Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Greed "Fight the greedy and help the needy." — Carol Moseley-Braun
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Anti-War Republicans, Clinton Era "Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is." — George W. {War Criminal} Bush on Kosovo, R. G. Ratcliffe, "Bush toughens his stance on NATO bombing," Houston Chronicle, 4-9-99.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." — 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. {His science was as good as his spelling.}
{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
SN 2005ap: The Brightest Supernova Yet Found
Credit: SDSS, R. Quimby/McDonald Obs./UT-Austin
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.
● 1649 - American colony of Maine grants religious freedom to all citizens, on condition that those of contrary religious persuasions behave acceptably.
● 1775 - Portland, Maine burned by the British.
● 1780 - Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War.
● 1781 - George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
● 1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
● 1793 - Battle of Wattignies.
● 1813 - The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
● 1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt down.
● 1841 - Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
● 1843 - Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
● 1849 - Birth of George Washington Williams, Bedrod Springs, Pa. Early African-American historian and founder of two African-American newspapers, "The Commoner" in Washington, DC, and Cincinnati's "The Southern Review."
● 1854 - Birth of Oscar Wilde, Dublin, Ireland. Consummate gay wit, playwright, poet, socialist investigator.
● 1854 - Jean Grave born. Important figure of the early French anarchist-communist movement, and popularizer of the ideas of Kropotkin.
● 1859 - Abolitionist leader John Brown leads an anti-slavery raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to set off a mass slave revolt throughout the south. He is later hanged by the state of Virginia for his efforts. Brown, confident he would inspire a slave insurrection, led 18 men in the attempted seizure of the U.S. arsenal in Virginia.
● 1869 - Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is discovered.
● 1869 - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, Cambridge, is founded.
● 1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
● 1876 - Race riot at Cainhoy, South Carolina. Five whites, one black killed.
● 1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
● 1890 - Reservation Police forcibly remove Kicking Bear from Standing Rock Agency, South Dakota, for teaching the Ghost Dance, a new Indian religion that foretold the disappearance of white people.
● 1905 - The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.
● 1906 - Congress of the C.G.T. held. Charter of Amiens is adopted. Influenced by the anarchists, a massive majority calls for total independence of the trade unions from the political parties of the State. Written by Emile Pouget, the text is approved by 830 votes against 48.
● 1906 - The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
● 1916 - Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic in New York City.
● 1919 - Deportation Act for anarchist aliens enacted. Thousands, including Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, jailed and deported. Harbinger of U.S. government anti-labor and anti-Red attacks in the 1920s.
● 1925 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution.
● 1934 - Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
● 1939 - World War II: First attack on British territory by German Luftwaffe.
● 1940 - Dave Dellinger and seven other Union Theological Seminary students refuse to register for conscription.
● 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army.
● 1940 - Warsaw Ghetto established.
● 1942 - Three conscientious objectors walk out of Civilian Public Service Camp, Big Flats, New York.
● 1943 - Deportation of Italian Jews begins.
● 1945 - The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada.
● 1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials are hanged. {Proves death penalty is not a deterrent; Bush still invades Iraq pre-emptively.}
● 1949 - Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
● 1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
● 1961 - Cork Airport opened in Ireland.
● 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba began.
● 1963 - Death of Guy Aldred, Scottish anti-militarist anarchist.
● 1964 - China explodes its first atomic bomb, Xinjiang Province.
● 1966 - Folksinger Joan Baez among 122 anti-draft protesters arrested at the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland. She was sentenced to 10 days in prison.
● 1967 - 1,158 young men return draft cards in eighteen U.S. cities.
● 1968 - Tommie Smith and John Carlos hold up their fists in a Black Power salute during the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City. Their actions result in their suspension from the games two days later by USA Olympic Committee which kicks them off team USA.
● 1968 - Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
● 1969 - Several thousand construction workers march on the Washington state capitol in Olympia to protest plans to increase the number of minority workers hired for publicly funded projects.
● 1970 - Canada - In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act, suspending all civil rights. The NDP is the only party in the House of Commons to denounce the action.
● 1971 - Eldridge Cleaver press conference in Algiers to announce his return to U.S.
● 1971 - Black Panther and former SNCC head H. Rap Brown is shot and captured during an attempted hold-up in New York City.
● 1973 - War criminal Henry Kissinger is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, less than a month after he had secretly overseen the bloody military coup in Chile.
● 1973 - Le Duc Tho is also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. {Le refuses to accept his saying his country is still at war.}
● 1975 - The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
● 1978 - Karol Józef Wojtyła becomes Pope John Paul II.
● 1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
● 1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
● 1988 - Emidio Santana dies. Militant anarcho-trade unionist of the Portuguese CGT. Author of attacks on Portuguese Dictator Salazar that got him 14 years in prison. Began publishing published the anarcho-syndicalist newspaper "A Batalha" in 1974.
● 1991 - Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in a Luby's Cafeteria.
● 1991 - Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
● 1992 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Rigoberta Menchu, Quiche Maya Indian, for her work against human rights abuses and genocide by U.S.-backed military regimes in Guatemala. Conservatives charged that her seminal book on Guatemalan genocide overstated her own family's suffering in the era, as though it mattered.
● 1995 - Million Man March brings hundreds of thousands of African American men to Washington, D.C.
