Day of the week in surrounding years:
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—MON—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—TUE—. . . .
1984,1990,. . . .,2001,2007—WED—2012
1985,1991,1996,2002,. . . .—THU—2013
1986,. . . .,1997,2003,2008—FRI—2014
1987,1992,1998,. . . .,2009—SAT—2015
. . . .,1993,1999,2004,2010—SUN—. . . .
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Radical Right "There is no place in our world for an ideology that seeks to close minds, force obedience, and return the world to a paradise that never was." — Tim Berra
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Art of Diplomacy ". . . Donald Rumsfeld: Tim, we said from the outset that there are several terrorist networks that have global reach and that there were several countries that were harboring terrorists that have global reach. We weren't going into Iraq when we were hit on September 11. And the question is: Well, what do you do about terrorist states—Iraq's been a terrorist state for decades—and correctly, I think, that the only way to deal with it is—you can't just hunker down and hope thay won't hit you again. You simply have to take the battle to them." — "Meet The Press," NBC, 11-2-03.—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.} {I note that Rumy doesn't comment about the weapons he personally sold Saddam during those pervious decades.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird." — Sir Boyle Roche was an eighteenth-century Irish member of Parliament noted for malapropisms and other gaffes, Sir Boyle is Hall of Shame member #5
{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
Mars Rover Races to Survive
Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, USGS, UNM, HiRise
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeated Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
● 1098 - First Crusade: Massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan - Crusaders breach the town's walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism.
● 1531 - Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego in Mexico City.
● 1776 - Continental Congress, fearing a British attack on Philadelphia is imminent, votes dictatorial powers to George Washington and flees to Baltimore.
● 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of Ushant - A Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt in HMS Victory, defeats a French fleet.
● 1812 - Death of Sacajaweya, native guide for Lewis and Clark Expedition.
● 1812 - French invasion of Russia comes to an end.
● 1862 - USS Cairo sank on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
● 1870 - Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the first black U.S. congressman.
● 1893 - Beginning of adoption of the French "laws scolorates," adopted following Auguste Vaillant's attack on the Chamber of Deputies, which were designed to repress anarchists throughout the country.
● 1897 - Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, is inaugurated.
● 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
● 1907 - Zulu King Dinizulu surrenders to British.
● 1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
● 1912 - Senator Hiram Johnson (R-CA) denounces U.S. invasion of revolutionary Russia.
● 1914 - The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%.
● 1915 - President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China.
● 1916 - Dr. Ben Reitman is arrested in Cleveland for organizing volunteers to distribute birth control information at an Emma Goldman lecture on birth control. He is later sentenced to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, plus court costs, for the crime.
● 1917 - In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
● 1925 - The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.
● 1929 - After being framed by police, Salvatore Accorsi is acquitted of murder in the death of a policeman.
● 1936 - Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.
● 1937 - Panay incident: Japanese aircraft shell and sink US gunboat Panay on the Yangtze River in China.
● 1939 - Winter War: Battle of Tolvajärvi - Finnish forces defeat those of the Soviet Union in their first major victory of the conflict.
● 1940 - Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield as a result of a German air raid.
● 1941 - World War II: Fifty four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesus Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; Cesar Basa is killed.
● 1941 - World War II: Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan.
● 1941 - World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
● 1942 - A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland kills 100 people.
● 1946 - A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people.
● 1948 - Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
● 1950 - Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services.
● 1956 - Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign.
● 1958 - Rev. Maurice McCrackin sentenced to six months in jail for refusing to provide subpoenaed financial documents relating to his war tax resistance. Cincinnati, Ohio.
● 1963 - Kenya gains independence from Britain (National Day).
● 1964 - Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta became the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
● 1964 - Solidarity Bookstore opens, Chicago, Illinois, distributing anarchist, surrealist, Wobbly, and libertarian socialist literature to the nation.
● 1969 - Bomb explodes, Banque Nationale d'Agriculture, Milan, Italy. Eighteen die, many injured. Blamed on the Red Brigades, the explosion triggers repression against the autonomy movement and anarchists. Authorities later admit the bombing was the work of fascists.
● 1969 - Strategia della tensione: Piazza Fontana bombing - The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
● 1973 - Women members of United Steelworkers of America (Local 1066) protest sex discrimination, Gary, Indiana.
● 1979 - Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.
● 1979 - NATO decides to deploy cruise and Pershing missiles across Europe. Annual protests follow.
● 1979 - Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq conferred Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
● 1979 - Rhodesia changes its name to Zimbabwe.
● 1982 - Women's peace protest at Greenham Common - 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence.
● 1983 - Seventy people arrested in Boston outside a hotel where a "New Trends in Missiles" trade conference is being held. Inside the hotel, over 1,000 cockroaches are let loose to symbolize the likely survivors of nuclear war.
