Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Justice "Charity begins at home and justice begins next door." — Charles Dickens
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On From Their Mouth to God's Ear "I'm a firm believer in feeding people their own words back to them, when it's appropriate." — Trent Lott (R-MS).
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I understand it's a nice lifestyle. I love golf, and I understand they have a lot of golf courses." — Chic Hecht, senator from Nevada, on why he should be appointed ambassador to the Bahamas
{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
Skyscape with Comet Holmes
Credit & Copyright: Dave Kodama
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EVENTS
● 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
● 1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicated King Peter III of Aragon.
● 1313 - Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
● 1492 - Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
● 1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
● 1520 - Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles.
● 1688 - The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
● 1697 - Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
● 1729 - Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.
● 1731 - Birth of American rights activist Benjamin Bannekar.
● 1764 - Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
● 1771 - Birth of utopian Robert Dale Owen, Glasgow, Scotland. American social reformer and politician. Son of the English reformer Robert Owen, he was steeped in his father's socialist philosophy while growing up at New Lanark in Scotland.
● 1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
● 1813 - Andrew Jackson destroys Native village of Talladega, killing over 500.
● 1848 - Robert Blum, German revolutionary, executed in Vienna
● 1851 - Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
● 1855 - Coast and Siletz Indian Reservations established in Oregon.
● 1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan was removed.
● 1872 - One year, one month, and one day after the "Great Chicago Fire," a fire in Boston razes more than 600 buildings, causing $75 million worth of damage.
● 1875 - Indian Bureau reports that Plains Indians outside reservations (i.e., still unconquered) are "well-fed...lofty and independent in their attitudes, and are a threat to the reservation system."
● 1880 - French teacher/anarchist Louise Michel, freed by amnesty after nine years in prison, is met in Gare Saint-Lazare by an enormous crowd which cheers her with cries of "Vive Louise Michel, vive la Commune, A bas les assassins!"
● 1887 - The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
● 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
● 1892 - Deutsche Friedensgesellsets (Peace Society) founded by Alfred Hermann Fried, Berlin, Germany.
● 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).
● 1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
● 1917 - Stalin enters the provisional government of USSR.
● 1917 - Forty-one suffrage pickets arrested in front of White House.
● 1918 - Berlin workers march on Reichstag during revolution. Philip Scheidermann declares the German Republic.
● 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
● 1921 - Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
● 1923 - In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
● 1925 - Argentina - Perez Millan (assassin of anarchist Kurt Gustav Wilckens), is killed in an asylum in Buenos Aires. Boris Vladimirovitch, doctor and biologist doing time for an "expropriation," feigned madness so as to be transferred to Millan's asylum. Unable to get close enough (Millan "was protected"), another internee killed him.
● 1932 - Switzerland - Army opens fire on crowd where thousands of are gathered for anti-fascist demonstration, killing 13 and wounding a hundred others. {This belies the concept of Swiss neutrality during WWII.}
● 1933 - Two hundred assembly-line workers at Nash automobile in Kenosha, Wisconsin, walk out to protest new piece rates. In response, owner Charles Nash locks out all 3,000 workers at his Kenosha and Racine plants. Workers at both the Racine plant and Milwaukee's Seaman Body are members of new federal labor unions, and support the Kenosha workers; when the Kenosha lockout ends, both Nash plants ask for a 20% raise and strict seniority rules. In three months, Racine plant workers strike, idling 1,200 workers. Seaman Body and the Kenosha local follow, taking out 1,800 in Milwaukee and 1,600 in Kenosha. After eight weeks of federal mediation, all workers receive raises of up to 17 percent, and unions at each plant win sole bargaining rights.
● 1935 - John L. Lewis forms the Council of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
● 1937 - Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
● 1938 - Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass," a night of Nazi terror against Jews that marks the beginning of the Holocaust with the killing of 91 Jews and the deportation of 30,000 to concentration camps.
● 1953 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies.
● 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
● 1955 - Two whites recently acquitted of the murder of Emmet Till escape a kidnap indictment as well when they admit abducting the black youth, but solemnly swore they let him go unharmed.
● 1960 - Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post — quitting a month later to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
● 1963 - At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. A three-train disaster in Yokohama, also in Japan, kills more than 160 people.
● 1965 - Roger Allen La Porte, Catholic Worker, immolates self in front of U.N. to protest Vietnam War.
