Day of the week in surrounding years:
1979,1984,1990,. . . .,2001—MON—2007
. . . .,1985,1991,1996,2002—TUE—. . . .
1980,1986,. . . .,1997,2003—WED—2008
1981,1987,1992,1998,. . . .—THU—2009
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—FRI—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—SAT—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—SUN—. . . .
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Punishment "Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect—so what the hell do they do?" — Jerry Brown {The answer of course is keep prison guards employed.—APL}
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Respecting Our Elders ". . . If they [Democratic Hispanic members of the U.S. House] have a defense for their actions, they should deliver it to the kids in uniform that could one day have their—shot oo to protect these ninnies! Even Tom Daschle, Senate leader, committed to President Bush today . . . he's just waiting for doddering old Bob Byrd, the senile senator from West Virginia, to shut up and sit down so the senate can vote!" — E-mail sent by a White House intern to Hispanic leaders. A White House spokesman claimed it was a mistake. Bill McAllister, "White House e-mail calls Byrd 'Senile.' Mistakenly sent message also rips Hispanic leaders," Charleston Daily Mail, 10-12-02.—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 "The caribou love it [the Alaska pipeline]. They rub against it and they have babies. There are more caribou in Alaska than you can shake a stick at." — George H. W. Bush
{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
A Jet from the Sun
Credit & Copyright: Hinode, JAXA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
● 1508 - The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
● 1520 - Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
● 1541 - Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
● 1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
● 1787 - Birth of Thomas H. Gallaudet, pioneer of educating the deaf.
● 1805 - Birth of abolitionist, proto-feminist, indigenous rights agitator William Lloyd Garrison.
● 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
● 1836 - Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
● 1851 - Settlers begin 21-day cut to fill the brig Leonesa with 30- foot-long logs, beginning of the clearcut industry in Seattle.
● 1861 - American Civil War: the Confederate States of America accepts a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Major General William T. Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia.
● 1865 - Birth of August Spies, one of the Haymarket anarchists, victim of anti-anarchist repression.
● 1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
● 1869 - Wyoming is first U.S. territory to grant women the right to vote.
● 1896 - Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, dies.
● 1898 - In France, the Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War and granting the U.S. its first overseas empire. Spain cedes the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the U.S. The U.S. granted the Philippines its independence in 1948, but retains the other two "territories."
● 1901 - The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The awards were devised by Alfred Nobel, who regretted the damage he had done mankind through his inventions of dynamite and other explosives.
● 1902 - Birth of Vito Marcantonio, fighter for Puerto Rican independence and American Labor Party Congressman.
● 1902 - Elie Ducommun awarded Nobel Peace Prize for creating International Peace Bureau.
● 1902 - Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
● 1906 - IWW sponsors first sit-down strike in U.S., at a General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York.
● 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind.
● 1907 - The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clashed with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
● 1921 - Pacifist and socialist Albert Einstein receives Nobel Prize for Physics.
● 1931 - Jane Addams, founder of Hull House and leader of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, wins Nobel Peace Prize.
● 1932 - Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
● 1935 - The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, was given to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. This award was given to the best college football player east the Mississippi River.
● 1936 - Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs his Instrument of Abdication.
● 1941 - World War II: Battle of the Philippines - Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
● 1941 - World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
● 1945 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists first published.
● 1948 - The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This Day is also International Human Rights Day.
● 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
● 1950 - 42nd national Congress of the Anarchistic Federation Italian held, Ancine, Italy.
● 1950 - Ralph J. Bunche becomes first African American to win Nobel Peace Prize.
● 1961 - Clouds of radioactive steam escape underground nuclear test, closing several New Mexico highways.
● 1961 - SNCC Freedom Rider test of ICC ruling in Albany, Georgia leads to five days of arrests, beginning on this day, of 469-500 students for marching around city hall. Some 350 choose to stay in jail as part of the Albany movement.
● 1962 - Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years.
● 1963 - The United States Air Force's X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled by Robert McNamara.
● 1964 - Martin Luther King, Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
● 1964 - Several whites sprinkle gasoline over a Ferriday, Louisiana shoe shop, and making certain the black man inside had no possible means of escape, set fire to the place. He subsequently dies.
● 1966 - U.S. planes over South Vietnam accidentally drop two 250-pound bombs on U.S. Marine company, killing 16, wounding 11.
● 1967 - The first "commercial" atomic bomb is detonated under the New Mexico desert as part of an experiment in natural gas recovery.
