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Tuesday, December 04, 2007

December 4......

December 4 is the 338th (339th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 27 days remaining in the year on this date.

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 Politics "You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Holy War ". . . We must be there to support Judge Roy Moore! We are asking, no pleading with you to do whatever is necessary to allow your theology to become biography in the streets of Montgomery, once again. We know that you have been all over this country fighting the Gospel battle but, you were born for a time such as this. The trumpet has sounded. Bill Pryor, the Attorney General of the State of Alabama, will be leading the prosecution. Remember, Mr. Pryor ran for office based on the fact that he would stand by Judge Roy Moore and his right to display the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Supreme Court building. Mr. Pryor confesses Christ, but Mr. Pryor has been less than truthful in carrying out the duties of his office. . . ." — "We must go back to Montgomery," November 11-13, 2003. operationsaveamerica.org—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 "It depends on your definition of "asleep." They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position." — John Hogan, plant official, responding to a charge that two nuclear plant operators were sleeping on the job

{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

Movie: Analemma Over New Jersey


Credit & Copyright: Tom Matheson (Guidescope.net)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation


EVENTS

● 771 - Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.

● 1110 - First Crusade: The Crusaders conquer Sidon.

● 1259 - Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.

● 1563 - The final session of the Council of Trent is held (it opened on December 13, 1545).

● 1619 - 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).

● 1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus. (November 24 under the Julian calendar.)

● 1674 - Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois).

● 1676 - Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.

● 1783 - At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.

● 1829 - In the face of fierce opposition, British governor Lord William Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.

● 1838 - The Buckshot War. Angry mob assembles in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania when both Whigs and Democrats claim a majority in Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Militia, equipped with buckshot, appear on the scene. A few Whig votes hastily changed to Democratic, and the "war" was over.

● 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta, Georgia. Union forces did suffer more than three times the Confederate casualties, however.

● 1865 - Mississippi becomes the only state to reject ratification of the 13th Amendment, prohibiting slavery. However, two days later Georgia would become the last needed state to ratify the amendment anyway. Mississippi eventually did ratify the 13th Amendment -- in 1995.

● 1867 - Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange) to protect farmers' interests.

● 1872 - The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged).

● 1875 - Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain.

● 1878 - Spain - Execution of Juan Oliva Moncasi, a young worker in Tarragone (Catalonia). Tried to kill King Alphonse XII in Madrid, October 25, 1878, and refused a commutation of his death sentence.

● 1886 - Birth of Andre Colomer, Cerbore (Catalonia). Poet, anarchist, and finally a Communist. Fled the country during WWI, refusing military service. In 1927, he broke with anarchism, to become a "true Communist" (only a few years before he had denounced the Bolshevik dictatorship). Moved to the U.S.S.R. and died there in 1931. .

● 1893 - Birth of Herbert Read, Yorkshire. English poet, art critic, anarchist, political philosopher, man of letters, assistant conservator of Victoria & Albert Museum of London, professor of fine arts in Edinburgh and various English universities. Accepted a knighthood, which caused much consternation and ridicule among the anarchist movement. Died in 1968.

● 1906 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity in the United States established for men of African descent, is founded at Cornell University.

● 1906 - National Federation of Postal Clerks chartered.

● 1914 - Zapata meets with Villa and agrees to join forces to occupy Mexico City two days later.

● 1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.

● 1921 - The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.

● 1942 - Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization.

● 1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.

● 1943 - World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.

● 1945 - By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN was established on October 24, 1945). {I find it odd that there is such a large number of Senators not voting—24.}

● 1951 - Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government.

● 1951 - Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman, Philippines, kills 500.

● 1952 - Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow. "Smog" becomes a (dirty) word.

● 1956 - During a Carl Perkins recording session also involving Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley visits the studio and jams with Perkins and Lewis extensively with the tape recorders rolling. (Cash reportedly participates briefly in the jam before leaving the studio with his wife and daughter.) The four men become known as the Million Dollar Quartet, and the complete tape from this legendary session is eventually released on compact disc (CD) in 1987.

