Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Organization & Management "Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate." — Dave Barry
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Judicial Activism ". . . It ios also time for us to take a broader, comprehensive look at the alarming increase in activism on the Court. As Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, I intend to convene hearings in the months ahead to examine this disturbing trend. Americans should not sit idly by as our individual rights are surrendered. We should enlist the American people in an effort to rein in an out-of-control Court." — Sen. John Ashcroft, CPAC Annual Meeting, 3-6-97. freerepublic.com.—Part 3 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 "After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school department is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post." — Philip Streifer, superintendent of schools, Barrington, Rhode Island
{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
Stardust in Perseus
Credit & Copyright: Jeff Lunglhofer
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1777 - San Jose, California, founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
● 1781 - The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
● 1799 - Birth of American utopianist Amos Bronson Alcott, Wolcott, Conn. Father of Louise May Alcott, author of "Little Women" and an ardent champion of women workers and abolition; she was born on the same day in 1832.
● 1811 - Birth of Wendell Phillips, anti-slavery and labor orator.
● 1830 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
● 1831 - Revolution in Poland.
● 1845 - The Sonderbund defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
● 1847 - Cayuse Indians massacre Rev. Marcus Whitman and his wife with 13 others at a mission near Walla Walla because of fear that travelers were carrying measles, causing the Cayuse War.
● 1850 - The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc meant diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
● 1851 - Birth of Edward Aveling, the son-in-law and English translator of Karl Marx.
● 1854 - Umpqua and Kalapuyan tribes sign treaty ceding Oregon lands to U.S.
● 1864 - Sand Creek, Colorado - A U.S. army regiment under Col. J. M. Chivington (a Methodist pastor), acting on orders from Colorado's Governor, John Evans, and ignoring a white surrender flag, massacres sleeping Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians camped under a U.S. flag, in one of the most brutal atrocities in U.S. history. The Indians had been ordered away from protection of Fort Lyon four days before, with the promise that they would be safe. Virtually all of the 500 victims, mostly women and children, were tortured and scalped; women's genitals were cut out and stuck on poles. Nine of 900 cavalrymen were killed. A local newspaper called this "a brilliant feat of arms," and stated the soldiers had "covered themselves with glory." At first, Chivington was widely praised for his "victory" at the Battle of Sand Creek, and he and his troops were honored with a parade in Denver. However, rumors of drunken soldiers butchering unarmed women and children began to circulate, and Congress ordered a formal investigation of the Sand Creek Massacre. Chivington was eventually threatened with court martial by the U.S. Army, but as he had already left his military post, no criminal charges were ever filed against him.
● 1870 - England - State-run compulsory education initiated.
● 1872 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
● 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
● 1890 - The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
● 1893 - Arrest of the anarchist Edmond Aubin Marpaux, charged with the killing of a flic. Receives life in prison despite denials, and killed in a prison revolt.
● 1893 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, was founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne was approved by the Qing Government.
● 1898 - Birth of Christian writer/teacher C. S. Lewis Belfast. {He would die the same day as JFK.}
● 1905 - "The Chicago Defender," a black newspaper, begins publication.
● 1908 - Birth of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., New Haven, Conn. Son of the famed minister of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, he was a civil rights activist, using mass meetings and strikes to force employment reforms. In 1944, elected to Congress. Among his early actions were desegregation of eating facilities in the House and an unrelenting fight to end discrimination in the armed forces, employment, housing, and transportation. Corruption charges later got him expelled from Congress, but he was re-elected and reclaimed his seat.
● 1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island in California.
● 1916 - U.S. sets up a military government in the Dominican Republic.
● 1922 - Howard Carter opened the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen to the public.
● 1929 - U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
● 1934 - Twelve hundred striking workers from three unions picket the Boston Stores in Milwaukee. The entire Milwaukee labor movement pledges support and, on 1 December Saturday, 10,000 picketers jam the sidewalks around the main store. Six federal mediators come to Milwaukee in a fruitless effort to reach a settlement. An extremely cold winter and the store's willingness to hold out through the holiday season eventually broke the strikers' morale. In mid-January, the unions settle for a small pay increase but no union recognition. The defeat set the tone for future Milwaukee department-store labor relations. Over the next 60 years, none of the city's major department stores were unionized.
