Day of the week in surrounding years:
1980,1986,. . . .,1997,2003—MON—2008
1981,1987,1992,1998,. . . .—TUE—2009
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—WED—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—THU—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—FRI—. . . .
1984,1990,. . . .,2001,2007—SAT—2012
1985,1991,1996,2002,. . . .—SUN—2013
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Patriot Act "Ordinary Americans should not have to worry that the FBI is rifling through their medical records, seizing their personal papers, or forcing charities and advocacy groups to divulge membership lists." — Ann Beeson
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Cracks in the Melting Pot "[P]robably nothing." — Jeb Bush in reply to a question during his losing 1994 campaign for Florida governor. He was asked what he would do for blacks if he won the election. Joy-Ann Reid, "When Jeb Bush Speaks, people cringe," salon.com, 10-5-02
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff." — William Scott, senator from Virginia, when he was told about missile silos
{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
M74: The Perfect Spiral
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA)- ESA / Hubble Collaboration Acknowledgment: R. Chandar (Univ. Toledo) and J. Miller (Univ. Michigan)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
● 1167 - The Lombard League is formed in northern Italy.
● 1420 - Henry V of England enters Paris.
● 1640 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king.
● 1768 - The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
● 1821 - The first constitution of Costa Rica is issued.
● 1822 - Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil.
● 1824 - U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).
● 1826 - French philhellene Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
● 1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.
● 1860 - Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.
● 1864 - In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
● 1867 - Johannes Brahms presents his Ein deutsches Requiem in Austria.
● 1884 - American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy.
● 1891 - International Peace Bureau launched, Berne, Switzerland.
● 1893 - Birth of Ernst Toller, Samotschin, Germany (now Szamocin, Poland). Playwright, poet, pacifist, Expressionist, anarchist, Munich "Soviet" leader; forced to flee Nazi Germany, eventually commits suicide as a result.
● 1899 - Birth of Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society.
● 1904 - Birth of W.A. "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers (UMW) president.
● 1913 - Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the first Balkan war, is annexed by Greece.
● 1913 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
● 1918 - Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
● 1918 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
● 1918 - Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28). National Council of Romanians in Banat had voted for union with the Kingdom of Romania. National Council of Romanians in Transylvania had voted for union with the Kingdom of Romania.
● 1919 - Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
● 1925 - Joseph Jean Marie Tortelier dies. Carpenter, anarcho-syndicalist, ardent proponent and speaker for the general strike, organized "The League of Antipatriots" (with Emile Bidault), to fight militarism, the wars it leads to, along with its corollary, patriotism. Also organized the "League of Antiproprietaires."
● 1925 - World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
● 1934 - In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, is shot dead at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolayev.
● 1935 - Birth of Woody Allen.
● 1937 - Marijuana is made illegal in the United States.
● 1941 - World War II: Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs the Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
● 1942 - First transport from Norway arrives at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland.
● 1946 - Oakland general strike begins, Over one hundred thousand walk off jobs in East Bay for six days.
● 1952 - The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
● 1955 - American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the successful year-long bus boycott by blacks.
● 1956 - Prisoners for Peace Day first observed.
● 1958 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
● 1958 - The Our Lady of the Angels School Fire in Chicago, Illinois kills 92 children and three nuns.
● 1959 - Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed , which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent.
● 1961 - The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
● 1963 - Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
● 1964 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
● 1965 - The Border Security Force is formed in India as a special force to guard the borders.
● 1966 - Comedian Dick Gregory is convicted in Olympia, Wash. for his participation in Native American fishing rights protests.
● 1966 - Seattle police shoot and kill a black youth suspected of car theft.
● 1968 - U.S. C-123 develops engine trouble, lightens its load by spraying a full tank of defoliants over two South Vietnamese towns, causing "deaths and widespread birth defects."
● 1969 - First draft lottery held to send conscriptees off to Vietnam War more "fairly." First held since World War II.
● 1970 - Five thousand protest South Vietnamese Vice President Ky's visit to San Francisco.
● 1971 - Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
● 1971 - Indian Army occupies part of Kashmir.
● 1973 - Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.
● 1974 - TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on-board.
● 1976 - The Sex Pistols, following their first single, "Anarchy in the U.K.," appear on British TV's "Today Show," a replacement for Queen. Interviewer Bill Grundy taunts them for their "nasty" reputation, provokes bass player Glenn Matlock to say "fuck" on the air. In the resulting uproar, they are banned from all but five cities of their first U.K. tour. By next month, no club or concert hall in Great Britain will book them.
