Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Kindness "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." — Dalai Lama
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Clouded Crystal Ball "Knowing all the cards liberals will try to play is enormously helpful. But knowing how best to respond and to play the cards in our own hand is absolutely essential. For this we must look to three modern conservative leaders who offer and extraordinary model of how to move our ideas from vision to victory in the twenty-first century: Ronald Reagan, Newt Gringrich, and George W. Bush. Each has been a strong leader. Each has been a man of ideas . . . — Sean Hannity, Let Freedom Ring, NY: Reganbooks, HarperCollins, 2002, pp.246-247
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "This is a great day for France!"—while attending the funeral of Charles de Gaulle — Following the Watergate scandal, the name Richard Nixon became almost synonymous with government corruption. We discovered that not only was Nixon corrupt, but he also had a flair for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time—with a tape recorder running. Tricky Dick is Hall of Shame Member # 4.
{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
A Tale of Comet Holmes
Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder and (inset) Paolo Berardi
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EVENTS
● 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
● 1483 - Birth of Anti-Church-of-Rome reformer Martin Luther.
● 1520 - Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
● 1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy. {Contains "I think, therefore I am."}
● 1674 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
● 1766 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin{Benjamin's disowned son}, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating two battalions of Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy.
● 1794 - French national convention banishes emigrant nobles forever, confiscates their estates.
● 1835 - Birth of Lakshmibai, born into a Brahmin family in Varanasi, India. At age eight, Lakshmibai marries the raja of Jhansi. When her husband dies in 1853, the English seize Jhansi and deny Lakshmibai the throne. During the Great Rebellion--which the British call the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, 22-year-old Lakshmibai joins the rebels and trains an army of women to defend her fortress. In 1858, she is forced to abandon Jhansi, but escapes with most of her troops. Male rebel leaders ignore her warnings of imminent British attack. Lakshmibai died in the ensuing battle while commanding 300 troops. She becomes a national heroine in India.
● 1865 - Confederate Captain Harry Wirz, commander of Andersonville Prison, where crowded conditions and appalling lack of sanitary facilities led to deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers, hanged for murder, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
● 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
● 1879 - Birth of Patrick Henry Pearse, Irish freedom fighter, Dublin.
● 1887 - Chicago Haymarket "martyr" Louis Lingg cheats the state the day before his scheduled execution, commits suicide in his prison cell. Lingg was one of eight men accused of the bombing in the notorious Haymarket Riot. He was found guilty (on very weak evidence) and, along with four others, sentenced to be hanged. Lingg however, had a dynamite cap smuggled into his cell and detonated it in his mouth, cheating the State of all its glory. (All the accused were posthumously pardoned.)
● 1891 - Birth of Simon Radowitzky. Polish anarchist who killed police chief Ramon Falcon and his secretary with a bomb, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
● 1893 - Birth of Gregori Maximoff, Russian anarcho-syndicalist, Mitushino, Smolensk. Joined the revolutionary movement while a student, was an active propagandist and, after the 1917 revolution, joined the Red Army. When the Bolsheviks used the Army for police work and disarming the workers, he refused to obey orders and was sentenced to death. The solidarity of the steelworkers' union saved his life. A leading figure in N.A.B.A.T. (Anarchist Organizations of Ukraine, organized by Voline) and secretary of the Confederation of Russian Anarcho-Trade Unions. Imprisoned, along with other members of NABAT, on March 8, 1921, during the Kronstadt revolt, in the Taganka Prison, Moscow. Expelled, along with Voline and others, he went to Berlin, where he participated in founding the A.I.T. (umbrella organization of anarcho-trade unionists of 12 countries, which encompassed several million members. Moved to Paris, then to the U.S., where he settled in Chicago. Became a leading newspaper trade unionist of the I.W.W. Edited several anarchist publications until his death in 1950.
● 1898 - Four hundred Democratic Party activists in Wilmington, North Carolina storm through the black section of town, assassinating black political officeholders. Thirty (possibly as many as 100) blacks died in the massacre. They then depose the mayor, force all remaining black officials to resign, and institute new government by force.
● 1910 - The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
● 1919 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).
● 1924 - Society for Human Rights, first gay rights organization in the U.S., founded in Chicago.
● 1924 - Llacer and Montejo, members of the Spanish anacho-syndicalist union C.N.T, executed for their role in the Spanish uprisings sparked by the revolt in Vera de Bidassoa.