● 1935 - Henry Plummer Cheatham, a two-term congressman from North Carolina, dies in Oxford, N.C. The only African-American member of Congress during the 1890 term and the last elected to Congress for three decades, as Jim Crow laws were tightened and voting rights for blacks gutted.
● 1943 - The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.
● 1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
● 1945 - The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia declared.
● 1947 - Birth of German Green Party leader, feminist and ecologist pioneer Petra Kelly, Gunzburg, Bavaria.
● 1947 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine
● 1950 - Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
● 1952 - Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
● 1961 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission - Enos, a chimpanzee, launched into space (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).
● 1962 - California court convicts three Navajos of the crime of consuming peyote during a religious ceremony.
● 1963 - Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.
● 1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
● 1965 - Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
● 1967 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
● 1969 - Australian labor leader Norman Lindsay dies.
● 1972 - Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) released Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif.
● 1972 - Phil Berrigan paroled from his prison term for his role in the Catonsville nine draft file burning.
● 1972 - United Nations General Assembly condemns stocking of napalm (commonly used by the U.S. at the time in Vietnam) and other fire weapons.
● 1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen.
● 1980 - Floodgates on the Tellico Dam on Little Tennessee River begin to flood 16,000 acres of Cherokee religious grounds.
● 1982 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
● 1985 - Thirty-four black unions unite to form 500,000 member congress of South African Trade Unions, in Durban.
● 1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
● 1987 - Standoff with Cuban prisoners holding hostages at a federal detention center in Oakdale, Louisiana ends after eight days when the government agrees to grant a fair review of each Cuban's case before deporting them.
● 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes United Nations Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing "use all necessary means to uphold and implement" United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 "to restore international peace and security" if Iraq did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
● 1990 - U.N. Security Council votes 12-2 in favor of war in Persian Gulf.
● 2005 - New Croatian Communist Party (KPH) founded in Vukovar.
BIRTHS
● 1338 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (d. 1368)
● 1427 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (d. 1464)
● 1484 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (d. 1551)
● 1489 - Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England, queen consort of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
● 1627 - John Ray, English naturalist (d. 1705)
● 1690 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
● 1752 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (d. 1819)
● 1762 - Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist (d. 1833)
● 1781 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1865)
● 1797 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (d. 1848)
● 1798 - Alexander Brullov, Russian painter (d. 1877)
● 1799 - Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer and educator (d. 1888)
● 1802 - Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and novelist (d. 1827)
● 1803 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (d. 1853)
● 1803 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (d. 1879)
● 1813 - Franz von Miklosich, Slovenian linguist (d. 1891)
● 1816 - Morrison Waite, 7th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1888)
● 1825 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)
● 1831 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (d. 1888)
● 1835 - Empress Dowager Cixi, de facto Chinese ruler (1868-1908; d. 1908)
● 1849 - Sir John Ambrose Fleming, British physicist (d. 1945)
● 1856 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, 5th Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1921)
● 1857 - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911)
● 1874 - Francis Dodd, British artist (d. 1949)
● 1874 - Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
● 1876 - Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician, 14th Governor of Wyoming (d. 1977)
