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1980,1986,. . . .,1997,2003—WED—2008
1981,1987,1992,1998,. . . .—THU—2009
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—FRI—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—SAT—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—SUN—. . . .
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Peace "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." — Matthew 5:9
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Holy War "Judge Roy Moore will be going to trial November 12, 2003. The trial will take place in the very court where he presided as Chief Justice before being suspended from his duties by several "Christian" associate justices—the Supreme Court of the state of Alabama. He is being charged with contempt of court for not abiding by Federal Judge Myron Thompson's "illegal" court order to remove the Ten Commandments Monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
This is an outrage! We cannot not sit passively by while this utter injustice is taking place in the God-hating courts of this land. We must stand with the man who is standing with Jesus. . . . " — "We must go back to Montgomery," November 11-13, 2003. operationsaveamerica.org—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 "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind." — General William Westmoreland
{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
A Complete Solar Cycle from SOHO
Credit: SOHO - EIT Consortium, ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war.
● 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition mark their explorations from the Missouri River overland to the Columbia River on a pine tree.
● 1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
● 1847 - Frederick Douglass publishes the first issue of his newspaper, North Star.
● 1854 - Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
● 1866 - Textile strikers win ten-hour work day, Fall River, Mass.
● 1901 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
● 1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
● 1906 - U.S. Supreme Court jails Samuel Gompers and other worker-union organizers for violating an injunction against Buck's Stove & Range Co.
● 1910 - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Brotherhood of Timber Workers Union organized.
● 1912 - Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
● 1917 - After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
● 1919 - General strike against American railway in Puerto Rico.
● 1921 - Anti-authoritarian educator A. S. Neill establishes his school, Summerhill, with Lyme Regis, in England. Moves it three years later to Leiston (Suffolk). Proponent of children sharing in running schools, Neill told of this anarchist experiment in numerous books. The A. S. Neill Summerhill School is still in operation.
● 1929 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to the U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy.
● 1935 - Mary McLeod Bethune founds National Council of Negro Women.
● 1936 - New York City radio station WQXR is officially founded.
● 1942 - Renewed mass arrest of Jews, Berlin.
● 1944 - The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists.
● 1946 - Beginning of three-day general strike of more than 130,000 workers from 142 AFL unions in Alameda County (Oakland) CA, opposing police brutality and in support of striking Oakland department store workers.
● 1948 - Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in East China Sea, killing 1,100.
● 1964 - Police arrest 773 to end Free Speech Movement occupation of Sproul Hall on the University of California-Berkeley Campus. A student strike the next day closes the school.
● 1967 - At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
● 1967 - The luxury train 20th Century Limited completes its last run from New York City to Chicago (the train was inaugurated on June 15, 1902).
● 1969 - Protesters destroy files at eight New York draft boards.
● 1970 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
● 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades East Pakistan {Bangladesh} and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
● 1971 - The Montreaux Casino burns to the ground during a show by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. The incident is immortalized by Deep Purple in their song "Smoke on the Water."
● 1973 - Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
● 1976 - A 40-foot long inflatable pig being photographed for the cover Pink Floyd's "Animals" breaks loose from the guide wires and takes off from the Battersea Power Station outside London. It heads east, attaining a height of 18,000 feet before coming down in Kent.
● 1976 - Seven gunman spray bullets into Bob Marley's house in Kingston, Jamaica, where he and the Wailers are rehearsing. The shots hit Marley, his wife Rita, a friend, and Wailer manager Don Taylor. None are severely hurt. The shooters are never caught.
● 1978 - The Southern Crescent passenger train derails at Shipman, Virginia, killing six, injuring 60.
● 1979 - Eleven Who fans are trampled to death in stampede to get into Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum. Festival seating itself is universally blamed for the tragedy, except by Walter Cronkite, who on tonight's "CBS Evening News" blames it on "a drug-crazed mob of kids."
