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 Sex "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me." — Jimmy Carter
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Demonizing Democrats or Don't Kill All the Liberals ". . . Based on that track record, I don't think they're the people to lead this country into the future, because they don't seem to have a fundamental understanding of good versus evil in the world and the need to destroy that would otherwise destroy innocent human life." — Sean Hannity. "700 Club," CBN, 8-21-02.—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.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "All along the untrodden paths of the future I can see the footprints of an unseen hand." — 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
Moon and Mars Tonight
Credit & Copyright: John Harms
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1493 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
● 1617 - First penal colony in North America established in Virginia.
● 1783 - George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
● 1793 - The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
● 1823 - The poem A Visit From St. Nicholas (AKA The Night Before Christmas) is published in the Sentinel.
● 1877 - Birth of Luigi Fabbri, Fabriano, Italy. Professor, Italian anarchist, theorist, writer. Escaped the fascist regime in 1926, seeking refuge in France, Belgium, and, finally, after being expelled several times, in Uruguay.
● 1880 - Malheur Agency in South Oregon is closed, with all Indians successfully removed from region.
● 1888 - Vincent van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his left ear, takes it to a brothel, and gives it to a prostitute named Rachel.
● 1913 - The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.
● 1914 - World War I: The Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo.
● 1916 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
● 1921 - Visva-Bharati University inaugurated.
● 1936 - Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
● 1937 - First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
● 1938 - South Africa Discovery of the first modern coelacanth.
● 1938 - Spanish insurgents launch Catalonia drive.
● 1940 - World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Υ-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
● 1941 - World War II: Japanese Imperial Army occupied Wake Island.
● 1946 - University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne University, because they may use a black player in the basketball game.
● 1947 - Pres. Truman pardons 1,523 of 15,805 World War II draft resisters.
● 1947 - The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley.
● 1948 - Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East were executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo including Tojo.
● 1950 - U.S. signs an agreement with France, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to provide military assistance in Indochina.
● 1954 - England - Bertrand Russell broadcasts on "Man's Peril" -- the H-bomb.
● 1954 - The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
● 1958 - Dedication of Tokyo Tower, world's highest self-supporting iron tower.
● 1966 - Fervently pro-war Catholic Cardinal Spellman arrives in Vietnam for a five-day Christmas visit, stating U.S. troops were there for the "defense, protection, and salvation not only of our country, but...of civilization itself." Apparently Shrub was listening.
● 1972 - About 350 anti-war protesters march through stores in the downtown Seattle shopping district.
● 1972 - Australian Labour Party elected government, defeating the 23-year-old Liberal-Country Party Coalition.
● 1972 - The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
● 1972 - The Nicaraguan capital of Managua is struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 10,000.
● 1975 - The Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes of Maine win a court decision upholding principle that the U.S. has an obligation to protect the land rights of all tribes, whether recognized by the federal government or not.
● 1979 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
● 1982 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
● 1986 - Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California and becomes the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world.
● 1987 - Mansonite Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of Pres. Gerald Ford, escapes from Alderson federal women's prison in West Virginia.
● 1990 - History of Slovenia: 88% of Slovenia's population vote for independence from Yugoslavia in a referendum.
● 1991 - Prayers for peace in all churches, but a planned interfaith peace rally is banned by Yugoslavian authorities.
● 1992 - France - The "Journal Officiel" publishes the abrogation of the "laws scolorates," adopted between December 12, 1893 and July 28, 1894, following Auguste Vaillant's attack on the Chamber of Deputies, which were designed to repress anarchists throughout the country.
● 2002 - A MQ-1 Predator was shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat.
● 2004 - Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean is hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake.
● 2005 - Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashed shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
● 2005 - Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18th attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.
● 2007 - A grand conjunction in which the solar system will align with the galactic center.
● 2012 - Great benchmark in Mayan calendar - "The Long Count cycle will return to the symmetry of the beginning."
