Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Fascism "I am worried that we are going through a kind of anti-liberal revolt, belief in a very strong state, a contempt for pluralism, for a "soft" welfare state, and a sense that we cannot afford certain freedoms." — Abbott Gleason
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Family Values "These people who work in those buildings are not innocent victims. If they work in the Federal Building, they're the very people that are typing the letters, that are making the phone calls, that are getting your land taken away from you, that are calling you up on Internal Revenue Service, that want to confiscate all of your guns. These are the same people who womp up charges against you. These are the very same people that are all involved, every one of them.
I don't care whether they're any more than a clerk or the high muckety-muck or the guy who's got BATF painted on his back, and he's the one who's knocking your door down. These people are not innocent victims. These are people that operate and move the system against you and I. These are people that have sold out to the system. These are people that are against you and I." — John Dayl, talk show host for KFYI, Phoenix, AZ, 7-21-96, on the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. "Extra! Update: Contra Crack," FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), 9-24-96. {This idiot totally ignored the many dead children in the day care center located in the building.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "The Maastricht Treaty . . . has been dealt, at least temporarily, fatal blow." — Des O'Malley, Irish government minister
{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
50th Anniversary of Sputnik: Traveling Companion
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EVENTS
● 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
● 1209 - Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
● 1226 - St. Francis of Assisi dies.
● 1227 - Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
● 1244 - The Damascus Moslems, with their allies the Templars, Hospitalers, and other Franks, march on Cairo and the Khwarismians.
● 1511 - Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
● 1535 - First complete English translation of the Bible printed in Zurich. "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for America!"
● 1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
● 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. Other countries would follow sporadically with England and possessions being one of the last in 1752, 170 years down the road.
● 1636 - The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
● 1693 - Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
● 1725 - Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
● 1777 - Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
● 1779 - The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
● 1795 - Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).
● 1798 - Republican Congressman Matthew Lyon of Vermont is sentenced to four months in jail under John Adams' Sedition Act, after criticizing President Adams in a campaign speech.
● 1816 - Birth of Eugene Potter, Paris. Poet, revolutionist. Participant in the Revolution of 1848, Paris Commune of 1881. It was then he wrote the Internationale, put to music by Pierre de Geyter in 1888, which brought him recognition as it is adopted by workers worldwide.
● 1824 - Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
● 1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
● 1853 - Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
● 1855 - Kamiakan, chief of the Yakama, defeats forces under Major Haller; first engagement of Yakama War.
● 1864 - New Orleans Tribune, first black daily newspaper, forms.
● 1879 - Founding of anarchist U.S. newspaper "Freiheit."
● 1883 - First run of the Orient Express.
● 1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
● 1884 - First issue of "The Alarm," Chicago anarchist paper.
● 1887 - Louisiana sugar workers strike, 37 peaceful strikers murdered. Louisiana Militia, aided by bands of "prominent citizens," shot unarmed black sugar workers striking to gain a dollar-per-day wage, and lynched two strike leaders.
● 1901 - Birth of Renee Lamberet, Paris. Professor, militant anarchist and historian. Went to Spain in 1936, helping to produce libertarian propaganda. After the fascist victory, supported clandestine anarchist activity in France and Spain.
● 1902 - Birth of Lucien Tronchet, Geneva. Anarchist and Swiss trade unionist. Anti-fascist activities led to prison. Went with Bertoni to Spain in 1936, fought with the anarchists against Franco. After WWII he remained a militant trade unionist, and fought for abortion rights, anti-militarism, and creation of co-operatives. Supported the squatters movement in Geneva.
● 1910 - Twenty-year-old King Manuel II of Portugal overthrown fleeing to the United Kingdom. Fighting lasts only through breakfast time, and a republic is established at lunch. On the 7th, the anti-church provisional government orders all nuns and monks to leave the country.
● 1910 - Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
● 1912 - Nicaraguan General Zeledon, an opponent of U.S. occupation, is executed.
● 1918 - An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which are still being found in 2007.
● 1921 - Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume.
● 1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore.
● 1936 - The Battle of Cable St. - Londoners stop a march by the British Union of Fascists.
● 1940 - Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
● 1942 - Nazis order that all Jews in German concentration camps be deported to Auschwitz.
● 1943 - Birth of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chairman and black nationalist H. Rap Brown, Baton Rouge, La.
● 1943 - World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
● 1944 - William Douglas-Home jailed for one year for refusing to attack Le Havre, France.
● 1946 - U.S. Navy seizes oil refineries in the U.S. to break a 20-state post-war strike.
