It is frequently the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and the first day of the spring season in the Southern Hemisphere.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Disabilities "Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way." — George Evans
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Civil Wars & Sore Losers "I view Rush Limbaugh as entertainment. I view him like I view a circus Clown. He makes people laugh, he makes fun of me all the time, and that's fine I don't pay attention to it." — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). George Rush and Joanna Molloy, "Limbaugh Lambast," New York Daily News, 11-22-02.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." — Clinton White House aide George Stephanopoulos {Sometimes the truth just sounds dumb.}
{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
The Equal Night
Credit: STS-68 Crew, NASA
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EVENTS
● 1122 - Concordat of Worms.
● 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
● 1529 - The Siege of Vienna begins as Suleiman I begins his attack on the city.
● 1642 - First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
● 1779 - American Revolution; USS Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, wins a fight against the British ships of war HMS Serapis and HMS Countess of Scarborough off the coast of England.
● 1780 - American Revolution; British Major John André arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's treason.
● 1803 - Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye.
● 1806 - Meriweather Lewis and William Clark return to St. Louis, Missouri, from the first overland journey across North America to the Pacific Coast.
● 1818 - Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mask of Anarchy" is published.
● 1818 - Border demarcation markers for Moresnet formally installed.
● 1838 - Birth of Victoria Woodhull, feminist and reformer. Proponent of Free Love, first woman to run for U.S. presidency (with Frederick Douglass). Member of the First International until expelled by Karl Marx. Homer, Ohio.
● 1846 - Discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
● 1868 - “El Grito de Lares” uprising (Lares Revolt) occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
● 1875 - William Bonney ("Billy the Kid") is arrested for the first time.
● 1884 - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
● 1889 - Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
● 1900 - Paris congress of the Second International is first international body to recognize Irish nationhood. England still working on it.
● 1905 - Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
● 1916 - Warren Billings, labor activist, goes on trial in San Francisco.
● 1922 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
● 1932 - The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
● 1939 - Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud dies. He missed his mother.
● 1941 - The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
● 1942 - First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
● 1943 - Vilna Jewish ghetto is “liquidated” by Nazis.
● 1950 - Congress overrides President Truman's veto and passes the McCarran Internal Security Act, requiring registration of members of groups the Attorney General determines to be Communist fronts, and establishing of emergency concentration camps. Truman called the act "the greatest danger to freedom of speech, press, and assembly since the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798." Portions of the Act allowing exclusion of gays and lesbians from the U.S. are still on the books, and enforced at the borders.
● 1952 - Vice Presidential hopeful Richard Nixon defuses a scandal and saves his career, unfortunately, with his nationally televised "Checkers" speech.
● 1954 - A Japanese tuna fishing boat, the Lucky Dragon, is caught in the path of fallout from a U.S. atomic test 100 miles to the west, at Bikini Atoll. The crew members suffered from radiation sickness, and one of the them died of liver and blood damage. The Lucky Dragon incident touched several sensitive issues in Japan - the atomic legacy of World War II; disruption in the supply of fish, a principal food item; curtailment of fishing rights on the high sea; and a deep-rooted concern that the United States was insensitive to the feelings and sufferings of the Japanese people and unduly preoccupied with the development of weapons for mass destruction.
● 1955 - Jury in Sumner, Mississippi, acquits Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam of murdering 14-year-old African American Emmett Till, visiting from Michigan, after he looked at a white woman. The two admitted kidnapping the youth. But the jury based its verdict on a claim that the slain boy's body was too decomposed for positive identification.
● 1957 - Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because a white mob had formed outside.
● 1959 The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia’s first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
● 1969 - The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
● 1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law and signs General Order No. 1 which orders the arrest of opposition leaders, media censorship, banning travel to other countries except for diplomatic missions, abolishing the Philippine Congress, establishing dictatorial government, take-over or sequestering of public and private corporations and suspension of classes for one week in the Philippines.
● 1973 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, communist cultural hero, and Nobel prize winner, dies of leukemia in Santiago.
● 1973 - Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
● 1978 - Italian prisoners tear down walls to protest maximum security prisons.
● 1979 - In the largest political protest of the late '70s in the U.S., six months after Three Mile Island, 200,000 attend rally against nuclear power in Battery Park, New York City.
