Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Inspiration "Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it." — Madeleine L'Engle
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On "Corrections Day" or Damn the Public, Full Speed Ahead "I think if we have some gridlock on the regulatory agencies . . . the American people will stand up and say, 'Yeah! Hallelujah!'" — Rep. David M. McIntosh (R-IN), on the GOP drive to stall the enforcement of regulations protecting public health and safety. Boston Globe, 2-24-95.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep." — Senator S. I. Hayakawa
{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
Three Nebulae in Narrow Band
Credit & Copyright: Michael Mayda
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EVENTS
● 1570 - A tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
● 1675 - A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.
● 1772 - American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
● 1783 - In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
● 1795 - The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
● 1811 - Weavers and knitters smash job-displacing new machines at Sutton and Ashfield, England, as part of the "Luddite" rebellion.
● 1847 - Birth of George Sorel, French socialist thinker, writer, advocate of violent revolution.
● 1861 - American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
● 1868 - Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
● 1889 - North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states. {Giving them twice their deserved representation in the US Senate; they rightfully should have been admitted as a single state.}
● 1892 - Birth of Jean Roumilhac, Compeignac (High Vienna). Fought with the Spanish republicans. President of S.I.A. (International solidarity Anti- fascist). In the 1940s, created, in the Rhone delta, an agricultural company, "legally" enabling Spanish anarchist refugees to obtain residence permits.
● 1899 - The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
● 1903 - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt sends warships to protect the right to "free and uninterrupted transit" across the then-Colombian province of Panama.
● 1909 - IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) free-speech fight, Spokane, Washington.
● 1914 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
● 1917 - Seventeen IWW members beaten, and tarred and feathered, by anti-union mob. Tulsa, Okla.
● 1917 - The Balfour Declaration proclaims support for Jewish settlement in Palestine.
● 1919 - Laurent Tailhade, French poet, writer, anarchist polemist, opium addict ("La noire idole"), translator, dies.
● 1920 - Imprisoned anti-war activist and Socialist Party candidate Eugene Debs receives over one million votes for President.
● 1920 - In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
● 1930 - Ras Tafari Makonnen is crowned Negus of Ethiopia, taking the name Haile Selassie. Signifies to thousands of Jamaicans and Garveyites in the U.S. the fulfillment of the prophesy of their leader, Marcus Garvey.
● 1936 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
● 1936 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
● 1936 - The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
● 1945 - Japan - Social Democratic Party founded.
● 1947 - In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
● 1948 - Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
● 1953 - The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
● 1957 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
● 1959 - Charles Van Doren testifies before a House Committee that he wanted to leave the "fixed" NBC-TV quiz show "21," but producer Albert Freedman wouldn't let him. (No congressman asked him why, if this were so, he didn't simply muff a question and lose the game.)
● 1959 - The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
● 1960 - Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case. {D. H. Lawrence, the author of the book, now appears on some high school reading lists.}
● 1961 - James Thurber, American humorist and short story writer, dies.
● 1963 - Army forces assassinate South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem in Saigon. His wife, in Beverly Hills at the time, denounces U.S. complicity in the coup.
● 1964 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
● 1965 - Norman Morrison, 32-year-old Quaker, father of three, immolates himself below Secretary of Defense McNamara's Pentagon window to protest Vietnam War and in particular the use of Napalm. Morrison was a national hero in North Vietnam. The government named a Hanoi street after him and issued a postage stamp in his honor.
● 1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
● 1967 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
● 1969 - Italy - During two-day Congress of the F.A.I, in Carrare, a split develops between anarchists and situationists.
● 1971 - 18- to 20-year-olds vote first time. Part of Nixon administration's concerted efforts to defuse youth rebellion and opposition to his Vietnam War activities.
● 1972 - Five hundred protesters from "Trail of Broken Treaties" Native American march occupy Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, Washington D.C., for six days.
● 1972 - Asian-American protesters from nearby International District sling mud at the ground-breaking ceremony for a new domed stadium (the Kingdome) in Seattle.
● 1973 - The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India forms a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.
● 1974 - 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
● 1979 - Political bank robber Jacques Mesrine machine-gunned by flics, Paris.
● 1979 - Assata Shakur liberated from prison, gains political exile in Cuba.
● 1983 - Pres. Reagan signs a bill to establish a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. Culmination of the efforts by many civil rights organizations and entertainers to name King's birthday as a national holiday, despite opposition of many states.
● 1984 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
● 1987 - Soviet General Secretary Mikhael Gorbachev, addressing 6,000 party officials and visitors in the Kremlin, admits that Stalin had committed enormous crimes, and says a commission will investigate the possibility of rehabilitating the reputations of his innocent victims.
● 1988 - The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. It strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and six universities.
● 1988 - Syracuse Univ. students "welcome" CIA recruiter with attempted citizens' arrest for genocide.
● 1989 - U.S. nun Diana Ortiz is kidnapped, beaten, raped and tortured near Guatemala City by U.S.-backed Guatemalan military. The U.S. Embassy claims Ortiz staged her own abduction and rape.
● 1991 - Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
● 1995 - Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).
