Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Ethics "Ethics should precede economics . . . We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: The pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; the sale of dangerous products—from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of greater and greater profits." — Arianna Huffington
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Down & Dirty "Lying Chicken-shit! . . . Gutless Chicken (expletive)!" — Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), then House Majority Whip, swearing at Rep. David Obey (D-WI) and shoving him in a dispute over a newspaper report that lobbyists wrote legislation in DeLay's office. John Mercurio, "House's Road to Civility Takes Detour After DeLay-Obey Fight, Members Say," Roll Call, 4-14-97.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I didn't accept it. I received it." — Richard Allen, Reagan White House national security advisor, explaining gifts given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview with Nancy Reagan
{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 Small Cloud of Magellan
Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 331 B.C.E. - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
● 911 - During a siege in Constantinople, the Theotokos appeared at the church in Blachernae holding her veil over the praying faithful, among them St. Andrew of Constantinople.
● 959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
● 1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
● 1787 - Russians under Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
● 1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Vietnam.
● 1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
● 1795 - Belgium is conquered by France.
● 1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
● 1811 - The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
● 1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
● 1827 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
● 1829 - South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
● 1843 - News of the World began publication in London.
● 1851 - In the "Jerry Rescue," Syracuse citizens break into city police station and free William Henry (called Jerry), a runaway slave captured under the Fugitive Slave Law, which required "good citizens" to assist in the return of runaway slaves.
● 1866 - 3,750 acres of Chehalis Indian Reservation returned to public domain by Executive Order. They weren't really using it, anyway.
● 1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards.
● 1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band.
● 1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.
● 1885 - United States begins special-delivery mail service.
● 1886 - The U.S. mint in Carson City, Nevada, closes.
● 1887 - Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.
● 1890 - The Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
● 1891 - In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
● 1894 - First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.
● 1898 - Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
● 1898 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
● 1905 - František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
● 1908 - Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825. It can be bought in any color as long as it's black.
● 1910 - Twenty-one killed when the Los Angeles Times building is dynamited while embroiled in labor strife.
● 1918 - Beginning of street fighting in Berlin leading to the November revolution--councils of workers, soldiers, intellectuals, artists take over governing at the end of WWI.
● 1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
● 1920 - Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
● 1925 - Anti-Kriegs Museum--the first museum for peace--founded, Berlin, Germany.
● 1926 - An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
● 1927 - Argentine anarchist gang kills police officer in the course of robbing a Buenos Aires bank, escaping to Uruguay with 141,000 pesos.
● 1928 - Fifty thousand German shipyard workers strike.
● 1928 - The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
● 1931 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
● 1931 - The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
● 1936 - General Franco proclaims himself dictator of Spain.
● 1938 - Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
● 1939 - After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.
● 1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
● 1942 - USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
● 1942 - First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
● 1943 - World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
● 1946 - Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal rejects defense of "following orders" where crimes against humanity are concerned.
● 1949 - So-called "People's" Republic of China founded. Communists officially proclaim it so and take power, with the Great Helmsman (Mao Zedong) orchestrating repression and bloodshed for the next 27 years. Today, magically, the same Beijing policies, combined with cheap labor for foreign corporations, are somehow considered just ducky by the West.
● 1949 - Five hundred thousand U.S. steel workers strike.
● 1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
● 1958 - NASA created to replace NACA.
● 1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
● 1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.
● 1962 - After deployment of 12,000 federal troops to quell segregationist violence, James Meredith becomes first black student at Univ. of Mississippi, completing the registration he began yesterday.
● 1964 - UC Berkeley math grad student Jack Weinberg is arrested for setting up CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) information table in Sproul Plaza, inadvertently starting the Free Speech Movement as students surround a police car for 32 hours.
● 1964 - Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
● 1965 - An attempted coup against Indonesian President Sukarno precipitates the state's systematic extermination of more than 400,000 suspected Communists and other leftists.
● 1965 - Apostasia of 1965, a political move in Greece designed to overthrow the Prime Minister, George Papandreou.
● 1968 - The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
● 1969 - Canadian protesters shut down the U.S.-Canada border crossing at Blaine, Washington, in opposition to U.S. nuclear testing in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
● 1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
● 1970 - Clallam tribe awarded $400,000 by Indian Claims Commission for stolen lands.
● 1975 - The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
● 1976 - Peace squadron resists arrival of U.S. nuclear warship, Auckland, New Zealand.
● 1978 - Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
● 1978 - The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
● 1979 - The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
● 1982 - First Trident submarine, U.S.S. Ohio, becomes fully operational.
● 1982 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
● 1985 - The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
● 1987 - The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9.
● 1989 - Denmark: World's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership"
● 1992 - Peace treaty ends civil war, Mozambique.
● 1994 - Palau gains independence from the United Nations trusteeship administered by the United States of America.
● 1997 - One hundred thousand demonstrate in Pristina, capital of Kosovo, for civil rights for the majority ethnic Albanian population.
