Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Oppression "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." — Booker T. Washington
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Judicial Activism ". . . At its best, the Court is the guardian of the Constitution, a body to which all Americans look for the ultimate protection of their rights. At its worst, it is home to a "let-them-eat-cake elite" who hold people in the deepest disdain. By guiding the judicial selection process, we can begin to reestablish the constitutional balance envisioned by the Framers. . . ." — Sen. John Ashcroft, CPAC Annual Meeting, 3-6-97. freerepublic.com.—Part 2 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 "The exports include thumbscrews and cattle prods, just routine items for the police." — a Commerce Department spokesman on allowing export of various products
{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
Comet Holmes from the Hubble Space Telescope
Credit: A. Dyer (Ground based image); NASA, ESA, and H. Weaver (JHU APL) (Hubble image)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
● 1443 - Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja, in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
● 1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
● 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.
● 1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
● 1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
● 1785 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed
● 1795 - U.S. bought peace from Algiers and Tunis by paying $800,000, supplying a frigate, and paying an additional yearly tribute of $25,000.
● 1814 - The Times in London was for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the begin of making newspapers available to a mass audience
● 1820 - Birth of German radical Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx's comrade.
● 1821 - Panama Independence Day. Panama separates from Spain and joins the Great Colombia. {At least until Teddy Roosevelt and the US come along.}
● 1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
● 1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
● 1868 - Birth of Maiju Lassila, Finland. Author, journalist, revolutionist whose colorful life created a legend around him. Arrested and was shot dead in 1918 while trying to escape imprisonment.
● 1871 - Rossell, Ferre, and Bourgeois, leaders of Paris Commune, executed.
● 1891 - International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) founded.
● 1893 - Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
● 1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party whose goal is the independence of Ireland.
● 1907 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
● 1908 - Birth of French structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.
● 1910 - A protest strike called in Le Havre, France, over the death sentence given to French anarchist Jules Durand. The strike spread internationally to English and American docks, and further protests led to Durand's release three months later. In the interim, confined to a straitjacket for 40 days, Durand had become insane, and spent the rest of his life in an asylum; a reopening of the case in 1918 cleared his name.
● 1911 - Emiliano Zapata enacts Plan de Ayala for land rights in Mexico.
● 1912 - Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
● 1914 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
● 1915 - Emilio Covelli, Italian anarchist organizer, dies.
● 1919 - Lady Astor is elected to be the first female to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She was not the first to be elected. That was Countess Markievicz.
● 1920 - Kilmichael Ambush Battle of the Irish War of Independence
● 1925 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM.
● 1942 - Coconut Grove Fire. 498 killed, 172 injured when Boston nightclub went up in flames after a lighted match was dropped on a gauze-like drapery.
● 1942 - Roll out of the first B-24 Liberator made in Ford's Willow Run plant.
● 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy.
● 1944 - Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.
● 1944 - Birth of San Francisco Digger, author Emmett Grogan.
● 1944 - Four hundred Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse. In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis.
● 1944 - Last gassings at Auschwitz before retreating Nazis destroy crematoriums.
● 1958 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
● 1960 - Mauritania becomes independent of France.
● 1960 - Richard Wright dies in exile, in Paris. Postal worker, novelist and short-story writer, among the first American black writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel "Native Son" (1940). First given opportunity to write through the Federal Writer's Project. In 1932 he joined the Communist Party and was executive secretary of the local John Reed Club of leftist writers and authors of Chicago. Moved to New York City; left the Communist Party in 1944 because of personal and political differences and settled in Paris, where he was invited by Gertrude Stein.
● 1964 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
● 1964 - Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that US President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
● 1965 - Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
● 1970 - The Black Panther-sponsored Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention assembles in Washington, D.C.
● 1974 - John Lennon performs onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York City with Elton John, as a result of losing a wager that his song "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" (which Elton also played and sang on) would hit #1 on the pop chart (on November 11). This would also be Lennon's final concert appearance.
● 1975 - East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
● 1979 - The Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
● 1982 - First meeting of Cat Lovers Against the Bomb, Lincoln, Nebraska.
● 1982 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.
● 1984 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made honorary citizens of the United States.
● 1987 - South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
● 1989 - Czechoslovakia announces it will adopt new constitution, and Hungary announces first free election.
● 1990 - After 11 years of terror, the reign of Margaret Thatcher as British Prime Minister ends.
● 1990 - Demonstration in support of "Desert Shield" conscientious objector Ronald Jean Baptiste, McGuire Airbase, New Jersey.
● 1990 - Lee Kuan Yew steps down as the Prime Minister of Singapore, with Goh Chok Tong succeeding him.
● 1993 - Chicago's Shedd Aquarium captures three dolphins near Santa Catalina Island, California. A group of animal-rights activists led by the Malibu-based Whale Rescue Team had tried to prevent the capture, using an aircraft to track the boat.