● 1979 - Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
● 1982 - A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
● 1984 - Industrial accident at Union Carbide fertilizer plant in Bhopal, India, causes up to 10,000 deaths, 50,000 injuries. U.S. blocks extradition of Union Carbide officials facing criminal prosecution in India.
● 1989 - Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between their nations may be coming to an end (some commentators from both nations exaggerated the wording and independently declared the Cold War over).
● 1990 - At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crew members aboard flight 1482.
● 1990 - Marine Jeff Paterson begins court martial after refusing to board a plane bound to Saudi Arabia as part of the buildup to the Gulf War.
● 1992 - The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
● 1992 - UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia.
● 1997 - In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
● 1999 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
● 2005 - XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
BIRTHS
● 1368 - King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
● 1560 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (d. 1627)
● 1596 - Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684)
● 1684 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754)
● 1729 - Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1783)
● 1755 - Gilbert Stuart, American painter (d. 1828)
● 1776 - Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)
● 1800 - France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (d. 1849)
● 1826 - George B. McClellan, American Civil War general (d. 1885)
● 1838 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)
● 1838 - Octavia Hill, British housing and open-space activist (d. 1912)
● 1842 - Ellen Swallow Richards, American scientist (d. 1911)
● 1842 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (d. 1899)
● 1857 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (d. 1924)
● 1875 - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (d. 1955)
● 1880 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)
● 1883 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945)
● 1884 - Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)
● 1884 - Walther Stampfli, Member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1965)
● 1886 - Manne Siegbahn, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
● 1887 - Naruhiko, Prince Higashikuni of Japan (d. 1990)
● 1895 - Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982)
● 1899 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
● 1900 - Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d. 2004)
● 1900 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
● 1908 - Edward Underdown, English actor (d. 1989)
● 1911 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
● 1918 - Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (d. 2000)
● 1921 - Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
● 1922 - Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (d. 2006)
● 1924 - Roberto Mières, Argentine racing driver
● 1925 - Ferlin Husky, American singer
● 1925 - Kim Dae Jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate
● 1927 - Andy Williams, American singer
● 1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
● 1931 - Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author
● 1931 - Jaye P. Morgan, American singer
● 1932 - Corry Brokken, Dutch singer
● 1933 - Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate
● 1934 - Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut
● 1937 - Bobby Allison, American race car driver
● 1937 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian linguist
● 1938 - Jean-Claude Malépart, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
● 1942 - Alice Schwarzer, German journalist
● 1946 - Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist
● 1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, English singer
● 1949 - John Akii-Bua, Ugandan athlete (d. 1997)
● 1949 - Heather Menzies, American actress
● 1949 - Mickey Thomas, American singer (Jefferson Starship)
● 1951 - Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (d. 1994)
● 1951 - Riki Chōshū, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1951 - Rick Mears, American race car driver
● 1951 - John and Greg Rice, American twin dwarves and commercial and infomercial actors
● 1952 - Mel Smith, English comedian
● 1953 - Franz Klammer, Austrian skier
● 1955 - Steven Culp, American actor
● 1955 - Warren Jeffs, American convicted polygamist
● 1959 - Eamonn Holmes, Northern Irish TV presenter
● 1960 - Daryl Hannah, American actress
● 1960 - Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player
● 1960 - Julianne Moore, American actress
● 1960 - Mike Ramsey, American ice hockey player
● 1963 - Joe Lally, American musician (Fugazi)
● 1963 - Terri Schiavo, center of right to die case (d. 2005)
● 1965 - Steve Harris, American actor
● 1965 - Katarina Witt, German figure skater
● 1968 - Brendan Fraser, American actor
● 1969 - Bill Steer, British guitarist
● 1970 - Paul Byrd, American baseball player
● 1970 - Lindsey Hunter, American basketball player
● 1970 - Christian Karembeu, French footballer
● 1971 - Frank Sinclair, Jamaican footballer
