Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Parenting "We often experience parental anger as a horrifying encounter with our worst selves." — Nancy Samalin
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Family Values "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it." — Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-ID), a strong supporter of "family values," commenting on her protracted affair with a married man {while attacking Bill Clinton for the Lewinsky affair}. David Neiwert, "Lives of the Republicans, Part Two," salon.com, 9-16-98.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "President Carter speaks loudly and carries a fly spotter, a fly swasher—it's been a long day." — Gerald Ford
{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
Aristarchus Plateau
Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman
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EVENTS
● 1216 - Pope Innocent III orders Jews to wear a special badge. {Not such an innocent thing to do is it?}
● 1554 - Roman Catholicism briefly restored to England under the reign of Mary Tudor. "Bloody Mary" had Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and nearly 300 other Protestant leaders burned at the stake.
● 1624 - Richard Cornish executed for violating Virginia's anti-sodomy law. That sucked.
● 1718 - The Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
● 1782 - American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris (1783) — In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
● 1782 - Treaty of Paris ends the American War of Independence.
● 1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
● 1803 - In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase. {Making a tidy profit in the process.}
● 1804 - The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
● 1812 - Twice, General "Apocalypse" Smythe orders his troops to cross the Niagara River to invade Canada, and twice his courage fails and he called off the attack. As the soldiers clambered from their boats the second time, they turned their weapons upon their commander's tent; Smythe turned tail and fled to Virginia.
● 1824 - First soil broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
● 1829 - First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day of the sod turning.
● 1835 - Birth of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), American humorist, social critic, and opponent of U.S. militarism. Florida, Missouri.
● 1853 - Crimean War: Battle of Sinop — The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
● 1854 - Birth of "Fighting Mary" Eliza McDowell. A social worker, she helped organize the first women's local union of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters in 1902. Comprised mostly of women workers, the Local grew to more than 1,000 members.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin — The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
● 1865 - Birth of Soledad Gustavo (Teresa Mano), Villanova, Spain. Catalan anarchist free thinker, mother of Federica Montseny, an important figure in Spanish anarchism.
● 1868 - The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden in the King's garden in Stockholm.
● 1900 - Death of Irish wit, playwright, gay pioneer Oscar Wilde 46, dies in Paris, France, in a hotel, remarking of his room's wallpaper - "One of us had to go." Condemned to two years hard labor in 1895 for his homosexuality. Wrote "De profundis" there, exalting revolutionary action and political agitation, a small book that was not published in its entirety until 44 years later.
● 1901 - Spain - Catalan federalist Pi i Margall dies. President of the first Republic in 1873, with the fall of King Amodoe of Savoy (hastened by Andalusian anarchist agitation of workers and peasants). Sought a federal republic separate from the church, and redistribution of land to the peasants. In Andalusia and in several cities in the Southeast, a libertarian federalism emerged, but the Monarchist reactionaries defeated all revolutionary aspirations.
● 1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
● 1907 - Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle.
● 1908 - A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania killed 154.
● 1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
● 1924 - Birth of Shirley Chisholm, first African American woman in Congress and U.S. presidential candidate.
● 1930 - Death of radical labor organizer Mary Harris, aka Mother Jones, Silver Spring Maryland. A founder of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a militant leader of miners and other union workers, dies at the age of 100. She is buried in the Mount Olive, Illinois cemetery. Jones was an organizer or "walking delegate" for the United Mine Workers (UMW), traveling from town to town, living in the homes of miners who sometimes risked their jobs to shelter her. Stories of her bravado are legendary. When she and 3,000 women were released by a militia after being held all night in McAdoo, Pennsylvania, they marched straight to the hotel housing the soldiers & ate their breakfast. Into her nineties, Mother Jones still roamed through the hills of West Virginia, encouraging miners to organize. When a monument is dedicated to her in 1936, some 50,000 miners attended the ceremony.
● 1932 - Manitoba farmers destroy tax records to prevent forced land sales.
● 1934 - The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
● 1936 - Birth of anti-war protester and Yippie Abbie Hoffman.
● 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace destroyed by fire.
● 1939 - U.S.S.R. invades Finland over a border dispute.
● 1939 - Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
● 1942 - World War II Guadalcanal Campaign: Battle of Tassafaronga — A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizo Tanaka defeats a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
● 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code named Operation Overlord.
● 1950 - Indian Fellowship of Reconciliation founded.
● 1950 - U.S. President Truman threatens China with atom bomb.
● 1953 - Birth of Albert Michael Espy lives, Yazoo City, Mississippi. In 1987, he is sworn in as the state's first African-American congressman since John Lynch more than 100 years before.
● 1953 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
● 1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.86 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.
