It is frequently the last day of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, and the last day of the winter season in the Southern Hemisphere.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Democrats "I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pre-affirmative action, I'm pro-environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting." — Wesley Clark
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Say What? "This [the passage of a law in Florida preventing the death of Terri Schiavo, a woman in a 13-year vegetative state] was a huge victory for one innocent woman, and it was a small victory for the return to self-government." — Randall Terry. Abby Goodnough, "Victory in Florida Feeding Case Emboldens the Religious Right," New York Times, 10-24-03
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast." — Ronald Reagan {The only way to have absolute proof is to have done both yourself . . . that explains a lot about Reagan's mental functions.}
{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
Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years?
Credit & Copyright: C. R. Scotese (U. Texas at Arlington), PALEOMAP
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 66 - Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.
● 296 - Martyrdom of St. Maurice and the 6600.
● 1236 - The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Šiauliai.
● 1499 - Switzerland became an independent state.
● 1586 - The battle of Zutphen occurs.
● 1598 - Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.
● 1609 - Moors expelled from Spain.
● 1656 - First all-woman American jury, Patuxent, Maryland--they acquit a woman accused of murdering her child.
● 1692 - Last eight women hanged for witchcraft in American colonies, Salem, Massachusetts.
● 1776 - Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
● 1779 - Gewauga, a Cayuga village in upstate New York, is destroyed by Gen. Sullivan's troops. Today, coincidentally, is now "American Indian Day."
● 1784 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
● 1789 - The position of United States Postmaster General established.
● 1792 - New calendar adopted in revolutionary France, with ten-day weeks, three-week months, and 12-month years, starting at Year One.
● 1828 - Shaka, African ruler and founder of the Zulu kingdom, is murdered by his half-brother Dingane after mental illness begins to compromise his leadership. Shaka was a highly successful military ruler, who completed the centralization of Zulu power, adapted the weapons and tactics of south African warfare, and set about the integration of neighboring peoples into the growing Zulu kingdom.
● 1851 - The city of Des Moines, Iowa was incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
● 1857 - Anita Augsburg, feminist pacifist, born, Germany.
● 1861 - In an unprovoked peacetime attack, U.S. Army soldiers massacre a band of visiting Navajo men, women and children during a horse race at Fort Wingate, New Mexico.
● 1862 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declares that "persons held as slaves" in areas "in rebellion against the United States" would be free as of Jan. 1, 1863. Since the areas in question were no longer under U.S. control, not one slave actually stood to gain freedom. Lincoln's declaration was only a political/military move, threatening to "free" slaves in any states who didn't return to the Union fold, giving the South four months to stop its revolt. He promised to uphold slavery in states that rejoin the North. The principle of what is today considered a document of freedom is that you cannot own another person unless you are loyal to the U.S. 500,000 slaves flee plantations; many others practice go-slow, sabotage, and effect a general strike, taking over plantations for themselves. Robert Smalls and other slaves take over the steamship "The Planter." 200,000 join the Union Army.
● 1866 - Decisive battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
● 1870 - Proclamation of the Republic of Puerto Rico in revolt against Spanish rule - "Gritto de Lares." Lares, Puerto Rico.
● 1885 - Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right".
● 1887 - Treaty #7, or Blackfoot Treaty, surrenders 50,000 square miles (slightly less than the size of the state of Washington) in Southwest Alberta.
● 1893 - The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
● 1896 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
● 1908 - The independence of Bulgaria is recognised.
● 1910 - The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
● 1919 - The "Great Steel Strike" begins. Ultimately, 395,000 steelworkers walk off their jobs to demand union recognition. The AFL Iron and Steel Organizing Committee call off the strike on Jan. 8, 1920--their goals unmet.
● 1934 - An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
● 1935 - Four hundred thousand U.S. coal miners strike.
● 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
● 1941 - On Jewish New Year Day, German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those were the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
● 1944 - World War II, Red Army enters Tallinn.
● 1946 - Four thousand workers march in Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada to protest the arrest of Medeliene Parent, a leader of the Dominion Textile strike.
● 1949 - First Soviet A-bomb exploded.
● 1959 - In Chicago, air raid sirens are sounded at 10:30 PM for five minutes. This "sent thousands rushing into the streets and caused near panic in almost every section of the city" in fear of the start of a nuclear war, as the Chicago Tribune later reported. The Chicago White Sox had just won the American League pennant, their first pennant in 40 years, and city officials had ordered the sounding in celebration.
