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1981,1987,1992,1998,. . . .—MON—2009
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—TUE—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—WED—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—THU—. . . .
1984,1990,. . . .,2001,2007—FRI—2012
1985,1991,1996,2002,. . . .—SAT—2013
1986,. . . .,1997,2003,2008—SUN—2014
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Privacy "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." — William O. Douglas
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Their Cold Dead Hands "Question: How do you explain the low crime rates in democratic societies with strong firearms regulations?
Tanya Metaksa: The same way I would explain low crime rates in other countries which have less firearm restrictions that the countries you are talking about, and less restrictions that the high crime parts of the U.S.—there is no correlation between gun laws and crime rates, one way or the other, for the most part. As noted though, where gun laws respect the right to self-protection, crime rates are much lower. . . ." — Tanya Metaksa, Executive Director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action in a "Time online" interview. Time's Nancy Kearney was the moderator, 5-30-95. hoboes.com.—Part 1 of 2 {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 "If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." — Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman
{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
Double Cluster in Perseus
Credit & Copyright: Volker Wendel, Josef Popsel, Stefan Binnewies
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1682 - "Great Law" abolishes war in colony of Pennsylvania. Except, of course, against Indians.
● 1724 - Tumult of Thorn - religious unrest followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
● 1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
● 1776 - Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general.
● 1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the US Constitution.
● 1792 - The Mississauga tribe cedes a portion of South Ontario, bordering Lake Erie, for 1,180 British pounds.
● 1815 - Michel Ney, Marshal of France, is executed by firing squad after having been convicted of treason for his support of Napoleon I.
● 1822 - Birth of Emile Digeon, French socialist and anarchist journalist.
● 1826 - Malacca High School (SMK Tinggi Melaka) is established in Melaka (Malacca), Malaysia.
● 1861 - Birth of Han Ryner, Nemours, Algeria. Teacher, anti-clerical, pacifist, anarchist, philosopher.
● 1873 - Birth of Willa Cather, author who wrote about strong pioneer women.
● 1874 - Seventy African Americans killed after protesting the ejection of a carpetbag sheriff, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
● 1896 - Cuban revolutionary Antonio Maceo killed.
● 1900 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
● 1905 - General uprising begins, Moscow (fails 23 days later, leaving over 1,000 dead.) Over 150,000 workers in a general strike. By the 9th, workers erect barricades throughout the city and fight against the soldiers.
● 1917 - World War I: The US declares war on Austria-Hungary.
● 1918 - One hundred thousand textile workers strike in Lancashire, England.
● 1929 - Birth of linguist and radical political analyst Noam Chomsky.
● 1931 - One thousand national hunger marches arrive in Washington, D.C.
● 1941 - Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, near Honolulu, Hawaii, with devastating results, despite an official warning by U.S. officials, on November 27, that an attack might be imminent.
● 1941 - World War II: Canada declares war on Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Japan.
● 1946 - Fire guts the supposedly "fireproof" 15-story Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, taking 119 lives.
● 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.
● 1949 - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions founded, London.
● 1961 - Military police hold civilians at Peterson Field, Colorado at gunpoint as Tibetan commandos, who'd been secretly trained by the CIA, are smuggled aboard a C-124 Globemaster.
● 1962 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
● 1964 - Mario Savio, leader of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, arrested. Univ. of California-Berkeley administration makes a presentation at the Greek Theatre to 18,000 students; followed by strike by 9,000 of the 27,000 students, and a faculty resolution (824 to 115) supporting the rapidly growing Free Speech Movement.
● 1965 - Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
● 1966 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
● 1968 - R. Dodd returned a book to the University of Cincinnati that was due in 1823. The $22,646 fine went unpaid.
● 1970 - Rube Goldberg dies, New York City. Not entirely clear how his coffin was lowered into the ground.
● 1970 - The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise is held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats.
● 1971 - Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.
● 1972 - Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew take the photograph known as "The Blue Marble" as they leave the Earth.
● 1972 - The National Organization of Women (NOW) issues 78-page booklet, "Ted & Jane as Victims." Written to criticize sexism in elementary school textbooks.
● 1975 - In his campaign to free boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter from prison, Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue does a show at the Correctional Institution For Women at Clinton, NJ, where Carter was temporarily imprisoned.
● 1975 - With U.S. and British assistance, Indonesia invades and annexes East Timor, overthrowing the popularly elected government. The resulting decades of occupation resulted in the genocide of an estimated one-third of the East Timorese population.
● 1982 - Denmark - Parliament votes to suspend NATO payments for Pershing and cruise missiles.
● 1982 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
● 1983 - An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in intense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.
● 1987 - Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
● 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev announces unilateral reduction of Soviet armed forces by 500,000.
● 1988 - Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
● 1988 - Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
● 1993 - Dept. of Energy discloses U.S. had conducted over 200 secret nuclear weapons tests.
