Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On The Green Party "The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door." — Ralph Nader
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On War Is Hell ". . . And finally, and most importantly, the next time we go to war, don't give a specific reason for the war that the Left can seize upon and later flog us with it ad nauseam, just do it. Remember, the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club." — Dennis Miller, "Hannity & Colmes," Fox News Channel, 6-27-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child." — 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
I Zwicky 18: The Case of the Aging Galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Aloisi (ESA & STScI)
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EVENTS
● 539 B.C.E. - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.
● 1244 - Battle of La Forbie: Crusaders are defeated by Khwarezmians and Egyptians.
● 1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
● 1448 - Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi were defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
● 1604 - Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation. Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
● 1610 - French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.
● 1660 - Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged.
● 1662 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
● 1711 - Birth of Jupiter Hammon, America's first published black poet.
● 1760 - Birth of Henri Saint Simon, French utopian theorist.
● 1777 - American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga.
● 1781 - When colonial and French armies defeat British at Yorktown, Virginia, General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionists. Last major battle in Revolutionary War, though it would take another two years before a peace treaty was signed.
● 1796 - Canada passes Antislavery Act.
● 1797 - Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria.
● 1800 - England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
● 1806 - Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule.
● 1817 - Birth of Samuel Ringgold Ward, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Considered one of the finest abolitionist orators.
● 1866 - Birth of French anarchist Edmond Marpaux. Member of the "Ligue des Antipatriotes." Sentenced to life in prison for killing a policeman despite his claims he did not do it. Killed during a prison uprising.
● 1871 - Pres. Ulysses S. Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus.
● 1877 - John D. Rockefeller makes a contract with the Pennsylvania Railroad, giving his Standard Oil Company a rebate on all freight carried by the line. The arrangement provided him the key to monopolizing virtually all production and transportation of oil in the United States.
● 1888 - France - Birth of anarchist Maurice Halle.
● 1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
● 1889 - Chernyshevsky, Russian radical critic, dies.
● 1894 - Ohio National Guard kills three lynchers while rescuing a black man.
● 1912 - Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
● 1915 - Birth of playwright Arthur Miller. Best known for "Death of a Salesman," Miller was blacklisted and denied a passport to attend the Brussels premiere of his 1953 McCarthyist allegory "The Crucible."
● 1917 - First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
● 1920 - John Reed, radical journalist, dies in Moscow of typhus at age 32 after being refused re-entry to U.S.; buried in the Kremlin wall. Chronicled Mexican and Soviet revolutions.
● 1920 - Italy - Malatesta, anarchist militant/writer, remains under arrest for three days. He is held responsible, along with Borghi, for the worker occupations of the factories in Milan during the summer.
● 1924 - New York City boarding house keepers band together because of the high cost of living and vote to serve tenants just four prunes apiece at breakfast.
● 1931 - Gangster Al Capone gets 11 years in prison for forgetting to pay taxes.
● 1933 - Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany.
● 1933 - Norway - First Labor government forms.
● 1936 - In Perdiguera (Aragon), Spain, the International Group of the Durruti Column, composed of 250 anarchists, engage in a battle against the fascists.
● 1939 - Warren Billings, labor activist, released from Folsom Prison. Pardoned, along with Thomas J. Mooney, for a 1916 conviction from a bomb explosion during a San Francisco Preparedness Day parade; always maintained his innocence.
● 1941 - A German submarine torpedoes the U.S. destroyer Kearney 350 miles southwest of Iceland; kills 11 crew members, seriously wounding two. The Kearney, the first destroyer attacked by a German submarine, sustains heavy damage but manages to stay afloat. Note that this was several weeks before Pearl Harbor.
● 1943 - In the face of mounting opposition to communism and the Soviet Union in American society, the Young Communist League (YCL) dissolves itself at a convention, New York City. In an about turn of face, the 400 delegates organize American Youth for Democracy, which only offers membership to non-Communists.
● 1945 - A massive number of people, headed by CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. This is known to the Peronists as the Día de la lealtad (day of loyalty). It's considered the birthday of Peronism.
● 1950 - "Salt of the Earth" strike begins in Silver City, New Mexico; strikers' wives walk picket lines for seven months during 14-month strike.
● 1960 - Birth of Thierry Maricourt, France. Poet, novelist, anarchist.
