Day of the week in surrounding years:
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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 Success "It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?" — Marilyn French
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Do As I Say, Not As I Do "If [Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders] wants to legalize drugs, send the want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let's be rid of them." — Rush Limbaugh, 12-9-93. Scott Loughrey, "Limbaugh Demagoguery on Drugs," Baltimore Independent Media Center, 10-10-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "You can observe a lot just by watching." — 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
Mammatus Clouds Over Mexico
Credit & Copyright: Raymundo Aguirre
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield
● 1703 - Earthquake in Tokyo responsible for the deaths of approximately 200,000 people.
● 1813 - Iroquois warriors and British troops capture Buffalo, New York.
● 1816 - The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed.
● 1847 - Birth of John Peter Altgeld, Niederselters, Prussia [now in Germany]. Reformist Democratic governor of Illinois (1893-97) known principally for his pardon (June 26, 1893) of German-American anarchists "involved" in the Haymarket Riot, where seven police were killed.
● 1853 - A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London.
● 1853 - Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
● 1862 - USS Monitor sinks off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
● 1865 - Birth of Rudyard Kipling, famed British celebrator and apologist for imperialism, Bombay, India.
● 1880 - The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger, its first president.
● 1890 - Birth of Victor Serge, Brussels, Belgium. Novelist, poet, historian, and militant activist. As he grew older, his politics moved increasingly leftward, leading him later in life to espouse a hybrid of anarchism and Marxism. Went to Russia in 1918 and joined the Communist Party. Critical of the direction of the party, he was kicked out in 1928, then imprisoned. Released in 1935 through the appeals of French intellectuals. Lived in Belgium, then France, barely escaping from the Nazis to Mexico in 1940.
● 1894 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer suffragist dies, Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Bloomers named for her).
● 1896 - José Rizal was executed by firing squad in Manila.
● 1897 - Natal annexes Zululand.
● 1903 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills 600.
● 1905 - Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg assassinated by a bomb explosion during period of many labor disputes in the state.
● 1906 - The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
● 1919 - Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
● 1922 - In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Byelorussia, the Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation. Also known as the Soviet Union, the new republic was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first state in the world to be based on Marxist communism.
● 1924 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
● 1927 - The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo.
● 1930 - Birth of Odetta, leftist folksinger.
● 1933 - Romania - Ion Duca, a liberal premier, assassinated by a member of the Iron Guard, an extreme rightist local movement sympathetic to Nazism. After Duca's assassination, the Iron Guard was outlawed in Romania. However, its members carry on as the "All for the Fatherland" political party.
● 1935 - Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia.
● 1936 - G.M. sit-down strike spreads to Flint, Michigan. The strike had begun two days earlier in Cleveland.
● 1940 - California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
● 1941 - Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization.
● 1943 - Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
● 1944 - France - Romain Rolland, author and pacifist, dies. Won 1915 Nobel Prize.
● 1944 - King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving his throne vacant.
● 1946 - Birth of singer/poet Patti Smith.
● 1947 - King Michael of Romania forced to abdicate by the Soviet-backed Communist government of Romania.
● 1952 - Tuskegee Institute reports this is first year in 71 years with no reported lynchings in the country.
● 1965 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
● 1971 - Daniel Ellsberg indicted by a federal grand jury for releasing Pentagon Papers to news media.
● 1972 - Pres. Richard Nixon orders end to North Vietnamese bombing. The campaign was a last attempt to get North Vietnam to submit to the U.S. - eighteen days of "carpet" bombing of homes, hospitals, and civilians of Hanoi and Haiphong through Christmas. For the first time, B-52 pilots refuse to fly missions.
● 1977 - Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
● 1978 - House Select Committee on Assassinations concludes conspiracies were likely in the assassinations of both John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but with no further evidence for further prosecutions.
● 1982 - Cow Creek band of Umpqua tribe (Oregon) gains federal recognition.
● 1993 - Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
● 1994 - An anti-abortion gunman kills Shannon Lowney of Planned Parenthood and Lee Ann Nichols of Preterm, women's health care clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts.
● 1995 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equalled the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982.
● 1996 - Chilean guerrillas whisk four comrades from jail with rope lowered from a helicopter.
● 1996 - In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
● 1996 - Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
● 1997 - Death of Danilo Dolci, nonviolent social revolutionary, Sicily.
