Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Media "The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused." — Laurie Garrett
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On SexSexSex "[Clinton] masturbates in the sinks." — Ann Coulter. "Rivera Live," 8-2-99. "The Wisdom of Ann Coulter," Washington Monthly, 10-01.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Deaf? If you were near there, no wonder you are deaf." — Prince Philip, to deaf people near a steel band
{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
Galaxies in Pegasus
Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager
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ON THIS DATE IN 1963
JFK CASKET IN CAPITOL
OSWALD IS SILENCED FOREVER
EVENTS
● 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
● 642 - Theodore succeeds John IV as Pope.
● 1190 - Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King.
● 1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus
● 1642 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
● 1807 - Thayendanegea, aka Joseph Brant, died. Brant led Mohawk Indians who fought against the Americans in the Revolutionary War. He was buried at a church near present-day Brantford, Ontario, but in 1879 his body was stolen by a doctor and his medical students.
● 1859 - Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" published.
● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain - Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
● 1869 - Woman's Suffrage Association organized.
● 1871 - National Rifle Association incorporated.
● 1874 - Birth of Frederick Libby, founder of National Council for the Prevention of War.
● 1874 - U.S. patent granted for barbed wire, perhaps the single most destructive development in the despoiling of western North America.
● 1885 - Birth of labor activist and communist Anna Louise Strong, Seattle. Served on Seattle School Board, helped organize Seattle's 1919 general strike. Died in 1969 in Beijing, China.
● 1898 - The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens.
● 1904 - The first successful caterpillar track is made.
● 1917 - Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when the Milwaukee, WI police headquarters building explodes due to a bomb.
● 1919 - The Oscar Mayer Company reopens a meat-packing plant on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin. The plant had been operated by the Farmers' Cooperative Packing Company, which formed under a strongly worded state law encouraging cooperatives. Prior to the cooperative's opening two years ago, in 1917, Madison-area farmers had no choice but to sell their pigs and cattle to the Chicago beer trusts. Five thousand area farmers bought nearly $600,000 of stock in the new enterprise. The nation had only two other farm-owned cooperative packing plants, both in Wisconsin. But faced with mounting wages and operating losses, and no real prospect of new capital, the cooperative was forced to sell the plant to the Chicago firm, Oscar F. Mayer & Brother.
● 1920 - Last 33 conscientious objectors to World War I released from U.S. prisons.
● 1922 - Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
● 1923 - Philippe Daudet, French anarchist, son of Leon Daudet (leader of "L'Action Française"), dies under mysterious circumstances.
● 1925 - Birth of William F. Buckley, Jr., New York City. First rose to prominence as a young apologist for "Tail Gunner" Joe McCarthy and his '50s witch hunts.
● 1932 - In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
● 1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
● 1936 - Pacifist/anti-fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
● 1941 - Nazis establish Jewish ghetto at Thereseinstadt.
● 1941 - World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
● 1943 - Max Baginski dies, New York. Social Democrat turned anarchist, condemned in 1891 to 2 1/2 years in German prison for "violation of the press laws." Exiled to the U.S., became publicity agent for Emma Goldman's newspaper, "Mother Earth," as well as many other papers.
● 1943 - World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks with nearly 650 men killed.
● 1944 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land was made by 88 American aircraft.
● 1947 - Red Scare: After refusing to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry, the United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10. Chairman J. Parnell gets convicted in 1949 for "padding" his payrolls and pocketing the money.
● 1947 - Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France
● 1947 - Twenty-two-month Chicago newspaper printers' anti-Taft-Hartley strike begins.
● 1953 - Sen. Joseph McCarthy (Psycho-WI) declares Truman Administration "crawling with communists."
● 1962 - The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
● 1963 - Millions of TV watchers see Jack Ruby, the operator of a local striptease club, stick a revolver into Lee Harvey Oswald's side, and shoot him dead. First live TV killing.
● 1963 - Pres. Johnson, in office only two days, signs national security memorandum stating U.S. goal in Vietnam is helping the Saigon government to a military victory. In the last week of November 1963, Kennedy had planned (before his assassination) to withdraw 1000 of the 17,000 U.S. "advisors" in Vietnam, quietly open a dialogue with Castro's Cuba, and pursue detente with the U.S.S.R.
● 1965 - Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he goes on to rule the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
● 1966 - A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
● 1966 - Four hundred die of respiratory failures and heart attacks in killer New York City smog.
● 1969 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
● 1969 - Lt. William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai, Vietnam, in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial.
● 1970 - Fourteen American students meet with Vietnamese in Hanoi to plan "Peoples' Peace Treaty."
● 1971 - A passenger registered as "D.B. Cooper" hijacks a plane from Portland, Ore. to Seattle, demands and gets $200,000 in cash, a parachute, and a trip back to Portland, and then jumps out of the plane en route (somewhere over southwestern Washington) with the ransom. Never found. Cooper, or the myth of him, became an instant folk hero.
