Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Life "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering—and it's all over much too soon." — Woody Allen
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On A Chicken in Every Pot "When I see someone who's making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 a year, that's middle class." — Rep. Fred Heineman (R-NC)
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second-rate president." — 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
M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster
Credit & Copyright: Antonio Fernandez-Sanchez
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EVENTS
● 326 - The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
● 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
● 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam ("The One Holy").
● 1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
● 1421 - A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands.
● 1477 - William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book printed on a printing press in England.
● 1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights what is now Puerto Rico.
● 1626 - St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
● 1686 - Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
● 1803 - The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
● 1820 - Nathaniel Palmer discovers Antarctica.
● 1852 - Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles Missouri - Canonized 3 July 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
● 1863 - King Christian IX of Denmark decided to sign the November Constitution, which declared Schleswig as part of Denmark, what was seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and lead to the German–Danish war of 1864.
● 1865 - Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
● 1872 - Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting.
● 1883 - American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
● 1903 - The newly independent country of Panama, whose secession from Colombia over the previous two weeks was engineered by the U.S. and guaranteed by its warships, grants the U.S. a permanent and perpetual lease to the Panama Canal With the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty.
● 1904 - General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
● 1905 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
● 1906 - Birth of George Wald, anti-war activist, Nobel physician, New York City.
● 1909 - Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
● 1910 - Hundreds of suffragists march on House of Commons, London, with reinforcements arriving to replace the "fallen" and arrested. Protesting government inaction on Conciliation Bill, they are brutally repulsed by Bobbies, leading to a public outcry.
● 1916 - Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I, calls off the Battle of the Somme in the Somme River region of France after nearly five months of mass slaughter. The massive Allied offensive, which began at 7:30 A.M. on July 1, 1916, amounted to a total gain of just 125 square miles along the Western Front, at a cost of over 600,000 British and French soldiers killed, wounded, or missing in action. German casualties were over 650,000.
● 1918 - Brazil - Major strike wave breaks out in Rio involving over 6,000 workers and a plot to overthrow the government. Prominent are the textile, metal, and construction workers.
● 1918 - Conference of Organisations Anarchistes d'Ukraine (N.A.B.A.T.) held, inspired by Voline.
● 1918 - Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
● 1919 - Domela Ferdinand Nieuwenhuis dies. Elected to office in Amsterdam, as a socialist, in 1891 before giving up politics to adopt the anarchism of Bakunin. An ardent proponent of the general strike and an organizer of the congresses of antimilitarists in Amsterdam. In 1914, faithful to the libertarian ideal, he opposed the "Manifesto of the 16" (anarchists favoring Allies in World War I), and signed, with Emma Goldman, Malatesta, etc., a proclamation opposing the war.
● 1919 - In an eerie foreshadowing of fast track authority, Pres. Woodrow Wilson urges Congress to accept no compromises on Versailles Treaty, with League of Nations Covenant. As a result, while 3/4 of the Senate favored League membership the Treaty was defeated.
● 1919 - Printers refuse to print anti-IWW ad in Seattle Post-Intelligencer by threatening to strike.
● 1926 - George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
● 1929 - Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area.
● 1936 - Union organizing in General Motors plants begins with Atlanta sit-down strike.
● 1938 - Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
● 1939 - Birth of Margaret Atwood, Ottawa, Canada. Poet, novelist, and critic noted for her Canadian nationalism and her feminism.
● 1940 - World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
● 1942 - Holocaust: German SS carry out selection of Jewish ghetto in Lviv, western Ukraine, arresting 5.000 "unproductive Jews". All get deported to Belzec death camp.
● 1943 - Holocaust: Aktion Emtefest: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lviv, western Ukraine, murdering at least 6.000 surviving Jews. German SS leader Fritz Katzman declares Lviv (Lemberg) to be Judenfrei (free from the Jews).
● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Berlin (air), 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
● 1945 - Birth of Cherokee Nation chief and Native American leader Wilma Mankiller.
● 1951 - Former Cubs first baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is first baseball player to oppose the draft. {He also holds the distinction of being the first NBA player to have smashed into pieces a basketball backboard.}
● 1964 - J. Edgar Hoover characterized Martin Luther King, Jr., as "the most notorious liar in the country." MLK replies that Hoover "has apparently faltered under the awesome burden, complexities, and responsibilities of his office."
