Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Integrity "A man in a corrupted age must make a secret of his integrity, or else he will be looked upon as a common enemy." — Marquis of Halifax
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Public Enemy: Public Schools "Mr. Speaker, if we were a manufacturer that produced an inferior product, what would we think if we had to face real competition for the first time? My guess is that we would feel the same as those government-owned schools which are absolutely terrified by school choice. Mr. Speaker, they are terrified by school choice because they know that kids whose parents do not have the money to move or to send their kids to a private school have no choice but to send their kids to another government school where they have to pass through metal detectors, where there is no order in the classroom, and where the idea of standards and accountability leave them lagging behind their international peers. . . ." — Rep. Bob Schaffer (R-CO). Congressional Record, H7124, 9-10-97.—Part 1 of 2 {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 police are not her to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder." — Richard Daley, former mayor of Chicago
{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
Golden Comet Holmes
Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman
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EVENTS
● 644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina.
● 1462 - Henry IV of Castile is proclaimed prince of Catalunya.
● 1468 - Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
● 1481 - Francis I of Navarre is proclaimed king.
● 1483 - Giuliano della Rovere is appointed as Bishop of Bologna.
● 1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
● 1755 - Penobscot Indians in Maine are declared to be "enemies, rebels and traitors" to His Majesty, and bounties are offered to colonists for scalps - 40 British pounds for a male, 20 pounds for female or male under 12. Females under 12, presumably, were worthless.
● 1783 - John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
● 1783 - The American Continental Army is disbanded.
● 1792 - The University of Guadalajara, Mexico, is opened.
● 1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
● 1812 - Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma
● 1813 - U.S. troops destroy native village of Talisatchee in Creek War in the Mississippi Valley.
● 1848 - A greatly revised constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of the parliament and the ministers, is proclaimed. This constitution is still in effect today.
● 1856 - A British fleet bombs Canton.
● 1865 - Mescalero Apache disappear from Bosque Redondo where Kit Carson had them incarcerated, and were untraceable for the next seven years.
● 1868 - First black elected to Congress (John W. Menard, Louisiana).
● 1883 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Indian is by birth "an alien and a dependent."
● 1883 - American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
● 1896 - Idaho grants suffrage to women by popular vote.
● 1903 - Province of Panama, with the secret backing of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt and the New Panama Canal Company, secedes from Columbia. It was recognized by the U.S. government three days later, and on Nov. 18, the new country granted the U.S. a permanent and perpetual lease to the Canal Zone. {When this is renegotiated by the Carter administration, conservatives cry we stole it "fair and square."}
● 1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners.
● 1908 - William Howard Taft is elected as the twenty-seventh President of the United States of America.
● 1911 - Socialist candidate Harriman receives most votes in Los Angeles mayoral primary, 4000 more than incumbent George Alexander.
● 1911 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
● 1913 - The USA introduces an income tax.
● 1915 - Founding of World Federation of Trade Unions.
● 1917 - Bolshevik revolution takes power in Moscow, Russia.
● 1918 - Mutiny spreads through German fleet and naval bases.
● 1918 - Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the World War I Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
● 1918 - Poland declares its independence from Russia.
● 1919 - Employers in Barcelona, Spain lock out all workers -- the opposite of a general strike -- to try to end syndicalist agitation.
● 1930 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
● 1930 - The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel was opened to traffic.
● 1933 - Methodist Peace Fellowship founded, London.
● 1935 - George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular plebiscite.
● 1936 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to second term as the President of the United States of America.
● 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein ends - German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
● 1942 - The city of Kisarazu in founded in Chiba, Japan.
● 1943 - World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
● 1944 - World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
● 1945 - England - Death of D.A. Crowe, pacifist surgeon.
● 1957 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit: a dog named Laika.
● 1964 - Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time. {They still have no voice in either house of Congress.}
● 1964 - Lyndon Baines Johnson is elected as the thirty-sixth president of the United States of America as "peace candidate" in landslide over Barry Goldwater. Plans for escalating air strikes in Vietnam now begin in earnest. Johnson assures the public he has no intention of committing American troops to a ground war in Vietnam.
● 1967 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
● 1968 - Germinal De Sousa dies, Lisbonne, Portugal. Participant, 1936 Spanish Revolution, fighting with the column "Tierra y Libertad." Secretary F.A.I, 1938-1939.
● 1969 - Pres. Nixon announces "Vietnamization" program to shift Vietnam fighting from U.S. troops to U.S.-trained local troops.
● 1969 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
● 1970 - Chilean Pres. Salvador Allende, the country's first democratically elected Marxist, beating the candidate bankrolled by big business, military, and the U.S./CIA, sworn in as President.
● 1971 - Canadian activists block international bridges in Detroit and Buffalo in protest against U.S. nuclear weapons testing in Alaska.
