Day of the week in surrounding years:
1981,1987,1992,1998,. . . .—MON—2009
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—TUE—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—WED—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—THU—. . . .
1984,1990,. . . .,2001,2007—FRI—2012
1985,1991,1996,2002,. . . .—SAT—2013
1986,. . . .,1997,2003,2008—SUN—2014
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Religion "Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes." — George Carlin
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Treaties No, New Nukes Yes "Russian Reporter: There are people who say that the fact of the U.S. withdrawal from the ABM Treaty will lead to another arms race. Is that true?
Donald Rumsfeld: They are wrong. They are not just a little wrong, they are very wrong. The whole history of your adult life proves they are wrong. Since the beginning of Arms Control in the 1960s and '70s the numbers of weapons were going up and up and up. That was an arms race during the era of arms control. President Putin and President Bush have announced they are going to have the weapons go down and down and down from thousands to 1700 to 2200. Any suggestion by anybody, attributed or unattributed, that some change in the ABM treaty is going to lead to an arms race is just flap—not so. In fact, the next five years will prove what I've just said to be the case." — Donald H. Rumsfeld. A newsbriefing in Werevan, Armenia. defenselink.mil, 12-15-01.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I concluded from the beginning that this would be the end; and I am right, for it is not half over." — 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
Apollo 17: Shorty Crater Panorama
Credit: Apollo 17 Crew, NASA; Panorama Assembly: Mike Constantine
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1287 - St. Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
● 1503 - Birth of Nostradamus, France.
● 1542 - Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.
● 1702 (according to the old calendar; January 30, 1703 by the new calendar) - The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenged the death of their master.
● 1751 - The Theresian Military Academy was founded as the first Military Academy in the world.
● 1763 - Fifty-seven whites enter Conestoga Indian settlement, and in violation of a treaty made between the tribe and William Penn -- to last "as long as the sun should shine, or the waters run in the rivers" -- shot, stabbed, and hatcheted the three men, two women, and one young boy they found there. The rest of the tribe would be killed 13 days later.
● 1782 - Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifted on its very first test flight.
● 1789 - Dartmouth College is chartered by King George III of England.
● 1799 - George Washington dies at 67, of acute laryngitis at his estate, Mount Vernon, Virginia.
● 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
● 1825 - Advocates of Liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
● 1836 - The Toledo War unofficially ended.
● 1837 - Canada - British forces crush rebellion.
● 1852 - Birth of Daniel DeLeon, Curacao, West Indies. One of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), socialist scholar and labor organizer.
● 1853 - Birth of anarchist theorist/militant/writer Errico Malatesta, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Kingdom of Naples. Important figure of Italian and international anarchism.
● 1896 - The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
● 1900 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
● 1902 - The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
● 1903 - The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It crashes, and 3 days later, after repairs, they get it to fly.
● 1907 - The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
● 1911 - Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
● 1914 - Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
● 1917 - U.S. peace activist and suffragist Kate Richards O'Hare jailed five years for speech denouncing World War I, occupied a neighboring jail cell with Emma Goldman. O'Hare was one of a number of prisoners Eugene Debs cited in his "Canton Speech" for which he in turn would be imprisoned.
● 1918 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
● 1939 - Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations.
● 1941 - German military commander of Kharkiv, Ukraine issued an order, according to which the Jewish population was to move to the city periphery within 2 days, into the barracks of the works of a machine factory. In the next days 15,000 Jews were shot at Drobitsky Yar.
● 1941 - World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand.
● 1946 - The UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City.
● 1947 - The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida.
● 1955 - Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations.
● 1957 - Dave Beck, General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, convicted of embezzling from his own union.
● 1958 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first-ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
● 1962 - NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
● 1963 - Dinah Washington, 39, dies of an overdose of sleeping pills in Detroit.
● 1964 - American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States - The United States Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Congress can use its Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination.
● 1965 - England - Albert Belden dies, pacifist pastor.
● 1968 - Third World Strike halts classes at San Francisco State Univ.
● 1970 - Riots topple Communist regime in Poland, but a new military regime takes power in its place.
● 1972 - Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. This was the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century.
