Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Humanism "In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing—anti-humanism." — Shirley Chisholm
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Coup D'Etat 2000 "I believe Secretary Cheney and I won the vote in Florida. And I believe some are determined to keep counting in an effort to change the legitimate result." — George W. "War Criminal" Bush, on the hand recounts requested by Al Gore in some Florida counties. Ron Fournier, "County stops recount in blow to Gore: Presidential race reaches new levels of unpredictability," Charleston (WV) Gazette, 11-23-00. The GOP Bush team strongly opposed hand recounts in Florida counties typically considered Democratic. However, the GOP requested and was granted a hand recount in some Republican counties in New Mexico for the same reasons cited by Al Gore in Florida. Wayne Barrett, "The five worst Republican outrages," Village Voice, 12-26-00.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future." — 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. {A grasp on reality also seems to be fleeting.}
{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
Crescent Saturn
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
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EVENTS
● 42 B.C.E. - Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. He commits suicide.
● 425 - Valentinian III is elevated as Roman Emperor, at the age of 6.
● 502 - The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
● 1086 - At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI
● 1157 - The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
● 1641 - Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - anniversary commemorated by Irish Protestants for over 200 years
● 1642 - Battle of Edgehill: first major battle of the First English Civil War.
● 1679 - Meal Tub Plot against James II of England.
● 1694 - American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec.
● 1707 - The first Parliament of Great Britain, i.e., the United Kingdom, meets.
● 1734 - Birth of French writer, early communist theorist Restif de la Brettone. Chronicler of the Street during the French Revolution, inventor of the term "communism."
● 1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
● 1775 - Continental Congress prohibits the enlistment of blacks in the Army.
● 1783 - Virginia emancipates slaves who fought for independence during the Revolutionary War.
● 1812 - Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he was now the commandant of Paris. De Malet is executed on October 29.
● 1813 - The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).
● 1844 - Birth of Louis Riel, leader of rebellions by Metis (mixed Indian/European) of Manitoba, Canada.
● 1850 - National Women's Rights convention, Worcester, Mass.
● 1855 - Kansas Free State forces set up a competing government under their Topeka, Kansas, constitution, which outlaws slavery in the United States territory.
● 1861 - President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Westport - Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, near Kansas City.
● 1867 - 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
● 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
● 1885 - Birth of Andre Lorulot, France. Free-thinker, individualist, lecturer and propagandist. Imprisoned in 1907 for inciting soldiers to revolt. Taken with the Bolshevik Revolution, he broke with the anarchists. Later joined the Federation of Free Thinkers, and in 1958 became its president.
● 1887 - England - Huge crowds, gathering daily in London's Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square to hear speeches, turn into mobs.
● 1894 - Birth of Marcel Body, Limoges, France. Typographer. Joined the Bolshevik Revolution as a French soldier in Russia, becomes a citizen and in the diplomatic service in Norway with Alexandra Kollontan. Criticizing the drift of the Revolution, returned to France. Translates Lenin, Trotsky, and Bakunin. Thereafter wrote for the anarchist and pacifist press.
● 1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
● 1911 - First use of aircraft in war: an Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
● 1912 - First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
● 1915 - Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
● 1921 - Massive demonstrations all over Europe in support of condemned U.S. anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. In Paris 10,000 police and 18,000 soldiers attempt to control the crowds.
● 1926 - Leon Trotsky expelled from Soviet Politburo. Never catches on to the fact that he is a victim of the very flawed system he did so much to create.
● 1926 - Suffragette Olympia Brown dies, Baltimore, Maryland.
● 1929 - Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
● 1929 - The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
● 1935 - Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosenkrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
● 1941 - World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations designed to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the German armies from capturing Moscow.
● 1941 - Burning of the Odessa, Ukraine, Jews: 19,000 Jews are burned alive at Dalnik in Odessa, by Romanian and German troops. The next day, another 10,000 Jews are killed. Romanian Lieutenant-Colonel Nicolae Deleanu administered the executions.
● 1942 - World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein starts - At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begin a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt, never to return.
● 1942 - All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Among the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory," "Love in Bloom," and "Blue Hawaii").
