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Sunday, November 11, 2007

November 11......

November 11 is the 315th (316th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 50 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Labor Unions "Every advance in this half-century—Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another—came with the support and leadership of American Labor." — Jimmy Carter

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Say What? "If we don't know for sure they're going to do something, or not, we need to make sure that we prevent anything they may be planning, whether or not we know or don't know about it." — [Unnamed] FBI agent. Nicholas van Hoffman, "This week's Question: Why Are We in Iraq?" New York Observer, 11-3-03.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."—discussing Watergate in 1978 — 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

NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula


Credit & Copyright: Franck Bugnet
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SCENES FROM THE VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL DEDICATED ON THIS DAY IN 1982

Vietnam Memorial Wall  Designed by Maya Ying Ling, the V-shaped Memorial is inscribed with the names of 58,209 Americans missing or killed in the War. The Three Servicemen  by Frederick Hart Vietnam Women's Memorial  by Glenna Goodacre

EVENTS

● 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul

● 1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, adopting the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.

● 1500 - Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.

● 1620 - In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony.

● 1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".

● 1647 - First American compulsory school law passed, Massachusetts.

● 1673 - Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.

● 1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.

● 1724 - Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.

● 1744 - Birth of Abigail Adams, early advocate for women's rights.

● 1778 - Cherry Valley Massacre: Seneca Indians in central New York kill more than forty people.

● 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.

● 1831 - Slave revolt leader Nat Turner hanged, Jerusalem, Virginia. Leader of a bloody slave revolt three months before. A slave and educated minister, he believed himself chosen by God to lead his people out of slavery. Initiated when Turner killed his owner, Joseph Travis, and Travis's family. Within the next 24 hours, Turner and an estimated 70 followers rampaged through Southampton County, Virginia, killing close to 60 whites, while attempting to incite other slaves into revolt. Militia and federal troops were called to Southampton County, and the uprising suppressed with over 100 African Americans being hanged -- many non-participants in the revolt.

● 1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.

● 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

● 1864 - Birth of pacifist Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany. Winner of 1911 Nobel Peace Prize.

● 1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

● 1880 - American feminist Lucretia Mott dies.

● 1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

● 1884 - Birth of Eleanor Roosevelt.

● 1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.

● 1887 - Haymarket martyrs--August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel--executed, Chicago. A fifth, 23-year-old Louis Lingg, killed himself in his cell the previous evening. The first labor activists to be executed in America. Prosecutors found no evidence they threw the bomb. 250,000 people line Chicago's streets during Parson's funeral procession.

● 1887 - Italy - Cittadella Colony, a co-operative agricultural association, founded by anarchist Giovanni Rossi (aka Cardias).

● 1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.

● 1895 - Birth of Francesco Barbieri, Briattica, Italy. Anarchist militant, fled to Brazil to escape the fascists. Expelled, fled to France, which tried to deport him to Italy. Ends up in Spain, joined the antifascist Italian column fighting in Huesca. Hospitalized in Barcelona, he is arrested by cops under command of the Communists. His body is found full of bullet holes the next day, along with that of Camillo Berneri.

● 1911 - Many cities in the U.S. midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

● 1914 - Birth of Howard Fast, screenwriter, radical, publisher, novelist, McCarthy/HUAC victim.

● 1918 - Armistice ending World War I ("the war to end all wars") signed, Compiegne, France. 8.5 million dead, 21 million wounded, 7.5 million prisoners and missing. U.S. forces counted 115,000 dead. The estimated cost of the war was 232 trillion dollars. Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month). {It is in this same railroad car that Hitler forces France to surrender after Germany invaded France in WWII}

● 1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.

● 1918 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence.

● 1918 - Victor Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader, dies one day before socialists oust Hapsburg dynasty. He is succeeded by Otto Bauer and Frederich Adler.

● 1919 - Centralia Massacre of IWW labor organizers. American Legion (armed "patriots") attacks and destroys IWW labor hall, killing five; the upstanding citizens kidnap, torture, castrate, and lynch Wesley Everest, a WWI veteran and IWW organizer.

● 1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

● 1922 - Birth of Novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

● 1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.

● 1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

● 1932 - Spain - founding of F.I.J.L (Federation des Jeunesses Ibrique Libertaire).

● 1933 - "Great Black Blizzard" first great dust storm in the Great Plains. In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands.

● 1933 - International Labor Defense (ILD) makes public affidavits quoting more than 500 residents of Morgan County, Alabama, revealing preparations for lynching Scottsboro boys, witnesses, and lawyers.

● 1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.

● 1940 - The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.

● 1940 - World War II: Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.

● 1942 - Birth of Jimi Hendrix, Seattle, Washington.

● 1942 - World War II: Nazi Germany completed their occupation of France. German troops begin to occupy territory of the Vichy regime, France.

● 1948 - With a one-way ticket James Baldwin, 24, sails for Europe.

● 1953 - Sen. Joseph McCarthy (Neanderthal-WI) calls former President Hank Truman "a liar" and says he "deliberately, knowingly...appointed, promoted, and advanced a Communist" spy.

