Day of the week in surrounding years:
1980,1986,. . . .,1997,2003—MON—2008
1981,1987,1992,1998,. . . .—TUE—2009
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—WED—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—THU—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—FRI—. . . .
1984,1990,. . . .,2001,2007—SAT—2012
1985,1991,1996,2002,. . . .—SUN—2013
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Service "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." — John F. Kennedy
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Demonizing Democrats or Don't Kill All the Liberals "The left are the ones that proposed abolishing the CIA in the 1990's. They rendered it impotent under the Clinton years. They're the ones that, while Ronald Reagan was deploying missiles in Europe, pursuing SDI, building up our nation's defenses and calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire," Al Gore, Tom Daschle, and Dick Gephardt were voting for a nuclear freeze. . . . " — Sean Hannity. "700 Club," CBN, 8-21-02.—Part 1 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.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other." — 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
Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky
Credit & Copyright: Danilo Pivato
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1440 - Execution of Bluebeard the pirate.
● 1603 - Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I.
● 1731 - Dutch people revolt against meat tax.
● 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
● 1807 - The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
● 1808 - In a mammoth concert at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony as well as his Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy.
● 1809 - The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, passes the U.S. Congress.
● 1815 - Jose Maria Morelos dies. Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards.
● 1830 - State of Georgia makes it unlawful for Cherokee to meet in council, unless it is for the purpose of giving land to whites.
● 1849 - Fyodor Dostoevsky led out for execution, then pardoned at the last moment.
● 1851 - The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
● 1864 - Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his "March to the Sea".
● 1885 - Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
● 1894 - The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on anti-Semitic grounds.
● 1905 - Revolutionary uprising against the Tsar begins in Moscow.
● 1920 - John Northcutt, militant coal miners' leader, killed.
● 1920 - The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
● 1922 - The anarcho-syndicalist International Working Men's Association (IWA) founded, Berlin.
● 1937 - Frank Ade jailed 21 days for war tax resistance, Britain.
● 1937 - The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
● 1940 - World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
● 1942 - Avalanche buries bus full of defense workers at Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. 22 die.
● 1942 - World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
● 1943 - Four month strike by 23 conscientious objectors ends dining hall segregation at Danbury Federal Penitentiary, Connecticut.
● 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge--German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium; prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "NUTS!"
● 1944 - World War II: Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.
● 1947 - The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves its constitution.
● 1956 - Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity.
● 1956 - Manuel Devaldes (aka Ernest-Edmond Lohy) dies. Anarchist, pacifist, and neo-Malthusian.
● 1963 - Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.
● 1964 - Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity.
● 1964 - First SR-71 (Blackbird) flight.
● 1965 - Henry House becomes first U.S. soldier to be courtmartialed for protesting against Vietnam War.
● 1965 - In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
● 1968 - All but one of the 83 crew members of the U.S. Navy spy ship Pueblo are released, 11 months after the ship is seized without a struggle by North Korean patrol boats for violating territorial waters in the Sea of Japan.
● 1972 - U.S. again bombs the Bach Mai Hospital in the center of Hanoi, destroying it and allegedly killing 25 doctors, pharmacists, and nurses.
● 1974 - Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
● 1974 - Hopi and Navajo Relocation Act passed by Congress to get those inconvenient Indians at Big Mountain, Arizona, away from lucrative coal deposits. Big Mountain families have been resisting this forced racial relocation ever since.
● 1974 - Ted Heath's house is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
● 1976 - Worst oil spill off U.S. coast -- Liberian tanker off Nantucket.
● 1978 - The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.
● 1982 - Congress passes first version Boland amendment (411-0) which prohibited covert efforts by the President to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. So he ordered someone else to do it.
● 1984 - Bernhard Goetz, riding on New York City subway, shoots and wounds four teen-age boys after one of them demands five dollars. Becomes pop culture vigilante hero.
● 1988 - Cease-fire announced by Angola, Cuba and South Africa in preparation for Namibian independence.
