Day of the week in surrounding years:
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—MON—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—TUE—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—WED—. . . .
1984,1990,. . . .,2001,2007—THU—2012
1985,1991,1996,2002,. . . .—FRI—2013
1986,. . . .,1997,2003,2008—SAT—2014
1987,1992,1998,. . . .,2009—SUN—2015
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Power "He who is morally impressed by power is never in a critical mood, and he is never a revolutionary character." — Erich Fromm
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Gender Gap ". . . Or, consider 1992 when the court challenged God's ability to mark when life begins and ends. Three Reagan appointees joined the majority in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey to uphold a "woman's right to choose." So much for recapturing the Court. Together, Roe, Casey and their illegitimate progeny have occasioned the slaughter of thirty-five million children, thirty-five million innocents denied standing before the law. . . ." — Sen. John Ashcroft, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Annual Meeting, 3-6-97.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "We must rise to higher and higher platitudes together." — Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago
{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
Mars in View
Credit & Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne, Francois Colas
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
● 1534 - The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
● 1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published.
● 1790 - The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
● 1849 - American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
● 1865 - Georgia becomes the 27th and last necessary state to ratify the thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery in the U.S.
● 1869 - Meeting of first national black labor group, the Colored National Labor Convention, in Washington, D.C.
● 1884 - The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
● 1889 - Great trial of the Chicago Haymarket anarchists begins.
● 1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
● 1904 - "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine asserts the U.S. right to serve as international policemen anywhere in the Western Hemisphere.
● 1907 - A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers. Worst mining disaster in U.S. history.
● 1916 - David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister of United Kingdom.
● 1916 - The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
● 1917 - Finland declares independence from Russia.
● 1917 - The most devastating man-made explosion in the pre-nuclear age occurs when the S.S. Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, explodes 20 minutes after colliding with a Belgian relief ship in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The massive blast killed more than 1,600 people, injured over 8,000, and destroyed almost the entire north end of the city of Halifax, rendering more than 10,000 homeless. The resulting shock wave shattered windows 40 miles away, and the sound of the explosion was as far away as New England.
● 1918 - U.S. Dept. of War abolishes the practice of manacling defiant prisoners to the walls of their cells in solitary confinement, used to torture conscientious objectors in U.S. prisons during World War I. {We had to wait for the Bush war criminal cabal to reinstate the practice in Iraq.}
● 1921 - The Irish Free State, composing four-fifths of Ireland, was declared under an historic peace agreement. However, Eamon DeValera, the President of Ireland objected that his state remained part of the British Commonwealth. Not until 1949 did the Irish Free State sever all ties with Britain, as the Republic of Eire.
● 1922 - One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
● 1925 - Strike by 125,000 textile workers in Bombay, India.
● 1927 - Marcus Garvey deported as an undesirable alien.
● 1933 - Dorothy Day and others start Catholic Worker newspaper, New York City; House of Hospitality opened soon after.
● 1933 - Kandinsky and Klee leave Germany for France and Switzerland respectively; 60,000 other artists (authors, actors, painters, musicians) flee between 1933-39.
● 1933 - U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce novel Ulysses is not obscene.
● 1947 - The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
● 1949 - Blues legend Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) dies, New York City. Founding father of socially-conscious American blues. Influenced Woody Guthrie, The Weavers, Bob Dylan, Martin Mull, myriad others.
● 1956 - A water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, representative of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
● 1956 - Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba begins.
● 1957 - First U.S. attempt to launch an artificial satellite, a sphere fully 6.4 inches in diameter, failed when the Vanguard rocket carrying it rose less than five feet, toppled over, and exploded.
● 1958 - Forty-six enter Thor rocket site in order to prevent construction. North Pickenham, Norfolk, Britain.
● 1961 - Frantz Fanon, 36, having completed "Wretched of the Earth," dies, Washington, D.C. The book appears in English in 1965.
● 1965 - Rose Pesotta dies. Dressmaker, labor activist, the only woman on the General Executive Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers (ILGWU) from 1933-1944, engaged in a 10-year fight to organize workers, running up against the opposition of the communist faction. Close friend of Emma Goldman, with whom she traveled to Europe and England.
● 1965 - Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
● 1966 - Rally, Madison Square Garden - SANE and 36 supporting organizations, Floyd McKissick, I.F. Stone, Pete Seeger participate. Hundreds of balloons with peace doves released.
● 1969 - Meredith Hunter is killed by Hells Angels during The Rolling Stones's concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
● 1971 - Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi's recognition of Bangladesh.
● 1973 - Gerald Ford sworn-in as first of only three unelected Vice Presidents in U.S. history; succeeds Spiro T Agnew. (The other two are Nelson Rockefeller and Dick Cheney.)
● 1973 - The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).
● 1975 - Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
● 1977 - Angry workers lock up production manager and the controller as hostages at the Swadeshi Cotton Mills in Kanpur province, India. A fracas between police and 3,000 workers ensues, with the hostages being killed when cops open fire.