● 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
● 1999 - NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
● 1999 - Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only received minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history to date.
● 2004 - At least 1,070 in Haiti reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne
● 2005 - FBI killing of Filiberto Ojeda on Plan Bonito Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.
BIRTHS
● 480 B.C.E. - Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
● 63 B.C.E. - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
● 1158 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
● 1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
● 1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
● 1598 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
● 1647 - Joseph Dudley, US-American statesman (d. 1720)
● 1650 - Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)
● 1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
● 1740 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
● 1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
● 1791 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
● 1819 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
● 1838 - Victoria Woodhull, US-American suffragist (d. 1927)
● 1852 - William Stewart Halsted, US-American surgeon (d. 1922)
● 1861 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
● 1863 - Mary Eliza Church Terrell, US-American writer (d. 1954)
● 1864 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
● 1865 - Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)
● 1869 - Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, first carrier of typhoid
● 1880 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Laureate (d. 1971)
● 1889 - Walter Lippmann, US-American journalist (d. 1974)
● 1890 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
● 1895 - Johnny Mokan, US-American baseball player (d. 1985)
● 1897 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
● 1899 - Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977)
● 1900 - Louise Nevelson, US-American sculptor (d. 1988)
● 1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986)
● 1907 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)
● 1907 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
● 1911 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
● 1912 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (d. 2005)
● 1912 - Tony Smith, US-American sculptor (d. 1980)
● 1914 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
● 1915 - Clifford Shull, US-American physicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 2001)
● 1916 - Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
● 1920 - Mickey Rooney, US-American actor
● 1924 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978)
● 1925 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
● 1925 - Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress
● 1926 - John Coltrane, US-American saxophonist (d. 1967)
● 1929 - Wally Whyton, English musician (d. 1997)
● 1930 - Ray Charles, US-American musician (d. 2004)
● 1930 - Colin Blakely, British actor (d. 1987)
● 1931 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004)
● 1934 - Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
● 1936 - Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician
● 1938 - Tom Lester, US-American actor
● 1938 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d. 1982)
● 1939 - Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator
● 1939 - Roy Buchanan, US-American guitarist (d. 1988)
● 1939 - Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
● 1941 - Simon Nolet, French Canadian ice hockey player
● 1941 - George Jackson, Black Panther and US-American revolutionary
● 1942 - Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician
● 1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
● 1943 - Marty Schottenheimer, US-American football coach
● 1945 - Paul Petersen, US-American actor
● 1945 - Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
● 1946 - Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
● 1947 - Mary Kay Place, US-American actress
● 1947 - Jerry Corbetta, US-American singer and musician (Sugarloaf)
● 1947 - Neal Smith, US-American drummer for Alice Cooper
● 1949 - Bruce Springsteen, US-American singer and songwriter
● 1954 - Charlie Barnett, US-American actor (d. 1996)
● 1956 - Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
● 1956 - Peter David, US-American writer
● 1957 - Rosalind Chao, US-American actress
● 1957 - Tony Fossas, Cuban baseball player
● 1958 - Danielle Dax, British musician
● 1958 - Marvin Lewis, US-American football coach
● 1958 - Larry Mize, US-American golfer
● 1959 - Jason Alexander, US-American actor
● 1959 - Elizabeth Peña, US-American actress
● 1960 - Jason Carter, British actor
● 1960 - Jeff Groteboer, US-American writer (d. 2003)
● 1961 - Chi McBride, US-American actor
● 1961 - Willie McCool, US-American astronaut (d. 2003)
● 1964 - Clayton Blackmore, Welse Footballer
● 1964 - Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)
● 1966 - LisaRaye, US-American actress
● 1968 - Yvette Fielding, English television presenter
● 1969 - Michelle Thomas, US-American actress (d. 1998)
● 1969 - Patrick Fiori, French singer
● 1969 - Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver
● 1969 - Donald Audette, National Hockey League player
● 1970 - Ani DiFranco, US-American musician
● 1970 - Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer
● 1972 - Karl Pilkington, British radio personality
● 1972 - Jermaine Dupri, US-American music producer and rapper
● 1973 - Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist
