Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Fools & Fanatics "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." — Plato
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Holy War "As chief justice of the state of Alabama, it is my duty to administer the justice system of our state, not destroy it. I have no intention of removing the monument. . . . To do so would, in effect, result in the disestablishment of our system of justice in this state. This I cannot and will not do." — Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore announcing he would defy a Federal District Court order to remove a 20-ton monument of the Ten Commandments from the state judicial building. Todd Kleffman, "Moore won't move display," Montgomery Advertiser, 8-15-03. {Moore was eventually removed from the bench along with his monument.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, "Thank God, I'm still alive." But of course, those who died—their lives will never be the same again." — Barbara Boxer, representative from California {Of course, quotes like this did nothing to alleviate the new acronym "TWITS" (Two Women In The Senate) when she joined Diane Feinstein in the Senate.}
{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
Two Million Galaxies
Credit & Copyright: S. Maddox (Nottingham U.) et al. APM Survey, Astrophys. Dept. Oxford U.
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 3761 B.C.E. - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
● 336 - Pope Mark dies, leaving the papacy vacant.
● 1492 - Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
● 1506 - Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna.
● 1513 - Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
● 1520 - First public burning of books in Flanders, in Leuven. {Thus began the most idiotic of traditions.}
● 1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Santa Catalina Island off California coast.
● 1571 - The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet.
● 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
● 1637 - Prince Frederick Henry of Orange occupies Breda.
● 1690 - English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade.
● 1702 - English/Dutch troops under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough occupy Roermond.
● 1714 - Beer tax riots in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.
● 1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India).
● 1763 - George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
● 1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY.
● 1769 - English explorer, Captain Cook, sails to New Zealand.
● 1776 - Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
● 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Americans beat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
● 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
● 1800 - Gabrial Prosser, leader of Virginia slave revolt, executed.
● 1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood.
● 1816 - The first double-decked steamboat, the "Washington," arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
● 1825 - Miramichi Fire, disaster in New Brunswick
● 1826 - Granite Railway (first chartered railway in the U.S.) begins operations.
● 1828 - The city of Patras, Greece is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
● 1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
● 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe dies at 5:00 A.M. four days after being found in a Baltimore gutter.
● 1864 - Battle of Darbytown Road (American Civil War): the Confederate forces' attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is thwarted.
● 1864 - American Civil War: U.S.S. "Wachusett" captures the C.S.S. "Florida" Confederate raider ship while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
● 1865 - The Morant Bay Rebellion starts in Jamaica.
● 1868 - Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the most at any American university to that date.
● 1870 - Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon.
● 1879 - Birth of Joe Hill, IWW organizer and songwriter, in Gaule, Sweden.
● 1879 - Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
● 1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
● 1888 - Sargent C. Johnson born, Boston, Mass. Pioneering artist of the Harlem Renaissance, known for his wood, cast stone, and ceramic sculptures. Among his most famous works is "Forever Free" and "Mask."
● 1891 - Birth of Archibald John Motley, Jr., New Orleans, LA. Renowned African American painter of the 1920s and 30s.
● 1897 - Birth of Elijah Muhammad, Sandersville, Ga. A leader in the Nation of Islam, the largest African-American movement since Garveyism.
● 1905 - October general strike begins with printers’ walkout in Moscow.
● 1907 - France's Henry Farman flies 30 miles in a biplane.
● 1908 - Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece.
● 1908 - Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact.
● 1912 - The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
● 1914 - The Marriage of Rose Fitzgerald to Joseph Patrick Kennedy
● 1919 - KLM of the Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
● 1919 - First London-Amsterdam airline service (Britain Aerial Transport and KLM).
● 1920 - H.G. Wells, author/socialist, on a trip to Russia, is invited to address the Petrograd Soviet.
● 1922 - Former mayor of Rotterdam Alfred Zimmerman is appointed to represent The Netherlands in the League of Nations.
● 1924 - Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms.
● 1927 - Birth of R.D. Laing, British radical anti-psychiatrist.
● 1928 - Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned negus of Abyssinia by Empress Zauditu.
● 1929 - Ramsay MacDonald is the first British premier to address the U.S. Congress.
● 1931 - Birth of South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to dismantle apartheid.
● 1931 - Death of Andre Colomer, Cerbore (Catalonia). Poet, anarchist, and finally a Communist. Fled the country during WWI, refusing military service. In 1927, he broke with anarchism, to become a "true Communist" (only a few years before he had denounced the Bolshevik dictatorship). Moved to the U.S.S.R., where he died.
● 1931 - First infrared photograph, Rochester, New York.
