Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Families "Unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest, schools, playgrounds, and public assistance, and private concern, will never be enough." — Lyndon B. Johnson
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Love Thy Neighbor "I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good." — Randall Terry {Terry is the founder and president of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, that openly advocates violence against abortion providers.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." — J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director {If anything oral-genital intimacy would seem more likely to promote interstate commerce.}
{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
Comet Encke's Tail Ripped Off
Credit: Angelos Vourlidas (NRL) et al., SECCHI / STEREO, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 2333 B.C.E. - The state of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao.
● 42 B.C.E. - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
● 1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
● 1574 - The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
● 1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
● 1739 - The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
● 1778 - British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
● 1795 - General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government.
● 1838 - Chief Blackhawk, Native American leader, dies.
● 1849 - During electioneering in Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe is kept drunk by a gang of political hacks who have him vote repeatedly at the polls; in four days he is dead. {to write never more}
● 1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the fourth Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.
● 1866 - 250 die as the steamer Evening Star, en route from New York City to New Orleans, founders at sea.
● 1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
● 1881 - Birth of Louis Bara, Denain. French anarchist, anti-militarist who does prison time for his outspokenness. Collaborator in the anti-militarist newspaper "The Social War. "
● 1889 - Carl von Ossietzky born, Hamburg. Pacifist, winner of Nobel Peace Prize, died in Nazi concentration camp.
● 1896 - British socialist, designer, printer, author, William Morris dies, Kelmscott house. Wrote the utopian novel "News From Nowhere."
● 1908 - The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
● 1909 - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn arrested in Missoula, Mont. free speech fight.
● 1915 - World Federation of Trade Unions founded.
● 1918 - King Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne.
● 1920 - One million English miners strike against the lengthening of work hours.
● 1922 - Rebecca L. Felton is appointed the first woman U.S. Senator. It does not become a trend.
● 1925 - Birth of Gore Vidal, gay author/actor, West Point, New York.
● 1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
● 1932 - 164 high schoolers strike after school buys coal from scab Peabody Co.; militia called.
● 1932 - Iraq gains independence from Britain.
● 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
● 1942 - Spaceflight: First successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.
● 1945 - Seven-state Greyhound bus strike.
● 1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon. {Strangely, the US does not threaten invasion and regime change to stop the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction.}
● 1953 - Petrobras is founded by the Brazilian government.
● 1955 - Captain Kangaroo debuts on CBS and The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC. {I always preferred the Captain's lower key, less profit driven approach. The exception of course was that Annette was one hot babe.}
● 1957 - Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
● 1961 - San Francisco to Moscow Walk For Peace reaches Moscow's Red Square.
● 1962 - U.S. closes ports to ships carrying cargo to Cuba.
● 1962 - Project Mercury: Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
● 1967 - Radical folk singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie dies in New York at the age of 55. Guthrie had spent the last decade of his life in the hospital, suffering from Huntington's disease.
● 1968 - Univ. of Washington ROTC building torched by anti-war protesters in Seattle.
● 1968 - Vice-presidential candidate Curtis LeMay, on the American Independent Party ticket with George Wallace, urges use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam. His party gets nearly 10 million votes. The architect of the Strategic Air Command says, regarding North Vietnam, "We should stop swatting flies and go after the manure pile."
● 1981 - A hunger strike by Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is called off after seven months and 10 deaths. Imprisoned Irish Republic Army leader Bobby Sands initiated the protest on March 1--the fifth anniversary of the British policy of "Criminalisation" of Irish political prisoners. Prior to 1976, Irish political prisoners were incarcerated in British prisons under "Special Category Status," which granted them a number of privileges that ordinary criminals did not enjoy. Despite Sands' election as MP from Fermanagh and South Tyrone after the first month of his hunger strike, and his subsequent death from starvation a month later, the government of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher would not give in, and nine more Irish perished before the strike was called off. In the aftermath, the British government quietly concedes to some of the strikers' demands, such as the rights to wear civilian clothing, to associate with each other, to receive mail and visits, and to not be penalized for refusing prison work.