● 1996 - Activists in Penang, Malaysia, stage an anti-corporate demonstration in front of McDonald's Restaurant.
● 1996 - Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
● 1998 - In a human rights and international law breakthrough, British authorities, at the request of Spain, place former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet under arrest for "crimes of genocide and terrorism."
● 2002 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
● 2002 - Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, was signed into law by President George W. Bush.
● 2007 - Stephen Colbert announces his 2008 presidential bid.
BIRTHS
● 1396 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
● 1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
● 1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
● 1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
● 1663 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
● 1710 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
● 1714 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
● 1726 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
● 1752 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
● 1754 - Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
● 1758 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
● 1762 - Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12) (d. 1816)
● 1789 - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
● 1802 - Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
● 1806 - William Pitt Fessenden, U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1864-65) (d. 1869)
● 1815 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
● 1819 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
● 1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
● 1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
● 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
● 1854 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (d. 1938)
● 1855 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
● 1861 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
● 1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
● 1878 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
● 1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
● 1888 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
● 1888 - Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
● 1890 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922)
● 1890 - Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
● 1897 - Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man
● 1898 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)
● 1900 - Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
● 1900 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
● 1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
● 1908 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (d. 1985)
● 1914 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
● 1917 - Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
● 1918 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
● 1919 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
● 1922 - Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter
● 1922 - Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001)
● 1923 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
● 1923 - Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
● 1925 - Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
● 1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1928 - Mary Daly, American feminist
● 1928 - Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
● 1929 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
● 1930 - Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
● 1931 - Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator
● 1931 - James Chace, American historian (d. 2004)
● 1934 - Peter Ashdown, British racing driver
● 1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
● 1936 - Akira Machida, Japanese judge
● 1936 - Peter Bowles, English actor
● 1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
● 1938 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
● 1938 - Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
● 1940 - Barry Corbin, American actor
● 1940 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003)
● 1941 - Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator
● 1943 - Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
● 1946 - Suzanne Somers, American actress
● 1947 - Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
● 1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
● 1947 - David Zucker, American film director
● 1948 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
● 1952 - Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
● 1952 - Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
● 1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
● 1953 - Tony Carey, American-born rock keyboardist, producer (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
● 1954 - Stephen Mellor, American actor
● 1956 - Johnny Chavis, American football coach
● 1958 - Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
● 1958 - Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
● 1959 - Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
● 1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
● 1959 - Brian Harper, baseball player
● 1960 - Bob Mould, American musician
● 1961 - Randy Vasquez, American actor
● 1961 - Marc Levy, French novelist
● 1962 - Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
● 1962 - Manute Bol, Sudanese-born basketball player for the NBA
● 1962 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
● 1965 - Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey
● 1967 - Davina McCall, British television presenter
● 1968 - Randall Batinkoff, American actor
● 1968 - Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
● 1969 - Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips)
● 1969 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter.
● 1970 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
● 1970 - Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
● 1972 - Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates)
● 1972 - Darius Kasparaitis, National Hockey League player
● 1973 - Chad Gray, American singer (Mudvayne)
● 1973 - Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
● 1973 - David Unsworth, English professional footballer
● 1974 - Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
● 1974 - Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter, songwriter
● 1975 - Kellie Martin, American actress
● 1975 - Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
● 1975 - Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
● 1976 - Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian football (AFL) player and media personality
● 1977 - John Mayer, American musician
● 1979 - Erin Brown, American B-movie actress, model, filmmaker, former softcore erotic actress, and musician
● 1980 - Sue Bird, American basketball player
● 1980 - Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
● 1981 - Anthony Reyes, starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
● 1982 - Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
● 1982 - Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
● 1984 - Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress
● 1984 - Shayne Ward, UK singer, winner of The X Factor, series 2005
● 1985 - Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer and 2007 MotoGP World Champion
● 1988 - Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
DEATHS
● 1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
● 1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
● 1555 - Hugh Latimer, English Protestant (martyred)
● 1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English Protestant (martyred)
● 1591 - Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
● 1594 - William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
● 1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
● 1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
● 1649 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
● 1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
● 1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
● 1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
● 1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
● 1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
● 1791 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (b. 1739)
● 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
● 1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
● 1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
● 1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
● 1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
● 1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
● 1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
● 1909 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
● 1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
● 1946 - Nuremberg trial executions:
● Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900)
● Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
● Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
● Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
● Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882)
● Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
● Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
● Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894)
● Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
● Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)
● 1956 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
● 1959 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)
● 1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)
● 1966 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
● 1968 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
● 1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
● 1972 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1892)
● 1973 - Gene Krupa, American musician (b. 1909)
● 1974 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
● 1978 - Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913)
● 1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
● 1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)
● 1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
● 1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895)
● 1983 - Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957)
● 1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
● 1989 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
● 1990 - Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)
● 1990 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (b. 1919)
● 1992 - Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
● 1996 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (b. 1910)
● 1996 - Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
● 1997 - James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
● 1997 - Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
● 1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
● 1999 - Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921)
● 2000 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
● 2002 - Angela Dawson, American murder victim
● 2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
● 2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915)
● 2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
● 2004 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
● 2005 - "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
● 2005 - David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
● 2006 - Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
● 2006 - Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
● 2006 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (b. 1935)
● 2006 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
● 2007 - Toše Proeski, Macedonian music star (b. 1981)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Gerard Majella
● St. Hedwig
● Pope John Paul II Day in Poland
● Boss's Day in the United States
● World Food 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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