● 1988 - Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.
● 1989 - Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
● 1989 - Kempsey bus crash: Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific Highway north of Kempsey, New South Wales
● 1989 - Romanian communist dictator Nikolea Ceausescu overthrown. He is executed three days later. Of the numerous "velvet curtain" revolutions of that year, the only one where the protagonists used violence to unseat the government.
● 1990 - Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait.
● 1993 - "Operation Toys for Guns" begins in New York City.
● 1993 - Native Title Act restores some land and rights lost by aborigines, Australia.
● 1997 - Paramilitaries associated with the ruling PRI party massacre 45 peasants in the village of Acteal. Chiapas, Mexico. Government will use this to expel humanitarian observers and to occupy and suppress the population with over 70,000 troops in the area.
● 1999 - The Spanish Civil Guard finds near Calatayud (Zaragoza) another van loaded by ETA with 750 kg of explosives.
● 2001 - Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
● 2001 - Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
● 2003 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits near San Simeon, California.
BIRTHS
● 1095 - Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)
● 1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
● 1546 - Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1604)
● 1550 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
● 1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
● 1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)
● 1690 - Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)
● 1694 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768)
● 1696 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785)
● 1723 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787)
● 1765 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)
● 1805 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
● 1807 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)
● 1819 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (d. 1870)
● 1819 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892)
● 1853 - Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (d. 1917)
● 1853 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919)
● 1856 - Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
● 1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
● 1860 - Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator (d. 1927)
● 1862 - Connie Mack, American baseball executive (d. 1956)
● 1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (d. 1935)
● 1869 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
● 1872 - Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961)
● 1874 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939)
● 1876 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor (d. 1944)
● 1883 - Edgard Varèse French-born composer (d. 1965)
● 1887 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)
● 1888 - J. Arthur Rank, British film producer (d. 1972)
● 1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
● 1899 - Gustav Gründgens, German actor (d. 1963)
● 1901 - André Kostelanetz, American popular music orchestra leader and arranger (d. 1980)
● 1903 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)
● 1905 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
● 1905 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (d. 1972)
● 1907 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (d. 1991)
● 1909 - Patricia Hayes, English actress (d. 1998)
● 1912 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (d. 2007)
● 1915 - Barbara Billingsley, American actress
● 1917 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (d. 1999)
● 1921 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American country singer (d. 1963)
● 1922 - Jack Brooks, American politician
● 1922 - Ruth Roman, American actress (d. 1999)
● 1924 - Frank Corsaro, American stage director
● 1925 - Lewis Glucksman, American financier (d. 2006)
● 1934 - David Pearson, American racecar driver
● 1936 - James Burke, British writer
● 1936 - Hector Elizondo, American actor
● 1936 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969)
● 1937 - Eduard Uspensky, Russian writer
● 1938 - Matty Alou, Dominican baseball player
● 1938 - Lucien Bouchard, Quebec politician
● 1939 - James Gurley, American musician
● 1942 - Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd)
● 1943 - Paul Wolfowitz, American politician
● 1944 - Steve Carlton, American baseball player
● 1945 - Diane Sawyer, American journalist
● 1946 - Rick Nielsen, American musician (Cheap Trick)
● 1948 - Noel Edmonds, English game show host
● 1948 - Steve Garvey, American baseball player
● 1948 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003)
● 1949 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
● 1949 - Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees)
● 1951 - Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster
● 1953 - BernNadette Stanis, actress
● 1953 - Ian Turnbull, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1954 - Hideshi Matsuda, Japanese racing driver
● 1955 - Lonnie Smith, American baseball player
● 1957 - Carole James, Canadian politician
● 1958 - Frank Gambale, Australian musician
● 1958 - Mikael Nordfors, Swedish physician and author
● 1959 - Bernd Schuster, German footballer
● 1960 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (d. 1988)
