Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Learning "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." — Alec Bourne
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On He Said / He Said ". . . John Ashcroft: Well, whether—you know, a single allegation can be most worthy of a special prosecutor. It you're abusing government property, if you're abusing your status in office, it can be a single fact that makes the difference on that. So my own view is that there are plenty of things which should have caused her [Attorney General Janet Reno] a long time ago to appoint a special prosecutor, an independent investigator. We asked for that on March 13th of this year in letters from Republican members on the Judiciary Committee. And she's in a bad position.
. . . The man who signs her check is the man she's investigating, and she hasn't been very aggressive about it." — Sen. John Ashcroft, "Evans & Novak," CNN, 10-4-97.—Part 2 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 "When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that [the Teapot Dome scandal] can't happen." — 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
Tunguska: The Largest Recent Impact Event
Credit: Leonid Kulik Expedition, Wikipedia
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
LAUNCH OF APOLLO 12 ON THIS DATE IN 1969
EVENTS
● 1843 - Flora Tristan, French feminist/socialist, dies.
● 1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
● 1872 - Large earthquake was used by Roman Catholic priests to justify missionizing the Chelan tribe in Central Washington.
● 1889 - Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completed the trip in seventy-two days. {Eight days faster than Phineas Fogg.}
● 1903 - Women's Trade Union League formed.
● 1909 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) police chief Ramon Falcon and his secretary assassinated via bombing by Polish anarchist Simon Radowitzky, just four days after Radowitzky's 18th birthday.
● 1909 - Misbegotten birth of Joseph R. McCarthy, anti-communist senator and lunatic from Wisconsin, darling of the U.S. mainstream media until he outlived his usefulness.
● 1910 - Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, VA. He took off from a makeshift deck on the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
● 1915 - Booker T. Washington, educator, orator, founder of Tuskegee Institute, dies on the college's campus. Famed African-American educator and leader of the 19th century, whose message of acquiring practical skills and emphasizing self-help over political rights was popular among whites and segments of the African-American community. Aggressively opposed by critics such as W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.
● 1916 - Margaret Sanger arrested for operating a birth control clinic.
● 1918 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
● 1920 - Congres of Paris (l'Union Anarchiste).
● 1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
● 1923 - Kentaro Suzuki completed his ascent of Mount Iizuna
● 1927 - A huge cylindrical gasometer -- the largest in the world -- located in the heart of the industrial center of Pittsburgh, Pa., developed a leak. Repairmen set out to look for it with an open-flame blowlamp, which ignited the five million cu. ft. of natural gas in the tank. Chunks of metal, some weighing more than 100 pounds, were scattered great distances, and the combined effects of air pressure and fire left a square mile devastated. Twenty-eight killed and hundreds injured.
● 1930 - General strike of 250,000 in Madrid, Spain, after police fire into crowd at workers' funeral.
● 1938 - All Jews are expelled from colleges in Germany.
● 1938 - U.S. Supreme Court denies appeal by Siuslaw tribe of Oregon to receive any compensation for their stolen land.
● 1940 - World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
● 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.
● 1943 - During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and all of America's top military brass, narrowly escape disaster aboard the U.S. battleship Iowa, when a live torpedo is accidentally fired at them from a U.S. destroyer.
● 1954 - "Ten Million Americans Mobilized for Justice" began campaign to collect 10 million signatures on a petition ordering the Senate not to censure Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Effort fell about nine million signatures short.
● 1957 - One hundred fifty thousand metalworkers rally against rearmament, Baden-Wuerttemberg, West Germany.
● 1959 - Clutter family murdered in rural Kansas, which inspired the Truman Capote novel, In Cold Blood.
● 1965 - Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
● 1967 - Five thousand demonstrators in New York City battle police during an appearance by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
● 1967 - The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as: "Day of the Colombian Woman".
● 1968 - Italian students lead a nationwide general strike.
● 1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.
● 1969 - Mob of "Weathermen" and "crazies" storm South Vietnamese Embassy in Washington, D.C., and are thrown back by riot police, which they in turn pelt with rocks and bottles.
● 1969 - Thirty-five hundred march in Seattle against the Vietnam War.
● 1970 - Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
● 1971 - His Holiness Shenouda III was consecrated as the 117th Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
● 1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
● 1972 - Filipino activist Bob Santos leads a multiracial march demanding more federal housing aid in Seattle.
● 1975 - Spain abandons Western Sahara.
● 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
● 1980 - Guinea-Bissau government falls.
● 1982 - Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
● 1983 - U.S. cruise missiles arrive at Greenham Common, Britain.
● 1985 - Ivan Boesky agrees to plead guilty to an unspecified criminal count, pay a $100 million fine, and return his ill-gotten Wall Street profits; he was barred for life (sort of) from trading securities.
