Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Dissent "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On He Said / He Said
1. "Eighteen months ago, this building came under attack. From that day to this, we have been engaged in a new kind of war—and we are winning." — George W. Bush, "President to Submit Wartime Budget; Remarks by the President on the Wartime Supplemental," USembassy.state.gov, 3-25-03.
2. "Today, we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror. Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day that the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us? Does the US need to fashion a broad, integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists? The US is putting a great deal of effort into a long-range plan, but we are purring a great deal of effort into trying to stop terrorists. The cost-benefit ration is against us! Our cost is billions against the terrorists' costs of millions." — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a memo dated 10-16-03, USA Today website, 10-22-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results." — Calvin Coolidge
{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
A Galactic Star Forming Region in Infrared
Credit: S. Carey (SSC/Caltech), JPL-Caltech, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 622 - Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
● 1664 - The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
● 1789 - The office of the Attorney General of the United States of America, and the United States Post Office Department are established.
● 1794 - President Washington orders militia to put down Whiskey Rebellion.
● 1824 - General Council of the Cherokee Nation passes a law making it unlawful for white men living on the Nation to have more than one wife, or to make use of her property without her consent. {Seems like the Cherokee Nation had a better idea of feminine equality then than we do now.}
● 1841 - The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain.
● 1852 - The first airship is displayed.
● 1869 - Black Friday, another fiscal crisis, precipitated by scumbag Jay Gould and "Jubilee Jim" Fisk. Thousands of businessmen ruined in a Wall Street panic after the two financiers attempt to corner the gold market.
● 1877 - Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
● 1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy. {If one reads the details of the policy, it is renounced only in places where civil law outlaws the practice; the statement reads something along the lines of let the sin be upon those Civil Authorities who stop this holy duty and practice.}
● 1893 - A civil guard is slain during a Barcelona, Spain rebellion; anarchist Pauli Pallas is executed for the crime, leading to further violence and 20 deaths in a bombing six weeks later.
● 1894 - Birth of E. Franklin Frazier lives, Baltimore, Maryland. Noted social scientist and author of "The Negro Family in the US" and "Black Bourgeoisie." First African-American president of the American Sociological Society.
● 1900 - Anarchist Congress begins, Holland.
● 1903 - Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
● 1905 - Four thousand of Louis A. Gantz's 7,000 sheep were shot and/or clubbed to death by cattlemen. Knowing full well that the cattle interests controlled the courts, the Basin, Wyoming herdsman did not even attempt to prosecute.
● 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
● 1918 - Labor union, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), declared illegal in Canada.
● 1924 - Mohandas Gandhi begins 21-day fast for Hindu-Moslem unity, India.
● 1929 - Author Zamiatin "resigns" under threat of expulsion from the Soviet All Russian Writers Union. Wrote "A Soviet Heretic," and sci-fi allegory "We"--a precursor to "1984."
● 1945 - Saigon captured--workers, peasants, and the poor have set up insurrectionary communes in parts of the city.
● 1947 - Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman
● 1950 - Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A Blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe.
● 1953 - Twenty-three Korean-American prisoners of war, who have refused to be repatriated to the United States during a United Nations prisoner exchange, are turned over to India by the North Korean command. The U.S. soldiers issue this statement - "We love our country and our people...Unfortunately, under present conditions in America, the voices of those who speak out for peace and freedom are rapidly being silenced. We do not intend to give the American government a chance of silencing our voices too."
● 1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
● 1960 - U.S. Navy launches the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Enterprise.
● 1962 - United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
● 1968 - Anti-war protestors destroy 10,000 draft files in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
● 1968 - Mexican soldiers battle students at the National University in Mexico City, killing 17 and arresting at least 1,000.
● 1969 - Beginning of the trial of the Chicago Eight, a broad conspiracy trial stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests that sought (unsuccessfully) to imprison eight of the country's leading anti-war protest organizers - David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Thomas Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. {The only penalties that result from this trial are contempt convictions issues by the judge in the case.}
● 1973 - Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
● 1981 - CIA Director William Casey urges "total exclusion from Freedom of Information Act for intelligence agencies."
● 1985 - Wojciech Jankowski resists military conscription; later jailed for three years. Gdansk, Poland.
● 1988 - James Brown is arrested in Augusta, Georgia after leading police on a hour-long, two-state car chase. Claimed he fled because he feared for his life.
● 1990 - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
● 1991 - American children's anarchist writer, Dr. Seuss, dies.
● 1994 - National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
● 1995 - As part of International Buy Nothing Day, activists dressed as rats urge shoppers at a Dutch shopping mall to "leave the rat race."
● 1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
● 1997 - UNESCO conference discusses relationship between masculinity and violence. Oslo, Norway.
