Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Liberals "Liberals support the that individuals are more important than corporations, that as long as there welfare programs for corporations there should be welfare programs for individuals." — Jon Carroll
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homeland Security "Kate O'Beirne: I think an awful lot of people are playing awfully loose with the facts, as we know them, it seems, in news stories, I look at the same set of facts, and I don't see any reason to believe that any mention of her [Valerie Plame] was specifically done with the intent of discrediting Joe Wilson. First of all, the guy discredits himself by having such a left-wing agenda . . . I will say, I'm perfectly open to the proposition that it's a terribly serious thing that happened—if not criminal, serious, although maybe inadvertent—if Joe Wilson himself were no having the time of his life. Now, I—he argues that his wife's career is in—has been shattered, but boy, is he enjoying more than his five minutes of fame. And the photo spread in Vanity Fair—who wouldn't recognize his wife? She was in a very thin disguise. . . ." — "Capital Gang," CNN, 1-3-04—Part 1 of 2 {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 the president does it, that means it is not illegal." — 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.}
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EVENTS
● 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published. {When Justinian was asked why this code had the death penalty for so many offenses, he replied, "If I could find a more severe penalty, I would use it."}
● 1380 - French King Charles VI declares no taxes forever. Never trust a politician.
● 1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
● 1491 - An auto de fe, held in Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
● 1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
● 1532 - Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca.
● 1632 - The Battle of Lützen, where king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed.
● 1747 - Knowles Riot in Boston, hundreds of sailors, laborers, and free blacks rise up against British Navy Press Gangs, temporarily ending imprisonment.
● 1758 - Birth Peter Heiberg, Danish poet, playwright, and militant spokesman for the radical political ideas generated by the French Revolution, Vordingborg.
● 1776 - American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States, the first country in the world to do so (This is a controversial statement, because other sources say that the Kingdom of Morocco was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the new United States).
● 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
● 1805 - Birth of Thomas Burrows, founder of free public schools.
● 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern - Russian force under Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
● 1811 - Mississippi River flows backwards (due to earthquake).
● 1821 - American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
● 1849 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution commuted to four years hard labor in Siberia at the last minute.
● 1857 - Second relief of Lucknow. The most Victoria Crosses won in a single day (24).
● 1861 - Birth of Arvid Jernefelt. Finnish writer, pacifist, lawyer, and farmer, influenced by anarchist Leo Tolstoy's Christian thinking and philosophy.
● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
● 1885 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason.
● 1890 - Birth of George Seldes. Author, Correspondent, media watchdog, the I.F. Stone of his day.
● 1895 - Premier issue of French weekly newspaper "Le libertaire," founded by the anarchists Sebastien Faure and Louise Michel. Faure continued the paper until forced to shut it down because of World War One. After the war he revived it from 1919 until 1939.
● 1896 - First transmission of electricity between a power plant and a city was sent from the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant to industries in Buffalo, New York.
● 1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.
● 1906 - Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo. {In Italy this was considered a compliment.}
● 1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
● 1907 - First fare meter installed in a taxicab, necessitating the invention, the following day, of the airport, and, the following day, of a 225-mile shortcut discovered by a New York City driver.
● 1907 - Oklahoma Territory consolidated with Indian Territory, ending experiment of a separate Indian section under tribal government within U.S. borders. Oklahoma was first set aside as Indian Territory in 1834. By 1880, dozens of tribes, forced into relocation by European immigration and the U.S. government, had moved to the territory. In 1890, the region was divided into Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory, and 17 years later was reunited as the new state, with every single piece of the territory once promised to Native Americans in perpetuity firmly under U.S. control.
● 1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
● 1916 - Margaret Sanger arrested again for her birth control clinic, Brownsville, New York.
● 1917 - Emma Goldman speaks at New York's Hunt's Point Palace on "The Russian Revolution - Its Promise and Fulfillment" before 2,000 people; describes it as a "most inspiring event."
● 1918 - Hungarian People's Republic declared.
● 1920 - Qantas, the national airline of Australia is registered as an aerial carrier under the name of “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited”. Only KLM (now part of Air France-KLM) and Avianca are older.
● 1925 - American Association for the Advancement of Atheism formed in New York.