● 1977 - South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country
● 1978 - Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
● 1981 - Two thousand women march in Tokyo in remembrance of the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor with a banner, "We Will Not Allow The Way To War."
● 1982 - Eleven soldiers and six civilians die when bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army explodes in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland.
● 1984 - Children picket to demand release of their political prisoner parents by the U.S.-backed Marcos dictatorship, Mendiola Bridge, Philippines.
● 1986 - Conscientious objectors occupy government office for C.O.'s, Madrid, Spain.
● 1989 - Fourteen female students are assassinated at a L'ecole Polytechnique in Montreal by a man vowing to kill feminists.
● 1990 - Police in Oakland, California spend two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them, shouting "please come out and give yourself up!"
● 1991 - In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People's Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
● 1992 - Extremist Hindu activists demolish Babri Masjid - a 16th century mosque in Ayodhya, India which had been used as temple since 1949. Hindus believe this structure was built on the site of the birthplace of Lord Rama.
● 1997 - A Russian Antonov An-124 transport cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
● 2001 - The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
● 2005 - Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
● 2006 - NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
BIRTHS
● 846 - Hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874)
● 1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)
● 1421 - King Henry VI of England (d. 1471)
● 1478 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)
● 1550 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (baptism) (d. 1605)
● 1586 - Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670)
● 1608 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670)
● 1637 - Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)
● 1640 - Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723)
● 1642 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
● 1685 - Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France d. 1712
● 1721 - James Elphinston, British philologist (d. 1809)
● 1721 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)
● 1752 - Gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1844)
● 1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
● 1792 - King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
● 1805 - Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875)
● 1805 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
● 1812 - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (d. 1884)
● 1823 - Friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist (d. 1900)
● 1833 - John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate guerrilla leader (d. 1916)
● 1841 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870)
● 1849 - August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
● 1863 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (d. 1914)
● 1872 - William S. Hart, American actor (d. 1946)
● 1875 - Evelyn Underhill, British poet (d. 1941)
● 1876 - Fred Duesenberg, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1932)
● 1886 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (d. 1918)
● 1887 - Joseph Lamb, American ragtime composer (d. 1960)
● 1890 - Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer (d. 1955)
● 1890 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)
● 1890 - Dion Fortune, British occultist (d. 1946)
● 1892 - Sir Osbert Sitwell, British author (d. 1969)
● 1896 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983)
● 1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photojournalist (d. 1995)
● 1898 - Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (d. 1987)
● 1900 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)
● 1903 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (d. 1946)
● 1904 - Ève Curie French writer (d. 2007)
● 1905 - James J. Braddock, American boxer (d. 1974)
● 1908 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003)
● 1908 - Baby Face Nelson, American bank robber (d. 1934)
● 1913 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004)
● 1916 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986)
● 1916 - Kristján Eldjárn, Curator at the National Museum of Iceland and 3rd president of Iceland (d. 1982)
● 1917 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977)
● 1919 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983)
● 1920 - Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer
● 1920 - George Porter, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
● 1921 - Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)
● 1921 - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2004)
● 1922 - John Henry Cound Brunt, Victoria Cross holder (d. 1944)
● 1924 - Wally Cox, American actor (d. 1973)
● 1928 - Bobby Van, American singer (d. 1980)
● 1929 - Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker
● 1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor
● 1929 - Frank Springer, American comics artist
● 1930 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia
● 1931 - Don King, American Boxing Promoter
● 1931 - Zeki Müren, Turkish actor, singer, and composer (d. 1996)
● 1933 - Henryk Górecki, Polish composer
● 1935 - Jean Lapointe, Quebec comedian, singer and senator
● 1936 - David Ossman, American comedian
● 1937 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2006)
● 1940 - Lawrence Bergman, Quebec politician
● 1940 - Richard Edlund, American special effects photographer
● 1941 - Richard Speck, American mass murderer (d. 1991)
● 1942 - Peter Handke, Austrian writer
● 1945 - Shekhar Kapur, Indian filmmaker
● 1945 - Larry Bowa, baseball player and Major League manager
● 1945 - Dan Harrington, American poker player
● 1947 - Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician
● 1948 - JoBeth Williams, American actress
● 1948 - Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver
● 1948 - Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German actor and musician
● 1949 - Linda Creed, American songwriter (d. 1986)
● 1949 - Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist
● 1950 - Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer
● 1950 - Mark Boon, Hollandaze Guitarist (Diesel)
● 1952 - Rick Charlesworth, Australian hockey player
● 1952 - Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist
● 1953 - Tom Hulce, American actor
● 1953 - Gary Ward, baseball player
● 1955 - Steven Wright, American comedian
● 1955 - Rick Buckler, British drummer (The Jam)
● 1956 - Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.)
