Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Laws "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, or steal bread." — Anatole France
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On He Said / He Said "John Ashcroft: The truth of the matter is that if the law's been violated, we should be able to ascertain that. We can if we have an independent person without conflict of interest. And it there's been a violation that can be prosecuted—there's a whole range of additional questions that you might want to ask . .
Rowland Evans: Well, that's what I want to get to. The Attorney General [Janet Reno] has shaved down all the allegations [against] Vice President Gore apparently to one single allegation—which telephone he used to make these fundraising calls from. Do you really think that alone is worthy of a special prosecutor?" . . . — Sen. John Ashcroft, "Evans & Novak," CNN, 10-4-97.—Part 1 of 3 {Due to the length of some of these nutball quotes, I have decided to split the longer ones into parts. I could have abridged them but I think that would have lessened the impact of showing just how crazy these guys are. Please refer to previous and/or subsequent posts for complete quote.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?" — 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
The Inner Coma of Comet Holmes
Credit & Copyright: Gianluca Masi (The Virtual Telescope)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1002 - English king Ethelred ordered killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
● 1518 - Velasquez obtains Crown authority to colonize the new countries in the Americas.
● 1642 - At the Battle of Turnham Green of the First English Civil War the Royalist forces withdrew in face of the Parliamentarian army and failed to take London.
● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen attack Montreal defended by British General Guy Carleton. Allen and his troops were disorganized and soundly defeated; however, U.S. Brigadier General Richard Montgomery's force entered Montreal unopposed.
● 1839 - First U.S. anti-slavery political party (Liberal Party) established.
● 1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
● 1843 - Mount Rainier erupts.
● 1851 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.
● 1854 - Over 300 perish as immigrant vessel New Era founders off New Jersey coast.
● 1887 - Police charge a crowd of unemployed protesters in Trafalgar Square, London, killing three and arresting over 300. The "Bloody Sunday" incident was a turning point in British struggles for free speech rights.
● 1893 - Leon-Jules Leauthier, young anarchist shoe-maker, stabs and seriously wounds minister of Serbia in Paris. Condemned to life in prison, he was killed during the suppression of the ïles du Salut prison revolt in October 1894.
● 1909 - Cherry Coal Mine Disaster in Illinois. 259 men and boys working in the mine die.
● 1909 - Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
● 1916 - Prime Minister of Australia William Morris Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
● 1922 - U.S. Supreme Court's Ozawa decision says members of certain ethnic groups are not entitled to naturalized citizenship since they are clearly "not Caucasian." The ruling came in the case of Takao Ozawa, whose citizenship application was denied in 1914. He arrived in the U.S. in 1894, graduated from a Berkeley high school, and attended the University of California for three years. He then moved to Hawaii and worked for an American company, attended an American church, and sent his children to American schools.
● 1927 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
● 1933 - First sit-down strike in U.S. history begins at Hormel meat-packing plant, Austin, Minn.
● 1940 - U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hansberry v. Lee that whites cannot bar African-Americans from white neighborhoods. Case brought by wealthy real-estate broker Carl Hansberry of Chicago; ruling allows Hansberry family, including 10-year-old daughter Lorraine, to move into a white neighborhood.
● 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, she sinks on November 14.
● 1942 - World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal
● 1945 - General Motors workers' strike closes 96 plants.
● 1949 - Birth of Caryn Johnson, New York. Grows up in the ghettos of New York, overcomes drug addiction and poverty, and becomes known as Whoopi Goldberg, multitalented comedian and actress.
● 1950 - General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.
● 1954 - Great Britain defeated France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
● 1956 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds a lower court decision banning segregation on city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Establishes grounds for challenging bus segregation in nine states that have violated the 15th Amendment. This ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
● 1961 - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
● 1965 - The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
● 1968 - Andre Prudhommeaux dies. Anarchist bookstore owner.
● 1968 - The barge Hess Hustler, carrying 1.8 million gallons of oil, grounded on Delaware beach, doing, in the words of the Smithsonian Institution, "much harm to the ecology."
● 1969 - In New York, bombs have exploded over the past several days in the RCA building, Rockefeller Center, the GM building on 5th Avenue, the Chase Manhattan Plaza, the United Fruit Company pier, the Criminal Courts building, the Marine Midland Grace Trust Company, and several other Federal and Corporate buildings, to protest government/corporate Vietnam War policy.
● 1969 - Second National Moratorium; Nov 13-15 Weathermen, led by Rubin and Hoffman march on Justice Department. {A Proud Liberal wears a black armband to school where several rednecks offer to "straighten him out." Being a pacifist, I decline engagement.}
● 1970 - The worst cyclone on record and the most deadly natural disaster of the century hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh). Losses included more than a million acres of rice paddies (including app. 800,000 tons of grain), a million head of livestock, and an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 human lives. Delayed and halfhearted rescue and relief attempts on the part of the distant capital resulted in the death of thousands more and created a refugee population that numbered in the tens of thousands. This precipitated the civil war which eventually led to the establishment of Bangladesh.
● 1970 - Three million gallons of crankcase oil discharged into Pennsylvania's Schuykill River.
