Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Democracy "We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both." — Louis Brandeis
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Clouded Crystal Ball "Brit Hume: How do you get your news?
Pres. Bush: I get briefed by Andy Card and Condi in the morning. They come in and tell me. In all due respect, you've got a beautiful face and everything. I glance at the headlines just to kind of [sic] a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably reading the news themselves. But like Condoleezza, in her case, the National Security Advisor is getting her news directly from the participants on the world stage.
Hume: Has that been your practice since day one, or is that a practice that you've . . .
Bush: Practice since day one.
Hume: Really?
Bush: Yes. You know, look, I have a great respect for the media. I mean, our society is a good solid democracy because of a good, solid media. But I also understand that a lot of times there's opinions mixed in with news. And I . . .
Hume: I won't disagree with that, sir.
Bush: I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm more interested in news. And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world." — "Raw Data: Text of Bush Interview," Fox News Channel, 9-22-03, p. 15.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I am honored today to begin my first term as the governor of Baltimore—that is, Maryland." — William Schaefer
{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
Coronet in the Southern Crown
Credit: X-ray: NASA/ CXC/CfA/ J.Forbrich et al.; Infrared: NASA/ SSC/CfA/IRAC GTO Team
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 454 - Roman Emperor Valentinian III assassinates Aëtius in his own throne room.
● 1217 - An Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights.
● 1638 - In the final act of the Pequot War, English officials and their Native American allies in Connecticut divide the surviving 72 Pequots and enslave them.
● 1745 - Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
● 1765 - Antoine de Beauterne announces he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan, but was later proved wrong by more attacks.
● 1776 - Fire sweeps through New York City, destroying nearly 300 buildings.
● 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
● 1784 - First successful daily newspaper in the U.S., the "Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser," begins publication.
● 1786 - New Hampshire Militia attacks a mob surrounding the State Legislature, ending a three-day siege. The mob, armed with muskets, swords, and staves, was demanding the issuance of paper money and the equal distribution of property.
● 1792 - The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.
● 1814 - Black troops cited for bravery in Battle of New Orleans.
● 1827 - According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon.
● 1832 - As a result of the Black Hawk War, the Sauk are forced to cede their lands in Iowa (also known as "The Black Hawk Purchase").
● 1860 - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao.
● 1886 - H.G. Wells, author, futurist, and radical socialist, born, Bromley, Kent, England.
● 1896 - The state militia is sent to Leadville, Colorado to break a miner's strike.
● 1896 - British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
● 1897 - The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" letter is published in the New York Sun.
● 1898 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
● 1904 - Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce dies in his lodge at Nespelem, Wash.; agency physician lists cause of death as "a broken heart."
● 1909 - Birth of Kwame Nkrumah, Nkroful, Ghana. A leader in African colonial liberation, the first prime minister of Ghana but be forced into exile following a coup.
● 1915 - Stonehenge auctioned off for a rock-bottom 6,600 pounds to C.H. Chubb.
● 1921 - Oppau explosion, a storage silo at a fertilizer producing plant exploded in Oppau, Germany, 500—600 killed.
● 1934 - Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000.
● 1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" published.
● 1938 - The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
● 1939 - Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by pro-Nazi members of the Iron Guard.
● 1942 - On Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis sent over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
● 1942 - On the end of Yom Kippur, the Germans ordered Konstantynow Jews (Poland) to permanently evacuate Konstantynow and move to the Ghetto - established in Biala Podlaska, meant to assemble Jews from nearby 7 towns among them: Konstantynow, Janów Podlaski, Rossosz, Terespol, and 3 more.
● 1942 - In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2588 Jews.
● 1942 - The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
● 1947 - Birth of Stephen King.
● 1948 - Folke Bernadotte, U.N. mediator, assassinated by Jewish paramilitaries, Palestine.
● 1950 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.
● 1956 - Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto Lopez. Two hundred opposition leaders are promptly arrested. Somoza's son would assume power and continue the dictatorship with full U.S. backing for another 23 years.
● 1963 - War Resisters League organizes first anti-Vietnam War demonstration in U.S., New York City.