● 1990 - After German reunification, the (extended) Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland. This a peace treaty ending war officially begun in 1939.
● 1990 - Thirteen squats on Berlin's Mainzer Strausse evicted by 4,000 cops with helicopters and tanks.
● 1991 - American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
● 1991 - Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
● 1991 - In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.
● 1992 - Two hundred thousand Germans protest in Bonn against racist neo-Nazi violence and the deportation of asylum seekers.
● 1993 - Appeals court in Daytona Beach, Florida, rules that an African American couple was deprived of a fair trial by an all-white jury that compared blacks to chimpanzees and told racist jokes. Eugena and Derrick Powell had sued their insurance company to cover losses from a traffic collision with an uninsured motorist. The Powells wanted $235,000 for medical expenses and lost wages but the jury awarded them less than $11,000 dollars. After the trial, a juror described the May 1992 deliberations, saying jurors frequently spoke of "niggers" and joked that the Powells' children were probably drug dealers.
● 1993 - CIA role in Haitian drug trade disclosed. U.S. media yawns; U.S. government declines to investigate itself.
● 1995 - A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
● 1997 - 14-year-old Reena Virk is beaten and then murdered by fellow teenagers Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski.
● 1997 - Indonesian military enters the grounds of Univ. of East Timor to quell anti-government protests, shooting at least six students.
● 2001 - War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.
● 2002 - Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
● 2002 - The US House of Representatives votes to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks. {And the cover-up continues to this day.}
● 2003 - Asteroid 90377 Sedna is discovered.
BIRTHS
● 1567 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
● 1601 - Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)
● 1650 - King William III of England (d. 1702)
● 1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)
● 1740 - Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (c. 1792)
● 1746 - Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian Cardinal
● 1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
● 1771 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)
● 1776 - Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (d. 1847)
● 1778 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1837)
● 1779 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (d. 1850)
● 1797 - Charles Lyell, British geologist (d. 1875)
● 1803 - Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)
● 1805 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
● 1812 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)
● 1828 - James B. McPherson, American Civil War general (d. 1864)
● 1838 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (d. 1881)
● 1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
● 1863 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (d. 1944)
● 1875 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (d. 1944)
● 1878 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
● 1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
● 1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
● 1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
● 1898 - Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944)
● 1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
● 1904 - Harold Larwood, English cricketer (d. 1995)
● 1904 - Dick Powell, American actor (d. 1963)
● 1905 - John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (d. 1964)
● 1906 - Louise Brooks, American dancer, actress, and movie historian (d. 1985)
● 1907 - Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader (d. 1995)
● 1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
● 1907 - William Steig, American children's book author (d. 2003)
● 1908 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (d. 1957)
● 1910 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (d. 1996)
● 1912 - Barbara Hutton, American socialite (d. 1979)
● 1912 - T. Y. Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer (d. 2003)
● 1915 - Martha Tilton, American singer (d. 2006)
● 1916 - Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (d. 1994)
● 1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer
● 1919 - Johnny Desmond, American singer (d. 1985)
● 1919 - Lisa Otto, German soprano
● 1921 - Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)
● 1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian UN Secretary-General
● 1922 - Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)
● 1924 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (d. 1982)
● 1927 - Bart Cummings, Australian race horse trainer
● 1927 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
● 1929 - Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player
● 1930 - Edward White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
● 1930 - Shirley Crabtree, professional wrestler (d. 1997)
● 1930 - Monique Mercure, French Canadian actress
● 1933 - Fred Haise, American astronaut
● 1934 - Catherine McGuinness, Irish Supreme Court Justice
● 1934 - Kurt Hamrin, Swedish soccer player
● 1935 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
● 1936 - Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (d. 2006)
● 1937 - Murray Oliver, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1939 - Wendy Carlos, American composer
● 1943 - Peter Norton, American software engineer
● 1945 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady
● 1947 - P. J. O'Rourke, American writer
● 1947 - Bharathan, Malayalam film director (d. 1998)
● 1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
● 1949 - James Young, American guitarist (Styx)
● 1951 - Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director
● 1951 - Stephen Bishop, American musician
● 1953 - Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France
● 1954 - Bernard Hinault, French cyclist
● 1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State
● 1954 - Yanni, Greek musician & composer
● 1953 - Phil Baron, American voice actor
● 1955 - Koichi Nakano, Japanese cyclist
● 1956 - Alec John Such, American bassist (Bon Jovi)
● 1959 - Paul McGann, British actor
● 1961 - Gordon Jennison Noice, American actor
