Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Death Penalty "If we are not our brother's keeper, let us at least not be his executioner." — Marlon Brando
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Supporting Our Troops or Veterans' Benefits "Why am I running stores? Why am I in education?" — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, talking about cutting military- run commissaries and schools. Karen Jowers, "An act of 'betrayal.' In the midst of war, key family benefits face cuts," Army Times, 11-3-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Y'all are hurting my tender ears. I would appreciate it if y'all would scream one at a time." — John Alario, House Speaker 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
Northern Cygnus
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler
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EVENTS
● 451 - The Battle of Chalons, in North Eastern France. Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun in a day of combat, considered and believed to be the largest battle in the ancient world.
● 1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
● 1378 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
● 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan - set sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
● 1575 - First inter-colonial war begins in Florida.
● 1596 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
● 1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
● 1737 - Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
● 1792 - French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
● 1830 - National Negro Convention, a group of 38 free African-Americans from eight states, meets in Philadelphia, Pa., with the express purpose of abolishing slavery and improving the social status of African-Americans. They elect Richard Allen president and agree to boycott slave-produced goods and encourage free-produce organizations. The most active will be the Colored Females' Free Produce Society, which seeks to overthrow the economic power of slavery one bolt of cotton and teaspoon of sugar at a time. The movement elevates Black women activists such as Frances Harper and Grace Douglass.
● 1835 - Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
● 1848 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science was created.
● 1854 - Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
● 1857 - The Indian Mutiny ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
● 1860 - The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
● 1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
● 1870 - Bersaglieri corps enters Rome through Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy.
● 1871 - Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the first bishop of Melanesia.
● 1873 - New York Stock Exchange closed its doors for 10 days in response to the financial chaos engendered by the Panic of 1873.
● 1878 - Birth of Upton Sinclair, novelist and socialist.
● 1881 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.
● 1891 - The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
● 1895 - After waves of protest, Italian anarchist Luigi Molinari receives amnesty for a 23 year prison sentence he had received from a military tribunal in Jan. 1894, for leading an insurrection in Lunigiani in support of Sicilian victims of the State of Siege (beginning of January to repress the revolts against increased flour prices).
● 1903 - Troops sent to Cripple Creek, Colo. to break miners’ strike.
● 1906 - Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" published.
● 1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, England.
● 1917 - Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
● 1920 - Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
● 1930 - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church was formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios
● 1932 - Rabindranath Tagore urges resistance to practice of "untouchability"; In Yaravda, Gandhi begins six-day "Epic Fast" in jail against separate electorate for untouchables. British India.
● 1933 - German Jews are barred from owning land and from all public activities.
● 1939 - A German Messerschmitt Bf 109 is shot down by Fairey Battle gunner Sgt. F. Letchard during a patrol near Aachen. This is the RAF's first aerial victory of the Second World War.
● 1940 - Genevieve Grotjan completes the decryption of the Japanese Purple code.
● 1942 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews
● 1945 - After the collapse of Nazi Germany, rocket scientist Von Braun arrives in the U.S. under "Operation Paperclip"--a program that was supposed to exclude Nazis, but became a cover for "rehabilitating" them. His dossier was rewritten so he didn't appear to have been an ardent Nazi.
● 1946 - President Truman dismisses Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace for being "soft" in his policy toward the U.S.S.R.
● 1954 - New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
● 1958 - In a Harlem department store autographing copies of his book "Stride Toward Freedom," Martin Luther King is stabbed in the chest and seriously wounded with a letter opener wielded by a deranged woman.
● 1962 - James Meredith, an African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
● 1967 - The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
● 1970 - Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen. The Jordanians knock out 30 of the Syrian tanks.
● 1972 - Richard Oaks, Mohawk activist who started the Alcatraz Island occupation in 1969, is murdered.
● 1974 - Kootenai Nation in northern Idaho declares war on the U.S. government, with the objective of gaining a reservation and tribal housing, roads, and a community center.
● 1977 - Vietnam finally admitted to U.N.
● 1979 - A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
● 1979 - The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML).
● 1979 - Assassination of French left-wing militant Pierre Goldman.
● 1984 - A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
● 1986 - Workers strike against construction of "counter-guerrilla" base, Sri Lanka.
● 1990 - South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
● 1991 - Neo-Nazi pogrom against immigrants in Hovenswende, Germany.
● 1992 - Kurdish writer Musa Anter is assassinated by a Turkish death squad.
● 1997 - 3,000 protesters help to rip up the railroad tracks leading from Krummel nuclear power station to the main Hamburg-Berlin line.
● 2000 - The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building was attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile
● 2001 - In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American People president George W. Bush declares "war on terror".
● 2002 - Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide started.
● 2003 - A referendum is held in Latvia to decide the country's accession to the European Union.
● 2003 - Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
● 2007 - Lebanese right-wing parliamentarian Antoine Ghanem is killed in a bomb attack in Beirut.