● 1971 - Keegan Connor Tracy, Canadian actress
● 1972 - Bucky Lasek, American skateboarder
● 1973 - Holly Marie Combs, American actress
● 1973 - Super Crazy, Mexican professional wrestler
● 1973 - Sammy Leung, Hong Kong disc jockey
● 1975 - Csaba Czébely, Hungarian heavy metal drummer (Pokolgép)
● 1976 - Gary Glover, American baseball player
● 1976 - Byron Kelleher, New Zealand rugby union footballer
● 1976 - Mark Boucher, South African cricketer
● 1976 - Cornelius Griffin, American football player
● 1977 - Chad Durbin, American baseball player
● 1977 - Adam Małysz, Polish ski-jumper
● 1977 - Troy Evans, American football player
● 1978 - Trina, American rapper
● 1979 - Daniel Bedingfield, English singer
● 1979 - Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor
● 1979 - Rock Cartwright, American football player
● 1980 - Anna Chlumsky, American actress
● 1980 - Jenna Dewan, American actress
● 1980 - Jim Sorgi, American football player
● 1981 - Ioannis Amanatidis, Greek footballer
● 1981 - David Villa, Spanish footballer
● 1981 - Tyjuan Hagler, American football player
● 1982 - Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer
● 1982 - Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor
● 1983 - Sherri DuPree, American vocalist
● 1984 - Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
● 1985 - Amanda Seyfried, American actress
● 1985 - Marcus Darrell Williams, American basketball player
● 1987 - Michael Angarano, American actor
● 1988 - Nicholas Nelson, American
● 1992 - Joseph McManners, English actor
● 1994 - Jake T. Austin American actor
● 2005 - Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway
DEATHS
● 1154 - Pope Anastasius IV
● 1265 - Odofredus, Italian jurist
● 1533 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1479)
● 1552 - St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (b. 1506)
● 1610 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
● 1706 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (b. 1637)
● 1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713)
● 1789 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
● 1815 - John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735)
● 1845 - Gregor MacGregor, Scottish con-man (b. 1786)
● 1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
● 1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
● 1890 - Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
● 1892 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
● 1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer (b. 1850)
● 1902 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
● 1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (b. 1821)
● 1912 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
● 1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)
● 1934 - Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. 1849)
● 1941 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
● 1941 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856)
● 1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (b. 1876)
● 1955 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894)
● 1967 - Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)
● 1969 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (b. 1902)
● 1972 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)
● 1973 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
● 1979 - Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
● 1980 - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
● 1981 - Walter Knott, American farmer (b. 1889)
● 1984 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)
● 1993 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)
● 1994 - Elizabeth Glaser, AIDS activist (b. 1947)
● 1995 - Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (b. 1946)
● 1996 - Georges Duby, French historian (b. 1919)
● 1998 - Pierre Hétu, Quebec conductor and pianist (b. 1936)
● 1999 - Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)
● 1999 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (b. 1942)
● 1999 - Jarl Wahlström, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
● 2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917)
● 2000 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (b. 1922)
● 2002 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
● 2003 - David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
● 2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
● 2005 - Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
● 2006 - Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abbo of Auxerre
● St. Agricola
● St. Attalia
● St. Birinus
● St. Cassian
● St. Eloque
● St. Ethernan
● St. Francis Xavier
● St. John of Damascus
● St. Lucius
● St. Mirocles
● Bl. Edward Coleman
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 21 (Civil Date: December 3)
● Nativity Fast.
● THE ENTRY OF THE MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS INTO THE TEMPLE
● St. Yaropolk Peter, prince of Vladimir in Volhynia.
● St. Columban of Ireland, abbot and founder of Luxeuil Abbey in France.
● India: Celebrated as Advocate's Day in the memory of Rajendra Prasad, first President and an eminent lawyer
● International Day of Disabled Persons
● International Day of the Basque language
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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