● 1997 - A half-day blockade temporarily shuts down a COPEX "Covert Operations" fair at a base in Farnborough, England.
● 1998 - More than 4,000 San Francisco Bay Area high school students stage a one-day boycott of classes to protest the discrepancy in funding between education and prisons.
● 1998 - Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
● 2005 - Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
● 2006 - Age discrimination in employment is made illegal in the United Kingdom.
BIRTHS
● 1207 - King Henry III of England (d. 1272)
● 1507 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
● 1540 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
● 1577 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (d. 1622)
● 1620 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (d. 1683)
● 1644 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
● 1671 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
● 1685 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
● 1691 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (d. 1768)
● 1730 - Richard Stockton, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
● 1760 - William Thomas Beckford, English writer and politician (d. 1844)
● 1771 - Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (d. 1842)
● 1791 - Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1859)
● 1800 - Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism (d. 1861)
● 1835 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (d. 1920)
● 1842 - Charles Cros, French poet and inventor (d. 1888)
● 1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
● 1881 - William Boeing, American engineer (d. 1956)
● 1885 - Louis Untermeyer, American author (d. 1977)
● 1878 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
● 1890 - Stanley Holloway, British actor (d. 1982)
● 1896 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)
● 1896 - Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
● 1899 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
● 1900 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
● 1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1989)
● 1904 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
● 1904 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
● 1909 - Maurice Bardèche, French fascist, (d. 1998)
● 1909 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998)
● 1910 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-born physician (d. 1983)
● 1910 - José Enrique Moyal, Australian mathematical physicist (d. 1998)
● 1910 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
● 1914 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
● 1920 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
● 1921 - James Whitmore, American actor
● 1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize {Last smart and honest president, the rarest of combinations.}
● 1924 - William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005) {Possessed neither trait mentioned above.}
● 1925 - Bob Boyd, American baseball player (d. 2004)
● 1926 - Roger Williams, American pianist
● 1927 - Tom Bosley, American actor
● 1928 - Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
● 1928 - George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
● 1928 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
● 1930 - Frank Gardner, Australian racing driver
● 1930 - Sir Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002)
● 1930 - Naimatullah Khan, Pakistani politician
● 1930 - Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
● 1931 - Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer
● 1932 - Albert Collins, American guitarist (d. 1993)
● 1935 - Dame Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
● 1936 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958)
● 1936 - Stella Stevens, American actress
● 1939 - George Archer, American golfer (d. 2005)
● 1942 - Jean-Pierre Jabouille, French race car driver
● 1943 - Jean-Jacques Annaud, French film director
● 1943 - Angèle Arsenault, Canadian singer and songwriter
● 1943 - Jerry Martini, American saxophonist (Sly & the Family Stone)
● 1945 - Rod Carew, Panamanian-born baseball player
● 1945 - Donny Hathaway, American soul musician and composer (d. 1979)
● 1945 - Ellen McIlwaine, American singer/songwriter
● 1945 - Spider Sabich, American skier (d. 1976) {Shot by girlfriend, ex-wife of Andy Williams, who 30 days in County Jail with "I didn't know the gun was loaded" excuse even after firing multiple shots.}
● 1946 - Tim O'Brien, American writer
● 1947 - Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist
● 1947 - Stephen Collins, American actor
● 1947 - Adriano Tilgher, Italian politician
● 1948 - Cub Koda, American singer (Brownsville Station) (d. 2000)
● 1949 - Isaac Bonewits, American author
● 1950 - Randy Quaid, American actor
● 1950 - Jeane Manson, American singer and actress
● 1952 - Jacques Martin, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive
● 1953 - John Hegley, British poet
● 1953 - Pete Falcone, American baseball player
● 1953 - Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete
● 1954 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
● 1955 - Duško Tadić, Bosnian Serb
● 1956 - Theresa May, British politician
● 1957 - Stelios Mainas, Greek actor
● 1958 - Masato Nakamura, Japanese musician
● 1959 - Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer
● 1961 - Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer
● 1961 - Robert Rey, Brazilian-American plastic surgeon and television personality
● 1962 - Esai Morales, American actor
● 1963 - Jean-Denis Délétraz, Swiss race car driver
● 1963 - Mark McGwire, American baseball player
● 1964 - Harry Hill, British comedian
● 1964 - Max Matsuura, Japanese record producer
● 1964 - Jonathan Sarfati, Australian-born chess player, scientist, and author
● 1965 - Andreas Keller, German field hockey player
● 1965 - Cindy Margolis, American model and spokesmodel
● 1965 - Cliff Ronning, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1966 - Christopher Titus, American actor/comedian
● 1966 - George Weah, Liberian politician and footballer
● 1966 - Cuco Ziganda, Spanish footballer
● 1967 - Scott Young, American ice hockey player