● 1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
● 1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
● 1965 - Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations.
● 1970 - New York Times starts first modern op-ed page.
● 1972 - Sixty thousand acre (nearly 1,000 square mile) McQuinn Strip in Oregon returned to Warm Springs Confederated Tribes after 85 years.
● 1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.
● 1976 - Former Chilean Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the U.S. Orlando Letelier, and his colleague Ronni Moffitt, a U.S. citizen, are murdered in Washington D.C. by agents of U.S.-installed Chilean President Augusto Pinochet.
● 1979 - Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK. Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident - including a mother and her baby - and three people were killed.
● 1980 - Two canisters containing radioactive material fall off a truck on New Jersey's Route 17. The driver of the truck discovers the cargo missing when he reaches Albany, New York.
● 1981 - Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
● 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female supreme court justice.
● 1982 - First observance of International Day of Peace.
● 1989 - Israeli soldiers begin a 42-day occupation and house-to-house destruction of the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, in retaliation for its mass two-year refusal to pay taxes to the occupying Israeli government.
● 1989 - Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
● 1991 - Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.
● 1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
● 1995 - The Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the Hindu God Ganesh began drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths.
● 1999 - Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
● 2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
● 2001 - AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people.
● 2003 - Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
● 2004 - The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
BIRTHS
● 1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
● 1411 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (d. 1460)
● 1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
● 1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
● 1452 - Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican priest and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
● 1629 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1694)
● 1645 - Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
● 1756 - John MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road-builder (d. 1836)
● 1760 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
● 1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
● 1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
● 1849 - Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905)
● 1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
● 1863 - John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
● 1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
● 1866 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
● 1873 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
● 1874 - Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
● 1895 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
● 1899 - Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)
● 1902 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
● 1902 - Sir Allen Lane, British founder of Penguin Books (d. 1970)
● 1905 - Robert Lebel, French canadian ice hockey executive (d. 1999)
● 1906 - Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
● 1912 - Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
● 1912 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
● 1916 - Françoise Giroud, French journalist, writer and politician (d. 2003)
● 1917 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (d. 1968)
● 1918 - John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (d. 2007)
● 1919 - Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
● 1919 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (d. 1988)
● 1926 - Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1929 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
● 1929 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
● 1931 - Larry Hagman, American actor
● 1933 - Dick Simon, American racing driver
● 1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
● 1935 - Henry Gibson, American actor
● 1936 - Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
● 1936 - Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
● 1938 - Doug Moe, American basketball player and coach
● 1940 - Bill Kurtis, American television journalist
● 1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr., CIA director
● 1941 - Jack Brisco, American professional wrestler
● 1944 - Fannie Flagg, American actress and novelist
● 1944 - Hamilton Jordan, President Carter's original chief of staff
● 1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
● 1945 - Richard Childress, NASCAR team owner
● 1945 - Shaw Clifton, the 18th General of The Salvation Army
● 1946 - Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
● 1947 - Stephen King, American author
● 1947 - Marsha Norman, American playwright
● 1947 - Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles)
● 1949 - Artis Gilmore, American basketball player
● 1950 - Charles Clarke, British politician
● 1950 - Bill Murray, American actor
● 1951 - Bruce Arena, American soccer coach
● 1951 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
● 1952 - Anneliese Michel, Exorcism victim, known from the movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose (d. 1976)
● 1953 - Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver
● 1954 - Shinzo Abe, Former Prime Minister of Japan
● 1954 - Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, British musician (Motörhead)
● 1955 - Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director
● 1955 - Richard Hieb, American astronaut
● 1956 - Jack Givens, American basketball player
● 1956 - Marta Kauffman, American television producer
● 1957 - Ethan Coen, American film director