● 1971 - The American space probe, Mariner 9, has become the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars without a hitch.
● 1974 - Karen Silkwood, anti-nuclear activist, murdered en route to meet a New York Times reporter, Oklahoma. All her documentation of safety violations disappear.
● 1982 - Lech Walesa, former leader of Polish labor union, Solidarity, freed after 11 months internment during martial law and outlawing of Solidarity. Government declares Walesa "no longer a threat to internal security."
● 1985 - At 9:08 PM, Nevado del Ruiz, the highest active volcano in the Andes Mountains of Colombia, suffers a mild eruption that generates a series of lava flows and surges over the volcano's broad ice-covered summit. Flowing mixtures of water, ice, pumice, and other rock debris pour off the summit and sides of the volcano, forming "lahars" that flood into the river valleys surrounding Ruiz. They join normal river channels, and disastrous flooding and mudslides ensue. Within four hours of the eruption, the lahars travel over 60 miles, killing more than 23,000 people, injuring over 5,000, and destroying more than 5,000 homes.
● 1985 - Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
● 1986 - Seven Peace Brigades International observers beaten by police outside an Organization of American States conference, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
● 1989 - Czechoslovakia opens its borders, just days after the Berlin Wall tumbles.
● 1989 - Salvadoran air force bombs poor neighborhoods of San Salvador to flush out guerrillas.
● 1990 - The World Wide Web first began.
● 1994 - Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
● 1995 - A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility for the attack.
● 2001 - Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar.
● 2001 - Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
● 2001 - War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
● 2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
● 2002 - The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
BIRTHS
● 354 - Saint Augustine of Hippo, North African theologian (d. 430)
● 1312 - King Edward III of England (d. 1377)
● 1486 - Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543)
● 1504 - Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)
● 1699 - Jan Zach, Czech composer and musician (d. 1773)
● 1710 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d. 1792)
● 1714 - William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)
● 1715 - Dorothea Erxleben, German, first female medical doctor (d.1762)
● 1732 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
● 1760 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (d. 1820)
● 1761 - John Moore, British general (d. 1809)
● 1768 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
● 1801 - Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1873)
● 1814 - Joseph Hooker, American General (d. 1879)
● 1826 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d. 1895)
● 1833 - Edwin Booth, American actor (d. 1893)
● 1838 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d. 1918)
● 1841 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Brevet Brigadier General (d. 1913)
● 1848 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)
● 1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (d. 1894)
● 1853 - John Drew Jr., American actor (d. 1927)-
● 1856 - Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1941)
● 1869 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian feminist (d. 1962)
● 1869 - Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist and publicist (d. 1943)
● 1878 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (d. 1952)
● 1886 - Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer (d. 1973)
● 1906 - Hermione Baddeley, English actress (d. 1986)
● 1906 - Eva Zeisel, American industrial designer
● 1908 - C. Vann Woodward, American historian (d. 1999)
● 1910 - William Bradford Huie, American writer and publisher (d. 1986)
● 1913 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (d. 1985)
● 1913 - Helen Mack, American actress (d. 1986)
● 1913 - Jack Dyer, Australian footballer (d. 2003)
● 1914 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (d. 2005)
● 1918 - Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003)
● 1922 - Jack Narz, American game show host
● 1922 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984)
● 1924 - Linda Christian, Mexican-born actress
● 1924 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (d. 1994)
● 1928 - Steve Bilko, American baseball player (d. 1978)
● 1929 - Fred Phelps, American pastor
● 1931 - Andrée Lachapelle, French Canadian actress
● 1933 - Adrienne Corri, Scottish actress
● 1934 - Garry Marshall, American producer, director, writer, and actor
● 1934 - Jimmy Fontana, Italian actor, composer and singer
● 1935 - Tom Atkins, American actor
● 1935 - George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury
● 1938 - Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
● 1938 - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (d. 1994)
● 1939 - Idris Muhammad, American jazz drummer
● 1940 - Daniel Pilon, Québécois film and television actor
● 1941 - Mel Stottlemyre, American baseball player and coach
● 1941 - Eberhard Diepgen, German politician
● 1942 - John Hammond, American musician
● 1943 - André-Gilles Fortin, French Canadian politician (d. 1977)
● 1943 - Roberto Boninsegna, Italian footballer
● 1944 - Timmy Thomas, American musician
● 1945 - Masahiro Hasemi, Japanese racing driver
● 1947 - Joe Mantegna, American actor
● 1947 - Gene Garber, American Relief Pitcher
● 1949 - Yoshimi Ishibashi, Japanese racing driver
● 1950 - Mary Lou Metzger, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
● 1950 - Gilbert Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1951 - Frances Conroy, American actress
● 1953 - Andrew Ranken, English musician (The Pogues)
● 1954 - Scott McNealy, American CEO of Sun Microsystems
● 1954 - Chris Noth, American actor
● 1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and singer
● 1956 - Ginger Alden, American actress
● 1957 - Stephen Baxter, British author
● 1960 - Neil Flynn, American actor
● 1963 - Vinny Testaverde, American football player
