Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Hope "The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler that the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination." — Marian Zimmer Bradley
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Inquisition "I must say, I don't mind reliving the greatest night of my life over and over and over again. I was dancing a jig. I was bouncing off the walls." — Ann Coulter, describing the night Jim Moody, Linda Tripp's attorney, and Coulter's friend George Conway brought the Monica Lewinsky—Tripp tape recordings to Coulter's apartment in Washington. David Daley, "Spin on the Right, Ann Coulter: Light's All Shining on Her," Hartford Courant, 6-25-99.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is and island that is right here." — 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. {Looks like History and Geography weren't his 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
Victoria Crater on Mars
Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 4004 B.C.E. - The Universe is created according to Bishop James Ussher. {This was quoted by William Jennings Bryant during the Scopes "Monkey Trial."}
● 362 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
● 794 - Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
● 1236 - Lithuanians and Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword at the Battle of Schaulen/Saule.
● 1383 - The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder began when King Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
● 1575 - Foundation of Aguascalientes.
● 1692 - Last hanging for witchcraft in the United States.
● 1746 - The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
● 1784 - Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
● 1792 - French Revolution: the first Republic is proclaimed.
● 1797 - One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
● 1836 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
● 1844 - The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipated the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
● 1851 - French writer Joseph Dejacque sentenced to two years in prison for a volume of poetry, "Lazarennes - Socialist Fables and Poems." Escaped to London.
● 1853 - Riot in Oakland, Calif. to protest give-away of Port.
● 1854 - Birth of African American songwriter James Bland, Flushing, NY. His "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" was selected in 1940 as the state song of Virginia, the state's legislators little knowing the identity and race of its composer.
● 1861 - First transcontinental telegraph line in operation.
● 1866 - Paraguay: Battle of Curupaytí against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
● 1867 - Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
● 1875 - First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
● 1877 - The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
● 1882 - Anarcho-syndicalist Jean Renaud sets off a bomb at the restaurant Bellecour (l'Assommoir) in Lyon, France, then flees to Geneva. Another anarchist, Antoine Cyvoct, was convicted for the attack and sentenced to death, despite the court's failure to prove he was responsible. His sentence was commuted to forced labor. Renaud was never caught; Cyvoct was finally amnestied in 1898, and the same year nominated for the legislative elections "to draw attention to the cases of the anarchists remaining in prison."
● 1894 - Eleven French anarchist convicts killed in retaliation for a prison uprising the previous day, in which a prison supervisor who had killed the anarchist convict Francois Briens the previous month was murdered in revenge.
● 1895 - In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
● 1899 - Birth of Arthur Lehning. German anarchist. Founder, in December 1919, with Rudolf Rocker and Augustin Souchy, of the FAUD. Establishes and curator of the monumental "Bakunin Files," with the International Institute of Social History of Amsterdam, in 1971.
● 1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
● 1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
● 1918 - Flu epidemic strikes one fourth of all Americans, killing half a million.
● 1919 - Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, communist, lives, Persia. Concerned with feminism, the battle of the sexes, the individual search for wholeness.
● 1921 - Birth of George Brassens, Sote, France. Anarchist militant, nonconformist poet.
● 1926 - J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
● 1934 - Pretty Boy Floyd killed. A folk hero to the people of Oklahoma who saw him as a "Sagebrush Robin Hood," stealing from rich banks to help the poor eat by buying them groceries and tearing up their mortgages during the robberies.
● 1935 - Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
● 1936 - Birth of Bobby Seale, Dallas, Texas. Radical political activist and co-founder, with Huey Newton, of the Black Panther Party.
● 1943 - World War II: Kassel: RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany
● 1946 - Forty four British sailors die when two British warships hit mines off the coast of Albania.
● 1949 - Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear bomb.
● 1951 - Five thousand U.S. soldiers exposed to radiation by above-ground nuclear weapons test, Nevada.
● 1953 - Laos gains independence from France.
● 1956 - Russian troops begin to advance on Budapest; students raise 16 demands. Workers demonstrate solidarity with Polish workers.
● 1956 - A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
● 1957 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
● 1960 - Independence of Mali from France.
● 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
● 1962 - Nelson Mandela's treason trial begins.
