Day of the week in surrounding years:
. . . .,1985,1991,1996,2002—MON—. . . .
1980,1986,. . . .,1997,2003—TUE—2008
1981,1987,1992,1998,. . . .—WED—2009
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—THU—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—FRI—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—SAT—. . . .
1984,1990,. . . .,2001,2007—SUN—2012
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Republicans "If you want to live like a Republican, you've got to vote for the Democrats." — Dick Gephardt
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Anti-War Republicans, Clinton Era "President Clinton is leading our nation down the path of "mission creep" that will suck our military into a quagmire that resembles Vietnam—a situation that America has vowed never to repeat." — Rep. Terry Everett (R-AL). Congressional Record, H2412, 4-28-99.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother." — 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
The Holographic Principle
Image Credit & Copyright: E. Winfree, K. Fleischer, A. Barr et al. (Caltech)
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EVENTS
● 755 - An Lushan revolted against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, beginning of the An Shi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China.
● 1392 - Historku-cho - Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
● 1431 - Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.
● 1497 - Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
● 1598 - Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point - The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the Korean and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Korean victory.
● 1653 - English Interregnum: The Protectorate - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
● 1689 - English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution.
● 1707 - Last recorded eruption of Fuji Mount in Japan.
● 1761 - Seven Years' War: After four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.
● 1773 - In nonviolent protest against British taxation, demonstrators dump imported British goods into Boston Harbour. Later becomes known as "Boston Tea Party." American colonists, dressed as American Indians, sneaked aboard a British cargo ship & dumped its load to teas overboard, in protest to the heavy taxes placed by the British on their American exports. A blatant violation of property rights.
● 1811 - At the Mississippi River Valley near New Madrid, Missouri, the greatest series of earthquakes in U.S. history begins when a quake of an estimated 8.6 magnitude on the Richter scale rocks the region. Although the earthquake greatly changed the topography of the region, the area was only sparsely inhabited at the time and there were no known fatalities. The earthquake raised and lowered parts of the Mississippi Valley by as much as 15 feet, changed the course of the Mississippi River, and actually caused the river to momentarily reverse its direction, giving rise to Reelfoot Lake in northwest Tennessee.
● 1835 - Most of New York City consumed by a fire which destroyed 650 buildings. The estimated $22 million loss bankrupted most New York insurance companies, precipitating the Depression of 1837.
● 1838 - Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius combat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
● 1838 - South African native chief Dingaan loses decisive battle against invading British.
● 1850 - History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign - Battle of Nashville - Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.
● 1869 - Decree by U.S. Emperor Norton I demands that Sacramento clean its muddy streets and place gaslights on streets leading to the capitol.
● 1871 - France - Louise Michel, 36-year old popular anarchist and teacher, is brought to trial by the Versailles Government.
● 1872 - Spain - The Congress of Cordoue unanimously adopts the positions of the anarchist l'internationale Anti-autoritaire de Saint Imier, in opposition to the Marxist First International.
● 1893 - Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From The New World" was given its world premiere at Carnegie Hall.
● 1893 - In New York, Voltairine de Cleyre delivers a speech in defense of the young anarchist Emma Goldman, and defends the right of expropriation.
● 1900 - National Civic Federation established to deal with confrontations between labor and management.
● 1901 - Birth of Margaret Mead, radical anthropologist.
● 1907 - The "Great White Fleet," comprising most of U.S. Navy, sent by President Theodore Roosevelt on a world cruise, principally to show Japan, whose laborers he just excluded from the U.S., how powerful the U.S. is.
● 1910 - During a ground test of his Coandă-1910 plane, Henri Coandă, caught unaware by the power of the engine, finds himself briefly airborne and loses control of the machine which crashes to the ground.
● 1918 - Germany - First National Congress of Workers and Soldiers Councils held in Reichstag in Berlin, votes in favor of parliamentary democracy.
● 1920 - One of the deadliest earthquakes in history hits the Gansu province of western China, causing massive landslides and the deaths of over 200,000 people. The earthquake, which measures an 8.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, affects an area of some 25,000 square miles, including ten major cities.
