Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Feminism "Psychotherapy—a long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of Freud's shortcomings." — Marc Cooper
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Barney Fag & Lesbian Spear-Chuckers "[Mr. Hormel] has been a leader in promoting a lifestyle. . . . And the kind of leadership he's exhibited there is likely to be offensive to . . . individuals in the setting to which he will be assigned." — Sen. John Ashcroft on the nomination of James Hormel for ambassador to Luxemburg. 1-30-01. senate.gov. {This was one of Ashcroft's parting shots upon failing to win reelection against a dead guy. The war criminal Bush then appointed him US Attorney General.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I'm running for president of the United States because I believe that—with strong leadership—America's days will always lie ahead of us. Just as they lie ahead of us now." — Bob Dole {I was surprised that he didn't substitute "I'm" with "Bob Dole is" and "I believe" with "Bob Dole believes."}
{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
X-ray Stars of Orion
Credit: E.Feigelson & K.Getman (PSU) et al., CXO, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 105 B.C.E. - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
● 68 B.C.E. - Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
● 1536 - William Tyndale burned at the stake for heresy.
● 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
● 1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
● 1683 - First German pacifists arrive in Pennsylvania colony.
● 1762 - Seven Years' War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.
● 1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
● 1825 - Treaty with Makah at Fort Atkinson, Washington.
● 1845 - First co-op store in U.S. opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
● 1849 - The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
● 1854 - The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
● 1861 - Rioting Russian students closed down the University at St. Petersburg.
● 1866 - First US train robbery.
● 1884 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
● 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
● 1890 - Mormon Church outlaws polygamy, a practice which had delayed Utah's admission as a state for over 40 years. {In reality, they outlawed it if the local civil law outlawed polygamy. The actual statement said the civil authorities would pay for their "sin" in the after life for interfering with God's plan.}
● 1898 - Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.
● 1903 - Birth of Serge Gredoire in Brittany, France. Writer, pacifist militant, free thinker and libertarian.
● 1903 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
● 1906 - The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.
● 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
● 1917 - Birth of Fannie Lou Hamer, near Ruleville, Mississippi. Voting rights crusader and founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
● 1918 - First National Conference of Trade Union Women.
● 1921 - Birth of Joseph Lowery, Huntsville, Alabama. Early civil rights activist, a founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His activism includes a 2,700-mile pilgrimage to extend and strengthen the Voting Rights Act, protesting toxic waste sites in African-American communities, and actions against US corporations doing business in South Africa.
● 1921 - International PEN is founded in London.
● 1922 - The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul
● 1924 - Gandhi ends 21-day fast for Hindu-Moslem unity, India.
● 1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
● 1934 - Spain - Declaration of Catalan republic within the federal Spanish republic after uprisings occur all over the peninsula, especially Asturias.
● 1936 - Birth of Vaclav Havel. Prominent Czech playwright, poet, and statesman, one of the leading intellectual figures and moral forces in Eastern Europe. Satirized the communist bureaucracy and supported the Prague Spring reform movement in 1968. A cofounder of the human rights organization Charter 77 and the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted. His works were banned by the government, but the manuscripts circulated privately and printed in Western Europe.
● 1939 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
● 1955 - A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people
● 1966 - California makes possession and use of LSD a felony.
● 1966 - First big free concert in Golden Gate Park Panhandle. Several thousand show up for the "Love Pageant Rally"; anarchist Diggers start handing out free food (through March '67).
● 1967 - Haight-Ashbury hippies throw funeral to mark the end of hippies. Death of Hippie, Loyal Son of Media, birth of free man. A few actually still survive, but most remaining hippies today are hatchery-bred by commercial hippie farmers, and the genetic diversity ensured by the truly wild hippie is in danger of being lost due to excessive logging and commercial marketing.
● 1969 - Weathermen blow up statue in Chicago commemorating police involved in the Haymarket bombings which resulted in the execution of innocent anarchists. It will be replaced.
● 1970 - It gets blown up again.
● 1970 - About 200 bicyclists stage a "bike-in" in downtown Seattle to protest automobiles.
● 1973 - In Yom Kippur War, Egypt and Syria simultaneously attack Israel. Hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, Egyptian and Syrian forces launch surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. On October 17, Western support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War leads 11 Arab oil-producing nations, with the support of OPEC, to begin a crippling oil embargo against the U.S., Great Britain, and several other nations.
● 1976 - Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on-board were killed.
● 1976 - New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
● 1976 - Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
● 1977 - In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
● 1977 - The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
● 1978 - 346 protestors arrested at site of proposed Black Fox nuclear power plant, Inola, Oklahoma.
● 1979 - Over 1,000 arrested at Seabrook, New Hampshire, site of construction for a nuclear power plant, in an occupation organized by Clamshell Alliance.
● 1981 - President (aka "dictator") Anwar Sadat, CIA asset and Egyptian president, assassinated. One of the lesser-known of Islamic grievances against the West is the CIA's training of brutal intelligence forces used by Sadat and successor (and still head of Egypt) Hosni Mubarak to torture and murder Islamic dissidents.
● 1985 - Philip Noel-Baker, disarmament campaigner, is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
● 1986 - Seventeen hundred female flight attendants win 18-year lawsuit (includes $37 million in damages) against United Airlines, which had fired them for getting married.
