Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Human Nature "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a part of the continent, a part of the main." — John Donne
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On All Hail King George "I told all four [congressional leaders] that there were going to be times where we don't agree with each other. But that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." — George W. "War Criminal" Bush. Newsday, 12-18-00.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change." — 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
Apogee Moon, Perigee Moon
Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.
● 1315 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle.
● 1415 - The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
● 1616 - Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the Western Australian coast.
● 1747 - British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.
● 1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain
● 1784 - Crown representative in Canada gives Mohawks their own land. Gee, thanks.
● 1806 - Germany - Birth of philosopher Max Stirner. Theorist of individualist anarchism.
● 1813 - War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
● 1828 - The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
● 1854 - The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
● 1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange was created.
● 1862 - Suicide of Ernest Coeurderoy, French writer, anarchistic socialist forced into exile because of his radical positions.
● 1881 - Birth of Pablo Diego Jose Francisco (etc.) Picasso, commie doodler.
● 1900 - The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
● 1917 - The First Marxist revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.
● 1918 - Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hits a reef off Alaska, 398 die. They sent emergency distress calls. They begged, they pleaded, they cried; "send the helicopters!" But they never came. There was no investigation.
● 1923 - Teapot Dome scandal erupts.
● 1924 - The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
● 1925 - Job Harriman, founder of the Llano Colony and socialist mayoral candidate, dies in Los Angeles.
● 1925 - Former Interior Secretary Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe.
● 1933 - Judge Horton removed from further participation in matters related to the Scottsboro trial, because of his decision granting Heywood Patterson a new trial. He is replaced by Judge W. W. Callahan, noted Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member.
● 1935 - Hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.
● 1936 - Birth of Bernard Thomas, France. Libertarian journalist for "Canard Enchacno."
● 1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis.
● 1937 - It is revealed that a new drug, "Elixir of Sulfanilamide," had accounted for more than 100 deaths during the first six weeks it was in circulation. The fatalities were caused by a toxic solvent in the drug, which inadequate tests failed to detect.
● 1938 - The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". {It was not noted at the time that was same stance that the Nazis were taking on the same music except of course their participants ended up dead.}
● 1939 - Convicted "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd escapes from the Arizona State Insane Hospital for the first time. She was recaptured five days later.
● 1944 - Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich
● 1944 - The USS Tang (SS-306) under Richard O'Kane (the top submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by her own torpedo.
● 1944 - The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers' occupation.
● 1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between Imperial Japanese Navy and US Third and Seventh Fleets.
● 1945 - The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
● 1955 - Atomic bomb victim Sadako Sasaki, focus of the story of one thousand paper cranes, dies of leukemia.
● 1960 - Martin Luther King, Jr. jailed in Decatur, Georgia. Held over on old traffic ticket charges, denied bail and sentenced to four months hard labor.
● 1962 - Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba
● 1970 - The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley was found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in warfare.
● 1971 - The United Nations seated the People's Republic of China (Red China) and expelled the Republic of China (Taiwan)
● 1972 - The Washington Post reports that White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman was the fifth person to control a secret cash fund designed to finance illegal political sabotage and espionage during the 1972 presidential election campaign. {Denials from the White House are effective enough that the report has no effect on the upcoming presidential election.}
● 1973 - John Lennon sues the U.S. government, maintaining that wiretaps and surveillance were employed against him and his lawyer, Leon Wildes. Claims that, as a result, his appeal applications in his fight against deportation were prejudiced by U.S. officials.
● 1980 - Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague
● 1981 - One hundred fifty thousand in anti-nuclear protest, London.
● 1983 - After the death of leader Maurice Bishop, the island of Grenadau is invaded by 5,000 U.S. Marines and Army Rangers on the pretext of saving "endangered" American lives, and diverting attention from the Lebanon bombing and European anti-nuclear protests. Installation of a pro-U.S. government has since crippled the Caribbean nation's economy.
● 1983 - Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a coup d'état.
● 1991 - History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
● 1992 - Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.
● 1993 - Jean Chrétien becomes Prime Minister of Canada with a massive majority for his Liberal Party in a general election in which the governing Progressive Conservatives, led by Kim Campbell, lost 149 of 151 seats in the parliament.