● 1965 - Northeast power grid fails, blacking out power for over 30 million people on Eastern Seaboard of U.S.
● 1967 - First issue of rock oriented magazine "Rolling Stone," which includes a free "roach clip," is published in San Francisco.
● 1967 - Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
● 1968 - "Rock and roll music contributes to both the usage of drugs and the high VD rate among listed men in the army today," a U.S. Army captain tells "Rolling Stone."
● 1969 - Seventy-eight Indians from 20 tribes seize Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, offering to buy the island from the federal government for $24 worth of beads. Occupied for 19 months.
● 1970 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
● 1971 - John List, an accountant from Westfield, New Jersey murders his mother, wife and three children. He then hides under a new identity for 18 years.
● 1979 - Computer error causes six-minute "nuclear war alert." U.S. Air Defense Command computer reports that Russia is attacking.
● 1984 - U.S. peace activists sail shrimp boat into Port of Corinto to confront U.S. warships threatening Nicaragua.
● 1985 - Garry Kasparov becomes the youngest world chess champion by beating Anatoly Karpov
● 1989 - Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall.
● 1990 - New democratic constitution issued in Nepal.
● 1990 - Mary Robinson elected Ireland's first woman President and the first from the Labour Party.
● 1992 - Anti-racist protests held in thirty Italian cities.
● 1993 - The Old Bridge, symbol of unity since 1567, destroyed by shellfire, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
● 1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
● 1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
● 1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining offences.
● 1999 - TAESA Flight 725, went down a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident
● 2001 - About 1,500 Thai farmers, unionists, and HIV/AIDS activists march on the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, demanding that U.S.-based corporations and the WTO stop interfering in Thai agriculture and patenting indigenous life and drugs.
● 2002 - Somewhere between 450,000 and a million European protesters (estimates varied) descend upon Florence, Italy during a European summit meeting to protest the threatened U.S. invasion of Iraq.
● 2003 - During the holy month of Ramadan, a suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
● 2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
● 2005 - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 56 people.
● 2005 - Muriel Degauque becomes the first Belgian female suicide bomber, wounding one in Iraq.
BIRTHS
● 1414 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
● 1522 - Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
● 1664 - Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
● 1717 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist (d. 1768)
● 1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
● 1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist (d. 1806)
● 1732 - Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
● 1802 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
● 1810 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
● 1818 (N.S.) - Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
● 1825 - A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
● 1832 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
● 1840 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
● 1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
● 1853 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
● 1869 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
● 1872 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
● 1873 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
● 1874 - Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
● 1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d. 1959)
● 1877 - Allama Iqbal, Indian National poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
● 1879 - Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
● 1880 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designer of the red telephone box (d. 1960)
● 1883 - Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
● 1885 (N.S.) - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
● 1885 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
● 1885 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
● 1885 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
● 1886 - S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
● 1886 - Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
● 1889 - Jean Monnet, French internationalist (d. 1979)
● 1895 - Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
● 1897 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
● 1902 - Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
● 1904 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
● 1905 - Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
● 1906 - Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996)
● 1911 - Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
● 1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
● 1915 - André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
● 1915 - Sargent Shriver, American politician
● 1918 - Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
● 1918 - Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
● 1918 - Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
● 1921 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
● 1921 - Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano
● 1922 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
● 1922 - Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
● 1923 - Alice Coachman, American athlete
● 1923 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (d. 1965)
● 1925 - Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
● 1928 - Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
● 1929 - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate
● 1929 - Marc Favreau, Quebec humorist (d. 2005)
● 1931 - Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
● 1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
● 1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
● 1935 - Bob Gibson, American baseball player
● 1936 - Daniel Robert Graham, American politician
● 1936 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
● 1936 - Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
● 1937 - Roger McGough, English poet
● 1937 - Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
● 1939 - Paul Cameron, American psychologist
● 1941 - Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
● 1942 - Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
● 1947 - Robert David Hall, American actor
● 1948 - Michel Pagliaro, Quebec singer
● 1948 - Bille August, Danish film and television director
● 1948 - Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician
● 1951 - Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder
● 1953 - Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
● 1954 - Dennis Stratton, British musician, (Iron Maiden, Praying Mantis)
