Day of the week in surrounding years:
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—MON—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—TUE—. . . .
1984,1990,. . . .,2001,2007—WED—2012
1985,1991,1996,2002,. . . .—THU—2013
1986,. . . .,1997,2003,2008—FRI—2014
1987,1992,1998,. . . .,2009—SAT—2015
. . . .,1993,1999,2004,2010—SUN—. . . .
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Poverty "What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?" — Eugene V. Debs
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Holy War ". . . It is imperative that we stand with our brother!
See you in Montgomery, Alabama, November 11-13, as we storm the gates of hell once again. Colossians 4:17.
Judge Roy Moore Needs Us Now!" — "We must go back to Montgomery," November 11-13, 2003. operationsaveamerica.org—Part 3 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 "The chances of Amsterdam becoming a car-free city are as big as the chances of me getting involved in a relationship. If it might ever come to that, I'll calculate what it is going to cost me and I will not go through with it after all." — a Dutch politician reacting to a question about whether autos should be banned from the center of the city
{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
Comet Holmes Over Hungary
Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 63 B.C.E. - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations.
● 663 - Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
● 771 - Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.
● 1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
● 1349 - Jews are massacred at Nuremberg in Black Death riots.
● 1360 - The French Franc is created.
● 1408 - Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
● 1484 - Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the severest witch hunts in European history.
● 1492 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola.
● 1496 - King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
● 1590 - Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
● 1715 - Alexander Dalzeel, a Scottish privateer in French service, is executed in London, England.
● 1746 - Revolt in Genoa against the Spanish rule.
● 1757 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen - Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
● 1766 - In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
● 1770 - Six of the British troops involved in the Boston Massacre found innocent, largely due to defense attorney John Adams' intimation that Crispus Attucks, America's first black hero, may have caused "the dreadful carnage of that night" with his "mad behavior...at the head of...[a] rabble of Negroes..."
● 1775 - At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
● 1776 - In the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, students from the College of William and Mary meet for the first time founding Phi Beta Kappa, the first scholastic fraternity in the United States.
● 1784 - Phillis Wheatley dies, aged about 31 years, Boston. First black woman poet and, after Anne Bradstreet, only the second woman poet of note in the U.S.
● 1786 - Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts.
● 1815 - Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
● 1830 - The premiere of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique takes place in Paris.
● 1831 - Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
● 1847 - Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
● 1848 - California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
● 1865 - Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
● 1892 - Sir John Thompson becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Canada.
● 1893 - First appearance of an electric car.
● 1896 - Birth of Henry Poulaille, Paris. Author, publisher, anarchist.
● 1901 - Birth of animator, amusement park builder, Nazi sympathizer Walt Disney.
● 1914 - The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
● 1920 - Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
● 1921 - Forty thousand slaughterhouse workers in Chicago, Kansas City, and Omaha go on strike.
● 1926 - Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin premieres.
● 1929 - First U.S. nudist organization formed - American League for Physical Culture, New York City.
● 1932 - German physicist Albert Einstein fleeing Nazi Germany, granted a visa. In later years, dismayed by lack of civil liberties and U.S. cold war policies, calls his choice an enormous mistake
● 1933 - Prohibition ends. Utah is the last of 36 states needed to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (repealing the 18th Amendment, that had prohibited alcoholic beverages). {In a state dominated by tea-totaling Mormons, the law that ratifies the 21st Amendment also establishes state run liquor stores. Drinking is okay as long as the state makes the profits.}
● 1934 - Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
● 1936 - The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
● 1941 - World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
● 1941 - World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
● 1943 - World War II: U.S. Army Air Corps begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow .
● 1944 - Wildcat strike at Dodge truck plant, Detroit, Michigan. One of many "illegal" wartime strikes.
● 1944 - World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna.
● 1945 - Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
● 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.
● 1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO, electing George Meany president. Combined membership is about 15 million.
● 1955 - The Montgomery (Alabama) bus boycott begins, led by E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks, lasting over a year (54 weeks) until buses are integrated. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) is formed to coordinate the boycott, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is elected president. About 30,000-40,000 (out of 50,000) Montgomery Blacks participate.
● 1957 - Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
● 1958 - Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
● 1958 - The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
● 1963 - French soldiers stop protest march from Accra, Ghana against French nuclear weapons tests. Western Sahara, Africa.
● 1964 - Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
● 1965 - Aircraft loaded with a nuclear bomb rolls off a U.S. aircraft carrier somewhere in the mid-Pacific.
● 1967 - Dr. Benjamin Spock and poet Allen Ginsberg among those arrested at New York City army induction center. Over 500 arrested. Demonstrations also occurred in Madison, Manchester, NH, Cincinnati, and New Haven.
● 1969 - Life Magazine reports the My Lai Massacre .
● 1972 - Australia abolishes military conscription.
● 1976 - The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan's resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
● 1977 - Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
● 1978 - The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
● 1979 - Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
● 1983 - Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
● 1984 - Ninety-three killed in mine disaster in Taiwan.