● 1996 - The "Days of Action", the largest one day strike in Ontario, Canada's history, as over 250,000 protesters converged on the Ontario Legislature and attempted to shut-down Toronto, in protest to the Mike Harris Government's budget cuts.
● 1997 - After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
● 2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8.
BIRTHS
● 1102 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (d. 1128)
● 1330 - Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
● 1683 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
● 1759 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
● 1759 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, British politician (d. 1834)
● 1767 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (d. 1830)
● 1772 - Geraud Duroc, French general (d. 1813)
● 1802 - Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)
● 1806 - Max Stirner, German philosopher (d. 1856)
● 1811 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
● 1825 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
● 1838 - Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
● 1856 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936)
● 1864 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
● 1864 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (d. 1920)
● 1867 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (d.1937)
● 1869 - John Heisman, American football coach (d. 1936)
● 1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
● 1888 - Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (d. 1957)
● 1888 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (d. 1943)
● 1889 - Abel Gance, French screenwriter (d. 1981)
● 1892 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (d. 1972)
● 1895 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
● 1902 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
● 1903 - Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)
● 1903 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
● 1908 - Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004)
● 1910 - William Higinbotham, American physicist (d. 1994)
● 1912 - Minnie Pearl, American comedian and singer (d. 1996)
● 1913 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (d. 1991)
● 1914 - John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972)
● 1915 - Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
● 1921 - King Michael I of Romania
● 1923 - Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (d. 1990)
● 1924 - Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
● 1926 - Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter
● 1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
● 1927 - Barbara Cook, American singer and actress
● 1927 - Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, President of Uruguay
● 1928 - Marion Ross, American actress
● 1928 - Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006)
● 1931 - Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and football manager
● 1931 - Annie Girardot, French actress
● 1932 - Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and football manager
● 1935 - Russell Schweickart, astronaut
● 1936 - Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian
● 1939 - Robin Spry, Canadian filmmaker and producer (d. 2005)
● 1940 - Bobby Knight, American basketball coach
● 1941 - Helen Reddy, Australian singer
● 1941 - Anne Tyler, American novelist
● 1944 - Jon Anderson, English singer (Yes)
● 1944 - James Carville, American political stategist
● 1948 - Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach
● 1948 - Daniel Mark Epstein, American poet and biographer
● 1948 - Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
● 1948 - Dan Issel, American basketball player
● 1948 - Glenn Tipton, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
● 1949 - Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1950 - Chris Norman, English singer
● 1951 - Richard Lloyd, American guitarist (Television)
● 1952 - Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2004)
● 1954 - Mike Eruzione, American hockey player
● 1955 - Robin Eubanks, American jazz trombonist
● 1955 - Glynis Barber, English actress
● 1956 - Matthias Jabs, German guitarist (Scorpions)
● 1958 - Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer
● 1961 - Ward Burton, American auto racer
● 1962 - Nick Hancock, British television presenter
● 1962 - Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
● 1962 - Darlene Vogel, American actress
● 1963 - Tracy Nelson, American actress
● 1964 - Nicole, German singer
● 1964 - Michael Boatman, American actor
● 1965 - Þorsteinn Bachmann, Icelandic actor
● 1966 - Wendel Clark, American ice hockey player
● 1966 - Perry Satullo, American professional wrestler
● 1969 - Josef Beranek, Czech hockey player
● 1969 - Oleg Salenko, Russian former footballer
● 1970 - J.A. Adande, American sports columnist
● 1970 - Adam Goldberg, American actor
● 1970 - Adam Pascal, American actor
● 1970 - Ed Robertson, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
● 1971 - Simon Charlton, English footballer
● 1971 - Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
● 1971 - Midori Goto, Japanese violinist
● 1971 - Pedro Martínez, Dominican baseball player
● 1975 - Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian musician
● 1976 - Steve Jones, Irish footballer
● 1977 - Birgit Prinz, German footballer