● 1963 - More than 200,000 students boycott schools in Chicago to protest de facto segregation.
● 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
● 1964 - Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
● 1965 - End of the Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan.
● 1968 - Over 300,000 protesters mark International Antiwar Day in Japan.
● 1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
● 1970 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resign as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
● 1972 - U.S. Navy charges 22 black seamen, but no whites, in conjunction with interracial fighting aboard the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk on October 12.
● 1972 - Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime.
● 1975 - Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, is given a "general" discharge by the Air Force after publicly declaring his homosexuality. In 1979, after winning a much publicized case, his discharge is upgraded to "honorable." Nine years later, age 44, he dies & is buried at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., with a tombstone that reads - "A gay Vietnam Veteran... they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
● 1976 - Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
● 1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
● 1981 - The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
● 1981 - The TGV railway service Paris-Lyon is inaugurated.
● 1983 - Capping a week of protests, over two million people in six European cities march against U.S. deployment of cruise and Pershing nuclear missiles. Protesters include - 1.2 million Germans, including 180,000 at Bonn; a 64 mile human chain between Stuttgart and New Ulm (and Hamburg, W. Berlin); hundreds of thousands in London; 350,000 Rome; 100,000 Vienna; 25,000 Paris; 20,000 Stockholm; 4000 Dublin; 140 sites in U.S.
● 1983 - Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons.
● 1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
● 1986 - WNBC traffic reporter Jane Dornacker is killed when the helicopter she is riding in stalls and crashes into the Hudson River.
● 1987 - The pinnacle rock "Gendarme" falls at Seneca Rocks.
● 1988 - Lubicon Lake Cree reach preliminary agreement with Alberta to settle long-standing land claim. Unfortunately, the clear-cut logging the agreement was designed to stop has continued with provincial approval.
● 1991 - Dimitrios Arhondonis, metropolitan of Chalcedon elected 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch as Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Orthodox church.
● 1999 - Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
● 2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
● 2005 - Crash of Bellview Airlines Flight 210 in Nigeria kills all 117 on board.
● 2005 - The first phase of Transantiago, the new public transport system of Santiago de Chile is implemented.
● 2006 - A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
BIRTHS
● 1071 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (d. 1126)
● 1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
● 1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
● 1558 - Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
● 1592 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)
● 1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
● 1689 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
● 1692 - Elizabeth Farnese, second queen of King Philip V of Spain (d. 1766)
● 1729 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798)
● 1770 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831)
● 1809 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
● 1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
● 1818 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (d. 1894)
● 1821 - Collis Potter Huntington, American railroad executive (d. 1900)
● 1844 - Louis Riel, Canadian Metis Political Leader (d. 1885)
● 1858 - German Empress Augusta Victoria, wife of German Emperor Wilhelm II (d. 1921)
● 1865 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1943)
● 1870 - Alfred Douglas, English partner of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945)
● 1870 - Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
● 1873 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
● 1881 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
● 1886 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (d. 1970)
● 1887 - John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920)
● 1891 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor
● 1894 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (d. 1961)
● 1896 - Charles Glen King, American biochimist (d. 1988)
● 1900 - James Hall, American actor
● 1903 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
● 1903 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1952)
● 1904 - Constance Bennett, American actress (d. 1965)
● 1905 - Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1969)
● 1907 - Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (d. 1967)
● 1908 - John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)
● 1912 - Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000)
● 1913 - Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997)
● 1913 - Robert Capa, American war photographer (born in Hungary) (d. 1954)
● 1913 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2002)
● 1917 - Joan Fontaine, American actress
● 1918 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (d. 1976)
● 1919 - Doris Lessing, British writer
● 1920 - Timothy Leary, American writer and professor (d. 1996)
● 1921 - Georges Brassens, French singer (d. 1981)
● 1921 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
● 1923 - Bert Trautmann, German former footballer
● 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg, American painter, sculptor, and graphic artist
● 1925 - Dory Previn, American songwriter
● 1927 - Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (d. 2005)
● 1929 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
● 1933 - Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer (d. 2007)
● 1935 - Ann Rule, American true-crime writer
● 1936 - Bobby Seale, American civil rights activist
