Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Faith "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." — Basho
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Judicial Activism "Judicial activism results from the enlistment of judges on one side of the culture war in every western nation. Despite denials by some that any such conflict exists, the culture war is an obtrusive fact. It is a struggle between the cultural or liberal left and the great mass of citizens who, left to their own devices, tend to be traditionalists. The courts are enacting the agendas of the culture left. There is a certain embarrassment in choosing a name for this group. I will sometimes refer to these faux intellectuals as the "New Class," . . . [which] consists of print and electronic journalists; academics at all levels; denizens of Hollywood; mainline clergy and church bureaucracies; personnel of museums, galleries, and philanthropic foundations; radical environmentalists; and activist groups for a multiplicity of single causes.
It is able to exercise influence in many ways, but when cultural and social issues become sufficiently clear, the intellectual class loses elections. It is, therefore, essential that the cultural left find a way to avoid the verdict of the ballot box. Constitutional courts provide the necessary means to outflank majorities and nullify their votes. The judiciary is the liberals' weapon of choice. Democracy and the rule of law are undermined while the culture is altered in ways the electorate would never choose." — Robert Bork, Coercing Virtue, Washington D.C.: The Aei Press, 2003, pp. 5-6 {Even in the title to this book, Bork tacitly admits the left is doing right or virtuous things. He is a bitter rejected Reagan Supreme Court nominee, who resents the fact he was not able to invoke his own brand of judicial activism on the Court, by claiming the majority must always rule even when wrong.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened what where I was flying made what I was doing spying." — Francis Gary Power, reconnaissance pilot {shot down and} captured by the Soviets {during the Eisenhower administration}
{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.}
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Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma
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EVENTS
● 344 B.C.E. - Aristotle dies of indigestion.
● 1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
● 1263 - The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.
● 1535 - First complete English translation of the Bible printed in Zurich. If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for America.
● 1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
● 1552 - Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
● 1780 - John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
● 1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
● 1800 - Birth of Nat Turner, leader of the only effective, sustained slave revolt (August 1831) in U.S. history. Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation by whites prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves.
● 1803 - Sam Adams, American patriot brewer, dies, Boston. A major leader and activist in the American Revolution, he led protest against the Stamp Act, founded the Sons of Liberty, and was the principal organizer of the Boston Tea Party, member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
● 1809 - Birth of (Louis-) Charles Delescluze. French revolutionary figure involved in the uprisings of 1830 and 1848; an important leader in the Paris Commune (1871).
● 1835 - The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
● 1836 - The British naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England, aboard the HMS Beagle, ending a five-year surveying expedition of the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Visiting such diverse places as Brazil, the Galapagos Islands, and New Zealand, Darwin acquired an intimate knowledge of the flora, fauna, wildlife, and geology of many lands. This information is invaluable in the development of his theory of evolution, first put forth in his groundbreaking scientific work of 1859, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
● 1851 - The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.
● 1853 - Austria enacts law forbidding Jews from owning land.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Saltville - Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
● 1869 - Birth of Indian independence fighter, pacifist theorist, Mohandas Gandhi.
● 1871 - Mormon leader Brigham Young arrested for polygamy.
● 1883 - Birth of Louis Laurent (1883-1972), Paris. Libertarian militant and revolutionary trade unionist, member of the Revolutionary Anarchist Union and the Anarchist Federation of Languedoc in the 30s. Worked with league of conscientious objectors and the CGT-SR (revolutionary trade union).
● 1889 - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
● 1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed. {His wife would essentially take over everyday duties of the president. It is my belief that Nancy Reagan did the same thing some time in the 1980's.}
● 1924 - Twenty-four Japanese radicals and trade unionists bayoneted to death near Tokyo.
● 1924 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations. {Japan was a not party to the protocol.}
● 1928 - The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
● 1929 - Sheriff's deputies in Marion, N. Car. shoot textile workers in the back; six are killed, 20 others wounded.
● 1931 - Unemployed in Glasgow, Scotland loot food shops; 55 arrested.
● 1934 - American Federation of Labor takes official stand in support of the six hour day, five day work week.
● 1935 - Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
● 1937 - Samuel R. Caldwell becomes the first person in the United States to be arrested on a marijuana charge.
● 1938 - Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews.
● 1941 - World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
● 1942 - First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago.
