Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Greatness "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius." — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Treason, Traitors, Freedom-Fried Frenchmen "The Pentagon's Iraqi Most Wanted "Deck of Death" playing cards was a huge hit with Americans. Now, NewsMax.com is raising the ante—with the Deck of Weasels, depicting the 54 worst leaders and celebrities who opposed America and were key members of "The United Nations of Weasels."
This hot new set of playing and informational cards—which will surely be a collector's item—depicts the enemies of America and Iraq's liberation in a satirical way while revealing the evidence of their hatred—their own quotes against America!
No doubt the Deck of Weasels will enrage those included—including Michael Moore, Tim Robbins, Jacques Chirac, Barbra Streisand, Teddy Kennedy, Kofi Annan and many more. {Most of these would wear such a designation from these jokers as a badge of honor.}
You'll laugh out loud looking at the faces of the world's greatest weasels—each wearing the beret of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard—now dubbed "Saddam's Weasel Brigade."
Under each photo is each Weasel's quote revealing his anti-American, pro-Saddam ranting!
. . . {more paragraphs of NeoCoNazi drivel}. . .
And we have the Jokers, with their funny little hats: Jimmy Carter and Jesse Jackson." — A NewsMax.com advertisement, 9-10-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls." — Dan Quayle, vice president under President George H. W. Bush, is perhaps better known for his verbal blunders than for his politics. Let us pause and remember the ol' days of the first Bush administration, when men were men and a potato was a potatoe. Quayle is Hall of Shame member #3.
{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
Jupiter's Clouds from New Horizons
Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals.
● 1552 - Khanate of Kazan is conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny.
● 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
● 1764 - Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
● 1815 - Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
● 1863 - American Civil War: The CSS H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
● 1878 - The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
● 1880 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
● 1884 - Celestin Freinet, French anarchist, born.
● 1884 - Birth of French anarchist Stephen Mac Say.
● 1888 - The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by the investigators.
● 1892 - The 1.8 million acres of Crow Indian Reservation in Montana is opened to white settlers by Pres. Harrison.
● 1894 - Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying - Dreyfus affair begins.
● 1902 - Birth of Andre Prudhommeaux, France. Early communist who became an anarchist.
● 1904 - The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
● 1914 - Clayton Antitrust Act enacted.
● 1915 - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) free speech fight in Fresno, California.
● 1917 - World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany.
● 1928 - The airship, the Graf Zeppelin completed its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA.
● 1932 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
● 1934 - The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircle Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
● 1939 - The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
● 1940 - "The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.
● 1944 - The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary.
● 1945 - World War II: The former puppet premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
● 1946 - Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring poisons himself the night before his execution.
● 1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive
● 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
● 1959 - A B-52 carrying two nuclear bombs collides in midair with a KC-135 jet tanker, crashes in Kentucky. No atomic blast, apparently, and both bombs are recovered.
● 1961 - Seven thousand march for nuclear disarmament. La Louviere, Belgium.
● 1965 - David Miller becomes first resister to publicly burn his draft card after Congress outlaws it. New York City.
● 1965 - Vietnam War: The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stages the first public burning of a draft card in the United States to result in arrest under a new law.
● 1966 - Huey Newton and Bobby Seale form the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Oakland, California.
● 1967 - A dragging anchor tears open a pipeline at West Delta, Louisiana, releasing 6,720,000 gallons of oil.
● 1969 - Vietnam War: An estimated two million or more in U.S. participate in first national moratorium against Vietnam War. Later, a declassified Kissinger file reveals that these protests discouraged a plan by Nixon to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam. {Including A Proud Liberal, wearing a black arm band to high school classes. I managed to avoid fights with fellow student hawks.}
● 1969 - Somalian President Abdi Rashid Ali Shermarke assassinated.
● 1970 - Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
● 1970 - Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt
● 1971 - The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
● 1973 - U.S. Supreme Court refuses by a 7-2 vote to review a 1971 Federal Communications Commission directive that broadcasters, in effect, censor from the airwaves songs with "drug-oriented" lyrics. The two dissenting votes are cast by Justices William J. Brennan and William O. Douglas, who say, "The government cannot, consistent with the First Amendment, require a broadcaster to censor its music." Meanwhile alcohol (biggest killer of them all) advertising goes unabated.
● 1978 - U.S. Congress deregulates airlines.
● 1979 - El Salvador President Romero deposed by a military coup.
