1992 - An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labour dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
● 1997 - Ten killed by Islamic militant gun and bomb attack on bus. Cairo, Egypt.
● 1997 - U.S. media magnate Ted Turner donates USD $1 billion to the United Nations.
● 1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
● 2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
● 2002 - The body of missing schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is found in Yateley heath in Hampshire, ending a six-month search.
● 2003 - Hurricane Isabel makes landfall in the U.S.
● 2003 - The UK's Local Government Act 2003, repealing Section 28, receives Royal Assent.
● 2006 - Right wing protesters riot the buliding of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape was made public, on which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
● 2007 - President General Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president
● 2007 - Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution
BIRTHS
● 53 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (d. 117)
● 1505 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1558)
● 1587 - Francesca Caccini, Italian composer (d. circa 1640)
● 1643 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
● 1684 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer (d. 1748)
● 1709 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (d. 1784)
● 1718 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
● 1733 - George Read, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
● 1750 - Tomas de Iriarte, Spanish writer (d. 1791)
● 1752 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (d. 1833)
● 1765 - Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
● 1779 - Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1845)
● 1786 - Justinus Kerner, German poet (d. 1862)
● 1812 - Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d. 1880)
● 1819 - Leon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868)
● 1837 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
● 1838 - Anton Mauve, Dutch artist (d. 1888)
● 1857 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1945)
● 1859 - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (d. 1940)
● 1858 - Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1955)
● 1863 - Hermann Kutter, Swiss theologian (d. 1931)
● 1870 - Clark Wissler, American anthropologist (d. 1947)
● 1875 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d.1945)
● 1876 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
● 1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, British composer (d. 1950)
● 1889 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
● 1893 - Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer (d. 1960)
● 1893 - William March, American writer (d. 1954)
● 1895 - Tomoji Tanabe, the oldest man in the world as of June 2007
● 1895 - John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)
● 1901 - Harold Clurman, American film producer (d. 1980)
● 1905 - Eddie Anderson, American actor (d. 1977)
● 1905 - Agnes de Mille, American choreographer (d. 1993)
● 1905 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
● 1907 - Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
● 1907 - Edwin McMillan, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
● 1911 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
● 1912 - Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (d. 2005)
● 1914 - Jack Cardiff, British film director
● 1916 - Rossano Brazzi, Italian singer and actor (d. 1994)
● 1916 - John Jacob Rhodes, Jr., American politician and lawyer (d. 2003)
● 1916 - Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
● 1917 - June Foray, American voice actress
● 1917 - Francis Parker Yockey, author of Imperium (d. 1960)
● 1918 - John Berger, English politician
● 1920 - Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
● 1922 - Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
● 1922 - Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer
● 1923 - Peter Smithson, English architect (d. 2003)
● 1923 - Queen Anne of Romania
● 1925 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (d. 1994)
● 1926 - Bud Greenspan, American film producer
● 1926 - Bob Toski, American golfer
● 1927 - Phyllis Kirk, American actress (d. 2006)
● 1929 - Nancy Littlefield, American film producer (d. 2007)
● 1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2002)
● 1933 - Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach
● 1933 - Robert Blake, American actor
● 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer
● 1933 - Robert Foster Bennett, American senator (Utah)
● 1935 - John Spencer, English former snooker player (d. 2006)
● 1937 - Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1939 - Frankie Avalon, American musician
● 1939 - Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal
● 1939 - Fred Willard, American comedian
● 1939 - Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor
● 1944 - Michael Franks, American musician
● 1944 - Charles L. Veach, American astronaut (d. 1995)
● 1944 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
● 1946 - Nicholas Clay, English actor (d. 2000)
● 1946 - Otis Sistrunk, American football player
● 1947 - Giancarlo Minardi, Italian motor racing team boss
● 1948 - Ken Brett, American baseball player (d. 2003)
● 1949 - Jim McCrery, American politician
● 1949 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
● 1949 - Peter Shilton, English footballer
● 1949 - Kerry Livgren, American singer (Kansas)
● 1950 - Shabana Azmi, Indian actress
● 1950 - Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1950 - Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright
● 1951 - Benjamin Carson, American neurosurgeon
● 1951 - Darryl Stingley, American football player (d. 2007)