● 1944 - Poland - The 63-day Warsaw revolt against Nazi occupation is finally crushed by German forces, at the cost of 250,000 Polish lives. Organized by Polish General Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski on August 1 -- the same day the Red Army reached the Vistula River -- the uprising was a Polish attempt to assist in the Allied liberation of their country. But Stalin, knowing Soviet capture of Poland was a given, delayed his army's advance while Nazis purged Polish society of its militant elements. The Soviet army lurked along Warsaw's borders during the two-month ordeal, and Stalin strongly discouraged any outside assistance to the Polish rebels from the Western allies.
● 1947 - Birth of Ward Churchill, radical Native American author and activist.
● 1958 - Guinea declares itself independent from France.
● 1966 - Eight arrested for heckling British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in church regarding Vietnam War, Brighton, Britain.
● 1967 - Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice.
● 1968 - Tlatelolco Massacre. At the Plaza of Three Cultures, after nine weeks of student strikes, the Mexican Army ambushes some 15,000 protesting students, killing close to 300 and arresting several thousand.
● 1970 - Environmental Protection Agency established.
● 1970 - A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
● 1985 - National Center of Health reports that suicide rate on Wind River Reservation in Wyoming is almost 20 times higher than national average.
● 1985 - Actor Rock Hudson dies of AIDS. A watershed event in helping the American public realize the scope of the AIDS epidemic, which the Reagan Administration had completely ignored.
● 1986 - Congress overrides Pres. Reagan's veto and passes South African sanctions. This is a culmination of efforts by Trans-Africa's Randall Robinson, Rep. Mickey Leland, and others, begun almost two years earlier with Robinson's arrest in front of the South African Embassy in Washington, DC. {The Dark Prince, Darth Cheney, is in Congress actively trying to stop the sanctions.}
● 1990 - Thirty protesters delay old-growth tree cutting on sacred Mount Graham, Arizona; seven arrested.
● 1990 - A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.
● 1991 - Henry Le Fèvre dies. French vegetarian, pacifist, anarchist, and publisher.
● 1992 - The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
● 1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
● 1996 - An AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
● 2000 - Death of Pat Pottle, activist and printer of peace. Wales.
● 2001 - The NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11.
● 2002 - The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
● 2004 - American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.
● 2005 - Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
● 2006 - Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide. {While not Amish himself, he knew the victims, he was their milk delivery man.}
● 2007 - President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
BIRTHS
● 1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
● 1538 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)
● 1644 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)
● 1722 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (d. 1776)
● 1737 - Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
● 1768 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854)
● 1798 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)
● 1800 - Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (d. 1831)
● 1828 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896)
● 1832 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)
● 1847 - Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (d. 1934)
● 1851 - Ferdinand Foch, French soldier (d. 1929)
● 1852 - William Ramsay, Scottish chemist (d. 1916)
● 1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Indian politician and spiritual leader (Father of the India) . (d. 1948)
● 1871 - Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
● 1873 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (d. 1924)
● 1873 - Plum Warner, English cricketer (d. 1963)
● 1879 - Wallace Stevens, American poet (d. 1955)
● 1882 - Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander (d. 1945)
● 1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
● 1895 - Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)
● 1901 - Alice Prin, French singer and artist (d. 1953)
● 1902 - Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (d. 1965)
● 1904 - Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)
● 1904 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (d.1966)
● 1907 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
● 1911 - Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)
● 1913 - Karl Miller, German footballer (d. 1967)
● 1914 - Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist (d. 1952)
● 1914 - Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master (d.1998)
● 1917 - Christian de Duve, English-born biologist, Nobel laureate
● 1917 - Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
● 1921 - Albert Scott Crossfield, American test pilot (d. 2006)
● 1921 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
● 1926 - Jan Morris, English writer
● 1928 - George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
● 1928 - Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian
● 1929 - Moses Gunn, African-American actor (d. 1993)
● 1930 - Dave Barrett, Premier of British Columbia
● 1932 - Maury Wills, American baseball player
● 1933 - Phill Niblock, American composer, filmmaker and videographer
● 1934 - Earl Wilson, American baseball player (d. 2005)
● 1935 - Omar Sivori, Argentine football player (d. 2005)
● 1936 - Dick Barnett, American basketball player
● 1937 - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., American attorney (d. 2005)
● 1938 - Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor
● 1938 - Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (d. 1983)
● 1943 - Franklin Rosemont, American artist
● 1945 - Don McLean, American songwriter
● 1946 - Gen.Sonthi Boonyaratglin, President of Council for National Security and Commander-in-Chief of Royal Thai Army
● 1948 - Avery Brooks, American actor
● 1948 - Trevor Brooking, English footballer
● 1948 - Donna Karan, American fashion designer
● 1948 - Chris LeDoux, American musician and rodeo performer (d. 2005)
● 1949 - Richard Hell, American musician