● 1981 - The Communist Party of Namibia is founded at a conference in Angola.
● 1985 - Space Shuttle Atlantis flies its maiden voyage. (STS-51-J)
● 1986 - U.S. Congress requires schools to inspect for asbestos hazards.
● 1990 - A Florida record store owner is found guilty of distributing obscene material - 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" LP.
● 1990 - Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Nearly a million people gather at the Reichstag in Berlin, and at midnight a replica of the Liberty Bell, a gift from the United States, is rung, officially proclaiming reunification. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.
● 1993 - Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
● 1995 - O.J. Simpson, domestic violence poster boy and former football star, is acquitted of the 1994 murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles, California. The sensational case triggered a media frenzy and raised--without answering--difficult questions of race, gender, and class. {Setting back race relations by decades in Southern California and exposing the class disparities the criminal justice system.}
BIRTHS
● 1716 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
● 1720 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
● 1790 - John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
● 1792 - Francisco Morazán, Central American statesman
● 1797 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
● 1800 - George Bancroft, American historian and Secretary of the Navy (d. 1891)
● 1802 - John Gorrie, American scientist (d. 1855)
● 1804 - Townsend Harris, 1st U.S. Consul to Japan (d. 1878)
● 1804 - Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)
● 1806 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
● 1828 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897)
● 1858 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
● 1862 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
● 1863 - Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)
● 1869 - Alfred Flatow, German Olympic champion gymnast (d. 1942)
● 1880 - Warner Oland, Swedish-born actor (d. 1938)
● 1882 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
● 1885 - Langley Collyer, hoarder (d. 1947)
● 1885 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)
● 1889 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
● 1894 - Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
● 1894 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (d. 1976)
● 1895 - Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)
● 1895 - Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (d. 1925)
● 1896 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987)
● 1897 - Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
● 1898 - Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969)
● 1899 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)
● 1900 - Thomas Wolfe, American author (d. 1938)
● 1901 - Jean Grémillon, French film director (d. 1959)
● 1904 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
● 1911 - Michael Hordern, English actor (d. 1995)
● 1915 - Ray Stark, American film producer (d. 2004)
● 1916 - James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)
● 1916 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (d. 1969)
● 1919 - James M. Buchanan, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1922 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
● 1923 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
● 1924 - Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter
● 1924 - Harvey Kurtzman, U.S. cartoonist and founding editor of Mad magazine (d. 1993)
● 1925 - Gore Vidal, American author
● 1928 - Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1986)
● 1928 - Alvin Toffler, American writer and futurist
● 1929 - Bert Stern, American photographer
● 1931 - Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender
● 1933 - Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
● 1935 - Charles Duke, American astronaut
● 1936 - Steve Reich, American composer
● 1938 - Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
● 1938 - Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer
● 1940 - Alan O'Day, American singer and songwriter
● 1940 - Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1941 - Chubby Checker, American musician
● 1942 - Alan Rachins, American actor
● 1943 - Jeff Bingaman, Democratic U.S. Senator from New Mexico
● 1944 - Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
● 1944 - Roy Horn, Magician
● 1945 - Kay Baxter, American bodybuilder (d. 1988)
● 1946 - Biff Henderson, American television personality
● 1947 - John Perry Barlow, American musician
● 1948 - Michael Medved, American film critic
● 1949 - Lindsey Buckingham, American musician (Fleetwood Mac)
● 1949 - J. P. Dutta, Indian Bollywood fim director
● 1950 - Pamela Hensley, American actress
● 1951 - Bernard Cooper, American writer
● 1951 - Keb' Mo', American singer
● 1951 - Dave Winfield, American baseball player
● 1954 - Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player
● 1954 - Al Sharpton, American minister and activist
● 1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (d. 1990)
● 1956 - Hart Bochner, Canadian film actor/director
● 1957 - Tim Westwood, Pimp My Ride UK presenter and DJ
● 1959 - Fred Couples, American golfer
● 1959 - Greg Proops, American actor and comedian
● 1959 - Jack Wagner, American actor
● 1962 - Tommy Lee, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
● 1963 - Marion Peck, American artist and painter
● 1964 - Clive Owen, British actor
● 1965 - Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
● 1966 - Darrin Fletcher, Major League Baseball player
