Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Diversity & Pluralism "Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired." — Robert F. Kennedy
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homeland Security ". . . I mean this town is a—is a town full of people who like to leak information. And I don't know if we're going to find out the senior administration official. Now, this is a large administration, and there's lot of senior officials. I don't have any idea. I'd like to. I want to know the truth. That's why I've instructed this staff of mine to cooperate fully with the investigators—full disclosure, everything we know the investigators will find out. I have no idea whether we'll find out who the leaker is—partially because, in all respect to your profession, you do a very good job of protecting the leakers . . ." — George W. Bush. "President Discusses National, Economic Security in Cabinet Meeting; Remarks by the President After Meeting with Cabinet Members," 10-7-03. He is discussing the possibility of discovering who leaked the information to Robert Novak that Joseph Wilson's wife was an undercover CIA agent. whitehouse.gov.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet." — Ernest Bevin, British foreign minister
{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
Zodiacal Light and the False Dawn
Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (ESO)
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EVENTS
● 303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
● 1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.
● 1396 - Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
● 1493 - Christopher Columbus' second departure for New World, in search of gold, slaves, and tribute.
● 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached what would be known as the Pacific Ocean, claims it for the King of Spain.
● 1555 - The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
● 1639 - First printing press in America.
● 1690 - First newspaper published in colonial America. It was never published again. Authorities considered "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick" to be offensive, and ordered the publisher, Benjamin Harris, to cease publishing.
● 1775 - Colonel Ethan Allen was taken prisoner during an unsuccessful U.S. attempt to capture Montreal, Canada.
● 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights. Only the Bill of Rights were ratified at the time, while the other two were proposed by James Madison but not ratified. In 1992, the Congressional Compensation Amendment was ratified as the 27th amendment to the Constitution.
● 1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
● 1818 - First blood transfusion operation, London, England.
● 1846 - Gen. Kearney and troops depart New Mexico for the conquest of California.
● 1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.
● 1861 - Secretary of U.S. Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves in Union Navy. Enlistees can achieve no rank higher than "boys" and receive pay of one ration per day and $10 per month. This authorization has never been rescinded.
● 1867 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and mystical anarchist, visits the battlefield of Borodino to visualize the scene 55 years before.
● 1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
● 1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.
● 1915 - The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
● 1925 - International convention against forced labor and slavery signed, Geneva, Switzerland.
● 1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.
● 1932 - Catalonia becomes "autonomous" region of Spain.
● 1937 - City of Los Angeles, California bans sale of war toys.
● 1952 - Birth of Cherrie Moraga, Latina feminist writer.
● 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
● 1957 - After state troopers had prevented integration in high school, Pres. Eisenhower dispatches 11,000 Army troops and federalizes the Arkansas National Guard to enforce court-ordered desegregation and escort nine black schoolchildren to class in Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas. White segregationists and the state militia are kept at bay by over 1000 paratroopers. The army remains for the entire school term.
● 1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
● 1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
● 1964 - Two hundred protest Vietnam War at Democratic National Convention.
● 1970 - Erich Maria Remarque dies. German author, wrote anti-war novel "All Quiet On The Western Front."
● 1970 - Cease-fire between Jordan and the fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
● 1972 - In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership.
● 1975 - U.S. Senate makes public 238 illegal FBI burglaries against dissident groups. These actions become known as COINTELPRO, an acronym for counter-intelligence-programs.
● 1977 - Steve Biko, South African civil rights activist, buried after being beat to death in jail by cops.
● 1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
● 1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
● 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.
● 1983 - Long Kesh escape. 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HMP Maze. The largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
● 1993 - A Florida judge rules it is legal for a child to divorce biological parents. The court case involved 12-year old Gregory Kingsley who didn't want his parents anymore.
● 1996 - Stone-throwing protests by thousands of Palestinians angered by Israel's decision to open an archaeological tunnel near Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque compound lead to Palestinian police battling with Israeli troops. Seven people die and more than 350 are wounded.