● 1960 - The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
● 1962 - Church Centre, donated by the world's Methodists, dedicated for the use of non-governmental organizations at U.N. headquarters. New York City.
● 1965 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
● 1966 - Eight hundred Puerto Rican men pledge to refuse U.S. draft, "part of the colonial subjugation of our country," Lares, Puerto Rico.
● 1970 - Fishing is prohibited in Virginia's Holston River after a chemical plant dangerously contaminates the river's fish with mercury.
● 1970 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
● 1971 - American Indian Movement activists attempt to arrest the deputy director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C.
● 1974 - Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski subpoenas Pres. Richard Nixon.
● 1975 - In the second assassination attempt made against Pres. Gerald Ford in less than three weeks, the president is shot at in San Francisco by Sara Jane Moore, a police and FBI informer.
● 1979 - The South Atlantic Flash or Vela Incident is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
● 1980 - After 10 months of skirmishes, Iran-Iraq war starts, halting 60% of world's oil traffic.
● 1981 - West German cops oust squatters. Thousands in several cities fight back.
● 1985 - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
● 1991 - The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.
● 1993 - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
● 1995 - E-3B AWACS crashed outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed
● 1996 - In Australia, Robert Dent, suffering from terminal cancer, becomes the first person in the world to commit legally assisted suicide under a voluntary euthanasia law. Dent dies from a painless lethal injection.
● 1997 - Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed.
● 2003 - David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
● 2006 - The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.
● 2006 - A German maglev train crashes, killing 23.
● 2006 - Hezbollah claims "Divine Victory" over Israel in a massive demonstration in Beirut.
BIRTHS
● 1515 - Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
● 1547 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
● 1593 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (d. 1650)
● 1601 - Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France (d. 1666)
● 1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
● 1680 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
● 1694 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman (d. 1773)
● 1715 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
● 1717 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)
● 1722 - John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808)
● 1741 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
● 1743 - Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819)
● 1765 - Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822)
● 1788 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
● 1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
● 1819 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
● 1829 - Tự Đức, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883)
● 1875 - Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
● 1876 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
● 1878 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
● 1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
● 1882 - Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
● 1885 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor (d. 1957)
● 1885 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
● 1889 - Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
● 1891 - Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)
● 1895 - Paul Muni, Polish-born actor (d. 1967)
● 1896 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930)
● 1898 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
● 1900 - William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)
● 1900 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
● 1901 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
● 1902 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor (d. 1988)
● 1903 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
● 1904 - Ellen Church, American stewardess (d. 1965)
● 1905 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
● 1907 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (d. 1981)
● 1912 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
● 1915 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (d. 1982)
● 1918 - Hans Scholl, member of The White Rose (d. 1943)
● 1918 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988)
● 1920 - Eric Baker, British human rights activist (d. 1976)
● 1920 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (d. 2000)
● 1920 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
● 1920 - Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (d. 1945)
● 1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1923 - Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer
● 1924 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (d. 1988)
● 1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
● 1927 - Gordon Astall, English footballer
● 1927 - Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager
● 1928 - Eric Broadley, British engineer
● 1928 - James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
● 1928 - Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004)
● 1929 - Serge Garant, French Canadian conductor (d. 1986)
● 1931 - Fay Weldon, British feminist
● 1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)
● 1931 - Manzoor Ahmad, Pakistani philosopher
● 1932 - Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world.
