Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On God and God's Nature "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because if there be one, He must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." — Thomas Jefferson
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Cakewalk: Ongoing War "There may be pockets of resistance, but very few Iraqis are going to defend Saddam Hussein." — Richard N. Perle, "Hardball," 2-03 Perle, a long-time Iraq hawk was forced to resign as Chairman of the Advisory Board because of a conflict of interest. He remains a member of the board. {Perle never counted on the fact that Iraqis might defend Iraq without giving a damn about Saddam.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here." — George "Segregation Then, Segregation Now, Segregation Forever" Wallace, governor of Alabama, to a predominantly African-American audience
{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
Enceladus Ice Geysers
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
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EVENTS
● 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania.
● 1282 - Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies. His ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple.
● 1307 - Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
● 1492 - Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas
● 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
● 1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier
● 1775 - The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
● 1792 - In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
● 1805 - The Palouse tribe meets Lewis and Clark where the Palouse River enters the Snake.
● 1812 - War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights - As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock. . . .And for a different point of view:
● 1812 - U.S. attempt to invade Canada was unsuccessful when General Stephen Van Rensselaer fails to persuade militia under his command to cross the border; instead, they calmly watched as a small detachment of regulars which had entered Canada was shot down and forced to surrender.
● 1843 - In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
● 1845 - A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
● 1881 - Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
● 1885 - The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
● 1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude.
● 1892 - Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1 (Barnard 3), the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13-14.
● 1915 - In London, buying rounds of drinks is prohibited in an effort to reduce drunkenness. People who offer to buy others drinks face a 100 pound fine or six months in jail. Ministers claim that excessive drinking by shipbuilders is detrimental to Britain's rearmament.
● 1917 - The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
● 1918 - Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
● 1920 - Paris opera closed by strike of orchestra and chorus in sympathy with author's union.
● 1921 - Second socialist government in Sweden formed by Social Democratic Party.
● 1923 - Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
● 1925 - Birth of radical comedian and social rebel Lenny Bruce. "If you can't say FUCK you can't say FUCK THE GOVERNMENT."
● 1934 - AFL votes to boycott all German-made products as a protest against Nazi antagonism to organized labor within Germany.
● 1943 - Poet Robert Lowell, Jr., is sentenced to a prison term of a year and a day for draft evasion.
● 1943 - World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
● 1944 - World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is seized by the Red Army.
● 1946 - France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
● 1954 - American poet Allen Ginsberg reads "Howl" publicly for the first time.
● 1958 - Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the "Miracle of the Sun".
● 1965 - Nisqually hold "fish-in" on Nisqually river; Janet McCloud, a Tulalip activist, is arrested and jailed until trial.
● 1967 - Two Marines killed, 21 wounded when a U.S. Marine fighter mistakenly dropped bombs on them near Conthien, South Vietnam.
● 1970 - Angela Davis, a former faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles, black militant, and self-proclaimed Communist, is arrested in New York City in connection with a shootout in a San Raphael, California, courtroom six days before.
● 1972 - Uruguayan Air Force plane crashes on 12,000 foot peak in the Andes Mountain. Twenty people die in the crash; when rescued 69 days later, survivors achieve global notoriety by their survival tactic of eating parts of their dead comrades' bodies.
● 1972 - Burns Paiute Indian Colony Reservation is established in Oregon; land for the reservation was allotted in 1897.
● 1972 - An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashed outside Moscow killing 176.
● 1976 - Mesquakie tribe awarded $6.6 million for lands taken in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Illinois between 1804 and 1867.
● 1976 - A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
● 1976 - The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F. A. Murphy, now at UC Davis, who was then working at the CDC.
● 1977 - Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
● 1984 - Demonstrators in San Francisco protest testing of weapons, lethal chemicals and biological substances on live animals.
● 1987 - About 800 arrested in Washington, D.C. in "Out and Outraged" action blockading the U.S. Supreme Court one year after Bowers v. Hardwick, a Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of anti-sodomy laws.
