Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Foreign Policy "In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli." — Howard Zinn
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Gender Gap "Ever wonder where the feminists have been during all this???? [The controversy over whether to end Terri Schiavo's life {existence}.] I mean, here's a man who is obviously hell-bent and determined to end this woman's life. Not only that, he has involved other men in the act (attorney George Felos, Judge George Greer, and countless others) . . . yet nary a word, that I've heard, from those paragons of women's rights, the feminists.
It reminds me of the old "4-6-8-10, why are all your leaders men?" rant we used to hear them chant while we were at the abortion mills rescuing babies. At the time, I was inclined to answer that with the straightforward, "Because that's the biblical order," etc. . . . which is true, excepting abuses such as Mr. Schiavo's. But now that I know more than I did then about both co-founders of NARAL—Perhaps Michael Vice [a pro-life Christian activist in Birmingham] did better with his rejoinder, "2-4-6-10, why are all your women men?"
The nags at NARAL, NOW, Planned Parenthood, etc., are all in rebellion to biblical order and desire to be men, but men of the worst order. Men who would take their women into an abortion mill to kill their own children. Men who put themselves first, above all else. Men who become tyrannical despots in their own homes. Men who would seek to kill their own wives simply because they are inconvenient. For all their railing against "male chauvinism," they do have a strange and more than a little disturbing penchant for siding, in an actual fight, with the "chauvinistic pig" . . . or doing nothing on behalf of his female victim." — Janet Spear, "Terri Schindler-Schiavo—Where are the Feminists Crying for her Rights?" operationsaveamerica.org, 10-28-03 {I wonder if she realized that this same biblical order would never approve of hyphenating maiden and married names.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life." — Orrin G. Hatch, senator from Utah {The real problem here is that this tool really thinks this makes sense.}
{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
Galaxy NGC 474: Cosmic Blender
Credit & Copyright: Mischa Schirmer
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EVENTS
● 314 - Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses his European territories.
● 451 - At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins (ends on November 1).
● 1075 - Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia.
● 1480 - Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which resulted in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and eventual disintegration of the Horde.
● 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
● 1600 - San Marino adopts its written constitution.
● 1793 - Council at Buffalo Creek; Iroquois meet with representatives of U.S. government to appeal for end to murder and thievery by whites after Peace of 1784.
● 1821 - The government of general José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
● 1856 - The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
● 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Perryville - Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.
● 1871 - Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan. The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, having left nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire killed as many as 2,500 people making it the deadliest fire in United States history. {The cow got a bum rap.}
● 1879 - War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.
● 1886 - Birth of Pierre Besnard, Montreuil Bellay, France. Militant anarcho-trade unionist involved with the AIT, fought in Spanish Revolution of 1936.
● 1895 - Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.
● 1897 - Jewish Bund is organized secretly to defend against oppression and dictatorship. Vilnius, Russia.
● 1912 - First Balkan War (but not the last) begins. Bulgaria, Greece, Montenego, and Serbia declare war against Turkey.
● 1918 - World War I - In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
● 1932 - The Indian Air Force is established.
● 1939 - World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland.
● 1941 - Birth of Jesse Jackson, Greenville, S.C. Civil rights and political activist, known also in later years for political opportunism and camera- chasing.
● 1941 - World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
● 1944 - The Battle of Crucifix Hill, a World War II battle, occurs on Crucifix Hill just outside of Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle.
● 1952 - A three-train disaster in Harrow, London kills 112 people. Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash
● 1962 - North Korea reports 100% election turnout. Astonishingly all 100% vote for Workers' Party. The people, united, will never be arrested.
● 1962 - Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO maneuver called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine was soon accused of treason.
● 1966 - France - Colestin Freinet dies. Anarchist educator. Founded Cooperative de l'Enseignement Lanc (C.E.L), The Co-operative Institute of the Modern School (1948).
● 1967 - Revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara, age 39, is captured and summarily executed in Bolivian Highlands (by troops trained in U.S.).
● 1968 - Blacks riot in Washington, D.C. after police kill a black man.
● 1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Sealords - United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
● 1969 - Haymarket police statue bombed again, Chicago.