● 1956 - Soviets crush armed resistance throughout Hungary, including the industrial suburbs of Budapest, where it lasts longest. Passive resistance begins, a nationwide general strike which lasts five days.

● 1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

● 1965 - In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.

● 1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.

● 1967 - Three U.S. POWs returned by North Vietnam. Tom Hayden and 30 Americans had met with North Vietnamese in Czechoslovakia in September. He then went on to North Vietnam and helped effect their release.

● 1968 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.

● 1968 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album.

● 1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

● 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

● 1975 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, and announces a general election to be held in early December.

● 1978 - Gay San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone are assassinated by ex-supervisor Dan White. White is later convicted of the lightest charge possible in the infamous "Twinkie defense"; defense argued that White was depressed because of overconsumption of junk food.

● 1982 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, D.C. The memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin, a young Asian American woman who, as a Yale undergraduate, submitted the winning entry among more than 1,400 participants. The monument consists of two walls of black, polished granite sliced into a hill side, leaving an impression that the monument is buried. Engraved on the stone are the names of the 58,000 U.S. soldiers who died in Vietnam. Today's dedication ceremony is attended by thousands of veterans, their families and friends. Fittingly, and in character, no representatives of the administrations that conducted the war show up.

● 1986 - 21 arrested on Armistice Day peace march, Krakow, Poland.

● 1989 - Communist regime surrenders power, Bulgaria.

● 1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

● 2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.

● 2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington

● 2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.


BIRTHS

● 1050 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)

● 1154 - King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)

● 1155 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)

● 1220 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)

● 1493 - Paracelsus, doctor (d. 1541)

● 1493 - Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)

● 1599 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (d. 1656)

● 1633 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, British statesman (d. 1695)

● 1668 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)

● 1743 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)

● 1744 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)

● 1748 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)

● 1764 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (d. 1824)

● 1791 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)

● 1792 - Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)

● 1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)

● 1828 - Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Hindu saint (d. 1963)

● 1836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)

● 1852 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)

● 1858 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)

● 1863 - Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)

● 1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921)

● 1869 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)

● 1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)

● 1883 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (d. 1969)

● 1885 - George Smith Patton, Jr., American general (d. 1945)

● 1887 - Roland Young, American actor (d. 1953)

● 1891 - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (d. 1954)

● 1898 - Rene Clair, French film director (d. 1981)

● 1899 - Pat O'Brien, American film actor (d. 1983)

● 1900 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)

● 1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)

● 1901 - Magda Goebbels, wife of Nazi minister of propaganda, Josef Goebbels (d. 1945)

● 1901 - Sam Spiegel, Austrian-born American film producer (d. 1985)

● 1903 - A Proud Liberal's Maternal Grandmother, (When asked about the fact that her 15th birthday was the end of WWI she said, "It didn't make any difference to us, we still had to go out and work the fields.") (d. 1982)

● 1904 - Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (d. 1994)

● 1904 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)

● 1909 - Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)

● 1912 - Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)

● 1914 - Howard Fast, American author (d. 2003)

● 1914 - Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)

● 1915 - William Proxmire, American politician (d. 2005)

● 1918 - Stubby Kaye, American comic actor (d. 1997)

● 1919 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)

● 1920 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (d. 2003)

● 1921 - Terrell Bell, American politician (d. 1996)

● 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)

● 1925 - June Whitfield, British comedian

● 1925 - Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor

● 1926 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)

● 1927 - Mose Allison, American jazz pianist and singer

● 1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer

● 1928 - Gracita Morales, Spanish actress (d. 1995)

● 1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer

● 1929 - LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)

● 1930 - Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)

● 1930 - Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)

● 1930 - Vernon Handley, English conductor

● 1936 - Jack Keller, american songwriter (d. 2005)

● 1937 - Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat

● 1938 - Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater

● 1938 - Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast

● 1939 - Denise Alexander, American actress

● 1940 - Barbara Boxer, American politician

● 1941 - Jesse Colin Young, American singer and songwriter (The Youngbloods)

● 1943 - Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach

● 1945 - Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua

● 1945 - Chris Dreja, British guitarist and bassist (The Yardbirds)

● 1945 - Vince Martell, American guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)

● 1946 - Chris Dreja, British musician (The Yardbirds)

● 1950 - Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet

● 1950 - Jim Peterik, American musician and songwriter (Survivor)