● 1957 - Lewisham Rail Crash in south-east London kills 90 people and injured 167, when two trains collide in thick fog.

● 1958 - Dahomey (present-day Benin) becomes a self-governing country within the French Community.

● 1964 - Nine hundred students boycott classes at Berkeley, during Free Speech Movement. A small movement is about to explode (in three days) on campus.

● 1967 - Martin Luther King, Jr. announces Poor People's Campaign in Washington D.C., to start in late Spring 1968.

● 1967 - National draft-card turn-in.

● 1967 - Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.

● 1968 - 264 arrested at military induction center in New York City at War Resisters League civil disobedience action.

● 1969 - Black Panther activists Fred Hampton (21), Mark Clark (22), and two others murdered in their beds by Chicago police. This makes at least 19 Panther leaders (they claim 28) killed in the past 18 months.

● 1969 - Pres. Richard Nixon, Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew, and 40 U.S. governors embark on a magical mystery fact-finding mission to discover the causes of the generation gap. They view films of "simulated acid trips" and listen to hours of "anti-establishment rock music."

● 1969 - Surfer Greg Noll rides a 65-foot high wave off the North Shore of Oahu, still the highest ocean surfing ever recorded.

● 1970 - Cesar Chavez jailed for 20 days for refusing to call off United Farm Workers lettuce boycott, Salinas, California.

● 1971 - The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi. The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.

● 1971 - The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".

● 1973 - Dave Dellinger, Jerry Rubin, and Abbie Hoffman of the Chicago Seven, and their attorney William Kunstler, found guilty of contempt charges levied at them by Judge Hoffman, but given no further sentence. Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, and attorney Leonard Weinglass acquitted of contempt charges.

● 1975 - Critic of totalitarianism Hannah Arendt dies.

● 1977 - Ciskei "homeland" declared "independent," South Africa.

● 1977 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.

● 1977 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.

● 1978 - Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco, California's first female mayor (she served until January 8, 1988).

● 1979 - The Hastie fire in Hull, kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.

● 1980 - First U.S. patent granted to developers of gene splicing method.

● 1980 - The rock group Led Zeppelin formally announces its breakup.

● 1980 - United Nations agrees to establish University of Peace (and shortwave radio station Radio Peace International) in Costa Rica.

● 1981 - Pres. Ronald Reagan authorizes CIA to conduct domestic surveillance. The CIA charter originally banned domestic surveillance.

● 1981 - South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).

● 1982 - The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.

● 1984 - Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.

● 1986 - Hundreds of thousands of French students march against Chirac's higher education bill.

● 1987 - Five days after the end of a similar standoff in Louisiana, Cuban prisoners at a federal detention center in Atlanta surrender 11 days after commandeering the prison. Federal authorities agreed to grant a fair review of each Cuban's case before deportation.

● 1991 - Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport ending 64 years of Pan Am operations.

● 1991 - In a gesture that renders the phrase "Too Little, Too Late" pitifully inadequate, Congress declares 1992 to be the "Year of the Indian."

● 1991 - Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut. He was the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.

● 1991 - Twenty-two-month vigil begins outside home of war tax resisters Betsy Corner and Randy Kehler in Colrain, Massachusetts, after it is seized by the Internal Revenue Service. The home was eventually returned in 1995 to the land trust that had previously owned it.

● 1992 - Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia, east Africa. {Bill Clinton would take the rap when this turns sour.}

● 1993 - A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.

● 1993 - Frank Zappa dies of pancreatic cancer at age 52.

● 1995 - Earth First!ers invade and trash Whatley Quarry, causing major monetary damage.

● 1998 - The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.

● 2005 - Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.

● 2006 - An adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo.


