Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Guns "If you are the type of person who likes assault weapons, there is a place for you—the United States Army. We have them." — General Wesley Clark
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The best years of Our Lives "I really don't think {If he had stopped right here, he would have told the truth for once.} that I'm going to be able to cause anybody to take out Bill Clinton. But if I can, I hope their aim is good and I hope that bullet passes through Al Gore first. And if you want a trifecta, take Hillary, too." — Talk Show Host Rollye James {Make the same statement about Bush today, especially in an airport, and end up arrested or rendered.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Rural Americans are real Americans. There's no doubt about that. You can't always be sure with other Americans. Not all of them are real." — 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
IC 5067 in the Pelican Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Antonio Fernandez
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 202 B.C.E. - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
● 439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
● 1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
● 1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
● 1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Toruń. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
● 1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
● 1512 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
● 1720 - Birth of John Woolman, Quaker anti-slavery activist.
● 1781 - At Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War.
● 1789 - Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
● 1812 - Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
● 1813 - The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
● 1822 - In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
● 1841 - Surrender of Tallahassee chief Tiger Tail after his battle against forced removal to the west.
● 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman in U.S. to receive medical degree.
● 1850 - Mountain climber Annie Peck plants a "vote for women" sign atop the summit of 21,083-foot Coropuna, Peru.
● 1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek - Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
● 1864 - Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
● 1868 - Birth of Bertha Landes, first woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city (Seattle).
● 1873 - Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
● 1878 - Anti-Socialist Law passed in Germany.
● 1904 - Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
● 1905 - Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman Nobel Peace laureate, Oslo, Norway.
● 1910 - France - Death of Luigi Lucheni, found hanged in his cell. Anarchist adherent of "propaganda by the deed," killed the imperatrice Elisabeth of Austria, (September 10, 1878), and got, at age 25, life in prison.
● 1912 - Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
● 1914 - The First Battle of Ypres begins.
● 1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
● 1921 - Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
● 1923 - War Resisters League founded, New York City.
● 1933 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
● 1935 - The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
● 1936 - Chinese revolutionist, writer Lu Xun dies, Shanghai.
● 1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
● 1944 - United States forces land in the Philippines.
● 1950 - The military of the People's Republic of China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet.
● 1952 - John Bamford, aged 15, rescues victims of a house fire and becomes the youngest person to have been awarded the George Cross.
● 1953 - Arthur Godfrey fires Julius LaRosa live on American national TV.
● 1954 - First ascent of Cho Oyu
● 1960 - Martin Luther King, Jr., and 35 students choose jail after arrest for sit-in requesting service at the snack bar of Atlanta's Rich's department store.
● 1960 - U.S. imposes a "temporary" trade embargo on Cuba following nationalization of U.S. enterprises. As of 2007 still in place.
● 1962 - Crew of Everyman III formally refused entry, Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
● 1964 - Seattle CORE announces a campaign to boycott downtown Seattle merchants for discriminatory hiring practices.
● 1968 - Death of Aldo Capitini, co-founder of Movimento Nonviolento in Italy.
● 1969 - Thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters paralyze the streets of Tokyo, Japan.
● 1969 - The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
● 1973 - President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes. {"If the president does it, it's legal."}
● 1974 - Niue becomes self-govering colony of New Zealand
● 1976 - Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
● 1977 - Eighteen organizations working for black liberation closed down by government, South Africa.
● 1980 - J.P. Stevens & Co. forced to sign first contract with a union after a 17-year struggle in North Carolina and other southern states.
● 1981 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Library and Archives opens in Atlanta. Founded by Coretta Scott King, it is the largest repository in the world of primary resource material on King, nine major civil rights organizations, and the American civil rights movement.
● 1982 - John De Lorean is arrested for trafficking in cocaine (later acquitted).
● 1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
● 1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others died when their Tupolev 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains.
● 1987 - In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms.
● 1987 - (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%.
● 1989 - Murka the Cat, banished 400 miles from Moscow apartment for eating two canaries, returns on its own one year later.
● 1989 - Guildford Four convictions are quashed by the Court of Appeal - they had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice.
● 1991 - 7.0 Richter Scale earthquake in Northern Italy - 2000 dead
● 1993 - Air France workers strike against layoffs; direct action closes airports.
● 1998 - Hundreds gather at "A Day Without the Pentagon" action in Arlington, Va. to protest U.S. militarism. 22 arrested.
● 1998 - The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $12 million in damage.
● 2001 - SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
● 2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
● 2004 - Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the Thai government on charges of corruption.