● 1996 - The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
● 2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
● 2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
● 2005 - E1 Train Disaster
BIRTHS
● 1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
● 1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
● 1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)
● 1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
● 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
● 1694 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
● 1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
● 1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (d. 1804)
● 1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
● 1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
● 1766 - Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (d. 1822)
● 1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
● 1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
● 1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
● 1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
● 1798 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874)
● 1825 - William Pitt Ballinger, Texas lawyer and statesman (d. 1888)
● 1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
● 1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
● 1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
● 1867 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
● 1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
● 1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
● 1896 - Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)
● 1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
● 1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
● 1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
● 1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970)
● 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
● 1917 - Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
● 1917 - Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
● 1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
● 1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
● 1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
● 1925 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
● 1925 - Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress
● 1926 - Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
● 1926 - Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
● 1927 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
● 1929 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
● 1929 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
● 1930 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
● 1932 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
● 1932 - Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain (1977-1981)
● 1933 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
● 1934 - Jean Sorel, French actor
● 1936 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (d. 1996)
● 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
● 1939 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor
● 1943 - Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
● 1943 - John Locke, American musician (d. 2006)
● 1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
● 1944 - Doris Matsui, American politician
● 1945 - Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1946 - Felicity Kendal, British actress
● 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, American model
● 1949 - Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
● 1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor
● 1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)
● 1952 - Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
● 1952 - Anson Williams, American actor and director
● 1953 - Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
● 1954 - Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
● 1955 - Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
● 1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
● 1955 - Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
● 1958 - Michael Madsen, American actor
● 1960 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
● 1960 - Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
● 1961 - Heather Locklear, American actress and model
● 1962 - Aida Turturro, American actress
● 1963 - Tate Donovan, American actor
● 1964 - Anita Barone, American actress
● 1964 - Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actress (seiyū)
● 1964 - Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
● 1964 - Gary Ayles, British racing driver
● 1965 - Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
● 1967 - Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper
● 1968 - John Worsfold, Australian rules football coach
● 1968 - Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau
● 1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
● 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
● 1969 - Hal Sparks, American actor
● 1969 - Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel
● 1970 - Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
● 1971 - John Lynch, American football player
● 1973 - Bridgette Wilson, American actress
● 1973 - Bridget Marquardt,American model and girlfriend of Hugh Hefner
● 1973 - Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
● 1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter (Ant and Dec)
● 1975 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
● 1975 - Daniel Hyde, British actor
● 1976 - Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
● 1977 - Clea DuVall, American actress
● 1977 - Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1977 - Mike Krahulik, Illustrator
● 1978 - Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
● 1978 - Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
● 1978 - Jodie Kidd, English model
● 1978 - Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1980 - T.I., American rapper
● 1981 - Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
● 1981 - Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
● 1981 - Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter/musician
● 1982 - Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
● 1984 - Matt Carle, American ice hockey player
● 1985 - Calvin Johnson, American football player
● 1991 - Emmy Clarke, American actress
DEATHS
● 1066 - Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
● Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
● Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
● 1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
● 1333 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
● 1496 - Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
● 1506 - King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
● 1534 - Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
● 1536 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
● 1602 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
● 1617 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit, philosopher/theologian (b. 1548)
● 1617 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (b. 1617)
● 1626 - Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England (b. 1555)
● 1630 - Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Spanish general (b. 1569)
● 1665 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
● 1703 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658)
● 1774 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
● 1777 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (b. 1728)
● 1791 - William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
● 1792 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
● 1794 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
● 1825 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
● 1849 - Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
● 1867 - Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
● 1900 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
● 1905 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
● 1918 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
● 1926 - Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
● 1929 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
● 1933 - Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
● 1946 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and war criminal (b. 1879)
● 1960 - Emily Post, American author & etiquette expert (b. 1873)
● 1961 - Frank Fay American actor (b. 1897)
● 1968 - Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (b. 1891)
● 1970 - Erich Maria Remarque, German author (b. 1898)
● 1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (b. 1915)
● 1980 - John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
● 1980 - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
● 1980 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
● 1980 - Earl Curry, religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer (b. 1890)
● 1983 - King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
● 1984 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
● 1986 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
● 1986 - Donald MacDonald former president of the Canadian Labour Congress and politician (b.1909)
● 1986 - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguists (b. 1909)
● 1986 - Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian communist leader (b. 1917)
● 1987 - Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning American actress (b. 1906)
● 1987 - Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1905)
● 1988 - Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (b. 1937)
● 1991 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
● 1991 - Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
● 1995 - Bessie Delany, American physician and author (b. 1891)
● 1996 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
● 1997 - Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
● 1997 - Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer, actor and folklorist (b. 1916)
● 1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
● 2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
● 2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician
● 2003 - Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
● 2003 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
● 2003 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
● 2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
● 2005 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
● 2005 - George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
● 2005 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (b. 1912)
● 2005 - Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist, founder of Head Start program (b. 1917)
● 2005 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer ("The Road Less Traveled") (b. 1936)
● 2005 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
● 2006 - Jeff Cooper, renowned firearms expert (b. 1920)
● 2006 - John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
● 2007 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator and community leader (b. 1919)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Finbarr.
● Coptic Church
● Sts. Abadir and Iraja and companions
● Mozambique - Armed Forces Day.
● French Republican Calendar - Colchique (Crocus) Day, fourth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
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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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