Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Environment "Anything else you're interested is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are, by accident of fate, alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet." — Carl Sagan
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Campaign Strategies "I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things . . . The only way you get change is to vote Republican." — Newt Gingrich on the case of Susan Smith, who drowned her two sons. Associated Press, 11-8-94. {For the record—Susan Smith's stepfather testified at her trial it was his molestation of her as a teenager that caused her to be unbalanced enough to kill her own children. This was how she avoided the death penalty. The stepfather was an active Republican belonging to his Republican County Committee.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits." — Joe Early, Massachusetts congressman, on the House back scandal
{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
Dawn Launch Mosaic
Credit & Copyright: Randy Pollock
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 522 B.C.E. - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
● 480 B.C.E. - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistokles, defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
● 61 B.C.E. - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
● 440 - Leo I becomes pope.
● 855 - Benedict III becomes pope.
● 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England.
● 1364 - Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
● 1567 - The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
● 1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
● 1642 - Missionary Rene Goupil killed by Mohawks, on whom he was spying for the French military.
● 1650 - Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London.
● 1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
● 1789 - The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
● 1795 - Perpetual Peace published by Immanuel Kant, Germany. {Few read, fewer follow.}
● 1829 - The Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met, is founded.
● 1848 - Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.
● 1850 - The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
● 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
● 1879 - A dozen Ute Indians kill all the white workers at Colorado's White River Agency. The dead include agency head Nathan Meeker, who said it was his duty as a member of a superior race to elevate and enlighten the Utes. When thy did not bow to Meeker's wishes to change them from hunters to farmers, he called in the Army. On this day, the white troops attacked a peaceful party of Utes along the Milk River--even after their chief, Nicaagat, frantically attempted to avert the confrontation by riding out to meet them. The attack prompted the Ute killings at Meeker's agency. Before the fighting ends, 37 Utes die in a desperate stand to save their reservation from military seizure.
● 1883 - English language publication of anarchist Johann Most's song "The Hymn of the Proletariat."
● 1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world was opened in Blackpool, England.
● 1906 - Troops sent to Cuba to "protect U.S. interests."
● 1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
● 1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I. Bulgaria signed an armistice.
● 1921 - The Cheka (Bolshevik Secret Police) execute ten anarchists, including Fanya Baron and poet Lev Cherny. Emma Goldman, friend and fellow anarchist, was so outraged that friends had to dissuade her from chaining herself to a bench in the hall where the Third International was meeting to shout her protests to the delegates.
● 1924 - Plutarco Elías Calles is proclaimed President of Mexico.
● 1931 - RCMP fire into coal miners' parade, murdering three. Biendfait, Saskatchewan, Canada; 400 miners and their families clash with police during strike, Estevan, Saskatchewan (same incident, or two separate situations?).
● 1938 - Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
● 1941 - Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30, 1941.
● 1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship HMS Nelson off the shore of Malta.
● 1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
● 1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
● 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disorders a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts. {Including hitting a table with his shoe.}
● 1962 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
● 1963 - The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
● 1965 - The NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
● 1969 - The Army's case against Green Beret Colonel Robert Rheault and others for "terminating with extreme prejudice" the life of an alleged Vietnamese double agent was dropped when the CIA refused to allow its agents to testify.
● 1969 - Two thousand welfare protesters take over the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin.
● 1971 - Oman joins the Arab League.
● 1972 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
● 1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
● 1979 - Two hundred thousand participate in anti-nuke demonstrations, lower Manhattan, California and 11 other locations around the US.
● 1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
● 1982 - U.S. Marines land in Lebanon as part of multinational force.
● 1983 - Stop the City protests against military-financial complex, London, Britain.
● 1983 - International arms trade convention prematurely closed by nonviolent activists. Brussels, Belgium.
● 1984 - Protesters crash the 40th birthday celebration of the World Bank and IMF.
● 1988 - Cartoonist Charles Addams dies.
● 1988 - Eighty thousand in West Berlin protest IMF policies, 400 arrested.
● 1988 - Veteran's Peace Convoy wins lawsuit banning Executive Branch from regulating or prohibiting aid to a foreign country intended to relieve suffering.
● 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with STS-26.
● 1989 - Two thousand openly smoke pot during U.C.-Berkeley campus “smoke-in.”
● 1991 - Military coup in Haiti.
● 1992 - Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
● 1994 - Protesters once again crash the Washington, D.C. 50th birthday party of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
● 1995 - Khaled Kelkal is killed by the French Police.
● 1995 - The United States Navy disestablishes Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated Jolly Rogers.
● 2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
● 2001 - An estimated 20,000 rally in Washington, D.C., against the prospect of military strikes as part of Pres. Bush's new "War on Terrorism." Smaller rallies and marches are held around the country.
● 2002 - A London crowd estimated at 200,000 to 500,000 protests British and U.S. plans for a "preemptive" (that is, without provocation) invasion of Iraq.
● 2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Nova Scotia.
● 2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
● 2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, the first of two needed to win the prize.
● 2005 - US Senate confirms John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
● 2005 - Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
● 2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
BIRTHS
● 106 B.C.E. - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (d. 48 B.C.E.)
