Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Hate "A man who lives not by what he loves but what he hates is a sick man." — Archibald MacLeish {That being said it is the love of peace that drives my hate of war; the love of country and justice that drives my hate of the war criminals known as the Bush administration.}
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Demonizing Democrats or Don't Kill All the Liberals "The majority of the voters in the state of Texas support President George W. Bush and his policies. The Majority of our congressional delegation does not, and that's just not fair." — Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R-TX). April Castro, "Texas lawmakers settle redistricting feud," Associated Press, 10-10-03
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "What a waste it is lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." — 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. {This assumes the presence of a mind in the first place.}
{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
Will the Universe End in a Big Rip?
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Lynette Cook
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1421 - Annihilation of Adamites, a millenialist militant sect trying to establish God's kingdom on earth -- where the chosen would never work and love would be free, in Bohemia. Called their church Paradise; condemned marriage and stripped naked while engaged in common worship. Similar groups appeared in Europe several times in later ages.
● 1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg
● 1520 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan
● 1600 - Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate, who in effect rule Japan until the mid-Nineteenth century.
● 1774 - First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
● 1789 - Martial Law imposed in France.
● 1797 - In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
● 1805 - Battle of Trafalgar, where Nelson defeats Spain and France, establishes British naval supremacy (i.e., terrorism, colonies, plunder) for the next century, then dies.
Alternately:
● 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - a British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signaled the virtual end of French maritime power and left Britain navally unchallenged until the twentieth century.
● 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at Ulm, reaping Napoleon over 30,000 prisoners and inflicting 10,000 casualties on the losers. Ulm was considered to be one of Napoleon's finest hours.
● 1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
● 1835 - Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison narrowly escapes death after being attacked by a Boston mob infuriated by his pronouncement that "all men are created equal."
● 1837 - At Fort Payton, Florida, 75 Seminole chiefs are captured and imprisoned by U.S. during peace talks under a flag of truce.
● 1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
● 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff - Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
● 1865 - George William Gordon, Jamaican national hero, wrongly arrested, sentenced to death.
● 1867 - Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty - Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.
● 1879 - Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
● 1895 - The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
● 1902 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
● 1916 - Socialist leader Friedrich Adler kills Austrian prime minister.
● 1921 - President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
● 1929 - Ursula LeGuin lives, Berkeley, California. Science fiction/fantasy novelist, anarchist, feminist.
● 1933 - Scottsboro Trial date set for November 27 in Decatur, Alabama by Judge W. W. Callahan, a Ku Klux Klan member. Since April, Decatur had been scene of Negro terrorization - one lynched, two murdered, one railroaded to death sentence on faked rape charge.
● 1941 - 7000 Serbs were shot in Kragujevac, Serbia by Nazi Germans
● 1944 - The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
● 1945 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
● 1945 - Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón married actress Evita.
● 1947 - 21 die as a fire destroys an asylum in Hoff, Germany.
● 1950 - Communist Chinese forces occupy Tibet.
● 1954 - Arch Hindman, Executive Secretary of the Indiana State Athletic Commission, rules that boxers and wrestlers must swear, under oath, that they are not Communists before being licensed to fight in Indiana.
● 1959 - In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
● 1959 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
● 1965 - Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
● 1966 - Aberfan disaster: A coal tip falls on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren
● 1967 - Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people were arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
● 1967 - 647 arrested, dozens injured as 100,000 march on, encircle, levitate, and try unsuccessfully to exorcise evil spirits from the Pentagon to protest Vietnam War.
● 1969 - Beat writer Jack Kerouac dies, age 47, of abdominal bleeding caused by drinking, St. Petersburg, Florida.
● 1969 - A coup d'état in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power.
● 1970 - Argentinian FAR guerillas destroy police cars with flame throwers.
● 1973 - John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
● 1977 - The European Patent Institute is founded
● 1978 - Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
● 1981 - Pacific Sky sails without uranium after seven-day dockers' strike, Darwin, Australia.
● 1983 - In first public action of the new Seattle Nonviolent Action Group (SNAG), 12 people blockade Boeing Cruise Missile plant in Kent all day. None are arrested.
● 1983 - The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. {This translates into a speed of light in a vacuum of 299,792,458 meters per second.}
● 1986 - In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he was released in August 1991).
● 1987 - Former Miss America Bess Myerson is arrested on charges of bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud, all involving an alimony-fixing scandal. She is later found not guilty.
● 1990 - The first Apple Day, in Covent Garden, London.
● 1994 - North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
● 1994 - In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
● 1995 - Dayton Agreement The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
● 2002 - Violence in Badlapur, suburb of Mumbai created a tension in the city resulted in a lot of property damage injuring 4 people.