● 1983 - Takoma Park, Maryland becomes first U.S. city to announce refusal to do business with nuclear weapon manufacturers.
● 1984 - Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya become the third president of Mauritania after coup d'etat against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the later was attending a summit. Taya was ousted in March 2005 by Ely Ould Mohamed Vall in another coup.
● 1985 - Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland killing 256, including 248 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.
● 1986 - Plowshares activists disarm Pershing missile launcher, West Germany.
● 1988 - Clapham Junction rail crash killed 35 and injured 100's after two collisions of three commuter trains. One of the worst train crashes in Britain.
● 1991 - First web site in the U.S. goes up, in a system called SLAC used by high-energy physicists.
● 1991 - Russian Federation gains independance from the USSR.
● 2000 - The United States Supreme Court released its decision in Bush v. Gore {and the coup was complete}
● 2006 - Peugeot produce their last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry.
BIRTHS
● 1298 - Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
● 1418 - Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)
● 1574 - Anne of Denmark, queen consort of James I of England (d. 1619)
● 1610 - Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
● 1659 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739)
● 1712 - Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (d. 1780)
● 1724 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (d. 1816)
● 1745 - John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1829)
● 1779 - Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (d. 1865)
● 1783 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)
● 1786 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
● 1791 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (d. 1847)
● 1799 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (d. 1852)
● 1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist (d. 1879)
● 1806 - Stand Watie, American Confederate general (d. 1871)
● 1821 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
● 1845 - Bruce Price, American architect (d. 1903)
● 1849 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1920)
● 1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)
● 1864 - Paul Elmer More, American essayist (d. 1937)
● 1866 - Alfred Werner, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
● 1870 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil baron (d. 1912)
● 1875 - Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (d. 1953)
● 1876 - Alvin Kraenzlein, Olympic gold medalist (d. 1928)
● 1887 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974)
● 1892 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Austro-Hungarian-born rocket engineer (d. 1929)
● 1893 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (d. 1973)
● 1900 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
● 1902 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (d. 2003)
● 1903 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer (d. 1976)
● 1903 - Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)
● 1904 - Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor and socialite (d. 1981)
● 1905 - Mànes Sperber, Austro-Hungarian-born writer (d. 1984)
● 1907 - Roy Douglas, British composer and orchestrator
● 1909 - Karen Morley, American actress (d. 2003)
● 1914 - Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), British author (d. 2000)
● 1915 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
● 1918 - Joe Williams, American singer (d. 1999)
● 1919 - Olivia Barclay, British astrologer (d. 2001)
● 1919 - Dan DeCarlo, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
● 1920 - Fred Kida, American comics artist
● 1923 - Bob Barker, American television game show host
● 1923 - Ken Kavanagh, Australian racing driver
● 1924 - Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City
● 1925 - Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer
● 1925 - Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (d. 2000)
● 1927 - Honor Blackman, British actress
● 1927 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990)
● 1928 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet-born Kyrgyz writer
● 1929 - John Osborne, British dramatist (d. 1994)
● 1929 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
● 1930 - Bill Beutel, American Journalist (d. 2006)
● 1931 - Lionel Blair, British actor and choreographer
● 1932 - Bob Pettit, American basketball player
● 1934 - Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico
● 1938 - Connie Francis, American singer
● 1940 - Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
● 1940 - Dionne Warwick, American singer
● 1943 - Dickey Betts, American musician (The Allman Brothers)
● 1943 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (d. 1999)
● 1944 - Kenneth Cranham, Scottish born actor
● 1944 - Jean Doré, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal
● 1946 - Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian 2 time Formula 1 World Champion
● 1946 - Paula Wagner, American film executive
● 1948 - Tom Wilkinson, English actor
● 1949 - Rajnikanth, Indian(Tamil) actor also known as the Super Star of Indian Cinema
● 1949 - Bill Nighy, English actor
● 1950 - Billy Smith, National Hockey League goaltender
● 1952 - Harbance Singh (Herb) Dhaliwal, Canadian politician
● 1952 - Cathy Rigby, American gymnast
● 1953 - Bruce Kulick, American guitarist (Kiss)
● 1954 - Liz Claman, American television anchor
● 1955 - Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek business woman
● 1956 - Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist
● 1957 - Sheila E., American musician
● 1957 - Robert Lepage, Quebec playwright
● 1962 - Tracy Austin, American tennis player
● 1962 - Mike Golic, former NFL football player
● 1964 - Sabu, American professional wrestler
● 1966 - Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist
● 1967 - John Randle, American football player
● 1967 - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Japanese composer
● 1967 - Yuzo Koshiro, Japanese composer