● 1964 - Steve Wong Ka-Keung, Hong Kong musician Beyond
● 1967 - Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk-show host
● 1967 - Steve Zahn, American actor
● 1968 - Pat Hentgen, American baseball player
● 1969 - Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
● 1969 - Lori Berenson, American criminal
● 1969 - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch author
● 1972 - Takuya Kimura, Japanese singer and actor
● 1973 - Ari Hoenig, American jazz drummer
● 1975 - Quim, Portuguese footballer
● 1975 - Ivica Dragutinović, Serbian footballer
● 1975 - Alain Digbeu, French basketball player
● 1976 - Hiroshi Tanahashi, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1977 - Chanel Cole, Australian singer
● 1977 - Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer
● 1978 - Nikolai Fraiture, bass player (The Strokes)
● 1979 - Ron Artest, American basketball player
● 1979 - Subliminal, Israeli rapper and producer
● 1980 - Monique Coleman, American actress
● 1980 - François-Louis Tremblay, Québécois short track speed skater
● 1981 - Mark Cardona, Filipino basketball player
● 1981 - Shawn Yue, Hong Kong actor and singer
● 1982 - Samkon Gado, American football player
● 1982 - Koda Kumi, Japanese singer
● 1985 - Asdrubal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
● 1990 - Jibbs, American Rapper
● 1995 - Stella Hudgens, American actress
● 1997 - Brent Kinsman, American actor
● 1997 - Shane Kinsman, American actor
DEATHS
● 867 - Pope Nicholas I
● 1004 - Abbon of Fleury
● 1093 - King Malcolm III of Scotland (b. 1031)
● 1143 - King Fulk of Jerusalem
● 1170 - Albert I of Brandenburg
● 1314 - Albert the Degenerate
● 1345 - Constance of Penafiel, wife of Pedro I of Portugal (b. 1323)
● 1359 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1326)
● 1460 - Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (b. 1394)
● 1606 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
● 1619 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
● 1770 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)
● 1771 - Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (b. 1712)
● 1862 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787)
● 1867 - Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806)
● 1868 - Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792)
● 1903 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
● 1952 - Margaret Wise Brown, American children's author (b. 1910)
● 1954 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881)
● 1967 - Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
● 1973 - Lila Lee, American actress (b. 1901)
● 1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901)
● 1974 - Karen Silkwood, American activist (b. 1946)
● 1975 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (b. 1910)
● 1982 - Hugues Lapointe, French Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec (b. 1911)
● 1985 - George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)
● 1986 - Thierry Le Luron, French humorist (b. 1952)
● 1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
● 1988 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)
● 1989 - Victor Davis, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1964)
● 1991 - Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1904)
● 1994 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
● 1996 - Swami Rama, Himalayan yoga master (b. 1925)
● 1996 - Bill Doggett, American pianist and organist (b. 1916)
● 1997 - André Boucourechliev, French composer (b. 1925)
● 1997 - Dawud M. Mu'Min, American murderer (b. 1953)
● 1998 - Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman, son of Pierre Trudeau (b. 1975)
● 1998 - Edwige Feuillère, French film actress (b. 1907)
● 1998 - Valerie Hobson, British actress (b. 1917)
● 2003 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (b. 1967)
● 2004 - John Balance, English musician and artist (b. 1962)
● 2004 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968)
● 2005 - Eddie Guerrero American professional wrestler (b. 1967)
● 2005 - Vine Deloria, Jr., Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist. (b. 1933)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abbo
● St. Arcadius and Companions
● St. Brice
● St. Bricius of Tours
● St. Caillin
● St. Chillien
● St. Columba
● St. Dalmatius
● St. Devinicus
● St. Didacus
● St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
● St. Gredifael
● St. Homobonus
● St. John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople
● St. Maxellendis
● St. Mitrius
● St. Quintian
● St. Stanislaus Kostka
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 28 (Civil Date: November 13)
● Martyrs Terence and Neonilla and their children Sarbelus, Photus, Theodulus, Hierax, Nitus, Bele, and Eunice.
● St. Stephen of St. Sabbas' Monastery, hymnographer.
● Repose of St. Arsenius, Archbishop of Serbia.
● Great Martyr Parasceva of Iconium.
● Martyrs Africanus, Terence, Maximus, Pompeius, and 37 others, of Carthage.
● St. John the Chozebite, monk.
● Hieromartyr Cyriacus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and his mother Martyr Anna.
● St. Firmilian, Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, and St. Malchion, presbyter.
● St. Febronia, daughter of Emperor Heraclius.
● St. Neophytus, Bishop of Urbinsk in Georgia.
● Repose of St. Job of Pochaev.
● St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov.
● St. Nestor (not the Chronicler) of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Athanasius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (Mt. Athos. .
● Righteous Virgin Parasceva of Pirimin on the Pinega River (Archangelsk).
● New Martyr Priest Michael Lektorsky (1921).
● Greek Calendar:
● New Martyrs Angelis, Manuel, George and Nicholas, of Crete.
● Repose of Blessed Schema hieromonk Theophilus, fool for Christ of the Kiev Caves (1852).
● Roman festivals - Iovis epulum; feast of Feronia
● International Phone Dictionary Day
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING SEVEN SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
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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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