● 1990 - End of the Lebanese war. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
● 1993 - Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
● 1996 - Kamataka Youth Council trashes a Pizza Hut in India as a protest against transnationals.
● 1997 - After years of international protest, the U.S. launches 72 pounds of plutonium aboard the interplanetary space probe Cassini. The launch is, thankfully, uneventful, as have been subsequent launches with similar payloads. So far.
● 1999 - Republican-controlled Senate rejects Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. {Just as well War Criminal Bush would have ignored treaty anyway.}
● 2001 - An estimated 50,000 rally in London, 50,000 in Berlin, 25,000 in Stuttgart, and additional demonstrations take place in over 100 other cities in 19 countries to protest the U.S. attack of Afghanistan and plans to put weapons in space.
● 2003 - The Public Library of Science commences publication of an open access scientific journal, PLoS Biology.
BIRTHS
● 1474 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (d. 1515)
● 1566 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643)
● 1696 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743)
● 1713 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784)
● 1714 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
● 1768 - Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (d. 1839)
● 1820 - John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899)
● 1821 - Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
● 1853 - Lillie Langtry, British actress (d. 1929)
● 1862 - Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer (d. 1900)
● 1876 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player (d. 1914)
● 1878 - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1952)
● 1880 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932)
● 1887 - Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (d. 1947)
● 1890 - Conrad Richter, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1968)
● 1900 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (d. 1997)
● 1902 - Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973)
● 1907 - Yves Allégret, French film director (d. 1987)
● 1909 - Art Tatum, American jazz pianist (d. 1956)
● 1909 - Herbert Block, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
● 1911 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
● 1915 - Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003)
● 1915 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (d. 1989)
● 1917 - Laraine Day, American actor
● 1917 - Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (d. 1985)
● 1918 - Robert Hudson Walker, American actor (d. 1951)
● 1921 - Yves Montand, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1991)
● 1923 - Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer (d. 2006)
● 1925 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1966)
● 1925 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
● 1925 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (d. 1979)
● 1926 - Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (d. 2002)
● 1927 - Lee Konitz, American jazz saxophonist
● 1931 - Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001)
● 1931 - Raymond Kopa, French footballer
● 1932 - Jack Colvin, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1933 - Raynald Frechette, Quebec politician and judge (d. 2007)
● 1933 - Queen Narriman, second and last wife of King Farouk and mother of their only child King Fuad (d. 2005)
● 1934 - Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer and politician
● 1937 - Sami Frey, French actor
● 1938 - Hugo Young, English journalist (d. 2003)
● 1939 - T. J. Cloutier, American poker player
● 1939 - Melinda Dillon, American actress
● 1940 - Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist
● 1941 - Paul Simon, American singer and musician (Simon and Garfunkel)
● 1942 - Jerry Jones, American football team owner
● 1942 - Pamela Tiffin, American film actress
● 1942 - Bob Bailey, American baseball player
● 1944 - Robert Lamm, American musician (Chicago)
● 1945 - Christophe, French singer
● 1945 - Dési Bouterse, Surinam politician
● 1946 - Edwina Currie, British politician
● 1947 - Sammy Hagar, American singer (Van Halen)
● 1947 - Jerry Trupiano, American sports broadcaster
● 1948 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and singer
● 1948 - Ted Poe, American politician
● 1948 - John Ford Coley, American musician
● 1949 - Tom Mees, American sports broadcaster (d. 1996)
● 1949 - Patrick Nève, Belgian racing driver
● 1952 - John Lone, Hong Kong actor
● 1953 - Pat Day, American jockey
● 1954 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
● 1954 - Claude Ribbe, French historian
● 1954 - George Frazier, American baseball player
● 1956 - Chris Carter, American television producer
● 1958 - Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, American musician and composer
● 1959 - Marie Osmond, American entertainer
● 1960 - Joey Belladonna, American musician (Anthrax)
● 1960 - Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
● 1960 - Tim Brewster, American football coach