● 1968 - Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
● 1968 - Trappist monk, writer, poet, pacifist Thomas Merton accidentally electrocuted, Bangkok, Thailand. Inspiration to much of the Catholic Worker movement.
● 1974 - Representative Wilbur D. Mills (D-AR) resigns as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the aftermath of the first truly public sex scandal in American politics; in October, Washington, D.C. police stopped Mills' car at the Tidal Basin for driving at night with his lights off, finding him "intoxicated, scratched, and bleeding." While questioning him, Annabel Battistella, a stripper who was known as "Fanne Fox, the Argentine Firecracker," jumped out of his car and leaped into the water.
● 1975 - Fourteen acquitted of "incitement to disaffection" of soldiers over Northern Ireland, Britain.
● 1977 - First 61 of 300 Americans held in Mexican prisons on drug charges released in prisoner exchange.
● 1978 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
● 1980 - Second instance of surrogate motherhood reported (Tennessee).
● 1981 - The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia. {Quite the irony when one considers the main violator is Pakistan along with India.}
● 1983 - Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
● 1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu receives Nobel Peace Prize.
● 1986 - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.
● 1986 - Two police stations firebombed in Paris after an Arab is killed by an off-duty policeman.
● 1989 - Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announced the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement that peacefully changed the second oldest communist country into a democratic society.
● 1996 - Rwandan Genocide: Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.
● 1997 - Twelve arrested at protest of Lockheed-Martin arms exports. Nashua, New Hamp.
● 2006 - One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign.
BIRTHS
● 1394 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
● 1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
● 1588 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
● 1750 - Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)
● 1751 - George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
● 1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
● 1804 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
● 1805 - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
● 1815 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (d. 1852)
● 1820 - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821)
● 1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1877)
● 1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
● 1824 - George MacDonald, British writer and preacher (d. 1905)
● 1827 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
● 1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
● 1851 - Melvil Dewey, American librarian, (d. 1931)
● 1855 - Marios Varvoglis, Greekcomposer of the Modern Era (d. 1967)
● 1870 - Pierre Louÿs, French author (d. 1925)
● 1870 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933)
● 1870 - Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947)
● 1872 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
● 1878 - Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d.1972)
● 1882 - Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)
● 1884 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
● 1886 - Marco Minghetti, Italian statesman (b. 1813)
● 1891 - Sir Harold Alexander, British Army Field Marshal, first Earl of Tunis. (d. 1969)
● 1891 - Nelly Sachs, German-born writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
● 1903 - Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
● 1907 - Rumer Godden (Margaret Rumer Godden), British writer (d. 1998)
● 1907 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
● 1908 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
● 1909 - Hermes Pan, American choreographer and dancer (d. 1990)
● 1911 - Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
● 1912 - Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)
● 1913 - Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
● 1913 - Harry Locke, British character actor (d. 1987)
● 1914 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)
● 1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
● 1918 - Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)
● 1918 - Anatoli Tarasov, Russian hockey coach (d. 1995)
● 1919 - Alexander Courage, American composer
● 1920 - Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002)
● 1920 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
● 1922 - Lucía Hiriart, First Lady of Chile (1974-1990), wife of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet
● 1925 - Carolyn Kizer, American poet
● 1928 - Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972)
● 1933 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)
● 1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
● 1935 - Terry Allcock, Retired English Footballer
● 1938 - Yuri Temirkanov, Russian orchestral conductor
● 1939 - Barry Cunliffe, English university professor
● 1941 - Chad Stuart, British folk singer (Chad and Jeremy)
● 1941 - Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress
● 1941 - Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996)
● 1944 - Steve Renko, American baseball player
● 1946 - Thomas Lux, American poet
● 1947 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
● 1947 - Rəsul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician and chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party.
