Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Open-Mindedness "A closed mind is a dying mind." — Edna Ferber
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Judicial Activism "When I laid my hand on the Bible to take the Oath of Office, I made my pledge to our Constitution. And as long as I have a voice and a vote in the U. S. Senate, I will fight the judicial despotism that stands like a behemoth over this great land. . . . " — Sen. John Ashcroft, CPAC Annual Meeting, 3-6-97. freerepublic.com.—Part 1 of 3 {Due to the length of some of these nutball quotes, I have decided to split the longer ones into parts. I could have abridged them but I think that would have lessened the impact of showing just how crazy these guys are. Please refer to previous and/or subsequent posts for complete quote.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." — Walter Mondale
"Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time." — George H. W. Bush
{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
Space Station Over the Ionian Sea
Credit: STS-118 Shuttle Crew, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
● 1295 - The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
● 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
● 1832 - South Carolina Convention, outraged by Pres. Jackson's "Tariff of Abominations," calls for armed resistance, if necessary, against the U.S. government.
● 1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
● 1841 - Birth of Jean Renaud. Anarcho-syndicalist, member of the Lyons revolutionary federation. Set off a bomb in 1882 at the restaurant Bellecour (l'Assommoir), then fled to Geneva while another anarchist, Antoine Cyvoct, was wrongly sentenced to death for the crime.
● 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio state prison and return safely to the South.
● 1868 - Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River - United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
● 1895 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
● 1900 - U.S. troops coax information from Filipino town president by forcing salt water down his throat from 100-gallon tank. Then they burned the town. {Form of water boarding?}
● 1901 - U.S. Army War College is established.
● 1911 - First recorded incident in the U.S. of audience throwing vegetables at actors.
● 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
● 1915 - England - First convention of No-Conscription Fellowship.
● 1919 - Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
● 1920 - A day after Makhno's anarchist commanders are executed, Trotsky orders an attack on Makhno's headquarters. The Cheka simultaneously arrests members of the Nabat Confederation in Kharkov and raids anarchist clubs and organizations throughout Russia.
● 1934 - Lester M. Gillis, aka Baby Face Nelson, shot by FBI agents.
● 1935 - Labour Party of New Zealand forms government for first time.
● 1940 - In Romania, General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
● 1940 - World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean.
● 1941 - U.S. officials warn that a Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, might be imminent.
● 1942 - Birth of Jimi Hendrix, Seattle.
● 1942 - World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
● 1944 - world War II: An explosion at a RAF ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
● 1946 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster". {Too bad Nehru's successors weren't as level-headed.}
● 1952 - Convicted "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd escapes Arizona State Insane Hospital for the sixth time.
● 1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
● 1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
● 1965 - "March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam" draws 15,000-30,000.
● 1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
● 1965 - Writer Ken Kesey's first acid test takes place.
● 1968 - Warrant issued for arrest of Eldridge Cleaver. Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party, becomes a fugitive from justice as a parole violator when he fails to return to prison.
● 1969 - Seven hundred U.S. Army medics stationed in Pleiku stage a fast to protest the Vietnam War.
● 1970 - FBI head crackpot (as opposed to pot crackhead) J. Edgar Hoover warns of terrorist plot by Catholic priest Berrigan brothers and others.
● 1970 - Pope Paul VI wounded in the Philippines by dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
● 1970 - Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes he cannot go to Stockholm to receive Nobel Prize for fear of not being allowed to return home.
● 1971 - Mars 2 of the Soviet space program landed on Mars.
● 1973 - The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35). {and so the quid pro quo was in place}
● 1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
● 1976 - Twenty thousand rally for peace in Northern Ireland, Trafalgar Square, London.
● 1978 - In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. {This was Diane Feinstein's finest hour as president of the Board of Supervisors, she brought the City of San Francisco through this dangerous time. It was only later in the Senate when she has power to steer contracts to her husband's company that she becomes another worthless greedy politician.}
● 1979 - Trial of conscientious objector Jean Fabre results in his release from prison, France.
● 1980 - U.S. Justice Department moves to drop charges against former FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III for authorizing his agents to break into homes without search warrants. According to a Justice Department spokesperson, Gray was simply ahead of his time.
● 1981 - The British Phonographic Industry, with the endorsement of rock stars like Elton John, Gary Numan, Cliff Richard, 10cc, and the Boomtown Rats, places advertisements in the British press claiming that "Home taping is wiping out music." Lucky they hadn't heard of CD burners.
● 1983 - A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 183.
● 1988 - Activists paint anti-military graffiti on war planes due for delivery to Turkey. Woensdrecht, The Netherlands.
● 1990 - The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
● 1991 - The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
● 1992 - Activists across the U.S. seize abandoned buildings in housing and homelessness protest.
● 1992 - For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
● 1997 - Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
● 1999 - The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
● 2000 - Red Crescent reports that a third of the 240 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the previous two months were under the age of 18.
