Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On McCarthyism "No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." — Edward R. Murrow {McCarthy is dead but George W. "War Criminal" Bush and Bushism is all too alive and growing, but never well.}
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Campaign Strategies "We need to find new issues that polarize in our favor. We should not fight things that are clearly popular. It makes us look Draconian." — Anthony Fabrizio, Republican pollster. Richard Benedetto, "GOP Poll," USA Today, 2-26-97.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." — Prince Philip, during the 1981 recession
{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
Pleiades and Stardust
Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
ON THIS DATE IN 1963
IN THE HOURS BEFORE AMBUSH
MINUTES BEFORE AMBUSH
HOW WE FELT AFTER AMBUSH
EVENTS
● 498 - After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
● 1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") was killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
● 1830 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
● 1831 - Revolt of the silk workers in Lyon, France escalates, as workers seize arms and take on the military. Approximately 100 die and 263 on the military side wounded, 69 dead and 140 wounded on the civilian side.
● 1842 - Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts. IMAX is on hand to rend an enormous 3-D sketch.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invaded Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
● 1909 - New York female garment workers call for general strike, leading to the "Uprising of the 20,000." The International Ladies Garment Workers Union strike against sweatshop conditions, also called the "Girl's Revolt," wins support of other workers and the women's suffrage movement in their persistence and unity in the face of police brutality and rigged courtrooms. Judge tells arrested pickets - "You are on strike against God." First mass strike in the U.S. by women.
● 1916 - Jack London, socialist, novelist, dog-lover, sailor on horseback, dies by his own hand. A suicide at 40, in Santa Rosa, California.
● 1919 - Lum Williams and two others shot for cross-racial labor organizing, Bogalus, Ala.
● 1922 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opened the tomb of Tutankhamen.
● 1930 - Nation of Islam founded by Prophet Elijah Mohammed.
● 1935 - The China Clipper took off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
● 1936 - Spain - Over 500,000 attend the funeral of the anarchist Durruti in Barcelona.
● 1940 - Philip Murray succeeds founder John L. Lewis as president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
● 1940 - World War II: Following the Italian invasion, Greek troops advanced into Albanian soil and liberated Korytsa.
● 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - General Friedrich Paulus sent Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army was surrounded.
● 1943 - Lebanese Independence Day. Lebanon gained independence from France.
● 1943 - World War II: War in the Pacific - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek met in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan
● 1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy was killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally was seriously wounded by an assassin, identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, who was later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit. That same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
● 1963 - Death of Aldous Huxley, British pacifist author of "Brave New World," Hollywood. His last request, which was granted, was for an injection of LSD.
● 1963 - Death of C. S. Lewis, Catholic apologist and author.
● 1963 - Sexpert and film comedian Mae West dies.
● 1967 - Blacks riot on north side of Chicago.
● 1967 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 was adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
● 1972 - Circumpolar peoples from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway, and Sweden meet in Copenhagen to demand self-government and control over Arctic land and resources.
● 1972 - Talks begin toward a Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, Helsinki, Finland.
● 1972 - Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.
● 1974 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
● 1975 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
● 1977 - British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
● 1982 - Wimmin's Fire Brigade launch Molotov Cocktails at Red Hot Video porn shops in Vancouver, Canada.
● 1985 - 143 surviving Kickapoo Indians on the Texas/Coahuila (Mexico) border are given U.S. citizenship, ending a 140-year U.S. refusal to allow the Kickapoo to live legally on their land.
● 1987 - Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom
● 1988 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
● 1989 - In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
● 1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. {Too little, too late.}
● 1998 - Seven thousand march on School of the Americas at Fort Benning, outside Columbus, Georgia; 2,319 arrested for symbolic trespass.
● 2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
● 2003 - In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.
