Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Gay & Lesbian "It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have 'lifestyles.'" — Sonia Johnson
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Art of Diplomacy "North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens. Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror.
The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, {not really, all they had to do is buy it from the United States, with Dick Cheney as the middle man} and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens—leaving bodies of mothers huddle over their dead children. This is a regime that agreed to international inspections—then kicked out the inspectors. {A blatant lie, the United States pulled them from Iraq because they weren't finding anything.} This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world. States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.
By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.
. . . We will develop and deploy effective missile defenses to protect America and our allies from sudden attack. And all nations should know: {read—tremble in fear:} America will do what is necessary to ensure our nation's security {profit margins}. . ." — George W. "War Criminal" Bush, State of the Union Address, 1-29-02.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "We are not without accomplishments. We have managed to distribute poverty equally." — Nguyen Co Thach, Vietnamese 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
The Whale and The Hockey Stick
Credit & Copyright: Josef Poepsel, Stefan Binnewies (Capella Observatory)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 539 B.C.E. - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
● 1216 - King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge
● 1492 - Christopher Columbus, lost and confused, runs aground in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas, discovered by Arawaks. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia. Tragedy ensues. By the time he is sent back to Spain in chains eight years later, accused of mistreating the natives (by the standards of the regime that perfected the Spanish Inquisition!), nearly the entire Arawak tribe that originally discovered him will have been enslaved or exterminated, setting the tone for the next 500 years.
● 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
● 1654 - The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100.
● 1692 - The Salem Witch Trials were ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
● 1773 - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
● 1792 - First U.S. Memorial to Columbus dedicated in Baltimore.
● 1792 - First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York {Some two hundred years later celebrations are rarer as an understanding of the genocide of Native Americans becomes better understood.}
● 1793 - The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina
● 1810 - First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
● 1822 - Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazilian Empire.
● 1823 - Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, sells the first raincoat.
● 1837 - Canadian Patriots declare solidarity with the Chartists of Britain.
● 1850 - The first women's medical college opens, in Pennsylvania.
● 1873 - Makah Reservation established, 18 years after signing treaty.
● 1892 - The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
● 1898 - Fourteen killed, 25 wounded in violence resulting when Virden, Illinois mine owners attempt to break a strike by importing 200 nonunion black workers.
● 1898 - Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.
● 1899 - Boer republic of South Africa declares war with England.
● 1901 - President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
● 1902 - Fourteen more miners killed, 22 wounded by scabherders at Pana, Illinois.
● 1911 - Society of American Indians formed in Columbus, Ohio, beginning of Pan-Indianism.
● 1912 - Birth of Alice Childress, Charleston, South Carolina. African American playwright, novelist, and actress, known for her realistic stories about the enduring optimism of black Americans.
● 1915 - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
● 1917 - The First Battle of Passchendaele, now Passendale
● 1925 - Six hundred U.S. troops take over police duties in Panama City.
● 1928 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston
● 1932 - Birth of Dick Gregory. Comedian, activist, civil rights supporter, and nutrition advocate.
● 1933 - The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice
● 1937 - James Marriner, U.S. consul at Beirut, assassinated by an allegedly "crazed" Armenian.
● 1941 - This and the next day, German Nazis kill 11,000 Jews in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Einsatzkommando 6 massacres most of the remaining Jews of the city, marching them to a ravine where they were killed.
● 1942 - World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
● 1958 - Reform Jewish Temple in Atlanta is firebombed in retaliation for Jewish support of local black civil rights activists.
● 1959 - At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
● 1960 - Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonialist policy being conducted in Eastern Europe. {The shoe was no the major problem, foot odor control was NOT a major concern of the Chairman.}
● 1960 - Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The camera was rolling at that time.
● 1961 - FBI launches Socialist Worker Disruption Program.
● 1961 - Inejiro Asanuma, socialist pioneer of the Japanese labor movement, assassinated, sparking mass demonstrations in Tokyo.
● 1962 - Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
● 1964 - The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
● 1967 - "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority", appears in New York Review of Books. 2,000 sign it, including academics, clergymen, writers.
● 1967 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives were futile because of North Vietnam's opposition
● 1968 - Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain
● 1969 - Navy nurse Lt. JG Susan Schnell drops anti-war leaflets from plane onto military base in California.
● 1970 - Lt. William Calley court-martialled for massacre of 102 civilians in My Lai during Vietnam War. Far more actually died during the incident.
● 1970 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
● 1972 - En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk
● 1976 - Three elderly deaths lead, two months later, to a halt in swine flu vaccination program.
● 1976 - The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party of China.
● 1977 - "University of California vs. Bakke" trial starts, a groundbreaking claim of "reverse discrimination" by a white prospective law student (Bakke) passed over for admission due to affirmative action.
● 1978 - Nancy Spungen, the girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, is found dead in her New York City hotel room. Vicious is arrested for the crime, but overdoses on heroin before the trial begins.
● 1979 - The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
● 1980 - Pres. Carter signs legislation settling claim of Pascamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Maliseet to two-thirds of Maine.