● 1972 - U.S. Circuit Court rules that a Bureau of Indian Affairs 99-year lease of Tesuque Pueblo land to a housing developer outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, violates federal law.
● 1979 - U.S. admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.
● 1983 - Plowshares 7 activists damage cruise missile, Griffiths Air Force Base, near Syracuse, New York.
● 1985 - A group of African American community activists seize and occupy the unused Colman School in Seattle's Central District, demanding the city use the property for an African American History & Heritage Museum. The occupation would last some 13 years before the original group of protesters is evicted and the city gives the property to a competing, more mainstream group, the Urban League, which pledges to use the school for a museum and for their new offices.
● 1986 - Fifteen activists, including renowned anti-war protester Abbie Hoffman, are arrested for occupying a Univ. of Massachusetts building as part of a protest against CIA recruitment on campus. Following a trial detailing CIA crimes, all were acquitted of charges. Amherst, Mass.
● 1989 - Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia.
● 1990 - Six Marine reservists refuse to report for Persian Gulf duty.
● 1992 - After Philippine Senate refusal to renew contract for U.S. bases, U.S. armed forces formally withdraw from the Philippines. For a few years, anyway.
● 1992 - In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
● 1993 - End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood. {If it happened then this is all illusion.}
● 1993 - In Gaza, Israeli troops kill Imad Aqal, the founder and commander of Izzedine el-Qassem and a legendary figure among Palestinians.
● 1993 - In Liverpool, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger.
● 2005 - Conservative leader Stephen Harper, the leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament, introduced a motion of no confidence, which NDP leader Jack Layton seconded. The motion was passed on November 28 which led to the dissolution to the 38th Canadian Parliament.
BIRTHS
● 1273 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (d. 1284)
● 1394 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)
● 1420 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (d. 1473)
● 1583 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
● 1615 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
● 1630 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
● 1632 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
● 1655 - Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
● 1690 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
● 1713 - Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary (d. 1784)
● 1713 - Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist (d. 1768)
● 1724 - Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Spain (d. 1760)
● 1729 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
● 1774 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)
● 1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
● 1787 - Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
● 1801 - Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)
● 1806 - William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872)
● 1811 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
● 1815 - Grace Darling, English heroine (d. 1842)
● 1826 - Carlo Collodi, Italian author (d. 1890)
● 1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author (d. 1924)
● 1853 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (d. 1921)
● 1859 - Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
● 1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
● 1868 - Scott Joplin, Ragtime Composer (d. 1917)
● 1874 - Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
● 1876 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)
● 1877 - Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
● 1881 - Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1951)
● 1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
● 1886 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher (d. 1973)
● 1887 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (d. 1973)
● 1888 - Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955)
● 1888 - Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
● 1894 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)
● 1897 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
● 1908 - Libertad Lamarque, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2000)
● 1911 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (d. 1975)
● 1911 - Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985)
● 1912 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (d. 1993)
● 1912 - Garson Kanin, American writer (d. 1999)
● 1912 - Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (d. 1986)
● 1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (d. 2005)
● 1916 - Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer
● 1916 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (d. 1991)
● 1917 - Howard Duff, American actor (d. 1990)
● 1919 - David Kossoff, British actor (d. 2005)
● 1921 - John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)
● 1924 - Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)
● 1925 - William F. Buckley Jr., American writer
● 1925 - Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1926 - Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1927 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
● 1930 - Bob Friend, baseball player
● 1934 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (d. 1998)
● 1935 - Ronald Vernie Dellums, U.S. Representative from California
● 1938 - Oscar Robertson, American basketball player
● 1938 - Willy Claes, Belgian politician
● 1940 - Paul Tagliabue, retired commissioner of the National Football League
● 1940 - Don Metz, American architect
● 1940 - Eric Wilson, Canadian children's author.
