Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On The Human Condition "If you smile at me I will understand, because that is something everybody, everywhere does in the same language." — David Crosby {Please note the word is smile not smirk like the war criminal Bush.}
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Hail to the Chief "I'm the commander—see, I don't need to explain—I do not need to explain why I say things." — George W. "War Criminal" Bush
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and will never, never surrender to what is right." — 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.
{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
Ring Scan
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
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EVENTS
● 69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
● 1260 - The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
● 1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
● 1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
● 1593 - Alleged teleportation of Gil Perez.
● 1644 - William Penn born.
● 1648 - Thirty Years' War, another of those bloody, interminable conflicts Europeans have always been so fond of, ends with the Peace of Westphalia.
● 1793 - French Revolutionary Calendar. Much blood.
● 1795 - Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided between Austria, Prussia and Russia
● 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
● 1861 - The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
● 1871 - Mob in Los Angeles hangs 18 Chinese.
● 1882 - Federal Grand Jury in Arizona charges civil authorities with mismanagement of Indian Affairs on San Carlos Reservation.
● 1882 - Sybil Thorndike, pacifist actress, born, Britain.
● 1892 - Strike of teamsters, salesmen, and packers in New Orleans, Louisiana begins. City trade is paralyzed and within two weeks leads to a general strike in support of the demand for a 10-hour work day. Includes blacks and whites working together.
● 1901 - U.S. Marines land in Samar during the Philippine Insurrection. Brigadier General "Hell-roaring Jake" Smith issues his orders - "I wish you to burn and kill; the more you burn and kill, the better it will please me."
● 1911 - Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
● 1912 - First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
● 1917 - Battle of Caporetto starts on the Austro-Italian front of World War I
● 1917 - The day of the Russian revolution, The Red Revolution.
● 1923 - Birth of radical poet Denise Levertov, Ilford, Essex.
● 1924 - Italian anarchist Ernesto Bonomini gets eight years in prison for killing, with the blow of a revolver, Nicola Bonservizi, correspondent of the Mussolini newspaper "Popolo d' Italia", and secretary of the Parisian "Faisceau."
● 1929 - "Black Thursday" Wall Street Stock market Crash, harbinger of worldwide Great Depression of the '30s.
● 1930 - A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as "provisional president."
● 1931 - The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
● 1935 - Langston Hughes's play "Mulatto" opens on Broadway. The longest running play there by an African-American until Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun."
● 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia
● 1936 - "Boston Chronicle blasts the soon-to-be-released movie "The Big Broadcast of 1937" for featuring a white pianist in the movie while Teddy Wilson actually plays the music - "The form of racial discrimination and falsification of acts...is frequently duplicated by many whites in their daily dealings with Negroes...Negroes, from hands and laborers in other fields of industry, produce billions of dollars of wealth, but the white landowners and sweat shop operators get all the profit."
● 1940 - The 40-hour work week goes into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Decades of labor agitation and a considerable number of lives made this magnificent federal gesture possible, but FDR got the credit.
● 1942 - Recognizing the influence of so-called race music, Billboard magazine creates its first ratings chart devoted to African-American music, The Harlem Hit Parade. The number one record is "Take It and Git" by Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy, featuring Mary Lou Williams on piano.
● 1944 - World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, and the battleship Musashi are sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
● 1945 - United Nations charter comes into effect. Black helicopters hover in celebration.
● 1947 - Walt Disney testifies to the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
● 1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam {Yes, this was a Republican war.}
● 1957 - the USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
● 1960 - Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash
● 1964 - Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony)
● 1968 - Yavapai tribe in Arizona wins $5 million settlement for nine million acres taken in 1874.
● 1970 - Chile - Election of Unidad Popular, headed by Salvador Allende.
● 1972 - Loddon Viaduct Collapsed in Berkshire, England, killing 3 and injuring hundreds
● 1973 - Yom Kippur War ends, with Israeli forces 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus. {Egypt and Syria discover attacking Israel wasn't such a good idea. Israelis get paranoid about any Arab.}
● 1975 - Iceland - Tens of thousands of women hold a general strike.
● 1975 - Cipriano Mera dies. Anarcho-syndicalist who, during the Spanish Revolution of 1936, organized defense groups, and, with Durruti, the defense of Madrid against Franco's fascists. Headed the defeat of Italian fascist troops in Guadalajara. Afterwards fled to Algeria, then France, where the Vichy government condemned him to death (commuted to life, released in 1945).
● 1977 - Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
● 1980 - Government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union
● 1985 - FMLN exchanges Salvadoran president’s kidnapped daughter for 22 political prisoners.
● 1985 - Iceland - Tens of thousands of women had so much fun during their general strike in 1975, they decide to do it again.
● 1986 - Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi was helped by Syrian officials.
● 1987 - AFL-CIO readmits Teamsters Union. Scandal-ridden union was expelled in 1957. The 35-member executive council of the AFL-CIO decides unanimously to readmit the 1.6-million member Teamsters Union to its ranks. Teamsters President Jackie Presser was awaiting trial at the time, and the U.S. Justice Department was considering removal of the union's leadership because of possible links to organized crime.
● 1989 - Rev. Jim Bakker gets 45 years in prison for swindling his flock. {Not nearly enough}
● 1990 - Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army.
● 1991 - Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek creator, dies of heart attack, age 70. {Ashes were shot into space along with Andy Warhol's.}
● 1995 - A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and SE Asia.
● 1997 - Bolivia invaded by its first multinational restaurant - McDonald’s.
