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 Spirituality "The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet." — Annie Dillard
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Beat the Press "Seymour Hersh is a liar." — George W. "War Criminal" Bush at a press conference with Gen. Pervez Mausharraf of Pakistan. Mike Allen, "CIA's Cash Toppled Taliban," Washington Post, 11-16-02.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "This is like déjà vu all over again." — Few sports figures—and indeed, few figures of any endeavor—have achieved the verbal notoriety of Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, former catcher of the New York Yankees. This is one of the indescribable utterances of Hall of Shame member #6.
{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
Saturn's Infrared Glow
Credit: VIMS Team, U. Arizona, ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1812 - USS Constitution (Captain William Bainbridge) captures HMS Java off Brazil after a three hour battle.
● 1813 - British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812.
● 1835 - Treaty of New Echota signed by Cherokee, agreeing to move beyond the Mississippi River. Leads to Trail of Tears and several thousand Cherokee deaths.
● 1837 - Canadian authorities seize the American ship "Caroline" near Buffalo, NY, for running supplies to Canadian revolutionaries. The Canadian militia destroy the docked steamboat, while singing "Caroline On My Mind."
● 1845 - Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
● 1851 - The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
● 1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched.
● 1876 - The Ashtabula Plunge. 92 die as an Ashtabula, Ohio railroad bridge collapses under the weight of a passenger train.
● 1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre of Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge, in the new state of South Dakota. Three hundred mostly unarmed Indians killed when the 7th Cavalry (Custer's old command) discharges artillery amidst women, children, and fleeing men. 29 soldiers killed in this final major military battle in genocide against Native Americans. 18 soldiers get Congressional Medals of Honor for their "bravery."
● 1893 - Birth of Vera Brittain. British pacifist and feminist.
● 1910 - The anarchist Praxedis Gilberto Guerrero is killed after leading a small band in capturing the town of Janos, Mexico.
● 1911 - Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty.
● 1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China.
● 1916 - Russian crackpot monk Rasputin assassinated.
● 1920 - Paul Hoffman, German radical, shot by police.
● 1930 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
● 1934 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
● 1937 - The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
● 1939 - First flight of the Consolidated B-24
● 1939 - Madeleine Pelletier dies. French doctor and feminist, member of the Socialist Party, later a Communist, then an anarchist. A pioneer of abortion rights, she was condemned in 1939 for practicing abortions -- declared irresponsible for her acts and committed to a mental asylum, where she died. Ironically, she had begun her career as psychiatrist.
● 1940 - London suffers its most devastating air raid, and approximately 1,500 fires threatened to destroy the ancient city. Largely evacuated, the few who remained fought hard to contain the fires. Often called The Second Great Fire of London.
● 1963 - The Weavers, America's preeminent folk music group, give their farewell concert at Orchestra Hall in Chicago.
● 1970 - U.S. Congress passes Occupational Health & Safety Act (OSHA).
● 1972 - An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed "Tristar" crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.
● 1975 - Eleven people killed, 75 injured when a bomb explodes at TWA terminal at New York's La Guardia airport.
● 1989 - On the final day of trading for the year and decade, the Japanese Nikkei 225 Average closes at an all-time high of 38,915.87.
● 1989 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
● 1989 - Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia.
● 1992 - Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tried to resign amidst corruption charges, but ended up being impeached.
● 1994 - A state court rejects property rights advocates and reaffirms the fishing harvest rights of fifteen Indian tribes in Washington state.
● 1996 - Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
● 1997 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's chickens (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
● 1998 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million. {Apology rejected as inadequate.}
● 2001 - A massive fire in the historic district of downtown Lima, Peru kills at least 274 people.