● 1994 - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.
● 1994 - Voters in Norway reject European Union membership.
● 1997 - Kosovo Liberation Army, Albanian guerrilla group fighting for freedom of Kosovo, presents in front of the people of Kosovo.
● 1998 - The people of Albania voted for their new Constitution in a referendum
● 2000 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
● 2004 - Male Po'o-uli dies of avian malaria in Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
● 2005 - The Official Opposition (Conservative Party of Canada, New Democratic Party, and Bloc Québécois) bring down the 38th Minority Liberal Government of Canada in a vote of non-confidence forcing immediate campaigning for the 39th Federal Election.
BIRTHS
● 1118 - Manuel I Komnenos, Greek Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
● 1489 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
● 1570 - James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
● 1598 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)
● 1628 - John Bunyan, English cleric and author (d. 1688)
● 1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
● 1640 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain
● 1661 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
● 1681 - Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)
● 1700 - Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)
● 1757 - William Blake, British poet (d. 1827)
● 1772 - Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)
● 1785 - Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870)
● 1792 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867)
● 1793 - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet (d. 1866)
● 1805 - John Stephens, American archeologist (d. 1852)
● 1810 - William Froude, British naval architect (d. 1879)
● 1820 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
● 1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1878)
● 1829 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (d. 1894)
● 1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor (d. 1920)
● 1853 - Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)
● 1857 - Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885)
● 1864 - James Allen English writer (d. 1912)
● 1864 - Lindley M. Garrison, American Secretary of War (d. 1932)
● 1866 - Henry Bacon, American architect (d. 1924)
● 1880 - Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
● 1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
● 1887 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (d. 1934)
● 1895 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)
● 1896 - Lilia Skala, Austrian actress (d. 1994)
● 1896 - Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)
● 1904 - A Proud Liberal's Paternal Grandmother, {The woman I credit with giving me my passion for reading and politics. She always spoke with me as an intellectual equal.} (d. 1987)
● 1904 - Nancy Mitford, British essayist (d. 1973)
● 1904 - James Eastland, American politician (d. 1986)
● 1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
● 1907 - Rose Bampton, American opera singer (d. 2007)
● 1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
● 1911 – Václav Renč, Czech poet (d. 1973)
● 1912 - Morris Louis, American painter (d. 1962)
● 1915 - Evald Okas, Estonian painter
● 1916 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium (d. 2002)
● 1923 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
● 1924 - Dennis Brutus, South African poet
● 1925 - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
● 1927 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
● 1928 - John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (d. 1973)
● 1929 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner
● 1931 - Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
● 1931 - Tomi Ungerer, French graphic artist
● 1931 - Dervla Murphy, Irish cyclist and author
● 1932 - Ray Perkins, Canadian singer (The Crew-Cuts)
● 1933 - Joe Knollenberg, American politician
● 1935 - Prince Hitachi, Japanese royalty
● 1936 - Gary Hart, American politician
● 1936 - Celin Romero, Spanish guitarist
● 1938 - Michael Ritchie, American film director (d. 2001)
● 1940 - Bruce Channel, American singer
● 1941 - Laura Antonelli, Italian actress
● 1942 - Paul Warfield, American football player
● 1943 - Randy Newman, American composer
● 1944 - R.B. Greaves, Guyanan singer
● 1946 - Joe Dante, American film director and producer
● 1947 - Michel Berger, French songwriter (d. 1992)
● 1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer (d. 1995)
● 1949 - Paul Shaffer, Canadian orchestra leader
● 1950 - Ed Harris, American actor
● 1950 - Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1952 - S. Epatha Merkerson, American actress
● 1953 - Sixto Lezcano, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1955 - Adem Jashari, Albanian freedom fighter
● 1955 - Alessandro Altobelli, Italian footballer
● 1957 - David Van Day, British singer (Dollar)
● 1958 - Dave Righetti, American baseball player
● 1958 - Georges Rutaganda, Rwandan war criminal
● 1959 - Judd Nelson, American actor
● 1961 - Martin Clunes, British actor
● 1961 - Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director
● 1961 - Jane Sibbett, American actress
● 1962 - Paul Dinello, American comedian and actor
● 1962 - Jon Stewart, American comedian
● 1962 - Matt Cameron, American drummer (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam)
● 1963 - Walt Weiss, American baseball player
● 1964 - Cornelia Guest, American debutante
● 1965 - Erwin Mortier, Belgian author
● 1965 - Matt Williams, American baseball player
● 1966 - Sam Seder, American comedian
● 1967 - Anna Nicole Smith, American television personality (d. 2007)
● 1967 - Stephnie Weir, American comedian
● 1968 - Dawn Robinson, American singer (En Vogue)
● 1969 - Robb Nen, American baseball player
● 1969 - Lexington Steele (Clifton Britt), American adult film actor
● 1970 - Álex López Morón, Spanish tennis player
● 1971 - Rob Conway, American professional wrestler
● 1971 - Fenriz, Norwegian musician (Darkthrone)
● 1972 - Paulo Figueiredo, Angolan footballer
● 1972 - Anastasia Kelesidou, Greek discus thrower
● 1973 - Jade Puget, American musician (AFI)