● 1989 - TGV Atlantique sets a new railways speed record with 482.4 km/h.
● 1993 - The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
● 1995 - The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
● 1997 - Conference on elimination of landmines opens, without U.S. participation. Ottawa, Canada.
● 2003 - Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia.
● 2005 - The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
● 2005 - The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
● 2006 - Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
● 2007 - A gunman opens fire at an Omaha, Nebraska mall killing eight people before killing himself (Westroads mall shooting).
BIRTHS
● 1377 - Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
● 1443 - Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
● 1495 - Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
● 1537 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1597)
● 1539 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604)
● 1547 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
● 1595 - Henry Lawes, English composer (d. 1662)
● 1661 - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724)
● 1687 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
● 1782 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)
● 1803 - Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev, Russian poet (d. 1873)
● 1820 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (d. 1892)
● 1822 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American college president (d. 1907)
● 1829 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French Canadian politician (d. 1908)
● 1830 - Christina Rossetti, English poet (d. 1894)
● 1839 - George Armstrong Custer, American general (d. 1876)
● 1841 - Marcus Daly, American mining tycoon (d. 1900)
● 1855 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American ornithologist (d. 1942)
● 1859 - John Jellicoe, British admiral (d. 1935)
● 1863 - Paul Painlevé, French mathematician (d. 1933)
● 1867 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish revolutionary and statesman (d. 1935)
● 1867 - Antti Aarne, Finnish folklorist (d. February 2, 1925)
● 1868 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (d. 1951)
● 1869 - Ellis Parker Butler, American author (d. 1937)
● 1870 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (d. 1949)
● 1871 - Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer (d. 1932)
● 1872 - Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player (d. 1906)
● 1875 - Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian soldier (d. 1933)
● 1879 - Clyde Cessna, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1954)
● 1879 - Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1977)
● 1886 - Rose Wilder Lane, American writer and reporter, daughter of 'Little House' books writer Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1968)
● 1890 - David Bomberg, English painter (d. 1957)
● 1890 - Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director (d. 1976)
● 1892 - Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (d. 1973)
● 1895 - Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (d. 1969)
● 1896 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
● 1898 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (d. 1982)
● 1898 - Grace Moore, American soprano (d. 1947)
● 1899 - Sonny Boy Williamson II, American blues musician (d. 1965)
● 1901 - Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966)
● 1901 - Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (d. 1980)
● 1901 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
● 1902 - Strom Thurmond, American politician (d. 2003)
● 1903 - Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer and actor
● 1903 - Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1969)
● 1905 - Gus Mancuso, American baseball player (d. 1984)
● 1906 - Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director, producer, and actor (d. 1986)
● 1907 - Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
● 1910 - Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
● 1911 - Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist (d. 2000)
● 1914 - Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author (d. 1989)
● 1917 - Ken Downing, English racing driver (d. 2004)
● 1921 - Alvy Moore, American actor (d. 1997)
● 1925 - Anastasio Somoza, President of Nicaragua (d. 1980)
● 1927 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand
● 1932 - Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist, Nobel laureate
● 1932 - Little Richard, American singer and pianist
● 1934 - Joan Didion, American writer
● 1934 - Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor, artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece (d. 2007)
● 1935 - Calvin Trillin, American writer
● 1935 - Yury Vlasov, Soviet weightlifter
● 1936 - James Lee Burke, American writer
● 1938 - J. J. Cale, American songwriter
● 1940 - Boris Ignatyev, Russian footballer and manager
● 1940 - Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
● 1943 - Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate
● 1944 - Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor
● 1945 - Serge Chapleau, French Canadian caricaturist
● 1946 - José Carreras, Spanish tenor
● 1947 - Bruce Golding, Jamaican politician
● 1947 - Tony Gregory, Irish politician
● 1947 - Jim Messina, American musician (Buffalo Springfield, Loggins and Messina)
● 1947 - Jim Plunkett, American football player
● 1949 - Ray Comfort, New Zealand evangelist
● 1950 - Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (d. 1992)
● 1950 - Osvaldo Golijov, Argentine-born composer
● 1951 - Morgan Brittany, American actress
● 1951 - Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Belgian artist
● 1952 - Andy Kim, Canadian singer, songwriter
● 1953 - Larry Zbyszko, American professional wrestler
● 1956 - Brian Backer, American actor
● 1956 - Krystian Zimerman, Polish pianist
● 1957 - Art Monk, American football player
● 1958 - Dean Erickson, American actor
● 1960 - Jack Russell, American singer (Great White)
● 1962 - José Cura, Argentine tenor
● 1963 - Doctor Dre, American radio personality
● 1963 - Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards, English ski jumper
● 1963 - Carrie Hamilton, American actress (d. 2002)
● 1965 - Johnny Rzeznik, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Goo Goo Dolls)
● 1965 - Wayne Smith, Jamaican reggae musician
● 1966 - Patricia Kaas, French singer
● 1967 - Gary Allan, American singer