● 1969 - Weatherman's 'Days of Rage" in Chicago, October 8-11. Three will be shot, 300 arrested.
● 1970 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
● 1973 - Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
● 1974 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
● 1976 - Pres. Ford signs bill to terminate Indian Claims Commission, ending mechanism for repayment of lands stolen from tribes.
● 1978 - Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
● 1980 - Reggae giant Bob Marley collapses onstage during a Wailers concert in Pittsburgh -- the last one he ever performs. He is flown directly to Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City, where it is denied he is dying of a brain tumor or cancer. Marley ended up at a German disease-treatment center, and dies from a brain tumor in May 1981, en route to Jamaica.
● 1982 - Poland bans Solidarity.
● 1984 - Encampment at nuclear power station, Gorleben, West Germany.
● 1984 - American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Dennis Banks gets three-year sentence for phony riot charge after leaving sanctuary at Onondada Nation in New York.
● 1990 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount
● 1991 - Six months of daily anti-war actions begin, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
● 1991 - The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia
● 1998 - A CIA report reveals that in the 1980s the CIA ignored importation of cocaine into the U.S. by Nicaraguan "Contra" rebels who were trained and funded by the CIA.
● 1999 - New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar.
● 2001 - A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
● 2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. {This gives his new color coordinator, Tom Ridge, a place to hang his hat.}
● 2003 - Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark's engagement to Australian lawyer Mary Donaldson is announced.
● 2005 - The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC.
BIRTHS
● 1515 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)
● 1676 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)
● 1713 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793)
● 1715 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774)
● 1720 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (d. 1766)
● 1747 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807)
● 1765 - Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer (d. 1831)
● 1789 - John Ruggles, American politician (d. 1874)
● 1818 - John Henninger Reagan, American politician (d. 1905)
● 1834 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)
● 1850 - Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)
● 1863 - Edythe Chapman, American actress (d. 1948)
● 1864 - Ozias Leduc, Québécois painter (d. 1955)
● 1870 - Louis Vierne, French organist (d. 1937)
● 1877 - Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist (d. 1968)
● 1883 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
● 1884 - Walther von Reichenau, German military officer (d. 1942)
● 1887 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (d. 1956)
● 1888 - Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
● 1889 - C. E. Woolman, American airline founder (d. 1966)
● 1890 - Edward Rickenbacker, American pilot (d. 1973)
● 1890 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
● 1895 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (d. 1974)
● 1895 - Zog I, King of Albania (d. 1961)
● 1896 - Julien Duvivier, French film director (d. 1967)
● 1897 - Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (d. 1987)
● 1901 - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer (d. 1977)
● 1910 - Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999)
● 1910 - Gus Hall, American union organizer (d. 2000)
● 1910 - Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (d. 2003)
● 1917 - Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993)
● 1917 - Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002)
● 1917 - Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player (d. 1976)
● 1917 - Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
● 1918 - Ron Randell, film character actor
● 1918 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel laureate
● 1919 - Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007)
● 1920 - Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)
● 1924 - Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council
● 1927 - Jim Elliot, American missionary (d. 1956)
● 1927 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
● 1928 - Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer
● 1928 - Bill Maynard, British actor
● 1929 - Valdir Pereira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2001)
● 1930 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)
● 1932 - Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
● 1936 - Rona Barrett, American gossip columnist
● 1938 - Fred Stolle, Australian tennis player
● 1938 - Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky
● 1939 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor
● 1940 - Fred Cash, American singer (The Impressions)
● 1941 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
● 1943 - Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor
● 1943 - R. L. Stine, American author
● 1944 - Susan Raye, American singer
● 1946 - Jean-Jacques Beineix, French film director
● 1946 - Dennis Kucinich, American politician
● 1948 - Benjamin Cheever, American novelist and editor
● 1948 - Sarah Purcell, American television host
● 1948 - Johnny Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2004)
● 1948 - Pedro López, Colombian serial killer
● 1948 - Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006)
● 1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
● 1950 - Robert Kool Bell, American musician (Kool & the Gang)
● 1951 - Jack O'Connell, American politician
