"17 November" is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Liberty "America is not Rome. We do not dream of empire. We dream of liberty for all." — Howard Dean
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homeland Security ". . . Mark Shields: . . . reason there's a photo spread in Vanity Fair is because of this leak. That's the only reason . . . That's the only reason anybody knows Valerie Plame.
Kate O'Beirne: Her picture had not appeared until she posed for Vanity Fair!
Margaret Carlson: But it doesn't matter! Her picture can be out there now.
Bob Novak: Again, I'm only saying things that I have written before, and that is that I was told, reporting the story, by the press person at the CIA that it was unlikely that she would ever make another overseas trip on business for the CIA. {You guaranteed that you dumb putz.}" — "Capital Gang," CNN, 1-3-04—Part 2 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 "I would have made a good pope." — 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
Forest and Sky
Credit & Copyright: Vincent Jacques
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EVENTS
● 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
● 473 - The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I.
● 1183 - Battle of Mizushima.
● 1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
● 1511 - Spain and England ally against France.
● 1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. Bags of cats are burned at the coronation ceremony for Elizabeth I. PETA protests outside.
● 1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
● 1624 - Mystic philosopher Jacob Boehme dies.
● 1637 - Anne Hutchinson, antinomian, brought to trial. Banished from Massachusetts.
● 1659 - Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain. {Never included in negotiations are the Basque people of the region who even today want a voice in their own affairs.}
● 1734 - John Peter Zenger arrested for libels against colonial government.
● 1777 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.
● 1785 - Through strong drink, two Creek subchiefs are induced to sign treaty ceding large portion of Alabama and Georgia to whites; treaty is repudiated by Creek Nation, to no effect.
● 1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
● 1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
● 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.
● 1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
● 1831 - Ecuador and Venezuela separate from Greater Colombia.
● 1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
● 1856 - American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
● 1858 - Modified Julian Day zero.
● 1858 - Socialist planner Robert Owen dies.
● 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
● 1866 - Birth of anarcha-feminist Voltarine de Cleyre. Teacher of newly arrived immigrants in Philadelphia, atheist and free-thinker.
● 1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
● 1869 - Suez Canal, Egypt, opens, links Mediterranean and Red Seas.
● 1871 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
● 1875 - American Theosophical Society founded.
● 1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
● 1878 - Italy - King Humbert I stabbed and wounded by the anarchist Giovanni Passanante. Condemned to death, Passanante's sentence was commuted, and he died in prison in 1910.
● 1881 - Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, forerunner of AFL, organized.
● 1886 - Premiere of the opera Mignon by Ambroise Thomas.
● 1896 - Sacramento, California reports first of dozens of sightings of huge mysterious airships appearing all over U.S. for the next six months. {Air Force's Project Bluebook had no comment.}
● 1903 - Dahomey (current Benin) becomes a French protectorate.
● 1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
● 1905 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
● 1909 - U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua.
● 1914 - England - Union of Democratic Control founded. It's been controlled ever since.
● 1915 - The Scottish "Great Rent Strike" culminates in a huge demonstration in Glasgow.
● 1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey.
● 1922 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.
● 1933 - United States recognizes Soviet Union.
● 1939 - Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal; in addition, Czech universities are shut down and over a thousand Czech students sent to concentration camps. November 17 declared International Student's day.
● 1939 - The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.
● 1941 - World War II: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan has plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable is ignored).
● 1942 - Hobo organizer and cultural drop-out Ben Reitman dies.
● 1947 - Victor Serge dies. Novelist, poet, historian, and political activist. Lived in Paris in 1909, associated with individualist anarchists, particularly his childhood friend Raymond Callemin. Collaborated on the newspaper "L'anarchie." In Barcelona, involved in the newspaper of the CNT, "Tierra y Libertad." Went to Russia in 1918, a supporter of the communists. Critical of the direction of the party, he was imprisoned, but release in 1935 through the appeals of French intellectuals.
● 1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
● 1953 - Nine paratroopers killed during a training exercise at Fort Bragg, North Carolina when an Air Force C-119 Flying Boxcar plows into them as they float earthward. The plane then crashes, killing six more servicemen.
● 1953 - The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland were evacuated to the mainland.
● 1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt.
● 1958 - Alan Freed's trial for allegedly inciting a riot after a Boston rock and roll show on May 3, 1958, set to start on this day, is put back until January 5, 1959, due to investigations into a related charge of violating Massachusetts anti-anarchy laws.