● 1922 - President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
● 1927 - Chinese and Russian communists killed in Canton uprising.
● 1937 - Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
● 1941 - World War II: Japanese occupy Miri, Sarawak
● 1942 - Holocaust: Porajmos - Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination should be deported to Auschwitz.
● 1944 - Nazi forces create a large bulge in the Allied front of Belgium's Ardennes Forest with a surprise counter-attack. Hitler masterminded the attack against his general's advice, in the hope of splitting Allied ground forces near Germany's border.
● 1946 - Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1955 - NATO decides to equip forces with nuclear weapons.
● 1957 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
● 1960 - While approaching New York's Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134.
● 1961 - Martin Luther King, Jr., 266 others arrested in Albany, Georgia.
● 1962 - Only man ever to reach the mainland alive after an escape from Alcatraz Prison emerges from San Francisco Bay, immediately captured by waiting authorities.
● 1968 - Spain revokes order expelling Jews from country imposed by Queen Isabella in 1492. {Talk about too little too late.}
● 1970 - Polish workers rebel against high prices; over 50 are killed.
● 1971 - Bangladesh War of Independence & Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan army simultaneously brings an end to both conflicts.
● 1971 - Independence Day of the State of Bahrain from British Protectorate Status
● 1976 - Government swine flu inoculation program halted after 535 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (and numerous deaths) result.
● 1980 - Harland "Colonel" Sanders dies at 90. {Chickens all over the world rejoice.}
● 1980 - Poland - Leaders of the workers' union, Solidarity, leaders of a new government, representatives of the Catholic Church, and 150,000 gather in Gdansk to recognize the dramatic change which has come to Poland.
● 1981 - In response to massive protests, drilling stopped at 20 potential nuclear waste sites, Britain.
● 1985 - Mafia: In New York City, Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of the Gambino family.
● 1986 - revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist party, known as Zheltoksan, which became the first signs of ethnic strife during Gorbachev's tenure
● 1989 - Protest breaks out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor, László Tőkés.
● 1990 - Populist priest Jean Aristide elected President of Haiti despite extensive U.S. assistance to his opposition.
● 1991 - Activists in Brussels, Belgium, protesting Vatican funding for an observatory desecrating sacred Apache site at Mount Graham, Arizona, pull a bulldozer up to a prominent local cathedral.
● 1991 - Canadian Indian Affairs Minister announces "final" agreement with the Inuit of the eastern Arctic, creating the new native-run Territory of Nunavut. When details are worked out three years later, it develops that natives will only control land deemed not to be of commercial or military value to Canadian government.
● 1991 - Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.
● 1991 - United Nations General Assembly: UN General Assembly Resolution 4686 revokes UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 after Israel makes revocation of resolution 3379 a condition of its participation in the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991.
● 1994 - Russian Gen. Babichev refuses orders to kill Chechen civilians.
● 1998 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox - The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq.
