Day of the week in surrounding years:
1978,. . . .,1989,1995,2000—MON—2006
1979,1984,1990,. . . .,2001—TUE—2007
. . . .,1985,1991,1996,2002—WED—. . . .
1980,1986,. . . .,1997,2003—THU—2008
1981,1987,1992,1998,. . . .—FRI—2009
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—SAT—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—SUN—2011
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Silence "When you take my time you take something I had meant to use." — Marianne Moore
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Inquisition ". . . Initial tests revealed that the stains were in fact semen. Based on that result, the OIC [Office of the Independent Counsel] asked the President for a blood sample. After requesting and being given assurances that the OIC had an evidentiary basis for making the request, the President agreed. In the White House Map Room on August 3, 1998, the White House Physician drew a vial of blood from the President in the presence of an FBI agent and an OIC attorney. . . . " — From The Starr Report, "Narrative" section I.B.1., "Physical Evidence," 9-9-98.—Part 2 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 "P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore, I beg you to write and let me know." — 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
Mars and Orion Over Monument Valley
Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 0 - Apocryphal birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
● 274 - Roman Emperor Aurelian has a temple dedicated to Sol Invictus on the supposed day of the winter solstice and day of rebirth of the Sun.
● 800 - Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
● 1000 - The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
● 1066 - Coronation of William the Conqueror as king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
● 1100 - Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned as the first King of Jerusalem
● 1130 - Roger II of Sicily is crowned as the first King of Sicily
● 1223 - St. Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene.
● 1261 - John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.
● 1599 - The city of Natal, Brazil is founded.
● 1611 - Settlers under Sir Thomas Dale destroy Apamatuks village on the lower Appomattox River in Virginia; settlers erect townsite of Bermuda Hundred on the site. Merry Christmas.
● 1621 - Massachusetts halts all sinful game-playing, confiscates toys.
● 1643 - Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
● 1650 - Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Gresham's School, England, hanged as a Royalist rebel.
● 1776 - During the American War for Independence, General George Washington leads a secret crossing of the Delaware River with 5,400 troops, hoping to surprise a Hessian force celebrating Christmas at their winter quarters in Trenton, New Jersey. The unconventional attack comes after several months of substantial defeats for Washington's army, resulting in the loss of New York City and other strategic points throughout the state. At about 11 at night on Christmas, his army commences their crossing of the half-frozen river at three locations. The 2,400 soldiers led by Washington successfully brave the freezing temperature, rain, and icy river, and reach the New Jersey side of the Delaware before dawn. The other two divisions, featuring some 3,000 men and important artillery, fail to reach the meeting point by the time of the attack. At approximately 8 AM of December 26, his remaining force, separated into two columns, reaches the outskirts of Trenton and descends on the unsuspecting Hessians. Trenton's 1,400 Hessian defenders are groggy from the previous evening's festivities and, after months of decisive British victories throughout New York, underestimate the Patriot threat.
● 1818 - The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
● 1830 - Hethherington defies British stamp tax by issuing "Poor Man's Guardian."
● 1837 - Col. Zachary Taylor, commanding 1,100 troops, attacks Seminole tribe on north shore of Lake Okeechobee, Florida. 170 troops and 14 Seminoles killed.
● 1868 - Despite bitter opposition, Pres. Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War).
● 1868 - Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
● 1875 - Charles Caldwell killed -- went from slavery through the U.S. Senate.
● 1875 - Jessie Wallace Hughan, founder of War Resisters League, born.
● 1887 - Overwhelmed by poverty, ideological confusion, grief at his grandmother's death, and ineligibility as a peasant to enter the Imperial Kazan University, Maxim Gorky attempts suicide at 18.
● 1910 - Dynamite bomb destroys a portion of the Llewellyn Ironworks in Los Angeles, where a bitter strike is in progress.
● 1914 - Just after midnight on Christmas morning, the majority of German troops engaged in WWI cease firing their guns and artillery, and commence to sing Christmas carols. At certain points along the Eastern and Western fronts, the soldiers of Russia, France, and Britain even hear brass bands joining the Germans in their joyous singing. At the first light of dawn, many of the German soldiers emerge from their trenches and approach the Allied lines across no man's land, calling out "Merry Christmas" in their enemies' native tongues. At first the Allied soldiers suspect it to be a trick, but they too soon climb out of their trenches and shake hands with the German soldiers. The men exchange presents of cigarettes and plum puddings and sing; the Christmas Truce lasts a few days. {Many of the Allied troops accused of crimes ranging from comforting the enemy to treason. The ordinary soldiers on both sides wondered what the Hell the fighting was about.}
● 1919 - Chile - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) forms administration.