● 1986 - Abram Hill dies, New York City. Founder of the American Negro Theatre (1940), where the careers of Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier are launched.
● 1986 - First observance of World Habitat Day.
● 1987 - Fiji becomes a republic.
● 1989 - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled leader, awarded Nobel Peace Prize for nearly 40-year nonviolent campaign to end China's domination of Tibet.
● 1995 - 51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
● 2000 - Slobodan Milošević resigns.
● 2002 - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
● 2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.
● 2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
BIRTHS
● 1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
● 1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
● 1510 - Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555)
● 1510 - John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
● 1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)
● 1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)
● 1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
● 1716 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
● 1744 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
● 1767 - Henri Christophe, king of Haiti (d. 1820)
● 1769 - Sir Isaac Brock, British commander (d. 1812)
● 1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
● 1801 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
● 1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
● 1820 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
● 1831 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
● 1838 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
● 1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
● 1866 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian-born inventor and radio pioneer (d. 1932)
● 1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
● 1876 - Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
● 1882 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937)
● 1886 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
● 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
● 1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
● 1895 - Caroline Gordon, American writer and critic (d. 1981)
● 1900 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
● 1903 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
● 1905 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
● 1906 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
● 1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
● 1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
● 1910 - Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
● 1912 - Pauline Gore, mother of American Vice President Al Gore (d. 2004)
● 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)
● 1915 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)
● 1915 - Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and civil rights activist (d. 2007)
● 1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977)
● 1918 - André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1993)
● 1920 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
● 1920 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
● 1921 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
● 1922 - Joe Frazier, American baseball player
● 1925 - Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005)
● 1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
● 1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer
● 1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
● 1931 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1935 - Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman and professional wrestler
● 1938 - Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder
● 1939 - John LaFalce, American politician, former Member, US House of Representatives
● 1942 - Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
● 1942 - Millie Small, Jamaican singer
● 1943 - Michael Durrell, American actor
● 1943 - Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
● 1944 - José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1977)
● 1946 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician
● 1946 - Tony Greig, South African-born English cricketer
● 1947 - Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter
● 1948 - Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
● 1950 - David Brin, American author
● 1950 - Thomas McClary, American guitarist (Commodores)
● 1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)
● 1951 - Kevin Cronin, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
● 1952 - Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer
● 1953 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
● 1954 - David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
● 1955 - Tony Dungy, American football coach
● 1959 - Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives
● 1959 - Dennis Ray Boyd, American baseball player
● 1962 - Rich Yett, baseball player
● 1963 - Elisabeth Shue, American film actress
● 1963 - Chip Foose, American automobile customizer
● 1963 - Jsu Garcia, American actor
● 1964 - Matthew Sweet, American musician
● 1965 - Ruben Sierra, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1966 - Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
● 1966 - Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
● 1967 - Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman
● 1969 - Troy Shaw, English snooker player
● 1970 - Darren Oliver, American baseball player
● 1970 - Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer
● 1971 - Phil Bennett, British racing driver
● 1971 - Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress
● 1971 - Alan Stubbs, English footballer
● 1972 - Mark Schwarzer, Australian soccer player
● 1972 - Ryu Shi-won, Korean actor and singer
● 1973 - Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer
● 1973 - Jeff Davis, American comedian
● 1973 - Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
● 1973 - Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player
● 1974 - Jeremy Sisto, American actor
● 1974 - Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
● 1976 - Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
● 1977 - Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1978 - Ricky Hatton MBE, British boxer
● 1979 - David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
● 1980 - Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
● 1981 - Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
● 1981 - José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
● 1982 - MC Lars, American hip-hop artist
● 1988 - Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
● 1992 - Rhyon Nicole Brown, American actress
● 1998 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
DEATHS
● 877 - Charles the Bald (b. 823)
● 1014 - Samuil, Emperor (Tsar) of the First Bulgarian Empire (b. 958)
● 1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
● 1413 - Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
● 1542 - Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
● 1641 - Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
● 1644 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, wife of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
● 1660 - Paul Scarron, French writer
● 1661 - Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
● 1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
● 1762 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)
● 1819 - Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)
● 1829 - Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
● 1873 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
● 1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
● 1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809)
● 1912 - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829)
● 1945 - Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (b. 1900)
● 1947 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
● 1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
● 1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (Kellogg Company) (b. 1860)
● 1959 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
● 1962 - Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)
● 1968 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematican (b. 1917)
● 1973 - François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
● 1973 - Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
● 1974 - Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1948)
● 1976 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
● 1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
● 1980 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
● 1981 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1918)
● 1983 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)
● 1985 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
● 1986 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
● 1989 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
● 1992 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
● 1992 - Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
● 1993 - Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (b. 1949)
● 1997 - Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (b. 1914)
● 1998 - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
● 1999 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
● 1999 - Gorilla Monsoon, professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)
● 2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1930)
● 2002 - Claus von Amsberg, Prince of the Netherlands and husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
● 2003 - Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (b. 1957)
● 2006 - Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
● 2006 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
● 2006 - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
● 2006 - Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Bruno
● St. Faith
● French Republican Calendar - Âne (Donkey) Day, fifteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Egypt - Armed Forces Day; commemorates the October war of 1973.
● U.S. - German-American Day observed since 1987
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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