BIRTHS
● 1485 - Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (d. 1536)
● 1584 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654)
● 1614 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
● 1714 - George Whitefield, British-born Methodist leader (d. 1770)
● 1716 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)
● 1717 - Elizabeth Carter, British writer (d. 1806)
● 1742 - Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819)
● 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Is his supposed birthday, since he was baptized the following day it is belived his birthday is on the 16th.) (d. 1827)
● 1775 - Jane Austen, British writer (d. 1817)
● 1775 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (d. 1834)
● 1776 - Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810)
● 1790 - King Léopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)
● 1804 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1889)
● 1834 - Léon Walras, French economist (d. 1910)
● 1861 - Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (d. 1917)
● 1863 - George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and writer (d. 1952)
● 1865 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (d. 1918)
● 1866 (N.S.) - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French abstract painter (d. 1944)
● 1867 - Amy Carmichael - missionary in Dohnavur, India (d. 1951)
● 1869 - Hristo Tatarchev - Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1952)
● 1872 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)
● 1882 - Sir Jack Hobbs, English test cricketer (d. 1963)
● 1882 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)
● 1882 - Walther Meissner, German physicist (d. 1974)
● 1883 - Max Linder, French pioneer of silent film (d. 1925)
● 1888 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
● 1888 - Alphonse Juin, marshall of France (d. 1967)
● 1899 - Sir Noel Coward, British playwright, actor and composer (d. 1973)
● 1900 - V. S. Pritchett, British author and critic (d. 1997)
● 1901 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (d. 1978)
● 1902 - Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (d. 1999)
● 1905 - Piet Hein, Danish mathematician and inventor (d. 1996)
● 1906 - Barbara Kent, Canadian actress
● 1917 - Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Sindhi Scholar
● 1917 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, British writer
● 1926 - James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
● 1927 - Randall Garrett, American writer (d. 1987)
● 1928 - Philip K. Dick, American writer (d. 1982)
● 1929 - Nicholas Courtney, British actor
● 1932 - Rodion Shchedrin, Soviet-born Russian composer
● 1938 - Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress
● 1941 - Lesley Stahl, American journalist
● 1943 - Steven Bochco, American television producer and writer
● 1943 - Tony Hicks, British guitarist (The Hollies)
● 1945 - Bobby George, English professional darts player
● 1945 - Yukio Hattori, Japanese Iron Chef commentator
● 1946 - Benny Andersson, Swedish musician, singer and songwriter (ABBA)
● 1946 - Trevor Pinnock, British conductor and harpsichordist
● 1947 - Ben Cross, British actor
● 1947 - Vincent Matthews, American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist
● 1948 - Christopher Biggins, English Actor in Pantomines
● 1949 - Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (ZZ Top)
● 1950 - Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (d. 2007)
● 1950 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (d. 2006)
● 1951 - Robben Ford, American guitarist
● 1952 - Joel Garner, Barbadian West Indies cricketer
● 1955 - Xander Berkeley, American actor
● 1955 - Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
● 1961 - Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994)
● 1962 - William Perry, American football player
● 1963 - Benjamin Bratt, American actor
● 1963 - Jeff Carson, American singer
● 1964 - Heike Drechsler, East German-born sprinter
● 1964 - Billy Ripken, American baseball player
● 1965 - Chris Jones, American baseball player
● 1965 - Melanie Sloan, American attorney
● 1965 - Nancy Valen, American actress
● 1966 - Dennis Wise, English footballer
● 1966 - Clifford Robinson, American basketball player
● 1967 - Donovan Bailey, Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter
● 1967 - Miranda Otto, Australian actress
● 1971 - Paul van Dyk, German Trance music DJ
● 1971 - Michael McCary, American singer (Boyz II Men)
● 1972 - Charles Gipson, American baseball player
● 1972 - Željko Kalac, Australian soccer player
● 1972 - Angela Bloomfield, New Zealand actress
● 1973 - Scott Storch, Canadian-American hip-hop producer
● 1973 - Themba Mnguni, South African footballer
● 1974 - Frida Hallgren, Swedish actress
● 1975 - Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
● 1975 - Nawo Kawakita, Japanese drummer (Maximum the Hormone)
● 1977 - Éric Bélanger, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1977 - Sylvain Distin, French footballer
● 1978 - Gunter Van Handenhoven, Belgian footballer
● 1978 - Kaine, American rapper (Ying Yang Twins)
● 1979 - Mihai Trăistariu, Romanian singer
● 1979 - Jessie Ward, American professional wrestler
● 1979- Flo-Rida American African rapper
● 1981 - Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer
● 1981 - Took Leng How, Malaysian criminal
● 1981 - Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer
● 1982 - Garnon Davies, Welsh actor
