Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Growth "Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries." — José Ortega y Gasset
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On WMD—Weapons of Mass Destruction "I believe they are continuing to manufacture weapons of mass destruction at many sites. A lot of them we don't know about, some of them we are very suspicious of. Every month, every week, Saddam Hussein will have more weapons of mass destruction to use against us. Why put it off?" — Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, speaking in support of preemptive war with Iraq. "Selby: Beware 911," NewsMax.com, 8-5-02.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I stand by all my misstatements." — 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
The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396
Credit & Copyright: Brian Lula
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EVENTS
● 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
● 1016 - The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
● 1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV
● 1356 - Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland
● 1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts
● 1648 - Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
● 1685 - Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants
● 1748 - Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
● 1767 - Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
● 1775 - African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
● 1851 - Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
● 1854 - U.S. Ministers to Spain, France and Great Britain meet at Ostend, Belguim, and, declaring Cuba indispensable to the security of the United States, recommend to President Pierce that he purchase or seize the island from Spain.
● 1860 - In the closing weeks of the Second Opium War -- an effort by a British-led international coalition to crush Chinese resistance to European colonization -- British troops in Beijing burn to the ground the Yuanmingyuan, an imperial summer palace built by the Manchu emperors.
● 1860 - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
● 1865 - Kiowa and Comanche sign treaty agreeing to go onto reservation and ceding Central Texas.
● 1867 - U.S. buys Alaska from Russia. Inuit and Native Americans living there are oblivious to the transaction, involving two imperial governments over 5,000 miles away in opposite directions. They fare only slightly better years later when the U.S. government, in turn, sells the state to a consortium headed by Exxon, Arco, and British Petroleum.
● 1893 - Suffragist Lucy Stone dies, Boston.
● 1893 - Anarchist/feminist Emma Goldman imprisoned in New York for "inciting to riot."
● 1895 - Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth founded, Blanchard, Idaho.
● 1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
● 1901 - Furor erupts when Pres. Theodore Roosevelt invites African-American Booker T. Washington for White House dinner.
● 1908 - Belgium annexes the Congo Free State.
● 1912 - The First Balkan War begins.
● 1920 - Twelve thousand Mexican coal miners strike.
● 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
● 1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under law in Canada.
● 1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
● 1944 - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia
● 1945 - The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
● 1945 - A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, staged a coup d'etát against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who was definitely overthrown by the end of the day.
● 1968 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono busted for marijuana possession in Ringo's apartment; basis of U.S. Immigration's attempts to deny Lennon citizenship.
● 1968 - The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
● 1968 - Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90m in the long jump at the Mexico City games. This becomes the longest unbroken track and field record in history, standing for 23 years, and is later named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century.
● 1969 - Black Panther Party member Walter "Toure" Pope murdered by Los Angeles police.
● 1972 - Congress passes the Clean Water Act over Pres. Nixon's veto.
● 1973 - Three Red Army Faction prisoners "suicided" by West German prison authorities.
● 1973 - Cartoonist Walt Kelly, creator of "Pogo," dies. "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
● 1976 - 54 arrested in Pentagon at end of "Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice" from California to Washington, D.C.
● 1977 - German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is executed and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide. The West German government states that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.
● 1978 - Pres. Carter orders production of neutron bomb components.
● 1981 - Panhellenic Socialist Movement of Greece (PASOK) wins sweeping victory in parliamentary elections.
● 1982 - Demonstration against selective service registration, Washington D.C.
● 1983 - Maurice Bishop killed in internal political coup, Grenada. Charismatic leader killed by his one-time comrades.
● 1989 - East German leader Erich Honecker resigns.
● 1991 - Massive public opposition known as the "Nevada Movement"--after the grass roots protests at the Nevada Test Site which inspired it--forces permanent closure of the primary Soviet nuclear test site, Semipalatinsk, in Central Asia.