BIRTHS

● 1555 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)

● 1580 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626)

● 1585 - John Cotton, American Puritan leader (d. 1652)

● 1595 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674)

● 1612 - Samuel Butler, English poet (d. 1680)

● 1646 - Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730)

● 1660 - André Campra, French composer (d. 1744)

● 1670 - John Aislabie, English politician (d. 1742)

● 1711 - Barbara of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1758)

● 1713 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786)

● 1777 - Juliette Récamier, French socialite (d. 1849)

● 1795 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (d. 1881)

● 1798 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (d. 1881)

● 1835 - Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)

● 1840 - Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (d. 1877)

● 1844 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914)

● 1852 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)

● 1861 - Lillian Russell, American singer and actress (d. 1922)

● 1866 (O.S.) - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born painter (d. 1944)

● 1868 - Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (d. 1953)

● 1875 - Joe Corbett, American baseball player (d. 1945)

● 1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926)

● 1881 - Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (d. 1944)

● 1889 - Lloyd Bacon, American actor and film director (d. 1955)

● 1892 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)

● 1895 - Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990)

● 1903 - Cornell Woolrich, American writer (d. 1968)

● 1908 - Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)

● 1910 - Alex North, American film music composer (d. 1991)

● 1912 - Pappy Boyington, American pilot (d. 1988)

● 1913 - Mark Robson, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1978)

● 1914 - Rudolf Hausner, Austrian artist (d. 1995)

● 1914 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d. 1993)

● 1915 - Eddie Heywood, American jazz musician (d. 1989)

● 1916 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (d. 1994)

● 1921 - Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress

● 1922 - Gérard Philipe, French actor (d. 1959)

● 1922 - Charles Keating, American lawyer

● 1924 - John Portman, American architect

● 1928 - Dena Dietrich, American actress

● 1930 - Ronnie Corbett, Scottish actor

● 1930 - Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist

● 1931 - Alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1931 - Wally George, American TV commentator (d. 2003)

● 1932 - Roh Tae-woo, President of South Korea

● 1933 - Horst Buchholz, German-born actor (d. 2003)

● 1934 - Victor French, American actor (d. 1989)

● 1934 - Wink Martindale, American game show host

● 1935 - Robert Vesco, American financier and fugitive

● 1937 - Max Baer, Jr., American actor

● 1938 - Yvonne Minton, Australian soprano

● 1939 - Freddy Cannon, American musician

● 1940 - Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)

● 1942 - Chris Hillman, American singer (The Byrds)

● 1942 - Gemma Jones, English actress

● 1944 - Anna McGarrigle, Canadian folk music singer and songwriter

● 1944 - François Migault, French racing driver

● 1944 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1983)

● 1945 - Roberta Bondar, Canadian astronaut

● 1947 - Terry Woods, Irish musician (The Pogues, Steeleye Span)

● 1948 - Southside Johnny, American singer

● 1949 - Jeff Bridges, American actor

● 1949 - Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born actress

● 1951 - Gary Rossington, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

● 1951 - Patricia Wettig, American actress

● 1953 - Rick Middleton, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1954 - Tony Todd, American actor and producer

● 1955 - Dave Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1956 - Bernard King, American basketball player

● 1957 - Raul Boesel, Brazilian racing driver

● 1957 - Eric S. Raymond, American open source advocate

● 1959 - Susan W Krebs, American politician

● 1959 - Paul McGrath, Irish footballer

● 1959 - Christa Rothenburger, German speed skater and cyclist

● 1960 - David Green, American baseball player

● 1960 - Glynis Nunn, Australian athlete

● 1961 - Frank Reich, American football player

● 1962 - Kevin Richardson, English footballer

● 1963 - Sergei Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter

● 1964 - Marisa Tomei, American actress

● 1965 - Álex de la Iglesia, Spanish film director

● 1966 - Fred Armisen, American actor and musician

● 1966 - Chris Shepherd, English film director

● 1968 - Jay-Z, American rapper

● 1970 - Kevin Sussman, American actor

● 1970 - Sylvester Terkay, American professional wrestler

● 1972 - Jassen Cullimore, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1972 - Nikki Tyler, American actress

● 1973 - Tyra Banks, American supermodel

● 1973 - Steven Menzies, Australian rugby league footballer

● 1974 - Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player

● 1976 - Ysabella Brave, American singer

● 1976 - Amie Comeaux, American singer (d. 1997)