● 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
● 1973 - Radical and wonderful a capella singers "Sweet Honey in the Rock" forms, Washington, D.C.
● 1975 - Eldridge Cleaver returns to U.S. from seven years exile to face charges.
● 1977 - KKK members convicted of 1963 bombing of Birmingham church in which four young black girls were killed.
● 1978 - Farmers plow site of proposed nuclear power station, Torness, Scotland.
● 1978 - Jonestown incident: In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.
● 1982 - Alternative service for conscientious objectors increased from 16 to 20 months, West Germany.
● 1987 - Iran-Contra Affair: The U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contras affair.
● 1987 - King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras.
● 1988 - War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers.
● 1989 - Czechoslovakian government starts to crumble - strike at schools, invitations of forbidden speakers, town meetings start; Civic Forum formed.
● 1991 - After the 3-month siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
● 1991 - Parents of reservists demand return of their sons, Kragujevac, Serbia.
● 1991 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.
● 1992 - One thousand join memorial run to honor a woman murdered while training for a local marathon, Buffalo, New York.
● 1993 - In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution.
● 1994 - After massive international protest by indigenous and environmental activists, Quebec puts on "indefinite hold" (and later formally cancels) plans to build a massive hydroelectric project on Cree and Inuit land on the eastern shore of James Bay.
● 1999 - In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a huge bonfire under construction collapses.
● 2001 - In London, 100,000 march against the U.S./British attacks against Afghanistan.
● 2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
● 2002 - The oil tanker Prestige capsizes off the coast of Spain, beginning what becomes the biggest environmental disaster in the history of Western Europe.
● 2003 - In the UK the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.
● 2003 - The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal's CPI.
● 2004 - Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
BIRTHS
● 1522 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)
● 1647 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
● 1727 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)
● 1772 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (d. 1806)
● 1785 - David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)
● 1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
● 1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
● 1804 - Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)
● 1832 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Swedish explorer (d. 1901)
● 1836 - Sir William S. Gilbert, British dramatist (d. 1911)
● 1836 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist and founder of criminology (d. 1909)
● 1839 - August Kundt, German physicist (d. 1894)
● 1856 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)
● 1870 - Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951)
● 1874 - Clarence Day, American author (d. 1935)
● 1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (d. 1963)
● 1882 - Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (d. 1973)
● 1883 - Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (d. 1981)
● 1897 - Patrick Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
● 1898 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1989)
● 1899 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-born conductor (d. 1985)
● 1901 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (d. 1984)
● 1904 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
● 1906 - Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
● 1906 - George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)
● 1906 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (d. 1988)
● 1907 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
● 1908 - Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian (d. 2001)
● 1909 - Johnny Mercer, American lyricist (d. 1976)
● 1915 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004)
● 1917 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957)
● 1918 - Tasker Watkins, Welsh World War II hero (d. 2007)
● 1919 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (d. 2005)
● 1922 - Luis Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan president (d. 1967)
● 1923 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)
● 1923 - Ted Stevens, American politician
● 1924 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, president of the European Court of Justice (d. 2000)
● 1925 - Gene Mauch, American baseball manager (d. 2005)
● 1927 - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
● 1928 - Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
● 1932 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver {d. 1973)
● 1934 - Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer, Greece's ambassador to UNESCO
● 1935 - Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997)
● 1936 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995)
● 1939 - Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
● 1939 - Brenda Vaccaro, American actress
● 1940 - Qaboos ibn Sa’id, Sultan of Oman
● 1941 - David Hemmings, British actor (d. 2003)
● 1942 - Linda Evans, American actress
● 1942 - Susan Sullivan, American actress
● 1944 - Wolfgang Joop, German artist, fashion designer and art collector
● 1946 - Alan Dean Foster, American author
● 1947 - Jameson Parker, American actor
● 1948 - Andrea Marcovicci, American singer and actress
● 1948 - Jack Tatum, American football player
● 1950 - Eric Pierpoint, American actor
● 1951 - Justin Raimondo, American author
● 1952 - Delroy Lindo, British actor
● 1952 - Peter Beattie, 36th Premier of Queensland