● 1961 - Doc Rivers, basketball player and coach
● 1962 - T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, American actress
● 1962 - Kelly Preston, American actress
● 1962 - Jerry Rice, American football star
● 1963 - Colin Channer, Jamaican writer
● 1964 - Niè Hǎishèng, Chinese astronaut
● 1964 - Christopher Judge, American actor
● 1965 - Johan Museeuw, Belgian cyclist
● 1967 - Steve Vickers, English footballer
● 1967 - Scott Cooper, American baseball player
● 1967 - Trevor Hoffman, American baseball player
● 1967 - Kate Walsh, American actress
● 1968 - Carlos Marin, Spanish baritone (Il Divo)
● 1968 - Tisha Campbell-Martin, American actress and singer
● 1969 - Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
● 1969 - Cady McClain, American actress
● 1969 - Rhett Akins, American country singer
● 1970 - Serena Altschul, American reporter
● 1970 - Mel Jackson, American actor and R&B musician
● 1971 - Sacha Baron Cohen, English comedian
● 1971 - Billy Bush, American TV host
● 1971 - Pyrros Dimas, Greek weightlifter
● 1972 - Summer Sanders, American swimmer
● 1973 - Brian Dawkins, American football player
● 1973 - Nanako Matsushima, Japanese actress
● 1973 - Matt Hughes, American mixed martial artist
● 1974 - Hawick Lau, Chinese actor and singer
● 1974 - Joseph Utsler, American rapper (Insane Clown Posse)
● 1975 - Tom Anderson, American entrepreneur
● 1975 - David Kennedy, American musician (Boxcar Racer, Angels and Airwaves)
● 1977 - Paul Pierce, American basketball player
● 1977 - Gareth Batty, English cricketer
● 1977 - Kiele Sanchez, American actress
● 1978 - Jermaine O'Neal, American basketball player
● 1979 - Wes Brown, English footballer
● 1980 - Ashanti, American singer
● 1980 - Jon Micah Sumrall, American singer (Kutless)
● 1980 - Magne Hoseth, Norwegian footballer
● 1980 - Scott Parker, English footballer
● 1981 - Ryan Ashford, English footballer
● 1981 - Kele Okereke, lead singer of Bloc Party
● 1982 - Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
DEATHS
● 54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor (b. 10 B.C.E.)
● 1093 - Robert I, Count of Flanders
● 1282 - Nichiren Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b. 1222)
● 1415 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)
● 1508 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)
● 1605 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)
● 1673 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
● 1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
● 1694 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (b. 1632)
● 1706 - Iyasus the Great, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1682)
● 1715 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
● 1759 - John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)
● 1788 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
● 1812 - Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)
● 1815 - Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (executed) (b. 1767)
● 1825 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (b. 1756)
● 1869 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)
● 1882 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)
● 1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816)
● 1904 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (b. 1870)
● 1905 - Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted (b. 1838)
● 1909 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (b. 1849)
● 1917 - Florence La Badie, American actress
● 1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
● 1926 - Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (b. 1865)
● 1931 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
● 1938 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)
● 1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)
● 1950 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
● 1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)
● 1966 - Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)
● 1968 - Bea Benaderet, American actress (b. 1906)
● 1971 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian NHL executive (b. 1921)
● 1974 - Ed Sullivan, American television personality (b. 1901)
● 1979 - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (b. 1886)
● 1987 - Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
● 1988 - Mike Venezia, jockey (b. 1945)
● 1990 - Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
● 2000 - Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
● 2001 - Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers) (b. 1949)
● 2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
● 2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
● 2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
● 2006 - Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
● 2007 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Fatima
● St. Edward the Confessor
● St. Gerald of Aurillac
● Roman festivals - Fontanalia: festival dedicated to Fontus
● French Republican Calendar - Pêche (Peach) Day, twenty-second 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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