Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Leadership "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." — Edith Wharton
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Civil Wars & Sore Losers "I regret that statement, because my office has been flooded with angry phone calls from circus clowns all over America. They resent that comparison, and so I would like to extend my apologies to Bozo, Chuckles, and Krusty." — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Joe Conason, "Rush's Defenders Ignore His Venom," New York Observer, 11-27-02.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody." — 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
Cosmic Rays from Galactic Centers
Illustration Credit: Pierre Auger Observatory Team
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EVENTS
● 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
● 1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII
● 1381 - Adolphes, Count of Cleves, founds "Brotherhood of Fools." Big family.
● 1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
● 1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism's right to exist.
● 1660 - John Bunyan arrested for preaching without a license.
● 1779 - Twenty slaves petition New Hampshire's legislature to abolish slavery. They argue that "the god of nature gave them life and freedom upon the terms of most perfect equality with other men; that freedom is an inherent right of the human species, not to be surrendered but by consent."
● 1788 - Mexican Gov. Fernando de la Concha recommends that Navajo establish themselves in permanent villages. Seventy-five years later, under U.S. jurisdiction, the U.S. Army would burn those villages.
● 1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
● 1811 - One thousand armed men, part of what would rapidly become known as the Luddite movement, destroy dozens of the textile machines whose adoption was causing massive unemployment. Sutton, England.
● 1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, prominent American feminist and suffragist, born. With Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, she compiles first three volumes of "History of Woman Suffrage."
● 1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic.
● 1871 - Switzerland - Anarchist Jurassic Federation adopts constitution designed to counter the Marxist influenced International.
● 1888 - Police battle unemployed demonstrators, Trafalgar Square, London.
● 1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line was signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan and which has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister-nations.
● 1905 - (November 12 & 13) Norway holds referendum in favour of monarchy over republic.
● 1912 - Anarchist Manuel Pardinas assassinates Spanish Premier Jose Canalejas.
● 1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
● 1914 - Fenner Brockway publishes appeal leading to the formation of the No- Conscription Fellowship, Britain.
● 1918 - Austria becomes a republic.
● 1920 - Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
● 1920 - President of Haiti, unhappy with the way U.S. administrators (appointed after Pres. Wilson sent Marines to Haiti in 1915 to "protect U.S. interests") are (mis)conducting his country's affairs, asks for Congressional investigation.
● 1921 - Disarmament conference opens, Washington D.C.
● 1926 - First civilian airplane bombing in U.S. occurs when private plane drops three explosives on Charles Berger's Illinois farmhouse in feud between rival beer and rum factions.
● 1927 - One year after his purge from the Soviet Politburo, Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union. He would be exiled to Alma Ata two months later, expelled from Russia entirely two years later, and eventually assassinated in Mexico by Stalin's goons.
● 1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
● 1936 - In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
● 1938 - Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
● 1939 - Canadian-born Chinese revolutionist Norman Bethune, 40, dies on the front lines, of gangrene, Heibei, China.
● 1941 - A Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" was destroyed during the battle of Sevastopol
● 1941 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
● 1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, will last for three days.
● 1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway
● 1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
● 1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
● 1968 - U.S. Supreme Court voids Arkansas law banning teaching of evolution in public schools. {But they still keep trying.}
● 1969 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
● 1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now -infamous exploding whale incident {with attending horrible stench}
● 1970 - Two hundred nuns, priests, and lay persons meet to discuss the meaning for religion of the feminist movement, Garrison, New York.
● 1971 - Berkeley (Calif.) City Council votes to provide symbolic sanctuary for Vietnam War draft resisters.
● 1971 - Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization {and reelection bid}, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
● 1972 - Chicano protesters storm the Seattle City Council after it rejects a lease for a proposed Chicano community center on the unused Beacon Hill School site. The site is later approved as El Centro de la Raza.
● 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
● 1980 - New York City Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana. {He doesn't even deny inhaling.}
● 1980 - The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes first images of its rings.