● 1955 - Bob Nault, French Canadian politician
● 1955 - Karen Dotrice, British actress
● 1955 - Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
● 1959 - Thomas Quasthoff, German singer
● 1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor
● 1959 - Nick Hamilton, American wrestling referee
● 1959 - Sito Pons, Spanish motorbike racer
● 1961 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
● 1963 - Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
● 1964 - Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
● 1965 - Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
● 1965 - Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress
● 1967 - Ricky Otto, English footballer
● 1968 - Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
● 1969 - Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
● 1969 - Sandy Denton, American musician ("Pepa" of Salt-N-Pepa)
● 1970 - Chris Jericho, Canadian wrestler
● 1970 - Susan Tedeschi, American musician
● 1970 - Scarface, American rapper
● 1970 - Domino (Hip Hop Producer), American Hip Hop Producer
● 1971 - David Duval, American golfer
● 1971 - Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
● 1971 - Big Punisher, real name Christopher Rios, American rapper (d. 2000)
● 1972 - Corin Tucker, American musician (Sleater-Kinney)
● 1972 - Doug Russell, American radio personality
● 1972 - Eric Dane, American actor
● 1973 - Nick Lachey, American singer
● 1973 - Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
● 1973 - Alyson Court, Canadian actress
● 1974 - Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
● 1974 - Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
● 1974 - Uncle Kracker, American singer and rapper
● 1978 - Steven Lopez, American taekwondo martial artist
● 1978 - Todd Self, American baseball player
● 1978 - Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
● 1979 - Adam Dunn, American baseball player
● 1979 - Caroline Flack, British television presenter
● 1979 - Martin Taylor, English footballer
● 1980 - Dominique Maltais, Quebec snowboarder
● 1980 - James Harper, English footballer
● 1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer
● 1984 - Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
● 1984 - Chris Wright, co-founder of Snap Family Skateboard Company
● 1984 - SE7EN, South Korean singer
● 1984 - Roldán Rodríguez, Spanish racing driver
● 1986 - Eleni Andriola, Greek gymnast
● 1988 - Nikki Blonsky, American actress
● 1993 - Maya Ritter, Canadian actress
DEATHS
● 959 - Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
● 1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
● 1208 - Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
● 1504 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
● 1623 - William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
● 1641 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
● 1699 - Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
● 1766 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
● 1770 - John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
● 1778 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
● 1809 - Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
● 1848 - Robert Blum, German politician (b. 1810)
● 1881 - Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
● 1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, last known Jack the Ripper victim.
● 1911 - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
● 1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
● 1919 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
● 1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
● 1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
● 1938 - Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
● 1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
● 1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
● 1942 - Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
● 1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
● 1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
● 1952 - Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
● 1952 - Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
● 1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
● 1953 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
● 1957 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
● 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
● 1971 - Maude Fealy, American actor (b. 1881)
● 1977 - Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898)
● 1980 - Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
● 1988 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
● 1988 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and Watergate felon(b. 1913)
● 1991 - Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
● 1997 - Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
● 1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
● 2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
● 2001 - Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
● 2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist
● 2002 - Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
● 2003 - Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
● 2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
● 2003 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
● 2004 - Iris Chang, American author (b. 1968)
● 2005 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
● 2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
● 2006 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral of the Pope
● St. Agrippinus
● St. Alexander
● St. Benignus
● Sts. Eustolia & Soprata
● St. Orestes
● St. Pabo
● St. Theodore Tyro
● St. Ursinus
● St. Vitonus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 24 (Civil Date: November 9)
● Martyr Arethas and those with him, including Martyr Syncletica and her two daughters.
● Blessed Elesbaan, king of Ethiopia.
● St. Athanasius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● St. Arethas, recluse of the Pskov Caves.
● St. Sisoes, Schemamonk of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Theophilus the Silent of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Senoch, abbot of Tours (Gaul).
● New Martyr Bishop Lawrence of Balakin (1918).
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "The Joy of All Who Sorrow".
● (AkOL) Repose of Blessed Elder Zosimas (Verkhovsky) (1833).
● Cambodia - Independence Day (1953)
● Europe - Inventor's Day - in honor of Hedy Lamarr's birthday
● Germany - November 9th is often called Germany's Schicksalstag (day of fate) due to the events of 1848, 1918, 1923, 1938, and 1989.
● Pakistan - Allama Iqbal Day (1877)
● United States - World Freedom Day, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
● International - International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism, to commemorate the pogrom against the Jews, started by Nazis on this day (Kristallnacht), 1938.
● International - Diwali
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING FIVE 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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