● 1928 - Obscenity trial begins for Radclyffe Hall's novel "Well of Loneliness." Britain banned it for its treatment of lesbianism. A U.S. court in 1929 ruled similarly, for its sympathetic portrait of homosexuality, and because it "pleads for tolerance on the part of society."
● 1930 - Birth of Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer whose "Things Fall Apart" (1959) was a breakthrough novel describing the impacts of colonialism upon traditional African societies.
● 1932 - New York City's Palace Theatre fully coverted to a cinema, which is considered the final death knell of vaudeville as a popular entertainment in the United States.
● 1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
● 1934 - James J. Braddock won one of the most important fights of his career against then future heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis
● 1940 - Holocaust: In occupied Poland, German Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
● 1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
● 1940 - World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
● 1942 - Deportation of German Gypsies to Treblinka begins.
● 1943 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vermork, Norway. {This effectively stopped German efforts for a H-bomb.}
● 1944 - Dueren, Germany is completely destroyed by Allied aerial bombers.
● 1945 - Cold War: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists & engineers to help in the production of rocket technology.
● 1952 - Roman Delgado dies. Spanish-Mexican anarchist, who emigrated to America at 16 and joined a Magoniste group in San Antonio, Texas. Denounced by the police, he went to Tampico, Mexico. Imprisoned in 1916 for participating in a strike, Delgado went to New York when he was expelled from the country, but returned and was active with anarchist groups in Mexico City until his death.
● 1953 - Gigi Damiani dies, Rome. Damiani emigrated to Brazil, and directed numerous anarchist publications. While an editor in Italy, he came under attack by fascists, and was forced into exile in Tunisia. He was active there with Giuseppe Pasotti, returning to Rome in 1946 where he again published until his death.
● 1956 - Lt. General John "Iron Mike" O'Daniel, WWII Army Commander, warns Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that Communist-led uprising may be imminent in Hawaii.
● 1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.
● 1965 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
● 1969 - Nixon White House Communications Director Herbert Klein says he opposes government intervention in coverage of the news, but "this would be invited" by failure of TV networks to regulate themselves.
● 1972 - Baton Rouge, Louisiana police kill two black student protesters at Southern University. Killed by buckshot as police clearing demonstrators from administration building.
● 1972 - Pres. Nixon signs bill to build Alaska pipeline. The bill narrowly passed Congress only after a provision was added specifying that the resulting oil could only be sold in the United States -- a restriction quietly lifted by executive order by Bill Clinton in 1996.
● 1972 - West Germany government agrees to provide compensation to Polish victims of Nazi medical experiments.
● 1973 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
● 1974 - First intentional interstellar radio message sent in 23 languages - "EAT SHIT AND DIE!"
● 1979 - The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
● 1980 - Hundreds arrested at Women's Pentagon Action, protest of patriarchy and its war making.
● 1982 - Alternative service for conscientious objectors increased from 15 to 20 months, West Germany.
● 1983 - Federal District Court Judge Jack Tanner orders Washington State to pay female employees their "comparable worth."
● 1984 - Queen Elizabeth II visited Uppingham School, Rutland, UK on the occasion of its Quatercentenary.
● 1986 - Great Peace March, begun in California in March, arrives in Washington D.C.
● 1988 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
● 1988 - Palestine National Council declares Palestinian government in exile; over 100 nations offer recognition.
● 1988 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia was "sovereign" but stopped short of declaring independence.
● 1989 - Devastating tornado strikes Huntsville, Alabama.
● 1989 - Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter are brutally murdered by U.S.-supported death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops in El Salvador at Jose Simeon Canas University.
● 1989 - UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
● 1992 - After 18 years of evading the occupying Indonesian military, East Timorese resistance leader Xanana Gusmao is captured. Gusmao heads Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor and founded the National Council of Maubere Resistance. Joined the guerrilla movement shortly after the U.S.-assisted 1975 Indonesian invasion of the island. Over the following 24 years, about one-third of the country's population was killed, and half fled destroyed villages, before international pressure finally led to its freedom in 1999.
● 1995 - Ten protesters arrested at School of the Americas, Fort Benning, Georgia.
● 1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.
● 1996 - The Jumbotron at Buffalo's HSBC Arena falls to the ice hours before a hockey game; no one is injured.
● 1997 - After a silent, half-mile long "funeral procession" attempts to enter the base, 601 are arrested at School of the Americas.