● 1966 - Frank Hannon American guitarist Tesla (band)
● 1967 - Rob Liefeld, American comic book writer and artist
● 1968 - Paul Crichton, English footballer
● 1968 - Greg Foster, American basketball player
● 1969 - Gwen Stefani, American singer (No Doubt)
● 1969 - Tetsu, Japanese bassist (L'Arc~en~Ciel)
● 1971 - Wil Cordero, baseball player
● 1971 - Kevin Richardson, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
● 1972 - Garrett Dutton, American musician (G. Love and Special Sauce)
● 1972 - Black Thought, American rapper (The Roots)
● 1973 - Keiko Agena, Japanese-American actress
● 1973 - Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
● 1973 - Angélica Gavaldón, Mexican tennis player
● 1973 - Lena Headey, British actress
● 1974 - Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
● 1974 - Mike Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1975 - India.Arie, American singer
● 1975 - Talib Kweli, American rapper
● 1975 - Alanna Ubach,American actress
● 1976 - Seann William Scott, American actor
● 1978 - Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)
● 1978 - Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
● 1978 - Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
● 1978 - Shannyn Sossamon, American actress
● 1979 - John Hennigan, American professional wrestler
● 1979 - Daniel Hollie, American professional wrestler
● 1981 - Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer
● 1981 - Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer
● 1981 - Matt Murton, American baseball player
● 1981 - Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress
● 1982 - Erik von Detten, American actor
● 1983 - Fred, Brazilian footballer
● 1983 - Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
● 1984 - Yoon Eun Hye, South Korean actress
● 1984 - Ashlee Simpson, American singer {or at least lip syncher}
● 1987 - Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican Miss Universe
● 1988 - Tadhg Kelly, American actor
● 1996 - Adair Tishler, American child actress
DEATHS
● 42 B.C.E. - Gaius Cassius Longinus
● 1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
● 1283 - David ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Gwynedd (executed)
● 1369 - Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
● 1568 - Elizabeth of Valois, wife of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
● 1596 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
● 1611 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
● 1629 - Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
● 1649 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
● 1653 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (b. 1612)
● 1656 - Myles Standish, English-born soldier
● 1690 - Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648)
● 1701 - Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
● 1801 - Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
● 1833 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (b. 1754)
● 1867 - Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)
● 1873 - Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader (executed)
● 1877 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814)
● 1881 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
● 1890 - Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824)
● 1891 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
● 1929 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
● 1929 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
● 1931 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
● 1936 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
● 1953 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
● 1965 - Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
● 1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician (b. 1912)
● 1967 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
● 1969 - Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
● 1986 - Vince DiMaggio, American Baseball Player (b. 1912)
● 1987 - Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)
● 1987 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
● 1988 - Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician (b. 1915)
● 1990 - Stefano Casiraghi, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (b. 1960)
● 1993 - Killed in the Battle of Mogadishu
● Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1958)
● Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1960)
● 1994 - Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
● 1998 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
● 1999 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
● 2000 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (b. 1947)
● 2002 - Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
● 2002 - Robert Krausz, Stock market advisor and investor (b. 1936)
● 2003 - Florence Stanley, American actress (b. 1924)
● 2003 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author (b. 1907)
● 2004 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (b. 1960)
● 2004 - Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
● 2005 - Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)
● 2006 - Alberto Ramento, Filipina bishop (b. 1937)
● 2006 - John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)
● 2006 - Peter Norman, Australian track star (b. 1942)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● French Republican Calendar - Immortelle (Strawflower) Day, twelfth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Germany - Day of German Unity
● Leiden - Siege of Leiden
● South Korea - National Foundation Day (Gaecheonjeol 개천절)
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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