● 1968 - Rory Kennedy, American documentarian
● 1968 - Laurie Williams, Indian cricket player
● 1970 - Mädchen Amick, American actress
● 1970 - Jennifer Connelly, American actress
● 1970 - Regina Hall, American actress
● 1972 - Nicky Eaden, English footballer
● 1972 - Wilson Kipketer, Danish former middle distance runner
● 1972 - Kevin Parent, Quebec singer and songwriter
● 1972 - Brandon Teena, American hate crime victim
● 1972 - Yeoryios Theodoridis, Greek sprinter
● 1972 - Hank Williams III, grandson of Hank Williams
● 1973 - William Hutton, American engineer
● 1973 - Walter Otta, Argentine footballer
● 1974 - Nolberto Solano, Peruvian footballer
● 1975 - Mayim Bialik, American actress
● 1975 - Craig Moore, Australian footballer
● 1976 - Dan Hawkins, British guitarist (The Darkness)
● 1977 - Orlando Hudson, American baseball player
● 1977 - Bridget Hall, American supermodel
● 1977 - Colin White, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1977 - Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, American triplet Playboy models
● 1978 - Monica Barladeanu, Romanian actress
● 1978 - Evren Genis, Turkish composer
● 1979 - Garrett Atkins, American baseball player
● 1979 - Nate Clements, American football player
● 1979 - Sharin Foo, Danish singer and bassist
● 1981 - Jeret Peterson, American aerial skier
● 1981 - Ronnie Brown, American football player
● 1981 - Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricket player
● 1981 - Stephen Warnock, British footballer
● 1981 - Pedro Ríos, Spanish footballer
● 1982 - Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player
● 1983 - Katrina Elam, American singer
● 1984 - Daniel Agger, Danish footballer
● 1986 - Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer
● 1986 - Thomas Wansey, English television actor
● 1987 - Kate Todd, Canadian actress
● 1989 - Harry Eden, British actor
● 1991 - Daniel Magder, Canadian actor
DEATHS
● 884 - Carloman, King of the West Franks
● 1212 - Geoffrey, Archbishop of York
● 1569 - Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (b. 1507)
● 1574 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
● 1586 - Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
● 1685 - John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
● 1751 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
● 1754 - Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)
● 1766 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
● 1789 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
● 1790 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733)
● 1817 - Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
● 1843 - King William I of the Netherlands, (b. 1772)
● 1858 - Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787)
● 1889 - Robert Browning, British poet (b. 1812)
● 1889 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1804)
● 1894 - Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
● 1913 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
● 1923 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903)
● 1926 - Jean Richepin, French poet (b. 1849)
● 1929 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
● 1939 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (b. 1883)
● 1941 - Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (b. 1915)
● 1952 - Bedřich Hrozný, Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak orientalist and linguist (b. 1879)
● 1963 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903)
● 1968 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902)
● 1970 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
● 1971 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born American General Manager of RCA (b. 1891)
● 1976 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
● 1977 - Lady Spencer Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885)
● 1980 - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1912)
● 1985 - Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
● 1985 - Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (b. 1938)
● 1992 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian esssayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)
● 1993 - József Antall, Hungarian politician (b. 1932)
● 1994 - Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
● 1996 - Vance Packard, American author (b. 1914)
● 1997 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
● 1998 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (b. 1930)
● 1999 - Joseph Heller, American author (b. 1923)
● 2000 - George Montgomery, American actor (b. 1916)
● 2001 - Jean Richard, French actor (b. 1921)
● 2002 - Dee Brown, American author (b. 1908)
● 2002 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (b. 1965)
● 2002 - Brad Dexter, American actor (b. 1917)
● 2003 - Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan
● 2003 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (b. 1957)
● 2005 - Annette Vadim, Danish actress (b. 1936)
● 2005 - Robert F. Newmyer, American film producer (b. 1946)
● 2006 - Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
● 2006 - Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
● 2006 - Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1917)
● 2006 - Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology (b. 1930)
● 2006 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1935)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Guadalupe
● St. Abra
● St. Agatha
● St. Alexander
● St. Ammonaria
● St. Colman of Glendalough
● St. Corentin
● St. Corentius
● St. Edburga
● St. Finian of Clonard
● St. Hermogenes
● St. Jane Frances de Chantal
● St. Maxentius
● St. Vicelin
● Bl. Thomas Holland
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 30 (Civil Date: December 12)
● Nativity Fast.
● Holy and All praised Apostle Andrew the First Called.
● St. Frumentius, Archbishop of Abyssinia.
● Greek Calendar:
● Bishop Alexander of Mithymna.
● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Masá'il (Questions) - First day of the 15th month of the Bahá'í Calendar
● Kenya - Jamhuri Day: Independence Day (from Britain, 1963)
● Mexico - Our Lady of Guadalupe 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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