BIRTHS
● 1709 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762)
● 1721 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)
● 1796 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)
● 1800 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor (d. 1860)
● 1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
● 1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
● 1816 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)
● 1843 - Elisabeth of Wied a.k.a. Carmen Sylva, queen of Romania and writer (d. 1916)
● 1856 - Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (d. 1894)
● 1859 - Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico (d. 1920)
● 1876 - Pablo Casals, Catalan musician (d. 1973)
● 1881 - Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
● 1896 - David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974)
● 1899 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (d. 1992)
● 1902 - Nels Stewart, National Hockey League player (d. 1957)
● 1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian (d. 1993)
● 1910 - Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1914 - Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989)
● 1914 - Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1999)
● 1915 - Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996)
● 1917 - Tom Bradley, American politician (d. 1998)
● 1917 - Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (d. 2005)
● 1920 - Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress (d. 1995)
● 1922 - William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)
● 1927 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
● 1928 - Bernard Cribbins, British actor
● 1931 - Prince Gu of Korea, Korean royalty (d. 2005)
● 1932 - Inga Swenson, American actress
● 1934 - Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
● 1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress
● 1936 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
● 1937 - Barbara Steele, British actress
● 1937 - Wayne Huizenga, American football team owner
● 1938 - Jon Voight, American actor
● 1941 - Ray Thomas, British musician (The Moody Blues)
● 1942 - Rick Danko, Canadian musician (The Band) (d. 1999)
● 1942 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor
● 1946 - Marianne Faithfull, British singer
● 1947 - Ted Danson, American actor
● 1947 - Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (d. 1998)
● 1947 - Vincent Winter, British actor (d. 1998)
● 1949 - Syed Kirmani, Indian cricket player
● 1951 - Yvonne Elliman, American disco singer
● 1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, American dancer
● 1953 - Stanley Tookie Williams, American author (d. 2005)
● 1953 - Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress
● 1954 - Roger Voudouris, American singer
● 1954 - Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
● 1956 - Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian
● 1957 - Brad Grey, American film producer
● 1957 - Paul Rudnick, American screenwriter/playwright
● 1958 - Nancy J. Currie, American astronaut
● 1959 - Patricia Clarkson, American actress
● 1959 - Paula Poundstone, American comedian
● 1960 - Thomas Lubanga, founder and leader of Union of Congolese Patriots
● 1960 - David Boon, Australian Cricketer
● 1961 - Kevin Granata, American associate professor at Virginia Tech, victim of the Virginia Tech massacre (d. 2007)
● 1961 - Jim Reid, Scottish singer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Freeheat)
● 1962 - Devon White, Jamaican baseball player
● 1962 - Blake Mitchell, American adult actress
● 1963 - Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player
● 1963 - Dave McKean, British artist and filmmaker
● 1963 - Sean Payton, American football coach
● 1965 - Dexter Holland, American musician (The Offspring)
● 1966 - Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer
● 1967 - Andy Wachowski, American director
● 1967 - Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian journalist
● 1967 - Chris Barnes, American singer
● 1969 - Jennifer Ehle, American actress
● 1969 - Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver
● 1970 - Aled Jones, Welsh singer
● 1970 - Kevin Weisman, American actor
● 1970 - Glen Phillips, American musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
● 1970 - Hidetoshi Mitsusada, Japanese racing driver
● 1972 - Evan Seinfeld, American musician (Biohazard) and actor
● 1972 - Jason Kreis, American soccer player
● 1972 - Jude Law, British actor
● 1973 - Pimp C, American rapper (d. 2007)
● 1973 - Theo Epstein, American baseball general manager
● 1974 - Richie Sexson, American baseball player
● 1974 - Mekhi Phifer, American actor
● 1975 - Jaret Wright, American baseball player
● 1976 - Danny R. McBride, American actor, writer, and producer
● 1976 - Katherine Moennig, American actress
● 1977 - Jimmy Journell, American baseball player
● 1978 - Alexis Amore, Peruvian pornographic actress
● 1978 - Kieron Dyer, English footballer
● 1978 - LaToya London, American singer
● 1979 - Diego Luna, Mexican actor
● 1981 - Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater
● 1989 - Nathan Forbes, British footballer
● 1994 - Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan
DEATHS
● 721 - Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)
● 1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. 1118)
● 1563 - Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515)
● 1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
● 1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
● 1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
● 1731 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)
● 1737 - Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
● 1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
● 1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
● 1891 - Leopold Kronecker, mathematician (b. 1823)
● 1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830)
● 1897 - William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812)
● 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
● 1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
● 1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875)
● 1929 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
● 1937 - Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)
● 1960 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862)
● 1960 - Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (b. 1895)
● 1967 - Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor (b. 1890)
● 1976 - Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (b. 1954)
● 1980 - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
● 1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
● 1981 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893)
● 1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
● 1988 - Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (b. 1940)
● 1993 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930)
● 1996 - Mireille Hartuch, French singer and actress (b. 1906)
● 1998 - Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930)
● 1999 - Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906)
● 2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (lung cancer) (b. 1942)
● 2003 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (cancer) (b. 1932)
● 2003 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928)
● 2004 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
● 2004 - Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
● 2004 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (b. 1915)
● 2005 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aileran
● St. Albert of Gambron
● Sts. Callistus, Felix & Boniface
● St. Dominic
● St. Ebrulf
● St. Thomas Becket
● St. Trophimus of Arles
● Bl. William Howard
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 16 (Civil Date: December 29)
● Nativity Fast.
● Prophet Haggai (Aggaeus).
● Martyr Marinus of Rome.
● Blessed Empress Theophania.
● St. Memnon, Archbishop Ephesus.
● St. Nicholas Chrysoberges, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● St. Sophia, nun (in the world Solomonia), wife of Grand duke Basil III.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Promus and Hilarion.
● St. Modestus, Archbishop of Jerusalem.
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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