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 Secularism "Our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men. Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government made by the people for the people." — Robert Ingersoll
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On WMD—Weapons of Mass Destruction ". . . Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us. And there is no doubt that his aggressive regional ambitions will lead him into future confrontations with his neighbors—confrontations that will involve both the weapons he has today, and the ones he will continue to develop with his oil wealth." — Vice-President Dick Cheney speaking to the VFW National Convention, 8-26-02. whitehouse.gov.—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.} {You know, Dick, the only thing there is no doubt about is that you are a LIAR.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'" — 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
Stars and Dust through Baade's Window
Credit & Copyright: Stephane Guisard
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
● 1154- Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey
● 1606 - The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown, Virginia, would found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
● 1675 - Colonial forces escalate King Phillip's War by burning 300 old men, women, and children alive in their village, and later attack the Narragansetts in the Great Swamp, killing over 1,000 Indians.
● 1766 - English Parliament suspends New York legislature for voting against Quartering Act.
● 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes his first "American Crisis" essay.
● 1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
● 1828 - Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
● 1842 - U.S. recognizes Hawai'ian independence. 55 years later, the U.S. would unilaterally annex Hawai'i instead.
● 1862 - Birth of Nicolas Stoinoff, in Choumen, Bulgaria. The "patriarch" of Bulgarian anarchism, antimilitarist, writer, journalist, teacher, author. Never ceased denouncing the odious crimes of the Soviet occupation during his 101 years.
● 1875 - Birth of black educator/historian Carter Woodson.
● 1907 - 239 workers die in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
● 1910 - First city ordinance requiring white and black residential areas, in Baltimore.
● 1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by President Taft after 3-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison .
● 1915 - Birth of Edith Piaff. French singer who entertained POW's while refusing to sing for Nazis during WWII.
● 1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
● 1920 - King Constantine I restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebescite.
● 1940 - Birth of folk music protester Phil Ochs, El Paso.
● 1940 - Civilian public service camps for conscientious objectors established.
● 1941 - Adolph Hitler becomes commander in chief of German Army during WWII.
● 1945 - Karl Renner, leader of Austrian Socialist Party, elected President.
● 1946 - Reenactment of Boston Tea Party in Boston.
● 1946 - Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh launches war against French occupiers.
● 1961 - India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
● 1962 - Juan Bosch elected President of the Dominican Republic in first free elections in 38 years. Overthrown by U.S.-backed coup in September 1963.
● 1963 - Zanzibar receives its independence from the United Kingdom, to become a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed.
● 1965 - Demonstrations against Vietnam War, worldwide.
● 1965 - Prison guard George Hodson is killed during Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker's escape from HM Prison Pentridge in Coburg, Victoria.
● 1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
● 1969 - Six-time Socialist Party Presidential candidate Norman Thomas dies.
● 1972 - Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
● 1972 - Collision involving the Sea Star, in the Gulf of Oman, dumping 115,000 gallons of oil into the gulf.
● 1977 - An attack destroys the luxury Paris food store, Fauchon.
● 1981 - Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
● 1984 - The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People's Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997, is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
● 1984 - Twenty-seven miners killed by speedup in an Orangeville, Utah mine.
● 1986 - U.S.S.R. frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile.
● 1994 - Zapatista rebels in Southeastern Mexico slip through army seige and briefly occupy 38 towns in Chiapas state, crippling Wall Street investments in Mexican bond market.
● 1997 - Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
● 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate. It sucked.
● 2000 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
● 2001 - A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.
● 2001 - Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo's corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
● 2001 - The fire at the World Trade Center, as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks, is finally extinguished after three months.
● 2003 - Nepal financial crisis leads hundreds to protest outside of presidential palace.
BIRTHS
● 1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
● 1683 - Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
● 1699 - William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)
● 1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
● 1778 - Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)
● 1813 - Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)
● 1817 - James Archer, Confederate general (d. 1904)
● 1831 - Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884)
● 1852 - Albert Abraham Michelson, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
● 1853 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)
● 1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (d. 1932)
● 1885 - Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938)
● 1888 - Fritz Reiner, Austro-Hungarian-born American conductor (d. 1963)
● 1894 - Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (d. 1978)
● 1901 - Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)
● 1902 - Sir Ralph Richardson, British actor (d. 1983)
● 1903 - George Davis Snell, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
● 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
● 1907 - Jimmy McLarnin, former Welterweight Champion (d. 2004)
● 1909 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (d. 2002)
● 1910 - Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
● 1915 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
● 1918 - Professor Longhair, American blues musician (d. 1980)
● 1920 - David Susskind, American TV talk show host (d. 1987)
● 1922 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish born television presenter (d. 1987)
● 1923 - Gordon Jackson, British actor (d. 1990)
● 1924 - Edmund Purdom, English actor
● 1924 - Doug Harvey, National Hockey League defenceman (d. 1989)
● 1925 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter
● 1925 - Tankred Dorst, German dramatist
● 1927 - James Booth, British actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
● 1929 - Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician
● 1929 - Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)
● 1932 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer.