● 1974 - András Tölcséres, Hungarian footballer
● 1974 - Styles P, American rapper
● 1975 - Sigurd Wongraven, Norwegian musician (Satyricon (band))
● 1975 - Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
● 1977 - DeMya Walker, American basketball player
● 1977 - Fabio Grosso, Italian footballer
● 1978 - Freddie Mitchell, American football player
● 1978 - Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
● 1978 - Brent Albright, American professional wrestler
● 1978 - Ryan Leslie, American producer
● 1978 - Haytham Tambal, Sudanese footballer
● 1979 - Chamillionaire, American rapper
● 1979 - Joel Maximo, American professional wrestler
● 1979 - Daniel Henney, Korean model-actor
● 1980 - Stuart Taylor, British footballer
● 1980 - Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
● 1982 - Leandro Barbosa, Brazilian basketball player
● 1984 - Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
● 1984 - Marc-Andre Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1984 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
● 1984 - Trey Songz, American singer
● 1985 - Caitlin McClatchey, Scottish swimmer
● 1988 - Scarlett Pomers, American actress
● 1992 - Kianna Underwood, American actress
● 1997 - Thor Salden, Belgian singer
DEATHS
● 741 - St. Pope Gregory III
● 1170 - Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd
● 1262 - Shinran, Japanese religious leader (b. 1173)
● 1290 - Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
● 1574 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502)
● 1585 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
● 1667 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)
● 1675 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier
● 1675 - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
● 1680 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (b. 1598)
● 1680 - Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
● 1694 - Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
● 1695 - Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer
● 1695 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
● 1698 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
● 1794 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)
● 1801 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)
● 1815 - Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, impresario, and composer (b. 1745)
● 1837 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
● 1852 - Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
● 1859 - Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)
● 1870 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
● 1872 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
● 1878 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
● 1907 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
● 1912 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
● 1915 - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
● 1921 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
● 1935 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
● 1939 - James Naismith, Canadian creator of basketball (b. 1861)
● 1945 - Dwight F. Davis, U.S. Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (b. 1879)
● 1947 - Philippe Leclerc, French general (b. 1902)
● 1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
● 1960 - Richard Wright, American author (b. 1908)
● 1962 - Queen Mother Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)
● 1963 - Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)
● 1968 - Enid Blyton, British children's author (b. 1897)
● 1972 - Havergal Brian, British composer (b. 1875)
● 1973 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
● 1976 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)
● 1977 - Trevor Bardette, American actor (b. 1902)
● 1977 - Bob Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1896)
● 1978 - Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentine football executive (b. 1902)
● 1983 - Christopher George, American actor (b. 1929)
● 1986 - Herb Vigran, American actor (b. 1910)
● 1987 - Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist (b. 1913)
● 1992 - Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
● 1993 - Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (b. 1946)
● 1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer and cannibal (b. 1960)
● 1994 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (b. 1938)
● 2000 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
● 2001 - William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)
● 2001 - Kal Mann, American lyricist (b. 1917)
● 2002 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American blues musician (b. 1943)
● 2003 - Ted Bates, English footballer (b. 1918)
● 2003 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (b. 1915)
● 2006 - Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Andrew Trong
● St. Catherine Labouré
● St. Fionnchu
● St. Gregory III, Pope
● St. Hippolytus
● St. James of the Marches
● St. James Thompson, Blessed
● St. Papinianus
● St. Rufus and Companions
● St. Valerian
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 15 (Civil Date: November 28)
● Beginning of the Nativity Fast.
● Fish, Wine and Oil Allowed, because of St Herman
● Repose of St. Herman, Wonderworker of Alaska
● Holy Martyrs and Confessors Gurias, Samonas and Abibus of Edessa
● Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus and Eustochius who suffered under Julian the Apostate.
● Martyr Demetrius of Thrace.
● St. Quinctian, Bishop of Seleucia.
● St. Philip, abbot of Rabang (Vologda).
● St. Paisius (Velichkovsky) of Moldavia and Mt. Athos.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Thomas the new, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii: Feast of the Holy Sovereigns in honor of King Kamehama IV and Queen Emma, the founders of the Anglican Church of Hawaii
● Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day - Ascension of `Abdu'l-Bahá
● Albania - Albanian Independence day (from Turkey, 1912); also known as Albanian Flag Day due to other National events that correspond to this day
● Mauritania - Independence Day (from France, 1960)
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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