● 1953 - Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist
● 1954 - John Parr, British pop singer
● 1954 - Evan Gray, New Zealand cricketer
● 1956 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1995)
● 1956 - Warren Moon, American football player
● 1957 - Seán Mac Falls, Irish-born poet
● 1959 - Jimmy Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
● 1960 - Kim Wilde, British singer
● 1960 - Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
● 1962 - Kirk Hammett, American guitarist (Metallica)
● 1962 - Jamie Moyer, American baseball player
● 1963 - Dante Bichette, American baseball player
● 1963 - Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer
● 1963 - Len Bias, American basketball player (d. 1986)
● 1966 - Jorge Camacho, Spanish poet
● 1967 - Jocelyn Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1968 - Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and manager
● 1968 - Gary Sheffield, American baseball player
● 1968 - Owen Wilson, American actor
● 1969 - Sam Cassell, American basketball player
● 1970 - Peta Wilson, Australian actress
● 1970 - Johan Liiva, Sweden vocalist and bassist (Arch Enemy)
● 1972 - Robert Shapiro - American politician/humorist
● 1973 - Nic Pothas, South African/English wicket-keeper
● 1974 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress
● 1975 - David Ortiz, Dominican baseball player
● 1975 - Jason Williams, American basketball player
● 1975 - Anthony McPartlin, British actor and television presenter
● 1975 - Shawn Camp, American baseball player
● 1976 - Shagrath, Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir)
● 1977 - Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1977 - Fabolous, American rapper
● 1978 - Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
● 1980 - Okada Junichi, singer and actor (member of V6)
● 1980 - Dustin Kensrue, American Singer/Songwriter (Thrice)
● 1980 - François Duval, Belgian rally driver
● 1981 - Christina Vidal, American actress
● 1981 - Gian Magdangal, Filipino singer and actor
● 1983 - Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer
● 1983 - Travis Buck, American baseball player
● 1984 - Johnny Christ, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
● 1984 - Ryohei Chiba, member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
● 1984 - Nayanthara, Indian actress
● 1988 - Montanna Thompson, English actress
● 1992 - Nathan Kress, child actor
DEATHS
● 1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
● 1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
● 1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
● 1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
● 1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
● 1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
● 1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
● 1814 - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
● 1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
● 1889 - William Allingham, Irish author
● 1922 - Marcel Proust, French novelist (b. 1871)
● 1941 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
● 1941 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
● 1941 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
● 1952 - Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
● 1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
● 1965 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)
● 1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (b. 1888)
● 1969 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
● 1972 - Danny Whitten, American musician and songwriter (b. 1943)
● 1976 - Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890)
● 1977 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (b. 1897)
● 1977 - Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888)
● 1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (suicide) (b. 1931)
● 1978 - Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman (b. 1925)
● 1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901)
● 1980 - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
● 1982 - Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (b. 1959)
● 1984 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and eidtor in chief Bride & Home (b. 1907)
● 1986 - Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
● 1987 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (cancer) (b. 1934)
● 1991 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913)
● 1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (b. 1907)
● 1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
● 2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
● 2003 - Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
● 2004 - Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Dedication of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter and Paul
● St. Anselm
● St. Hesychius of Antioch
● St. Keverne
● St. Leonard Kimura
● St. Mawes
● St. Maximus
● St. Mummolus
● St. Nazarius
● St. Odo of Cluny
● St. Oriculus and Companions
● Sts. Romanus and Barula
● St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
● St. Thomas of Antioch
● Bl. John Shoun
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 5 (Civil Date: November 18)
● Martyrs Galacteon and his wife Episteme at Emesa.
● Repose of St. Jonah, Archbishop of Novgorod.
● Apostles Patrobus, Hermas, Linus, Gaius and Philologus of the Seventy.
● St. Gregory, Archbishop of Alexandria.
● Martyrs Domninus, Timothy, Theophilus, Theotimus, Dorotheus, Eupsychius, Carterius, Pamphilius, Agathangelus and Castorus of Palestine.
● Hieromartyr Silvanus, Bishop of Gaza.
● Repose of Blessed Hilarion, recluse of Troekurovo (1853).
● Roman festivals - day 1 Dios dedicated to the sun god by emperor Licinius
● Latvia - Independence Day (1918)
● Oman - National holiday
● Venezuela - Feast of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá, also known as la Chinita, in the western state of Zulia
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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