● 1983 - Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
● 1984 - Brighton hotel bombing: Margaret Thatcher survives an IRA bomb, which shredded her bathroom barely two minutes after she had left it.
● 1986 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh {her husband} visit the People's Republic of China
● 1988 - Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
● 1991 - Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic's Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
● 1992 - Continental Congress of Indigenous Peoples meets in Managua, Nicaragua.
● 1992 - Rallies, protests and arrests throughout the Western Hemisphere mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the European invasion of the Americas and genocide of its native peoples.
● 1994 - NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14).
● 1996 - EZLN Subcomandante Ramona speaks to 15,000 at Dia de la Raza, Mexico City.
● 1997 - Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
● 1998 - Matthew Shepherd dies, result of injuries sustained when beaten and tortured in an anti-gay hate crime in Laramie, Wyoming. Three previous attempts to pass a statewide anti-hate crime bill had been defeated, as "not necessary -- those kind of crimes don't occur in Wyoming." Family members of those accused of killing him deny it was a hate crime.
● 1998 - Pres. Slobodan Milosevic agrees to allow OSCE monitors in Kosovo, Yugoslavia.
● 1998 - Vail, Colo. ski resort facility under construction is burned to the ground by Earth Liberation Front.
● 1999 - Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
● 1999 - The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
● 2000 - The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39
● 2002 - Terrorists detonate bombs in Paddy's Pub and the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
● 2005 - The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
● 2006 - A law is passed in France that makes denying the Armenian Genocide a crime.
● 2006 - An enormous lake effect snow storm drops about 2 feet of heavy, water-laden snow on Western New York knocking out power for up to 10 days in some cases, and destroying or damaging tens of thousands of trees. The storm caused more than 1 billion dollars worth of damage.
BIRTHS
● 1008 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)
● 1350 - Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389)
● 1490 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548)
● 1537 - King Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
● 1558 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)
● 1558 - Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
● 1576 - Thomas Dudley, Massachusetts colonial magistrate (d. 1653)
● 1602 - William Chillingworth, English churchman (d. 1644)
● 1710 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1785)
● 1712 - William Shippen, American physician and Continental Congressman (d. 1801)
● 1725 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810)
● 1792 - Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860)
● 1798 - Pedro I of Brazil (d. 1834)
● 1801 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1873)
● 1840 - Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-born actress (d. 1909)
● 1855 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (d. 1922)
● 1860 - Elmer Sperry, American inventor (d. 1930)
● 1865 - Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
● 1866 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937)
● 1872 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958)
● 1874 - Jimmy Burke, baseball player (d. 1942)
● 1875 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist and author (d. 1947)
● 1880 - Louis Hémon, French novelist (d. 1913)
● 1887 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-Austrian poet (d. 1951)
● 1890 - Michael Collins, Irish leader (d. 1922)
● 1891 - Edith Stein, Carmelite Catholic nun and martyr (d. 1942)
● 1892 - Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (d. 1975)
● 1896 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
● 1904 - Ding Ling, Chinese writer (d. 1986)
● 1904 - Lester Dent, American writer (d. 1959)
● 1906 - Joe Cronin, baseball player (d. 1984)
● 1908 - Paul Engle, American writer (d. 1991)
● 1908 - Ann Petry, American novelist (d. 1997)
● 1910 - Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d. 1985)
● 1910 - Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees announcer
● 1916 - Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and novelist (d. 1994)
● 1917 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2004)
● 1919 - Gilles Beaudoin, Quebec politician (d. 2007)
● 1920 - Christy Ring, Irish hurler (d. 1979)
● 1924 - Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995)
● 1925 - Denis Lazure, Quebec politician
● 1929 - Robert Coles, American psychologist and author
● 1929 - Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born television presenter (d. 2007)
● 1932 - Dick Gregory, American comedian and activist
● 1932 - Ned Jarrett, American race car driver
● 1933 - Guido Molinari, Canadian painter (d. 2004)
● 1934 - Richard Meier, American architect
● 1934 - Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician
● 1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)
● 1935 - Sam Moore, American R&B singer (Sam & Dave)
● 1935 - Don Howe, English football player and manager
● 1937 - Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (d. 1969)
● 1938 - Bob Miller, American NHL broadcaster
● 1942 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1995)
● 1944 - Angela Rippon, British television personality
● 1945 - Aurore Clément, French actress
● 1945 - Dusty Rhodes, professional wrestler
● 1947 - Chris Wallace, American journalist
● 1947 - George Lam, Hong Kong singer
● 1948 - Rick Parfitt, British musician (Status Quo)
● 1950 - Susan Anton, American actress
● 1950 - Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor
● 1950 - Dave Freudenthal, American politician
● 1951 - Ed Royce, American politician
● 1951 - Sally Ride, first American woman in space
● 1952 - Danielle Proulx, Quebec actress
● 1953 - Serge Lepeltier, French politician
● 1953 - Les Dennis, British comedian/TV presenter
● 1955 - Ante Gotovina, Croatian general
● 1955 - Jane Siberry, Canadian musician
● 1957 - Kristen Bjorn, British film director
● 1959 - Anna Escobedo Cabral, 42nd Treasurer of the United States
● 1962 - Deborah Foreman, American actress
● 1962 - Carlos Bernard, American actor
● 1962 - Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian President
● 1962 - Chris Botti, American jazz musician
● 1963 - Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director
● 1963 - Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer
● 1963 - Luis Polonia, Dominican baseball player
● 1963 - Lane Frost, American professional bull rider, (d. 1989)
● 1965 - Jean-Jacques Daigneault, National Hockey League defenseman
● 1966 - Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor
