Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Free Speech "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." — Hubert H. "The Happy Warrior" Humphrey
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Respecting Our Elders "The whole question of the seniors and drugs is, they don't want to pay any money for their drugs, not even those who can afford it. The people's—people go to Miami, they go to play bingo, they do all these things. But what they don’t want to do is, they don't want to pay any money for the drugs, and they want the government . . . And they should be a little ashamed of themselves, but at least they're using private industry instead of HCFA, the Medicare thing where, you know, they have a picture of Joe Stalin on the wall there because that's their idol." — Robert "I never outed Valarie Plame" Novak, "Capital Gang," CNN, 3-8-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "But we are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." — Lyndon B. Johnson
{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 Strange Trailing Side of Saturn's Iapetus
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah.
● 732 - Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
● 1471 - Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
● 1575 - Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
● 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
● 1609 - Birth of Diggers founder Gerrard Winstanley, England.
● 1631 - A Saxon army takes over Prague.
● 1780 - "Great Hurricane of 1780," deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, struck at Barbados, killing more than 4,000. In the following three days, the storm destroyed English, Spanish, and French fleets, and directly struck a number of Caribbean islands. The final death toll was approximately 20-30,000.
● 1837 - Charles Fourier, French utopian theorist, dies.
● 1845 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
● 1860 - The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
● ● 1868 - Cuba revolts against Spain. Carlos Manuel de Cepedes initiates movement after freeing his slaves and issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence.
● 1889 - Barnard College is founded.
● 1903 - Women's Social and Political Union founded, London.
● 1911 - Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China. Sun Yat-Sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day).
● 1911 - The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
● 1912 - IWW strike in Little Falls, New York.
● 1912 - Birth of Marion Bromley, longtime war tax resister in Cincinnati.
● 1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal. {Of course this means he pushed a button, the work was all done for him.}
● 1920 - The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia became part of Austria.
● 1930 - Birth of radical playwright Harold Pinter, London. Born in East London, son of a Jewish tailor. A conscientious objector, he was fined in 1949 for refusing to do military service.
● 1932 - National Guardsman armed with bayonets charge crowd of 1,500 striking miners in Taylorville, Ill.
● 1933 - Eighteen thousand cotton workers go on strike in Pixley, California. Four are killed before a pay-hike is finally won.
● 1933 - United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
● 1935 - A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg. As a result of this catastrophe, few wooden towers are constructed after this date.
● 1938 - The Blue Water Bridge opens, connecting Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario
● 1938 - The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. {This was the agreement that prompted Neville Chamberlain's infamous, "Peace in Our Time," statement.}
● 1944 - Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
● 1949 - Native rights group ARROW (American Restitution and Righting of Old Wrongs) formed in Washington, D.C., with Will Rogers Jr. as its head.
● 1954 - The Communist Party of Honduras is founded.
● 1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
● 1957 - The Windscale fire in Cumbria, UK becomes the worlds first major nuclear accident. Caused radiation leakage and contaminated milk in a 200-mile radius with Iodine-131. The contaminated milk was dumped into the Irish Sea.
● 1963 - France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
● 1967 - The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, enters into force. Demilitarizing outer space. Largely observed until George W. Bush assumes office.
● 1970 - Fiji becomes independent.
● 1970 - In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
● 1971 - Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
● 1973 - Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
● 1984 - Bishop Desmond Tutu receives Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle against apartheid.
● 1985 - United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
● 1986 - An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
● 1987 - Thirty thousand demonstrate against nuclear power plant, Wackersdorf, West Germany.
● 1990 - U.S. begins reparations payments to survivors and families of Japanese-Americans taken from their homes and put into internment camps during World War II.
● 1991 - Women in Black begin regular Wednesday vigil against war, Belgarde, Serbia.
● 1992 - Montagnards hand in weapons, Cambodia.
● 1994 - Greenpeace ship begins trip down Amazon River to protest illegal logging by transnational corporations, South America.
● 1994 - For the second year in a row, Denver, Colorado cancels its traditional Columbus Day parade due to fears of confrontations with "radical elements" among the Native American community.
● 1995 - South African President Nelson Mandela attends Genadendal.
● 1997 - An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
BIRTHS
● 1567 - Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)
● 1678 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743)
● 1684 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
● 1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
● 1731 - Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)
● 1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
● 1794 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
● 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
● 1819 - Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883)
● 1825 - Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic (d. 1904)
● 1828 - Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
● 1830 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
● 1834 - Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872)
● 1837 - Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer (d. 1863)
● 1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
● 1863 - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
● 1863 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
● 1864 - T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)
● 1870 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1953)
● 1885 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
● 1895 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
● 1895 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, Indian guru (d. 1988)
● 1895 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
● 1898 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
● 1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
● 1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
● 1903 - Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)
● 1903 - Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
● 1906 - Paul Creston, American composer (d. 1985)
● 1906 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
● 1908 - Johnny Green, American songwriter, arranger and conductor (d. 1989)
● 1908 - Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)
● 1913 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
● 1914 - Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
● 1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer (d. 1974)
● 1917 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
● 1923 - Nicholas Parsons, English actor
● 1924 - James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)
● 1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
● 1924 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (d. 2004)
● 1925 - Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001)
● 1926 - Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
● 1927 - Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1930 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
● 1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate
● 1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate
● 1932 - Harry Smith, English footballer
● 1933 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
● 1935 - André Bureau, French Canadian communications executive
● 1936 - Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.
