Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Idealism "Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done." — Louis Brandeis
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Beat the Press ". . . I watched in awe as the Clinton press conferences and appearances became a major laugh fest, all the libmedia sucking up like sucking up was going out of style in the morning. All softball questions and yucking it up was not only not at all informative but also nauseating in its saccharinesque tones. After all, the libmedia were hanging out with their guy. They were partying like it was 1999 on the lawn at the White House, drinking and dancing and b-b-q-ing to their delight. I wonder if some (or more) of the reporterettes weren't hoping for a groping, to be touched by their idol. Softball questions and propagandizing as though they were a wing of the Goebbels annex inside the beltway." — Barbara Stanley, "The President and the Press: Watchdogs or Just Dogs?" bluestar.org, 11-2-03—Part 2 of 2 {Stanley must have the biggest set of blinders in history as the war criminal Bush must be the most softballed president in history.} {Due to the length of some of these nutball quotes, I have decided to split the longer ones into parts. I could have abridged them but I think that would have lessened the impact of showing just how crazy these guys are. Please refer to previous and/or subsequent posts for complete quote.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe." — 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
The Great Carina Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler and Stephane Guisard
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 710 - Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
● 939 - Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
● 1275 – Traditional date for founding of the city of Amsterdam.
● 1524 - Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
● 1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
● 1644 - Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
● 1659 - William Robinson and Marmaduke Steven, two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, are executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for their religious beliefs. The two had violated a law passed by the Massachusetts General Court the year before, banning Quakers from the colony "under the pain of death." First Quakers executed in America.
● 1682 - Tammany, chief of the Lennilenape Delaware, greets William Penn when he arrives to found the Colony of Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, the pacifist Quakers turn out to be just as bloodthirsty toward Indians as all the other colonies.
● 1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
● 1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
● 1806 - The French Army enters in Berlin.
● 1807 - Occupation of Portugal by French-Spanish troops.
● 1810 - United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
● 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state.
● 1870 - Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
● 1889 - Birth of famed anarchist general Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukraine. Fights Red and White Russian armies during the Russian Revolution. Led insurrectionary army of the peasants. Eventually crushed by the Trotsky's Red Army.
● 1904 - The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of the biggest in world.
● 1916 - Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
● 1917 - Birth of Oliver Tambo, leader of African National Congress.
● 1922 - A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexion to the South African Union.
● 1924 - The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
● 1936 – Mrs. Wallis Simpson filed for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
● 1939 - Birth of John Cleese, comedian/actor (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers).
● 1948 - Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
● 1949 - An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
● 1951 - General J. Lawton Collins, the U.S. Army's Chief of Staff, announces, "There is no question that the Communist menace in French Indo-China has been stopped." {Yeah right, and just what were the people dying for in Southeast Asia's various wars over the next some 25 years.}
● 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
● 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
● 1958 - Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
● 1961 - NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
● 1962 - Two hundred thousand U.S. troops assemble in Florida in preparation for invasion of Cuba. U.S.S.R. Premier Nikita Khrushchev charges that a U.S. plane intruded over Soviet territory during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and pointed out that it could easily have been mistaken for a nuclear bomber. Pres. Kennedy, acknowledging the incident, blames it on a "navigational error."
● 1962 - Countrywide demonstrations in response to Cuba crisis, Britain.
● 1962 - Major Rudolph Anderson of the US Air Force became the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane was shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
● 1962 - The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian industry's most relevant figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
● 1964 - Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing." {Ironically, in later years Goldwater would be shunned by Reagan and followers as not conservative enough. Goldwater had dared to support Gerald Ford instead of Reagan in the 1976 primary season and Republican National Convention}
● 1967 - Four people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records.
● 1967 - United Nations terminates South African mandate in Namibia.
● 1968 - 120,000 march against Vietnam War. London, England.
● 1969 - Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders. {Their first target is the Chevy Corvair.}
● 1970 - Louis Néel receives the Nobel Prize.
● 1971 - Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
● 1973 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
● 1975 - Bruce Springsteen simultaneously makes the cover of Time and Newsweek, a move which reportedly embarrasses the two news weeklies and contributes to growing charges of hype associated with the singer's breakthrough.
● 1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
● 1988 - Larry Flynt pays hitman $1 million to kill Hefner, Guccione, and Sinatra.
● 1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
● 1991 - Peruvian anarchist Andrés Villaverde arrested for sabotage. Sent to prison without trial, and despite a total lack of proof to substantiate the charges.
● 1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
● 1991 - First free legislative elections in Poland since 1936.
● 1992 - US Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
● 1994 - Mozambique holds its first multi-party elections.