● 1879 - Jacob Gade, Danish Composer(d. 1963)
● 1881 - Julius Raab, 3rd Chancellors of the Second (Austrian) Republic (d. 1964)
● 1894 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (d. 1970)
● 1895 - Busby Berkeley, American film director and choreographer (d. 1976)
● 1895 - William V.S. Tubman, 19th President of Liberia (d. 1971)
● 1896 - Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (d. 1986)
● 1898 - C. S. Lewis, Irish writer (d. 1963)
● 1899 - Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (d. 1988)
● 1901 - Mildred Harris, American actress (d. 1944)
● 1904 - Egon Eiermann, German architect (d. 1970)
● 1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American civil rights leader and politician (d. 1972)
● 1908 - N. S. Krishnan, Tamil film comedian (d. 1957)
● 1910 - Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director (d. 1961)
● 1915 - Billy Strayhorn, American musician and composer (d. 1967)
● 1916 - Fran Ryan, American actress (d. 2000)
● 1917 - Merle Travis, American singer (d. 1983)
● 1918 - Madeleine L'Engle, American author (d. 2007)
● 1921 - Dagmar, American television personality (d. 2001)
● 1922 - Minnie Miñoso, Cuban baseball player
● 1927 - Vin Scully, American baseball announcer
● 1928 - Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter
● 1928 - Paul Simon, American politician (d. 2003)
● 1929 - Laurie Main, English actor
● 1929 - Jackie Stallone, American astrologer and personality
● 1930 - Shirley Porter, English politician
● 1931 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, star of Zatoichi movies (d. 1997)
● 1932 - Jacques Chirac, 5th President of the Fifth (French) Republic
● 1932 - Diane Ladd, American actress
● 1933 - John Mayall, British blues musician
● 1933 - James Rosenquist, American artist
● 1939 - Peter Bergman, American comedian
● 1939 - Meco, American record producer
● 1939 - Gene Okerlund, American wrestling interviewer
● 1940 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2007)
● 1940 - Chuck Mangione, American musician
● 1941 - Bill Freehan, American baseball player
● 1942 - Philippe Huttenlocher, Swiss baritone
● 1943 - Sue Miller, American author
● 1944 - Felix Cavaliere, American musician
● 1946 - Silvio Rodríguez, Cuban poet
● 1947 - Petra Kelly, German politician (d. 1992)
● 1949 - Wayne Cowan, American wrestler
● 1949 - Jerry Lawler, American wrestler
● 1949 - Garry Shandling, American comedian
● 1951 - Barry Goudreau, American musician (Boston)
● 1953 - Alex Grey, American artist
● 1953 - Christine Pascal, French actress, director and screenwriter
● 1954 - Joel Coen, American film director, producer, and writer
● 1954 - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 2006)
● 1955 - Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian
● 1956 - Hinton Battle, American dancer
● 1956 - Leo Laporte, American television personality
● 1956 - Eric Laakso, Retired Miami Dolphins NFL Offensive tackle
● 1958 - Michael Dempsey, American musician (The Cure)
● 1959 - Neal Broten, American ice hockey player
● 1959 - Kim Delaney, American actress
● 1960 - Howard Johnson, American baseball player
● 1960 - Cathy Moriarty, American actress
● 1961 - Tom Sizemore, American actor
● 1961 - Masayoshi Yamashita, Japanese bassist
● 1962 - Andy LaRocque Swedish musician (King Diamond)
● 1963 - Andrew McCarthy, American actor
● 1964 - Don Cheadle, American actor
● 1965 - Ellen Cleghorne, American comedian
● 1965 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese musician (d. 1992)
● 1967 - John Layfield, Professional wrestler
● 1968 - Jonathan Knight, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
● 1969 - Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer
● 1969 - Kasey Keller, American soccer player
● 1969 - Mariano Rivera, Panamanian baseball player
● 1970 - Mark Pembridge, Welsh footballer
● 1971 - Gena Lee Nolin, American actress
● 1972 - Larry Joe Campbell, American actor
● 1972 - Jamal Mashburn, American basketball player
● 1972 - Minoru Tanaka, Japanese pro-wrestler
● 1973 - Ryan "The Welsh Wizard" Giggs, Welsh footballer
● 1973 - Sarah Jones, American playwright
● 1974 - Lin Chi-ling, Taiwanese model
● 1974 - Pavol Demitra, Slovak ice hockey player
● 1974 - Chiling Lin, supermodel in Taiwan
● 1976 - Anna Faris, American actress
● 1976 - Michalis Kakiouzis, Greek basketball player
● 1976 - Ehren McGhehey, American actor
● 1977 - Younis Khan, International Cricketer for Pakistan
● 1977 - Maria Petrova, Russian figure skater
● 1978 - Ludwika Paleta, Polish-born actress
● 1978 - Dimitrious Konstantopolous, Greek footballer
● 1979 - Francis Beltrán, Dominican baseball player
● 1979 - The Game (Jayceon Terrell Taylor), American rapper.