● 1997 - In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people are killed from four villages.
● 2000 - Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a span of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
● 2003 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself and his office from the Plame affair.
● 2004 - A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
● 2005 - Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
● 2006 - Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.
● 2006 - Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging.
BIRTHS
● 39 - Roman Emperor Titus (d. 81)
● 1204 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (d. 1282)
● 1552 - Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
● 1642 - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)
● 1673 - Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736)
● 1678 - William Croft, English composer (d. 1727)
● 1722 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1770)
● 1724 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (d. 1805)
● 1740 - Princess Elizabeth Caroline of Wales (d. 1759)
● 1785 - Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (d. 1857)
● 1819 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (d. 1898)
● 1838 - Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (d.1929)
● 1851 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician (d. 1929)
● 1853 - André Messager, French composer (d. 1929)
● 1865 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
● 1869 - Stephen Butler Leacock, British-born, Canadian writer and economist (d. 1944)
● 1873 - Al Smith, American politician (d. 1944)
● 1878 - William Aberhart, Canadian politician (d. 1943)
● 1879 - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (d. 1950)
● 1883 - Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1960)
● 1884 - Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
● 1890 - Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico (d. 1973)
● 1897 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976)
● 1899 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (d. 2001)
● 1904 - Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987)
● 1906 - Carol Reed, English film director (d. 1976)
● 1910 - Paul Bowles, American composer and author (d. 1999)
● 1911 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998)
● 1913 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
● 1913 - Lucio Agostini, Italian-born Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
● 1914 - Bert Parks, American television host (d. 1992)
● 1914 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996)
● 1917 - Seymour Melman, American industrial engineer (d. 2004)
● 1920 - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)
● 1921 - Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (d. 1987)
● 1927 - Bernard Barrow, American actor (d. 1993)
● 1928 - Bo Diddley, American singer and musician
● 1929 - Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976)
● 1931 - Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004)
● 1934 - John Norris Bahcall, American physicist (d. 2005)
● 1934 - Joseph Bologna, American actor
● 1934 - Joseph P. Hoar, American general
● 1934 - Del Shannon, American singer (d. 1990)
● 1934 - Russ Tamblyn, American actor, dancer, and singer
● 1935 - Omar Bongo, President of Gabon
● 1935 - Sandy Koufax, American baseball player
● 1935 - Jack Riley, American actor
● 1937 - Gordon Banks, English footballer and World Cup winner
● 1937 - John Hartford, American musician (d. 2001)
● 1937 - Jim Marshall, American football player
● 1937 - Noel Paul Stookey, American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)
● 1940 - James Burrows, American television director
● 1941 - Mel Renfro, American football player
● 1942 - Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident
● 1942 - Michael Nesmith, American singer and musician (The Monkees)
● 1942 - Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian
● 1942 - Fred Ward, American actor
● 1942 - Guy Edwards, British racing driver
● 1945 - Davy Jones, English singer (The Monkees)
● 1945 - Concetta Tomei, American actress
● 1945 - Vernon Wells, Australian actor
● 1946 - Patti Smith, American singer
● 1947 - Michael Burns, American historian
● 1947 - Jeff Lynne, English musician (ELO)
● 1949 - Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician
● 1950 - Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi/fantasy author
● 1951 - Doug Allder, English footballer
● 1952 - June Anderson, American soprano
● 1953 - Bill Kazmaier, American powerlifter
● 1953 - Harald Schmautz, German-born journalist
● 1953 - Meredith Vieira, American television journalist
● 1955 - Dindo Yogo, Congolese musician (d. 2000)
● 1956 - Suzy Bogguss, American singer
● 1956 - Sheryl Lee Ralph, American actress
● 1957 - Matt Lauer, American newscaster
● 1958 - Rod Harrington, English darts player
● 1958 - Steven L. Smith, American astronaut
● 1959 - Tracey Ullman, English actress and singer
● 1961 - Douglas Coupland, Canadian author
● 1961 - Sean Hannity, American talk radio host
● 1961 - Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete
● 1962 - Henry Cho, Korean-American comedian
● 1963 - Chandler Burr, American author
● 1963 - Michelle Douglas, Canadian human rights activist
● 1963 - Milan Šrejber, Czech tennis player
● 1964 - Sylvie Moreau, Quebec television and film actress
● 1964 - Duglas T. Stewart, Scottish musician (BMX Bandits)
● 1965 - Heidi Fleiss, American madam
● 1967 - Carl Ouellet, Canadian professional wrestler
● 1969 - Dave England, American television personality
● 1969 - Jay Kay, English musician (Jamiroquai)
● 1971 - Daniel Sunjata, American actor