● 1993 - Four Plowshares activists arrested for disarming an F-15E Strike Eagle nuclear war jet at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina.
● 1993 - The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
● 1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
● 1995 - Up to 1.75 million striking French workers demonstrate in marches shutting down the country as part of an escalating series of general strikes protesting government cutbacks and global exploitation of workers.
● 1997 - Eighteen Australian activists and one East Timorese refugee arrested inside Canungra Land Warfare Centre, south of Brisbane, Australia, in a protest on the anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Canungra serves as a training center for Indonesian and other Southeast Asian militaries.
● 1998 - Yachtsman Jesse Martin departs from Melbourne on his circumnavigation journey around the world.
● 2001 - John P. Walters is sworn in as the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
● 2003 - The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
● 2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
● 2006 - A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging around 150 properties.
BIRTHS
● 521 - Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
● 903 - Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)
● 1302 - Azzone Visconti lord of Milan (d. 1339)
● 1545 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567)
● 1561 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
● 1598 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian artist (d. 1680)
● 1637 - Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710)
● 1670 - John Aislabie, English director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)
● 1724 - Louise of Great Britain, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1751)
● 1764 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841)
● 1784 - Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
● 1801 - Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist and actor (d. 1862)
● 1803 - Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (d. 1829)
● 1810 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882)
● 1810 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894)
● 1823 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (d. 1891)
● 1847 - George Grossmith, British actor and writer (d. 1912)
● 1860 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
● 1862 - Paul Adam, French novelist (d. 1920)
● 1863 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (d. 1945)
● 1863 - Richard Sears, American department store founder (d. 1914)
● 1873 - Willa Cather, American novelist (d. 1947)
● 1879 - Rudolf Friml, American composer (d. 1972)
● 1887 - Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (d. 1964)
● 1888 - Joyce Cary, Irish author (d. 1957)
● 1888- Hamilton Fish III, American politician (d. 1991)
● 1891 - Fay Bainter, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1968)
● 1903 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
● 1904 - Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer (d. 1991)
● 1905 - Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-born American astronomer (d. 1973)
● 1907 - Fred Rose, Canadian communist politician (d. 1983)
● 1910 - Louis Prima, American musician (d. 1978)
● 1910 - Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian musician
● 1912 - Daniel Jones, British composer (d. 1993)
● 1915 - Eli Wallach, American actor
● 1916 - Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
● 1920 - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist
● 1921 - Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader
● 1924 - Mário Soares, President of Portugal
● 1924 - Bent Fabric, Danish pop pianist and composer
● 1924- John Love, Zimbabwean Formula One driver (d. 2005)
● 1925 - Hernando da Silva Ramos, Brazilian racing driver
● 1927 - Helen Watts, British contralto
● 1928 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political writer
● 1930 - Hal Smith, American baseball player
● 1932 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress
● 1932 - Paul Caponigro, American photographer
● 1940 - Stan Boardman, English comedian
● 1940 - Gerry Cheevers, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1942 - Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (d. 1981)
● 1942 - Alex Johnson, American baseball player
● 1942 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (d. 2006)
● 1943 - Bernard C. Parks, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
● 1943 - Göran Lennmarker, Swedish politician
● 1944 - Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
● 1944 - Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker
● 1945 - Marion Rung, Finnish singer
● 1947 - Johnny Bench, American baseball player
● 1947 – Wilton Gregory, American Archbishop of Atlanta
● 1947 – Sir Ellison Pogo, Solomon Islander Archbishop of Melanesia
● 1947- Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1947- Tony Thomas, American TV and film producer
● 1948 - Gary Morris, American singer and actor
● 1948 - Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
● 1949 - Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
● 1952 - Georges Corraface, Greek actor, president of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival
● 1954 - Mark Hofmann, American forger and bomber
● 1954 - Mike Nolan, Irish singer (Bucks Fizz)
● 1955 - Priscilla Barnes, American actress
● 1955 - John Watkins, Australian politician
● 1956 - Larry Bird, American basketball player
● 1957 - Tom Winsor, British lawyer and economic regulator
● 1958 - Tim Butler, English musician (Psychedelic Furs)
● 1958 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
● 1960 - Craig Scanlon, English guitarist (The Fall)
● 1962 - Grecia Colmenares, Venezuelan actress
● 1964 - Roberta Close, Brazilian model
● 1964 - Tadao Uematsu, Japanese racing driver
● 1965 - Jeffrey Wright, American actor
● 1965 - Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer
● 1966 - C. Thomas Howell, American actor
● 1966 - Shinichi Itoh, Japanese motorcycle racer
● 1967 - Tino Martinez, American baseball player
● 1968 - Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1970 - Carmen Campuzano, Mexican actress and fashion model
● 1971 - Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player
● 1971 - Chasey Lain, American pornographic actress
● 1972 - Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
● 1972- Tammy Lynn Sytch, American professional wrestler
● 1973 - Damien Rice, Irish musician
● 1973 - Terrell Owens, American football player
● 1973- Fabien Pelous, French international rugby player
● 1974 - Nicole Appleton, Canadian-born singer
● 1975 - Jamie Clapham, English footballer
● 1976 - Alan Faneca, American football player
● 1976 - Brent Johnson, Canadian football player
● 1976 - Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1976 - Vanessa Lorenzo, Spanish fashion model
● 1977 - Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse)
● 1978 - Shiri Appleby, American actress
● 1978 - Frankie J, Mexican-born American singer
● 1979 - Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
● 1979 - Lampros Choutos, Greek footballer
● 1979 - Jennifer Carpenter, American actress
● 1980 - John Terry, English footballer
● 1983 - Fausto Carmona, Dominican baseball player
● 1984 - Robert Kubica, the first Polish Formula One racing driver
● 1984 - Aaron Gray, American basketball player
● 1984 - Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer
● 1987 - Aaron Carter, American singer and actor
● 1988 - Emily Browning, Australian actress
● 1989 - Nicholas Hoult, English actor
● 2003 - Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands
DEATHS
● 43 B.C.E. - Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 B.C.E.)