● 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins - The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines; and also, the Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
● 1945 - Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers signs Jackie Robinson to the club's Triple A farm team, the Montreal Royals. In a little under 18 months, Robinson will be called up to the majors, the first African-American to play major league baseball in the white leagues and an enormous symbolic breakthrough for black civil rights.
● 1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow, New York.
● 1951 - NAACP pickets the Stork Club in support of Josephine Baker, who has been refused admission a week earlier. After a city-convened special committee calls Baker's charges unfounded, Thurgood Marshall calls the findings a "complete and shameless whitewash of the long-established and well-known discriminatory policies of the Stork Club."
● 1956 - Hungarian revolution begins. Spontaneous workers' councils form, state capitalism threatened, Russian tanks called in. 250,000 people, many students, workers, and soldiers, demonstrate in Budapest in support of the insurrection in Poland, demanding reforms in Hungary. Security police fire into the unarmed demonstrators, killing several. Unfortunately, the U.S. government, Radio Free America, the CIA, and others had long been telling Hungarians that if they rose up and threw off their communist shackles for capitalist ones, they would be helped by the "free" West. Instead they were left helpless.
● 1962 - 124 arrested in demonstrations at U.S. and U.S.S.R. embassies in London against Cuban Missile Crisis.
● 1962 - Everyman III towed away by military, crew attempts to swim ashore. Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
● 1965 - Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launch a new operation, seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleku Province in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
● 1973 - The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations about the scandal.
● 1973 - A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
● 1975 - The Federal Trade Commission criticizes the Bureau of Indian Affairs' failure to live up to its trust responsibility when negotiating energy contracts.
● 1983 - U.S. Marine intervention in Lebanon ends in disaster when a terrorist suicide bomb kills 241 servicemen.
● 1983 - A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
● 1987 - Senate rejects President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Judiciary Committee found Bork unfit, due to insensitivity to individual rights and liberties. The 58-42 vote is the biggest margin of rejection for the position in history. Bork went on to a career as a far- right-wing syndicated political columnist, exposing the fiction that judges are politically neutral arbiters of truth. If rejected, Clarence Thomas probably would have tried something similar, except he's not as smart as Bork.
● 1989 - The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
● 1992 - Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil.
● 1993 - IRA kills nine in a fish shop, Shankill Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
● 1997 - Seven thousand protest New York police torture and rape of black Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.
● 1998 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
● 2001 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks encouraged by American President William Jefferson Clinton.
● 2002 - Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
● 2004 - Brazil's "Operation Cajuana" launches its first rocket into space, the VSB-30, just 14 months after its space program was hit a deadly launch pad accident.
● 2004 - A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
BIRTHS
● 1503 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539)
● 1698 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (d. 1782)
● 1705 - Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
● 1715 - Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
● 1762 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
● 1766 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847)
● 1771 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
● 1790 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
● 1796 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857)
● 1801 - Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851)
● 1805 - John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
● 1813 - Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
● 1817 - Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
● 1835 - Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
● 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
● 1844 - Robert Bridges, English poet (d. 1930)
● 1865 - Neltje Blanchan, American writer (d. 1918)
● 1869 - John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936)
● 1870 - Bishop Francis Kelley, Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma (d. 1948)
● 1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
● 1876 - Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
● 1880 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959)
● 1885 - Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (d. 1970)
● 1888 - Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
● 1893 - Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
● 1894 - Rube Bressler, baseball player (d. 1966)
● 1896 - André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930)
● 1900 - Douglas Jardine, English cricketer (d. 1958)
● 1904 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
● 1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
● 1905 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
● 1908 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
● 1909 - Zellig Harris, American linguist (d. 1992)
● 1918 - James Daly, American actor (d. 1978)
● 1919 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (d. 1992)
● 1920 - Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)
● 1922 - Coleen Gray, American actress
● 1923 - Aslam Farrukhi, Pakistani scholar and poet
● 1923 - Ned Rorem, American composer
● 1923 - Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974)