BIRTHS
● 245- Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra
● 1173 - Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)
● 1513 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)
● 1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
● 1582 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (d. 1663)
● 1597 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (d. 1639)
● 1613 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)
● 1621 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (d. 1678)
● 1621 - Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)
● 1689 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (d. 1755)
● 1732 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)
● 1743 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
● 1750 - King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (d. 1827)
● 1777 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825)
● 1790 - Jean François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)
● 1804 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869)
● 1805 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1844)
● 1819 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889)
● 1822 - Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875)
● 1843 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1924)
● 1854 - Henry B. Guppy, British botanist (d. 1926)
● 1864 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)
● 1867 - Madam C.J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon(d. 1919)
● 1878 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
● 1885 - Pierre Brissaud, French artist (d. 1964)
● 1891 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (d. 1956)
● 1900 - Otto Soglow, American comics artist (d. 1975)
● 1902 - Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
● 1907 - Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942)
● 1908 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born, Canadian portrait photographer (d. 2002)
● 1911 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
● 1911 - James Gregory, American actor (d. 2002)
● 1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
● 1918 - José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
● 1921 - Guy Beaulne, French Canadian actor and theatre director (d. 2001)
● 1922 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
● 1923 - Günther Schifter, Austrian music journalist
● 1923 - Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
● 1923 - James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral (d. 2005)
● 1923 - Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (d. 1954)
● 1926 - Robert Bly, American poet
● 1928 - Chronis Aidonidis, Greek singer
● 1929 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1988)
● 1931 - Ronnie Schell, American actor
● 1933 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan
● 1935 - Paul Hornung, American football player
● 1935 - Esther Phillips, American singer (d. 1984)
● 1936 - Frederic Forrest, American actor
● 1937 - Barney Rosenzweig, American television producer
● 1938 - Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
● 1940 - Jorma Kaukonen, American musician
● 1940 - Robert Labine, former mayor of old city of Gatineau, Quebec
● 1940 - Eugene Record, American singer (The Chi-Lites) (d. 2005)
● 1941 - Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
● 1942 - John Peterman, American fashion designer
● 1943 - Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician
● 1943 - Harry Shearer, American actor
● 1943 - Ron Allen, baseball player
● 1943 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d. 1987)
● 1943 - Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden
● 1944 - Wesley Clark, U.S. general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander
● 1945 - Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly)
● 1946 - Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano
● 1946 - Susan Lucci, American actress
● 1947 – Heikki Lahtinen, Finnish race walker
● 1948 - Jack Ham, American football player
● 1949 - Adrian Belew, American musician
● 1950 - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
● 1950 - Ilchi Lee, Korean educator and author
● 1951 - Anthony Phillips, British guitarist (Genesis)
● 1952 - William Kristol, American political commentator
● 1956 - Dave Murray, English guitarist (Iron Maiden)
● 1956 - Michele Alboreto, Italian Formula one driver (d. 2001)
● 1957 - Dan Bigras, Canadian singer
● 1957 - Trisha Goddard, English television presenter
● 1958 - Victoria Williams, American singer
● 1958 - Joan Severance, American actress
● 1959 - Geoff Willis, British engineer
● 1961 - Carol Smillie, British television personality
● 1962 - Keiji Muto, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1962 - Bertrand Gachot, Belgian racing driver
● 1963 - Jim Harbaugh, American football player
● 1963 - Donna Tartt, American author
● 1964 - Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam)
● 1968 - Carla Bruni, Italian-French model, songwriter and singer
● 1969 - Martha Byrne, American actress
● 1970 - Catriona LeMay Doan, Canadian speed skater
● 1970 - Raymont Harris, American football player
● 1971 - Corey Haim, Canadian actor
● 1971 - Masayoshi Yamazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter
● 1971 - Michalis Klokidis, Greek footballer
● 1971 - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite
● 1974 - Agustín Delgado, Ecuadorian footballer
● 1975 - Sky Lopez, American actress
● 1975 - Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player
● 1976 - Brad Lidge, American baseball player