● 2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
BIRTHS
● 1082 - Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
● 1636 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)
● 1667 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
● 1692 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)
● 1696 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760)
● 1699 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
● 1709 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
● 1734 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)
● 1739 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)
● 1741 - Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784)
● 1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
● 1766 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
● 1777 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
● 1795 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
● 1808 - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
● 1815 - George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
● 1821 - Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
● 1837 - Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891)
● 1844 - Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
● 1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
● 1877 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)
● 1877 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
● 1877 - Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957)
● 1883 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947)
● 1885 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
● 1886 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)
● 1892 - Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1939)
● 1893 - Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966)
● 1894 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
● 1903 - Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
● 1905 - James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
● 1906 - Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)
● 1906 - Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)
● 1908 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
● 1910 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
● 1911 - Odysseus Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
● 1911 - Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
● 1913 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
● 1914 - Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
● 1915 - Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
● 1920 - Ann Rutherford, American actress
● 1921 - Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999)
● 1921 - Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)
● 1924 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
● 1924 - Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer
● 1927 - Steve Ditko, American artist
● 1929 - Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan
● 1929 - Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1934 - Bill Gothard, American speaker
● 1934 - Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
● 1936 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)
● 1936 - Abdullah the Butcher, wrestler
● 1937 - Earl Carroll, lead vocalist of The Cadillacs
● 1938 - Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
● 1938 - Queen Sofia of Spain
● 1938 - Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
● 1940 - Jim Bakken, American football player
● 1941 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)
● 1942 - Shere Hite, American author
● 1942 - Stefanie Powers, American actress
● 1944 - Patrice Chéreau, French director, actor and producer
● 1944 - Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
● 1946 - Alan Jones, Australian race car driver
● 1946 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
● 1949 - Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
● 1951 - Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
● 1951 - Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
● 1952 - Maxine Nightingale, English singer
● 1954 - Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
● 1955 - Chris Burnett, American musician
● 1956 - Peter Mullan, Scottish actor
● 1957 - Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
● 1958 - Willie McGee, American baseball player
● 1960 - Tihomir Blaškić, Croatian war criminal
● 1961 - k.d. lang, Canadian musician
● 1962 - Mireille Delunsch, French soprano
● 1963 - Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
● 1964 - Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
● 1965 - Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
● 1966 - Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
● 1966 - Sean Kanan, American actor
● 1966 - Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor
● 1967 - Kurt Elling, American jazz vocalist
● 1967 - Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician
● 1968 - Ultra Naté, American musician
● 1969 - Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
● 1970 - Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet
● 1972 - Samantha Janus, British entertainer
● 1972 - Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
● 1972 - Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player
● 1973 - Marisol Nichols, American actress
● 1974 - Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
● 1974 - Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player
● 1974 - Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver
● 1974 - Nelly, American rapper
● 1975 - Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie)
● 1976 - Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
● 1977 - Randy Harrison, American actor
● 1977 - Jason Cerbone, American actor (The Sopranos)
● 1978 - Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion
● 1979 - Julie Lund, Danish actress
● 1980 - Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
● 1981 - Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
● 1981 - Avy Scott, American actress
● 1982 - Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
● 1984 - Julia Stegner, German supermodel
● 1984 - Tamara Hope, Canadian actress
● 1986 - Erika Jo, American musician
● 1986 - Lara Sacher, Australian actress
● 1988 - Lindze Letherman, American actress (General Hospital)
● 1989 - Katelyn Tarver, American singer
DEATHS
● 943 - Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)
● 1083 - Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031)
● 1285 - King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
● 1327 - King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
● 1483 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
● 1610 - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
● 1618 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
● 1716 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)
● 1807 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
● 1852 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
● 1863 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
● 1877 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
● 1887 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
● 1898 - George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
● 1905 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
● 1935 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
● 1944 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
● 1945 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
● 1949 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
● 1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
● 1960 - Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
● 1961 - James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
● 1963 - Ngô Đình Diệm, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
● 1966 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
● 1966 - Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
● 1970 - Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (b. 1895)
● 1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
● 1979 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936)
● 1984 - Velma Barfield, American murderer (b. 1932)
● 1986 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)
● 1991 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (b. 1916)
● 1992 - Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
● 1996 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
● 1998 - Vincent Winter, British actor (b. 1957)
● 2002 - Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
● 2002 - Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
● 2003 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
● 2004 - Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
● 2004 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)
● 2004 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
● 2005 - Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach.
● 2007 - Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
● 2007 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish metal drummer (Decapitated) (b. 1984)
● 2007 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
● 2007 - The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● All Souls Day (While not a Holy Day of Obligation most Roman Catholic priests traditionally celebrate three Masses on this day for the Souls of all the dead.)
● St. Acyndinus
● St. Amicus
● St. Carterius
● St. Jorandus
● St. Justus of Trieste
● St. Marcian
● St. Maura
● St. Theodotus
● St. Victorinus of Pettau
● Bl. John Bodey
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 17 (Civil Date: November 2)
● Prophet Hosea (Osee).
● Monk martyr Andrew of Crete.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Lazarus "of the Four Days" (in the tomb), Bishop of Kition on Cyprus.
● Holy Martyrs and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian in Cilicia, and their brothers Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius.
● St. Anthony, abbot of Leokhnov (Novgorod).
● St. Susanna of Georgia.
● Repose of Elder Athanasius (Zakharov), disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1825).
● Ancient Latvia - Dveselu Diena held
● Mexico and Ecuador - Day of the Dead (Spanish: El Dia de los Muertos), a celebration of dead ancestors.
● USA - admission day (1889) of North Dakota and South Dakota as 39th and 40th states.
● Rastafari movement - The coronation of Haile Selassie (1930) celebrated
● Brazil and Portugal - Dia de Finados, a celebration of dead ancestors in the All Souls 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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