● 1934 - Lute Olson, American basketball coach
● 1936 - Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
● 1938 - Gene Mingo, American football player
● 1939 - Gilbert E. Patterson, American minister and presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ (d. 2007)
● 1940 - Anna Karina, Danish born actress
● 1942 - Dan Baker, American public address announcer
● 1942 - David Stern, American basketball commissioner
● 1943 - Toni Basil, American singer
● 1946 - King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer
● 1946 - Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager
● 1947 - Robert Morace, American writer
● 1948 - Denis Burke, Australian politician
● 1948 - Jim Byrnes, American actor and musician
● 1949 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 1999)
● 1949 - Jim McGinty, Australian politician
● 1950 - Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
● 1951 - David Coverdale, English singer
● 1952 - Bob Goodlatte, American politician
● 1952 - Paul Le Mat, American actor
● 1952 - Gary Holton, English actor and musician (d. 1985)
● 1953 - Ségolène Royal, French politician
● 1953 - Geoff Gilpin, American author
● 1954 - Shari Belafonte, American singer
● 1954 - Randy Lanier, American racing driver
● 1956 - Debby Boone, American singer
● 1956 - Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
● 1957 - Nick Cave, Australian musician
● 1957 - Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist
● 1958 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
● 1958 - Neil Cavuto, American television commentator
● 1958 - Joan Jett, American musician
● 1959 - Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
● 1959 - Pope Michael, American anti-pope
● 1961 - Scott Baio, American actor
● 1961 - Vince Coleman, American baseball player
● 1961 - Bonnie Hunt, American actress
● 1961 - Catherine Oxenberg, British actress
● 1962 - Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian writer
● 1965 - Andy Cairns, Irish musician
● 1965 - Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player
● 1965 - Mark Guthrie, American baseball player
● 1966 - Moustafa Amar, Egyptian singer
● 1966 - Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer
● 1966 - Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
● 1967 - Matt Besser, American comedian
● 1967 - Rickard Rydell, Swedish racing driver
● 1967 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
● 1967 - Kim Watkins, Australian television presenter
● 1969 - Chris Powell, English footballer
● 1969 - Matt Sharp, American musician (Weezer, The Rentals)
● 1970 - Mike Matheny, American baseball player
● 1970 - Mystikal, American rapper
● 1970 - Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
● 1970 - Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
● 1971 - Chesney Hawkes, English singer
● 1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
● 1974 - Bob Sapp, American boxer and kickboxer
● 1975 - Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1975 - Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
● 1976 - Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
● 1977 - Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league footballer
● 1977 - Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer and actress
● 1978 - Ed Joyce, Irish-English cricketer
● 1978 - Harry Kewell, Australian soccer player
● 1979 - Emilie Autumn, American singer, violinist, and harpsichordist
● 1979 - Michael Graziadei, American actor
● 1980 - Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian supermodel
● 1981 - Adam Lazzara, American singer (Taking Back Sunday)
● 1981 - Ashley Drane, American actress
● 1982 - Billie Piper, English singer and actress
● 1982 - Mandy Chiang, Hong Kong singer and actress
● 1984 - Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
● 1984 - Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
● 1987 - Tom Felton, English actor
● 1988 - Bethany Dillon, American musician
● 1995 - Juliette Goglia, American actress
DEATHS
● 1253 - Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)
● 1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)
● 1399 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
● 1520 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
● 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer
● 1566 - Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
● 1607 - Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)
● 1658 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)
● 1662 - John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
● 1692 - Martha Corey, hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials
● 1703 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
● 1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
● 1776 - Nathan Hale, hanged by the British as a spy (b. 1755)
● 1777 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
● 1828 - Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader
● 1852 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)
● 1872 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
● 1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)
● 1881 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
● 1952 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
● 1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
● 1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
● 1961 - Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
● 1962 - Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha, 40th Oveyssi Sufi master (b. 1887)
● 1969 - Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico (b. 1909)
● 1981 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
● 1987 - Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
● 1988 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)
● 1989 - Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)
● 1992 - Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
● 1993 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
● 1996 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. 1924)
● 1996 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
● 1999 - George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
● 2000 - Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
● 2000 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator, (b. 1916)
● 2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
● 2002 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)
● 2003 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
● 2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)
● 2004 - Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man), American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
● 2006 - Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
● 2006 - Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
● 2007 - Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
● 2007 - Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Candidus
● Sts. Digna & Emerita
● St. Emmeramus
● St. Florentius
● St. Lauto
● St. Lolanus
● St. Maurice
● St. Phocas
● St. Salaberga
● St. Sanctinus
● Theban Legion
● St. Thomas of Villanueva
● Some Latter-Day Saints recognize it as "Trumpet Day," or the day that Joseph Smith received the golden plates, which later became The Book of Mormon, from the angel Moroni.
● In ancient Greece, the ninth and final day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates made offerings to the dead.
● French Republican Calendar - Raisin (Grape) Day, first day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
● Bulgaria - Independence Day(from The Otoman Empire) 1908.
● Mali - Independence Day (from France, 1960).
● In Europe and in cities throughout the world, Car Free Day.
● Annually on September 22 OneWebDay is celebrated.
IN FICTION
Hobbit Day, being the birthday of the fictitious Hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
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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