● 1972 - Salvador Allende forms a civil-military government in Chile.
● 1973 - Froines and Weiner of Chicago Seven (formerly Chicago Eight, now minus Bobby Seale) acquitted of contempt charges. Unable to convict them on the original charges, the U.S. government in October attempted to nail the seven on 159 contempt charges; of these, only 13 were upheld.
● 1973 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury, on March 29, 1974, becoming the first space probe to reach that planet.
● 1975 - England - First Campaign Against Arms Trade demonstration at Defense Sale Organization, London.
● 1975 - An independent audit of Mattel, one of the United States's largest toy manufacturers, reveals that company officials fabricated press releases and financial information to "maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth."
● 1978 - Canada - Congress of the Socialist International held in Vancouver, B.C. First socialist congress held outside Western Europe since 1876.
● 1978 - Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
● 1979 - Some 90 people, including 63 U.S. citizens, are taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran by followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, who demand the return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (at the time, undergoing medical treatment in New York City). Fifty-two Americans were held for 444 days, until 20 January 1981, when by previous secret arrangement they were released as new Pres. Ronald Reagan, elected in large part because of the hostage crisis, was sworn into office.
● 1979 - Four members of the Communist Workers Party are murdered and eight others injured when their anti-Klan rally is attacked by Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party thugs in Greensboro, North Carolina. Two subsequent juries acquit the murderers, but a civil suit eventually results in a judgment against the city of Greensboro in 1985.
● 1982 - The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000+ people.
● 1984 - Indira Gandhi is cremated at Shakti Sthal.
● 1986 - Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
● 1986 - The Federated States of Micronesia become independent from the United States of America.
● 1988 - Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
● 1998 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is elected Governor of Minnesota.
● 1999 - Salvadoran transvestite “Doris” murdered for appearing in court in women’s clothes.
● 2003 - NYC Subway's Redbird trains make their final run.
BIRTHS
● 39 - Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
● 1500 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (d. 1571)
● 1558 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (d. 1594)
● 1560 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
● 1587 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)
● 1604 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
● 1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
● 1633 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
● 1718 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (d. 1792)
● 1749 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
● 1793 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836)
● 1794 - William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)
● 1799 - William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1856)
● 1801 - Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (d. 1859)
● 1801 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
● 1816 - Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
● 1816 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (d. 1898)
● 1845 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
● 1852 - Meiji Emperor, Japanese emperor (d. 1912)
● 1856 - Jim McCormick, baseball player (d. 1918)
● 1857 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (d. 1918)
● 1862 - Henry George, Jr., American politician (d. 1916)
● 1876 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1940)
● 1877 - Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean president. (d. 1960)
● 1887 - Samuil Marshak, Russian writer, translator and children's poet (d. 1964)
● 1890 - Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest (d. 1943)
● 1893 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
● 1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
● 1896 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
● 1899 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
● 1900 - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
● 1901 - Leopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
● 1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
● 1903 - Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
● 1908 - Bronko Nagurski, American football player (d. 1990)
● 1909 - James Reston, American journalist (d. 1995)
● 1910 - Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
● 1912 - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
● 1918 - Bob Feller, baseball player
● 1918 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
● 1918 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)
● 1918 - Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)
● 1919 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
● 1920 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
● 1921 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
● 1923 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990)
● 1924 - Samuel Ruiz García, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop
● 1926 - Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania
● 1926 - Maurice Couture, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop
● 1928 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
● 1930 - D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
● 1930 - Brian Robinson, British cyclist
● 1930 - Lois Smith, American actress
● 1931 - Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
● 1931 - Monica Vitti, Italian actress
● 1931 - Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (d. 2007)
● 1933 - Ken Berry, American actor
● 1933 - John Barry, English composer
● 1933 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
● 1933 - Aneta Corsaut, American actress (d. 1995)
● 1933 - Michael Dukakis, American politician
● 1933 - Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1936 - Roy Emerson, Australian tennis champion
● 1938 - Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician
● 1938 - Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter
● 1941 - Brian Poole, English musician (The Tremeloes)
● 1943 - Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician
● 1945 - Ken Holtzman, American baseball player and manager
● 1945 - Gerd Müller, German footballer
● 1945 - J. D. Souther, American country-rock singer/songwriter & actor
● 1946 - Tom Savini, American actor
● 1947 - Mazie Hirono, American politician
● 1948 - Lulu, British actress and singer
● 1948 - Helmut Koinigg, Austrian racing driver (d. 1974)
● 1949 - Larry Holmes, American boxer
● 1949 - Anna Wintour, English-American editor
● 1949 - Mike Evans, American actor (d. 2006)
● 1950 - Joe Queenan, American writer
● 1950 - Massimo Mongai, Italian writer
● 1951 - Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist, New York Daily News
● 1952 - Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedian
● 1952 - Jim Cummings, American voice actor
● 1952 - David Ho, Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher
● 1953 - Kate Capshaw, American actress
● 1953 - Helios Creed, American musician (Chrome)
● 1953 - Larry Herndon, baseball player
● 1953 - Dennis Miller, American comedian
● 1954 - Adam Ant, English singer
● 1955 - Phil Simms, American football player
● 1956 - Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer
● 1956 - Gary Ross, American film director
● 1957 - Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor
● 1959 - Hal Hartley, American film director and writer
● 1960 - Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
● 1962 - Jacqui Smith UK Home Secretary
● 1963 - Ian Wright, English footballer
● 1963 - Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
● 1969 - Robert Miles, Swiss record producer, composer and musician in trance and ambient music.