● 1960 - Anti-integration demonstrators riot in New Orleans.
● 1962 - President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
● 1967 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
● 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis condemned to death by the Greek Colonels' Junta.
● 1969 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
● 1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
● 1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
● 1970 - Trial of Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins begins.
● 1970 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
● 1973 - Free Religionist Alan Watts dies, Mill Valley, California.
● 1973 - The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
● 1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook". {Rarely has there been a bigger lie ever spoken.}
● 1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP.
● 1978 - Two FBI agents testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations that the bureau's long-term surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was based solely on FBI head J. Edgar Hoover's "hatred of the civil rights leader" and not on the civil right's leader's alleged communist influences or linkages with radical groups.
● 1979 - Jamaican-born Arthur Lewis, along with Theodore Schultz, is named the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for "pioneering research into economic development...with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries."
● 1979 - The Ayatollah Khomeini, (known as "Chuckles" to close friends) the leader of Iran, orders the release of 13 female and black hostages in Teheran, citing American women and African-Americans as among the groups oppressed by the government of the United States.
● 1983 - Formation of the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation), Mexico.
● 1985 - The first edition of Phrack is released. It became the oldest computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years of existence.
● 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
● 1990 - Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
● 1991 - 1,603 African-American women protest Clarence Thomas's appointment to U.S. Supreme Court after Senate confirmation hearings deride testimony of Thomas's long-standing pattern of sexual harassment. {Right wing tool Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT) brings in copy of "The Exorcist" and claims anti-Thomas witness Anita Hill got her ideas (his word, "fantasy") from the novel.}
● 1992 - After a 14-year battle with cancer, self-described "Black lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde, dies in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Her battle with cancer is examined in "The Cancer Journals" (1980), which also contains a feminist critique of the medical profession.
● 1992 - Dateline NBC airs a demonstration showing General Motors trucks, with their gas tanks exploding upon side impacts. It's later revealed NBC rigged the test.
● 1992 - The Sequoyah Fuels Uranium-Processing facility in Oklahoma releases a cloud of nitrogen dioxide. The release exposes 34 people to the carcinogen. Most are hospitalized with bleeding eardrums and blistered eyeballs or lungs. Since opening in 1971, the uranium plant -- owned by General Atomics -- had tallied 15,000 violations of state and federal law. For years, the group Native Americans for a Clean Environment had publicized the violations and organized demonstrations. In 1992, the group devoted all its money for a legal team and publicity. Within a week of today's nitrogen-dioxide release, General Atomics closes the plant to avoid new litigation.
● 1995 - Bettino Craxi, who served as Italy's first Socialist prime minister from 1983 to 1987, is indicted on corruption charges along with 74 others, many present or former government officials. Silvio Berlusconi, Italian opposition leader in power after the Christian Democrats fell in 1994, is also implicated. In December of 1995, Berlusconi is forced to resign. In the subsequent trial, the intimate connection between the government and the Italian Mafia is exposed, and in some cases the differences between these two organizations is heavily blurred. In 2001, Berlusconi returns to power, becoming a close ally of George W. Bush and unleashing a neo-fascist police attack upon demonstrators at a massive July 2001 demonstration in Genoa.
● 1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (The police then kill the assailants).