● 1981 - The 2nd shuttle mission of Columbia 2. It was the 1st time a spacecraft was launched twice.
● 1982 - In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
● 1982 - Lech Wałęsa, Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
● 1982 - Zonker talks about Hashish in a sandbox, sparking a lot of criticism (Doonesbury).
● 1983 - Washington, D.C. - Twenty-five thousand protest invasion of Grenada and U.S. intervention in Central America.
● 1984 - A Plowshares protest targets Silo Pruning Hooks, a Minuteman II nuclear-missile silo in Knob Noster, Mo. After using a jackhammer and air-compressor to damage the silo lid, protesters Carl and Paul Kabat, Larry Cloud Morgan, and Helen Woodson offer a Eucharist, then leave behind a Biblical and a Native American indictment of the U.S. government. Arrested an hour after the action, authorities hold the four on preventive detention and deny bond. In March 1985, they are convicted of conspiracy, destruction of government property, and intent to damage the national defense. Their prison sentences, ranging from eight to 18 years, are the most severe to date of any Plowshares member. All but Woodson appeal their cases. The appeals will lose in the spring of 1986.
● 1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
● 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
● 1990 - Two hundred thousand Paris school children rioted for better education.
● 1991 - Occupying Indonesian troops murder 150 nonviolent demonstrators in Santa Cruz Massacre, Dili, East Timor.
● 1993 - Decree of President of Kazakhstan "About introducing national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan" was issued.
● 1994 - Al Gore symbolically signed the Kyoto Protocol.
● 1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. See New Delhi Air Crash.
● 1996 - U.N. votes 138-3 to urge U.S. to end cruel and illegal blockade of Cuba. The three dissenters - Israel, Uzbekistan, and the U.S.
● 1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
● 1997 - Six East Timorese and three British supporters arrested at British Aerospace factory in a protest of export of arms to Indonesia. Warton, England.
● 1999 - Düzce earthquake in Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
● 2001 - Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
● 2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
● 2003 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
● 2006 - The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.
BIRTHS
● 1493 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
● 1528 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
● 1606 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)
● 1615 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
● 1651 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun
● 1729 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
● 1755 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (d. 1813)
● 1795 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856)
● 1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
● 1817 - Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious figure (d. 1892)
● 1833 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (d. 1887)
● 1840 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
● 1842 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
● 1848 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
● 1850 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
● 1866 - Sun Yat-sen, 1st President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
● 1881 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
● 1886 - Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
● 1889 - DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (d. 1981)
● 1896 - Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
● 1898 - Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
● 1903 - Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
● 1908 - Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1999)
● 1908 - Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (d. 1946)
● 1911 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
● 1915 - Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980)
● 1916 - Jean Papineau-Couture, French Canadian composer (d. 2000)
● 1916 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
● 1917 - Jo Stafford, American singer
● 1920 - Richard Quine, American actor (d. 1989)
● 1922 - Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
● 1923 - Vicco von Bülow, German film director
● 1927 - Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
● 1929 - Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995)
● 1929 - Princess Grace of Monaco (d. 1982)
● 1930 - Ann Flood, American actress
● 1931 - Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons)
● 1934 - Charles Manson, American cult leader
● 1936 - Mills Lane, American judge and boxing referee
● 1936 - Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
● 1938 - Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1939 - Ruby Nash Curtis, American singer (Ruby & the Romantics)
● 1939 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
● 1940 - Michel Audet, Québécois economist and politician
● 1940 - Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician
● 1943 - Brian Hyland, American singer
● 1943 - Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright
● 1944 - Booker T. Jones, American musician and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's)
● 1944 - Al Michaels, American television sportscaster
● 1945 - Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author
● 1945 - Neil Young, Canadian singer and musician
● 1947 - Ron Bryant, American baseball player
● 1947 - Patrice Leconte, French film director and screenwriter
● 1948 - Cliff Harris, American football player
● 1949 - Ron Lapointe, French Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 1992)
● 1953 - Vasilis Karras, Greek singer