● 1976 - Dimitris Mavrogenidis, Greek footballer
● 1976 - Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
● 1977 - Alge Crumpler, American football player
● 1977 - Jari Mäenpää, Finnish guitarist and singer
● 1977 - Paul Shirley, American basketball player
● 1978 - Andra Davis, American football player
● 1978 - Esthero, Canadian musician and singer
● 1978 - Jodie Marsh, British pornographic model
● 1978 - Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan baseball player
● 1978 - Estella Warren, Canadian model and actress
● 1979 - Summer Altice, American model and actress
● 1979 - Scott Gomez, American ice hockey player
● 1981 - Beth, Spanish singer
● 1983 - Michael Chopra, English footballer
● 1983 - Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
● 1985 - Harry Judd, British drummer (McFly)
● 1985 - Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
● 1988 - Eri Kamei, Japanese singer
● 1990 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, model, and singer
DEATHS
● 910 - Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar
● 913 - Conrad of Franconia
● 918 - Conrad I of Germany
● 1230 - Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England
● 1556 - Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)
● 1568 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England
● 1575 - Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)
● 1588 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (b. 1550)
● 1631 - Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)
● 1646 - François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)
● 1652 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1585)
● 1675 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
● 1722 - Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)
● 1771 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)
● 1761 - Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy
● 1779 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)
● 1789 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of signed French (b. 1712)
● 1793 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
● 1793 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
● 1795 - Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
● 1805 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
● 1834 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)
● 1846 - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)
● 1902 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
● 1912 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
● 1931 - Wilson Bentley, American scientist
● 1939 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (b. 1890)
● 1946 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
● 1948 - Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (hanged) (b. 1884)
● 1948 - Akira Muto, Japanese army commander (hanged) (b. 1883)
● 1953 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (b. 1899)
● 1954 - René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)
● 1970 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (b. 1886)
● 1972 - Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1888)
● 1973 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (b. 1892)
● 1973 - Irna Phillips, American television writer, director, and producer (b. 1901)
● 1979 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
● 1982 - Jack Webb, American actor, producer, and director (b. 1920)
● 1983 - Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
● 1992 - Vincent Fourcade, French American interior designer and socialite (b. 1934)
● 1992 - Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Funkadelic) (b. 1950)
● 1994 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b. 1905)
● 1997 - Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (b. 1908)
● 2000 - Noor Jehan, Mallika-e-Tarranum (Queen of Melody) (b. 1926)
● 2000 - Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
● 2000 - Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909)
● 2004 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
● 2005 - Norman D. Vaughan, polar explorer and dogsled driver (b. 1905)
● 2005 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and coach (b. 1914)
● 2006 - Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)
● 2006 - Marilyn Waltz, American actress, model & Playboy Playmate (b. 1931)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Martyrs of Crete
● St. Dagobert II
● St. John of Kanty
● Sts. Migdonius & Mardonius
● St. Nicholas Factor
● St. O Emmanuel
● St. Servulus
● St. Theodulus
● St. Thorlac Thorhallsson, patron saint of Iceland
● St. Victoria
● St. Vintila
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 10 (Civil Date: December 23)
● Nativity Fast.
● Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus of Alexandria
● St. Ioasaph, Bishop of Belgorod.
● Martyr Gemellus of Paphlagonia.
● St. Thomas of Bithynia.
● Blessed John, king of Serbia, and his parents Stephen and Angelina Brancovich.
● Greek Calendar:
● Hieromartyr Theotecnus.
● Martyr Marianus.
● Martyr Eugene.
● Coptic Church:
● St. Abassad
● St. Psote
● Roman festivals - Larentalia, a festival in honour of Larenta
● Ancient Latvia - Ziemassvētki held
● Japan - The Emperor's Birthday - Birthday of Akihito, the current Emperor of Japan
● Oaxaca - Night of the Radishes
● Sweden - Birthday of Queen Silvia, an official flag day
● Secular humanism (United States) – Human Light observed
● Festivus, a holiday made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld.
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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