● 2000 - A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
● 2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
● 2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated as Governor of California. {And yes, he keeps coming back like a bad dream.}
● 2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
● 2006 - Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
BIRTHS
● 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)
● 1502 - Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
● 1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)
● 1576 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
● 1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)
● 1612 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
● 1681 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
● 1685 - Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
● 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1783)
● 1755 - Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
● 1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
● 1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
● 1793 - Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
● 1799 - Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)
● 1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
● 1827 - Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
● 1835 - Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
● 1854 - Hubert Lyautey, French general (d. 1934)
● 1857 - Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)
● 1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
● 1868 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
● 1877 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (d. 1943)
● 1878 - Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939)
● 1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
● 1887 - Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)
● 1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d. 1972)
● 1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
● 1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
● 1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
● 1897 - Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
● 1899 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
● 1901 - Walter Hallstein, German politician (d. 1982)
● 1901 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982)
● 1902 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
● 1904 - Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
● 1905 - Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
● 1905 - Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
● 1906 - Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1992)
● 1906 - Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)
● 1907 - Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)
● 1911 - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
● 1916 - Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)
● 1920 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
● 1922 - Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1923 - Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)
● 1923 - Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm
● 1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
● 1925 - Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor
● 1927 - Robert Brown, American actor
● 1928 - Rance Howard, American actor
● 1929 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
● 1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete (d. 2006)
● 1935 - Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player
● 1935 - Toni Sailer, Austrian skier
● 1936 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
● 1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
● 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
● 1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
● 1940 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player
● 1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
● 1942 - Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician
● 1943 - Lauren Hutton, American actress
● 1944 - Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame Coach
● 1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
● 1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
● 1944 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
● 1944 - Tom Seaver, baseball player
● 1945 - Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
● 1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
● 1946 - Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
● 1947 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
● 1947 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician
● 1948 - Howard Dean, American politician
● 1949 - Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnam
● 1950 - Tom Walkinshaw, British businessman
● 1951 - Stephen Root, American actor
● 1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
● 1952 - Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
● 1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
● 1955 - Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player
● 1955 - Yolanda King, actress/activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007)
● 1957 - Debbie Thrower, BBC News Reader
● 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
● 1960 - Jonathan Ross, British presenter
● 1960 - Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
● 1960 - RuPaul, American drag entertainer
● 1962 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
● 1964 - Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
● 1964 - Mitch Williams, Major League Baseball player
● 1965 - Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
● 1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
● 1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress
● 1966 - Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
● 1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
● 1966 - Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
● 1968 - Amber Michaels, German porn actress
● 1969 - Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
● 1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
● 1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
● 1972 - Leonard Roberts, American actor
● 1973 - Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
● 1973 - Bernd Schneider, German footballer
● 1973 - Eli Marrero, American baseball player
● 1974 - Leslie Bibb, American actress
● 1975 - Diane Neal, American actress
● 1976 - Brandon Call, American actor
● 1977 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
● 1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player
● 1979 - Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
● 1979 - Matthew Spring, English footballer
● 1980 - Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
● 1980 - Mercedes Martinez, professional wrestler
● 1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
● 1982 - Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
● 1983 - Ryan Braun, American baseball player
● 1983 - Christopher Paolini, author of Inheritance cycle
● 1983 - Nick Markakis, American baseball player
● 1986 - Nani, Portuguese football (soccer) player
● 1990 - Shanica Knowles, American actress
● 1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor
● 1994 - Raquel Castro, American actress
DEATHS
● 375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
● 594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539)
● 641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
● 680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
● 885 - Queen Liutgard
● 1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
● 1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
● 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
● 1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)
● 1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
● 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
● 1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
● 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
● 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
● 1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
● 1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
● 1665 - John Earle, English bishop
● 1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
● 1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
● 1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
● 1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
● 1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate
● 1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
● 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
● 1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
● 1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
● 1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
● 1796 - Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729)
● 1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
● 1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
● 1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
● 1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
● 1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
● 1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
● 1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
● 1910 - Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado.
● 1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
● 1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
● 1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
● 1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
● 1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
● 1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
● 1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
● 1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
● 1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
● 1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
● 1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
● 1955 - James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
● 1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
● 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
● 1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
● 1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
● 1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull)
● 1980 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st Sufi master of Oveyssi order (b. 1916)
● 1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
● 1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
● 1986 - Georges Besse, French automobile executive (b. 1927)
● 1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)
● 1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
● 1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
● 1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
● 1995 - Alan Hull, English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne)
● 1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
● 2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
● 2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
● 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
● 2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
● 2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
● 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
● 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
● 2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
● 2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
● 2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
● 2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
● 2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Acisclus
● St. Alphaeus
● St. Anianus
● St. Dionysius of Alexandria
● St. Elisabeth of Hungary
● St. Eugene
● St. Gregory of Tours
● St. Gregory Thaumaturgus
● St. Hilda of Whitby
● St. Hugh of Lincoln
● St. Hugh of Noara
● St. Namasius
● Martyrs of Paraguay
● St. Roque Gonzalez de Santa Cruz
● Sts. Valentine and Dubatatius
● Bl. Salomea
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 4 (Civil Date: November 17)
● St. Ioannicius the Great
● Hieromartyrs Nicander, Bishop of Myra, and Hermas, presbyter.
● Blessed Simon of Yurievits.
● St. Nicander, abbot of Gorodensk (Novgorod).
● St. Mercurius, faster of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Paul, Metropolitan of Tobolsk.
● St. Sylvia, mother of St. Gregory the Dialogist.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Porphyrius the Mime of Caesarea.
● St. John Vataxis the Merciful, emperor.
● Repose of Schemamonk Mark of Sarov Monastery (1817).
● Slovakia - Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day commemorating the beginning of the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
● International Students 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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