● 1981 - A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on-board.
● 1982 - At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
● 1987 - James Baldwin dies at his home in southern France. Gay African American novelist, civil rights activist.
● 1987 - NASA announces the names of four companies that have been awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom.
● 1988 - Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
● 1988 - World AIDS Day founded by World Health Organization, Geneva.
● 1989 - Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.
● 1989 - Right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed forces Movement (RAM) attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
● 1990 - Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed.
● 1991 - Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
● 1994 - While recovering from gunshot wounds suffered the day before, Tupac Shakur is convicted on charges of sexually abusing a woman in a hotel room.
● 1997 - A silent march of women, protesting conscription, is met by a police attack and the arrest of 37 women. Khartoum, Sudan.
● 1997 - Heath High School shooting: Michael Carneal opens fire on a group of his fellow students at Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky, killing three and wounding five.
● 1998 - Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company.
● 2001 - Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA’s purchase by American Airlines.
● 2001 - In the largest such protest since the fall of Hitler, 4,000 neo-Nazis rally in Berlin, while police battle with anti-racist counter-protesters.
BIRTHS
● 1081 - Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
● 1083 - Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (d. 1153)
● 1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
● 1525 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
● 1580 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
● 1690 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)
● 1716 - Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
● 1743 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. 1817)
● 1761 - Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850)
● 1766 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
● 1792 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
● 1844 - Alexandra of Denmark, Danish Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1925)
● 1869 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
● 1873 - Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924)
● 1884 - Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
● 1886 - Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
● 1895 - Henry Williamson, English author (d. 1977)
● 1896 - Georgy Zhukov, Russian general & Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
● 1901 - Ilona Feher, Hungarian-Jewish violinist (d. 1988)
● 1905 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (d. 1994)
● 1908 - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (d. 1984)
● 1910 - Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d. 2004)
● 1911 - Walter Alston, American baseball manager (d. 1984)
● 1911 - Calvin Griffith, Canadian-born baseball executive (d. 1999)
● 1912 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986)
● 1913 - Mary Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
● 1917 - Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager
● 1922 - Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979)
● 1922 - Paul Picerni, American actor
● 1923 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral and CIA director
● 1923 - Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001)
● 1925 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
● 1926 - Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
● 1928 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
● 1930 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
● 1931 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (d. 1986)
● 1931 - Jim Nesbitt, singer (d. 2007)
● 1932 - Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
● 1933 - Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoon artist (d. 1996)
● 1934 - Billy Paul, American singer
● 1935 - Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
● 1935 - Lou Rawls, American singer (d. 2006)
● 1937 - Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2005)
● 1937 - Chuck Low, American actor
● 1937 - Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia
● 1938 - Sandy Nelson, American drummer
● 1939 - Lee Trevino, American golfer
● 1940 - Richard Pryor, American actor, comedian (d. 2005)
● 1942 - John Crowley, American author
● 1944 - Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
● 1944 - Eric Bloom, American musician (Blue Öyster Cult)
● 1944 - John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors)
● 1944 - Tahar Ben Jelloun, French writer of Moroccan origin
● 1944 - Daniel Pennac, French writer born in Morocco
● 1945 - Bette Midler, American actress
● 1946 - Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer
● 1947 - Alain Bashung, French singer
● 1948 - George Foster, American baseball player
● 1948 - Tom Wright, English bishop and theologian
● 1949 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
● 1949 - Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and presidential candidate
● 1950 - Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer
● 1951 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (d. 1987)
● 1951 - Treat Williams, American actor
● 1954 - Bob Goen, American television host
● 1954 - Annette Haven, American pornographic actress
● 1955 - Mark Thompson, American disc jockey and actor
● 1955 - Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress
● 1958 - Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and coach
● 1958 - Charlene Tilton, American actress
● 1959 - Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician
● 1959 - Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1960 - Carol Alt, American supermodel
● 1961 - Jeremy Northam, English actor
● 1961 - Armin Meiwes, German cannibal
● 1962 - Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater
● 1962 - Joe Quesada, American comic book writer and artist, and editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics
● 1963 - Marco Greco, Brazilian racing driver
● 1963 - Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer
● 1963 - Nathalie Lambert, Quebec short track speed skater
● 1964 - Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
● 1966 - Katherine LaNasa, American actress
● 1966 - Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player