● 1960 - Final military draft in Britain.
● 1960 - Production of the DeSoto automobile brand ceases.
● 1962 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as its 3rd UN Secretary-General.
● 1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
● 1967 - Eugene McCarthy (Democratic Senator from Minnesota) announces presidential candidacy, running on anti-war platform.
● 1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
● 1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
● 1969 - U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley charged with covering up the massacre of 567 civilians by his troops at Mylai, Vietnam in March 1968.
● 1971 - Tanker breaks in half off Japan, spilling 6,258,000 gallons of oil.
● 1971 - Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
● 1972 - Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
● 1973 - Frozen mallards began falling on Stuttgart, Arkansas. Duck!
● 1974 - Lucy (Australopithecus) was discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
● 1980 - Death of Dorothy Day, pacifist, anarchist, co-founder of Catholic Worker movement, New York City.
● 1981 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
● 1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.
● 1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
● 1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim. {He refused to pay her for services rendered,}
● 1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
● 1994 - Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio.
● 1995 - Official end of Operation Desert Storm
● 1999 - Despite police counterattacks, World Trade Organization meetings shut down by at least 50,000 peaceful protesters in the streets of Seattle, throwing the future of the WTO into disarray and galvanizing a new generation of global justice activists in North America and Europe. International media coverage ignores both the blockade and the police riot (and an enormous labor-sponsored rally and march), focusing instead on minor property damage committed by a few dozen black bloc members.
● 2000 - The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 comes into force in the UK.
● 2001 - King County (Seattle) police arrest Gary Leon Ridgway as the suspected Green River killer, who murdered at least 49 women in the Pacific Northwest from 1982-84.
● 2004 - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns. {They never find such a talented color coordinator to take the post.}
● 2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crashlands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
● 2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
BIRTHS
● 539 - Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
● 1340 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
● 1364 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
● 1466 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)
● 1508 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
● 1554 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d. 1586)
● 1594 - John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
● 1625 - Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)
● 1637 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
● 1667 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d.1745)
● 1670 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
● 1683 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
● 1719 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
● 1722 - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
● 1723 - William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
● 1756 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
● 1768 - Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
● 1781 - Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
● 1796 - Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)
● 1810 - Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
● 1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
● 1813 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)
● 1817 - Theodor Mommsen, German author, Nobel laureate (d. 1903)
● 1821 - Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
● 1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), American writer (d. 1910)
● 1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
● 1840 - Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)
● 1847 - Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, 6th President of Brazil (d. 1909)
● 1857 - Bobby Abel, English cricketer (d. 1936)
● 1858 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
● 1863 - Andres Bonifacio, head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK) (d. 1897)
● 1869 - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
● 1872 - Dr. John McCrae, Canadian physician, soldier, poet. Author of "In Flanders Fields" (d. 1918)
● 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
● 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
● 1889 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1977)
● 1898 - Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (d. 1976)
● 1904 - Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
● 1907 - Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author
● 1909 - Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
● 1911 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
● 1912 - Gordon Parks, American photographer, film director, composer and writer (d. 2006)
● 1915 - Brownie McGhee, American blues musician (d.1996)
● 1915 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
● 1918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor
● 1920 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
● 1924 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician, United States Representatives from New York (d. 2005)
● 1924 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)
● 1924 - Elliott Blackstone, American gay and lesbian rights supporter (d. 2006)
● 1926 - Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
● 1927 - Robert Guillaume, American actor
● 1928 - Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
● 1929 - Dick Clark, American television host
● 1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, American children's television pioneer
● 1930 - G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate operative and talk radio host
● 1931 - Jack Ging, American actor
● 1931 - Bill Walsh, American football coach (d. 2007)
● 1932 - Bob Moore, American bassist and orchestra leader
● 1932 - Cho Namchul, South Korean professional Go player (d. 2006)
● 1933 - Norman Deeley, English footballer (d. 2007)
● 1936 - Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
● 1936 - Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician
● 1937 - Ridley Scott, British film director
● 1937 - Frank Ifield, Australian/British singer
● 1943 - Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter.
