Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Intellectuals "There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side." — Vaclav Havel
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Public Enemy: Public Schools "Government-owned schools have a complete monopoly, plain and simple, and all monopolies fear competition. I can 100 percent guarantee an inferior product of any human endeavor if producers are shielded from competition, if producers are not forced to innovate and improve. Mr. Speaker, just look at the Communist legacy in every single case, especially education. The bureaucrats who just love their government-owned schools and want to protect their monopoly will do so at just about any cost, regardless of whether kids have to receive an inferior education and blighted futures. Mr. Speaker, it is wrong and I have lost patience with those who refuse to do best for the kids. School choice is the answer." — Rep. Bob Schaffer (R-CO). Congressional Record, H7124, 9-10-97.—Part 2 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 "He was a man of great statue." — Thomas Menino, former mayor of Boston
{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
The Closest Galaxy: Canis Major Dwarf
Illustration Credit & Copyright: R. Ibata (Strasbourg Observatory, ULP) et al., 2MASS, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1501 - Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother - they would later marry.
● 1576 - Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
● 1677 - The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as William and Mary.
● 1737 - The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
● 1811 - Birth of Luddism - first attack on machines by disgruntled and masked workers, England.
● 1825 - The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbor.
● 1839 – The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
● 1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
● 1861 - The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville - Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
● 1869 - The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published.
● 1879 - Populist humorist Will Rogers born, near Oolagah, Oklahoma Indian Territory.
● 1889 - Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.
● 1890 - City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
● 1897 - Birth of Cipriano Mera, French anarcho-syndicalist,
● 1899 - Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is published.
● 1918 - World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
● 1918 - The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
● 1921 - Victorine Brocher, French anarchist, dies.
● 1921 - The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
● 1921 - Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
● 1921 - Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
● 1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
● 1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first female governor in the United States.
● 1924 - Calvin Coolidge is elected the twenty-ninth President of the United States of America.
● 1927 - Friends' Service Committee established, Britain.
● 1928 - Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a poker game.
● 1931 - Luigi Galleani, Italian anarchist, dies of a heart attack, at the age of 70.
● 1933 - Three thousand farmers demonstrate in Neilsville, Wisconsin. The action frees jailed leaders of a milk strike. During the Depression, desperate Wisconsin farmers called the strike in an attempt to raise ruinously low milk prices set by large dairy plants. Their preferred tactic was halting milk production. Led by the Wisconsin Milk Pool, they gathered on roads leading to Wisconsin cities, dumping tons of fresh milk. They also stopped trains loaded with milk bound for Chicago. To break the strike, Governor Albert Schmedeman called out the National Guard.
● 1936 - Four leaders of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT, the largest union in Spain, bag their principles during the Spanish Revolution and join the new Republican "Popular Front" government as Cabinet Ministers - Juan Garcia Oliver (Justice), Juan Peiro (Industry) Juan Lopez Sanchez (Trade), Federica Montseny (Health).
● 1939 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
● 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
● 1945 - UNESCO is founded.
● 1946 - Birth of radical queer photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
● 1952 - The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
● 1952 - Dwight David Eisenhower is elected the thirty-fourth President of the United States of America.
● 1956 - Hungarian revolt crushed by Soviet troops in Budapest. Two hundred thousand Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist uprising in this second invasion of Hungary. New pro-Russian government installed. Civilians set up barricades along all the major roads leading to Budapest. Soldiers and Hungarian National Guard troops participate in the resistance. Only Communist Party functionaries and security police fought along with the Russians in the name of the "dictatorship of the proletariat." The United States, which had previously pledged to help and protect the anti-Stalinists, stood by and tut- tutted. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
● 1958 - B-47 carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Abilene, Texas.
● 1966 - Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno rivers flood; considering also the contemporary flood of Po River in northern Italy, 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and numerous Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed.
● 1969 - Storage tank in Sewaren, New Jersey ruptured, releasing 8,400,000 gallons of oil.
● 1969 - Chicago Eight Trial becomes Chicago Seven Trial - Bobby Seale cited by Judge Hoffman for contempt, and given four years in jail. A retrial is ordered on Seale's case.
● 1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
● 1970 - Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
● 1971 - Chinook tribe is awarded $75,000 by Indian Claims Commission for Southwest Washington lands stolen in 19th Century, but has a previous 1912 settlement deducted from the award.
