Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Liberalism "Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved." — Aristotle
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On He Said / He Said "2. The prosecutors and agents who are and will be handling this investigation are career professionals with extensive experience in handling matters involving sensitive national security information and with experience relating to investigations of unauthorized disclosures of such information." — Attorney General John Ashcroft announcing that the Justice Department, not a special prosecutor, would investigate the leak of information about CIA agent Valerie Plame, Joseph Wilson's wife, to columnist Robert Novak and other journalists. Richard W. Stevenson and Eric Lichtblau, "President orders full cooperation in leaking of name," New York Times, 10-1-03.—Part 3 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 "Sure, there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too." — 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
M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
Credit & Copyright: Noel Carboni, Digitized Sky Survey
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
● 791 - Mayan King Chan-muwan dedicates Temple I at Bonampak.
● 1315 - Battle of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft wins the battle against Habsburg.
● 1492 - Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco. Give the man credit -- he not only wiped out the Arawaks, but recognized another efficient, cold-blooded killer when he saw it.
● 1515 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey invested as a Cardinal
● 1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.
● 1598 - Juan de Onate declares possession of Hopi land (northern Arizona) in name of Spanish crown. Over 400 years later, the Hopi have still never signed a treaty with any non-Indian nation.
● 1777 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
● 1791 - The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
● 1805 - Explorers Lewis and Clark reach the mouth of the Columbia River. Clark's journal entries noted an appalling lack of enormous hydroelectric dams. Accompanying them is a slave, York, who, while technically Clark's valet, distinguished himself as a scout, interpreter, and emissary to the Native Americans encountered. Somehow, the slave in tow is never mentioned in those Horizon Air commercials.
● 1806 - Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak).
● 1825 - Birth of African American feminist Sarah Jane Woodson, Chillicothe, Ohio.
● 1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the needed royal concession by Said.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea. Later, they made a movie about how distressing this was to slaveholders.
● 1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
● 1895 - Birth of Antoni Slonimski, Polish poet, translator, and newspaper columnist best known for his devotion to pacifism and social justice.
● 1917 - Bolsheviks take Moscow, Russian Revolution ends.
● 1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
● 1926 - Italy - Mussolini begins to issue the "laws of exceptions," instituting special "tribunals of state defense," with many anarchists arrested and deported.
● 1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
● 1935 - Canada and the United States signed the reciprocal trade agreement in Washington.
● 1937 - First congressional session in air-conditioned chambers. Provides relief from hot air allowing for all the more to be expelled by members.
● 1938 - Jews expelled from German colleges.
● 1939 - In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
● 1939 - Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews.
● 1939 - Social Security Administration approves first unemployment check.
● 1941 - Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
● 1942 - Completion of arrests of entire Jewish population (2,300) in Nazi-occupied Norway.
● 1942 - World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
● 1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
● 1943 - Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps."
● 1948 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.
● 1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
● 1957 - U.S. Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), the precursor of SANE/FREEZE (now Peace Action), founded.
● 1958 - Morocco promulgates a press code.
● 1959 - Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
● 1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched.
● 1966 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
● 1966 - Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
● 1967 - The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft, and is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
● 1969 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
● 1969 - Janis Joplin arrested for use of "vulgar and indecent language" in Tampa, Florida. Arrested in her dressing room, she was released on $504 bond. All charges were eventually dropped.
● 1969 - Over 500,000 people march on Washington, rallying in front of the White House, to protest war in Vietnam, while Pres. Nixon watches Purdue-Ohio State football game on TV. The rally concludes with nearly 40 hours of continuous reading of known U.S. deaths (to that date) in Vietnam War.
● 1970 - The Soviet Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the moon.
● 1976 - Plains Baptist Church, home church of Pres. Jimmy Carter, under pressure to admit African-Americans since Reverend Clennon King had announced his intentions to join the congregation, votes its acceptance.
● 1976 - René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
● 1978 - A chartered DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
● 1978 - Death of radical anthropologist Margaret Mead.
● 1979 - A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
● 1983 - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded.
● 1985 - A research assistant is injured as a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
● 1985 - The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald giving the Republic a consultive role in governing of Northern Ireland.
● 1987 - Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
● 1988 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched on her first and last space flight.
● 1988 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
● 1990 - Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing on their album.
● 1990 - Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
● 1991 - Brazil's Pres. Collor signs decree to return original lands to Yanomani Indians. Unfortunately, the decree means little as gold miners and ranchers continue to steal land and murder the Yanomani with impunity.
● 1992 - BART (San Francisco area rapid transit) police murder unarmed Jerrold Hall at Hayward, Calif. station.
● 1993 - 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
● 2000 - A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people
● 2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
● 2003 - The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place, to be followed by additional bombings on November 20.