● 1997 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
● 2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
● 2004 - X-43A scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s.
BIRTHS
● 42 B.C.E. - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)
● 1436 - Leonardo Loredan, Doge of the Republic of Venice (d. 1521)
● 1603 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (d. 1673)
● 1643 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
● 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793)
● 1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer (d. 1788)
● 1758 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
● 1766 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist (d. 1831)
● 1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii, Hawaiian king (d. 1891)
● 1839 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)
● 1841 - Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923)
● 1847 - Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
● 1862 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (d. 1944)
● 1880 - Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
● 1885 - Michael Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
● 1873 - W. C. Handy, American composer (d. 1958)
● 1889 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (d. 1961)
● 1892 - Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
● 1892 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (d. 1978)
● 1892 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d. 1953)
● 1895 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
● 1896 - Oswald Mosley, British fascist (d. 1980)
● 1896 - Lawrence Tibbett, American singer (d. 1960)
● 1897 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951)
● 1905 - Eddie Condon, American musician (d. 1973)
● 1907 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
● 1916 - Daws Butler, voice actor (d. 1988)
● 1922 - Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist
● 1922 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel laureate
● 1924 - Mel Patton, American athlete
● 1928 - Clu Gulager, American actor
● 1930 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author
● 1930 - Salvatore Riina, Sicilian mafioso
● 1931 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician
● 1933 - Garnet Mimms, American singer
● 1938 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
● 1942 - Willie Carson, Scottish jockey
● 1942 - Joanna Pettet, English-American actress
● 1943 - Michael Cimino, American film director
● 1946 - Terence McKenna, American writer (d. 2000)
● 1947 - Ebby Thust, German Boxing promoter and writer
● 1950 - David Leisure, American actor
● 1951 - Miguel Sandoval, American actor
● 1952 - Robin McKinley, writer
● 1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer
● 1954 - Andrea Barrett, American author
● 1954 - Dick Gross, Australian politician
● 1954 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy (d. 2004)
● 1955 - Pierre Larouche, National Hockey League player
● 1956 - Terry Labonte, NASCAR driver
● 1957 - Jacques Gamblin, French actor
● 1958 - Marg Helgenberger, American actress
● 1958 - Boris Krivokapić, Serbian academic
● 1961 - Frank Bruno, British boxer
● 1961 - Corinne Hermès, French singer
● 1962 - Josh Silver, American musician (Type O Negative)
● 1964 - Dwight Gooden, American athlete
● 1964 - Diana Krall, Canadian singer
● 1964 - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian actress
● 1965 - Mika Aaltonen, Finnish footballer
● 1966 - Dean McDermott, Canadian actor
● 1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
● 1966 - Tahir Shah, British travel writer and explorer
● 1967 - Lisa Bonet, American actress
● 1967 - Craig Arnold, American poet
● 1968 - Vlado Šola, Croatian handball goalkeeper
● 1969 - Maeve Quinlan, American actress
● 1970 - Martha Plimpton, American actress
● 1971 - Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
● 1971 - Waqar Younis, Pakistani cricketer
● 1971 - Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan footballer
● 1972 - Missi Pyle, American actress
● 1973 - Brendan Laney, Scottish rugby player
● 1973 - Christian Horner, British Formula One team owner
● 1974 - Paul Scholes, British footballer
● 1974 - Eric Judy, American Musician
● 1974 - Maurizio Margaglio, Italian ice dancer
● 1975 - Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player
● 1976 - Danny Wallace, British author
● 1976 - Martijn Zuijdweg, Dutch swimmer
● 1976 - Juha Pasoja, Finnish footballer
● 1977 - Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
● 1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
● 1977 - Mauricio Ochmann, Mexican actor
● 1978 - Kip Bouknight, American baseball player
● 1978 - Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer
● 1978 - Carolina Parra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
● 1980 - Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
● 1980 - Nicole Gius, Italian alpine skier
● 1981 - Allison Crowe, Canadian singer
● 1981 - Caitlin Glass, American actress
● 1981 - Osi Umenyiora, NFL football player
● 1982 - Jannie du Plessis, South African rugby player
● 1982 - Amare Stoudemire, American basketball player
● 1983 - K, South Korean singer
● 1983 - Kari Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
● 1984 - Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
● 1984 - Gemma Atkinson, British actress and model
● 1995 - Noah Gray-Cabey, American child actor
DEATHS