● 1961 - Paris police massacre over 200 Algerians protesting against police oppression & the curfew imposed against their community in Paris. In the three months preceding the protest, over 30 Paris cops were killed by the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), a group using terrorist tactics to fight French colonial rule. In response, Paris police chief and Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon ordered a violent crackdown on Paris' Algerian community, explaining to officers that they would be protected against any charges of excessive violence. Police searched the Algerian ghettos for FLN members, indiscriminately killing a number of innocent Algerians before turning their guns on a large group of protestors gathered near the Seine River. The next day, the police release an official death toll of three dead and 67 wounded, a figure generally disregarded by witnesses who observe bodies littering the area and floating in the Seine.
● 1961 - Sit-in at Soviet Embassy in London in protest against planned nuclear testing by U.S.S.R.
● 1966 - Anarchist collective "The Diggers" holds its first free street feed in San Francisco.
● 1966 - A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters, the New York City Fire Department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
● 1968 - The 1968 Olympics Black Power salute is performed by Tommie Smith and John Carlos.
● 1970 - Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
● 1973 - Pedro Bissonette, leader of the Independent Oglala Nation, murdered by BIA police.
● 1973 - OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
● 1977 - German Autumn: Four days after it was hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.
● 1977 - Nationwide wildcat hospital strikes all over Italy, against settlement signed by the unions. Workers put forth their own demands and fight police. The army is called in to serve the patients in Rome, elsewhere.
● 1978 - Pres. Jimmy Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis' citizenship.
● 1979 - Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
● 1979 - The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services. Both replace the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
● 1982 - Missile launched from submarine by China.
● 1988 - About 600 arrested at Pentagon in a blockade protesting U.S. war in Central America.
● 1989 - Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
● 1990 - Fellowship of Reconciliation sends 20 people on peace mission to Iraq and Jordan.
● 1992 - The United Nations General Assembly declares October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to be observed beginning in 1993. Resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992.
● 1998 - Anarchist demonstrators damage merchandise in NikeTown store in Eugene, Oregon.
● 2000 - Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
● 2003 - In a culmination of several weeks of mass anti-neoliberalism protests, hundreds of thousands of people from all sectors of Bolivian society blockade the streets of Bolivia's cities, including the capital of La Paz, forcing the resignation of pro-U.S. Pres. Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
● 2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise.
● 2003 - Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics.
● 2006 - The United States population reaches 300 million.
BIRTHS
● 1253 - Ivo of Kermartin, French saint (d. 1303)
● 1563 - Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (d. 1611)
● 1577 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)
● 1582 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)
● 1623 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)
● 1688 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (d. 1726)
● 1711 - Jupiter Hammon, American writer
● 1719 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)
● 1811 - Albertus van Raalte, Dutch/American religious leader (d. 1876)
● 1813 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)
● 1817 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (d. 1898)
● 1864 - Elinor Glyn, British writer (d. 1943)
● 1865 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950)
● 1886 - Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971)
● 1890 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
● 1898 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violin teacher (d. 1998)
● 1898 - Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer (d. 1971)
● 1900 - Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
● 1902 - Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
● 1903 - Nathanael West, American writer (d. 1940)
● 1906 - Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
● 1908 - Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969)
● 1912 - Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
● 1912 - Jack Owens, The Cruising Crooner, American singer/songwriter (d. 1982)
● 1914 - Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist, co-creator of Superman (d. 1996)
● 1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
● 1917 - Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian (later American) novelist (d. 1991)
● 1918 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
● 1919 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
● 1920 - Miguel Delibes, Spanish writer
● 1920 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
● 1921 - Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
● 1921 - Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)
● 1922 - Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive
● 1922 - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian composer (d. 2001)
● 1923 - Charles McClendon, American football coach (d. 2001)
● 1923 - Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004)
● 1925 - Harry Carpenter, English sports commentator
● 1926 - Julie Adams, American film actress
● 1930 - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
● 1930 - Jimmy Breslin, American writer
● 1930 - Joe Erskine, American welterweight boxer and long distance runner
● 1931 - Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer
● 1933 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (d. 1985)
● 1936 - Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
● 1938 - Evel Knievel, American daredevil
● 1940 - Peter Stringfellow, British nightclub owner
● 1941 - Earl Thomas Conley, American singer
● 1941 - Jim Seals American singer (Seals and Crofts)
● 1942 - Gary Puckett, American musician
● 1946 - Sir Cameron Mackintosh, British stage producer
● 1946 - Adam Michnik, Polish activist
● 1946 - Bob Seagren, American athlete
