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 Responsibility "I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good." — Orpah Winfrey
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On War Is Hell "Throughout the Iraq conflict my analysis was mostly correct, but I did make a few mistakes. I bought the weapons of mass destruction argument too quickly and failed to predict how politicized the war would be. I should have known the Bush administration would have to fight with one hand tied behind its back in consideration of public opinion. For that reason, the U.S. military did not utilize most of its vast power." — Bill O'Reilly, Who's Looking Out For You?, NY: Broadway Books, 2003, p 153.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Every pint bottle should contain a quart." — 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 {Obviously a man who couldn't watch his p's and q's.}
{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
Saturn's Ancient Rings
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 546 - Gothic War (535–552): The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome bribing the Byzantine garrison.
● 920 - Romanos I is crowned co-emperor of the underage Emperor Constantine VII.
● 942 - Assassination of William I of Normandy.
● 1398 - Sultan Mehmud's armies in Delhi defeated by Timur.
● 1531 - Pope Clement VII established a parallel to the Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal.
● 1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
● 1577 - Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for British Queen Elizabeth I.
● 1586 - Emperor Go-Yozei becomes Emperor of Japan.
● 1600 - Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
● 1637 - Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu.
● 1718 - Great Britain declares war to Spain.
● 1760 - Birth of Deborah Sampson, U.S. Revolutionary War soldier who fought dressed as a man. {This was the very act that got Joan of Arc brunt at the stake. It against Old Testament teachings.}
● 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven is baptized at Bonn.
● 1807 - France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
● 1819 - Simón Bolívar declares the independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
● 1830 - Latin American liberationist Simón Bolivar dies, Santa Marta, Colombia.
● 1834 - The Dublin and Kingstown Railway opened in Ireland, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
● 1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
● 1862 - Birth of Urbain Gohier, Versailles. French writer, journalist, lampoonist, anti-militarist. Unfortunately, he sank gradually into anti-semitism and patriotism, leading him to become a collaborationist during WWII.
● 1875 - Violent bread riots in Montreal.
● 1903 - The Wright Brothers made their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
● 1919 - Birth of South African author/teacher Ezekiel Mphahlele. His autobiography ("Down Second Avenue" [1959]), a South African classic, combines a young man's coming of age with penetrating social criticism of apartheid.
● 1919 - Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
● 1935 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
● 1939 - World War II: Battle of the River Plate - The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
● 1941 - World War II: Beginning of the Siege of Sebastopol.
● 1941 - World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
● 1944 - Japanese-Americans released from detention camps. U.S. Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast.
● 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge - Malmedy massacre - American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
● 1957 - U.S. tests its first Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).
● 1961 - History of Goa: Operation Vijay - India seizes Goa from Portugal.
● 1963 - U.S. Congress passes first Clean Air Act.
● 1965 - Ferdinand Marcos is elected president of the Philippines. {He would later suspend further elections declaring he was "president for life."}
● 1966 - Against U.S. wishes, U.N. General Assembly approves an international treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
● 1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and was presumed drowned.
● 1969 - Project Blue Book: The USAF closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings were generated as a result of "A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects."
● 1969 - The SALT I talks begin.
● 1970 - Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
● 1973 - 32 are killed in an hijacking attempt at the Rome Fiumicino Airport.
● 1978 - The Workers Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe.
● 1981 - Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigade in Verona, Italy.
● 1981 - Founding of the Senegambia Confederation.
● 1982 - Federal District Court Judge decides not to grant preliminary injunction against completion of the Gasquet-Orleans Road thru Siskiyou Indian religious area.
● 1983 - The IRA bomb Harrods Department Store in London, killing seven people
● 1986 - Nine members of End Conscription Campaign placed on trial, South Africa.
● 1989 - First free elections in Brazil in 25 years.
● 1989 - Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timişoara with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
● 1991 - First Palestinian-Israeli peace talks begin in Madrid, Spain.
● 1996 - Peruvian MRTA guerrillas take over the Japanese ambassador's residence, beginning a lengthy seige. (Japan, along with the U.S., was a particularly important patron of Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori.)
● 1998 - British/U. S. airstrikes renewed against Iraq.