● 2004 - The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
● 2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
BIRTHS
● 1458 - Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
● 1515 - Marie of Guise, Queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
● 1564 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
● 1602 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
● 1635 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
● 1643 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
● 1698 - Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
● 1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
● 1721 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
● 1722 - Hryhori Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
● 1767 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian patriot (d. 1810)
● 1787 - Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
● 1808 - Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
● 1814 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
● 1819 - George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
● 1849 - Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
● 1852 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
● 1856 - Heber J. Grant, American religious leader (d. 1945)
● 1868 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (d. 1967)
● 1869 - André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
● 1877 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
● 1877 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
● 1884 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad (d. 1953)
● 1890 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)
● 1893 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
● 1897 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
● 1898 - Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
● 1899 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
● 1901 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
● 1902 - Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
● 1902 - Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
● 1902 - Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
● 1904 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
● 1909 - Mikhail Mil, Russian constructor of Mil helicopters and founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (d. 1970)
● 1913 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
● 1914 - Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot (d. 1995)
● 1917 - Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate
● 1918 - Claiborne Pell, American politician
● 1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (d. 2004)
● 1921 - Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
● 1923 - Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (d. 2006)
● 1923 - Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
● 1924 - Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
● 1925 - Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor
● 1926 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
● 1926 - Arthur Jones (inventor), American inventor (d. 2007)
● 1929 - Aleksandar Popović, Serbian theatre writer (d. 1996)
● 1932 - Robert Vaughn, American actor
● 1936 - Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
● 1938 - Henry C. Lee, Chinese American criminologist
● 1939 - Tom West, American astrophysicist
● 1939 - Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
● 1940 - Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian
● 1941 - Tom Conti, British actor
● 1941 - Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
● 1941 - Jesse Colin Young, American musician
● 1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis player
● 1943 - Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1945 - Tom Freston, American television executive
● 1946 - Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
● 1947 - Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
● 1947 - Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
● 1947 - Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
● 1949 - Richard Carmona, Surgeon General of the United States
● 1950 - Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
● 1950 - Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
● 1950 - Steven Van Zandt, American musician
● 1950 - Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
● 1951 - Kent Nagano, American conductor
● 1956 - Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
● 1956 - Richard Kind, American actor
● 1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
● 1958 - Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
● 1958 - Horse McDonald, Scottish singer/songwriter
● 1960 - Bruce Payne, English actor
● 1960 - Léos Carax, French film director
● 1961 - Mariel Hemingway, American actress
● 1961 - Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
● 1961 - Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
● 1962 - Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
● 1963 - Scoop Jackson, American sports journalist
● 1965 - Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
● 1966 - Richard Stanley, South African film director
● 1967 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor
● 1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player
● 1967 - Bart Veldkamp, Dutch speed skater
● 1968 - Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
● 1970 - Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricket player
● 1970 - Stel Pavlou, British novelist
● 1972 - Jay Payton, American baseball player
● 1974 - Joe Nathan, American baseball player
● 1974 - David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
● 1975 - Aiko, Japanese singer
● 1976 - Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
● 1976 - Torsten Frings, German footballer
● 1976 - Regina Halmich, German female boxer
● 1977 - Michael Preston, English footballer
● 1978 - Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
● 1979 - Chris Doran, Irish singer
● 1980 - Shawn Fanning, American creator of Napster
● 1980 - Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
● 1981 - Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
● 1981 - Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
● 1981 - Ben Adams, English Singer/Songwriter
● 1982 - Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
● 1982 - Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
● 1982 - Alasdair Duncan, Australian novelist
● 1983 - Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
● 1983 - Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
● 1983 - Peter Ramage, English footballer
● 1984 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
● 1984 - Kate Ground, Canadian adult internet model
● 1986 - David Pasqualini, French pianist
● 1986 - Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
● 1996 - Madison Davenport, American actress and singer
DEATHS
● 950 - King Lothair II of Italy
● 1286 - Eric V of Denmark, Danish King (b. 1249)
● 1318 - Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
● 1594 - Martin Frobisher, English explorer
● 1617 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590)
● 1694 - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
● 1697 - Libéral Bruant, French architect
● 1710 - Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
● 1718 - Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate
● 1758 - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
● 1774 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general (b. 1725)
● 1783 - John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
● 1794 - John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
● 1875 - Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
● 1886 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
● 1893 - James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
● 1900 - Arthur S. Sullivan, British composer (b. 1842)
● 1916 - Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
● 1917 - Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
● 1919 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
● 1932 - William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
● 1943 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)
● 1944 - Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
● 1946 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
● 1953 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
● 1954 - Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
● 1955 - Shemp Howard, American actor (b. 1895)
● 1956 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)
● 1963 - Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)
● 1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1917)
● 1963 - C. S. Lewis, Irish author (b. 1898)
● 1963 - Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
● 1967 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
● 1980 - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
● 1980 - Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
● 1980 - Jules Léger, Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
● 1981 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
● 1986 - Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
● 1986 - William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
● 1988 - Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
● 1988 - Paul Vario, U.S. Italian Mafia of the Lucchese Family (b. 1914)
● 1989 - Rene Moawad, President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
● 1989 - C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
● 1992 - Sterling Holloway, American voice actor (b. 1905)
● 1993 - Anthony Burgess, British author (b. 1917)
● 1996 - Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
● 1996 - María Casares, Spanish-born French actress (b. 1922)
● 1997 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (b. 1960)
● 1998 - Stu Unger, American poker player (b. 1953)
● 2000 - Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
● 2000 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
● 2001 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (b. 1915)
● 2005 - Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Cecilia
● St. Devniolin
● St. Lucretia
● Sts. Mark & Stephen
● St. Maurus
● St. Philemon
● St. Tigridia
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 9 (Civil Date: November 22)
● Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius of Ephesus.
● St. Matrona, abbess of Constantinople.
● St. Theoctiste of the isle of Lesbos.
● (services combined) Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica.
● Martyr Anthony of Apamea.
● St. John the Short of Egypt.
● Saints Eustolia and Sosipatra of Constantinople.
● St. Simeon Metaphrastes.
● St. Onesiphorus the Confessor of the Kiev Caves.
● Saints Euthymius and Neophytus the Serbians of Mt. Athos.
● St. Nectarius Kephalas, Metropolitan of Pentapolis.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Narses and Artemonos.
● St. Helladius, monk.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "She Who is Quick to Hear".
● Lebanon - Independence Day (from France, 1943)
● Astrology: usually the first day of sun sign Sagittarius or the last day of Scorpio
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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