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Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Sexism "Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination." — Andrea Dworkin
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Inquisition "Physical evidence conclusively establishes that the President and Ms. Lewinsky had a sexual relationship . . . Ms. Lewinsky turned over a navy blue dress that she had worn during a sexual encounter with the President on February 28, 1997. According to Ms. Lewinsky, she noticed stains on the garment the next time she took it from her closet. From their location, she surmised that the stains were the President's semen. . . . " — From The Starr Report, "Narrative" section I.B.1., "Physical Evidence," 9-9-98.—Part 1 of 3 {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 "He is the kind of opponent who would stab in front of your face and then stab you in the chest when your back is turned." — 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
Emission Nebula IC 1396
Credit & Copyright: Kent Wood
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is inaugurated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes.
● 640 - John IV becomes Pope.
● 1294 - Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had abdicated.
● 1515 - Thomas Wolsey is named the English Lord Chancellor.
● 1777 - Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, was discovered by James Cook.
● 1800 - Assassination attempt on Napoleon Bonaparte's life.
● 1814 - The Treaty of Ghent was signed which ended the War of 1812.
● 1816 - Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812.
● 1818 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and Josef Mohr.
● 1834 - Elizabeth Chandler, slavery abolitionist, born.
● 1851 - Fire at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroys about two-thirds of its 55,000 volumes, including two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson's personal library, sold to the institution in 1815. Today, the collection, housed in three enormous buildings in Washington, contains more than 17,000,000 books, as well as nearly 95,000,000 maps, manuscripts, photographs, films, audio and video recordings, prints and drawings, and other special collections.
● 1865 - Months after the fall of the Confederacy and the end of slavery, Ku Klux Klan is founded in Pulaski, Tenn. Its first priority, it declared in its creed, was ostensibly "to protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless from the indignities, wrongs, and outrages of the lawless, the violent, and the brutal." {Code words for keep the African American down like the slave he used to be.}
● 1888 - Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his ear during some sort of seizure.
● 1906 - Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio broadcast. The first program, consisted of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
● 1907 - Birth of activist journalist I.F. "Izzy" Stone, Philadelphia. Washington editor of "The Nation" magazine and founder of the legendary "I.F. Stone's Weekly," he specialized in publishing information ignored by the corporate media (which he often found in The Congressional Record and other public documents overlooked and too hard to find by the big-circulation dailies). A self-described "Jeffersonian Marxist," Stone combined progressive politics, investigative zeal, and a compulsion to tell the truth with a commitment to human rights and the exposure of injustice. Not unlike George Seldes before him and Noam Chomsky's work today, doing the job corporate media refuses to do.
● 1913 - 72 miners' children killed in panic caused by company stooge at Calumet, Michigan.
● 1914 - Wilderness advocate John Muir dies, Los Angeles, California.
● 1914 - World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
● 1919 - Coming from exile in Cardiff, England, the anarchist Errico Malatesta slips clandestinely back into Tarente (southern Italy) and takes the train for Gones, where an immense crowd greets his return. Malatesta won the militant support of broad sections of his countrymen whose demonstrations and strikes on his behalf saved him from death and imprisonment a number of times. In Argentine exile and again in the U.S. he published radical newspapers. He took part in the Xeres insurrection in Spain, in the general strike of 1895 in Belgium, spent years of exile and imprisonment in England, France, and Switzerland. After the ascent of fascism, Malatesta remained in Italy, under house arrest, until he died. The authorities ordered his body thrown into a common grave.
● 1919 - R. B. Russell sentenced to two years in prison for the Winnipeg. Manitoba.
● 1924 - Albania becomes a republic.
● 1924 - Costa Rica withdraws from League of Nations to protest Monroe Doctrine.
● 1929 - Assassination attempt of Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
● 1939 - World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
● 1941 - World War II: Hong Kong and Kuching fall to the Japanese Imperial Army.
● 1942 - First powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemonde, Germany. Nazi V-1 research scientists will find a warm welcome in the U.S. after the war.
● 1942 - World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers
● 1943 - World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander.
● 1946 - France's Fourth Republic founded.
● 1951 - Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
● 1953 - Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge collapse at Tangiwai, New Zealand sends a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, killing 153 people.
● 1954 - Laos becomes independent.
● 1955 - Writer, pacifist, and political radical Aldous Huxley ("Brave New World") takes his first acid (LSD) trip.
● 1960 - The Philadelphia Orphan's Court raises singer Chubby Checker's weekly allowance from $150 to $200. The 19-year-old has already put three songs, "The Class," "The Twist" and "The Hucklebuck," in the pop Top Forty.
● 1966 - A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
● 1966 - U.S. cargo plane crashes near Da Nang, South Vietnam, killing 103 civilians on the ground.
● 1968 - Apollo Program: The crew of Apollo 8 enter into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.
● 1968 - The crew of the USS Pueblo is released by North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of spying.
● 1969 - Manson "family" indictments.
● 1970 - Taiji Yamaga dies; long-time secretary of international relations for the Anarchist Federation of Japan.