● 1976 - Kristina Groves, Canadian speed skater

● 1977 - Big Pokey, American rapper

● 1982 - Ho-Pin Tung, Dutch-Chinese racing driver

● 1983 - Jimmy Bartel, Australian rules footballer

● 1984 - Brooke Adams, American model

● 1984 - Lindsay Felton, American actress

● 1984 - Lauren London, American actress

● 1985 - Andrew Brackman, American baseball player

● 1985 - Carlos Gómez, Dominican baseball player

● 1986 - Martell Webster, American basketball player


DEATHS

● 765 - Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)

● 771 - Carloman, King of the Franks (b. 751)

● 1075 - Archbishop Anno II of Cologne

● 1123 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)

● 1214 - William I of Scotland

● 1270 - Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre

● 1334 - Pope John XXII (b. 1249)

● 1340 - Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)

● 1459 - Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)

● 1576 - Rheticus, Austrian mathematician (b. 1514)

● 1585 - John Willock, Scottish reformer

● 1609 - Alexander Hume, Scottish poet

● 1642 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (b. 1585)

● 1649 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585)

● 1679 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)

● 1680 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)

● 1696 - Empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)

● 1732 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b. 1685)

● 1798 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. 1737)

● 1828 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)

● 1902 - Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company - Wall Street Journal) (b. 1851)

● 1926 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861)

● 1933 - Stefan George, German poet (b. 1868)

● 1935 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (b. 1864)

● 1935 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1850)

● 1944 - Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player (b. 1879)

● 1945 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)

● 1956 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891)

● 1967 - Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895)

● 1969 - Fred Hampton, American activist (b. 1948)

● 1975 - Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)

● 1976 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (b. 1951)

● 1976 - Benjamin Britten, English composer (b. 1913)

● 1976 - W. F. McCoy, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)

● 1980 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)

● 1980 - Stanisława Walasiewicz (Stella Walsh), Polish-born athlete (b. 1911)

● 1987 - Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (b. 1897)

● 1993 - Frank Zappa, American musician and composer (b. 1940)

● 1995 - Lionel Giroux (Little Beaver), Canadian midget wrestler (b. 1935)

● 1997 - Richard Vernon, English actor (b. 1925)

● 1999 - Rose Bird, American judge (b. 1936)

● 2003 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b. 1916)

● 2004 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (b. 1943)

● 2005 - Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)

● 2005 - Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b.1963)

● 2005 - Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (b. 1922)

● 2006 - James Kim, American television personality (b. 1971)

● 2007 - Norval Morrisseau, Canadian artist (b. 1932)

● 2007 - Pimp C, American rapper (UGK) (b. 1973)

● 2007 - Chip Reese, American professional poker player (b. 1951)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abba Isa
● St. Ada
● St. Anno
● St. Barbara
● St. Bernard degli Uberti
● St. Bertoara
● St. Clement of Alexandria
● St. Felix of Bologna
● St. Francis Galvez
● St. Jerome de Angelis, Blessed
● St. John of Damascus
● St. Maruthas
● St. Meletius
● St. Osmund
● St. Theophane Venard and Companions

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 22 (Civil Date: December 4)
● Nativity Fast.
● Afterfeast of the Entry into the Temple.
● Apostles Philemon and Archippus.
● Martyr Apphia, wife of Philemon.
● St. Onesimus, disciple of St. Paul.
● Martyrdom of St. Michael, prince of Tver.
● Martyrs Cecilia (canon only), Valerian, Tiburtius and Maximus at Rome.
● Martyr Procopius the reader at Caesaria in Palestine.
● Martyr Menignus at Parium.
● St. Agabbas of Syria.
● Righteous Michael the soldier of Bulgaria.
● Martyrs Stephen, Mark, and Mark (another) in Pisidia.
● Martyr Agapion of Greece.
● St. Callistus II, Patriarch of Constantinople (Mt. Athos).
● St. Clement of Ochrida, Bishop of Greater Macedonia.

● First day that rain is prayed for in the Diaspora in Judaism. It is notably the only Jewish holiday which is tied to the civil calendar.

● Roman festivals - secret ceremonies in honor of Bona Dea

● Navy Day in India

● Barbórka - Miners' Day in Poland

● Santería, Lukumí - Day of Shango

● Mad Dome Day in United States of America



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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