● 1960 - Luther Campbell, American rapper (2 Live Crew)
● 1960 - Patrick Fitzgerald, American attorney
● 1961 - Andrew Fastow, American businessman
● 1962 - Ralph Fiennes, English actor
● 1963 - Giuseppe Bergomi, Italian footballer
● 1966 - Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast
● 1967 - Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
● 1967 - Richey James Edwards, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers) (disappeared in 1995)
● 1967 - Stéphane Gendron, Quebec politician
● 1967 - Paul Morris, Australian racing driver
● 1968 - Dina Meyer, American actress
● 1968 - Lauralee Bell, American actress
● 1969 - Myriam Bédard, Canadian athlete
● 1972 - Big Tigger, television host
● 1972 - Vanessa Paradis, French singer
● 1974 - Heather Donahue, American actress
● 1975 - Crissy Moran, American erotic actress
● 1975 - Dmitri Khokhlov, Russian footballer
● 1975 - Stanislav Neckář, Czech ice hockey player
● 1976 - Brian A. Alexander, American screenwriter and director
● 1977 - Steve Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1980 - Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress (d. 2005)
● 1980 - Chris Carmack, American actor
● 1983 - Jennifer Hawkins, Australian Miss Universe
● 1984 - Jonas Altberg, Swedish musician (Basshunter)
● 1989 - Jordin Sparks, American singer and American Idol winner
● 1990 - Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor
DEATHS
● 1100 - Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia
● 1550 - Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III
● 1603 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1566)
● 1646 - Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
● 1660 - André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)
● 1681 - Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
● 1708 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)
● 1738 - Constantia Jones, British prostitute (executed)
● 1767 - John Newbery, English publisher (b. 1713)
● 1788 - Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
● 1806 - William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)
● 1867 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (b. 1788)
● 1870 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1836)
● 1828 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766)
● 1880 - George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819)
● 1899 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b. 1837)
● 1902 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychiatrist (b. 1840)
● 1917 - Mother Cabrini, first American citizen canonized by the Catholic Church (b. 1850)
● 1939 - Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886)
● 1940 - Nathanael West, American writer (b. 1903)
● 1942 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858)
● 1943 - Beatrix Potter, English writer (b. 1866)
● 1944 - Harry Langdon, American silent film actor (b. 1884)
● 1947 - Hans Aumeier, German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
● 1947 - Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
● 1959 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American dancer and actress (b. 1901)
● 1965 - Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1913)
● 1971 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch author and television personality (b. 1913)
● 1979 - Darryl F. Zanuck, American producer (b. 1902)
● 1985 - D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (b. 1958)
● 1988 - Chico Mendes, Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist, and environmental activist (assassinated) (b. 1944)
● 1989 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
● 1992 - Frederick Franz, Watchtower president (b. 1893)
● 1993 - Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1913)
● 1995 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b. 1911)
● 1995 - James Meade, English economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1907)
● 1998 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969)
● 2002 - Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana (b. 1929)
● 2002 - Joe Strummer, English musician (The Clash) (b. 1952)
● 2003 - Dave Dudley, American singer (b. 1928)
● 2004 - Doug Ault, American baseball player (b. 1950)
● 2006 - Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer (b. 1919)
● 2006 - Dennis Linde, American songwriter (b. 1943)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amaswinthus
● St. Anastasia of Sirmium
● St. Chaeromon
● St. Demetrius
● St. Flavian
● St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
● St. Hunger
● St. O Rex
● St. Zeno
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 9 (Civil Date: December 22)
● Nativity Fast.
● The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of Prophet Samuel.
● St. Stephen the "New Light" of Constantinople.
● St. Sophronius, Archbishop of Cyprus.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Sositheus.
● Martyr Narses of Persia.
● Martyr Isaac.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy".
● Chinese Culture - Winter Solstice where is commonly met with the eating of glutinous flour balls(Tang Yuen). Marks the beginning of winter. Tang Yuen was introduced in China as an item of propaganda back in the Dynasties.
● Indonesia Mother Day, as an achievement for Dewi Sartika.
● Japan - Tōji (winter solstice)
● Astrology: First day of sun sign Capricorn
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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