● 1925 - Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
● 1925 - Fred Shero, Canadian hockey player and coach (d. 1990)
● 1925 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994)
● 1927 - Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher
● 1931 - Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician
● 1931 - Diana Dors, British actress (d. 1984)
● 1935 - Chi Chi Rodriguez, Puerto Rican golfer
● 1936 - Philip Kaufman, American film director
● 1939 - Ellie Greenwich, American singer
● 1940 - Pelé, Brazilian footballer
● 1941 - Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician
● 1942 - Michael Crichton, American writer
● 1942 - Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop (d. 2007)
● 1944 - Mike Harding, English singer and comedian
● 1945 - Kim Larsen, Danish singer
● 1946 - Graça Machel, wife of Nelson Mandela
● 1946 - Mel Martinez, American politician
● 1948 - Hermann Hauser, Austrian-born entrepreneur
● 1949 - Nick Tosches, American writer
● 1949 - Michael 'Wurzel' Burston, British musician, Former member of Motörhead
● 1951 - Charly Garcia, Argentine singer
● 1951 - Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo
● 1952 - Pierre Moerlen, French drummer and percussionist
● 1954 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born director
● 1956 - Dwight Yoakam, American singer
● 1958 - Nancy Grace, American former prosecutor
● 1959 - Sam Raimi, American film director
● 1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist
● 1960 - Wayne Rainey, American motorcyclist
● 1961 - Laurie Halse Anderson, American writer
● 1961 - Don and Ron Harris, American professional wrestlers
● 1962 - Doug Flutie, American football player
● 1964 - Robert Trujillo, American bassist
● 1965 - Al Leiter, American baseball player
● 1965 - Augusten Burroughs, American writer
● 1966 - Alex Zanardi, Italian race car driver
● 1969 - Trudi Canavan, Australian writer
● 1970 - Jasmin St. Claire, West Indian actress
● 1971 - Christopher Horner, American cyclist
● 1974 - Sander Westerveld, Dutch footballer
● 1975 - Odalys Garcia, Cuban actress
● 1975 - Jessicka, American artist
● 1975 - Keith Van Horn, American basketball player
● 1976 - Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and comedian
● 1976 - Cat Deeley, English model and television personality
● 1978 - Steve Harmison, English cricketer
● 1978 - Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
● 1979 - Jorge Solis, Mexican professional boxer
● 1979 - Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
● 1980 - Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player
● 1981 - Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch racing driver
● 1982 - Mirel Radoi, Romanian footballer
● 1982 - Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer
● 1983 - Josh Strickland, American entertainer
● 1983 - Filipos Darlas, Greek footballer
● 1984 - Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
● 1986 - Jake Robinson, English footballer
● 1987 - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
● 1988 - Nicolaj Agger, Danish football player
● 1990 - Stevie Brock, American singer
● 1991 - Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan
● 1992 - A Proud Liberal's middle child, a boy, and light of his life
DEATHS
● 42 B.C.E. - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (suicide) (b. 85 B.C.E.) {Recipient of famous "Et tu Brutus," after killing close friend, Julius Caesar. Karma can be a real bitch.}
● 930 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)
● 1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
● 1550 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
● 1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
● 1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
● 1688 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
● 1730 - Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
● 1764 - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
● 1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
● 1869 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
● 1872 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
● 1885 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)
● 1910 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853)
● 1915 - W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
● 1921 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (b. 1840)
● 1939 - Zane Grey, American author (b. 1872)
● 1942 - Ralph Rainger, American composer (b. 1901)
● 1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
● 1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
● 1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
● 1978 - Maybelle Carter, American guitarist and musical innovator (b. 1909)
● 1983 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
● 1984 - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (b. 1892)
● 1984 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
● 1986 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
● 1989 - Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress (b. 1911)
● 1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918)
● 1996 - Bob Grim, baseball player (b. 1930)
● 1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
● 1998 - Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
● 2001 - Ronald William Kirby, British artist (b. 1928)
● 2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)
● 2003 - Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
● 2003 - Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
● 2004 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919)
● 2005 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
● 2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
● 2006 - Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anicius
● St. Boethius
● St. Giovanni da Capistrano
● St. Manlius
● St. Severinus
● French Republican Calendar - Céleri (Celery) Day, second day in the Month of Brumaire
● Hungary - National Day (revolution of 1956 and the proclamation of the Republic of Hungary in 1989)
● Chulalongkorn Memorial Day in Thailand
● Astrology: First day of sun sign Scorpio in Western tropical astrology.
● Chemistry: Mole Day
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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