Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Meaning "Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove." — Ashleigh Brilliant
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Birds Do It, Bees Do It "Still, if we aren't having sex on a daily basis, we are thinking about it all the time. I mean all the time." — Bill O'Reilly
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "You are a woman, aren't you?" — Prince Philip, in Kenya, 1984, after accepting a gift from a native woman
{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
The Medusa Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman
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ON THIS DATE IN 1963
JFK CASKET IN WHITE HOUSE
EVENTS
● 1170 B.C.E. - First recorded strike for better working conditions and pay takes place in Egypt.
● 800 - Charlemagne arrives at Rome to examine the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
● 1227 - Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
● 1248 - Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
● 1499 - Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
● 1531 - The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
● 1644 - Areopagitica by John Milton is published.
● 1654 - French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense mystical vision that marks him for life.
● 1760 - Birth of French revolutionary Francois-Noel Babeuf, St. Quentin, France. Communist leader in the French Revolution, member of the Conspiracy of Equals, until betrayed to the Directory, when he was captured and executed. Opposed to the middle-class degeneration of the revolution. The Conspiracy of Equals included Buonarroti, Sylvain Maréchal, Jacques Roux, and Varlet, among others. Babeuf & 30 others were executed, but Varlet escaped and published "Explosion," one of the first anarchist proclamations, declaring "Government and revolution are incompatible."
● 1774 - Minute Men organized for revolutionary uprising.
● 1831 - In the Lyon, France Silk Workers' Revolt, workers occupy the Town Hall, and an attempt at an insurrectionary government is made. For lack of a clear politics, or by a trick of the authorities, the latter regain control of the city on December 2.
● 1844 - Independence of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.
● 1852 - Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet.
● 1859 - Birth of Billy the Kid (Bonney).
● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins - Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.
● 1867 - The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail.
● 1869 - Birth of anarchist Charles Albert.
● 1869 - In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.
● 1876 - Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
● 1883 - Birth of radical Marxist muralist Jose Orozco, Zapatlan, Jalisco, Mexico.
● 1888 - Birth of Harpo Marx.
● 1889 - The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
● 1890 - King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become Queen.
● 1903 - U.S. Army troops, commanded by General Sherman Bell, dispatched to Cripple Creek, Colorado, to control a rebellion by striking coal miners. Paid by mine owners and the state, Bell arrives and throws 600 union workers into a military bullpen, holding them for weeks without charges. When a lawyer appears with a writ of habeas corpus, the general says, "Habeas corpus, hell! We'll give 'em post mortems!" The "Victor Record" editor criticized Bell's seizure of power, but soldiers will confiscate the issue, seize the editors and printers, and throw them into the bullpen as well. The wife of one of the jailed printers, Emma Langdon, publishes the paper on her own the next night.
● 1914 - The US Army retreats from Mexico.
● 1917 - U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Louisville (Ky.) ordinance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate residential areas.
● 1928 - Albert Laisant, anarchist, dies.
● 1934 - An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
● 1935 - Ethel Leginska became the first woman to write an opera --and conduct it. Her original work, "Gale," opened at the Chicago City Opera Company. Leginska was tragically cut down in her prime, killed by a lightning strike. Her epitaph reads - "Even God found Her a good Conductor."
● 1936 - The first edition of Life is published.
● 1943 - World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
● 1945 - U.S. wartime food rationing ends.
● 1946 - French Navy opens fire on Haiphong, Vietnam, kills 6,000.
● 1946 - The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.
● 1955 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
● 1956 - Milly Witkop Rocker dies. Anarchist, lifelong companion of Rudolf Rocker.
● 1958 - Ronald and Nancy Reagan appear together in the "G.E. Theatre" production of "A Turkey for President." I did not make this up.
● 1959 - General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals."
● 1962 - United Airlines Flight 297 crashes killing all 17 on-board.
● 1964 - U.S. Supreme Court refuses to strike the phrase "under God," instituted in 1954, from the Pledge of Allegiance.
● 1968 - RCMP arrests 114 during anti-war protests on campus of Simon Fraser University. Burnaby, British Columbia.