● 1957 - Kevin Rudd, Australian Labor Party leader
● 1957 - Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player
● 1958 - Bruno Fitoussi, French poker player
● 1959 - Dave Coulier, American actor
● 1959 - Danny Cox, baseball player
● 1959 - Corinne Drewery, British singer (Swing Out Sister)
● 1960 - David James Elliott, Canadian actor
● 1961 - Húbert Nói, Icelandic artist
● 1961 - Nancy Travis, American actress
● 1962 - Rob Morrow, American actor
● 1963 - Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor
● 1963 - Curtly Ambrose, West Indian cricketer
● 1963 - Cecil Fielder, baseball player
● 1965 - Cheryl Hines, American actress
● 1965 - David Wenham, Australian actor
● 1967 - Faith Hill, American singer
● 1967 - Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
● 1968 - Ricki Lake, American actress and talk show hostess
● 1969 - Jason Christiansen, baseball player
● 1970 - John Cudia, American actor
● 1971 - John Crawley, English cricketer
● 1971 - Luke Wilson, American actor
● 1971 - Alfonso Ribeiro, Dominican-born actor
● 1972 - Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)
● 1972 - Jon Kitna, American football player
● 1972 - David Silveria, American drummer (KoЯn)
● 1973 - Oswaldo Sanchez, Mexican footballer
● 1974 - Andy Todd, English footballer
● 1974 - Jana Kandarr, German professional tennis player
● 1975 - Doug Davis, American baseball player
● 1976 - Poul Hübertz, Danish footballer
● 1976 - Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer and guitarist (Mew)
● 1977 - Brian Tallet, American baseball player
● 1978 - Doug Howlett, Professional New Zealand Rugby Union Player
● 1979 - Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
● 1979 - Chris Gayle, West Indian cricketer
● 1979 - Julian Gray, English footballer
● 1980 - Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
● 1980 - Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
● 1980 - Autumn Reeser, American actress
● 1980 - Aleksa Palladino, American actress
● 1980 - Robert Hoffman (actor), American Actor
● 1981 - Nicole Richie, American socialite
● 1981 - Meilinda Soerjoko, Indonesian-Australian actress
● 1982 - Danny Kass, American snowboarder
● 1982 - Rowan Vine, English footballer
● 1982 - Eduardo Azevedo, Brazilian racing driver
● 1983 - Maggie Grace, American actress
● 1983 - Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
● 1983 - Joseph Mazzello, American actor
● 1985 - Maryam Hassouni, Dutch actor
● 1987 - Jimmy Clausen, American college football player
● 1987 - Ashley Paris, American basketball player
● 1987 - Courtney Paris, American basketball player
● 1990 - Christian Serratos, American actress
● 1990 - Allison Scagliotti, American actress
● 1991 - Jordan Hasay, American track & field athlete
● 1991 - Zoe Weizenbaum, American actress
● 1998 - Brino quadruplets, American actor/actresses
DEATHS
● 19 B.C.E. - Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 B.C.E.)
● 454 - Aëtius, Roman general (b. c. 396)
● 1217 - Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier
● 1327 - King Edward II of England (b. 1284)
● 1397 - Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
● 1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet
● 1558 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
● 1576 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501)
● 1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
● 1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)
● 1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
● 1743 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
● 1748 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
● 1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
● 1798 - George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
● 1832 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
● 1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
● 1874 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794)
● 1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
● 1904 - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
● 1906 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)
● 1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
● 1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)
● 1939 - Armand Călinescu Romanian prime-minister (assassinated) (b. 1893)
● 1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
● 1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
● 1963 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
● 1966 - Paul Reynaud, French politician (b. 1878)
● 1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
● 1972 - Henry de Montherlant, French writer (b. 1896)
● 1974 - Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
● 1974 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
● 1976 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean diplomat (b. 1932)
● 1982 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
● 1985 - Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
● 1987 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)
● 1988 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
● 1995 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
● 1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
● 2000 - Bryan Smith, Man who ran over Stephen King (b. 1957)
● 2002 - Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)
● 2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)
● 2004 - Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)
● 2006 - Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
● 2007 - Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1929)
● 2007 - Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
● 2007 - Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Cathoic:
● St. Matthew the Evangelist
● Eastern Orthodox:
● The Nativity of the Theotokos
● In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begin
● International Day of Peace
● International Day against Alzheimer's disease
● International Banana Festival
● Spring (season) Day in Argentina
● Day of the trees in Brazil
● Independence Day in Malta (1964), Belize (1981) & Armenia (1991)
● Mabon - Neopagan festival of Mabon
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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