● 1999 - The United Nations General Assembly passes resolution 54/134 designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
● 2002 - Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
● 2003 - SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes the first privately-funded manned supersonic flight.
● 2005 - Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
BIRTHS
● 1239 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)
● 1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
● 1619 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
● 1632 - Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)
● 1685 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
● 1706 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
● 1734 - Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816)
● 1749 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801)
● 1770 - (Baptism) - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
● 1778 - Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
● 1796 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
● 1799 - Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)
● 1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
● 1830 - Jules de Goncourt, French publisher (d. 1870)
● 1835 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (d. 1910)
● 1847 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
● 1853 - Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
● 1859 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)
● 1873 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
● 1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
● 1883 - Raimu, French actor (d. 1946)
● 1887 - Josef Lada, Czech painter (d. 1957)
● 1887 - Hermine Reuss, Empress of Germany and Duchess of Bohemia (d. 1947)
● 1887 - Harry Reid, Famous engineer and photographer (d. 1932)
● 1888 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
● 1892 - Sam Barry, American basketball coach (d. 1950)
● 1893 - Erwin Piscator, German film director (d. 1966)
● 1894 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
● 1900 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (d. 1998)
● 1900 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
● 1903 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
● 1903 - Ray Noble, English bandleader and actor (d. 1978)
● 1904 - Paul Cadmus, American artist (d. 1999)
● 1905 - Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper (d. 2002)
● 1905 - Érico Lopes Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975)
● 1906 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (d. 1994)
● 1908 - Willard Frank Libby, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
● 1910 - Sy Oliver, American jazz arranger and bandleader (d. 1988)
● 1915 - André Claveau, French singer (d. 2003)
● 1916 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000)
● 1920 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (d. 2004)
● 1922 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
● 1923 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
● 1926 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
● 1927 - Richard Long, American actor (d. 1974)
● 1929 - Jacqueline Hill, English actress (d. 1993)
● 1929 - William Safire, American columnist
● 1930 - Bob Guccione, American magazine publisher
● 1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (d. 2006)
● 1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
● 1931 - Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor
● 1934 - Ray Wilson, English footballer
● 1935 - George Lindsey, American actor
● 1935 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball coach (d. 1999)
● 1936 - Tommy Steele, English singer and actor
● 1937 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
● 1937 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
● 1937 - Calvin Waller, US Army general (d. 1996)
● 1938 - Carlo Little, English drummer (d. 2005)
● 1938 - Peter Snell, New Zealand runner
● 1939 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
● 1940 - Kåre Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist
● 1942 - Paul Butterfield, American musician (d. 1987)
● 1943 - Mary Brunner, American former "Manson Family" member
● 1943 - Ron Geesin, Scottish musician and composer
● 1944 - Jack L. Chalker, American novelist
● 1944 - Bernard Hill, English actor
● 1945 - Ernie Hudson, American actor
● 1945 - Chris Matthews, American journalist
● 1945 - Jacqueline Wilson, English author
● 1946 - Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
● 1947 - Wes Studi, American actor
● 1949 - Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer
● 1949 - Paul Rodgers, English singer (Free; Bad Company)
● 1950 - Laurence F. Johnson, American educator
● 1951 - Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey coach
● 1951 - Tatyana Kazankina, Soviet athlete
● 1953 - Samuel Hadida, film distributor
● 1953 - Barry Livingston, American actor
● 1953 - Bill Pullman, American actor
● 1955 - Brad Davis, American basketball player
● 1956 - Peter Farrelly, American film director
● 1957 - Earl Hudson, American drummer (Bad Brains)
● 1958 - Mike Mills, American musician (R.E.M.)