● 1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from USSR
● 2003 - Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
BIRTHS
● 1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
● 1405 - Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
● 1517 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)
● 1547 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)
● 1569 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)
● 1595 - Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)
● 1634 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
● 1653 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
● 1662 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)
● 1668 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
● 1679 - Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
● 1701 - Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
● 1706 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785)
● 1741 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
● 1777 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811)
● 1785 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866)
● 1854 - Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
● 1859 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941)
● 1865 - Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (d. 1957)
● 1865 - Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)
● 1868 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
● 1870 - Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese scholar (d. 1966)
● 1873 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
● 1882 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (d. 1917)
● 1893 - Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
● 1894 - H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
● 1897 - Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
● 1900 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
● 1902 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
● 1902 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
● 1903 - Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
● 1904 - A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963)
● 1905 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (d. 1993)
● 1906 - James Brooks, American painter (d. 1992)
● 1909 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004)
● 1913 - Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (d. 2000)
● 1915 - Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)
● 1918 - Bobby Troup, American musician (d. 1999)
● 1919 - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
● 1919 - Anita O'Day, American singer (d. 2006)
● 1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
● 1920 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and political activist (d. 1994)
● 1921 - Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
● 1924 - Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician
● 1925 - Ramiz Alia, political leader of Albania
● 1926 - Chuck Berry, American musician
● 1926 - Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
● 1927 - George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
● 1928 - Keith Jackson, American football commentator
● 1929 - Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
● 1931 - Chris Albertson, American jazz historian
● 1932 - Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
● 1933 - Forrest Gregg, American football player
● 1934 - Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)
● 1934 - Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
● 1935 - Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
● 1937 - Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
● 1938 - Dawn Wells, American actress
● 1939 - Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and commentator
● 1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, purported American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
● 1939 - Flavio Cotti, member of the Swiss Federal Council
● 1942 - Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist
● 1945 - Huell Howser, American TV host
● 1945 - Yıldo, Turkish famous showman and football player
● 1946 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
● 1946 - Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
● 1947 - Joe Morton, American actor
● 1947 - Paul Chuckle, British comedian
● 1947 - Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997)
● 1948 - Ntozake Shange, American author
● 1949 - Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel)
● 1949 - George Hendrick, baseball player
● 1949 - Gary Richrath, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
● 1950 - Om Puri, Indian actor
● 1950 - Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
● 1951 - Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and executive
● 1951 - Terry McMillan, American author
● 1951 - Pam Dawber, American actress
● 1952 - Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese novelist
● 1952 - Jerry Royster, American baseball player
● 1954 - Liz Burch, Australian actress
● 1955 - Timmy Mallett, British TV presenter
● 1956 - Martina Navrátilová, Czech-born tennis player
● 1956 - Craig Bartlett, American animator
● 1956 - Jim Talent, American senator from Missouri
● 1957 - Doug Isaacson, Alaskan politician
● 1957 - Catherine Ringer, French singer and songwriter (Les Rita Mitsouko)
● 1958 - Thomas Hearns, American boxer
● 1958 - Kjell Samuelsson, National Hockey League defenseman
● 1959 - Kirby Chambliss, Aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer
● 1959 - Milčo Mančevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter
● 1959 - John Nord, former American pro wrestler
● 1959 - Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, American sports talk show host
● 1959 - Steve Swayne, Dartmouth Professor
● 1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
● 1961 - Wynton Marsalis, American musician
● 1961 - Rick Moody, American author
● 1961 - Erin Moran American actress
● 1962 - Vincent Spano, American actor
● 1964 - Dan Lilker, American musician, bassist for Anthrax, S.O.D., Nuclear Assault, and Brutal Truth
● 1965 - Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist
● 1970 - José Padilla, American former gang member and alleged supporter of terrorism
● 1970 - Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player
● 1972 - Alex Tagliani, Quebec racing driver
● 1973 - Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
● 1974 - Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer
● 1974 - Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
● 1974 - Candy Lo, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
● 1975 - Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1976 - Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
● 1977 - Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
● 1978 - Wesley Jonathan, American actor
● 1982 - Ne-Yo, American singer
● 1987 - Zac Efron, American actor
● 1987 - Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
● 1990 - Carly Schroeder, American actress
● 1998 - Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
● 2001 - Annelise Manojlovic, English actress
DEATHS
● 707 - Pope John VII
● 1035 - Sancho III of Navarre
● 1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)
● 1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
● 1417 - Pope Gregory XII
● 1503 - Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
● 1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
● 1545 - John Taverner, English composer
● 1558 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
● 1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
● 1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
● 1604 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
● 1646 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
● 1667 - Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
● 1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
● 1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
● 1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1660)
● 1770 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
● 1775 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
● 1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
● 1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)
● 1865 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
● 1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
● 1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
● 1893 - Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
● 1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
● 1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
● 1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
● 1932 - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
● 1942 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
● 1948 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
● 1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
● 1961 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
● 1966 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (b. 1878)
● 1966 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
● 1973 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
● 1973 - Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899)
● 1975 - Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
● 1976 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
● 1977 - Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides:
● Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
● Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
● Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
● 1978 - Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
● 1982 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
● 1982 - Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892)
● 1982 - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (b. 1907)
● 1982 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
● 1983 - Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
● 1983 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (b. 1897)
● 1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
● 1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
● 2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
● 2000 - Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
● 2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
● 2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
● 2002 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
● 2003 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
● 2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
● 2004 - Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945)
● 2005 - John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)
● 2005 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
● 2006 - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
● 2006 - Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Most Christian Dominations:
● St. Luke the Evangelist
● French Republican Calendar - Piment (Chili Pepper) Day, twenty-seventh day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● USA : Alaska: Alaska Day
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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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