● 1974 - Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
● 1977 - Anti-Christmas demonstration in San Remo, Italy.
● 1979 - The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
● 1979 - The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan to support the country's Marxist government.
● 1980 - Americans remember Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds. Inspires a book by Stephen King.
● 1987 - Japanese legendary rock band BOØWY declares their breakup at the Shibuya Kokaido.
● 1990 - Gulf Peace Team sets up camp, Judayyidat Ar'ar, Iraq.
● 1991 - Parents of reservists from Grocka protest at Army headquarters, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
● 1992 - President George H. W. Bush pardons six people in the Iran-Contra case, among them former Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger and Robert McFarlane, former national security advisor.
● 1997 - The Dominican Republic becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1997 - The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
● 2000 - The Texas 7 holds up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery.
● 2002 - The New Delhi Metro opens.
● 2003 - The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
BIRTHS
● 1166 - King John of England (d. 1216)
● 1389 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)
● 1475 - Thomas Murner, German writer (d.c. 1537)
● 1491 - Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (d. 1556)
● 1508 - Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567)
● 1588 - Constance of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1631)
● 1609 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683)
● 1635 - Mariana of Austria, second wife of king Philip IV of Spain (d. 1696)
● 1698 - William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester (d. 1779)
● 1724 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811)
● 1754 - George Crabbe, English poet and naturalist (d. 1832)
● 1761 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (d. 1831)
● 1798 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (d. 1855)
● 1809 - Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
● 1812 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist (d. 1894)
● 1818 - James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889)
● 1822 - Matthew Arnold, English poet (d. 1888)
● 1837 - Elisabeth of Bavaria a.k.a Sissi, Empress of Austria (d. 1898)
● 1843 - Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (d. 1886)
● 1845 - King George I of Greece (d. 1913)
● 1867 - Kantaro Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
● 1868 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (d. 1941)
● 1879 - Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, Queen Consort to Christian X (d. 1952)
● 1879 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (d. 1941)
● 1880 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (d. 1939)
● 1881 - Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
● 1886 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (d. 1962)
● 1887 - Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (d. 1951)
● 1893 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (Chattanooga Choo Choo - I Only Have Eyes for You) (d. 1981)
● 1894 - Georges Guynemer, French aviator (d. 1917)
● 1895 - E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978)
● 1898 - Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1967)
● 1898 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959)
● 1900 - Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991)
● 1905 - Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976)
● 1906 - Franz Waxman, German film composer (d. 1967)
● 1910 - Fritz Leiber, American writer (d. 1992)
● 1914 - Herbert Reinecker, German writer
● 1917 - Kim Jong-suk, Wife of Kim Il-sung, mother of Kim Jung-Il, "The Heroine of the Anti-Japanese Revolution" (d. 1949)
● 1920 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
● 1922 - Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
● 1923 - George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
● 1923 - Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (d. 1969)
● 1924 - Lee Dorsey, American singer (d. 1986)
● 1924 - Grigory Kriss, Russian Olympic champion fencer
● 1925 - Mohd. Rafi, Indian actor and playback singer (d. 1980)
● 1926 - Paul Buissonneau, French-born Quebec theatre director
● 1929 - Mary Higgins Clark, American author
● 1931 - Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer
● 1931 - Ray Bryant, American jazz pianist and composer
● 1932 - On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist
● 1937 - Félix Miéli Venerando, Brazilian football player
● 1938 - Bobby Henrich, American baseball player
● 1938 - Valentim Loureiro, Portuguese politician, and former football chairman of Boavista F.C. and Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional
● 1941 - John Levene, British actor
● 1943 - Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
● 1944 - Daniel Johnson, Jr., Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec
● 1944 - Mike Curb, American musician, record company executive and politician
● 1944 - Oswald Gracias, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bombay
● 1944 - Barry Chuckle, British comedian
● 1945 - Lemmy, British singer, bassist (Motörhead)
● 1945 - Nicholas Meyer, American author
● 1946 - Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist (d. 2005)
● 1946 - Jeff Sessions, American politician
● 1947 - Kevin Sheedy, coach of Australian Football League club Essendon FC
● 1948 - Frank Oliver, New Zealand rugby player
● 1949 - Randy Neugebauer, American politician
● 1949 - Warwick Brown, Australian racing driver
● 1950 - Dana Gioia, American poet
● 1951 - John D'Acquisto, baseball player
● 1953 - François Loos, French politician
● 1954 - José María Figueres, Costa Rican politician
● 1955 - Grand L. Bush, American actor
● 1955 - Clarence Gilyard, American actor
● 1957 - Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
● 1957 - Diane Tell, Quebec singer
● 1958 - Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer
● 1959 - Keith Deller, English darts player
● 1959 - Anil Kapoor, Indian actor
● 1960 - Glenn McQueen, American animator
● 1960 - Carol Vorderman, British television presenter