● 1937 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (d. 1982)
● 1938 - Derek Jacobi, English actor
● 1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor
● 1939 - George Cohen, English footballer
● 1939 - Tony Roberts, American actor
● 1942 - Annette Funicello, American actress
● 1942 - Bobby Fuller, American rock singer and guitarist (d. 1966)
● 1943 - Jan de Bont, Dutch film director
● 1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
● 1943 - Allen Coage, American professional wrestler
● 1945 - Leslie West, American musician
● 1945 - Sheila Sherwood, British long jumper
● 1945 - Yvan Ponton, Quebec actor and television host
● 1946 - Kelvin MacKenzie, British media tycoon
● 1946 - Claude Charron, French Canadian politician and TV personality
● 1946 - Eddie Brigati, American singer (The Rascals)
● 1947 - Raymond Bachand, French-Canadian politician and businessman
● 1948 - Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
● 1949 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990)
● 1949 - Arsène Wenger, French football manager
● 1952 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor
● 1956 - Frank DiPino, American baseball player
● 1959 - Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d. 2005)
● 1959 - Marc Shaiman, American composer
● 1960 - Darryl Jenifer, American bassist (Bad Brains)
● 1960 - Cris Kirkwood, American musician (Meat Puppets)
● 1961 - Robert Torti, American actor
● 1962 - Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian (Mr. Show)
● 1963 - Brian Boitano, American figure skater
● 1964 - Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)
● 1964 - Toby Mac, American singer and songwriter
● 1965 - John Wesley Harding, American musician
● 1965 - Otis Smith, American football player
● 1966 - Valeria Golino, Italian actress
● 1967 - Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
● 1967 - Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1967 - Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (d. 1994)
● 1968 - Shaggy, Jamaican musician
● 1968 - Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1968 - Jay Johnston, American actor and comedian (Mr. Show)
● 1969 - Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player
● 1969 - Spike Jonze, American director and film producer
● 1969 - Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer
● 1972 - D'Lo Brown, American professional wrestler
● 1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
● 1974 - Tim Kinsella, American musician
● 1974 - Miroslav Šatan, Slovak ice hockey player
● 1975 - Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
● 1976 - Jon Foreman, American musician (Switchfoot)
● 1978 - Owais Shah, English cricketer
● 1978 - Dion Glover, American basketball player
● 1978 - Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
● 1980 - Garrett Tierney, American musician (Brand New)
● 1981 - Olivier Pla, French racing driver
● 1982 - Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
● 1985 - Zachary Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
● 1986 - Kara Lang, Canadian soccer player
● 1987 - Jake Richardson, English footballer
● 1990 - Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
● 1992 - Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
DEATHS
● 741 - Charles Martel, leader of the Franks (b. 686)
● 1383 - King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)
● 1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
● 1613 - Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
● 1625 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
● 1674 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
● 1708 - Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636)
● 1751 - William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711)
● 1755 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)
● 1792 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
● 1847 - Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
● 1859 - Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
● 1891 - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
● 1906 - Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)
● 1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
● 1918 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
● 1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
● 1928 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
● 1934 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
● 1935 - Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
● 1952 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss nazi physician (b. 1874)
● 1954 - Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
● 1969 - Tommy Edwards, American signer (b. 1922)
● 1973 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
● 1978 - John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
● 1979 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
● 1985 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
● 1986 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
● 1986 - Jane Dornacker, musician, actress, and traffic reporter for WNBC Radio.
● 1986 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician
● 1987 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (b. 1919)
● 1989 - Ewan MacColl, English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer (b. 1915)
● 1992 - Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)
● 1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
● 1998 - Eric Ambler, English novelist (b. 1909)
● 2000 - Rodney Anoa'i, aka Yokozuna, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
● 2001 - Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (b. 1922)
● 2002 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
● 2005 - Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
● 2005 - Tony Adams, Irish film producer (b. 1953)
● 2005 - Franky Gee, American singer (Captain Jack) (b. 1962)
● 2006 - Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Donatus of Fiesole
● St. Eusebius
● St. Hermes of Heraclea
● St. Mary Salome
● St. Philip
● St. Severus
● Syriac Orthodox:
● St. Aaron the Illustrious
● French Republican Calendar - Pomme (Apple) Day, first day in the Month of Brumaire
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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