● 1924 - Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
● 1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan, Emperor Showa.
● 1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
● 1942 - World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
● 1944 - Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
● 1945 - Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
● 1949 - Louis Rimbault dies. French Libertarian militant and propagandist of vegetarianism. Lived in the libertarian communist Colony of Bascon (Aisne) (1910-1912). Convicted for "complicity" in Bonnot Gang activities, he feigned mental illness to gain his release. An active opponent of state communism.
● 1951 - Hosea Richardson becomes first black horse jockey to ride in Florida.
● 1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service (long distance telephone calls without operator assistance) begins in the United States. {It would be almost thirty years before the service is universal in all the United States.}
● 1952 - Blacks lead one-day strike against curfew, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
● 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
● 1958 - The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
● 1964 - Re-introduction of conscription announced for Vietnam War, Australia.
● 1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
● 1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
● 1970 - Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.
● 1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.
● 1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
● 1973 - Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5" burned as a "tool of the Devil" by school board, and the teacher who assigned it is fired, Drake, North Dakota.
● 1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. {Immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot.}
● 1975 - United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991 with Resolution 4686).
● 1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union, dies of a heart attack, after several years of near-incapacitation by "minor colds."
● 1994 - Iraq formally recognizes nation of Kuwait.
● 1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other human rights activists are executed by the illegal military government of Nigeria. Clinton administration refuses to pursue sanctions.
● 2001 - Despite an official ban on such demonstrations, tens of thousands of Germans participate in four days of protests and direct actions to block the shipment of high-level nuclear waste from France across the country to a storage site at Gorleben.
● 2006 - Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.
BIRTHS
● 745 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)
● 1341 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
● 1433 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1477)
● 1483 - Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer (d. 1546)
● 1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
● 1566 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (d. 1601)
● 1577 - Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (d. 1660)
● 1620 - Ninon de l'Enclos, french courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
● 1668 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
● 1668 - François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)
● 1683 - George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
● 1695 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
● 1697 - William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)
● 1710 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
● 1728 - Oliver Goldsmith, English playwright (d. 1774)
● 1735 - Granville Sharp, English campaigner for the abolition of slavery (d. 1813)
● 1759 - Friedrich von Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)
● 1801 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
● 1801 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
● 1810 - George Jennings Sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
● 1844 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (d. 1932)
● 1845 - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894)
● 1850 - Arthur Goring Thomas, English composer (d. 1892)
● 1868 - Gichin Funakoshi, father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (d. 1957)
● 1871 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)
● 1878 - Cy Morgan, American baseball player (d. 1962)
● 1879 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (d. 1931)
● 1880 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (d. 1959)
● 1887 - Arnold Zweig, German author (d. 1968)
● 1888 - Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
● 1889 - Claude Rains, English actor (d. 1967)
● 1893 - John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
● 1895 - John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1981)
● 1895 - Mabel Normand, American silent actress (d. 1930)
● 1896 - Jimmie Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
● 1906 - Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen Belsen concentration camp (d. 1945)
● 1907 - Jane Froman, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
● 1909 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
● 1912 - Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
● 1916 - Billy May, American composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 2004)
● 1918 - Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
● 1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
● 1919 - George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (d. 1997)
● 1919 - Moise Tshombe, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1969)
● 1919 - François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
● 1920 - Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur
● 1924 - Russell Johnson, American actor (Gilligan's Island)
● 1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
● 1928 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
● 1929 - Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
● 1932 - Roy Scheider, American actor
● 1933 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
● 1934 - Lucien Bianchi, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
● 1935 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
● 1935 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist
● 1939 - Russell Means, Native American activist
● 1939 - Allan Moffat, Canadian-Australian race car driver
● 1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch, English musician and politician (d. 1999)
● 1941 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
● 1942 - Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel laureate
● 1942 - Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
● 1943 - Saxby Chambliss, American politician
● 1944 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician
● 1944 - Sir Tim Rice, English lyricist
● 1945 - Donna Fargo, American singer
● 1947 - Greg Lake, British musician
● 1947 - Glen Buxton, American musician (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
● 1947 - Dave Loggins, American songwriter and singer