● 1966 - Wim Jonk, Dutch football player
● 1966 - Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author
● 1968 - Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer
● 1968 - Adam Rich, American actor
● 1969 - Martie Maguire, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
● 1969 - Dwayne Roloson, Canadian NHL hockey player
● 1969 - Jose Valentin, American baseball player
● 1970 - Kirk Cameron, American actor
● 1970 - Tanyon Sturtze, baseball player
● 1970 - Charlie Ward, American football and basketball player
● 1971 - Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor, composer and singer
● 1971 - Tony Fiore, American baseball player
● 1972 - Irina Pantaeva, Russian supermodel and actress
● 1972 - Juan Manuel Silva, Argentine racing driver
● 1972 - Tom Van Mol, Belgian football player
● 1973 - Rodney Mack, professional wrestler
● 1973 - Lesli Brea, Dominican baseball player
● 1974 - Stephen Lee, English snooker player
● 1974 - Marie Wilson, Canadian actress
● 1975 - Marion Jones, American athlete
● 1976 - Sarah Lane, American television personality
● 1977 - Young Jeezy, African-American rapper
● 1977 - Bode Miller, American alpine ski-racer
● 1977 - Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer
● 1977 - Jessica Barker, Quebec actress
● 1978 - Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist
● 1979 - Jordan Pundik, American singer (New Found Glory)
● 1981 - Shola Ameobi, English footballer
● 1981 - Brian Kerr, Scottish international footballer
● 1981 - Sneha, Indian actress
● 1981 - Tom Guiry, American actor
● 1982 - Molly Bennett, Irish singer
● 1983 - Alex Brosque, Australian footballer
● 1985 - Mike Green, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1986 - Marcus T. Paulk, American actor
● 1986 - Sergio Peter, German footballer
● 1992 - Josh Hutcherson, American actor
● 1992 - Taylor Horn, American singer and actress
● 1997 - Prince Boris of Bulgaria
DEATHS
● 632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda
● 638 - Pope Honorius I
● 642 - Pope John IV
● 1095 - Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)
● 1176 - William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician
● 1320 - Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor
● 1491 - Fritz Herlen, German artist
● 1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter
● 1565 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)
● 1576 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
● 1590 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
● 1600 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
● 1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)
● 1646 - François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (b. 1579)
● 1678 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
● 1679 - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
● 1685 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)
● 1730 - King Frederick IV of Denmark (b. 1671)
● 1758 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
● 1845 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
● 1870 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807)
● 1875 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
● 1896 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)
● 1898 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)
● 1915 - Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
● 1924 - Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
● 1940 - Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)
● 1946 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (b. 1883)
● 1954 - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)
● 1956 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872)
● 1958 - Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
● 1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (b. 1898)
● 1965 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
● 1967 - Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader
● 1969 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)
● 1970 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)
● 1971 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1893)
● 1971 - Gene Vincent, pioneering American rock'n'roll musician (b. 1935)
● 1978 - Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (b. 1958)
● 1983 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager
● 1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)
● 1985 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)
● 1985 - Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52's (b. 1953)
● 1987 - Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
● 1988 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895)
● 1989 - Carmen Cavallaro, American popular pianist (b. 1913)
● 1989 - Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) (b. 1920)
● 1991 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (b. 1925)
● 1993 - Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)
● 1993 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
● 1994 - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938)
● 1996 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911)
● 1996 - René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)
● 1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943) {Ran out of gas in experimental plane is flying, presumably by accident.}
● 1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976) {After his murderers' defense of 'gay fear' fails to win acquittal or leniency, they claim it was not a hate crime and had nothing to do with Shepard's homosexuality. Rejected by appeals courts as too late to change your story.}
● 1998 - Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)
● 1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936) {In his autobiography, he claimed to have bedded more than 20,000 women or more than 300 per year each since birth.}
● 2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907)
● 2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
● 2002 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
● 2003 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)
● 2003 - Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928) {Widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc}
● 2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
● 2005 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)
● 2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
● 2007 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Heribert
● St. Wilfrid
● Brazil - Children's Day and the day of Our Lady of Aparecida (National Religious holiday).
● French Republican Calendar - Chanvre (Hemp) Day, twenty-first day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Equatorial Guinea - Independence Day (from Spain, 1968)
● El Dia de la Raza - Latin America.
● Malawi - Mother's Day
● Spain - National Day
● Columbus Day (traditionally) - United States.
● Freethought Day - United States
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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