BIRTHS
● 1486 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
● 1599 - Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
● 1744 - Thomas Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War hero (d. 1825)
● 1778 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian naval officer and explorer (d. 1852)
● 1833 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1918)
● 1842 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923)
● 1844 - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
● 1853 - Rama V, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
● 1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
● 1872 - Maurice Gamelin, French army general (d. 1958)
● 1873 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (d. 1949)
● 1873 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
● 1878 - Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)
● 1880 - Louise Peete, American murderess (d. 1947)
● 1884 - Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)
● 1886 - Charles Williams, British author (d. 1945)
● 1889 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (d. 1975)
● 1899 - Leo Strauss, German-born philosopher (d. 1973)
● 1902 - Stevie Smith, British poet (d. 1971)
● 1911 - Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1991)
● 1914 - Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982)
● 1917 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach (d. 2006)
● 1917 - Fernando Rey, Spanish-born actor (d. 1994)
● 1920 - Jay Ward, American animated cartoonist (d. 1989)
● 1920 - Alberto de Lacerda, Portuguese poet (d. 2007)
● 1922 - William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
● 1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet (d. 1997)
● 1924 - Gogi Grant, American singer
● 1925 - Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
● 1925 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1986)
● 1926 - Donald Hall, American poet and US Poet Laureate
● 1927 - Johnny Dankworth, English musician and composer
● 1927 - Rachel Roberts, English actress (d. 1980)
● 1928 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and advice columnist
● 1928 - Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (d. 2000)
● 1929 - Anne Meara, American comic and actress
● 1931 - Cherd Songsri, Thai filmmaker (d. 2006)
● 1933 - Dennis Viollet, English former footballer (d. 1999)
● 1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
● 1935 - Jim Taylor, National Football League player
● 1935 - Keith Roberts, British science fiction author (d. 2000)
● 1935 - David Pegg, English footballer (d. 1958)
● 1937 - Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician
● 1937 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
● 1939 - Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
● 1941 - Dale Chihuly, American glass artist
● 1942 - Gérald Tremblay, Québec politician
● 1947 - Mia Martini, Italian singer (d. 1995)
● 1947 - Bruce Pasternack, American CEO
● 1948 - George R. R. Martin, American writer
● 1948 - Chuck Panozzo and John Panozzo (d. 1996), American musicians (Styx)
● 1949 - John W. Henry, American MLB team owner
● 1949 - Mahesh Bhatt. Indian film director
● 1951 - Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1951 - Javier Marías, Spanish novelist
● 1954 - Henry Samueli, American NHL team owner
● 1956 - Gary Cole, American actor
● 1957 - Alannah Currie, New Zealander musician (Thompson Twins)
● 1958 - Arn Anderson, American wrestler
● 1959 - Danny Devos, Belgian artist
● 1961 - Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and television personality
● 1964 - Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
● 1965 - Robert Rusler, American actor
● 1966 - Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese rock musician
● 1967 - Kristen Johnston, American actress
● 1967 - Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, American musicians (Nelson)
● 1968 - Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
● 1968 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
● 1969 - Victoria Dillard, American actress
● 1970 - Moon Bloodgood, American actress and model
● 1971 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
● 1971 - Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese composer
● 1974 - Michael Waddington, American defense lawyer
● 1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress
● 1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
● 1976 - Yui Horie, Japanese seiyuu
● 1976 - Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
● 1976 - Reuben Singh, British entrepreneur
● 1977 - Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
● 1978 - Jason Bay, Canadian baseball player
● 1978 - Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
● 1978 - T.J. Tucker, American baseball player
● 1979 - Sean Davis, English footballer
● 1980 - Mariacarla Boscono, Italian fashion model
● 1980 - Jonathan Le Billon, British actor
● 1980 - Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
● 1980 - Luke Munns, Australian singer / songwriter
● 1981 - Joanie Dodds, America's Next Top Model contestant
● 1981 - Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
● 1983 - Yuna Ito, Japanese singer and actress
● 1990 - John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1990 - Marilou, Quebec pop singer
● 1991 - Spencer Locke, American actress
● 1995 - Sammi Hanratty, American actress
DEATHS
● 1246 - Mikhail of Chernigov, ruler of Kiev
● 1384 - King Louis I of Naples (b. 1339)
● 1460 - Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer
● 1586 - Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558)
● 1590 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
● 1625 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and critic (b. 1555)
● 1627 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (b. 1560)
● 1630 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
● 1639 - Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1579)
● 1643 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
● 1721 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor
● 1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish patriot (b. 1780)
● 1815 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725)
● 1852 - Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)
● 1863 - Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)
● 1884 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b.1802)
● 1898 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)
● 1906 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
● 1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
● 1932 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary
● 1933 - Annie Besant, women's rights activist (b. 1847)
● 1939 - Paul Bruchési, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1855)
● 1945 - William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)
● 1945 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1909)
● 1946 - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
● 1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
● 1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
● 1971 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
● 1973 - Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
● 1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
● 1979 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
● 1980 - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
● 1984 - Steve Goodman, American folk music singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
● 1989 - Richie Ginther, American racing driver (b. 1930)
● 1993 - Erich Hartmann, German pilot (b. 1922)
● 1994 - Jule Styne, American songwriter (b. 1905)
● 1994 - Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and noted author (b. 1924)
● 1996 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
● 1999 - Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
● 1999 - Robert Lebel, Quebec ice hockey administrator (b. 1905)
● 2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
● 2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician (b. 1941)
● 2003 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
● 2003 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (b. 1922)
● 2004 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)
● 2004 - Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)
● 2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
● 2006 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
● 2006 - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)
● 2007 - Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (b. 1928)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Eustace
● St. Francis de Posadas
● The Korean Martyrs, including Sts. Andrew Kim Taegon and Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert
● Sts. Thomas Johnson, John Davy, and companions (martyrs).
● St. Vincent Madelgaire
● St. Yves Mayeuc
● Anglican Church:
● St. John Coleridge Patteson.
● In ancient Greece, the seventh day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion began.
● Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul only - Farroupilha's Revolution (1835)
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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