● 1972 - Pres. Nixon authorizes Christmas bombing of Hanoi. {What a Dick!}
● 1973 - United Nations affirms status of Puerto Rico as a U.S. colony and recognizes its right to independence.
● 1979 - Legendary punk rock group The Clash release London Calling in the UK, a landmark album in rock music.
● 1980 - At Yoko Ono's request, at 2 PM Eastern Standard Time, John Lennon fans around the world mourn him with 10 minutes of silent prayer. In New York over 100,000 people converge in Central Park in tribute, and in Liverpool, a crowd of 30,000 gathers outside of St. George's Hall on Lime Street.
● 1981 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights.
● 1985 - Mobilization for Animals declares "World Week for Companion Animals" to highlight the plight of homeless animals.
● 1985 - The wonderfully surnamed Wilma Mankiller is sworn in as Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, becoming the first woman (and one of the most outspoken leaders) to head a major U.S. tribe in recent history.
● 1988 - U.S. agrees to talk to Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
● 1989 - Andrej Sacharov, Soviet dissident, physicist, dies.
● 1990 - Right to Die lawsuit permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed; she dies 12 days later.
● 1992 - Three hundred thousand Polish coal workers strike against "Solidarity" government.
● 1994 - After eight years, United States finally agrees to honor New Zealand's ban on nuclear weapons in its territory.
● 1995 - Local Human Rights Watch suppressed, Turkey.
● 1995 - Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments.
● 2003 - President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
● 2004 - The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened.
BIRTHS
● 1009 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
● 1503 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)
● 1546 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (d. 1601)
● 1625 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)
● 1631 - Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)
● 1640 - (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689)
● 1678 - Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743)
● 1720 - Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794)
● 1775 - Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852)
● 1775 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)
● 1787 - Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816)
● 1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
● 1866 - Roger Fry, British artist and art critic (d. 1934)
● 1870 - Karl Renner, President of Austria (d. 1950)
● 1881 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (d. 1956)
● 1884 - Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
● 1895 - Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
● 1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
● 1896 - Jimmy Doolittle, American General (d. 1993)
● 1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (d. 1995)
● 1897 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (d. 1977)
● 1902 - Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989)
● 1908 - Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996)
● 1908 - Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player
● 1908 - Mária Szepes, Hungarian authoress (d. 2007)
● 1909 - Edward Tatum, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
● 1911 - Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)
● 1913 - Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978)
● 1914 - Karl Carstens, President of Germany (d. 1992)
● 1914 - Attila Petschauer, Hungarian Olympic champion fencer (d. 1943)
● 1914 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
● 1916 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)
● 1917 - C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish communist leader
● 1918 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994)
● 1918 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate
● 1920 - Clark Terry, American trumpeter
● 1922 - Nikolay Basov, Soviet-born Russian physicist and Noble Prize laureate (d. 2001)
● 1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
● 1924 - Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
● 1925 - Sam Jones, baseball player (d. 1971)
● 1927 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d.1998)
● 1931 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (d. 2002)
● 1932 - Charlie Rich, American musician (d. 1995)
● 1932 - Abbe Lane, American singer and actress
● 1935 - Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
● 1935 - Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer (d. 2001)
● 1938 - Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian
● 1941 - Ellen Willis, American journalist (d. 2006)
● 1941 - Karan Armstrong, American soprano
● 1946 - Jane Birkin, British-born actress
● 1946 - Patty Duke, American actress
● 1946 - Michael Ovitz, American film producer
● 1946 - Stan Smith, American former tennis player
● 1946 - Ruth Fuchs, East German athlete
● 1947 - Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
● 1947 - Linda Sutton, British artist
● 1948 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
● 1948 - Dee Wallace-Stone, American actress
● 1949 - Bill Buckner, American baseball player
● 1949 - Cliff Williams, British-born bassist (AC/DC)
● 1951 - Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster
● 1953 - Vijay Amritraj, Indian former tennis player
● 1953 - René Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer
● 1953 - Mikael Odenberg, Swedish politician
● 1954 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (d. 1993)
● 1954 - James Horan, American actor
● 1954 - Steven MacLean, Canadian astronaut
● 1956 - Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein skier
● 1957 - Gary Ferris, American author
● 1958 - Mike Scott, British singer and songwriter (The Waterboys)
● 1958 - Spider Stacy, English musician (The Pogues)
● 1959 - Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer
● 1960 - Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate
● 1962 - Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen), American adult film actress
● 1963 - Cynthia Gibb, American actress
● 1965 - Craig Biggio, American baseball player
● 1965 - Ken Hill, baseball player
● 1966 - Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian racecar driver
● 1966 - Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1966 - Tim Skold, Swedish/American musician
● 1967 - Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
● 1969 - Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player
● 1970 - Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer
● 1970 - Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter
● 1971 - Natascha McElhone, British actress
● 1972 - Marcus Jensen, baseball player
● 1972 - Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor
● 1973 - Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-born Canadian international footballer
● 1973 - Tia Texada, American actress and singer
● 1973 - Thuy Trang, American actress (d. 2001)
● 1974 - Billy Koch, baseball player
● 1975 - Justin Furstenfeld, American rock singer
● 1976 - Leland Chapman, bounty hunter, son of Duane "Dog" Chapman.