● 1952 - Jan Marijnissen, Dutch politician
● 1952 - Edward Zwick, American film director
● 1954 - Michael Dudikoff, American actor
● 1954 - Huub Rothengatter, Dutch racecar driver
● 1955 - Bill Elliott, American racecar driver
● 1956 - Stephanie Zimbalist, American actress
● 1956 - Jeff Lahti, American baseball player
● 1957 - Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer
● 1957 - Joe Castiglione, American college athletic director
● 1958 - Steve Coll, American journalist
● 1959 - Nick Bakay, American actor
● 1959 - Mike Morgan, American baseball player
● 1960 - Lorenzo Milá, Spanish newscaster
● 1960 - François Pérusse, Quebec humorist
● 1962 - Bruno Thiry, Belgian rally driver
● 1964 - CeCe Winans, American singer
● 1965 - Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish comedian and actor
● 1965 - C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
● 1966 - Art Barr, American wrestler (d. 1994)
● 1966 - Karyn Parsons, American actress
● 1967 - Yvonne Reyes, Venezuelan actress
● 1968 - Zvonimir Boban, Croatian football player
● 1968 - Emily Procter, American actress
● 1968 - Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy)
● 1969 - Julia Ann, American actress
● 1969 - Jeremy Davies, American actor
● 1969 - Dylan Neal, Canadian actor
● 1970 - Matt Damon, American actor
● 1970 - Gauri Khan, wife of Indian actor Shahrukh Khan
● 1970 - Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer
● 1970 - Soon-Yi Previn, Korean American actress
● 1972 - Stanislav Varga, Slovakian footballer
● 1974 - Fredrik Modin, Swedish hockey player
● 1974 - DJ Q-Ball, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
● 1976 - Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player
● 1976 - Renate Groenewold, Dutch speed skater
● 1977 - Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain-bike rider
● 1979 - Kristanna Loken, American actress
● 1979 - Paul Burchill, English professional wrestler
● 1979 - Gregori Chad Petree, American musician (Shiny Toy Guns)
● 1980 - Mike Mizanin, American wrestler
● 1980 - Nick Cannon, American actor
● 1981 - Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1983 - Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper
● 1983 - Travis Pastrana, American motorsports competitor
● 1985 - Eiji Wentz, German-Japanese entertainer
● 1989 - Armand Traore, French footballer
● 1993 - Angus T. Jones, American actor
DEATHS
● 976 - Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen
● 1286 - John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)
● 1317 - Fushimi, Emperor of Japan (b. 1265)
● 1621 - Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist
● 1647 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
● 1652 - John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602)
● 1656 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1585)
● 1659 - Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary
● 1735 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
● 1754 - Henry Fielding, English author (b. 1707)
● 1772 - Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (b. 1711)
● 1793 - John Hancock, American revolutionary (b. 1737)
● 1795 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman (b. 1725)
● 1809 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)
● 1834 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
● 1847 - Rose Scott, Social Reformer
● 1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
● 1879 - Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (b. 1834)
● 1886 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)
● 1897 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
● 1928 - Larry Semon, comedian (b. 1889)
● 1931 - Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
● 1936 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)
● 1936 - Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)
● 1942 - Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer
● 1944 - Wendell Willkie, American politician (b. 1892)
● 1945 - Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)
● 1952 - Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)
● 1953 - Nigel Bruce, British actor (b. 1895)
● 1953 - Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b. 1912)
● 1958 - Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
● 1967 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
● 1970 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)
● 1970 - Jean Giono, French author (b. 1895)
● 1973 - Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher (b. 1889)
● 1977 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer , composer , lyricist (b. 1902 )
● 1982 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (b. 1915)
● 1982 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)
● 1983 - Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
● 1990 - B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)
● 1992 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
● 1997 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913)
● 1999 - John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
● 2002 - Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
● 2004 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
● 2004 - James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
● 2006 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1975)
● 2007 - John Henry, American race horse (b. 1975)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Palatia
● St. Laurentia
● Wales and Cornwall:
● St. Keyne
● French Republican Calendar - Citrouille (Pumpkin) Day, seventeenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Bolivia - reportedly, Che Guevara is honoured on this day at which he was captured in La Higuera, as San Ernesto, answering prayers for rain.
● Independence Day in Croatia
● Navy Day in Peru
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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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