● 1947 - Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
● 1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
● 1950 - Tom Towles, American actor
● 1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
● 1952 - Clive Anderson, British television host
● 1952 - Susan Dey, American actress
● 1956 - Tim Kurkjian, American baseball writer and analyst for ESPN
● 1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
● 1957 - Prem Rawat, known also as Maharaji
● 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
● 1965 - J Mascis, American musician
● 1966 - Mel Rojas, Major League Baseball pitcher
● 1967 - Harland Williams, Canadian actor
● 1969 - Rob Blake, Canadian hockey player
● 1971 - Brian Nichols, charged with the murder of Rowland W. Barnes and two others on March 11, 2005
● 1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
● 1972 - Dimitri Tikovoi, French-born record producer
● 1972 - Marcos di Palma, Argentine racing driver
● 1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
● 1975 - Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
● 1977 - Lil Fate
● 1978 - Donna Williams, co-founder of Neopets
● 1978 - Summer Phoenix, American actress
● 1978 - Brandon Novak, skateboarder
● 1979 - Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler
● 1980 - Sarah Chang, American violinist
● 1980 - Ledley King, English footballer
● 1980 - Massari, Arab Singer
● 1981 - Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
● 1981 - Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
● 1981 - Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinea swimmer and Commonwealth Games Gold medalist
● 1982 - Tim Deegan, MuchMusic VJ
● 1983 - Patrick Flueger, American actor
● 1983 - Zé Kalanga, Angolan footballer
● 1983 - Davy Hansen, American Conspiracy Theorist
● 1983 - Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
● 1983 - Katrin Siska, Estonian singer
● 1984 - Jayson Paul, American Professional wrestler
● 1985 - T. J. Hensick, American Professional Ice Hockey Player
● 1985 - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer
● 1986 - Matthew Bates, English footballer
● 1986 - Tsukada Ryoichi, Japanese Acrobat and Pop Idol
● 1987 - Gonzalo Higuaín, French footballer of Argentine origins
● 1990 - Giulia Boverio, Italian actress
DEATHS
● 949 - Herman I, Duke of Swabia
● 1041 - Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
● 1198 - Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
● 1508 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
● 1603 - William Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544)
● 1618 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer
● 1626 - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
● 1665 - Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
● 1736 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
● 1831 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
● 1850 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
● 1865 - King Léopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
● 1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
● 1911 - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (b. 1817)
● 1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
● 1920 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)
● 1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, British architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)
● 1936 - Bobby Abel, English test cricketer (b. 1857)
● 1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
● 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first President (b. 1881)
● 1941 - Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915)
● 1944 - John Henry Cound Brunt, Victoria Cross holder (b. 1922)
● 1945 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (b. 1913)
● 1946 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1887)
● 1946 - Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)
● 1951 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (b. 1869)
● 1953 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
● 1958 - Adolfo Camarillo, prominent land owner, horse breeder, and rancher (b.1864)
● 1967 - Otis Redding, American soul singer (b. 1941)
● 1968 - Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
● 1968 - Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886)
● 1968 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (b. 1921)
● 1969 - Carlos Marighella, Brazilian politician
● 1977 - Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (b. 1901)
● 1978 - Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)
● 1979 - Ann Dvorak, American film actress (b. 1912)
● 1982 - Freeman F. Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
● 1986 - Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
● 1985 - Jaime Rivera, Puertorican Electrophysiologist (b.1969)
● 1986 - Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
● 1987 - Jascha Heifetz, Russian-born violinist (b. 1901)
● 1990 - Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector (b. 1898)
● 1991 - Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
● 1991 - Headman Shabalala, South African singer and member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo (b. 1901)
● 1992 - Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
● 1994 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (b. 1905)
● 1994 - Keith Joseph, British politician (b. 1918)
● 1996 - Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
● 1999 - Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
● 1999 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (b. 1922)
● 2000 - Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
● 2001 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
● 2002 - Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (b. 1945)
● 2005 - Eugene J. McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1916)
● 2005 - Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
● 2006 - Augusto Pinochet, military president of Chile (b. 1915)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Sts. Carpophorus & Abundius
● St. Deusdedit
● St. Edmund Genings
● St. Eulalia of Merida
● St. Eustace White
● St. Florentius of Carracedo
● St. Gemellus
● St. Gregory III, Pope
● St. Guitmarus
● St. Hildemar
● St. Julia of Merida
● St. Lucerius
● St. Mennas
● St. Mercurius
● St. Peter Duong
● St. Polydore Plasden
● St. Thomas of Farfa
● Bl. John Mason
● Bl. Peter Tecelano
● Bl. Sebastian Montanol
● Bl. Thomas Somers
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 28 (Civil Date: December 10)
● Nativity Fast.
● Martyr Stephen the New of Nt.
● St. Auxentius.
● Martyrs Basil, Stephen, two Gregories, John, Andrew, Peter, Anna, and many others.
● Martyr Hierenarchus and Seven Women Martyrs at Sebaste.
● Martyrs Timothy and Theodore, bps; Peter, John, Sergius, Theodore and Nicephorus, presbyters; Basil and Thomas, deacons; Hierotheus, Daniel, Chariton, Socrates, Comasius and Eusebius, monks; and Etymasius, at Tiberiopolis.
● Blessed Theodore, Archbishop of Rostov.
● Human Rights Day - United Nations
● Presentation Ceremony of the Nobel Prize
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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