● 1938 - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J.
● 1940 - World War II: Germany invades Romania.
● 1940 - World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
● 1941 - World War II: German army occupies Viazma, U.S.S.R.
● 1941 - John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Australia
● 1942 - U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations.
● 1942 - World War II: A salvo of Katyusha rockets destroys a German battalion in Stalingrad.
● 1942 - The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
● 1943 - World War II: Japan executes 100 American civilian prisoners on Wake Island.
● 1944 - Inmates at Auschwitz revolt and destroy one of four crematoriums before their revolt is quickly put down.
● 1944 - World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp.
● 1944 - World War II: Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin.
● 1944 - World War II: Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen.
● 1949 - German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed.
● 1950 - Annexation of Tibet by China.
● 1950 - United States forces cross the 38th parallel, Korean War.
● 1951 - Malayan Emergency: Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney.
● 1951 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government.
● 1957 - England - Fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor north of Liverpool, spreads radioactive material throughout the countryside. In 1983, the British government said 39 people probably died of cancer as a result.
● 1958 - President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
● 1958 - U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury.
● 1959 - U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the Far side of the Moon.
● 1960 - Second Kennedy and Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy in the second of four scheduled debates.
● 1962 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R.
● 1963 - Government awards $750,000 to Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation as payment for land expropriated.
● 1963 - John F. Kennedy signs ratification for Partial Test Ban Treaty.
● 1963 - Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190.
● 1967 - Nationwide demonstrations and riots in Japan begin against Vietnam War and government policies.
● 1968 - Hollywood adopts the movie ratings system.
● 1969 - Black football players at the Univ. of Wyoming are kicked off the team for protesting against the segregated Brigham Young University.
● 1970 - Australia - Draft Resistor's Union underground network becomes operational.
● 1970 - Richard Nixon announces a new five-point peace proposal to end the Vietnam War.
● 1974 - Washington, D.C. police stop the car of Representative Wilbur Mills (D- AR), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, at the Tidal Basin, finding him "intoxicated, scratched, and bleeding." While questioning him, Annabel Battistella, a stripper known as "Fanne Fox, the Argentine Firecracker," jumps out of his car and leaps into the water.
● 1975 - John Lennon wins his lengthy three-year fight to stay in the U.S. when the three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals in New York rules that his 1968 arrest in Britain for possession of marijuana was contrary to U.S. ideas of due process and is invalid as a means of banishing him from America.
● 1975 - Gerald R. Ford signs legislation allowing women to apply for admission to the U.S. military academies, effective in 1976.
● 1977 - The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
● 1984 - Twenty thousand march against Marcos dictatorship, Manila, Philippines.
● 1985 - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals erects giant rabbit banner near U.S. Capitol to protest testing of cosmetics on rabbits.
● 1985 - The "Achille Lauro" is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
● 1989 - "Housing Now!" march draws 200,000 in Washington, D.C.
● 1998 - Gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
● 2000 - Rally against Star Wars, Wall Street, New York.
● 2001 - U.S. begins bombing campaign against Taliban government of Afghanistan, abruptly ending most food aid to the estimated 7.5 millions at risk of starvation in the coming winter.
● 2001 - British national railway infrastructure company Railtrack put into railway administration in controversial circumstances.
● 2002 - Maher Arar is deported by the US government to Syria, where he is tortured and held without charge for a year before being returned home to Canada.
