Day of the week in surrounding years:
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—MON—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—TUE—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—WED—. . . .
1984,1990,. . . .,2001,2007—THU—2012
1985,1991,1996,2002,. . . .—FRI—2013
1986,. . . .,1997,2003,2008—SAT—2014
1987,1992,1998,. . . .,2009—SUN—2015
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Rebellion & Struggle "In order to exist, man must rebel." — Albert Camus
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Cakewalk: Ongoing War "I don't agree that you need an enormous number of American troops . . . [Saddam's army] is down to one-third than it was before, and I think it would be a cakewalk." — Kenneth Adelman, member of the Defense Policy Board and former UN ambassador during the Reagan administration, talking to Wolf Blitzer about the potential war with Iraq. CNN, 12-6-01.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue." — 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
T Tauri and Hind's Variable Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
● 1545 - Council of Trent begins.
● 1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
● 1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
● 1642 - Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand.
● 1643 - English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
● 1652 - Dutch navigator Abel Tasman "discovers" the South Pacific island group later known as New Zealand. While attempting to land, several of Tasman's crew are killed by warriors from the native Maori people, who interpret the Europeans' exchange of trumpet signals as a prelude to battle. And right they were.
● 1769 - Dartmouth College founded by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.
● 1852 - Owenite utopianist and scandal maker France Wright dies.
● 1862 - American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.
● 1884 - first performance of any of Richard Strauss's compositions in the United States (Symphony in f, New York Philharmonic)
● 1895 - Premiere of Gustav Mahler's Resurrection Symphony in Berlin.
● 1903 - Birth of Ella Baker, first woman leader of SCLC, also an NAACP leader.
● 1913 - Federal Reserve System is authorized in a major reform of U.S. banking and finance.
● 1916 - Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol.
● 1917 - Denmark recognizes right to conscientious objection to military service.
● 1927 - Death of Samuel Gompers, president and founder of the AFL.
● 1937 - Nanking, the capitol of China, falls to Japanese forces as the government of the Chinese republic flees to Hankow, further inland. After the Japanese army advances into the former Chinese capital, a reign of atrocity is launched against the civilian and military population of the city, as Japanese military command permits what amounts to a total breakdown of discipline within its ranks. Over the next eight weeks, in what would become known as the "Rape of Nanking," the Japanese army butchers an estimated 150,000 male "war prisoners," murders an additional 50,000 male civilians, and brutally rapes at least 20,000 women of all ages, many of whom are mutilated or killed in the process.
● 1938 - The Holocaust: 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen build the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg.
● 1939 - World War II: Battle of the River Plate - Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles.
● 1941 - World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
● 1943 - World War II: 710 Bombers of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Kiel, Germany.
● 1949 - The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
● 1959 - Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus.
● 1964 - Explosion outside a black church in Montgomery, Alabama. Three white men convicted of the bombing -- each got a six month jail sentence. After 10 days in prison, all were released on probation.
● 1968 - Brazilian president Casta e Silva concentrates his power and forms a state of terror.
● 1971 - Namibian workers strike against contract labor system imposed by South African colonial government. Marks beginning of popular support for liberation struggles.
● 1971 - White Panther Party founder John Sinclair (sentenced to 10 years in jail for selling two marijuana joints) is freed.
● 1972 - Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the sixth and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. This was the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century.
● 1973 - Rael, leader of the Raelian Movement claims to meet an ET he says is named Yahweh, during an alleged UFO encounter in Puy de Lassolas, France.
● 1974 - Malta becomes a republic.
● 1977 - A DC-3 aircraft chartered from the Indianapolis-based National Jet crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff and boosters of the team.
● 1978 - Susan B. Anthony dollar, first U.S. coin to honor a woman, issued.
● 1979 - The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons, prompting the 1980 Canadian election.
● 1981 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.
● 1982 - United Nations adopts Nuclear Freeze resolution.
● 1989 - The last issue of Gnistan (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in Sweden.
● 1994 - European Parliament votes 202-24 for a resolution urging Pres. Clinton to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier.
● 1996 - Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
● 2000 - American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States.
● 2000 - The "Texas 7" escape from the John Connelly Unit near Kennedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.
● 2001 - In Brussels, 80,000 labor and anti-globalization activists begin several days of protests of a European Union summit. Despite a massive police presence, unlike other such recent protests events remain peaceful.
● 2001 - the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists, killing 15 people, including all the terrorists.
● 2002 - Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
● 2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit. {He is later executed after show trial in Iraq.}
● 2004 - Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is lifted the same day on appeal.