● 1970 - A Lithuanian radio operator seeking asylum leaps from Russian trawler onto the deck of the Coast Guard cutter Vigilant. Commander Ralph Eustis allowed Soviet sailors to board his vessel, tie up the would-be defector, and drag him back.
● 1971 - The representatives of the People's Republic of China first attended the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, as China's representatives.
● 1972 - UNESCO World Heritage Treaty signed.
● 1976 - Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
● 1979 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
● 1980 - A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.
● 1981 - Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
● 1985 - Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.
● 1987 - Max Sartin, 97, dies, Salt Lake City, Utah. True name Raffaele Schiaviana. Expelled from the land of the free during the Red Scare in 1920 for anti-war activities. Participated, in Paris, in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti. Returned to the U.S., where he published, for 45 years, the weekly magazine "Adunata dei Refrattari."
● 1990 - The first all woman expedition to the south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.
● 1996 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 123.
● 1996 - The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization.
● 1998 - Agreement between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his rival, prince Norodom Ranariddh.
● 2003 - Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
● 2005 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country.
BIRTHS
● 912 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
● 1221 - King Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
● 1402 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
● 1417 - William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
● 1553 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
● 1616 - John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
● 1632 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)
● 1641 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
● 1705 - Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)
● 1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
● 1718 - Edward Teachor 'Black Beard' famous pirate
● 1719 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
● 1749 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (d. 1800)
● 1760 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (d. 1797)
● 1785 - Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest (d. 1853)
● 1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
● 1820 - Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
● 1837 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
● 1859 - Billy The Kid, American outlaw (d. 1881(?))
● 1860 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
● 1861 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
● 1864 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936)
● 1869 - Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
● 1875 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)
● 1876 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
● 1883 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949)
● 1887 - Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d. 1943)
● 1887 - Boris Karloff, British actor (d. 1969)
● 1887 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
● 1888 - Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)
● 1890 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
● 1892 - Erté, French artist (d. 1990)
● 1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
● 1897 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948)
● 1902 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
● 1907 - Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)
● 1908 - Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer (d. 2006)
● 1909 - Nigel Tranter, British historian and writer (d. 2000)
● 1912 - George O'Hanlon, American actor (d. 1989)
● 1914 - Roger Avon, Durham actor (d. 1998)
● 1914 - Michael Gough, English actor
● 1915 - John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
● 1920 - Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d. 1970)
● 1920 - Wayne Thiebaud, American painter
● 1921 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
● 1922 - Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia
● 1923 - R.L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
● 1923 - Daniel Brewster, American democrat (d. 2007)
● 1923 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986)
● 1924 - Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003)
● 1924 - Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist (d. 1994)
● 1925 - Johnny Mandel, American songwriter
● 1925 - José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
● 1926 - Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher
● 1927 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar
● 1929 - Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer
● 1930 - Jack McKeon, American baseball manager
● 1931 - Dervla Murphy, Irish traveller and author
● 1931 - Gloria Lynne, American singer
● 1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
● 1934 - Robert Towne, American writer, director, producer, and actor
● 1934 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
● 1935 - Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
● 1936 - Robert Barnard, British mystery writer
● 1938 - Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor
● 1939 - Betty Everett, American singer (d. 2001)
● 1940 - Luis Tiant, Cuban baseball player
● 1941 - Franco Nero, Italian actor
● 1942 - Susan Anspach, American actress
● 1943 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
● 1943 - Sue Nicholls (The Honourable Susan Frances Harmer Nicholls), British actress
● 1944 - Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born film producer and writer
● 1944 - James Toback, American writer and director
● 1945 - Keith Hampshire, English singer-songwriter
● 1945 - Steve Landesberg, American actor
● 1945 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
● 1946 - Bobby Rush, American politician
● 1946 - Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer
● 1946 - Diana Quick, English actress
● 1950 - Chuck Schumer, American politician
● 1951 - David Rappaport, English actor (d. 1990)
● 1952 - Bill Troiano, musician
● 1953 - Francis Cabrel, French singer
● 1954 - Bruce Hornsby, American musician