● 2003 - Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
BIRTHS
● 1449 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (d. 1478)
● 1527 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578)
● 1581 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
● 1650 - Jean Bart, French admiral (d. 1702)
● 1660 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (d. 1734)
● 1675 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
● 1687 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
● 1712 - Sir James Steuart, British economist (d. 1780)
● 1725 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801)
● 1757 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
● 1762 - Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (d. 1818)
● 1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet (d. 1834)
● 1775 - Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (d. 1844)
● 1790 - Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (d. 1869)
● 1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)
● 1847 - Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian writer (d. 1906)
● 1851 - George Ulyett, English cricketer (d. 1898)
● 1881 - Eduard Heine, German mathematician (b. 1821)
● 1895 - Edna Purviance, American actress (d. 1958)
● 1904 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (d. 1967)
● 1906 - Lillian Asplund, last American Titanic survivor (d. 2006)
● 1907 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
● 1907 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (b. 1824)
● 1912 - Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997)
● 1912 - Alfredo Pián, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
● 1914 - Martin Gardner, American mathematician and writer
● 1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (d. 1993)
● 1921 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, British composer (d. 2006)
● 1922 - Liliane de Bettencourt, heir to L'Oreal
● 1924 - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer (d. 2003)
● 1924 - Joyce Randolph, American actress
● 1925 - Louis Robichaud, Canadian premier of New Brunswick (d. 2005)
● 1928 - Whitey Ford, American baseball player
● 1929 - Ursula K. Le Guin, American author
● 1938 - Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2001)
● 1940 - Geoff Boycott, English cricketer
● 1940 - Manfred Mann, English musician
● 1941 - Steve Cropper, American musician
● 1942 - Elvin Bishop, American musician
● 1942 - Judy Sheindlin, American judge ("Judge Judy")
● 1942 - Allan Grice, Australian racing driver
● 1943 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (d. 1970)
● 1945 - Everett McGill, American actor
● 1946 - Jim Hill, American sportscaster
● 1946 - Lux Interior, American singer (The Cramps)
● 1946 - Lee Loughnane, American musician
● 1948 - Shaye Cohen, Historian and Professor at Harvard University
● 1949 - Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1971)
● 1949 - Mike Keenan, Canadian ice hockey coach
● 1949 - Benjamin Netanyahu, 9th Prime Minister of Israel
● 1950 - Ronald McNair, American astronaut (d. 1986)
● 1952 - Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer
● 1952 - Allen Hoey, American poet and novelist
● 1952 - Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (d. 1990)
● 1953 - Keith Green, American musician (d. 1982)
● 1953 - Peter Mandelson, British politician
● 1953 - Charlotte Caffey, American musician (The Go-Go's)
● 1954 - Brian Tobin, Canadian premier of Newfoundland
● 1955 - Rich Mullins, American musician (d. 1997)
● 1956 - Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer
● 1957 - Julian Cope, English musician and writer
● 1957 - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel Prize laueate
● 1957 - Steve Lukather, American musician
● 1959 - Rose McDowall, Scottish musician
● 1959 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
● 1962 - David Campese, Australian rugby union footballer
● 1964 - Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd, The Who)
● 1967 - Paul Ince, English footballer
● 1968 - Melora Walters, American actress
● 1969 - Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, crown prince of Bahrain
● 1969 - Derrick Carter, DJ and Producer
● 1969 - Mo Lewis, American football linebacker
● 1971 - Damien Martyn, Australian cricketer
● 1971 - Jade Jagger, Socialite and Jewelery Designer
● 1971 - Nick Oliveri, American musician
● 1971 - Paul Telfer (footballer), Scottish footballer
● 1972 - Felicity Andersen, Australian actress
● 1972 - Matthew Friedberger, American musician (The Fiery Furnaces)
● 1972 - Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law
● 1973 - Lera Auerbach, Russian composer
● 1973 - Charlie Lowell, American Musician
● 1975 - Toby Hall, American baseball player
● 1975 - Hilário, Portuguese footballer
● 1976 - Jeremy Miller, American TV actor
● 1976 - Lavinia Miloşovici, Romanian gymnast
● 1976 - Mélanie Turgeon, French Canadian alpine skier
● 1978 - Will Estes, American actor
● 1978 - Joey Harrington, American football player
● 1979 - Khalil Greene, American baseball player
● 1979 - Gabe Gross, American baseball player
● 1980 - Brian Pittman, American musician (Relient K)
● 1981 - Nemanja Vidić, Serbian footballer
● 1982 - James White, American basketball player
● 1982 - Matt Dallas, American Actor
● 1983 - Oscar A. Guerrero A.K.A Ge-Roe, Motha fucken Gee From L.A.Ninette Tayeb, Israeli singer
● 1984 - Kieran Richardson, English footballer
● 1984 - Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, French Canadian short track speed skater
● 1986 - Alex Kew, British actor
● 1986 - Christopher Uckermann, Mexican actor and singer in the Latin pop group RBD
● 1990 - Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player
DEATHS
● 1125 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
● 1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
● 1266 - Birger jarl, Swedish statesman and founder of Stockholm (b. 1210)
● 1422 - King Charles VI of France (b. 1368)
● 1500 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
● 1505 - Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
● 1558 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (b. 1484)
● 1600 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
● 1623 - William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
● 1662 - Henry Lawes, English composer (b. 1595)
● 1687 - Sir Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606)
● 1765 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
● 1775 - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
● 1777 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
● 1805 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1758)
● 1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (b. 1794)
● 1873 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
● 1896 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
● 1904 - Isabelle Eberhardt, explorer and writer who spent a lot of time in North Africa (b. 1877)
● 1931 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer (b. 1862)
● 1940 - William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
● 1944 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
● 1965 - Bill Black, American musician (b. 1926)
● 1969 - Jack Kerouac, American novelist (b. 1922)
● 1969 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
● 1973 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (b. 1932)
● 1975 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887)
● 1978 - Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (b. 1895)
● 1980 - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
● 1984 - François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
● 1986 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922)
● 1990 - Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian spiritual teacher and social revolutionary (b. 1921)
● 1992 - Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
● 1995 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (b. 1967)
● 1995 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b. 1919)
● 1995 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1916)
● 2003 - Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951)
● 2003 - Luis A. Ferré, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1940)
● 2003 - Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916)
● 2003 - Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
● 2005 - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (b. 1989)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Hilarion
● St. John of Bridlington
● St. Ursula
● French Republican Calendar - Tonneau (Barrel) Day, thirtieth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Apple Day
● Republic of China - Overseas Chinese Day
● Trafalgar Day — celebrated throughout much of the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th Century.
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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