● 1972 - U.S. Communist Party headquarters firebombed, New York City.
● 1977 - United Nations votes to enact an arms embargo against apartheid South Africa.
● 1979 - Iran hostage crisis begins: Iranian people, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
● 1980 - Ronald Wilson Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States of America. {This is after making a secret deal that keeps the above hostages captive until he is sworn in as president. Only one of many illegal acts he will commit in the course of becoming and being president.}
● 1982 - Rayford Logan dies, Washington, D.C. Educator, historian, and author of numerous books on African-Americans. Recipient of 1980 NAACP Spingarn Medal.
● 1984 - First free elections in Nicaraguan history. Sandinistas defeat six other parties.
● 1986 - Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment. {This is a false accusation as the legislature had purposely crafted the capital punishment statutes so they had to be declared unconstitutional. The real motive is the strict enforcement of pro-consumer protection from business statutes of the state Supreme Court. This allowed appointment of pro-business Justices.}
● 1988 - At O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Pres. Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing for U.S. participation in an anti-genocide treaty signed by Pres. Truman in 1948. At that very moment, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, at the time a CIA asset, ally of the U.S., and recipient of massive U.S. arms sales in his war against Iran, was gassing the Kurds, and U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Donald Rumsfeld was preparing to go to Baghdad to conclude another arms sale (which he would do, without mentioning the gassing).
● 1989 - Five hundred thousand demonstrate in East Berlin.
● 1989 - The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
● 1993 - Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada.
● 1993 - Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1993 - A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion USD of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be arson.
● 1993 - A China Airlines Boeing 747 overran Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
● 1994 - San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
● 1995 - Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli minutes after attending a peace rally held in Tel Aviv's Kings Square in Israel.
● 2001 - Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
● 2001 - The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established.
● 2002 - Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
● 2003 - The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
● 2003 - Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
● 2004 - 12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d'Ivoire civil war.
BIRTHS
● 1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
● 1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower
● 1575 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
● 1631 - Mary of Orange, eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England (d. 1660)
● 1661 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
● 1740 - Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778)
● 1765 - Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
● 1809 - Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)
● 1816 - Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899)
● 1836 - Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman (d. 1912)
● 1845 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (d. 1883)
● 1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
● 1879 - Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935)
● 1883 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general (d. 1953)
● 1884 - Harry Ferguson, Northern Irish aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
● 1890 - Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer and poet (d. 1928)
● 1899 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1985)
● 1900 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
● 1901 - Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989)
● 1901 - Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1974)
● 1904 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
● 1908 - Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
● 1908 - Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (d. 1997)
● 1909 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
● 1909 - Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)
● 1912 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
● 1913 - Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978)
● 1916 - Walter Cronkite, American news broadcaster
● 1918 - Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
● 1918 - Cameron Mitchell, American actor (d. 1994)
● 1919 - Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996)
● 1922 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor (d. 2006)
● 1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
● 1924 - Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
● 1930 - Doris Roberts, American actress
● 1930 - Dick Groat, American baseball player
● 1932 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
● 1933 - Tito Francona, American baseball player
● 1936 - C. K. Williams, American poet
● 1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress
● 1937 - Michael Wilson, Canadian politician
● 1940 - Delbert McClinton, American musician
● 1943 - Marlène Jobert, French actress
● 1943 - Clark Graebner, American tennis player
● 1944 - Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes)
● 1944 - Linda Gary, American voice actress (d. 1995)
● 1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
● 1946 - Frederick Elmes, American cinematographer
● 1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
● 1950 - Charles Frazier, American author
● 1950 - Markie Post, American actress
● 1951 - Traian Băsescu, President of Romania
● 1951 - Cosey Fanni Tutti, English performance artist (Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey)
● 1953 - Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
● 1953 - Jacques Villeneuve (elder), Canadian racing driver
● 1953 - Dr. Marvel Williamson, American educator
● 1954 - Chris Difford, English musician and songwriter
● 1955 - Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