● 2006 - The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct.
BIRTHS
● 1521 - Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
● 1533 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
● 1553 - King Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
● 1585 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
● 1640 - Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)
● 1662 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
● 1678 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
● 1720 - Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (d. 1804)
● 1724 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802)
● 1784 - Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
● 1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
● 1804 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
● 1816 - Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)
● 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
● 1836 - Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904)
● 1854 - Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934)
● 1856 - Svetozar Boroević, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920)
● 1860 - Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)
● 1864 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1947)
● 1867 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (d. 1917)
● 1870 - Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)
● 1871 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
● 1874 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian-born pianist (d. 1944)
● 1883 - Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist (d. 1950)
● 1887 - George Polya, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1985)
● 1887 - Alvin York, American soldier & Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
● 1897 - Drew Pearson, American journalist (d. 1969)
● 1903 - Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist (d. 1993)
● 1906 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (d. 1968)
● 1906 - Sir Laurens van der Post, South African author (d. 1996)
● 1910 - Van Heflin, American actor (d. 1971)
● 1911 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1999)
● 1911 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972)
● 1913 - Archie Moore, American boxer and World Light-Heavyweight Champion (d. 1998)
● 1913 - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2002)
● 1915 - Curd Jürgens, German actor (d. 1982)
● 1915 - Ross Macdonald, American-born author (d. 1983)
● 1915 - B.J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa 1966-1978 (d. 1983)
● 1917 - John Hart, American actor
● 1919 - Hans-Joachim Marseille, German flying ace of World War II (d. 1942)
● 1920 - George Shultz, United States Secretary of State 1982-1989
● 1923 - Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
● 1923 - Larry Doby, American baseball player (d. 2003)
● 1925 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian
● 1926 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete and Olympic gold medalist
● 1929 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
● 1930 - Robert Prosky, American actor
● 1934 - Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer
● 1935 - Joe Christopher, American baseball player
● 1935 - Ken Hall, American football player, known as the “Sugar Land Express”
● 1935 - Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player
● 1936 - His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan (Aga Khan IV), Imam (leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims
● 1936 - J.C. Martin American baseball player
● 1938 - Alvin Curran, American composer
● 1939 - Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (d. 2002)
● 1941 - John Davidson, American actor and game show host
● 1942 - Anna Eshoo, American politician
● 1943 - Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player
● 1943 - Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (d. 2002)
● 1944 - Hwang Jang Lee, Korean martial artist and film actor
● 1945 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (d. 1977)
● 1947 - Darlene Cates, American actress
● 1947 - Dave Hamilton, American baseball player
● 1948 - Ted Nugent, American guitarist
● 1948 - Jeff Baxter, American guitarist (Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers)
● 1948 - Brian Wilson, Scottish politician
● 1949 - Tom Verlaine, American singer/guitarist of Television
● 1950 - Wendie Malick, American actress
● 1950 - Tom Vilsack, Governor of Iowa
● 1952 - Sylvester Ritter, American professional wrestler better known as "Junkyard Dog" (d. 1998)
● 1953 - Ben Bernanke, American economist and current United States Chairman of the Federal Reserve
● 1953 - Bill Castro, Dominican baseball player
● 1953 - Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1954 - John Anderson, American country musician
● 1954 - Tamora Pierce, author
● 1956 - Dale Berra, American baseball player
● 1957 - Steve Buscemi, American actor
● 1957 - Morris Day, American singer (The Time)
● 1957 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
● 1958 - Lynn-Holly Johnson, American figure skater and actress
● 1959 - Jim Barrell, American professional wrestler
● 1959 - Johnny Whitaker, American actor
● 1960 - Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor
● 1961 - Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer
● 1961 - Irene Saez, Miss Universe 1981 and Venezuelan Politician
● 1964 - Hideto Matsumoto, Japanese musician (X Japan) (d. 1998)
● 1965 - Marko Mäetamm, Estonian artist
● 1966 - Ross Burden, New Zealand celebrity chef
● 1966 - Don Roff, American writer and filmmaker
● 1967 - Jamie Foxx, American actor
● 1969 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer (d. 2007)
● 1969 - Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player
● 1973 - Christie Clark, American actress
● 1974 - Nicholas McCarthy, British guitarist (Franz Ferdinand)
● 1974 - Sara Cox, TV and radio presenter
● 1975 - Tom DeLonge, American guitarist (blink-182, Angels & Airwaves)
● 1975 - Matthew LeCroy, American baseball player
● 1976 - Josh Fogg, American baseball player
● 1976 - Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
● 1977 - Peter Stringer, Irish Rugby International