● 1983 - Kelenna Azubuike, English basketball player
● 1983 - Danielle Lloyd, English model
● 1985 - Keita Tachibana, member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
● 1987 - Hallee Hirsh, American actress
● 1988 - Anna Popplewell, English actress
● 1989 - Chen Yaoye, Chinese professional Go player
DEATHS
● 705 - Empress Wu of Zhou (b. 625)
● 714 - Pippin of Herstal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
● 867 - Eberhard of Friuli
● 999 - Saint Adelaide of Italy (b. 931)
● 1325 - Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270)
● 1378 - Otto III of Montferrat
● 1379 - John Fitzalan, Marshal of England
● 1470 - John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
● 1515 - Afonso de Albuquerque Portuguese naval general (b. 1453)
● 1598 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (b. 1545)
● 1669 - Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician
● 1687 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)
● 1751 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700)
● 1765 - Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss military officer and surveyor
● 1774 - François Quesnay, French economist (b. 1694)
● 1783 - Johann A. Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
● 1783 - Sir William James British naval commander (b. 1720)
● 1809 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)
● 1859 - Wilhelm Grimm, German writer and folklorist (b. 1786)
● 1898 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
● 1914 - Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (b. 1832)
● 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
● 1921 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
● 1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of Poland (b. 1865)
● 1928 - Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885)
● 1935 - Thelma Todd, American actress (b. 1905)
● 1940 - Billy Hamilton (baseball player), MLB Hall of Fame Outfielder (b. 1866)
● 1945 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1866)
● 1945 - Fumimaro Konoye, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891)
● 1949 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
● 1956 - Nina Hamnett, British artist (b. 1890)
● 1965 - W. Somerset Maugham, British writer (b. 1874)
● 1976 - Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (Social Credit Party of Canada) (b. 1917)
● 1977 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (b. 1934)
● 1980 - Colonel Harland Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
● 1980 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
● 1982 - Colin Chapman, British engineer and automobile manufacturer, founder of Lotus Cars (b. 1928)
● 1984 - Debs Garms, baseball player (b. 1907)
● 1985 - Paul Castellano, American mafioso (b. 1915)
● 1985 - Thomas Bilotti, American mafioso (b. 1940)
● 1988 - Sylvester James, American R&B singer, disco performer (b. 1948)
● 1989 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor (b. 1925)
● 1989 - Aileen Pringle, American actress (b. 1895)
● 1989 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
● 1989 - Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (b. 1913)
● 1990 - Douglas Campbell, American pilot (b. 1896)
● 1993 - Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
● 1993 - Tanaka Kakuei, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
● 1995 - Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (b. 1939)
● 1995 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (b. 1907)
● 1996 - Quentin Bell, British art historian (b. 1910)
● 1997 - Nicolette Larson, American singer (b. 1952)
● 1998 - William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
● 2001 - Stuart Adamson, British musician (b. 1958)
● 2001 - Stefan Heym, German author (b. 1913)
● 2003 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1914)
● 2003 - Gary Stewart, American musician, singer and songwriter (b. 1945)
● 2004 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (b. 1933)
● 2005 - Kenneth Bulmer, British author (b. 1921)
● 2005 - John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
● 2006 - Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (b. 1922)
● 2006 - Taliep Petersen, South African singer and composer (b. 1950)
● 2006 - Don Jardine, professional wrestler (b. 1940)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adelaide of Italy
● St. Ado of Vienne
● St. Albina
● St. Beoc
● St. Nicholas Chrysoberges
● St. Valentine
● Bl. Raynald de Bar
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 3 (Civil Date: December 16)
● Nativity Fast.
● Prophet Zephaniah (Sophonias).
● St. Sabbas, abbot of Zvenigorod, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
● St. Theodulus, eparch of Constantinople.
● St. John the Silent of St. Sabbas' Monastery.
● Hieromartyr Theodore, Archbishop of Alexandria.
● New Hieromartyr Gabriel, Bishop of Ganos.
● New Martyr Angelos of Chios.
● St. Nicetius, Bishop of Lyons (Gaul).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Agapius, Seleucus and Mamas.
● Repose of King Magnus II of Sweden (Gregory in schema) of Valaam (1371).
● Repose of Archimandrite Theophanes of Novoezersk Monastery (1832).
● Bahrain - National Day
● Bangladesh - Victory Day
● Kazakhstan - Independence Day
● Mexico - First day of Las Posadas
● Philippines - First day of Misa de Gallo
● South Africa - Day of Reconciliation
● South Africa (Afrikaners) - Day of the Vow
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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