● 1950 - Ed Ordynski, Australian rally driver

● 1951 - Kim Peek, American megasavant

● 1951 - Marc Summers, American game show host

● 1953 - Marshall Crenshaw, American musician

● 1954 - Mary Gaitskill, American novelist

● 1958 - Luz Casal, Spanish singer

● 1958 - Carlos Lacamara, Cuban-born American Actor

● 1959 - Lee Haney, American bodybuilder

● 1959 - Christian Clemenson, American actor

● 1960 - Peter Parros, American actor

● 1960 - Stanley Tucci, American actor and director

● 1961 - Jan Kuehnemund, American guitarist

● 1962 - Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboardist

● 1962 - Demi Moore, American actress

● 1962 - James Morrison, Australian musician

● 1964 - Judith Edelman, American musician

● 1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress

● 1965 - Max Mutchnick, American TV writer and producer

● 1966 - Alison Doody, Irish actress

● 1967 - Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver

● 1968 - David L Cook, American singer and comedian

● 1969 - Carson Kressley, American television personality

● 1970 - Lee Battersby, Australian author

● 1971 - Jennifer Celotta, American TV producer and writer

● 1971 - Paul Chaloner, English TV e-sports commentator

● 1972 - Leslie Mann, American actress

● 1973 - Jason White, American musician (Green Day)

● 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor

● 1974 - Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer

● 1976 - Lisa Gleave, American actress and model

● 1976 - Jason Grilli, Relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers

● 1976 - Jesse Keeler, Canadian musician

● 1977 - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)

● 1977 - Maniche, Portuguese footballer

● 1979 - Courtenay Semel, American reality TV star

● 1980 - Willie Parker, American football player

● 1981 - Natalie Glebova, Russian-Canadian beauty queen

● 1981 - Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg

● 1982 - Brittny Gastineau, American socialite

● 1983 - Philipp Lahm, German footballer

● 1983 - Kristal Marshall, American professional wrestler

● 1983 - Candy Manson, American pornographic actress

● 1983 - Matt Garza, American baseball player

● 1985 - Kalan Porter, Canadian singer

● 1985 - Raquel Guerra, Portuguese singer and actress

● 1991 - Christa B. Allen, American actress


DEATHS

● 397 - Martin of Tours, French saint

● 405 - Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople

● 537 - Pope Silverius, saint

● 865 - Petronas the Patrician, Byzantine General

● 1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)

● 1638 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)

● 1686 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)

● 1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)

● 1724 - Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), English highwayman (executed) (b. c. 1700)

● 1812 - Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)

● 1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)

● 1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)

● 1862 - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)

● 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged)

● 1880 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)

● 1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)

● 1887 - Haymarket defendants, wrongly convicted and executed:
● George Engel (b. 1836)
● Adolph Fischer (b. 1858)
● Albert Parsons (b. 1848)
● August Spies (b. 1855)

● 1917 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (b. 1838)

● 1918 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892)

● 1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)

● 1938 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869)

● 1939 - Jan Opletal, Czech student, victim of Nazi violence in Prague

● 1945 - Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)

● 1972 - Berry Oakley, Bass Player and founder, Allman Brothers Band (b. 1948)

● 1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915)

● 1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)

● 1974 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)

● 1976 - Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)

● 1977 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)

● 1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894)

● 1988 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900)

● 1990 - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (b. 1898)

● 1990 - Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet, proposed nine times for the Nobel Prize for Literature, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize (b. 1909)

● 1990 - Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)

● 1993 - Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player and big band leader (b. 1914)

● 1994 - Pedro Zamora, Cuban-American AIDS activist (b. 1972)

● 1994 - Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (b. 1922)

● 1997 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)

● 1999 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)

● 1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)

● 2004 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)

● 2004 - Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)

● 2005 - Lord Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)

● 2005 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)

● 2005 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (b. 1930)

● 2006 - Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)

● 2006 - Harry Lehotsky, pastor and activist (b. 1957)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Athenodorus
● St. Bartholomew of Grottaferrata
● St. Bartholomew of Rossano
● St. Bertuin
● St. Cynfran
● St. Joseph Pignatelli
● St. Martin of Tours
● St. Mennas
● St. Mina
● St. Rhediw
● St. Theodore of Studites
● St. Veranus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 26 (Civil Date: November 11)
● Holy and Glorious Great martyr Demetrius the myrrh gusher of Thessalonica.
● Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740 A.D.
● St. Athanasius of Medikion Monastery.
● Martyr Ioasaph, monk of Mt. Athos. disciple of St. Niphon of Constantinople.
● St. Demetrius of Barsabov in Bulgaria.
● St. Theophilus of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Novgorod.
● St. Anthony, Bishop of Vologda.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Artemidorus and Basil.
● Martyr Leptina.
● Martyr Glycon.
● Repose of Ignatius the Bulgarian of Mt. Athos. (1927).

● Several nations celebrate, in some way, the end of World War I, the ceasefire of which went into effect at 11:00am CET on this day in 1918:
● Armistice Day in France and Belgium
● Veterans Day in the United States (called Armistice Day until 1952, when the name was changed, and the holiday was re-geared toward all military veterans)
● Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations, including United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.

● Angola - Independence Day (1975)

● Colombia - Independence of Cartagena, Colombia, from Spain (1811)

● Opening of carnival season in Germany ("Karneval"/"Fasching" on 11-11, at 11:11), the Netherlands, and other countries

● Lāčplēsis Day (1919) in Latvia: the official date for commemoration of Latvian soldiers, who had died for the country's freedom.

● Poland - Independence Day (1918)

● South Korea - Pepero Day, Farmers Day



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.

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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