● 1967 - Nestor Carbonell, American actor
● 1970 - Jouko Ahola, Finnish strongman
● 1970 - Kirk Rueter, American baseball player
● 1970 - Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian
● 1971 - Emily Mortimer, English actress
● 1971 - Stephanie Finochio, American professional wrestler
● 1971 - Mika Pohjola, Finnish jazz pianist and composer
● 1971 - Dolgorsuren Serjbudee, Mongolian professional wrestler
● 1971 - Peter Van de Veire, Belgian radio-presenter
● 1972 - Norbert Wójtowicz, Polish historian and theologian
● 1973 - Kate Rusby, English folk singer
● 1974 - Costinha, Portuguese footballer
● 1974 - David Ludwig, American composer
● 1975 - Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer
● 1976 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
● 1977 - Brad Delson, American guitarist (Linkin Park)
● 1977 - Jared Fogle, American Subway spokesperson
● 1980 - Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer
● 1982 - Lloyd Doyley, English footballer
● 1987 - she was born
● 2001 - Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
DEATHS
● 1135 - Henry I of England
● 1241 - Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
● 1377 - King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
● 1433 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
● 1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378)
● 1521 - Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
● 1530 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)
● 1580 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
● 1581 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (martyred) (b. 1540)
● 1581 - Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)
● 1581 - Alexander Briant, English saint (b. around 1556)
● 1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582)
● 1633 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)
● 1660 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
● 1707 - Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
● 1709 - Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
● 1723 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress
● 1729 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
● 1750 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
● 1755 - Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
● 1767 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)
● 1825 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
● 1830 - Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
● 1865 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
● 1866 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (d. 1790)
● 1916 - Charles de Foucauld, French relgious leader (b. 1858)
● 1923 - Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836)
● 1928 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
● 1934 - Sergei Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886)
● 1943 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)
● 1947 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875)
● 1947 - G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
● 1950 - E. J. Moeran, English composer (b. 1894)
● 1954 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897)
● 1964 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)
● 1968 - Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer (baryton) and composer born in Transylvania (b. 1887)
● 1968 - Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
● 1969 - Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
● 1973 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
● 1975 - Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
● 1975 - Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906)
● 1986 - Lee Dorsey, American R&B singer (b. 1924)
● 1987 - James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
● 1987 - Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (b. 1918)
● 1989 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)
● 1991 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1911)
● 1996 - Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
● 1997 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (b. 1908)
● 1997 - Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
● 1998 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (b. 1902)
● 2002 - Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
● 2003 - Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (b. 1911)
● 2003 - Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)
● 2004 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
● 2006 - Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
● 2006 - Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (McGill University) (b. 1937)
● 2007 - Anton Rodgers, British actor (b. 1933)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adrian
● St. Agericus
● St. Ananias
● St. Ansanus
● St. Candres
● St. Castritian
● St. Constantian
● Sts. Diodorus & Marianus
● St. Edmund Campion
● St. Eligius
● St. Evasius
● St. Grwst
● St. Leontius
● St. Lucius
● St. Natalia of Nicomedia
● St. Olympiades
● St. Ursicinus
● Bl. Alexander Briant
● Bl. John Beche
● Bl. Richard Langley
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 18 (Civil Date: December 1)
● Nativity Fast.
● Martyr Platon of Ancyra.
● Martyr Romanus the Deacon of Caesarea.
● Martyr Romanus.
● St. Barulas the Youth of Antioch.
● Martyrs Zacchaeus the Deacon and Alphaeus of Caesaria in Palestine.
● New Martyrs Anastasius of Epirus and Daniel.
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 19 (Civil Date: December 1)
● Nativity Fast.
● Prophet Obadiah (Abdias).
● Martyr Barlaam of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
● St. Barlaam and St. Ioasaph, prince of India, and St. Abenner the king, father of St. Ioasaph.
● Services combined.
● Martyr Azes of Isauria and with him 150 soldiers.
● Martyr Heliodorus in Pamphylia.
● St. Barlaam, abbot of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Hilarion, monk, Wonderworker of Thessalonica.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Agapius.
● Martyrs Anthimus, Thalalaeus, Christopher, Euphemia and her children.
● Martyr Pancharius.
● Repose of Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow (1867).
● Ancient Latvia - Barbes Diena observed
● Angola's Pioneers' Day
● Australia - First day of Summer
● Costa Rica - Military Abolition Day
● Portugal - Restoration of Independence Day
● Romania - The National Day of Romania, Union of Transylvania with Romania
● World AIDS Day
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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