● 2004 - New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey leaves office, three months after resigning due to a gay extra-marital affair. State Senator Richard Codey takes over as interim governor.
● 2006 - The Al Jazeera English news channel is launched.
BIRTHS
● 1316 - John I of France (d. 1316)
● 1397 - Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)
● 1498 - Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
● 1511 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (d. 1536)
● 1556 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618)
● 1559 - Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (d. 1621)
● 1607 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701)
● 1660 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746)
● 1661 - Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in Americas (d. 1743)
● 1688 - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757)
● 1692 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
● 1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778)
● 1738 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1822)
● 1741 - Johann Kaspar Lavater, German philosopher (d. 1801)
● 1746 - Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809)
● 1757 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (d. 1830)
● 1784 - Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (d. 1860)
● 1793 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)
● 1852 - Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (d. 1892)
● 1859 - Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
● 1862 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel laureate (d. 1946)
● 1874 - August Krogh, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1949)
● 1874 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (d. 1941)
● 1879 - Lewis Stone, American actor (d. 1953)
● 1881 - Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (d. 1960)
● 1882 - Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1965)
● 1886 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
● 1887 - Marianne Moore, American poet (d. 1972)
● 1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (d. 1986)
● 1889 - Manuel II of Portugal (d. 1932)
● 1890 - Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969)
● 1891 - Averell Harriman, American businessman (d. 1986)
● 1891 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944)
● 1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
● 1895 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976)
● 1897 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960)
● 1897 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (d. 1988)
● 1899 - Avdy Andresson, Estonian statesman (d. 1990)
● 1899 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
● 1903 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1974)
● 1905 - Mantovani, Italian-born composer (d. 1980)
● 1906 - Curtis LeMay, U.S. Air Force general (d. 1990)
● 1907 - Claus von Stauffenberg, would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 1944)
● 1913 - Guy Green, English film director (d. 2005)
● 1913 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
● 1919 - Joseph Wapner, American judge
● 1925 - Howard Baker, American political advisor
● 1925 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988)
● 1927 - Gregor Mackenzie, British politician (d. 1992)
● 1928 - C.W. McCall, American singer
● 1928 - John Orchard, British actor (d. 1995)
● 1929 - Ed Asner, American actor
● 1930 - J. G. Ballard, British author
● 1931 - Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya
● 1931 - Pascal Lissouba, Congo politician
● 1932 - Petula Clark, English singer
● 1932 - Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
● 1932 - Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher
● 1936 - Wolf Biermann, German writer
● 1937 - Little Willie John, American singer (d. 1968)
● 1937 - Yaphet Kotto, American actor
● 1940 - Sam Waterston, American actor
● 1942 - Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born conductor
● 1945 - Roger Donaldson, Australian producer/director
● 1945 - Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, Swedish singer (ABBA)
● 1947 - Bill Richardson, American politician
● 1951 - Beverly D'Angelo, American actress
● 1952 - Zoltán Buday, Hungarian born actor
● 1952 - Randy Savage, American professional wrestler
● 1954 - Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former President of Poland
● 1955 - Henry Corra, American documentarian
● 1956 - Michael Hampton, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
● 1957 - Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist
● 1961 - Ian Reid, Australian educator
● 1963 - Benny Elias, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1965 - Nigel Bond, English snooker player
● 1965 - Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
● 1966 - Rachel True, American actress
● 1967 - Pedro Borbón, Jr., Dominican baseball player
● 1967 - E-40, American rapper
● 1967 - François Ozon, French film director
● 1967 - Gustavo Poyet, Uruguayan footballer
● 1968 - Jennifer Charles, American singer/songwriter
● 1968 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d. 2004)
● 1969 - Shane Mack, American politician
● 1970 - Jack Ingram, American singer and songwriter
● 1970 - Patrick Mboma, Cameroonian footballer
● 1972 - Jonny Lee Miller, English actor
● 1973 - Jesse Merz, American actor
● 1974 - Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer
● 1975 - Scott Henshall, British fashion designer
● 1975 - Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1976 - Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian
● 1976 - Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
● 1977 - Sean Murray, American actor
● 1977 - Peter Phillips, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II
● 1977 - Logan Whitehurst, American musician (d. 2006)
● 1979 - Josemi, Spanish footballer
● 1979 - Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
● 1980 - Ace Young, American singer
● 1981 - Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
● 1982 - Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer
● 1983 - DJ Skee, American DJ/Personality
● 1983 - Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