● 2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
BIRTHS
● 15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
● 1301 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
● 1501 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (d. 1576)
● 1534 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
● 1564 - William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
● 1583 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
● 1625 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
● 1705 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
● 1717 - Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (d. 1797)
● 1724 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
● 1739 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
● 1755 - John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1835)
● 1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
● 1802 - Adolphe d'Archaic, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
● 1817 - Ramon de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
● 1829 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
● 1857 - Richard Mansfield, German-born actor (d. 1907)
● 1870 - Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor (d. 1960)
● 1871 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
● 1878 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
● 1884 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
● 1884 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
● 1890 - A. P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist (d. 1971)
● 1890 - Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
● 1892 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Québec (d. 1956)
● 1894 - Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
● 1895 - André Frédéric Cournand, French Nobel Laureate (d. 1988)
● 1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
● 1898 - Howard Walter Florey, Nobel Laureate (d. 1968)
● 1899 - Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
● 1900 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
● 1905 - Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
● 1909 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
● 1910 - Jean Servais, Belgian actor (d. 1976)
● 1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
● 1912 - Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
● 1914 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
● 1918 - Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
● 1919 - Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
● 1921 - Jim McKay, American sports commentator
● 1922 - Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
● 1923 - Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
● 1923 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
● 1924 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
● 1924 - Sheila MacRae, singer & actress
● 1925 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
● 1927 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
● 1929 - Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
● 1930 - John W. Young, American astronaut
● 1930 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
● 1930 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (d. 1998)
● 1931 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (d. 1999)
● 1931 - Mike Parkes, British Formula One driver (d. 1977)
● 1932 - Dominique Michel, French Canadian comedian
● 1934 - Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
● 1934 - Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
● 1934 - John Brunner, British autor (d. 1995)
● 1935 - Sean McCann, Canadian actor
● 1936 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
● 1940 - Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994)
● 1941 - Linda McCartney, American singer (d. 1998)
● 1941 - John Mackey, National Football League player
● 1942 - Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
● 1942 - Gerry Marsden, English singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
● 1944 - Diana Körner, German actress
● 1945 - Lou Dobbs, American journalist
● 1946 - "Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
● 1946 - Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
● 1947 - Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
● 1948 - Gordon Clapp, American actor
● 1948 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (d. 1998)
● 1948 - Heinz Chur, German composer
● 1950 - Alan Colmes, American talk show host
● 1950 - Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
● 1952 - Mark Sandman, American musician (d. 1999)
● 1955 - Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
● 1956 - Hubie Brooks, baseball player
● 1958 - Kevin Sorbo, American actor
● 1959 - Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
● 1961 - Allen Bestwick, Nascar broadcaster
● 1961 - John Logan, American screenwriter
● 1962 - Jack Dee, British comedian
● 1962 - Mike Phelan, English former footballer
● 1962 - Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
● 1964 - Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player
● 1965 - Sean McNabb, American bassist
● 1966 - Michael J. Varhola, American author
● 1966 - Bernard Gilkey, baseball player
● 1966 - Stacy Galina, American actress
● 1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
● 1969 - Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
● 1969 - Megan Ward, American actress
● 1969 - Goya Toledo, Spanish actress and model
● 1971 - Kevin Millar, American baseball player
● 1973 - Eddie George, American football player
● 1974 - John McDonald, American baseball player
● 1976 - Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American professional wrestler
● 1977 - Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
● 1978 - Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
● 1978 - Tarek Saab, American TV show contestant
● 1980 - John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
● 1980 - Sabrine Maui, Filipino pornstar
● 1980 - Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
● 1980 - Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
● 1980 - Brian Lemon, Irish UFC Fighter
● 1981 - Ryan Briscoe, Australian racing driver
● 1982 - Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
● 1982 - Paul Hamm, American gymnast
● 1982 - Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
● 1983 - Randy Foye, American basketball player
● 1984 - Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer
● 1986 - Leah Dizon, model, singer and Japanese television
● 1987 - Matthew Connolly, English footballer
● 1987 - Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
● 1988 - Kyle Sullivan, American actor
● 1988 - Lisa Wang, American gymnast
DEATHS
● 366 - Pope Liberius
● 768 - Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (b. 714)
● 1054 - Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
● 1118 - Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
● 1120 - Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
● 1143 - Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)
● 1143 - Pope Innocent II
● 1180 - Manuel I Comnenus, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
● 1213 - Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
● 1275 - Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)
● 1435 - Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI of France (bc. 1370)
● 1494 - Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
● 1541 - Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b. 1493)
● 1545 - Albert of Mainz, archbishop and elector of Mainz (b. 1490)
● 1605 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (bc. 1547)
● 1621 - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
● 1646 - Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (bc. 1565)
● 1707 - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
● 1732 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
● 1742 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
● 1802 - Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)
● 1834 - Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (b. 1798)
● 1896 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
● 1904 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
● 1930 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
● 1933 - Mike Donlin, baseball player (b. 1878)
● 1933 - Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
● 1938 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
● 1939 - Carl Laemmle, German film producer (b. 1867)
● 1945 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (b. 1882)
● 1948 - Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
● 1954 - Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
● 1962 - Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (b. 1887)
● 1975 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
● 1980 - John Bonham, Drummer for rock band Led Zeppelin
● 1981 - Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)
● 1982 - Sarah Churchill, British actress (b. 1914)
● 1984 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
● 1991 - Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, American children's writer (b. 1904)
● 1991 - Peter Bellamy, folk singer (b. 1944)
● 1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
● 1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
● 2002 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
● 2002 - Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952)
● 2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
● 2003 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
● 2004 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
● 2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Mercy
● Our Lady of Walsingham.
● Late Roman Empire - start of the indiction year (at least since the time of Bede).
● In ancient Latvia, the third day of Mikeli, and the only day of the year during which men proposed to their prospective wives.
● England - Our Lady of Walsingham.
● Barcelona, Spain - La Mercè the festival for Barcelona's patron saint. Big party; lots of art and musical activities.
● Guinea-Bissau - Independence Day (declared, from Portugal, 1973).
● New Caledonia - Territorial Day.
● South Africa - Heritage Day.
● Trinidad and Tobago - Republic Day (1976).
● French Republican Calendar - Châtaigne (Chestnut) Day, third day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
● Kings Day - Celebrating Birthday of Rajadhiraja, Sriraj.
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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