● 1974 - Matt Hardy, US-American professional wrestler
● 1974 - Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model
● 1975 - Jaime Bergman, US-American model and actress
● 1975 - Layzie Bone, US-American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
● 1975 - Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
● 1976 - Jeremy Jackson, US-American writer, poet and inventor
● 1976 - Kip Pardue, US-American actor and model
● 1977 - Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1978 - Rachael Yamagata, US-American singer and songwriter
● 1978 - Worm Miller, US-American filmmaker
● 1978 - Keri Lynn Pratt, US-American actress
● 1979 - Ricky Davis, US-American basketball player
● 1980 - Cameron Litvack, US-American television producer
● 1981 - Misti Traya, US-American actress
● 1981 - Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
● 1981 - Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver
● 1984 - Anneliese van der Pol, US-American actress
● 1984 - Louie Stephens, US-American musician, keyboardist for Rooney
● 1985 - Maki Goto, Japanese pop idol
● 1985 - Jared High, US-American victim of bullying (d. 1998)
● 1985 - Brian Brohm, US-American football player
● 1985 - Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
● 1985 - Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
● 1985 - Joba Chamberlain, US-American baseball player
● 1986 - Martin Cranie, English footballer
DEATHS
● 79 - Pope Linus
● 1241 - Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)
● 1390 - John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
● 1535 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1513)
● 1571 - John Jewel, English bishop (b. 1522)
● 1573 - Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
● 1605 - Pontus de Tyard, French poet
● 1675 - Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603)
● 1728 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
● 1738 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (b. 1668)
● 1764 - Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703)
● 1773 - Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
● 1789 - John Rogers, US-American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
● 1835 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
● 1844 - Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
● 1846 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818)
● 1850 - José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan hero (b. 1764)
● 1870 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803)
● 1871 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, French Canadian politician (b. 1786)
● 1873 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
● 1877 - Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (b. 1811)
● 1889 - Wilkie Collins, British author (b. 1824)
● 1900 - William Marsh Rice, US-American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
● 1917 - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)
● 1929 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
● 1935 - the first two victims of the Cleveland Torso Murderer
● 1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (b. 1856)
● 1943 - Elinor Glyn, English author (b. 1864)
● 1944 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (b. 1875)
● 1950 - Sam Barry, US-American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
● 1968 - Francesco Forgione, "Padre Pio", Catholic saint (b. 1887)
● 1970 - Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917)
● 1971 - J. W. Alexander, US-American mathematician (b. 1888)
● 1971 - Billy Gilbert, US-American actor (b. 1894)
● 1973 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
● 1974 - Cliff Arquette, US-American comedian and actor (b. 1905)
● 1978 - Lyman Bostock, US-American baseball player (murdered) (b. 1950)
● 1981 - Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (b. 1899)
● 1987 - Bob Fosse, US-American dancer, choreographer, and actor (b. 1927)
● 1988 - Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (b. 1912)
● 1992 - James Van Fleet, U.S. Army general (b. 1892)
● 1994 - Jerry Barber, US-American golfer (b. 1916)
● 1994 - Robert Bloch, US-American author (b. 1917)
● 1994 - Madeleine Renaud, French theater and film actress (b. 1900)
● 1998 - Mary Frann, US-American actress (b. 1943)
● 2000 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
● 2000 - Carl Rowan, US-American journalist (b. 1925)
● 2002 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (b. 1927)
● 2003 - Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman (b. 1937)
● 2004 - André Hazes, Dutch singer (b. 1951)
● 2004 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
● 2005 - Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary (b. 1933)
● 2005 - Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
● 2006 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)
● 2006 - Etta Baker, US-American blues guitarist (b.1913)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adomnan of Iona
● St. Thecla.
● Traditional New Year's Day in Constantinople and Eastern Orthodox Churches — because of the birthday of Augustus, not because of the equinox.
● In ancient Latvia, the second day of Mikeli.
● Japanese Autumnal equinox Day (秋分の日/Shūbun no hi).
● Astrology: Usually the first day of sun sign Libra in the tropical zodiac.
● Saudi Arabia - National Day (unification 1932).
● French Republican Calendar - Safran (Saffron) Day, second day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
● Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first recognized in 1999 and is observed mainly in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.
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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