● 1946 - Michael Hossack, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)
● 1947 - Gene Green, American politician
● 1947 - Michael McKean, American actor
● 1948 - Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
● 1948 - George Wendt, American actor
● 1948 - Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007)
● 1950 - Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)
● 1956 - Mae Jemison, American astronaut
● 1956 - Patrick McCrory, American politician and Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina
● 1957 - Steve McMichael, American football player
● 1958 - Alan Jackson, American singer and songwriter
● 1959 - Ron Drummond, American writer
● 1959 - Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
● 1959 - Richard Roeper, American film critic
● 1959 - Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian
● 1960 - Rob Marshall, American director
● 1960 - Guy Henry, English actor
● 1962 - Mike Judge, Ecuadoran-born cartoonist
● 1963 - Norm MacDonald, Canadian comedian
● 1965 - Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
● 1966 - Mark Gatiss, English actor
● 1968 - Ziggy Marley, Jamaican musician
● 1969 - Wood Harris, African American actor
● 1969 - Ernie Els, South African golfer
● 1969 - Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian
● 1970 - Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
● 1970 - John Mabry, American baseball player
● 1971 - Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer ('N Sync)
● 1972 - Eminem, American rapper
● 1972 - Tarkan, Turkish singer
● 1972 - Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer
● 1972 - Joe McEwing, American baseball player
● 1974 - Matthew Macfadyen, British actor
● 1974 - John Rocker, American baseball player
● 1975 - Francis Bouillon, American hockey player
● 1976 - Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
● 1977 - Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
● 1979 - Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer and violinist (Elfonía, Stream of Passion)
● 1979 - Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
● 1979 - Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
● 1982 - Nick Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer
● 1983 - Daniel Booko, American actor
● 1983 - Ivan Saenko, Russian football player
● 1984 - Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player
● 1984 - Chris Lowell, American actor
● 1987 - Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
● 1990 - Taylor Parks, Stand-Up Comic
● 1992 - Matthew Crane, British operatic singer
● 1992 - Sam Concepcion, Filipino performer and actor
● 1995 - Alexandria, McKenzie and Megan Calabrese, American triplets and actresses
DEATHS
● 532 - Pope Boniface II
● 1174 - Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
● 1586 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (b. 1554)
● 1616 - John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)
● 1660 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
● 1673 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
● 1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
● 1776 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
● 1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
● 1786 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
● 1806 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (b. 1758)
● 1836 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
● 1837 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer (b. 1778)
● 1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)
● 1868 - Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)
● 1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
● 1889 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
● 1910 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (b. 1819)
● 1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
● 1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
● 1938 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (b. 1854)
● 1943 - Stefan Starzyński, Polish politician (b. 1893)
● 1958 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
● 1958 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
● 1962 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
● 1963 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (b. 1865)
● 1965 - John Barton King, Philadelphian cricketer (b. 1873)
● 1966 - Wieland Wagner, German stage director (b. 1917)
● 1967 - Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
● 1970 - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
● 1970 - Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
● 1972 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (b. 1887)
● 1972 - Turk Broda, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1914)
● 1972 - Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
● 1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
● 1979 - S. J. Perelman, American writer (b. 1904)
● 1979 - John Stuart, Scottish actor (b. 1898)
● 1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
● 1983 - Raymond Aron, French philosopher (b. 1905)
● 1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (b. 1919)
● 1992 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
● 1993 - Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (b. 1963)
● 1996 - Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (b. 1966)
● 1998 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist
● 1998 - Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
● 1999 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (b. 1915)
● 2000 - Leo Nomellini, wrestler (b. 1924)
● 2001 - Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
● 2001 - Jay Livingston, American songwriter (b. 1915)
● 2002 - Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)
● 2002 - Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906)
● 2004 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952)
● 2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
● 2005 - Franky Gee, European techno artist (b. 1962)
● 2006 - Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
● 2006 - Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Audrey (Æthelthryth)
● St. Catervus
● St. Ignatius of Antioch
● St. Marguerite Marie Alacoque
● St. Richard Gwyn
● French Republican Calendar - Aubergine (Eggplant) Day, twenty-sixth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Haiti - Death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1806), State holiday
● International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING FIVE SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
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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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