● 1961 - D. B. Sweeney, American actor
● 1961 - Antonio Flores, Spanish singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
● 1962 - Laura San Giacomo, American actress
● 1964 - Bill Hemmer, American television news reporter
● 1964 - Patrick Warburton, American actor
● 1964 - Rev Run, American rapper
● 1966 - Curt Schilling, American baseball player
● 1966 - Petra Roßner, German cyclist
● 1967 - Letitia Dean, British actress
● 1967 - Nina Gordon, American singer
● 1968 - Janine Lindemulder, American porn actress
● 1969 - Butch Walker, recording artist
● 1970 - David Wesley, American basketball player
● 1971 - Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
● 1971 - Marco Leonardi, Italian-Australian actor
● 1972 - Matthew Bloom, American professional wrestler
● 1972 - Josh Duhamel, American actor
● 1972 - Edyta Górniak, Polish singer
● 1972 - Martin Pike, Australian rules footballer
● 1972 - Aaron Taylor, American football player
● 1973 - Lawyer Milloy, American football player
● 1973 - Dana Snyder, American voice actor
● 1973 - Moka Only, Canadian musician
● 1974 - Matt Cedeño, Cuban-American actor
● 1974 - Adam Walsh, American murder victim (d. 1981)
● 1975 - Travis Barker, American musician (Blink 182, +44)
● 1977 - Obie Trice, American rapper
● 1978 - Xavier Nady, American baseball player
● 1978 - Mersing Nguyen, American actress
● 1978 - Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
● 1979 - Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
● 1979 - Tobin Esperance, American musician (Papa Roach)
● 1981 - Tom Ferrier, British racing driver
● 1983 - Lil Boosie, American rapper
● 1984 - Marija Šerifović, Serbian Singer
● 1986 - Berta Grosser, German Actress
DEATHS
● 565 - Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)
● 1226 - Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)
● 1263 - Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
● 1359 - Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)
● 1522 - Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461)
● 1556 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (b. 1504)
● 1633 - William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)
● 1687 - Nell Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)
● 1691 - Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
● 1716 - Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)
● 1734 - Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
● 1746 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
● 1817 - Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian revolutionary (b. 1795)
● 1825 - Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)
● 1829 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)
● 1831 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
● 1832 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American statesman (b. 1737)
● 1844 - John Abercrombie, British physician (b. 1780)
● 1866 - King Miguel of Portugal (b. 1802)
● 1872 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
● 1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)
● 1908 - The Guangxu Emperor of China, (b. 1871)
● 1914 - Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (b. 1861)
● 1915 - Booker T. Washington, American inventor (b. 1856)
● 1916 - Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)
● 1916 - Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
● 1937 - Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (b. 1869)
● 1944 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)
● 1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
● 1971 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (b. 1934)
● 1972 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)
● 1974 - Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (b. 1904)
● 1977 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON (b. 1896)
● 1981 - Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1941)
● 1991 - Tony Richardson, English film director (b. 1928)
● 1992 - Ernst Happel, Austrian football coach (b. 1925)
● 1994 - Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
● 1996 - John A. Cade, American politician (b. 1929)
● 1997 - Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b. 1916)
● 2000 - Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)
● 2001 - Charlotte Coleman, British actress (b. 1968)
● 2001 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
● 2002 - Eddie Bracken, American film actor (b. 1915)
● 2003 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)
● 2004 - Michel Colombier, French composer (b. 1939)
● 2005 - Eddie Guerero, Mexican American WWE Wrestler (b. 1967)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alberic
● St. Clementinus
● St. Dubricus
● St. Hypatius
● St. Jucundus of Bologna
● St. Lawrence
● St. Lawrence O'Toole
● St. Modanic
● St. Serapion
● St. Venaranda
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 29 (Civil Date: November 14)
● Martyr Anastasia the Roman.
● St. Abramius the Recluse and his niece St. Mary of Mesopotamia.
● St. Abramius, archimandrite of Rostov.
● St. Anna of Constantinople.
● Martyrs Claudius, Asterius, Neon and Theonilla of Aegae in Cilicia.
● St. Abramius, recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● New Martyr Athanasius of Sparta, at Muatanach.
● Martyr Timothy of Esphigmenou Monastery on Mt. Athos.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Cyril, Menas, and Menaeus.
● Martyr Melitene of Marcianopolis.
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 1 (Civil Date: November 14)
● Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia, and their mother St. Theodota
● Martyr Hemeningilda the Goth of Spain.
● Martyrs Cyrenia and Juliana in Cilicia.
● Martyrs Caesarius, Dacius, Sabbas, Sabinian, Agrippa, Adrian and Thomas at Damascus.
● Hieromartyrs John the bishop and James the presbyter of Persia.
● Martyrs James of Mt. Athos. and his two disciples James and Dionysius.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Cyprian and Juliana.
● St. David of Euboia.
● Blessed Cosmas of Verkhoturye (1704).
● Repose of Elder Hilarion of Valaam and Sarov (1841).
● Roman festivals - Equorum Probatio
● Colombia - "Day of the Colombian Woman"
● India - Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's Day
● United States - National Children's Book Week begins
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING SEVEN 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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