● 1981 - Puente de Oro bridge blown up by FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador.
● 1981 - Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California.
● 1983 - U.S. Marine sharpshooters kill five snipers at Beirut International Airport.
● 1987 - The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
● 1990 - Abandoned barrels of military psychotomimetic drugs (a biological weapon) contaminates Denver's water supply.
● 1990 - Fidel Velazquez, head of Mexican Labor Fedreation (CTM), denounces proposals for a "free trade" agreement with the U.S., claiming it would have a catastrophic effect on both Mexican and U.S. workers.
● 1990 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, only a year before becoming permanently irrelevant, snags Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to end Cold War, free East Bloc, and slow arms race.
● 1991 - District judge and reformed coke addict Judge Clarence Thomas is confirmed as the 106th associate justice of the Supreme Court, its second African-American. Immediately signs an endorsement contract with Coca-Cola.
● 1992 - Peruvian "Shining Goat Path" leader Chairman Gonzalo is captured by Peruvian military.
● 1992 - In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 53 serial murders. {Because he was a party member, investigators were instructed he couldn't be guilty when the investigation started some ten years earlier, this was to point of falsifying blood tests to show his non-involvement. Additionally, a reluctance to admit there could be a serial killer in the Soviet Union hindered investigations.}
● 1994 - Deposed Haitian Pres. Aristide is allowed to return to Haiti only after promising the U.S. he would not implement any of the human needs proposals that won his election and triggered a U.S.-backed military coup in 1991.
● 1997 - The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in Thrust SSC (United Kingdom).
● 1997 - The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
● 2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
● 2003 - China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
● 2003 - The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi collides with a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43 others.
● 2005 - Iraqi constitution ratification vote
● 2005 - Riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
● 2007 - Sir Menzies Campbell resigns effective immediately as Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom.
BIRTHS
● 70 B.C.E. - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 B.C.E.)
● 1471 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)
● 1542 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (d. 1605)
● 1608 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)
● 1686 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758)
● 1701 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771)
● 1784 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849)
● 1814 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (d. 1841)
● 1829 - Asaph Hall, American astronomer (d. 1907)
● 1836 - James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902)
● 1840 - Honoré Mercier, politician and premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
● 1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
● 1858 - John L. Sullivan, American boxer (d. 1918)
● 1872 - Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian president (d. 1956)
● 1874 - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (d. 1899)
● 1878 - Paul Reynaud, French politician (d. 1966)
● 1879 - Jane Darwell, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1967)
● 1881 - P. G. Wodehouse, British novelist (d. 1975)
● 1882 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (d. 1941)
● 1884 - Arch Hoxsey, pioneer aviator (d. 1910)
● 1893 - King Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
● 1894 - Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)
● 1898 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1951)
● 1900 - Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (d. 1987)
● 1905 - C. P. Snow, British writer (d. 1980)
● 1906 - Hiram Leong Fong, American politician (d. 2004)
● 1907 - Varian Fry, American journalist (d. 1967)
● 1908 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (d. 2006)
● 1909 - Robert Trout, American reporter (d. 2000)
● 1909 - Jesse Leonard Greenstein, American astronomer (d. 2002)
● 1915 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician
● 1917 - Jan Miner, American actress (d. 2004)
● 1917 - Arthur Schlesinger Jr., American historian and political commentator (d. 2007)
● 1920 - Mario Puzo, American novelist (d. 1999)
● 1920 - Henri Verneuil, French film director (d. 2002)
● 1922 - Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese writer
● 1923 - Italo Calvino. Italian writer (d. 1985)
● 1924 - Lee Iacocca, American industrialist
● 1924 - Mark Lenard, American actor (d. 1996)
● 1924 - Marguerite Andersen, German writer
● 1925 - Mickey Baker, American guitarist (Mickey & Sylvia)
● 1926 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
● 1926 - Evan Hunter, American author (d. 2005)
● 1926 - Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)
● 1926 - Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981)
● 1930 - Fereydun M. Esfandiary, Iranian philosopher (d. 2000)
● 1931 - Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, President of India
● 1934 - N. Ramani, Indian flutist
● 1935 - Bobby Joe Morrow, American sprinter
● 1935 - Barry McGuire, American singer
● 1938 - Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician (d. 1997)
● 1938 - Marv Johnson, American singer (d. 1993)
● 1940 - Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player
● 1940 - Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist, Nobel laureate
● 1942 - Penny Marshall, American actress
● 1944 - Sali Berisha, President of Albania