● 1954 - Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
● 1954 - Ross Brawn, British engineer
● 1955 - Steven Brust, American author
● 1955 - Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
● 1959 - Maxwell Caulfield, British actor
● 1959 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
● 1960 - Robin Roberts, American television reporter
● 1963 - Joe Ahearne, British television director
● 1963 - Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer and rapist (d. 2004)
● 1964 - Frank Rutherford, Bahamian athlete
● 1965 - Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian
● 1966 - Vincent Cassel, French actor
● 1966 - Jerry Kelly, American professional golfer
● 1968 - Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer
● 1969 - Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer
● 1970 - Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
● 1971 - Lisa Kushell, American actress
● 1971 - Lisa Arch, American actress
● 1972 - Chris Adler, American musician (Lamb of God)
● 1973 - Trick Daddy, American rapper
● 1974 - Jamie Sharper, American football player
● 1974 - Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
● 1976 - Page Kennedy, American actor
● 1977 - Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
● 1977 - Adam Eaton, American baseball player
● 1978 - Kayvan Novak, English actor
● 1979 - Kelly Brook, English actress/model
● 1980 - David Britz, American nanotechnologist
● 1980 - Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
● 1982 - Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice-hockey player
● 1982 - Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
● 1984 - Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
● 1992 - Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer (Hannah Montana)
DEATHS
● 947 - Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
● 955 - Edred, King of England (b. c. 923)
● 1407 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (murdered) (b. 1372)
● 1457 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440)
● 1499 - Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (b. 1474)
● 1503 - Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1446)
● 1572 - Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503)
● 1585 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. 1505)
● 1616 - Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)
● 1682 - Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)
● 1763 - Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673)
● 1769 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711)
● 1783 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
● 1803 - Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719)
● 1804 - Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715)
● 1807 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747)
● 1814 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)
● 1833 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762)
● 1890 - King William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
● 1902 - Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)
● 1923 - Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883)
● 1934 - Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
● 1937 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
● 1937 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
● 1948 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
● 1966 - Seán T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
● 1970 - Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (b. 1910)
● 1972 - Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916)
● 1973 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b. 1889)
● 1974 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born author (b. 1920)
● 1976 - André Malraux, French author (b. 1901)
● 1979 - Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911)
● 1979 - Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (b. 1944)
● 1983 - Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
● 1990 - Roald Dahl, British author (b. 1916)
● 1990 - Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953)
● 1992 - Roy Acuff, American musician (b. 1903)
● 1992 - Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
● 1994 - Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
● 1994 - Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (b. 1939)
● 1995 - Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)
● 1995 - Jr. Walker, American musician (b. 1931)
● 1996 - Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (b. 1943)
● 1996 - Art Porter, Jr., American jazz musician (b. 1961)
● 1997 - Jorge Más Canosa, anti-Castro activist (b. 1939)
● 2001 - Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
● 2001 - O. C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932)
● 2002 - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
● 2004 - Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (b. 1928)
● 2005 - Frank Gatski, American football player (center) (b. 1919)
● 2005 - Constance Cummings, American-born British actress (b. 1910)
● 2006 - Nick Clarke, English radio presenter (b. 1948)
● 2006 - Betty Comden, American lyricist (b. 1917)
● 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
● 2006 - Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
● 2006 - Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
● 2006 - Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amphilocus
● St. Clement I, Pope
● St. Columban
● St. Paternian
● St. Paulhen
● St. Rachilidis
● St. Trudo
● St. Wilfretrudis
● Bl. Miguel Pro
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 10 (Civil Date: November 23)
● Apostles Erastus, Olympas, Herodion, Sosipater, Quartus, and Tertius of the Seventy.
● Martyr Orestes of Cappadocia.
● St. Theocteristus, abbot of Symbola on Mt. Olympus.
● Hieromartyr Milos (Miles), Bishop of Persia, and two disciples.
● St. Nonnus, Bishop of Heliopolis.
● Martyr Constantine, prince of Georgia.
● Greek Calendar:
● Great Martyr George of Iberia.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Gregory, presbyter, in Assos of Lesbos.
● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qawl (Speech) - First day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í calendar
● Georgia (the country):St. George's Day
● Isle of Man General Election every five years (last 2006, next 2011)
● Japan - Kinro kansha no hi (Labour Thanksgiving Day)
● Slovenia - Rudolf Maister 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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