● 1981 - Nicholas Teo, Taiwanese singer and actor
● 1982 - Ashley Force, American Porno Star
● 1982 - Krystal Steal, American pornographic actress
● 1984 - Sitti Navarro, Philippine bossa nova artist
● 1985 - Shannon Brown, American basketball player
● 1985 - Taguchi Junnosuke, Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)
● 1987 - Stephen O'Halloran, Irish footballer
DEATHS
● 741 - Pope Gregory III
● 1253 - Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
● 1268 - Pope Clement IV
● 1307 - Philip IV of France (b. 1268)
● 1330 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
● 1342 - Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (b. 1270)
● 1378 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1316)
● 1530 - Thomas Wolsey, adviser to King Henry VIII of England
● 1577 - Cuthbert Mayne, English saint (b. 1543)
● 1590 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
● 1595 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
● 1626 - Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, German soldier
● 1632 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (b. 1596)
● 1643 - William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)
● 1643 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)
● 1646 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (b. 1565)
● 1661 - Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar (b. 1600)
● 1694 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (b. 1628)
● 1695 - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (b. 1619)
● 1699 - Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)
● 1759 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
● 1780 - Maria Theresa of Austria (b. 1717)
● 1797 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723)
● 1847 - Marcus Whitman, Washington state pioneer (b. 1802)
● 1924 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858)
● 1927 - George Giffen, Australian cricketer (b. 1859)
● 1939 - Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1865)
● 1953 - Sam De Grasse, American actor (b. 1875)
● 1953 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
● 1954 - Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
● 1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897)
● 1972 - Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)
● 1974 - James J. Braddock, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1905)
● 1975 - Graham Hill, English race car driver (b. 1929)
● 1979 - Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
● 1980 - Dorothy Day, American journalist, turned social activist, and devout member of the Roman Catholic Church.
● 1981 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (b. 1895)
● 1981 - Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)
● 1982 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
● 1984 - Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (b. 1900)
● 1986 - Cary Grant, British-born American actor (b. 1904)
● 1991 - Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
● 1992 - Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (b. 1906)
● 1998 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (b. 1947)
● 1999 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b. 1917)
● 2000 - Daniel Gélin, French actor (b. 1921)
● 2001 - Mic Christopher, Irish singer and songwriter (b. 1969)
● 2001 - George Harrison, English singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943)
● 2001 - John Knowles, American author (b. 1926)
● 2003 - Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
● 2004 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (b. 1929)
● 2004 - Harry Danning, American baseball player (b. 1911)
● 2004 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (b. 1891)
● 2005 - David di Tommaso, French footballer (b. 1979)
● 2005 - Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (b. 1958)
● 2006 - Allen Carr, English anti-smoking campaigner (b. 1934)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Brendan of Birr
● St. Cuthbert Mayne, martyr
● St. Denis of the Nativity and Redemptus of the Cross
● St. Egelwine
● St. Gulstan
● St. Hardoin
● St. Paramon and Companions
● St. Philomenus
● St. Radboud
● St. Sadwen
● Sts. Saturninus & Sisinius
● Bl. Dionysius
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 16 (Civil Date: November 29)
● Nativity Fast.; Fish, wine & oil allowed.
● Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew
● St. Fulvianus, prince of Ethiopia, in holy baptism Matthew.
● St. Sergius, abbot of Malopinega.
● Repose of Schemamonk John the Fingerless, disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1843);
● New Hieromartyr Philoumenos of Jacob's Well, by the Jews.
● Albania - Liberation Day (Dita e Çlirimit)
● Israel - Kaftet be-November (commemoration of the U.N. decision in 1947 to partition Palestine)
● Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Republic Day
● International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
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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