● 1925 - Birth of Carlos Castaneda. Author of a number of books describing the teaching of Don Juan, a Yaqui sorcerer and shaman. Castaneda kept himself out of the public eye; there has been much debate as to whether or not his books are documented fact or entirely fiction, and the appropriateness of both his expropriation (in fact or fiction) of native spirituality and the wealth he earned from it.
● 1926 - Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
● 1926 - Nicaraguan rebel Augusto C. Sandino obtains arms and ammunition with the help of prostitutes.
● 1927 - In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the National City Bank bombed, killing two and wounding 23 among the American and Argentinian customers - it is the work of anarchists Giovanni and the brothers Scarfo, proponents of violent action.
● 1932 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills ~70,000 people.
● 1941 - Admiral Chester W Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
● 1941 - World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.
● 1945 - Christmas tree catches fire in a Hartford, Connecticut hospital. 15 patients and three others die.
● 1946 - First of several years of White House Christmas demonstrations seeking amnesty for conscientious objectors convicted of refusing to fight World War II.
● 1946 - W. C. Fields dies, Pasadena, California.
● 1947 - The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
● 1948 - The Bulgarian Communist Party declares as "outlaws" the anarchists who had founded the FACB (Federation Bulgare Anarcho-Communist), and its newspaper "Rabotnitche Skamisal."
● 1950 - The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
● 1951 - Black leader Harry T. Moore killed in a bomb explosion, Sanford, Florida. His wife, critically injured, dies a few days later.
● 1953 - Anarchist Federation and the Libertarian Communist Federation founded by the FAF (French Anarchist Federation).
● 1956 - A good Christian bombs the home of anti-segregationist Fred Shuttlesworth. Birmingham, Ala.
● 1960 - Mass march of students for nuclear disarmament, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
● 1962 - Serge Gregoire dies. Writer, pacifist militant, free thinker, anarchist.
● 1963 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born French poet/essayist known mainly as the founder of Dada, a nihilist revolutionary movement in the arts, dies in Paris.
● 1963 - Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio began transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots were forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
● 1965 - The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz
● 1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
● 1972 - Downtown Managua, Nicaragua destroyed by earthquake.
● 1973 - The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.
● 1974 - Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
● 1974 - Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
● 1977 - Charlie Chaplin dies, Switzerland.
● 1977 - Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat.
● 1978 - Four "Santa Clauses" arrested for climbing a fence at Pilgrim Nuclear Plant, Plymouth, Mass.
● 1978 - Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia.
● 1979 - The Soviet Union airlifts forces into Afghanistan to begin its costly occupation.
● 1989 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, former communist dictator of Romania, and his wife Elena are condemned to death and executed under a wide range of charges.
● 1990 - Mass demonstration in India to protest dam building and flooding of thousands of farms. Project is eventually significantly reduced, proving that the IMF and World Bank don't always succeed in keeping the rabble in line.
● 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
● 1992 - Death of Helen Joseph, anti-apartheid activist, South Africa.