● 1978 - Ryo Kawakita, Japanese guitarist (Maximum the Hormone)
● 1979 - Jon Elliott, American radio talkshow host
● 1980 - Jessica Perrell, American Settlement Processor and mother
● 1981 - Amy Lee, American singer/songwriter (Evanescence)
● 1982 - Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player
● 1982 - Freddie Weinke, American football player
● 1982 - Tuka Rocha, Brazilian racing driver
● 1982 - Dominik Werling, German footballer
● 1982 - Anthony Callea, Australian Singer/Songwriter
● 1983 - Matt Deis, American bassist
● 1983 - Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish Olympic swimmer
● 1986 - Robbie Plankenhorn, Cal Poly lacrosse player and Indiana native
● 1989 - Taylor Swift, American singer/songwriter
● 1991 - Jay Greenberg, American composer
● 2005 - Prince Nicolas of Belgium
● 2005 - Prince Aymeric of Belgium
DEATHS
● 1048 - Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973)
● 1124 - Pope Callixtus II
● 1126 - Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria
● 1204 - Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)
● 1250 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194)
● 1404 - Albert, Count of Holland (b. 1336)
● 1466 - Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386)
● 1516 - Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (b. 1462)
● 1521 - Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)
● 1557 - Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician
● 1565 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (b. 1516)
● 1603 - François Viète, French mathematician (b. 1540)
● 1621 - Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
● 1716 - Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
● 1721 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (b. 1676)
● 1729 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (b. 1676)
● 1754 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1696)
● 1769 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (b. 1715)
● 1783 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
● 1784 - Samuel Johnson, British writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
● 1814 - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Belgian-born Austrian field marshal (b. 1735)
● 1835 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)
● 1837 - Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756)
● 1863 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (b. 1813)
● 1868 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794)
● 1881 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (b. 1838)
● 1883 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
● 1895 - Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (b. 1800)
● 1919 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
● 1922 - Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861)
● 1924 - Samuel Gompers, American labor and political leader, founder of American Federation of Labor (b. 1850)
● 1930 - Fritz Pregl, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
● 1931 - Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
● 1932 - Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (b. 1853)
● 1935 - Victor Grignard, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
● 1940 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851)
● 1942 - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
● 1944 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French artist (b. 1866)
● 1944 - Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (b. 1908)
● 1945 - Irma Grese, Nazi war criminal (b. 1923)
● 1945 - Elisabeth Volkenrath, supervisor at concentration camps (b. 1919)
● 1945 - Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen Belsen concentration camp (b. 1906)
● 1947 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (b. 1874)
● 1950 - Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)
● 1954 - John Raymond Hubbell, American writer (b. 1879)
● 1955 - Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist, neurosurgeon, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
● 1958 - Tim Moore, American actor (b. 1887)
● 1961 - Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)
● 1969 - Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (b. 1886)
● 1969 - Spencer Williams, Jr., American actor (b. 1893)
● 1973 - Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
● 1979 - Jon Hall, American actor (b. 1915)
● 1981 - Pigmeat Markham, American entertainer (b. 1904)
● 1983 - Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (b. 1921)
● 1983 - Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (b. 1933)
● 1992 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir (b. 1899)
● 1992 - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (b. 1899)
● 1993 - Vanessa Duriès, French novelist (b. 1972)
● 1994 - Norman Beaton, English actor, First black teacher of Liverpool
● 2001 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death) (b. 1967)
● 2002 - Zal Yanovsky, American musician (The Lovin' Spoonful) (b. 1945)
● 2003 - William V. Roth, Jr., U.S. Senator (b. 1921)
● 2004 - Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (b. 1934)
● 2004 - David Wheeler, British computer scientist (b. 1927)
● 2005 - Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips (b. 1953)
● 2005 - Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (b. 1981)
● 2006 - Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (b. 1932)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Autbert
● St. Edburga
● Sts. Einhildis & Roswinda
● St. Elizabeth Rose
● St. Jodoc
● St. Lucy
● No entries for Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for (Civil Date December 13)
● Roman festivals - Tellus was worshipped in the district Carinae at the Esquiline Hill, and a lectisternium or table was spread for Ceres.
● In the Julian calendar before the Gregorian reform, this was the shortest day and longest night, and widely celebrated as such.
● St. Lucia's Day in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and some regions of Italy, mainly Sicily, Veneto and Trentino.
● Malta - Republic Day (since 1974)
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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