● 1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
● 1328 - Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)
● 1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
● 1511 - Miguel Servet, Spanish humanist (d. 1553)
● 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
● 1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
● 1561 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)
● 1571 - Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
● 1636 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
● 1639 - Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
● 1640 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
● 1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
● 1691 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
● 1703 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
● 1725 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)
● 1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
● 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
● 1803 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (d. 1850)
● 1803 - Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
● 1808 - Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)
● 1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
● 1842 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
● 1843 - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
● 1853 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
● 1863 - Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (d. 1919)
● 1864 - Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)
● 1864 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)
● 1881 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist
● 1895 - J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980)
● 1895 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
● 1897 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
● 1898 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (d. 1976)
● 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
● 1900 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
● 1901 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
● 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
● 1907 - Gene Autry, American actor and businessman (d. 1998)
● 1907 - George W. Jenkins, American businessman (d. 1996)
● 1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
● 1910 - Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)
● 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007)
● 1913 - Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
● 1913 - Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)
● 1915 - Brenda Marshall, American film actress (d. 1992)
● 1920 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate
● 1922 - Lizabeth Scott, American actress
● 1923 - Stan Berenstain, American children's author (d. 2005)
● 1924 - Steve Forrest, American actor
● 1930 - Colin Dexter, British author of Inspector Morse novels
● 1931 - Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
● 1931 - James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1932 - Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
● 1932 - Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
● 1934 - Lance Gibbs, Guyanese West Indies cricketer
● 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
● 1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
● 1938 - Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
● 1939 - Tommy Boyce, American songwriter
● 1939 - Molly Haskell, American film critic
● 1939 - Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
● 1940 - Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
● 1941 - Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)
● 1942 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
● 1942 - Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
● 1942 - Ian McShane, British actor
● 1942 - Bill Nelson, American politician
● 1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
● 1942 - Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (d. 1996)
● 1943 - Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran
● 1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
● 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
● 1944 - Mike Post, American composer
● 1945 - Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer
● 1947 - Martin Ferrero, American actor
● 1948 - Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
● 1948 - Mark Farner, American guitarist Grand Funk
● 1948 - Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
● 1949 - George Dalaras, Greek singer
● 1951 - Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
● 1951 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
● 1951 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
● 1951 - Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster
● 1952 - Gabor Csupo, Hungarian-born animator
● 1952 - Max Sandlin, American politician
● 1953 - Warren Cromartie, American baseball player
● 1953 - Drake Hogestyn, American actor
● 1953 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Quebec film director (d. 1997)
● 1956 - Sebastian Coe, British athlete
● 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
● 1957 - Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer and composer
● 1961 - Stephanie Miller, American comedian
● 1962 - Roger Bart, American actor
● 1962 - Al Pitrelli, American musician, guitarist
● 1963 - Dave Andreychuk, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1963 - Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)
● 1966 - Jill Whelan, American actress
● 1967 - Brett Anderson, British musician/singer (Suede, The Tears)
● 1968 - Patrick Burns, American television presenter
● 1968 - Soulja Boy, American rapper
● 1968 - Samir Soni, Indian film actor
● 1969 - Erika Eleniak, American actress and Playboy Playmate
● 1969 - Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer
● 1970 - Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress
● 1970 - Emily Lloyd, British actress
● 1971 - Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer
● 1971 - Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian
● 1972 - Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer
● 1972 - Oliver Gavin, British racing car driver
● 1973 - Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
● 1973 - Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player
● 1973 - Scout Niblett, British musician
● 1974 - Brian Ash, American film producer
● 1974 - Alexis Cruz, American actor
● 1975 - Albert Celades, Spanish football player
● 1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player
● 1976 - Darren Byfield, English football player
● 1976 - Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
● 1977 - Won Bin, South Korean actor
● 1977 - Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1977 - Debelah Morgan, American R&B singer
● 1977 - Jake Westbrook, American baseball player
● 1978 - Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
● 1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast
● 1978 - Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)
● 1979 - Shelley Duncan, American Baseball Player
● 1980 - Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire,City and Colour)
● 1981 - Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player
● 1982 - Ariana Jollee, American pornographic actress
● 1982 - Rob Smith - Irish musician and songwriter
● 1984 - Per Mertesacker, German football player
● 1986 - Benoit Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1986 - Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1988 - Kevin Durant, American basketball player
● 1989 - Sebastian Elmaloglou, Australian soap actor
● 1999 - Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
DEATHS
● 1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany
● 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
● 1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint
● 1642 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
● 1703 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
● 1800 - Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
● 1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
● 1833 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
● 1887 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
● 1889 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
● 1900 - Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
● 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
● 1902 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
● 1908 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (b. 1839)
● 1925 - Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851)
● 1927 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1860)
● 1927 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
● 1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
● 1937 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)
● 1952 - John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
● 1967 - Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
● 1970 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
● 1973 - W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
● 1975 - Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
● 1976 - Wadi Ayoub, Greco-Roman professional wrestler, (b. 1927)
● 1981 - Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (b. 1913)
● 1982 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
● 1987 - Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917)
● 1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
● 1989 - Gussie Busch, American brewing magnate (b. 1899)
● 1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
● 1996 - Leslie Crowther, British comedian (b. 1933)
● 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
● 1998 - Jared High, victim of bullying and suicide (b. 1985)
● 1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
● 2001 - Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (led his people to disaster) (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970)
● 2005 - Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)
● 2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
● 2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
● 2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
● 2007 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress known for her role as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond franchise. (b. 1927)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Archangel St. Gabriel
● Archangel St. Michael
● Archangel St. Raphael.
● St. Michaelmas
● England, Ireland - One of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar.
● Argentina, Inventor's Day - László József Bíró's birthday.
● French Republican Calendar - Amarante (Amaranth) Day, eighth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING FIVE SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.
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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