● 1971 - Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
● 1973 - Kirk Jones (Sticky Fingaz), American musician
● 1973 - Nemone, athlete and broadcaster
● 1974 - Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player
● 1975 - Darren Sharper, American football player
● 1976 - Guillermo Franco, Argentine-Mexican footballer
● 1977 - Aria Giovanni, American model
● 1979 - Beau McDonald, Australian Rules Footballer
● 1979 - Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
● 1979 - Tim McIlrath, American musician (Rise Against)
● 1982 - Evgeny Plushenko, Russian figure skater
● 1983 - Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderess
● 1984 - Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver
● 1987 - Gemma Ward, Australian model
● 1989 - Paula DeAnda, American singer
DEATHS
● 361 - Constantius II, Roman Emperor (b. 317)
● 753 - Pirminius, German saint (b. 753)
● 1254 - John III Ducas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1193)
● 1428 - Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388)
● 1580 - Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
● 1584 - Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
● 1600 - Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
● 1643 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
● 1643 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
● 1711 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (b. 1666)
● 1787 - Robert Lowth, British bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
● 1793 - Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
● 1794 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
● 1869 - Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet (b. 1792)
● 1890 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1811)
● 1891 - Louis Lucien Bonaparte, French politician and linguist (b. 1813)
● 1917 - Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
● 1918 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
● 1926 - Annie Oakley, American sharp-shooter (b. 1860)
● 1927 - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
● 1929 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
● 1933 - Emile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)
● 1939 - Charles Tournemire, French composer and organist (b. 1870)
● 1949 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1861)
● 1954 - Henri Matisse, French artist (b. 1869)
● 1957 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist (b. 1897)
● 1964 - John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (b. 1905)
● 1970 - Peter II of Yugoslavia (b. 1923)
● 1973 - Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
● 1983 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
● 1990 - Mary Martin, American actress (b. 1913)
● 1991 - Mort Shuman, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)
● 1993 - Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (b. 1895)
● 1995 - Gordon S. Fahrni, physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association (b. 1887)
● 1995 - John Orchard, British actor (b. 1928)
● 1996 - Abdullah Çatlı, a Turkish nationalist and neofascist activist (b. 1956)
● 1996 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic (b. 1921)
● 1998 - Bob Kane, comic artist and Batman co-creator (b. 1915)
● 1999 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
● 2001 - Ernst Gombrich, Austrian art historian (b. 1909)
● 2002 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (b. 1931)
● 2002 - Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
● 2003 - Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
● 2004 - Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player (b. 1972)
● 2006 - Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
● 2006 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
● 2006 - Marie Rudisill, American author ("Fruitcake Lady") (b. 1911)
● 2007 - Martin Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945)
● 2007 - Ryan Shay, American professional long distance runner (b. 1979)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions
● St. Cristiolus
● St. Domnus of Vienne
● St. Elerius
● St. Englatius
● St. Florus
● St. Germanus
● St. Guenhael
● St. Hermengaudis
● St. Hubert
● St. Malachy O' More
● St. Martin de Porres
● St. Papulus
● St. Peter Francis Neron
● St. Pirmin
● St. Quaratus
● Sts. Valentine & Hilary
● St. Valentinian
● St. Vulganius
● St. Winifred
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 18 (Civil Date: November 3)
● Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke.
● Martyr Marinus the Elder at Anazarbus.
● St. Julian the hermit of Mesopotamia.
● St. Mnason, Bishop of Cyprus.
● St. David, abbot of Serphukov.
● New Martyrs Gabriel and Cirmidol of Egypt.
● Greek Calendar:
● Saints Symeon, Theodore and Euprosynus, monks who found the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Great Cave of Peloponnesus.
● St. Peter, Metropolitan of Montenegro.
● Day of resurrection of the god Osiris during the pagan celebration the Discovery of Osiris (Inventio Osiridis).
● Independence Day in Panama (1903, from Colombia), Dominica (1978, from Britain) and Federated States of Micronesia (1986, from United States)
● Japan - Culture Day (originally celebrated as Emperor's Birthday until the Meiji Emperor's death in 1912)
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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