Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Happiness "Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little." — Lady Marguerite Blessington
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bashing the Clintons "To put it plainly, Bill Clinton is a sociopath, a liar, a sexual predator, a man with recklessly bad judgment and a scofflaw.
Clinton has the classic symptoms of the sociopath. That is a defective human being unable to relate to or feel genuine empathy for another human being. Though often skilled at manipulating people, the true sociopath is 100 percent self-centered. Other human beings are just objects to be manipulated to achieve the sociopath's goals." — Charley Reese, "Clinton exhibits all the classic symptoms of the sociopath he is," Orlando Sentinel, 8-23-98.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president. And that one word is 'to be prepared.'" — 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. {It would also appear counting isn't a strong suit either.}
{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 Milky Road
Credit & Copyright: Larry Landolfi
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1648 - American Indian Battle of Tippycart
● 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
● 1781 - Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
● 1803 - The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
● 1818 - The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length; Much to the ever-lasting chagrin of Point Roberts, Wash.
● 1824 - William H. Seward and Frances Adeline Miller wed.
● 1827 - Battle of Navarino - a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece.
● 1832 - Treaty of Pontotoc Creek - Chickasaw Nation cedes northern Mississippi and moves west of Mississippi River.
● 1873 - Birth of Nellie McClung, author and women's rights advocate.
● 1883 - Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
● 1887 - Birth of John Reed, radical journalist, author of "Ten Days That Shook the World." Chronicled Mexican and Soviet revolutions. Portland, Oregon.
● 1905 - Great general strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days.
● 1910 - The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
● 1926 - Death of Eugene Debs, U.S. socialist anti-militarist. His "radical" reforms included an eight-hour workday, pensions, workman's compensation, sick leave, social security--commonplace today. While serving a ten-year prison sentence for opposing U.S. entry into World War I, he ran for president from his jail cell and got a million votes in 1920.
● 1935 - The Long March ends
● 1941 - World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.
● 1944 - Beginning of Guatemalan revolution against U.S.-backed dictator Pres. Ubico.
● 1944 - The Soviet army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
● 1944 - Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
● 1944 - General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
● 1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
● 1951 - The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma
● 1952 - Governor Evelyn Baring declared a state of emergency in Kenya and began arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
● 1953 - Jomo Kenyatta and five other Mau Mau leaders are refused an appeal of their prison terms.
● 1962 - Crew of Everyman III illegally addresses private meeting opposing nuclear testing, Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
● 1963 - Between 3,000 and 5,000 rally at Seattle's Garfield High School in support of an open housing ordinance for the city.
● 1967 - A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.
● 1968 - Gonzalo Arias arrested for Los Encartelados demonstration against Franco regime. Madrid, Spain.
● 1968 - Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
● 1971 - The Nepal stock exchange collapses.
● 1973 - In the "Saturday Night Massacre," President Nixon's Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, announces Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox is dismissed. In addition, he reports, Attorney General Richardson has resigned, and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus had been fired, both for refusing to dismiss Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork. {Bork receives payment in the form of a Supreme Court nomination from Ronald Reagan but is rejected by Senate.} Congress introduces over 20 impeachment resolutions as protest breaks out across the country. These are lengthened when he claims two of the nine tapes (which Cox was after) don't exist -- and still further when an 18 1/2 minute erasure gap is discovered in one tape.
● 1973 - The Sydney Opera House opens.
● 1976 - The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, LA. Seventy-eight passengers and crew died; only 18 people aboard the ferry survived.
● 1977 - A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray.
● 1979 - The John F Kennedy library is opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
● 1981 - Three members of Weather Underground arrested for armored truck robbery.
● 1982 - During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem at least 63 and probably many more people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
● 1983 - The Mashantucket Pequot of Connecticut are federally recognized, 300 years after white colonists virtually eradicate the tribe.
● 1984 - Pres. Reagan vetoes bill to improve Federal health care for American Indian reservations.
● 1985 - France - Libertarian songster Jean-Roger Caussimon dies.
● 1990 - Rallies against mobilization for the Gulf War in 22 U.S. cities.
● 1991 - The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.
● 1993 - Women In Black attacked by paramilitaries during weekly anti-war vigil, Belgrade, Serbia.
● 1994 - U.S. activist Jennifer Harbury initiates new hunger strike at U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City to force disclosure of her disappeared husband's fate.
● 2004 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is sworn in as the President of Indonesia.
● 2004 - The first Ubuntu Linux distribution is released.