● 1945 - Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)
● 1945 - Radu Lupu, Romanian concert pianist
● 1947 - David Mamet, American playwright
● 1947 - Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
● 1951 - Christian Bernard, mystic
● 1951 - June Chadwick, British actress
● 1952 - Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist
● 1952 - Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer
● 1953 - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
● 1954 - Simonetta Stefanelli, Italian Actress (The Godfather)
● 1955 - Kevin Conroy, American Actor (Batman in the DC animated universe)
● 1955 - Billy Idol, British musician
● 1955 - Gordon Liu, Chinese actor
● 1957 - John Ashton, English guitarist (Psychedelic Furs)
● 1957 - Richard Barbieri, British keyboardist (Porcupine Tree)
● 1957 - Andrew Calhoun, American musician
● 1957 - Joël Champetier, French Canadian author
● 1957 - Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born Canadian comedian
● 1958 - Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
● 1958 - Stacey Q, American singer
● 1959 - Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist
● 1960 - Gary Lineker, English footballer
● 1960 - Rich Fields, American television personality
● 1962 - Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
● 1962 - Daniel Keys Moran, American writer
● 1964 - Jushin Liger, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1965 - Ben Stiller, American actor
● 1965 - Aldair, Brazilian footballer
● 1966 - Ed Kemper, American serial killer
● 1966 - Wil Mara, American author
● 1966 - David Nicholls, English novelist and screenwriter
● 1966 - Mika Salo, Finnish Formula 1 Driver
● 1968 - Des'ree, English singer
● 1968 - Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
● 1968 - Randall Wallace, American screenwriter, producer and director
● 1969 - Marc Goossens, Belgian racing driver
● 1971 - Iván Rodríguez, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1971 - Ray Durham, American baseball player
● 1972 - Christopher Fitzgerald, American stage actor
● 1972 - Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer
● 1973 - John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)
● 1973 - Jason Reso (aka "Christian Cage"), Canadian professional wrestler
● 1975 - Mindy McCready, American musician
● 1975 - Ben Thatcher, Welsh footballer
● 1976 - Josh Lewsey, English rugby union footballer
● 1977 - Kazumi Saitoh, Japanese baseball player
● 1977 - Olivier Schoenfelder, French ice dancer
● 1978 - Clay Aiken, American singer
● 1978 - Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
● 1978 - Emil Steiner, American writer
● 1979 - Chris Atkinson, Australian rally driver
● 1980 - Jamie Ashdown, English footballer
● 1981 - Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player
● 1982 - Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
● 1982 - Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1983 - Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
● 1984 - Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
● 1984 - Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
● 1985 - Kaley Cuoco, American actress and model
● 1986 - Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
● 1987 - Dougie Poynter, British singer and bassist (McFly)
● 1987 - Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player
● 1987 - Ian Hecox, Part of Americas online comedy duo Smosh
● 1989 - Chanel Iman, American Supermodel
● 1990 - Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
● 1994 - Nyjah Huston, professional skateboarder
DEATHS
● 30 B.C.E. - Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
● 1016 - Edmund II of England
● 1580 - Richard Farrant, English composer
● 1626 - Thomas Weelkes, English composer
● 1654 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)
● 1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
● 1703 - Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
● 1705 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
● 1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
● 1761 - John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
● 1765 - George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
● 1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
● 1901 - Edward John Eyre, British explorer (b. 1815)
● 1920 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
● 1933 - Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
● 1935 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
● 1943 - Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist (executed) (b. 1914)
● 1953 - Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1857)
● 1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
● 1955 - Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer (b. 1896)
● 1957 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
● 1958 - Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
● 1967 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (b. 1904)
● 1987 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1913)
● 1989 - Alfred Herrhausen, German banker, murdered (Deutsche Bank) (b. 1930)]
● 1993 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)
● 1993 - David Houston, American country music singer (b. 1938)
● 1994 - Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1931)
● 1994 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)
● 1994 - Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
● 1995 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
● 1996 - Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
● 1997 - Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
● 1999 - Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
● 2002 - Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
● 2003 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
● 2004 - Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
● 2006 - Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Andrew the Apostle
● St. Constantius
● St. Joseph Marchand
● St. Maura
● St. Trojan
● St. Tudwal
● St. Zosimus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 17 (Civil Date: November 30)
● Nativity Fast.
● St. Gregory the Wonderworker of Neo Caesarea
● St. Nicon, abbot of Radonezh, disciple of St. Sergius.
● St. Lazarus the Iconographer of Constantinople.
● St. Longinus of Egypt.
● St. Gennadius of Vatopedi (Mt. Athos. .
● Martyr Gobron (Michael) and 133 soldiers of Georgia.
● St. Maximus (Maximian), Patriarch of Constantinople
● St. Gregory, Bishop of Tours, and with him Saints Patroclus of Bourges, Ursus and Leobatius, brother abbots, and Nicetius of Lyons (Gaul).
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Zachariah the Skete dweller and St. John, monk.
● St. Justin, monk.
● St. Andrew's day is the national day of Scotland
● Barbados - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966)
● Philippines - Andres Bonifacio Day
● Official end of the hurricane season
● Cities for Life Day; 300 cities around the world declare their opposition to the death penalty {I have always found the term right to life to be oxy-moronic since most of that crowd are vehemently pro death penalty.}
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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