● 1995 - Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
● 1995 - Former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is condemned in absentia for corruption.
● 1997 - Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activated their "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early.
● 1997 - Teachers in the province of Ontario -- the largest school system in the Western Hemisphere, with 2.1 million students -- strike over budget cutbacks.
● 1998 - Gerhard Schröder becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.
● 2002 - Trades unionist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected as President of Brazil.
● 2002 - The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but London Weekend Television (LWT) lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel, Scottish TV & Grampian TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes.
● 2005 - Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers
BIRTHS
● 1156 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
● 1401 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
● 1466 - Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)
● 1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
● 1744 - Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
● 1760 - August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
● 1782 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
● 1811 - Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
● 1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
● 1842 - Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
● 1844 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
● 1854 - Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
● 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
● 1865 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
● 1873 - Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)
● 1877 - George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
● 1885 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
● 1894 - Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
● 1896 - Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997)
● 1906 - Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
● 1910 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
● 1911 - Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
● 1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
● 1915 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)
● 1917 - Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
● 1917 - Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
● 1918 - Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
● 1920 - Nanette Fabray, American actress
● 1920 - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India
● 1921 - Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
● 1922 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
● 1922 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
● 1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
● 1924 - Ruby Dee, American actress
● 1924 - Michel Galabru, French actor
● 1925 - Albert Medwin, American inventor
● 1925 - Warren Christopher, US Secretary of State (1993–1997)
● 1926 - H.R. Haldeman, American political personality (d. 1993)
● 1928 - Gilles Vigneault, Québécois poet, singer and songwriter
● 1931 - Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
● 1932 - Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
● 1932 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor
● 1933 - Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
● 1934 - Giorgos Konstadinou, Greek actor and director
● 1939 - John Cleese, British actor and writer
● 1940 - John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
● 1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
● 1941 - Dick Trickle, American auto racer
● 1942 - Lee Greenwood, American singer
● 1945 - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
● 1945 - John Kane, actor/writer
● 1946 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
● 1946 - Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director
● 1949 - Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band)
● 1949 - Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
● 1950 - Fran Lebowitz, American writer
● 1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
● 1951 - K.K. Downing, British guitarist (Judas Priest)
● 1951 - Nancy Jacobs, American politician
● 1952 - Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
● 1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
● 1953 - Peter Firth, British actor
● 1955 - Debra Bowen, American politician
● 1957 - Jeff East, American actor
● 1957 - Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
● 1958 - Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
● 1958 - Lee Carter, Alabama Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit
● 1960 - Tom Nieto, American baseball player
● 1963 - Marla Maples, American actress and model
● 1964 - Mark Taylor, Australian test cricket captain (1994-1999)
● 1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
● 1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
● 1971 - Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
● 1971 - Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
● 1971 - Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
● 1972 - Lee Clark, English footballer
● 1972 - Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
● 1972 - Brad Radke, American baseball player
● 1972 - Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
● 1972 - Maria Mutola, Mozambican athlete
● 1973 - Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
● 1975 - Zadie Smith, British novelist
● 1977 - Jiří Jarosík, Czech footballer
● 1977 - Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
● 1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
● 1978 - Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
● 1979 - Melanie Vallejo, Australian TV actress
● 1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
● 1980 - Cassia Riley, American model
● 1981 - Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
● 1982 - Patrick Fugit, American actor
● 1982 - Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
● 1982 - Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
● 1982 - Keri Hilson, American singer
● 1984 - Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
● 1984 - Brady Quinn, American football player
● 1984 - Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
● 1986 - Matty Pattison, English footballer
● 1987 - Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
● 1987 - Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
DEATHS
● 939 - King Athelstan I of England
● 1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
● 1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
● 1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland
● 1331 - Abu al-Fida, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
● 1430 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania
● 1439 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
● 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
● 1505 - Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
● 1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
● 1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador
● 1573 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
● 1605 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542)
● 1617 - Ralph Winwood, English politician
● 1670 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
● 1674 - Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
● 1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
● 1789 - John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
● 1917 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
● 1935 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
● 1942 - Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
● 1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
● 1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
● 1953 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
● 1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
● 1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
● 1975 - Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
● 1977 - James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
● 1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
● 1980 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
● 1980 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
● 1990 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
● 1990 - Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
● 1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910)
● 1990 - Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
● 1990 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
● 1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
● 1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
● 1996 - Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
● 1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
● 1999 - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
● 2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
● 2002 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
● 2003 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
● 2004 - Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
● 2006 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
● 2006 - Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abban of Magheranoidhe
● St. Abban of New Ross
● St. Elesbaan
● St. Frumentius, the saint who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia.
● Greece - Flag Day
● Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Independence Day (from Britain, 1979)
● Turkmenistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
● United States - Navy 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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