● 1951 - Marc Surer, Swiss motor racing driver
● 1952 - Rick Pitino, American basketball coach
● 1952 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (d. 2002)
● 1953 - Betsy Boze nee: Vogel, American Academic
● 1954 - Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1996)
● 1954 - Takao Doi, Japanese astronaut
● 1954 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (d. 2007)
● 1955 - Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (d. 2006)
● 1956 - Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player
● 1958 - John Aldridge, Irish footballer
● 1958 - Don Geronimo, Radio personality of the Don & Mike Show
● 1959 - Ryne Sandberg, American baseball player
● 1959 - Ian Arkwright, English footballer
● 1961 - James Gandolfini, American actor
● 1962 - Joanne Catherall, English singer
● 1962 - John Fashanu, English footballer
● 1963 - Rob Brettle, British historian
● 1964 - Marco Masini, Italian singer-songwriter
● 1964 - Holly Robinson Peete, American actress
● 1967 - Ricky Bell, American singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe)
● 1967 - Tara Fitzgerald, English actress
● 1968 - Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
● 1968 - Cappadonna, American rapper
● 1970 - Darren Gough, English cricketer
● 1970 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (d. 1993)
● 1970 - Aisha Tyler, American actress and comedian
● 1971 - Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
● 1971 - Anna Netrebko, Russian opera singer
● 1971 - Jada Pinkett Smith, American model and actress
● 1972 - David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
● 1973 - Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1973 - James Marsden, American actor
● 1973 - Ami Onuki, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
● 1973 - Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
● 1974 - Sol Campbell, English footballer
● 1974 - Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese basketball player
● 1974 - Xzibit, American rapper
● 1975 - Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian pistol shooter
● 1977 - Li Tie, Chinese footballer
● 1978 - Pilar López de Ayala, Spanish actress
● 1979 - Alison Lohman, American actress
● 1979 - Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer
● 1982 - Lukas Reimann (Swiss politician)
● 1983 - Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
● 1986 - Keeley Hazell, British model
● 1988 - Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player
DEATHS
● 96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
● 887 - Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
● 1180 - King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
● 1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
● 1630 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
● 1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
● 1675 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
● 1721 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (b. 1664)
● 1722 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
● 1783 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (b. 1707)
● 1783 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
● 1792 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (b. 1704)
● 1827 - Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (b. 1789)
● 1830 - William Hazlitt, English essayist (b. 1778)
● 1860 - Joseph Locke, English railway builder and civil engineer (b. 1805)
● 1872 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826)
● 1891 - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
● 1896 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)
● 1905 - George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister (b. 1824)
● 1911 - Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician (b. 1862)
● 1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (b. 1846)
● 1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
● 1944 - Robert G. Cole American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (b. 1915)
● 1949 - Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)
● 1953 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
● 1956 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
● 1956 - Syed Motahar Hossain Chowdhury, distinguished essayist of the then Bengal.
● 1959 - Benjamin Péret, French surrealist author
● 1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)
● 1964 - Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
● 1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (b. 1880)
● 1967 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
● 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942)
● 1977 - Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
● 1980 - Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist (b. 1890)
● 1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
● 1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer (b. 1920)
● 2001 - Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)
● 2002 - Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
● 2002 - Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
● 2003 - Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
● 2003 - Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
● 2004 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
● 2004 - Russ Meyer, American film director (b. 1922)
● 2005 - Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
● 2007 - Pepsi Tate Bassist from the glam-rock band, tigertailz
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Pope Eustorgius I.
● St. Joseph of Cupertino
● St. Methodius of Olympus
● St. Richardis
● In ancient Greece, the fifth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
● Chile - Independence Day (first junta 1810).
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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