● 1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
● 1957 - Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
● 1957 - "Leave It To Beaver" debuts on CBS television.
● 1958 - Fifth Republic of France is established.
● 1960 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
● 1961 - Mass arrest of three SNCC members and 110 Negro high school students praying on McComb (Miss.) City Hall steps in protest of Lee's slaying and suspension of two Freedom Riders--ends SNCC voter registration project.
● 1965 - The first Pope to ever visit the United States of America, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
● 1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
● 1967 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
● 1970 - Janis Joplin is found dead of an apparent heroin overdose in her room at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood. The 27-year-old had just finished recording her second solo album, "Pearl."
● 1971 - South Vietnamese President Thieu, running unopposed, declares his winning margin an "achievement for democracy."
● 1975 - A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary Ric Flair.
● 1976 - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to racist remark. {In the end, he was the butt of his own joke.}
● 1976 - Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
● 1982 - Ben Sasway becomes first public draft non-registrant imprisoned for failure to register. Madison, Wisconsin.
● 1985 - Funding for the Experimental Head Injury Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is indefinitely suspended when the cruel animal usage is revealed.
● 1985 - Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.
● 1986 - An apparently crazed homeless man attacks CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather on the streets of Washington D.C., yelling, "What's The Frequency Kenneth?"
● 1988 - U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
● 1991 - The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
● 1992 - Irish singer Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of the pope during an appearance on "Saturday Night Live." The ensuing uproar does much to damage O'Connor's popularity.
● 1992 - The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
● 1992 - El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
● 1993 - Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
● 1997 - Demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and across the country (including Seattle) protest the scheduled launch of the space probe Cassini with a plutonium payload.
● 1997 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
● 2001 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
● 2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
● 2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
BIRTHS
● 1160 - Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1220)
● 1289 - King Louis X of France (d. 1316)
● 1379 - King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
● 1515 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
● 1542 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (d. 1621)
● 1550 - King Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
● 1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
● 1570 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
● 1625 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (d. 1661)
● 1626 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1712)
● 1657 - Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747)
● 1720 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (d. 1778)
● 1723 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
● 1759 - Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)
● 1787 - François Guizot, French statesman (d. 1874)
● 1807 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada (d. 1864)
● 1814 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
● 1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
● 1841 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (d. 1912)
● 1858 - Michael Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935)
● 1861 - Frederic Remington, American painter (d. 1909)
● 1862 - Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
● 1876 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (d. 1958)
● 1877 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
● 1880 - Damon Runyon, American writer (d. 1946)
● 1881 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German Commander-in-Chief (d. 1948)
● 1884 - Subramaniya Siva, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1925)
● 1886 - Luis Alberni, Spanish actor (d. 1962)
● 1888 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
● 1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician (d. 1934)
● 1895 - Buster Keaton, American comedian (d. 1966)
● 1903 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)
● 1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer and senior Nazi (d. 1946)
● 1903 - Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist (d. 1993)
● 1907 - Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul
● 1910 - Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
● 1914 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
● 1914 - Brendan Gill, American writer (d. 1997)
● 1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1916 - Jan Murray, American comedian (d. 2006)
● 1916 - George Sidney, American film director (d. 2002)
● 1918 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
● 1922 - Malcolm Baldrige, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
● 1922 - Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman
● 1924 - Charlton Heston, American actor
● 1928 - Alvin Toffler, American author
● 1928 - Torben Ulrich, Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player
● 1929 - Scotty Beckett, American child actor, Our Gang comedies (d. 1968)
● 1929 - Leroy Van Dyke, American singer
● 1931 - Richard Rorty, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Stanford University
● 1932 - Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director
● 1934 - Sam Huff, American football player
● 1937 - Jackie Collins, British author
● 1937 - Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
● 1938 - Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate
● 1940 - Silvio Marzolini, Argentine footballer
● 1940 - Alberto Vilar, Cuban-American investor and philanthropist
● 1941 - Roy Blount, Jr., American writer
● 1941 - Anne Rice, American writer
● 1941 - Robert Wilson (director), American theatre director
● 1941 - Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian racing driver
● 1942 - Karl W. Richter, American aviator (d. 1967)
● 1943 - H. Rap Brown, American civil rights activist
● 1944 - Tony La Russa, American baseball manager
● 1944 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
● 1945 - Clifton Davis, American actor
● 1946 - Chuck Hagel, American politician
● 1946 - Bridget St John, English singer/songwriter and guitarist
● 1946 - Susan Sarandon, American actress