● 1956 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (d. 1982)
● 1957 - Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (d. 1999)
● 1958 - Nick Park, British filmmaker and animator
● 1959 - Satoru Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo
● 1961 - David Lovering, American drummer (Pixies)
● 1962 - Janine Turner, American actress
● 1963 - Ulrich Thomsen, Danish actor
● 1967 - Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer
● 1970 - Ulf Ekberg, Swedish musician (Ace of Base)
● 1970 - Éric Lemieux, Quebec keyboardist (a/k/a "La Chicane")
● 1971 - José Contreras, Cuban baseball player
● 1971 - Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
● 1971 - Ryan White, American AIDS activist (d. 1990)
● 1971 - Naozumi Takahashi, seiyuu
● 1972 - Rick Short, baseball player
● 1974 - Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1975 - Noel Clarke, English actor and writer
● 1976 - Colleen Haskell, American television personality
● 1977 - Kevin Cash, baseball player
● 1977 - Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
● 1977 - Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer
● 1978 - Darrell Jackson, American football player
● 1978 - Chris Basak, American baseball player
● 1979 - Tim Cahill, Australia footballer
● 1980 - Steve Lovell, British footballer
● 1980 - Ehren Wassermann, American baseball player
● 1982 - Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer
● 1982 - Ryan Carnes, American actor
● 1982 - Robbie Gould, American football player
● 1982 - Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist and 2007 Tour de France winner
● 1985 - Dulce María, Mexican actress and singer
● 1986 - Cintia Dicker, Brazilian model
● 1989 - Balraj,Future CEO
● 1993 - Elián González, Cuban subject of international child custody battle
● 1995 - Joy Gruttmann, German singer
● 2000 - Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
DEATHS
● 343 - Saint Nicholas
● 1185 - King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
● 1352 - Pope Clement VI (b. 1291)
● 1562 - Jan van Scorel Dutch painter and architect
● 1618 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
● 1658 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (b. 1601)
● 1672 - King John II Casimir of Poland (b. 1609)
● 1675 - John Lightfoot, English churchman (b. 1602)
● 1718 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
● 1746 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
● 1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
● 1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
● 1788 - Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)
● 1867 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)
● 1868 - August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
● 1879 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)
● 1882 - Anthony Trollope, British author (b. 1815)
● 1882 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
● 1889 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
● 1892 - Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (b. 1816)
● 1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
● 1949 - Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1888)
● 1951 - Harold Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892)
● 1955 - Honus Wagner, baseball player (b. 1874)
● 1956 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India (b. 1891)
● 1961 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)
● 1964 - Consuelo Vanderbilt (b. 1877)
● 1972 - Janet Munro, British actress (b. 1934)
● 1976 - João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
● 1983 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
● 1985 - Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917)
● 1985 - Max Kasch, American Actor, Holes
● 1988 - Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b. 1936)
● 1989 - Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
● 1989 - Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (b. 1902)
● 1989 - John Payne, American movie actor (b. 1912)
● 1990 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
● 1991 - Sir Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
● 1992 - Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon (b. 1914)
● 1993 - Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
● 1996 - Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1926)
● 1997 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942)
● 2000 - Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (b. 1920)
● 2001 - Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
● 2001 - Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (b. 1923)
● 2002 - Philip Berrigan, American civil rights activist (b. 1923)
● 2003 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909)
● 2003 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
● 2003 - Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
● 2004 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)
● 2005 - Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1932)
● 2005 - Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
● 2005 - Danny Williams, South African-born singer (b. 1942)
● 2006 - John Feeney, Documentary film-director (b. 1922)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abraham of Kratia
● St. Aemilianus
● St. Asella
● St. Dionysia
● St. Majoricus
● St. Nicholas
● St. Peter Pascual
● St. Polychronius
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 24 (Civil Date: December 6)
● Nativity Fast.
● Afterfeast of the Entry into the Temple.
● Great Martyr Catherine of Alexandria.
● Great Martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
● Martyr Mercurius of Smolensk.
● Services combined with Great Martyr Mercurius.
● Martyrs Augusta the Empress, Porphyrius, and 200 soldiers at Alexandria with Great Martyr Catherine.
● Virgin Mastridia of Alexandria.
● St. Gregory of Pontus.
● Martyr Alexander at Corinth.
● St. Simon, abbot of Soiga Monastery (Vologda).
● St. Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Hermogenes, Bishop of Agrigentum.
● St. Portianus of Arthone (Gaul).
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Malchus.
● Martyrs Philemenus, Christopher, Eugene, Procopius, and another Christopher.
● Martyr Chrysogenes and Monk martyr Mark Triglinos.
● Hieromartyrs Clement, Bishop of Rome, and Peter, Bishop of Alexandria.
● Eastern Catholicism - St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra - Patron of the Byzantine Catholic Church
● Canada - National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
● Finland - Independence Day (from Russia, 1917)
● Spain - Constitution Day
● International - Saint Nicholas Day, where St. Nicholas/Santa Claus leaves little presents in children's shoes ("Sinterklaas" in Belgium and the Netherlands).
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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