● 1983 - Laura Smet, French actress
● 1986 - Dan Trapp, American drummer (Senses Fail)
● 1986 - Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
● 1986 - Jeffree Star, American model, fashion designer, make-up artist and singer-songwriter
● 1987 - Isaiah Osbourne, English footballer
● 1988 - Zena Grey, American actress
● 1993 - Irie Saaya, Japanese model
● 1995 - Stella Hudgens, American actress
DEATHS
● 655 - Penda, King of Mercia
● 1028 - Constantine VIII Byzantine Emperor (b. 960)
● 1136 - Margrave Leopold III of Austria (b. 1073)
● 1280 - Albertus Magnus, German theologian, bishop, and philosopher
● 1463 - Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples
● 1544 - King Jungjong of Joseon (b. 1506)
● 1579 - Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510)
● 1628 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576)
● 1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
● 1670 - Comenius, Czech writer (b. 1592)
● 1691 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
● 1706 - Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
● 1712 - James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nationalist (b. 1658)
● 1712 - Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
● 1787 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
● 1794 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723)
● 1795 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
● 1819 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
● 1853 - Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
● 1908 - Empress Dowager Cixi, Chinese ruler (b. 1835)
● 1910 - Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b. 1831)
● 1916 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel laureate (b. 1846)
● 1917 - Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858)
● 1919 - Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
● 1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte, conspirators against Mahatma Gandhi (b. Narayan Apte - 1911)
● 1954 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878)
● 1958 - Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
● 1959 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
● 1961 - Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b.1883)
● 1963 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1988)
● 1965 - Dawn Powell, American poet (b. 1896)
● 1967 - Michael J. Adams, American test pilot (b. 1930)
● 1971 - Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy (b. 1903)
● 1971 - Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b. 1943)
● 1976 - Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
● 1978 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)
● 1982 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (b. 1901)
● 1983 - Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (b. 1898)
● 1983 - John le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
● 1988 - Billo Frómeta, Dominican orchestra conductor, arranger and composer (b. 1915)
● 1990 - Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
● 1994 - Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
● 1996 - Alger Hiss, American government official and alleged spy (b. 1904)
● 1997 - Saul Chaplin, American composer and musical director (b. 1912)
● 1998 - Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
● 2002 - Myra Hindley, English murderer (b. 1942)
● 2003 - Ray Lewis, Canadian athlete (b. 1910)
● 2003 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)
● 2003 - Laurence Tisch, American businessman (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Elmer L. Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
● 2004 - John Morgan, Canadian comedian (b. 1930)
● 2005 - Dr. Adrian Rogers, American Southern Baptist Minister and leader (b. 1931)
● 2005 - Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (b. 1959)
● 2006 - Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1985)
● 2006 - David K. Wyatt, American historian (b. 1937)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abibus
● St. Albert the Great
● St. Arnulf
● St. Desiderius
● St. Eugene
● St. Findan
● St. Gaius of Korea
● St. Hugh Faringdon, Blessed
● St. Hugh Green, Blessed
● St. Kanten
● St. Leopold
● St. Luperius
● St. Machudd
● St. Malo
● St. Paduinus
● Sts. Secundus, Fidentian, & Varicus
● St. Zachariah
● St. Zachary
● Bl. John Eynon
● Bl. John Rugg
● Bl. John Thorne
● Bl. Richard Whiting
● Bl. Roger James
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 30 (Civil Date: November 15)
● Hieromartyr Zenobius and his sister Zenobia of Aegae in Cilicia.
● Martyr Eutropia of Alexandria.
● Martyr Anastasia of Thessalonica (same as Anastasia the Roman).
● Apostles Tertius, Mark, Justus and Artemas of the Seventy.
● Hieromartyr Marcian, Bishop of Syracuse.
● Martyrs Alexander, Cronion, Julian, Macarius and 13 companions at Alexandria.
● Martyr Dometius of Phrygia.
● St. Stephen Miliutin, his brother St. Dragutin (Theoctistus in monasticism), and their mother St. Helen, of Serbia.
● Greek Calendar:
● Apostle Cleopas and Patriarch Joseph of Constantinople.
● Martyr Manuel.
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 2 (Civil Date: November 15)
● Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus and Anempodistus of Persia
● Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (Olonetsk).
● New Martyrs Bishop Victorin and Priest Basil Luzgin (1918).
● Greek Calendar:
● Women Martyrs Cyriaca, Domnina and Domna.
● Martyrs of senatorial rank beheaded under Marcus Aurelius.
● Eastern Orthodoxy - Feast of Saint Philip the Apostle and the beginning of Winter Lent
● Roman festivals - Festival in honor of Feronia (others say 13 November)
● Austria - Saint Leopold's day -- no school in Vienna, Lower Austria and Upper Austria
● Belgium - King's Feast, not an official holiday, but some state institutions are closed
● Brazil - Republic Proclamation Day (1889)
● Japan - Shichi-Go-San - traditional rite of passage and festival day for three and seven year-old girls and three and five year-old boys
● Palestine - Independence Day (declared 1988)
● USA - America Recycles 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.
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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