● 1956 - Jordan Rudess, American musician (Dream Theater)
● 1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist (The Pretenders) (d. 1982)
● 1960 - Marc Awodey, American artist and writer
● 1960 - Frl. Menke, German pop singer of the Neue Deutsche Welle
● 1961 - Kathy Griffin, American comedian
● 1961 - Daron Hagen, American composer
● 1961 - Edward Knight, American composer
● 1961 - Ralph Macchio, American actor
● 1961 - Les Sampou, American musician
● 1961 - Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer
● 1962 - Jeff Probst, American television host
● 1963 - Marc Déry, Québécois singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
● 1963 - Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
● 1963 - Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey coach
● 1965 - Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
● 1965 - Tomoaki Ishizuka "Pata", Japanese musician
● 1965 - Wayne Static, American musician (Static-X)
● 1965 - Jeff Scott Soto, American musician (Yngwie Malmsteen Band, Journey)
● 1967 - Eric Karros, American baseball player
● 1968 - Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1969 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor
● 1969 - Sean "Diddy" Combs, American rapper
● 1972 - Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
● 1972 - Tabassum Hashmi, Indian actress
● 1974 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
● 1975 - Eric Fichaud, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1975 - Eduard Kokcharov, Russian handball player
● 1975 - Curtis Stone, Australian chef and television personality
● 1975 - Heather Tom, American actress
● 1976 - Bruno Junqueira, Brazilian racing driver
● 1976 - Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
● 1977 - Larry Bigbie, American baseball player
● 1977 - So Ji-sub, South Korean swimmer, model and actor
● 1978 - Carmen Cali, American baseball player
● 1978 - John Grabow, American baseball player
● 1979 - Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress
● 1979 - Jesse Camp, former MTV veejay
● 1980 - Marcy Rylan, American actress
● 1980 - Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer
● 1980 - Richard Owens, American football player
● 1980 - Sabrina Colie, Jamaican Actress
● 1982 - Devin Hester, American football player
● 1985 - Marcell Jansen, German footballer
● 1986 - Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer and actress
● 1986 - Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver
● 1990 - Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Canadian actor
DEATHS
● 1254 - John III Ducas Vatatzes, Emperor of the Nicaea (b. circa 1192).
● 1411 - Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
● 1652 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
● 1669 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
● 1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
● 1702 - John Benbow, English admiral (b. 1653)
● 1704 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
● 1781 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
● 1801 - William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1712)
● 1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
● 1856 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
● 1893 - Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
● 1906 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
● 1918 - Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
● 1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
● 1924 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
● 1928 - Arnold Rothstein, American gambler (b. 1882)
● 1930 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877)
● 1950 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
● 1955 - Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
● 1957 - Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
● 1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
● 1974 - Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
● 1980 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
● 1982 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
● 1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
● 1987 - Shaike Ofir, Israeli actor (b. 1929)
● 1994 - Fred Sonic Smith, American guitar player MC5 (b. 1949)
● 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli politician; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1922)
● 1995 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
● 1997 - H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (b. 1924)
● 1999 - Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1958)
● 2003 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (b. 1923)
● 2003 - Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
● 2005 - Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
● 2005 - Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
● 2006 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (b. 1908)
● 2006 - Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
● 2007 - Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Birrstan
● St. Charles Borromeo
● St. Clarus
● St. Emeric
● St. Joannicus
● St. Modesta
● Sts. Nicander and Hermas
● Sts. Philologus and Patrobas
● St. Pierius
● St. Vitalis
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 19 (Civil Date: November 4)
● Righteous John, Wonderworker of Kronstadt.
● Prophet Joel.
● Martyr Varus, and with him Six Monk martyrs.
● Blessed Cleopatra and her son John, in Egypt.
● St. John, abbot of Rila in Bulgaria.
● Hieromartyr Sadoc (Sadoth), Bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him.
● St. Leontius the Philosopher of St. Sabbas' Monastery.
● Blessed Prochorus of Pechenga.
● New Martyr Priest Alexis Stavrosky (1918).
● Greek Calendar:
● Hieromartyr Felix and Deacon Eusebius.
● Commemoration of the Glorification of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia (1982).
● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qudrat (Power) - First day of the 13th month of the Bahá'í calendar
● Feast of Our Lady of Kazan in Russian Orthodox Church
● Roman festivals - start of the Ludi Plebeii
● Russia - Day of People's Unity (or National Unity Day), coincides with the feast of the Theotokos of Kazan.
● Panama's Flag Day
● Italy - celebration of victory in World War I, the date of the Armed Forces
● Tonga's National Day, from 2006.
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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