● 1967 - Konstantin-Assen, Prince of Vidin, titular Bulgarian royal family
● 1968 - Margaret Cho, American comedian and actress
● 1968 - Lisa Marie, American model and actress
● 1969 - Morgan J. Freeman, American film director
● 1969 - Lewis Gordon Pugh, English swimmer, polar explorer and motivational speaker
● 1970 - Kevin Haller, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1971 - Kali Rocha, American actress
● 1972 - Cliff Floyd, American baseball player
● 1972 - Mike Mahoney, American baseball player
● 1972 - Angela Shelton, American actress & writer
● 1973 - Shalom Harlow, Canadian supermodel and actress
● 1973 - Luboš Motl, Czech physicist
● 1975 - Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player
● 1976 - Amy Acker, American actress
● 1976 - Xavier Garbajosa, French rugby union footballer
● 1978 - Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player
● 1979 - Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer
● 1979 - Niklas Hagman, Finnish ice hockey player
● 1979 - Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
● 1979 - Gareth McAuley, Northern Irish footballer
● 1979 - Nick Stahl, American actor
● 1980 - Shizuka Ito, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
● 1981 - Leila Tong, Hong Kong actress
● 1982 - Eddy Curry, American basketball player
● 1982 - Trai Essex, American football player
● 1984 - Chris Solinsky, American distance runner
● 1985 - Frankie Muniz, American actor
● 1985 - Josh Smith, American basketball player
● 1985 - Nico Verdonck, Belgian racing driver
● 1988 - Ross Bagley, American actor
● 1992 - Giorgio Cantarini, Italian actor
● 2006 - Knut, German polar bear
DEATHS
● 749 - Saint John of Damascus, theologian
● 1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
● 1355 - John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
● 1560 - King Francis II of France (b. 1544)
● 1570 - Johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494)
● 1624 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
● 1654 - Jean François Sarrazin, French writer
● 1663 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (b. 1582)
● 1749 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, New French explorer and trader (b. 1685)
● 1758 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)
● 1770 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692)
● 1784 - Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet (b. 1753)
● 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)
● 1819 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
● 1870 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (b. 1802)
● 1887 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
● 1891 - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
● 1895 - Chief Gall, Sioux chief (b. 1840)
● 1925 - Władysław Reymont, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
● 1926 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840)
● 1931 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
● 1940 - Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (b. 1893)
● 1940 - Jan Kubelík, Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak violinist (b. 1880)
● 1950 - Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
● 1951 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1889)
● 1951 - Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871)
● 1953 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911)
● 1963 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
● 1963 - Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Indian Hindu mystic
● 1963 - Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
● 1965 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
● 1966 - Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1909)
● 1968 - Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914)
● 1969 - Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (b. 1884)
● 1973 - Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, inventor of radar (b. 1892)
● 1977 - Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (b. 1895)
● 1983 - Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
● 1984 - Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
● 1986 - Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
● 1989 - Sir John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1921)
● 1991 - Robert Karvelas, American actor (b. 1921)
● 1991 - Richard Speck, American mass murderer (b. 1941)
● 1993 - Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms) (b. 1961)
● 1994 - Harry Horner, American art director (b. 1910)
● 1998 - Al Gore, Sr., American politician (b. 1907)
● 2001 - Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b. 1901)
● 2002 - Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting pioneer (b. 1931)
● 2002 - Ne Win, Burmese leader (b. 1911)
● 2005 - Ed Masry, American lawyer (b. 1932)
● 2005 - Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, Australian businessman (b. 1949)
● 2005 - Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1905)
● 2006 - David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abercius
● St. Anastasius
● St. Basilissa
● St. Bassus
● St. Cawrdaf
● St. Crispina
● St. Dalmatius
● St. Firminus
● St. Galagnus
● St. Gerald
● St. Gerbold
● St. John Almond
● St. John the Wonder-Worker
● St. Julius
● St. Nicetius
● St. Nicholas Tavigli
● St. Pelinus
● St. Sabas
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 23 (Civil Date: December 5)
● Nativity Fast.
● Repose of St. Alexander Nevsky.
● Afterfeast of the Entry into the Temple.
● St. Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium.
● St. Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum.
● St. Metrophanes (in schema Macarius), Bishop of Voronezh.
● St. Amphilocius of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Volhynia.
● Martyr Sisinius, Bishop of Cyzicus.
● Martyr Theodore of Antioch.
● St. Ischyrion, Bishop of in Egypt and hermit of Scete.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Helenus of Tarsus, Bishop.
● Roman festivals - Faunalia celebrated in honor of Faunus (according to Horace, Odes 3.18)
● Austria - Krampus
● Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands and the UK - Saint Nicholas Eve (whom Dutch speakers call Sinterklaas, which became in other languages Santa Claus)
● Thailand - The King's Birthday, National Day, Father's Day
● Repeal Day celebrating the 21st Amendment of the United States Constitution, which ended prohibition
● Day of the Ninja
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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