● 1961 - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Republic
● 1963 - Mary Ramsey, American singer (10,000 Maniacs)
● 1963 - Caroline Aherne, English comedienne, writer and actress
● 1964 - Mark Valley, American actor
● 1966 - Diedrich Bader, American actor
● 1967 - Mikhail Shchennikov, Russian race walker
● 1968 - Doyle Bramhall II, American guitarist
● 1969 - Mark Millar, Scottish comic book writer
● 1970 - Amaury Nolasco, American actor
● 1970 - Will Oldham, American singer and songwriter
● 1971 - Christopher Daniels, American professional wrestler
● 1971 - Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
● 1971 - Giorgos Alkaios, Greek singer
● 1972 - Alvaro Mesen, Costa Rican footballer
● 1973 - Eddie Pope, American soccer player
● 1973 - Stephenie Meyer, Author
● 1974 - Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
● 1974 - Ryan Seacrest, American television host
● 1978 - Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer
● 1979 - Chris Hero, American professional wrestler
● 1980 - Tomas Kalnoky, American musician (Streetlight Manifesto)
● 1981 - Dima Bilan, Karachay-Russian pop artist
● 1982 - Aiba Masaki, Japanese singer and actor
● 1985 - David Ragan, American race car driver
● 1986 - Edward Southall, English composer
● 1986 - Riyo Mori, Miss Universe 2007 from Japan
DEATHS
● 427 - Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople
● 820 - Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (assassinated) (b. 775)
● 1257 - John I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218)
● 1453 - John Dunstaple, English composer (bc. 1390)
● 1524 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (bc. 1469)
● 1660 - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631)
● 1707 - Noël Coypel, French painter (b. 1628)
● 1813 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)
● 1863 - William Makepeace Thackeray, English writer (b. 1811)
● 1865 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and writer (b. 1793)
● 1868 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
● 1872 - William John Macquorn Rankine, Scotish physician and engenier (b. 1820)
● 1873 - Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (b. 1795)
● 1889 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819)
● 1898 - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (b. 1828)
● 1914 - John Muir, Scottish-born naturalist (b. 1838)
● 1935 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)
● 1938 - Bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880)
● 1941 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)
● 1942 - François Darlan, vice-premier of Vichy France (b. 1881)
● 1957 - Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1893)
● 1965 - William M. Branham, Christian minister (b. 1906)
● 1972 - Gisela Richter, English art historian (b. 1882)
● 1972 - Melville Ruick, American actor (b. 1898)
● 1975 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (b. 1911)
● 1976 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (b. 1907)
● 1977 - Samael Aun Weor, Columbian writer (b. 1917)
● 1980 - Karl Dönitz, President of Germany (b. 1891)
● 1980 - Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (b. 1893)
● 1982 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)
● 1984 - Peter Lawford, English actor (b. 1923)
● 1985 - Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (b. 1904)
● 1986 - Gardner Fox, American writer (b. 1911)
● 1987 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
● 1987 - M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (b. 1917)
● 1990 - Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian author (b. 1922)
● 1992 - Peyo, Belgian comics artist, and creator of The Smurfs (b. 1928)
● 1992 - Bobby LaKind, American musician and singer (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1945)
● 1993 - Norman Vincent Peale, American writer (b. 1898)
● 1994 - John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947)
● 1994 - Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor and singer (b. 1916)
● 1997 - Toshirô Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
● 1997 - Pierre Péladeau, Quebec businessman, founder of Quebecor (b. 1925)
● 1999 - João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
● 1999 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (b. 1907)
● 1999 - Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach
● 2000 - Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (b. 1935)
● 2002 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
● 2002 - Laci Peterson, American murder victim (b. 1975)
● 2004 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
● 2005 - Michael Vale, American commercial actor (b. 1922)
● 2006 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (b. 1907)
● 2006 - Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian singer, poet and comedian (b. 1961)
● 2006 - Frank Stanton, American television executive (b. 1908)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adela
● St. Caranus
● St. Delphinus
● St. Emiliana
● St. Euthymius
● St. Irmina
● St. Lucian
● St. Tarsilla
● St. Venerandus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 11 (Civil Date: December 24)
● Nativity Fast.
● St. Daniel the Stylite of Constantinople.
● St. Luke the New Stylite of Chalcedon.
● St. Nicon the Dry of the Kiev Caves.
● Martyrs Acepsius and Aeithalas at Arbelus.
● Martyr Mirax of Egypt.
● St. Leontius, monk of Monembasia in the Peloponnesus.
● Martyr Barsabas in Persia.
● New Hieromartyr Theophan of Solikamsk (1918).
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Terentius, Vincent, Emilian and Bebaia.
● Sunday of the Forefathers.
● December 24 is celebrated as the day before Christmas, thus called Christmas Eve. It is the day when food is traditionally set out for Santa Claus and his reindeer. Children around the world are urged to go to bed early so they are not awake when he arrives.
● In Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Dominican Republic, among others, this is the day that presents are exchanged and opened.
● The Declaration of Christmas Peace takes place in the Old Great Square of Turku, Finland's official Christmas City, according to old traditions dating back to the Middle Ages.
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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