● 2003 - The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
● 2004 - Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
BIRTHS
● 1250 - John IV Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor (d. circa 1305)
● 1461 - Christina of Saxony, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1521)
● 1583 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)
● 1587 - Margarita of Austria, queen of Philip III of Spain (d. 1611)
● 1628 - Noël Coypel, French painter (d. 1707)
● 1642 (O.S.) - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (d. 1727)
● 1652 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713)
● 1665 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (d. 1746)
● 1667 - Ehrengard von der Schulenburg, English royal mistress (d. 1743)
● 1674 - Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
● 1700 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (d. 1758)
● 1711 - Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (d. 1772)
● 1716 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (d. 1774)
● 1742 - Charlotte von Stein, German friend of Goethe (d. 1827)
● 1757 - Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (d 1839)
● 1763 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (d. 1805)
● 1771 - Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and sister of William Wordsworth (d. 1855)
● 1810 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (d. 1892)
● 1821 - Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross (d. 1912)
● 1856 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913)
● 1861 - Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University (d. 1946)
● 1863 - Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries (d. 1957)
● 1865 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1950)
● 1874 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (d. 1944)
● 1875 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian archbishop (d. 1955)
● 1876 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (d. 1948)
● 1876 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Nobel laureate (d. 1959)
● 1878 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver (d. 1941)
● 1884 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (d. 1967)
● 1886 - Kid Ory, American musician (d. 1973)
● 1887 - Conrad Nicholson Hilton, American hotelier (d. 1979)
● 1890 - Robert Ripley, collector of odd facts (d. 1949)
● 1891 - Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (d.1980)
● 1899 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
● 1901 - Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004)
● 1902 - Barton MacLane, American actor (d. 1969)
● 1904 - Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
● 1906 - Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born film producer (d. 1998)
● 1906 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
● 1907 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994)
● 1907 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (d. 1988)
● 1907 - Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1990)
● 1908 - Quentin Crisp, English author (d. 1999)
● 1908 - Jo-Jo Moore, baseball player (d. 2001)
● 1908 - Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-American automotive engineer (d. 1996)
● 1911 - Louise Bourgeois, sculptor
● 1912 - Tony Martin, American singer and actor
● 1912 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (d. 1969)
● 1913 - Henri Nannen, German journalist (d. 1966)
● 1914 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (d. 2007)
● 1915 - Pete Rugolo, Italian-born composer
● 1918 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
● 1918 - Ahmed Ben Bella, politician, first President of Algeria
● 1919 - Paul David, French Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999)
● 1919 - Naushad Ali, Indian music director (d. 2006)
● 1921 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist (d. 2000)
● 1924 - Rod Serling, American television writer (d. 1975)
● 1924 - Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India
● 1925 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born author (d. 1998)
● 1927 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (d. 1975)
● 1928 - Dick Miller, American actor
● 1929 - Stuart Hall, British radio and television presenter
● 1929 - Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (d. 1976)
● 1930 - Emmanuel Agassi, father of Andre Agassi
● 1930 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (d.1986)
● 1932 - Mabel King, American actress (d. 1999)
● 1935 - Al Jackson, baseball player
● 1936 - Princess Alexandra of Kent
● 1936 - Ismail Merchant, Indian-born film producer (d. 2005)
● 1937 - O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (d. 1986)
● 1940 - Pete Brown, English poet and lyricist
● 1943 - Hanna Schygulla, German actress
● 1943 - Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Brazilian racing driver
● 1944 - Jairzinho, Brazilian footballer
● 1944 - Kenny Everett, British entertainer (d. 1995)
● 1944 - Henry Vestine, American musician (d. 1997)
● 1945 - Noel Redding, English musician (d. 2003)
● 1945 - Rick Berman, Star Trek producer
● 1945 - Gary Sandy, American actor
● 1945 - Mike Pringle, Scottish politician
● 1946 - Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter
● 1946 - Larry Csonka, American football player
● 1946 - Gene Lamont, American baseball player and manager
● 1948 - Barbara Mandrell, American singer and actress
● 1948 - Alia al Hussein, of Jordan (d. 1977)
● 1948 - Joel Natalino Santana, Brazilian soccer coach
● 1949 - Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan
● 1949 - Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Singer and icon of the Brazilian music
● 1949 - Sissy Spacek, American actress
● 1949 - Joe Louis Walker, American musician
● 1950 - Manny Trillo, baseball player
● 1950 - Karl Rove, American presidential advisor
● 1952 - CCH Pounder, Guyana-born actress
● 1952 - Desireless, French singer
● 1954 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer
● 1954 - Steve Wariner, American country music singer
● 1955 - Alannah Myles, Canadian singer
● 1957 - Chris Kamara, English footballer and commentator
● 1957 - Shane MacGowan, Irish musician
● 1958 - Hanford Dixon, American football player
● 1958 - Rickey Henderson, baseball player
● 1959 - Michael P. Anderson, astronaut (d. 2003)
● 1960 - Ron Bottitta, British actor
● 1961 - Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian senator