● 1938 - Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
● 1941 - Peter Coyote, American actor
● 1942 - Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister, 17 April 1998- 13 December 1999
● 1946 - Charles Dance, English actor
● 1946 - Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
● 1946 - John Prine, American singer
● 1946 - Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter
● 1946 - Ben Vereen, American actor
● 1946 - Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1946 - Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer
● 1947 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998)
● 1948 - Séverine, French singer
● 1948 - Ed Volker, American musician
● 1951 - Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
● 1953 - Midge Ure, Scottish musician
● 1953 - Gus Williams, American basketball player
● 1954 - Rekha, Bollywood actress
● 1955 - David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen)
● 1956 - Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress
● 1956 - Mark Gordon, American film producer
● 1957 - Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist
● 1958 - Tanya Tucker, American singer
● 1959 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
● 1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor
● 1960 - Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big)
● 1960 - Ron Flockhart, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1961 - Jodi Benson, American voice actress
● 1961 - Henrik Jørgensen, Danish marathon runner
● 1961 - Julia Sweeney, American actress and comedian
● 1961 - Martin Kemp (actor), British musician (Spandau Ballet) and actor
● 1963 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
● 1963 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
● 1963 - Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
● 1963 - Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier.
● 1964 - Jim Rome, sports talk radio host and host of The Jim Rome Show.
● 1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
● 1965 - Clive Jones, British engineer
● 1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress
● 1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)
● 1966 - Tony Adams, English footballer
● 1967 - Jonathan Littell, French-American writer
● 1968 - Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker
● 1969 - Brett Favre, American football player
● 1969 - Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
● 1970 - Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
● 1970 - Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger
● 1970 - Bai Ling, Chinese American actress
● 1970 - Corinna May, German singer
● 1970 - Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower
● 1971 - Ian Bennett, English footballer
● 1971 - Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
● 1972 - Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player
● 1973 - Mario López, American actor
● 1973 - Semmy Schilt, Dutch kickboxer
● 1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver
● 1974 - Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor
● 1974 - Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
● 1974 - Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1975 - Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer
● 1975 - Plácido Polanco, Dominican baseball player
● 1976 - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
● 1976 - Pat Burrell, American baseball player
● 1977 - A Proud Liberal's oldest nephew
● 1978 - Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress
● 1979 - Mya Harrison, American singer
● 1979 - Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
● 1979 - Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.
● 1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
● 1980 - Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
● 1980 - Wu Chun, Brunei Born Taiwanese Actor
● 1981 - Michael Oliver, American actor
● 1982 - Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer
● 1982 - Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver
● 1983 - Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
● 1984 - Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
● 1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
● 1984 - Paul Posluszny, American football player
● 1985 - Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
DEATHS
● 19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 B.C.E.)
● 680 - Husayn ibn Ali, Shi'a imam, Mahomet's grandson (b. 626)
● 732 - Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
● 833 - al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
● 1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
● 1459 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)
● 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (killed in battle) (b. 1484)
● 1659 - Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
● 1674 - Thomas Traherne, English poet
● 1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
● 1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
● 1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
● 1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
● 1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
● 1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
● 1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
● 1759 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
● 1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
● 1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
● 1806 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
● 1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
● 1837 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
● 1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
● 1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
● 1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
● 1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
● 1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
● 1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
● 1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
● 1914 - King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
● 1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
● 1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
● 1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
● 1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
● 1948 - Ted Horn, American race car driver (b.1910)
● 1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
● 1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
● 1964 - Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
● 1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
● 1970 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
● 1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
● 1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
● 1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
● 1978 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
● 1978 - Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
● 1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
● 1979 - Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)
● 1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
● 1983 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
● 1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
● 1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
● 1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
● 1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
● 2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
● 2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
● 2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
● 2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
● 2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
● 2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
● 2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
● 2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
● 2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
● 2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
● 2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
● 2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
● 2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
● 2007 - Mehmed Uzun, Contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist. (b. 1953)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Cerbonius
● St. Paulinus of York
● St. Thomas of Villanueva
● St. Viktor of Xanten
● French Republican Calendar - Tournesol (Sunflower) Day, nineteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Old Michelmas - Celtic holiday
● Fiji - Fiji Day (National Day)
● Finland - The Day of Finnish literature
● Japan - National Health-Sports Day
● North Korea - Party Foundation Party (celebration the founding of the Workers Party of Korea)
● Republic of China (Taiwan) - National Day (Double Ten Day 雙十國慶)
● World Mental Health 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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