● 1967 - Mike Pringle, American football player
● 1968 - Jon Guenther, American author
● 1968 - Rob Collard, British racing driver
● 1969 - Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player
● 1969 - Ori Kaplan, Israeli jazz musician
● 1970 - Gam Wu-seong, South Korean actor
● 1970 - Simon Davey, Barnsley football manager
● 1970 - Alexei Zhamnov, Russian ice hockey player
● 1971 - Andrew O'Keefe, Australian television personality
● 1973 - Jana Henke, German swimmer
● 1973 - Rachid Chékhémani, French runner
● 1973 - John Thomson, American baseball player
● 1974 - Mats Lindgren, Swedish ice hockey player
● 1974 - Keith Duffy, Irish singer (Boyzone) and actor
● 1975 - Chulpan Khamatova, Russian actress
● 1976 - Antonio Roybal, American painter and sculptor
● 1976 - Denis Gauthier, Canadian hockey player
● 1976 - Dora Venter, Hungarian pornographic film actress
● 1976 - Ümit Karan, Turkish footballer
● 1977 - Jeffrey van Hooydonk, Belgian race car driver
● 1978 - Andrew JC Jackson, Australian surf lifesaver
● 1978 - Leticia Cline, American model and TV Personality
● 1979 - Cameron Bruce, Australian rules footballer
● 1979 - Rudi Johnson, American football player
● 1979 - Gilberto Martínez, Costa Rican footballer
● 1979 - Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby union footballer
● 1981 - Júlio Baptista, Brazilian footballer
● 1981 - Johnny Oduya, Swedish ice hockey player
● 1981 - Arnau Riera, Spanish footballer
● 1982 - Haruna Babangida, Nigerian footballer
● 1982 - Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish singer
● 1983 - Mirko Vučinić, Montenegrin footballer
● 1984 - Matt Cain, American baseball player
● 1984 - Daniel Guillén, Spanish footballer
● 1985 - Ryo Miyamori, Japanese singer
● 1986 - Jurnee Smollett, American actress
● 1986 - Sayaka, Japanese singer
● 1986 - Ricardo Vaz Té, Portuguese footballer
DEATHS
● 959 - King Edwy of England
● 1040 - Alan III, Duke of Brittany (poisoned) (b. 997)
● 1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar
● 1310 - Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (b. 1257)
● 1404 - Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
● 1499 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (b. 1433)
● 1500 - John Alcock, English Catholic bishop
● 1567 - Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (b. 1508)
● 1570 - Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
● 1574 - Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen, Dutch painter (b. 1498)
● 1578 - Don John of Austria, military leader (b. 1547)
● 1588 - Blessed Edward James, Catholic martyr
● 1609 - Gianmatteo Asola, Italian composer
● 1684 - Pierre Corneille, French author (b. 1606)
● 1693 - Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
● 1708 - John Blow, British composer (b. 1649)
● 1768 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (b. 1687)
● 1837 - Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
● 1838 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)
● 1864 - Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
● 1876 - James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
● 1901 - Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan amir
● 1913 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1827)
● 1929 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
● 1955 - Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
● 1958 - Robert Falk, Russian painter (b. 1886)
● 1970 - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
● 1974 - Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1901)
● 1975 - Al Jackson, American drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) (b. 1935)
● 1984 - Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
● 1985 - E. B. White, American author (b. 1899)
● 1988 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
● 1990 - Curtis LeMay, American Air Force general (b. 1906)
● 1992 - Petra Kelly, German politician (b. 1947)
● 1994 - Paul Lorenzen, German philosopher (b. 1915)
● 1996 - Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican Army member (b. 1956)
● 1997 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (b. 1923)
● 1998 - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (b. 1928)
● 2000 - Robert Allen, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1928)
● 2000 - Reginald Kray, British gangster (b. 1933)
● 2001 - Guy Beaulne, French Canadian actor and theatre director (b. 1921)
● 2002 - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1908)
● 2004 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (b. 1946)
● 2006 - Jerald Tanner, American religious activist (b. 1938)
● 2006 - André Viger, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner (b. 1952)
● 2007 - Chris Mainwaring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1965)
● 2007 - Harry Lee, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (b. 1932)
● 2007 - Al Oerter, American athlete (b. 1936)
● 2007 - Ned Sherrin, English broadcaster, author and stage director (b. 1931)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Bavo
● St. Thérèse de Lisieux
● St. Remigius
● Bl. Edward James
● Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church:
● Patronage/Protection of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary, Mother of God) dating to 10th Century Constantinople, when she appeared holding her mantle over the faithful who were praying in a church during a military attack on the city. Second oldest Marian Feast in the Eastern Church.
● Syrian Church:
● St. Abai (martyr)
● St. Abhai the general
● French Republican Calendar - Cuve (Barrel) Day, tenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● National Day of the People's Republic of China (1949)
● Republic of Cyprus - Independence Day (from Britain, 1960)
● Nigeria - Independence Day (from Britain, 1960)
● San Marino - two Captains Regent, elected by parliament, take office for six months.
● Tuvalu - Independence Day (from Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), 1975)
● World Vegetarian Day
● Singapore - Children's Day
● World Health Organization - World Hepatitis Awareness Day
● Armenia - Teachers' Day
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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