● 1976 - André Couto, Portuguese racing driver
● 1976 - Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish football player
● 1977 - KaDee Strickland, American actress
● 1978 - Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1978 - Radu Sârbu, singer (O-Zone)
● 1979 - Michael Owen, English footballer
● 1979 - Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model
● 1980 - Frankie J, Spanish singer
● 1980 - Tata Young, Thai-American singer
● 1981 - Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress
● 1981 - Emilie Heymans, Canadian diver
● 1981 - Johnny Jeter, American professional wrestler
● 1981 - Shaun Marcum, American baseball player
● 1982 - Josh Fields, American baseball player
● 1982 - Steve Sidwell, English footballer
● 1982 - Anthony Way, British singer and actor
● 1984 - Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
● 1984 - Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer
● 1985 - Tom Smith, Welsh Rugby Union Player
● 1985 - Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress
● 1988 - Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
● 1988 - Vanessa Anne Hudgens, American actress
● 1989 - Pedro Roberto Silva Botelho, Brazilian footballer
● 1995 - Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria
DEATHS
● 1460 - Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist and translator (b. 1370)
● 1510 - Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
● 1542 - King James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
● 1553 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)
● 1591 - Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (b. 1542)
● 1624 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
● 1651 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
● 1713 - Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
● 1715 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
● 1735 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
● 1741 - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
● 1788 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
● 1788 - King Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
● 1799 - George Washington, first President of the United States (b. 1732)
● 1838 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806)
● 1860 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
● 1861 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)
● 1865 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
● 1873 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
● 1902 - Julia Grant, wife of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1826)
● 1927 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
● 1935 - Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (b. 1902)
● 1947 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
● 1947 - Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
● 1956 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president of Finland (b. 1870)
● 1963 - Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
● 1964 - William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
● 1970 - Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)
● 1971 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (b. 1929)
● 1978 - Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist (b. 1886)
● 1984 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1898)
● 1985 - Catherine Doherty, social justice activist (b. 1896)
● 1985 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
● 1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
● 1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
● 1993 - Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
● 1993 - Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
● 1997 - Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (b. 1946)
● 1997 - Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
● 1998 - Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
● 1998 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (b. 1924)
● 1998 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)
● 2003 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
● 2003 - Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (b. 1927)
● 2004 - Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
● 2004 - Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. 1939)
● 2005 - Dr. Rodney William Whitaker, American author (b. 1931)
● 2006 - Anton Balasingham, chief political strategist of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1938)
● 2006 - Ahmet Ertegün, co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
● 2006 - Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agnellus
● St. Bartholomew Buonpedoni
● St. Drusus
● St. Fingar
● St. Heron
● St. John of the Cross
● St. Jucundus
● Sts. Justus & Abundius
● St. Matronian
● St. Nicasius
● St. Pompeius
● St. Venantius Fortunatus
● St. Viator
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 1 (Civil Date: December 14)
● Prophet Nahum.
● Martyr Ananias of Persia.
● Righteous Philaret the Merciful of Amnia in Asia Minor.
● St. Ioannicius of Devich (Serbia).
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Onesimus, Archbishop of Ephesus.
● Saints Ananias and Solochonus, Archbishops.
● Ephesus.
● St. Anthony the New of Chios, monk.
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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