● 1972 - Kerry Collins, American football player
● 1972 - Paul Keegan, Irish footballer
● 1972 - Steven Wiig, American actor and musician
● 1973 - Jason Behr, American actor
● 1973 - Ato Boldon, Trinidadian athlete
● 1973 - Nacho Vidal, Spanish porn star
● 1974 - Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (d. 2007)
● 1975 - Scott Chipperfield, Australian soccer player
● 1975 - Tiger Woods, American golfer
● 1976 - Meredith Monroe, American actress
● 1976 - Alex A. Quinn, American actor
● 1976 - A.J. Pierzynski, American baseball player
● 1977 - Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
● 1977 - Scott Lucas, Australian rules footballer
● 1977 - Laila Ali, American boxer
● 1977 - Grant Balfour, Australian baseball player
● 1978 - Tyrese, American singer and actor
● 1978 - Zbigniew Robert Promiński, Polish drummer
● 1979 - Flávio Amado, Angolan footballer
● 1980 - Eliza Dushku, American actress
● 1980 - Kenny Kwan, Hong Kong singer
● 1981 - Ali Al Habsi, Omani footballer
● 1981 - Michael Rodríguez, Costa Rican footballer
● 1981 - Haley Paige, American pornstar
● 1982 - Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
● 1982 - Dathan Ritzenhein, American runner
● 1984 - LeBron James, American basketball player
● 1984 - Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer
● 1985 - Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist
● 1989 - Ryan Sheckler, American professional skateboarder.
DEATHS
● 1218 - Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
● 1460 - Richard, Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (b. 1411)
● 1525 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (b. 1459)
● 1572 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (b. 1512)
● 1573 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504)
● 1591 - Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519)
● 1621 - Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
● 1640 - John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
● 1644 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
● 1662 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria (b. 1628)
● 1691 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627)
● 1769 - Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
● 1803 - Francis Lewis, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (b. 1713)
● 1896 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861) (executed)
● 1908 - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)
● 1941 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)
● 1944 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
● 1954 - Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863)
● 1955 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (b. 1913)
● 1967 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1887)
● 1968 - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896)
● 1970 - Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
● 1971 - Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) (b. 1922)
● 1979 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902)
● 1981 - Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)
● 1984 - Massa (gorilla), oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930)
● 1986 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
● 1988 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (b. 1925)
● 1989 - Lenore Lemmon, wife of George Reeves (b. 1923)
● 1992 - Ling-Ling, panda given to the USA by China (b. 1969)
● 1993 - Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter (b. 1912)
● 1993 - Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent (b. 1907)
● 1993 - Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (b. 1907)
● 1994 - Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist (b. 1904)
● 1994 - Maureen Starkey, wife of Ringo Starr (b. 1946)
● 1995 - Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924)
● 1996 - Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
● 1996 - Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)
● 1997 - Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
● 1998 - George Webb, English actor (b. 1911)
● 1998 - Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934)
● 1999 - Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
● 1999 - Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (b. 1880)
● 2000 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
● 2002 - Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
● 2002 - Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912)
● 2003 - David Bale, South African-born activist (cancer) (b. 1941)
● 2003 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (b. 1932)
● 2003 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963)
● 2004 - Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
● 2005 - Rona Jaffe, American author (b. 1932)
● 2006 - Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi President (b. 1937) (executed)
● 2006 - Terry Peck, Falkland Islander (b. 1938) who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anysia
● St. Egwin
● St. Eugene
● St. Felix I, Pope
● St. Liberius
● St. Mansuetus
● St. Raynerius
● St. Sabinus
● Bl. John Alcober
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 17 (Civil Date: December 30)
● Nativity Fast.
● Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths Ananias, Azarias and Misael
● St. Daniel the Confessor (in schema Stephen) of Spain and Egypt.
● St. Dionysius of Zakynthos, Bishop of Aegina.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Bacchus.
● New Martyr Nicetas.
● Blessed Deacon Abbacum of Serbia.
● Philippines - Rizal Day
● Freedom Day for Scientologists.
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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