● 1958 - Megan Mullally, American actress
● 1960 - Maurane, Belgian singer
● 1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast
● 1961 - Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
● 1961 - Michaela Paetsch, American violinist
● 1962 - Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist
● 1962 - Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1962 - Brix Smith, American musician and songwriter (The Fall, The Adult Net)
● 1964 - David Ellefson, American musician (Megadeth)
● 1965 - Lex Lang, American voice actor
● 1966 - David Schwimmer, American actor and director
● 1967 - Michael Moorer, American boxer
● 1967 - Grant Nicholas, British singer (Feeder)
● 1968 - Glenn Gilberti, American professional wrestler
● 1968 - Sammy Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball player
● 1968 - Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride)
● 1969 - Ian Bremmer, American political scientist
● 1969 - Johnny Gosch, American kidnap victim
● 1969 - Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter
● 1970 - Donna Adamo, American female professional wrestler
● 1970 - Tonya Harding, American figure skater
● 1970 - Craig Parker, New Zealand actor
● 1970 - Harvey Stephens, British child actor
● 1972 - Vassilis Tsiartas, Greek footballer
● 1973 - Mayte Garcia, American dancer
● 1973 - Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
● 1973 - Tara Strong, Canadian voice actress
● 1974 - Tamala Jones, American actress
● 1975 - Nina Brosh, Israeli model and actress
● 1975 - Angela Watson, American actress
● 1976 - Tevin Campbell, American R&B musician
● 1976 - Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden)
● 1976 - Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
● 1977 - Dalene Kurtis, American Playboy model
● 1977 - Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
● 1978 - Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician
● 1978 - Ashley Williams, American actress
● 1979 - Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler
● 1979 - Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
● 1980 - Trent Acid, American professional wrestler
● 1980 - Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
● 1981 - DJ Campbell, English football player
● 1982 - Anne Hathaway, American actress
● 1984 - Omarion, American R&B musician
● 1984 - Sandara Park, South Korean actor
● 1984 - Natalia Tena, English actress
● 1986 - Evan Yo, Taiwanese pop singer
● 1987 - Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1992 - Jake Barnes, English Musician
DEATHS
● 607 - Pope Boniface III
● 1035 - Canute the Great
● 1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
● 1434 - King Louis III of Naples
● 1555 - Stephen Gardiner, English statesman
● 1567 - Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (b. 1493)
● 1595 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
● 1667 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
● 1671 - Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
● 1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
● 1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
● 1836 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
● 1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
● 1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona and discoverer of Pluto (b. 1855)
● 1939 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
● 1941 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, American mobster (b. 1907)
● 1944 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
● 1948 - Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
● 1955 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
● 1965 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
● 1972 - Rudolf Friml, composer of operettas (b. 1879)
● 1976 - Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
● 1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
● 1984 - Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
● 1990 - Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
● 1993 - H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff and Watergate felon (b. 1926)
● 1994 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
● 1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
● 2000 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
● 2000 - Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
● 2001 - Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
● 2003 - Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
● 2003 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
● 2003 - Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
● 2003 - Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
● 2003 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
● 2005 - William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. (b. 1923)
● 2006 - General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anastasius XIX
● St. Astericus
● Sts. Benedict and Companions
● St. Cadwallader
● St. Cummian Fada
● St. Emilian Cucullatus
● St. Evodius
● St. Josaphat of Polotsk
● St. Lebuin
● St. Livinus
● St. Machar
● St. Namphasius
● St. Nilus the Elder
● St. Paternus
● St. Patiens
● St. Renatus
● Sts. Rufus and Avignon
● St. Ymar
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 27 (Civil Date: November 12)
● Martyr Nestor of Thessalonica
● Martyrs Capitolina and Eroteis of Cappadocia.
● Martyr Mark of the isle of Thasos.
● St. Nestor the Chronicler of the Kiev Caves.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Andrew, prince of Smolensk.
● St. Cyriacus, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● St. Procla, wife of Pontius Pilate.
● Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day, Birth of Bahá'u'lláh
● National Holiday: Birth of Sun Yat-Sen (observed in China and Taiwan)
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.
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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