● 1933 - Cicely Tyson, American actress
● 1933 - Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete
● 1934 - Al Kaline, baseball player
● 1934 - Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer
● 1934 - Casper R. Taylor, Jr., former Maryland politician.
● 1935 - Barbara Bostock, American actress
● 1935 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
● 1936 - Marian McKnight, Miss America 1957
● 1940 - Phil Ochs, American folk singer (d. 1976)
● 1941 - Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire)
● 1943 - Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d. 2006)
● 1944 - William Christie, American-born director of Les Arts Florissants
● 1944 - Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist
● 1944 - Richard Leakey, British anthropologist
● 1944 - Alvin Lee, British singer/guitarist (Ten Years After)
● 1944 - Tim Reid, American actor
● 1944 - Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (d. 2002)
● 1945 - Elaine Joyce, American actress
● 1946 - Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)
● 1948 - Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1949 - Nancy Kyes, American actress
● 1949 - Sebastian, Danish musician
● 1956 - Tom Lawless, baseball player
● 1957 - Kevin McHale, American basketball player
● 1957 - John Gulager, American film director
● 1957 - Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993)
● 1958 - Limahl, British singer (Kajagoogoo)
● 1960 - Mike Lookinland, American actor
● 1960 - Michelangelo Signorile, American writer
● 1961 - Eric Allin Cornell, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1961 - Matthew Waterhouse, British actor
● 1961 - Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
● 1963 - Jennifer Beals, American film actress
● 1964 - Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
● 1965 - Chito Martinez, Belizean baseball player
● 1966 - Eric Weinrich, American ice hockey player
● 1966 - Alberto Tomba, Italian alpine skier
● 1966 - Chuckii Booker, American singer, musician and producer
● 1967 - Criss Angel, American illusionist and escapist
● 1967 - Frankie Lam, Hong Kong actor
● 1969 - Kristy Swanson, American actress
● 1969 - Richard Hammond, British television presenter
● 1969 - Villano IV, Mexican wrestler
● 1970 - Tyson Beckford, American model
● 1971 - Tiffany Towers, Canadian adult film actress
● 1971 - Amy Locane, American actress
● 1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress
● 1972 - Warren Sapp, American football player
● 1973 - Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist
● 1973 - Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor
● 1974 - Jake Plummer, American football player
● 1974 - Ricky Ponting, Australian test cricketer
● 1974 - Migé Amour, Bassist for the Finnish band, HIM
● 1975 - Olivier Tebily, Ivorian footballer
● 1977 - Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player
● 1978 - Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
● 1979 - Paola Rey, Colombian actress
● 1979 - Kevin Devine, American musician.
● 1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
● 1980 - Marla Sokoloff, American actress
● 1982 - Vincent Accardi, American musician
● 1982 - Maurice Williams, American basketball player
● 1983 - Matt Stajan, NHL hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs)
● 1985 - Gary Cahill, English footballer
● 1985 - Lady Sovereign, English musician
● 1987 - Karim Benzema, French footballer
● 1991 - Declan Galbraith, British singer
DEATHS
● 401 - Pope Anastasius I
● 1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England
● 1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
● 1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
● 1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
● 1741 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)
● 1745 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
● 1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
● 1751 - Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
● 1807 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
● 1813 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)
● 1814 - Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump
● 1819 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
● 1848 - Emily Brontë, British author (b. 1818)
● 1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)
● 1932 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Protester against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908)
● 1938 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (b. 1873)
● 1939 - Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
● 1944 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
● 1944 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
● 1946 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
● 1953 - Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
● 1967 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
● 1968 - Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884)
● 1982 - Dwight Macdonald, social critic, combative journalist and anarchist (b. 1906)
● 1986 - V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
● 1989 - Stella Gibbons, British author (b. 1902)
● 1991 - Joe Cole (roadie), roadie for American band Black Flag, Henry Rollins' best friend (b. 1961)
● 1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946)
● 1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
● 1997 - Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (b. 1908)
● 1997 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (b. 1924)
● 1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, British actor (b. 1914)
● 2000 - Robert Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (b. 1958)
● 2000 - Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist (b. 1910)
● 2000 - Pops Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers) (b. 1915)
● 2001 - Marcel Mule, French saxophonist. (b. 1901)
● 2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck, British lawyer (b. 1914)
● 2003 - Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1931)
● 2004 - Herbert C. Brown, British-born American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
● 2004 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
● 2005 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (b. 1927)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Augustine Moi
● St. Bernard Valeara
● St. Darius
● St. Dominic Uy
● St. Fausta
● St. Francis Xavier Mau
● St. Manirus
● Sts. Meuris & Thea
● St. Nemesius
● St. O Radix
● St. Ribert
● St. Thomas De & Companions
● Bl. Francis Man
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 6 (Civil Date: December 19)
● Nativity Fast.
● St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia.
● Blessed Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev.
● New Martyr Nicholas of Karamania in Asia Minor.
● Namesday of Royal Martyr Tsar Nicholas II (1918).
● Roman festivals - Opalia
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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