● 1944 - David Trimble, Irish politician, Nobel laureate
● 1944 - Haim Saban, Egyptian-born American media proprietor
● 1945 - Jim Palmer, American baseball player
● 1946 - Richard Carpenter (musician), American musician (The_Carpenters)
● 1948 - Chris de Burgh, Irish singer and songwriter
● 1953 - Tito Jackson, American musician
● 1953 - Larry Miller, American actor and comedian
● 1953 - Betsy Clifford, Canadian alpine skier
● 1954 - Peter Bakowski, Australian poet
● 1955 - Kulbir Bhaura, British field hockey player
● 1955 - Tanya Roberts, American actress
● 1957 - Mira Nair, Indian director
● 1957 - Stacy Peralta, American director
● 1959 - Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
● 1959 - Emeril Lagasse, American chef
● 1959 - Todd Solondz, American film director
● 1961 - John Kenny, Irish sports broadcaster and journalist
● 1964 - Roberto Vittori, Italian astronaut
● 1968 - Jyrki 69, Finnish musician The 69 Eyes
● 1968 - Didier Deschamps, French football player
● 1969 - Vanessa Marcil, American actress
● 1969 - Dominic West, British actor
● 1970 - Eric Benét, American singer
● 1971 - Andy Cole, British footballer
● 1971 - Jason Arhndt, American wrestler
● 1972 - Sandra Kim, Belgian singer
● 1975 - Ginuwine, American singer
● 1975 - Glen Little, English footballer
● 1976 - Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer
● 1977 - Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver
● 1977 - Erin McKeown, American musician
● 1977 - David Trezeguet, French football player
● 1977 - Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
● 1978 - Haven Riney, American radio host and actor
● 1979 - Paul Robinson, English football player
● 1979 - Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian football player
● 1980 - Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
● 1980 - Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer (Killer)
● 1981 - Keyshia Cole, African American R&B singer
● 1981 - Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
● 1981 - Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver
● 1981 - Radoslav Židek, Slovak snowboarder
● 1982 - Paulini Curuenavuli, Fijian singer
● 1982 - Charline Labonté, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
● 1983 - Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress
● 1985 - Walter López, Uruguayan footballer
● 1985 - Marcos Martinez Ucha, Spanish racing driver
● 1986 - Lee Donghae, Korean singer (a member of super junior)
● 1987 - Jesse Levine, American tennis player
● 1992 - Vincent Martella, American actor
● 2005 - Prince Christian of Denmark
DEATHS
● 412 - Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
● 898 - Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor
● 912 - Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba
● 1002 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
● 1080 - Rudolf of Rheinfeld, Duke of Swabia
● 1326 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (b. 1261)
● 1389 - Pope Urban VI
● 1564 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (b. 1514)
● 1715 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675)
● 1730 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)
● 1788 - Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
● 1810 - Alfred Moore, American judge (b. 1755)
● 1811 - Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (b. 1735)
● 1817 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish and Lithuanian national hero (b. 1746)
● 1819 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
● 1820 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1771)
● 1837 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760)
● 1880 - Victorio, Apache leader
● 1891 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837)
● 1900 - Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850)
● 1910 - Stanley Ketchel, boxer (murdered) (b. 1886)
● 1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
● 1918 - Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian guru (b. circa 1838)
● 1930 - Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (b. 1866)
● 1934 - Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (b. 1860)
● 1945 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of Vichy France (executed) (b. 1883)
● 1946 - Hermann Göring, German air force commander (suicide) (b. 1893)
● 1948 - Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
● 1959 - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880)
● 1960 - Clara Kimball Young, American actress (b. 1890)
● 1963 - Horton Smith. American golfer (b. 1908)
● 1964 - Cole Porter, American composer (b. 1891)
● 1976 - Carlo Gambino, American gangster (b. 1902)
● 1980 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
● 1980 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
● 1981 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (b. 1907)
● 1988 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (b. 1892)
● 1994 - Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (b. 1934)
● 1995 - Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1976)
● 2000 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
● 2001 - Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria (b. 1901)
● 2003 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
● 2003 - Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (b. 1919)
● 2005 - Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)
● 2005 - Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (b. 1945)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Teresa of Avila
● Roman festivals - the Equirria or October equus: sacrifice of a horse to Mars
● French Republican Calendar - Amaryllis (Amaryllis) Day, twenty-fourth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● United States - White Cane Safety 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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