BIRTHS
● 1463 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512)
● 1496 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550)
● 1616 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
● 1620 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
● 1632 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
● 1656 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
● 1660 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723)
● 1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland (d. 1766)
● 1711 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
● 1719 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772)
● 1759 - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
● 1780 - Pauline Bonaparte, princess Borghese, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1825)
● 1784 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
● 1785 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
● 1808 - Karl Andree, German geographer (d. 1875)
● 1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
● 1819 - Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (d. 1897)
● 1822 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (d. 1896)
● 1832 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894)
● 1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
● 1858 - John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
● 1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
● 1874 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
● 1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
● 1889 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965)
● 1890 - Jelly Roll Morton, American composer (d. 1941)
● 1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
● 1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (d. 1978)
● 1893 - Charley Chase, American comedian (d. 1940)
● 1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
● 1895 - Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969)
● 1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
● 1900 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (d. 1974)
● 1904 - Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986)
● 1904 - Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
● 1905 - Ellery Queen, pseudonym of two American writers (d. 1982)
● 1907 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001)
● 1909 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
● 1913 - Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (d. 1998)
● 1914 - Fayard Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2006)
● 1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973)
● 1918 - Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
● 1922 - John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
● 1925 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (d. 2007)
● 1925 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (d. 2002)
● 1925 - Roger Hanin, French actor
● 1931 - Richard Caliguiri, American politician (d. 1988)
● 1931 - Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
● 1932 - Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
● 1932 - William Christopher, American actor (M*A*S*H)
● 1934 - Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
● 1934 - Michiko, empress of Japan
● 1935 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
● 1937 - Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
● 1937 - Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer
● 1938 - Iain MacMillan, Abbey Road photographer (d. 2006)
● 1940 - Kathy Kirby, British singer
● 1940 - Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States
● 1942 - Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
● 1942 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1943 - Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano
● 1944 - David Mancuso, American disc jockey
● 1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1946 - Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
● 1949 - Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
● 1950 - Tom Petty, American musician
● 1951 - Claudio Ranieri, Italian football player and manager
● 1951 - Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
● 1953 - Keith Hernandez, American baseball player
● 1953 - Bill Nunn, American actor {Played Will Robinson, as in "Danger Will Robinson," on Lost in Space.}
● 1954 - Steve Orich, orchestrator
● 1955 - Aaron Pryor, American boxer
● 1955 - David Profumo, English novelist
● 1956 - Danny Boyle, English film director
● 1957 - Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
● 1958 - Dave Finlay, Northern Irish professional wrestler
● 1958 - Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author
● 1958 - Scott Hall, American professional wrestler
● 1958 - Mark King, English musician
● 1958 - Dave Krieg, American football player
● 1958 - Viggo Mortensen, American actor
● 1958 - Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
● 1960 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
● 1961 - Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
● 1961 - Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
● 1962 - Dave Wong, Hong Kong/Taiwanese singer-songwriter
● 1963 - Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut
● 1963 - Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
● 1965 - Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player
● 1965 - William Zabka, American actor
● 1966 - Allan Donald, South African cricketer
● 1966 - Stefan Raab, German entertainer
● 1966 - Patrick J. Volkerding, Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution
● 1966 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006)
● 1967 - Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer
● 1967 - Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
● 1969 - Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1969 - Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1969 - Lambros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
● 1970 - Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler
● 1970 - Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author
● 1971 - Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
● 1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper
● 1972 - Will Greenwood, England rugby union player
● 1976 - Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
● 1977 - Matt Jansen, English footballer
● 1978 - Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
● 1978 - Paul Wilson, Irish bass player (Snow Patrol)
● 1979 - John Krasinski, American actor
● 1979 - Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
● 1980 - Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player
● 1981 - Willis McGahee, American football player
● 1981 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
● 1982 - Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
● 1982 - Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi football player
● 1983 - Alex Nackman, musician
● 1983 - Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor
● 1983 - Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
● 1984 - Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
● 1984 - Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player for Irish rugby team
● 1985 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress
● 1985 - James Sutton, British racing driver
● 1988 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer
DEATHS
● 460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress
● 1139 - Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
● 1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
● 1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
● 1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
● 1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
● 1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
● 1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
● 1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
● 1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerilla (b. 1821)
● 1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
● 1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
● 1907 - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
● 1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
● 1926 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
● 1935 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
● 1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
● 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
● 1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
● 1968 - Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
● 1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
● 1977 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:
● Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)
● Steve Gaines (b. 1949)
● Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948)
● 1983 - Peter Dudley, British actor
● 1983 - Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915)
● 1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
● 1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
● 1987 - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
● 1988 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922)
● 1989 - Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
● 1990 - Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
● 1993 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
● 1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
● 1995 - Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942)
● 2001 - Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949)
● 2002 - Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
● 2002 - Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
● 2003 - Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
● 2004 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934)
● 2005 - Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)
● 2005 - Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. 1941)
● 2005 - Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)
● 2006 - Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Christian:
● St. Andrew of Crete
● Bahá'í Faith - Holy Day - Birth of the Báb
● French Republican Calendar - Orge (Barley) Day, twenty-ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Sweetest Day - USA
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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