● 1941 - Pete Best, British musician
● 1941 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician, Booker T. and the M.G.'s
● 1942 - Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian
● 1942 - Marlin Fitzwater, White House Press Secretary
● 1943 - Dave Bing, American basketball player
● 1943 - Robin Williamson, Scottish musician
● 1944 - Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar
● 1945 - Lee Michaels, American musician and singer
● 1946 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
● 1946 - Penelope Jones Halsall (aka: Caroline Courtney, Melinda Wright, Lydia Hitchcock, Penny Jordan, Annie Groves)
● 1947 - Dave Sinclair, English musician (Caravan, Hatfield and the North)
● 1947 - Dwight Schultz, American actor
● 1948 - Spider Robinson, science fiction author
● 1948 - Steve Yeager, baseball player
● 1949 - Shane Bourne, Australian comedian and actor
● 1951 - Chet Edwards, American politician
● 1953 - Glenn Withrow, American actor
● 1954 - Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker
● 1955 - Ian Botham, England test cricketer
● 1955 - Elvis Ramone, American drummer (The Ramones)
● 1955 - Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
● 1955 - Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician
● 1957 - Denise Crosby, American actress
● 1957 - Edward Stourton, British radio presenter
● 1958 - Roy Aitken, Scottish former footballer
● 1958 - Alain Chabat, French actor and director
● 1960 - Amanda Wyss, American actress
● 1960 - Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer
● 1961 - Carlos Carnero, Spanish member of parliament
● 1961 - Arundhati Roy, Indian writer
● 1962 - John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
● 1962 - John Kovalic, British-born cartoonist
● 1964 - Brad Sherwood, American comedian
● 1964 - Tony Rombola, American guitarist (Godsmack)
● 1965 - Kim Roe-ha, South Korean actor
● 1965 - Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
● 1966 - Paul Robinett, American internet personality
● 1966 - Russell Watson, British singer
● 1967 - Cal Eldred, baseball player
● 1968 - Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
● 1969 - Rob Nicholson, American musician
● 1970 - Julieta Venegas, Mexican singer
● 1971 - Cosmas Ndeti, three-time Boston Marathon winner
● 1971 - Keith Primeau, Canadian hockey player
● 1974 - Stephen Merchant, British comedian
● 1974 - Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor
● 1975 - Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
● 1976 - Dave Aizer, American television host
● 1976 - Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
● 1976 - Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1977 - Colin Hanks, American actor
● 1978 - Katherine Heigl, American actress
● 1980 - Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler
● 1983 - Dean Ashton, English footballer
DEATHS
● 654 - Emperor Kōtoku of Japan
● 1468 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
● 1531 - Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
● 1541 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)
● 1572 - John Knox, Scottish reformer
● 1583 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
● 1615 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
● 1650 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566)
● 1722 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b. 1623)
● 1741 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
● 1770 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
● 1775 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
● 1781 - James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734)
● 1793 - Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
● 1801 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
● 1807 - Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742)
● 1848 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
● 1870 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
● 1890 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
● 1916 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
● 1920 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854)
● 1922 - Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
● 1929 - Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
● 1943 - Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
● 1956 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
● 1957 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
● 1958 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
● 1959 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
● 1960 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
● 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
● 1965 - Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
● 1967 - Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
● 1973 - John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
● 1980 - George Raft, American actor (b. 1895)
● 1980 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
● 1985 - Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
● 1987 - Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
● 1990 - Fred Shero, National Hockey League player and coach (b. 1925)
● 1990 - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
● 1990 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
● 1991 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
● 1991 - Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (b. 1950)
● 1996 - Sorley MacLean, British poet (b. 1911)
● 2001 - Melanie Thornton, American dance/pop singer (b. 1967)
● 2002 - John Rawls, political philosopher (b. 1921)
● 2003 - Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)
● 2003 - Warren Spahn, Major League Baseball player (b. 1921)
● 2004 - Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
● 2004 - Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
● 2006 - Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
● 2006 - George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
● 2006 - Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1928)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Martyrs of the Dominican Order in Vietnam
● Martyrs of Vietnam
● St. Alexander
● St. Andrew Dun-Lac
● St. Anthony Nam-Quynh
● St. Bieuzy
● St. Chrysogonus
● St. Colman of Cloyne
● St. Crescentian
● St. Eanfleda
● St. Felicissimus
● St. Firmina
● Sts. Flora & Mary
● St. Joachim Ho, Blessed
● St. Kenan
● St. Leopardinus
● St. Marinus
● Sts. Peter Domoulin Bori and Peter Khoa
● St. Romanus of Le Mans
● St. Vincent Diem
● Bl. Lawrence PeMan
● Bl. Thaddeus Lieu
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 11 (Civil Date: November 24)
● Martyrs Menas of Egypt, Victor at Damascus, and Vincent of Spain
● St. Theodore the confessor, abbot of the Studion
● Martyr Stephanida (Stephanis) of Spain.
● Repose of Blessed Maximus of Moscow.
● Repose of St. Stephen Dechani of Serbia.
● St. Martyrius, abbot of Zelensk (Pskov).
● St. Militsa, Princess of Serbia.
● St. Martin the Merciful, Bishop of Tours.
● Greek Calendar:
● Blessed Euthymius of Dechani.
● Blessed Nestor of Serbia.
● Roman festivals - in the Byzantine empire the Brumalia (a wine festival) were celebrated from this day until the winter solstice
● Cobh, Ireland: Feast Day of St. Colman of Cloyne
● Lachit Divas is observed on 24th November each year in Assam, India to commemorate the heroism of the Assamese General Lachit Borphukan and the victory of Assamese army over the Mughal army in the Battle of Saraighat in 1671.
● Teacher's Day in Turkey
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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