● 1978 - Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
● 1978 - Markus Pöyhönen, Finnish athlete
● 1979 - Rob Hulse, English footballer
● 1979 - Sarah Thompson, American actress
● 1979 - Tony Torcato, American baseball player
● 1981 - Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
● 1981 - Jerome Isaac Jones, American singer
● 1982 - Jerome Carter, American football player
● 1982 - Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
● 1983 - Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress
● 1984 - Danny .S., English record producer
● 1984 - Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
● 1985 - Ciara Harris, American singer
● 1986 - DJ Webstar, American disc jockey
● 1986 - Eddie Gaven, American footballer
● 1987 - Darron Gibson, Northern Ireland football player
● 1993 - Tori Thompson, American singer
● 1995 - Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
● 1995 - Michael Baker, English Footballer
● 2001 - Princess Elisabeth of Belgium
DEATHS
● 304 - Pope Marcellinus (martyred)
● 625 - Pope Boniface V
● 1047 - King Magnus I of Norway (b. 1024)
● 1154 - King Stephen of England (b. 1096)
● 1200 - Conrad of Wittelsbach, German Archbishop
● 1230 - Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1180)
● 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
● 1415 - Killed in the Battle of Agincourt:
● Antoine, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384)
● Charles d'Albret, Count of Dreux and Constable of France
● Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (b. 1373)
● Frederick of Lorraine (b. 1371)
● John I of Alençon (b. 1385)
● Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (b. 1394)
● Philip II of Burgundy, Count of Nevers and Rethel (b. 1389)
● 1492 - Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish Catholic bishop
● 1495 - King John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
● 1514 - William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and statesman (b. 1431)
● 1555 - Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian classical scholar (b. 1526)
● 1557 - William Cavendish, English politician (b. 1505)
● 1633 - Jean Titelouze, French organist
● 1647 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
● 1683 - William Scroggs, Lord Chief Justice of England
● 1733 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (b. 1667)
● 1757 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (b. 1672)
● 1760 - George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
● 1826 - Philippe Pinel, French psychiatrist (b. 1745)
● 1833 - Abbas Mirza, prince of Persia (b. 1789)
● 1852 - John C. Clark, American politician (b. 1793)
● 1889 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (b. 1820)
● 1895 - Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (b. 1819)
● 1910 - Willie Anderson, Scottish-born golfer (b. 1878)
● 1920 - King Alexander I of Greece (b. 1893)
● 1921 - Bat Masterson, American journalist and lawman
● 1938 - Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (b. 1892)
● 1953 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (b. 1867
● 1955 - Sadako Sasaki atomic bomb victim (b. 1943)
● 1957 - Albert Anastasia, Italian-born gangster (b. 1902)
● 1957 - Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (b. 1878)
● 1960 - Harry Ferguson, farm equipment manufacturer (b. 1884)
● 1963 - Roger Désormière, French conductor (b. 1898)
● 1965 - Eduard Einstein, son of Albert Einstein (b. 1910)
● 1973 - Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
● 1973 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (b. 1932)
● 1976 - Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (b. 1903)
● 1980 - Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
● 1985 - Gary Holton, English actor (b. 1952)
● 1986 - Forrest Tucker, American actor (b. 1919)
● 1992 - Roger Miller, American musician and composer (b. 1936)
● 1993 - Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer/songwriter (b. 1958)
● 1993 - Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
● 1994 - Kara Spears Hultgreen, American naval pilot (b. 1965)
● 1994 - Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905)
● 1995 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918)
● 1995 - Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-born actress (b. 1920)
● 1999 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
● 2001 - Kaan, Japanese singer (b. 1989)
● 2002 - Richard Harris, Irish actor (b. 1930)
● 2002 - Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (b. 1944)
● 2002 - René Thom, French mathematician (b. 1923)
● 2003 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Founder Swadhyay Movement (b. 1920)
● 2003 - Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1925)
● 2003 - Robert Strassburg, American composer (b. 1915)
● 2004 - John Peel, British disc jockey (b. 1939)
● 2005 - Wellington Mara, American football team owner (b. 1916)
● 2006 - Danny Rolling, American murderer (b. 1954)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Sts. Crispin and Crispian
● Bl. Thaddeus McCarthy
● French Republican Calendar - Betterave (Beetroot) Day, fourth day in the Month of Brumaire
● Grenada - Thanksgiving Day (commemorates Invasion of Grenada)
● Kazakhstan - Republic Day
● Day of the Romanian Army
● Taiwan - Retrocession Day (1945)
● Virgin Islands - Thanksgiving 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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