● 1948 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1948 - Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist
● 1948 - Hugh Moffatt, American songwriter
● 1949 - Ann Reinking, American dancer
● 1950 - Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005)
● 1952 - Gerry DiNardo, American football coach
● 1954 - Mario Cipollina, American bass player (Huey Lewis & the News)
● 1955 - James Chapman, American novelist
● 1955 - Jack Clark, American baseball player
● 1955 - Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director
● 1956 - Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist and writer
● 1956 - Sinbad, American actor
● 1958 - Massimo Morsello, Italian singer
● 1958 - Brooks Williams, American musician
● 1958 - Stephen Herek, American film director
● 1959 - Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
● 1959 - Mackenzie Phillips, American actress
● 1959 - Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress (Known among the voices of Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Todd Flanders and Ralph Wiggum in The Simpsons)
● 1960 - Neil Gaiman, English writer
● 1961 - John Walton, English darts player
● 1961 - Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor
● 1964 - Kenny Rogers, American baseball player
● 1964 - Magnús Scheving, Icelandic athlete
● 1965 - Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racecar driver
● 1965 - Jamie Dixon, American basketball coach
● 1966 - Vanessa Angel, English actress
● 1968 - Steve Brookstein, English X Factor winner
● 1968 - Tracy Morgan, American actor/comedian
● 1969 - Ellen Pompeo, American actress
● 1969 - Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
● 1969 - Jens Lehmann, German footballer
● 1970 - Warren G, American rapper
● 1970 - Freddy Loix, Belgian rally driver
● 1972 - Shawn Green, American baseball player
● 1973 - Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
● 1975 - Jim Adkins, American musician
● 1976 - Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
● 1976 - Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
● 1977 - Brittany Murphy, American actress
● 1977 - Matt Cepicky, American baseball player
● 1978 - Eve, American rapper
● 1978 - Kyla Cole, Slovak adult actress
● 1980 - Troy Bell, American basketball player
● 1980 - Red Cordell, American television personality
● 1981 - Tony Blanco, American baseball player
● 1981 - Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
● 1981 - Alison Waite, American model and Playboy Playmate
● 1982 - Heather Matarazzo, American actress
● 1983 - Miranda Lambert, American singer
● 1983 - Craig Smith, American basketball player
● 1984 - Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
● 1985 - Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
● 1986 - Josh Peck, American actor
● 1987 - Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
DEATHS
● 627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
● 901 - Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia
● 1444 - King Vladislaus III of Varna is killed in battle (b. 1424)
● 1549 - Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
● 1556 - Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
● 1596 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
● 1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
● 1617 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
● 1624 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
● 1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
● 1673 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (b. 1640)
● 1727 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
● 1728 - Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661)
● 1772 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
● 1777 - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
● 1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
● 1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854)
● 1909 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
● 1909 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
● 1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
● 1917 - Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (b. 1866)
● 1936 - Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
● 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
● 1964 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
● 1975 - Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
● 1981 - Abel Gance, French film director, producer, and actor (b. 1889)
● 1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
● 1985 - Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
● 1986 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903)
● 1990 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban baseball player (b. 1943)
● 1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
● 1991 - William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
● 1991 - Madico Fs, Australian professional wrestler (b. 1929)
● 1992 - Chuck Connors, American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. 1921)
● 1994 - Carmen McRae, American singer (b. 1920)
● 1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941)
● 1997 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
● 1998 - Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
● 2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
● 2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
● 2002 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
● 2003 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
● 2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
● 2006 - Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
● 2006 - Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
● 2006 - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
● 2006 - Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aedh MacBricc
● St. Andrew Avellino
● St. Demetrius
● St. Elaeth
● St. Guerembaldus
● St. John of Ratzeburg
● St. Justus of Canterbury
● St. Leo I the Great, Pope
● St. Leo of Melun
● St. Monitor
● St. Theoctiste
● St. Tiberius
● Sts. Trypbaena & Tryphosa
● St. Tryphon
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 25 (Civil Date: November 10)
● Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius the notaries of Constantinople.
● Martyr Anastasius the Fuller at Salona in Dalmatia.
● St. Tabitha, the widow raised from the dead by the Apostle Peter.
● St. Martyrius the deacon and St. Martyrius the recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. George of Amastrida, Bishop of and writer of canons.
● Saints Philadephus and Polycarp.
● St. Macarius, Bishop of Cyprus.
● Two Martyrs of Thrace.
● Ancient Latvia - Martini
● Argentina - Day of Tradition, honouring the death of José Hernández
● Russia - Day of Militsiya (analogue of police in Russia)
● Turkey - Day of Remembrance of Ataturk
● United States Marine Corps Birthday {God bless all jarheads for their sacrifices.}
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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.
Roman Catholic Saint of the Day
Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
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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