● 1998 - Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
● 2002 - Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
● 2003 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being.
● 2006 - Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause", an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act.
BIRTHS
● 51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
● 1378 - David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402)
● 1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)
● 1675 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)
● 1710 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)
● 1763 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)
● 1788 - Sarah Hale, American poet (d. 1879)
● 1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
● 1811 - Ferdinand Hiller, German composer (d. 1885)
● 1854 - Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
● 1855 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
● 1857 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
● 1868 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969)
● 1872 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (d. 1957)
● 1875 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
● 1882 - Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress (d. 1976)
● 1887 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)
● 1887 - Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg, queen of Spain (d. 1969)
● 1891 - Rafael Molina-Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
● 1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
● 1903 - Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
● 1904 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (d. 1961)
● 1906 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
● 1909 - Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966)
● 1911 - Sonny Terry, American blues musician (d. 1986)
● 1911 - Paul Grégoire, French canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993)
● 1913 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
● 1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
● 1915 - Roger Milliken, American millionaire
● 1920 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
● 1923 - Denise Levertov, English-born poet (d. 1997)
● 1925 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
● 1926 - Y. A. Tittle, American football player
● 1927 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer and actor (d. 1992)
● 1927 - Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001)
● 1929 - George Crumb, American composer
● 1929 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer
● 1929 - Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977)
● 1930 - The Big Bopper, American singer (d. 1959)
● 1930 - Johan Galtung, Norwegian scientist
● 1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
● 1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
● 1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1932 - Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1933 - Ronald and Reginald Kray, British gangsters
● 1933 - Norman Rush, American writer
● 1935 - Malcolm Bilson, American pianist and music professor
● 1936 - Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
● 1937 - Santo Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny)
● 1939 - F. Murray Abraham, American actor
● 1940 - Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director
● 1941 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer
● 1944 - Viktor Prokopenko, Ukranian footballer and coach (d. 2007)
● 1945 - Anthony Christian, English artist
● 1945 - Gérald Larose, Quebec labour union executive
● 1946 - Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf)
● 1947 - Kevin Kline, American actor
● 1948 - Paul and Barry Ryan, British composers-singers
● 1948 - Kweisi Mfume, American politician and activist
● 1949 - Robert Pickton, Canadian charged with the first degree murder of twenty-six women
● 1950 - Steven Greenberg, American composer
● 1950 - Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player
● 1954 - Brad Sherman, American politician
● 1954 - Thomas J. Mulcair, Quebec politician
● 1954 - Mike Rounds, American politician
● 1954 - Jozef Ráž, Slovak musician
● 1956 - Dale Maharidge, American author
● 1957 - Ron Gardenhire, German-born American baseball manager
● 1960 - Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer
● 1960 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d. 1999)
● 1961 - Mary Bono, American politician
● 1961 - Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist
● 1962 - B.D. Wong, American actor
● 1962 - Dave Blaney, American race car driver
● 1966 - Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate
● 1967 - Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
● 1968 - Robert Wilonsky, American journalist
● 1971 - Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
● 1971 - Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
● 1972 - Scott Peterson, American murderer
● 1972 - Pat Williams, American football player
● 1973 - Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist
● 1973 - Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer
● 1973 - Mike Matthews, American baseball player
● 1973 - Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player
● 1974 - Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
● 1974 - Corey Dillon, American football player
● 1975 - Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
● 1976 - Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
● 1977 - Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
● 1978 - Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
● 1978 - Justin Lee Brannan, American musician
● 1979 - Ben Gillies, Australian musician (Silverchair)
● 1980 - James Killian, American football player
● 1980 - Monica, American singer
● 1980 - Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
● 1981 - Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress
● 1981 - Tila Tequila, American model
● 1981 - Zac Posen, American fashion designer
● 1982 - Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian racing driver
● 1983 - Brian Vickers, American race car driver
● 1983 - Adrienne Bailon, American actress and singer
● 1984 - Kaela Kimura, Japanese model and singer
● 1985 - Wayne Rooney, English footballer
● 1986 - Aubrey Graham, Canadian actor and rapper
● 1986 - John Ruddy, English footballer
● 1987 - Charlie White, American ice dancer
● 1987 - Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
● 1987 - Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
● 1989 - Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress
● 1989 - Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Australian actress
DEATHS
● 996 - King Hugh Capet of France (b. 938)
● 1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
● 1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark (bc. 1320)
● 1537 - Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England
● 1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508)
● 1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
● 1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)
● 1669 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
● 1672 - John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
● 1708 - Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
● 1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
● 1799 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739)
● 1821 - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
● 1852 - Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (b. 1782)
● 1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
● 1912 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
● 1915 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
● 1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
● 1935 - Dutch Schultz, American gangster (b. 1902)
● 1938 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
● 1943 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912)
● 1944 - Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
● 1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian traitor (executed) (b. 1887)
● 1948 - Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
● 1957 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
● 1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
● 1971 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
● 1972 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player (b. 1919)
● 1972 - Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
● 1974 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
● 1975 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (b. 1888)
● 1985 - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
● 1991 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
● 1994 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
● 1997 - Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
● 2001 - Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
● 2002 - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
● 2002 - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
● 2004 - Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
● 2004 - Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (b. 1980)
● 2004 - James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920)
● 2005 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Robert Sloman, writer (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
● 2005 - Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
● 2006 - Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
● 2006 - William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Discordianism - Maladay
● French Republican Calendar - Poire (Pear) Day, third day in the Month of Brumaire
● Zambia - Independence Day (1964)
● United Nations Day (charter 1945)
● Take Back Your Time Day
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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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You have entirely too much time on your hands!
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