● 1093 - Saint Margaret of Scotland, wife of Malcolm III of Scotland
● 1240 - Edmund Rich, St. Edmund of Canterbury
● 1272 - King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
● 1328 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1276)
● 1613 - Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
● 1628 - Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer
● 1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (killed in battle) (b. 1594)
● 1695 - Pierre Nicole, French philosopher (b. 1625)
● 1724 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar (hanged) (b. 1702)
● 1745 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665)
● 1773 - John Hawkesworth, English writer
● 1779 - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)
● 1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
● 1797 - Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744)
● 1802 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
● 1806 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)
● 1836 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761)
● 1884 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (b. 1835)
● 1885 - Louis Riel, Canadian politician (b. 1844)
● 1907 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
● 1908 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-born Canadian politician (b. 1829)
● 1911 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)
● 1922 - Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
● 1939 - Pierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1866)
● 1950 - Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
● 1960 - Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
● 1961 - Sam Rayburn, U.S. Speaker of the House (b. 1882)
● 1971 - Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and heiress (b. 1940)
● 1972 - Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1889)
● 1973 - Alan Watts, English writer (b. 1915)
● 1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
● 1982 - Arthur Askey, British comedian (b. 1900)
● 1982 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
● 1982 - Lenny Murphy, Leader of Belfast's notorious Shankill Butchers (b. 1952)
● 1984 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
● 1986 - Siobhán McKenna, Irish stage and screen actress (b. 1923)
● 1987 - Jim Brewer, Major League Baseball relief pitcher (b. 1937)
● 1987 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (b. 1907)
● 1993 - Achille Zavatta, French clown (b. 1915)
● 1993 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (b. 1939)
● 1994 - Doris Speed, British actress (b. 1899)
● 1994 - Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b.1943)
● 1995 - Jack Finney, American author (b. 1911)
● 1999 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)
● 2000 - DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971)
● 2000 - Joe C., American rapper (b. 1974)
● 2001 - Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (b. 1930)
● 2003 - Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (b. 1974)
● 2004 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (b. 1945)
● 2005 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
● 2005 - Robert Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Donald Watson, English founder of the Vegan Society (b. 1910)
● 2006 - Art Donovan, American football player (b. 1925)
● 2006 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
● 2006 - Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist (b. 1930)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic
● St. Afan
● St. Africus
● St. Agnes of Assisi
● St. Alfrick
● St. Elpidius
● St. Eucherius
● St. Fidentius
● St. Gertrude the Great
● St. Gobrain
● St. Gratia
● St. Joseph Moscati
● St. Margaret of Scotland
● St. Othmar
● St. Rufinus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 31 (Civil Date: November 16)
● Apostles Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles and Aristobulus of the Seventy.
● Martyr Epimachus of Alexandria.
● Saints Spyridon and Nicodemus the prosphora bakers of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Maura of Constantinople.
● St. Anatolius, recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● New Martyr Nicholas of Chios.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Stephen, Barnabas, Trophimus, Dorymedon, Cosmas, Damian, Sabbas, Bassa, Abraham, and others with them.
● Martyr Gordian.
● Martyr Epimachus the Roman.
● Martyrs Seleucius and Stratonica his wife, myrrh gushers.
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 3 (Civil Date: November 16)
● Martyrs Acepsimus the bishop, Joseph the presbyter, and Aeithalas the deacon, of Persia
● Dedication of the Church of the Great Martyr George in Lydda.
● (services combined) Martyrs Atticus, Agapius, Eudoxius, Carterius, Istucarius (Styrax), Pactobius (Tobias) and Nictopolion, at Sebaste.
● St. Acepsimas, hermit of Cyrrhus in Syria.
● St. Snandulia of Persia.
● St. Elias of Egypt.
● St. Achaemonides, confessor of Persia.
● St. Anna, daughter of Prince Vsevolod I Yaroslavich.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Theodore, confessor, Bishop of Ancyra.
● Martyrs Dacius, Severus, Andronas, Theodotus, and Theodota.
● New Hieromartyr George of Neopolis.
● Iceland - Dagur íslenskrar tungu (Icelandic Language Day)
● United Kingdom and Ireland - Children In Need Day
● International Day for Tolerance
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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