● 1949 - Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
● 1950 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (d. 1998)
● 1950 - Ian McNeice, English actor
● 1950 - Michael Rutherford, English musician (Genesis)
● 1951 - Sting, English musician and actor
● 1951 - Romina Power, Italian singer
● 1952 - Wahed Wafa, Afghan singer
● 1954 - Lorraine Bracco, American actress
● 1955 - Phil Oakey, English singer (The Human League)
● 1957 - Wade Dooley, English rugby union player
● 1960 - Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1960 - Robbie Nevil, American singer and songwriter
● 1962 - Sigtryggur Baldursson, Icelandic drummer (The Sugarcubes)
● 1962 - Aziz M. Osman, Malaysian actor and director
● 1964 - Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player
● 1966 - Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2000)
● 1967 - Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
● 1967 - Bud Gaugh, American musician (Sublime)
● 1967 - Gillian Welch, American singer and songwriter
● 1968 - Victoria Derbyshire, British radio presenter
● 1968 - Jeff Martin, Canadian singer/songwriter
● 1968 - Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player
● 1968 - Glen Wesley, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1969 - Mitch English, American actor
● 1969 - Damon Gough, English singer
● 1970 - Colin Rivas, Galician artist
● 1970 - Kelly Ripa, American actress
● 1970 - Eddie Guardado, American baseball relief pitcher
● 1970 - Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress
● 1971 - James Root, American guitarist (Slipknot)
● 1971 - Tiffany, American singer
● 1972 - Tara Dawn Holland, Miss America 1997
● 1973 - Lene, Norwegian singer (Aqua)
● 1973 - Efren Ramirez, American actor
● 1973 - Scott Schoeneweis, American baseball player
● 1973 - Verka Serduchka, Ukranian drag artist
● 1973 - Maria Wetterstrand, Swedish politician
● 1973 - Proof, American rapper (D12) (d. 2006)
● 1974 - Simon Gregson, British actor
● 1974 - Michelle Krusiec, American actress
● 1974 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (d. 2006)
● 1974 - Sam Roberts, Canadian singer and songwriter
● 1974 - Paul Teutul Jr., co-star of American Chopper
● 1976 - Mandisa, American singer
● 1976 - Jason Dodson, American political consultant and teacher of esotericism
● 1977 - Leon del Muerte, American guitarist
● 1978 - Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
● 1979 - Francisco Fonseca, Mexican footballer
● 1979 - Maja Ivarsson, lead singer, The Sounds
● 1981 - Luke Wilkshire, Australian soccer player
● 1981 - Toro, Taiwanese singer
● 1982 - George Pettit, Canadian singer (Alexisonfire)
● 1986 - Camilla Belle, American actress
● 1987 - Dia Frampton, American singer (Meg & Dia)
● 1987 - Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
● 1990 - Dean Bouzanis, Australian soccer player
● 1993 - Tara Lynne Barr, American actress
DEATHS
● 939 - Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
● 1559 - Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)
● 1626 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
● 1629 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
● 1629 - Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
● 1708 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
● 1724 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
● 1746 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
● 1764 - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
● 1775 - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
● 1780 - John André, British Army officer (executed) (b. 1750)
● 1782 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
● 1786 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)
● 1803 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
● 1804 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (b. 1725)
● 1817 - Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
● 1850 - Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
● 1853 - François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
● 1927 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
● 1938 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
● 1947 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
● 1962 - Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
● 1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
● 1971 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)
● 1973 - Paul Hartman, American actor (b. 1904)
● 1973 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
● 1974 - Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1929)
● 1975 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)
● 1981 - Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
● 1981 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)
● 1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
● 1987 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)
● 1987 - Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (b. 1906)
● 1988 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
● 1994 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
● 1996 - Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
● 1998 - Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
● 1998 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (b. 1924)
● 1999 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)
● 2001 - Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)
● 2002 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
● 2003 - John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
● 2005 - Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
● 2005 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
● 2005 - August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
● 2006 - Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
● 2006 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
● 2006 - Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
● 2007 - Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Memorial of Guardian Angels
● St. Leodegar
● Roman festivals - First day of the Ludi Augustales to celebrate the recovery by emperor August of Roman standards from the Parthians
● French Republican Calendar - Pomme de terre (Potato) Day, eleventh day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Guinea - Independence Day (from France, 1958)
● India - Gandhi Jayanti (birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, 1869)
● International Day of Non-Violence
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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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