● 1962 - Dean Cameron, American actor
● 1962 - Darren Wharton, British Keyboardist (Thin Lizzy and Dare)
● 1964 - Gary McAllister, Scottish footballer
● 1964 - Bob Stanley, English musician (Saint Etienne), filmmaker and journalist
● 1967 - Jason Thirsk, American bass player (d. 1996)
● 1968 - Helena Christensen, Danish model
● 1968 - Jim Down, American ice hockey player
● 1971 - Dido, English singer
● 1971 - Justin Trudeau, Canadian media personality
● 1971 - Noel Hogan, Irish musician
● 1972 - Josh Freese, American drummer
● 1972 - Mac Powell, American musician, singer/songwriter (lead singer of Third Day)
● 1973 - Robbie Elliott, English footballer
● 1973 - Chris Harris, American professional wrestler
● 1973 - Alexandre Trudeau, Canadian journalist
● 1974 - Nagma, Indian actress
● 1975 - Marcus Trescothick, English cricketer
● 1975 - Hideki Okajima, Japanese baseball player
● 1976 - Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish keyboardist
● 1976 - Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ & Producer
● 1977 - Jim Greco, American skateboarder
● 1978 - Joel Porter, Australian footballer
● 1978 - Simon Jones, English cricketer
● 1980 - Marcus Trufant, American football player
● 1980 - Reika Hashimoto, Japanese actress
● 1980 - Locó, Angolan footballer
● 1980 - Laura Sadler, British actress (d. 2003)
● 1981 - Katie Wright, American actress
● 1981 - Willy Taveras, baseball player
● 1982 - Shawn Andrews, American football player
● 1982 - Rob Edwards, Welsh footballer
● 1982 - Shystie, British rapper-songwriter
● 1984 - Jessica and Lisa Origliasso, Australian pop singers
● 1984 - Alastair Cook, English cricketer
● 1984 - Georgia Moffett, British actress
● 1985 - Leon Pisani, Welsh singer
● 1986 - Doug Loft, English footballer
● 1988 - Eric Gordon, American Basketball Player
DEATHS
● 795 - Pope Adrian I
● 1156 - Peter the Venerable, Benedictine abbot of Cluny (b. c. 1092)
● 1635 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec City (b. 1567)
● 1676 - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
● 1676 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (b. 1592)
● 1683 - Kara Mustafa, Ottoman general (b. 1634)
● 1758 - James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)
● 1765 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (b. 1698)
● 1784 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
● 1824 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (b. 1764)
● 1868 - Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor (b. 1821)
● 1880 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1828)
● 1916 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845)
● 1921 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (b. 1853)
● 1925 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
● 1926 - Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
● 1933 - Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
● 1935 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (b. 1852)
● 1938 - Karel Capek, Czech author (b. 1890)
● 1940 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)
● 1946 - W. C. Fields, American comedian (b. 1880)
● 1947 - Gaspar G. Bacon, was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
● 1950 - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
● 1953 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1865)
● 1961 - Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
● 1961 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1888)
● 1963 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born writer (b. 1896)
● 1971 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (b. 1924)
● 1973 - İsmet İnönü, Turkish statesman (b. 1884)
● 1973 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880)
● 1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)
● 1979 - Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906)
● 1983 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)
● 1988 - Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (b. 1909)
● 1988 - Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (b. 1920)
● 1989 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1918)
● 1989 - Elena Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (executed) (b. 1916)
● 1989 - Billy Martin, American baseball manager (b. 1928)
● 1992 - Monica Dickens, British writer (b. 1915)
● 1993 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
● 1994 - Zail Singh, President of India (b. 1916)
● 1995 - Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917)
● 1997 - Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
● 1998 - Bryan MacLean, American singer, musician and songwriter (Love) (b. 1946)
● 1998 - John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1926)
● 1999 - Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929)
● 2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908)
● 2002 - William T. Orr, American television producer (b. 1917)
● 2003 - Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929)
● 2004 - Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1940)
● 2005 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (b. 1930)
● 2005 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish singer (b. 1918)
● 2005 - Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (b. 1944)
● 2006 - James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Adalsindis
● St. Alburga
● St. Anastasia III
● St. Eugenia
● Bl. Michael Nakashima
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 12 (Civil Date: December 25)
● Nativity Fast. Fish, Wine And Oil allowed.
● St. Spyridon (Spiridon) the Wonderworker of Tremithon.
● St. Herman of Alaska.
● Hieromartyr Juvenal.
● Martyr Peter the Aleut.
● New Martyr Anatole of Irkutsk and Seraphim of Uglich.
● Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop of Jerusalem.
● Martyr Synesius (Razumnik) of Rome.
● St. Therapontes, abbot of Monza.
● Greek Calendar:: Saints Amonathus and Anthus, monks.
● St. John, Metropolitan of Zichon, founder of the Monastery of the Forerunner on Mt. Menikion.
● Desert dweller Flegont of Maksha River, Penza.
● (Re)birth of Sol Invictus. The winter solstice feast in the Roman Empire since 274.
● Celebrated as Christmas Day, honoring the birth of Jesus the Christ throughout most of the Christian world and relegions.
● Quaid-e-Azam's Day - Pakistan
● Constitution Day - Republic of China (now Taiwan)
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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