● 2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
● 2005 - Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
BIRTHS
● 1276 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328)
● 1433 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d. 1499)
● 1562 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633)
● 1582 - Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (d. 1591)
● 1605 - Thomas Browne, English writer (d. 1682)
● 1610 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
● 1658 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)
● 1680 - John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)
● 1688 - William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)
● 1718 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
● 1720 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
● 1721 - Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
● 1784 - John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d. 1857)
● 1810 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American abolitionist (d. 1903)
● 1837 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (d. 1925)
● 1851 - Empress Myeongseong, Empress of Korea (d. 1895)
● 1858 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
● 1862 - Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954)
● 1873 - John Barton King, American cricketer (d. 1965)
● 1876 - Mordecai Brown, baseball player (d. 1945)
● 1885 - Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)
● 1895 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (d. 1990)
● 1895 - Frank Durbin Last U.S veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d.1999)
● 1896 - Bob O'Farrell, baseball player (d. 1988)
● 1897 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994)
● 1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
● 1900 - Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (d. 1991)
● 1900 - Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957)
● 1900 - Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
● 1901 - Arleigh Burke, Naval commander (d. 1996)
● 1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
● 1908 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
● 1909 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981)
● 1909 - Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
● 1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
● 1910 - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (d. 1980)
● 1913 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
● 1916 - Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1916 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1985)
● 1920 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher (d. 2003)
● 1922 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (d. 2005)
● 1926 - Joel Feinberg, American moral philosopher (d. 2004)
● 1926 - Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
● 1931 - John le Carré, English novelist
● 1932 - Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992)
● 1937 - Peter Max, American artist
● 1937 - Marilyn Bell, Canadian long distance swimmer
● 1940 - Michael Gambon, Irish actor
● 1941 - Simon Ward, British actor
● 1942 - Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
● 1943 - Robin Holloway, British composer
● 1943 - Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer
● 1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician, political activist (d. 1987)
● 1944 - George McCrae, American soul singer
● 1945 - Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
● 1945 - Patricia Ireland, President of the NOW
● 1945 - John Lithgow, American actor
● 1945 - Jeannie C. Riley American country and gospel singer
● 1946 - Philip Pullman, English writer
● 1947 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator
● 1948 - Patrick Simmons, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)
● 1949 - Jamie McGrigor, British politician
● 1951 - Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize
● 1952 - Verónica Castro, Mexican actress and singer
● 1954 - Sam Allardyce, English football manager
● 1954 - Deborah Blum, American writer
● 1956 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993)
● 1956 - Sunny Deol, Indian actor
● 1956 - Didier Theys, Belgian racing driver
● 1957 - Ray Richmond, entertainment/media columnist
● 1958 - Tiriel Mora, Australian actor
● 1960 - Jonathan FeBland, English musician, writer and artist
● 1962 - Tracy Chevalier, American author
● 1962 - Evander Holyfield, American boxer
● 1963 - Prince Laurent of Belgium
● 1964 - Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American boxer
● 1965 - Brad Daugherty, American basketball player
● 1965 - Ty Pennington, American television carpenter
● 1966 - Jon Favreau, American actor, writer and director
● 1967 - Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
● 1969 - Trey Parker, American cartoonist, comedian, writer, and actor
● 1970 - Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
● 1972 - Pras, American musician
● 1972 - Keith Foulke, American baseball pitcher
● 1973 - Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1974 - Kevin Sullivan, American Automation Engineer
● 1976 - Michael Young, baseball player
● 1976 - Dan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1976 - Desmond Harrington, American actor
● 1977 - Louis-José Houde, Québec stand-up comic
● 1978 - Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian Formula One driver
● 1978 - Zakhar Dubenskiy, Russian footballer
● 1980 - Benjamin Salisbury, American actor
● 1981 - Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish Formula One driver
● 1991 - Jennifer Miller, Scottish Model
DEATHS
● 727 - Saint Frideswide
● 1187 - Pope Urban III
● 1216 - King John
● 1432 - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
● 1587 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
● 1608 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
● 1636 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
● 1682 - Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
● 1723 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1646)
● 1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
● 1790 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)
● 1813 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. 1763)
● 1842 - Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
● 1851 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b. 1778)
● 1889 - King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
● 1897 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
● 1901 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
● 1918 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
● 1936 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
● 1937 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1871)
● 1943 - Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
● 1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
● 1956 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
● 1960 - George Wallace, Australian vaudevillian and film comedian (b. 1895)
● 1973 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
● 1978 - Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
● 1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
● 1985 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
● 1986 - Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist
● 1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
● 1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
● 1987 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
● 1988 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
● 1991 - Jennifer Miller, Scottish Model (b. 1920)
● 1994 - Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916)
● 1995 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1936)
● 1997 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
● 1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)
● 1999 - James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
● 2003 - Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
● 2003 - Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
● 2003 - Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
● 2004 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
● 2005 - Corinne Lévesque, wife of Québec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
● 2006 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Frideswide
● St. Jean de Brébeuf
● St. Isaac Jogues and Companions
● Coptic Church:
● St. Aaron
● Roman festivals - Armilustrium in honor of Mars
● French Republican Calendar - Tomate (Tomato) Day, twenty-eighth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Albania - Mother Teresa Day.
● Brazil - Independence Day of State of Piauí
● Niue - Constitution Day in honour of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974.
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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