● 2003 - Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office term. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor. {A sure sign that the bandwagon and 'star' effects on elections can sour good sound reasoning.}
● 2004 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
BIRTHS
● 1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
● 1573 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
● 1576 - John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
● 1713 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
● 1728 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer (d. 1784)
● 1744 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
● 1748 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
● 1769 - Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
● 1786 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
● 1835 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
● 1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
● 1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)
● 1866 - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
● 1881 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
● 1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962)
● 1888 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
● 1892 - Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982)
● 1894 - Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
● 1897 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (d. 1975)
● 1900 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (d. 1945)
● 1905 - Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
● 1907 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (d. 2001)
● 1910 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
● 1911 - Vaughn Monroe, American singer (d. 1973)
● 1911 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
● 1912 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
● 1913 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (d. 1987)
● 1914 - Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)
● 1914 - Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)
● 1917 - June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)
● 1919 - Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician
● 1921 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d. 2004)
● 1922 - Grady Hatton, American baseball player
● 1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
● 1923 - Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps
● 1926 - Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
● 1927 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist (d. 1989)
● 1927 - Al Martino, American singer and actor
● 1928 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
● 1929 - Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
● 1931 - Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
● 1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
● 1934 - Amiri Baraka, American writer
● 1934 - Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (d. 1976)
● 1935 - Thomas Keneally, Australian author
● 1936 - Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
● 1937 - Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
● 1939 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
● 1939 - Clive James, Australian TV presenter and writer
● 1939 - Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1939 - Bill Snyder, American football coach
● 1940 - Bruce Vento, U.S. Congressman from Minnesota (d. 2000)
● 1943 - Joy Behar, American co-host of The View
● 1943 - José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
● 1943 - Oliver North, U.S. Marine and politician
● 1944 - Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
● 1944 - Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong
● 1945 - Kevin Godley, British musician (10cc)
● 1946 - Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
● 1946 - Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
● 1948 - Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
● 1949 - Dave Hope, American musician (Kansas)
● 1950 - Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician
● 1951 - John Mellencamp, American singer
● 1951 - David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
● 1952 - Mary Badham, American actress
● 1952 - Vladimir Putin, Russian politician
● 1952 - Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d.2002)
● 1952 - Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
● 1953 - Tico Torres, Drummer (Bon Jovi)
● 1954 - Kenneth Atchley, American composer
● 1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
● 1957 - Michael W. Smith, American singer
● 1957 - Jayne Torvill, British figure skater
● 1958 - Judy Landers, American actress
● 1959 - Dylan Baker, American character actor
● 1959 - Simon Cowell, English recording executive
● 1959 - Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
● 1959 - Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician
● 1960 - Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
● 1960 - Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
● 1961 - Matthew Roloff, American actor and reality star
● 1962 - Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician
● 1964 - Sam Brown, Singer-songwriter
● 1965 - Genji Hashimoto, Japanese racing driver
● 1966 - Toni Braxton, American singer
● 1966 - Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer
● 1967 - Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)
● 1968 - Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead)
● 1969 - Malia Hosaka, Hawaiian professional wrestler
● 1969 - Javier Álvarez, Spanish singer-songwriter
● 1970 - Nicole Ari Parker, American actress
● 1971 - Daniel Boucher, Quebecois musician
● 1972 - Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director
● 1973 - Dida, Brazilian footballer
● 1973 - Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer
● 1974 - Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
● 1974 - Alexander Polinsky, American actor
● 1975 - Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
● 1975 - Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
● 1976 - Taylor Hicks, American musician
● 1976 - Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
● 1976 - Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer
● 1976 - Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
● 1976 - Charles Woodson, American football player
● 1976 - Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
● 1977 - Brandon Quinn, an american actor
● 1977 - Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
● 1978 - Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
● 1978 - Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
● 1979 - Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
● 1979 - Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
● 1979 - Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
● 1979 - Susan Eldridge, American supermodel
● 1980 - Edison Chen, Canadian-born actor
● 1982 - Jermain Defoe, English footballer
● 1982 - Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
● 1984 - Ikuta Toma, Japanese Singer/Actor
● 1986 - Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
● 1987 - Jeremy Brockie, Australian footballer
● 1988 - Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)
● 2001 - Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho
DEATHS
● 336 - Pope Mark
● 929 - Charles the Simple, King of France (b. 879)
● 1368 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
● 1553 - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500)
● 1555 - Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)
● 1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet
● 1612 - Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat, (b. 1538)
● 1620 - Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)
● 1637 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
● 1651 - Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)
● 1653 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)
● 1708 - Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
● 1772 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
● 1787 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
● 1792 - George Mason, American patriot (b. 1725)
● 1793 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)
● 1796 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
● 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
● 1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
● 1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
● 1906 - Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
● 1911 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
● 1919 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
● 1925 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
● 1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
● 1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
● 1943 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
● 1956 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
● 1959 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
● 1966 - Smiley Lewis, American musician (b. 1913)
● 1967 - Norman Angell, British politician and Nobel Laureate (b. 1872)
● 1969 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
● 1981 - Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895)
● 1991 - Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
● 1992 - Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
● 1992 - Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
● 1993 - Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
● 1994 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born Danish immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
● 1996 - Grigoris Asikis, Greek hero and God. A singer and songwriter. (b. 1890)
● 1998 - Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)
● 2001 - Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
● 2001 - Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
● 2001 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
● 2003 - Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932)
● 2003 - Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931) {This guy was capable of something few others are, he could make O'Reilly, Limbaugh or Hannity look like intelligent reasoned thinkers.}
● 2004 - Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
● 2005 - Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
● 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
● 2007 - Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of the Rosary
● St. Justina
● St. Pope Mark.
● St. Osyth
● Eastern Orthodox:
● Sts. Sergius and Bacchus
● French Republican Calendar - Sixteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Brazil - Composer Day
● East Germany (formerly) - Republic 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.
Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.
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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