● 1947 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
● 1947 - Julien Clerc, French singer
● 1947 - Jim Fielder, American bassist (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
● 1948 - Linda McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment
● 1949 - Armand Assante, American actor
● 1949 - Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director
● 1950 - Meg Bennett, American writer and actress
● 1951 - Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
● 1953 - Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor
● 1955 - Jorge Valdano, Argentine footballer
● 1957 - Alexander Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast
● 1957 - Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
● 1959 - Chris Lowe, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
● 1959 - Tony Meo, English snooker player
● 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, American musician
● 1960 - Joe Boever, American baseball player
● 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author
● 1962 - Jon Secada, Cuban singer and songwriter
● 1963 - A.C. Green, American basketball player
● 1964 - Sarah Lancashire, British actress
● 1965 - Skip Heller, American musician
● 1967 - Marcus Bentley, British voice actor
● 1967 - Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer
● 1967 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
● 1970 - Richard Hancox, English footballer
● 1971 - Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer
● 1972 - Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
● 1973 - Chris Parks, American wrestler
● 1974 - Paco León, Spanish actor
● 1975 - Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian football player
● 1976 - Alicia Silverstone, American actress
● 1976 - Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian footballer
● 1978 - Ko Soo, South Korean television and movie actor
● 1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
● 1979 - Stefan Booth, British actor
● 1980 - Kristina Lenko, Canadian Ice Skater
● 1980 - Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
● 1980 - Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
● 1980 - Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
● 1981 - Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1981 - Scott Hammond, American photographer
● 1982 - Jered Weaver, American baseball player
● 1982 - Tony Gwynn Jr., American baseball player
● 1983 - Risa Kudo, Japanese gravure idol
● 1983 - Ueda Tatsuya, Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)
● 1983 - Dan Clarke, British racing driver
● 1984 - Lena Katina, Russian singer
● 1986 - Yuridia, Mexican singer
● 1989 - Lil Mama, American rapper
● 2005 - Prince Emmanuel of Belgium
DEATHS
● 1052 - Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
● 1221 - William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
● 1250 - Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
● 1305 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
● 1582 - Teresa of Avila, Spanish saint (b. 1515)
● 1597 - Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1550)
● 1646 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (b. 1586)
● 1660 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
● 1661 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (b. 1625)
● 1669 - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
● 1680 - Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer
● 1743 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (b. 1678)
● 1749 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
● 1754 - Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief
● 1785 - David Brearly, American statesman (b. 1703)
● 1821 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)
● 1851 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
● 1859 - Karl Baedeker, German publisher (b. 1801)
● 1864 - Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802)
● 1867 - Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819)
● 1890 - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
● 1903 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
● 1904 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (b. 1834)
● 1904 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
● 1910 - Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850)
● 1935 - Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
● 1935 - Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)
● 1944 - Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
● 1946 - Barney Oldfield, American automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
● 1947 - Max Planck, A German Nobel laureate (b. 1858)
● 1951 - Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)
● 1969 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)
● 1970 - Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)
● 1974 - Anne Sexton, American poet (b. 1928)
● 1975 - Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (b. 1903)
● 1981 - Freddie Lindstrom, Major League Baseball Hall of famer (b. 1905)
● 1982 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
● 1989 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941)
● 1989 - Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
● 1991 - J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (b. 1941)
● 1992 - Denny Hulme, New Zealand race care driver (b. 1936)
● 1993 - Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
● 1994 - Danny Gatton, American guitar virtuoso (b. 1945)
● 1996 - Larry Gene Bell, American child murderer (executed by electric chair)
● 1997 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game developer (b. 1941)
● 1999 - Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim), Norwegian black metal musician (b. 1969)
● 1999 - Art Farmer, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1928)
● 1999 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
● 2000 - Michael Smith, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
● 2000 - Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (b. 1914)
● 2001 - Blaise Alexander, American Race Car Driver (b. 1976)
● 2002 - Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics (b. 1917)
● 2002 - André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
● 2003 - Sid McMath, American politician (b. 1912)
● 2004 - Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
● 2005 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (b. 1924)
● 2006 - Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (b. 1933)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amun
● St. Francis of Assisi
● St. Petronius of Bologna.
● French Republican Calendar - Potiron (Pumpkin) Day, thirteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Australia - Labour Day of 2005 (ACT, NSW, & SA, 2004: first Monday of October).
● Lesotho - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966).
● World Animal Day
● The beginning of World Space Week
● Sweden celebrates National Cinnamon bun Day (since 1999).
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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