● 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
● 2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
● 2006 - The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada
BIRTHS
● 1127 - Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)
● 1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
● 1582 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
● 1630 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665)
● 1635 - Françoise d'Aubigné, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
● 1701 - Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)
● 1710 - Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)
● 1746 - Robert Livingston, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)
● 1754 - Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
● 1779 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)
● 1804 - Julius Benedict, German-born composer (d. 1885)
● 1809 - Fanny Kemble, British actress (d. 1893)
● 1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899)
● 1843 - Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
● 1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952)
● 1867 - Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
● 1871 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
● 1874 - Charles A. Beard, American historian (d. 1948)
● 1874 - Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952)
● 1894 - Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox saint (d. 1971)
● 1894 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
● 1897 - Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
● 1898 - Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981)
● 1901 - Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
● 1903 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
● 1907 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
● 1909 - James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
● 1909 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
● 1911 - David Merrick, American stage producer (d. 2000)
● 1916 - Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
● 1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
● 1920 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985)
● 1920 - Buster Merryfield, English actor (d. 1999)
● 1921 - Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (d. 1992)
● 1925 - John Maddox, British science writer and editor
● 1925 - Marshall Thompson, American actor (d. 1992)
● 1925 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (d. 1999)
● 1926 - Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author
● 1927 - Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer (d. 1987)
● 1928 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005)
● 1928 - Ronald William "Josh" Kirby, British artist (d. 2001)
● 1932 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)
● 1933 - Jacques Godbout, French Canadian novelist, journalist and filmmaker
● 1934 - Ammo Baba, Iraqi-Assyrian footballer
● 1935 - Al Jackson, American drummer, producer and songwriter (d. 1975)
● 1937 - Gail Sheehy, American writer
● 1939 - Dave Giusti, American baseball player
● 1940 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
● 1941 - Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998)
● 1941 - Aimé Jacquet, French football manager
● 1942 - Manolo Blahnik, Spanish shoe designer
● 1942 - Henry Carr, American athlete
● 1942 - Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
● 1943 - Nicole Brossard, French Canadian poet
● 1945 - Alain de Cadenet, SPEED Channel personality
● 1948 - James L. Avery, Sr., American actor
● 1949 - Masanori Sekiya, Japanese racing driver
● 1950 - Gran Hamada, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1951 - Jayne Kennedy, American sportscaster and actress
● 1952 - Kathryn Bigelow, American film director
● 1952 - Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
● 1952 - Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
● 1952 - James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut
● 1953 - Curtis Armstrong, American actor
● 1953 - Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer (Aquarium)
● 1954 - Patricia McPherson, American actress
● 1955 - Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster
● 1955 - Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1956 - William Fichtner, American actor
● 1957 - Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver
● 1957 - Caroline Kennedy, American journalist
● 1958 - Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and manager
● 1959 - Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and keyboardist (Simple Minds)
● 1960 - Ken O'Brien, American football player
● 1960 - Kevin Henkes, American children's book writer/illustrator
● 1960 - Tim Pawlenty, American politician
● 1960 - Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian prime minister
● 1961 - Steve Oedekerk, American film director, actor and comedian
● 1962 - Charlie Benante, American drummer (Anthrax)
● 1962 - Mike Bordin, American musician (Faith No More)
● 1962 - Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (d. 2002)
● 1963 - Fisher Stevens, American actor
● 1966 - Andy Merrill, American voice actor
● 1967 - Shane Embury, British guitarist/bassist (Napalm Death, among others)
● 1967 - Robin Givens, American actress
● 1968 - Michael Vartan, French actor
● 1971 - Nick Van Exel, American basketball player
● 1973 - Samantha Harris, American model and host
● 1973 - Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler
● 1973 - Twista, American rapper
● 1975 - Martin Gramatica, Argentinian American football player
● 1976 - Jean Grae, South African-born rapper
● 1976 - Jaleel White, American actor
● 1978 - Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
● 1978 - The Streets, English rapper
● 1978 - Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player
● 1978 - Shy Love, adult film actress
● 1978 - Tim Yeung, American drummer (Vital Remains)
● 1979 - Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer
● 1979 - Hilary Hahn, American violinist
● 1979 - Shin Hyesung, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
● 1979 - Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
● 1980 - Michael Yardy, English cricketer
● 1981 - Matthew Taylor, English footballer
● 1985 - Alison Pill, Canadian actress
● 1986 - Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
● 1996 - Alexandra Astin, American actress
DEATHS
● 8 B.C.E. - Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 B.C.E.)
● 511 - Clovis I, King of the Franks
● 835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)
● 1198 - Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
● 1474 - Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer
● 1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
● 1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
● 1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
● 1632 - John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)
● 1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
● 1754 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
● 1811 - Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
● 1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
● 1895 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
● 1901 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
● 1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
● 1931 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
● 1932 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
● 1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
● 1940 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (executed)
● 1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
● 1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
● 1955 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
● 1958 - Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
● 1973 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
● 1975 - Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
● 1978 - Harvey Milk, American politician (assassinated) (b. 1930)
● 1978 - George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b. 1929)
● 1980 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
● 1981 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
● 1988 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
● 1990 - David White, American actor (b. 1916)
● 1992 - Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
● 1994 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
● 1998 - Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
● 1999 - Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937
● 1999 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
● 2000 - Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
● 2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
● 2005 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926)
● 2006 - Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
● 2006 - Casey Coleman, American sportscaster
● 2006 - Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
● 2006 - Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
● St. Acacius
● St. Acharius
● St. Apollinaris
● St. Barlaam
● St. Basileus and Companions
● St. Bilhild
● St. Facundus
● St. Fergus
● St. Gallgo
● St. James Intercisus
● St. John Angeloptes
● St. Josaphat
● St. Maximus of Reiz
● St. Seachnall
● St. Secundinus
● St. Severinus
● St. Valerian
● St. Virgilius
● Bl. Alexius Nakamura
● Bl. Anthony Kimura
● Bl. Bartholomew Sheki
● Bls. John Ivanango & John Montajana
● Bl. Leo Nakanishi
● Bls. Matthias Kosaka & Matthias Nakano
● Bl. Michael Takeshita
● Bl. Romanus
● Bl. Thomas Kotenda and Companions
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 14 (Civil Date: November 27)
● Holy and All praised Apostle Philip
● St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica.
● St. Justinian the Emperor and his wife St. Theodora.
● St. Philip, abbot of Irap near Novgorod.
● New Martyr Panteleimon the youth of Asia Minor.
● New Martyr Constantine of Hydra (Mt. Athos.).
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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