● 1960 - Moreno Argentin, Italian cyclist
● 1960 - Sara Dallin, English singer (Bananarama)
● 1962 - Paul Dobson, English footballer
● 1962 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (d. 2007)
● 1962 - Rocco Mediate, American golfer
● 1964 - Ginger, English singer and guitarist (The Wildhearts)
● 1964 - Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player
● 1964 - Michele Tafoya, American sportcaster
● 1966 - Tracy Byrd American musician
● 1966 - Valeri Liukin, Soviet gymnast
● 1966 - Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician
● 1967 - Gigi D'Agostino, Italian DJ and musician
● 1967 - Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1967 - Chris Mason (darts player) PDC Darts player
● 1968 - Andrey Golovatiuk, Russian politician
● 1968 - Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver
● 1969 - Chuck Liddell, American martial artist
● 1970 - Joshua Seth, American voice actor
● 1971 - Alan Khan, South African radio disc jockey
● 1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
● 1972 - John Abraham, Indian actor
● 1972 - Laurie Holden, American actress
● 1973 - Paula Radcliffe, English runner
● 1973 - Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower
● 1974 - Duff Goldman, American chef
● 1974 - Giovanni Ribisi, American actor
● 1975 - Nick Dinsmore (Eugene), American professional wrestler
● 1975 - Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-born actress
● 1975 - Sarah Paulson, American actress
● 1975 - Bree Sharp, American singer/songwriter
● 1976 - Éric Bédard, Canadian speed skater
● 1976 - Zsanett Égerházi, Hungarian-born porn actress
● 1976 - Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer
● 1976 - Takeo Spikes, American football player
● 1977 - Arnaud Clement, French tennis player
● 1978 - Alex Cintrón, Puerto Rican baseball player
● 1978 - Neil Sanderson, Drummer for rock band "Three Days Grace"
● 1978 - Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor
● 1978 - Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer
● 1978 - Chase Utley, American baseball player
● 1979 - Jaimee Foxworth, American actress
● 1979 - Ryan Key, American musician and songwriter (Yellowcard)
● 1979 - Matt Murley, American ice hockey player
● 1980 - Eli Pariser, American political activist (MoveOn.org)
● 1980 - Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver
● 1982 - Josh Barfield, Venezuelan baseball player
● 1982 - Craig Kielburger, Canadian labour activist
● 1982 - Stephane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player
● 1984 - Andrew Davies, English footballer
● 1985 - Ryuichi Ogata, member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
● 1987 - C. Francki, renowned brain surgeon
● 1994 - Nat Wolff, American Singer, actor and songwriter
DEATHS
● 942 - William Longsword
● 1187 - Pope Gregory VIII
● 1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
● 1273 - Rumi (b.1207)
● 1663 - Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
● 1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
● 1830 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan-born libertator, six nations (b. 1783)
● 1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (b. 1812)
● 1847 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (b. 1791)
● 1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French writer (b. 1840)
● 1907 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (b. 1824)
● 1909 - Léopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
● 1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, British physician (b. 1836)
● 1917 - Frank Gotch, wrestler (b. 1878)
● 1933 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
● 1940 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
● 1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, British writer (b. 1893)
● 1962 - Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
● 1964 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
● 1967 - Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (b. 1908)
● 1967 - Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
● 1978 - Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)
● 1982 - Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
● 1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
● 1987 - Linda Wong, pornographic actress (b. 1951)
● 1992 - Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
● 1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
● 1999 - Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1920)
● 2002 - James Hazeldine, British actor (b. 1947)
● 2003 - Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
● 2003 - Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
● 2004 - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (b. 1931)
● 2005 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
● 2005 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (Sol) (b. 1929)
● 2006 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (b. 1935)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Begga
● St. Briarch
● St. Eigil
● St. Florian
● St. John of Martha
● St. Lazarus
● St. Maxentiolus
● St. O Sapientia
● St. Olympias
● St. Tydecho
● St. Wivina
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 4 (Civil Date: December 17)
● Nativity Fast.
● Great Martyr Barbara and Martyr Juliana at Heliopolis in Syria
● St. John Damascene.
● St. John, Bishop of Polybotum.
● Repose of St. Gennadius, Archbishop of Novgorod.
● New Hieromartyr Seraphim, Bishop of the Phanar in Greece.
● Hieromartyrs Damascene, Bishop of Glukhov (1935) and his father Priest Nicholas (Tsedrick) (1917).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Christodula and Christodulus
● Roman festivals – Saturnalia, in honor of Saturn, began.
● Bhutan – National Day (1907)
● USA – Wright Brothers Day (by Presidential Proclamation)
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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