● 283 - Pope Eutychian
● 983 - Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
● 1254 - Pope Innocent IV
● 1279 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)
● 1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)
● 1498 - Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist
● 1562 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer
● 1649 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)
● 1672 - Richard Bellingham, English-born Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592)
● 1683 - John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)
● 1683 - Algernon Sydney, English politician (b. 1623)
● 1723 - Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (b. 1677)
● 1725 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)
● 1775 - Charles Saunders, British admiral
● 1793 - Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
● 1815 - Michel Ney, French marshall (executed) (b. 1769)
● 1817 - William Bligh, British naval officer (b. 1745)
● 1842 - Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (b. 1789)
● 1874 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)
● 1894 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur (Suez Canal) (b. 1805)
● 1902 - Thomas Nast, German-born American cartoonist (b. 1840)
● 1906 - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
● 1913 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
● 1917 - Léon Minkus, German/Czech Composer and violinist (b. March 23, 1826)
● 1941 - Casualties of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
● 1941 - Mervyn S. Bennion, United States Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1887)
● 1941 - Herbert C. Jones, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1918)
● 1941 - Isaac C. Kidd, United States Navy Rear Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1884)
● 1941 - Thomas J. Reeves, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1895)
● 1941 - Franklin Van Valkenburgh, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1888)
● 1947 - Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
● 1947 - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866)
● 1956 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887)
● 1960 - Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895)
● 1969 - Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897)
● 1969 - Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903)
● 1970 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
● 1975 - Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897)
● 1977 - Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born American engineer (b. 1906)
● 1978 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)
● 1980 - Darby Crash, American punk-rock lengend (b. 1958)
● 1983 - Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
● 1984 - Lee Roy Yarbrough, American race car (Nascar) driver (b. 1938)
● 1985 - Robert Graves, British author (b. 1895)
● 1985 - Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915)
● 1989 - William Calhoun, professional wrestler (b. 1934)
● 1990 - Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
● 1990 - Jean Duceppe, Quebec stage, television and film actor (b. 1923)
● 1990 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (b. 1904)
● 1993 - Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1905)
● 1993 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
● 1994 - J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
● 1997 - Billy Bremner, Scottish former footballer (b. 1942)
● 1998 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1925)
● 1998 - John Addison, British composer (b. 1920)
● 2000 - Vladimir Gotovac, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1930)
● 2001 - Charles McClendon, LSU Tigers head football coach (b. 1923)
● 2003 - Carl F. H. Henry American theologian and publisher (b. 1913)
● 2003 - Azie Taylor Morton, Treasurer of the United States (b. 1936)
● 2004 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914)
● 2004 - Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913)
● 2004 - Dimebag Darrell, Lead Guitarist For Pantera. (b. 1966)
● 2004 - Jay Van Andel, co-founder and former chairman of Amway (b. 1924)
● 2005 - Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
● 2005 - Lucy d'Abreu, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death (b. 1892)
● 2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard (b. 1961)
● 2006 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (b. 1926)
● 2006 - Jay McShann, American musician (b. ca. 1910)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic
● Martyrs of Africa
● St. Ambrose
● St. Anianas
● St. Maria Giuseppe Rossello
● Sts. Polycarp and Theodore
● St. Servus
● St. Victor of Piacenza
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 25 (Civil Date: December 7)
● Nativity Fast.
● Apodosis of the Entry into the Temple.
● Hieromartyr Clement, pope of Rome.
● Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria.
● St. Peter Galata of Syria.
● St. Clement of Ochrida.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Porphyrius the soldier and 200 with him.
● Martyr Mercurius.
● Eastern Catholic:
● St. Aemilianus
● Colombia - Día de las Velitas (Day of the Candles): Festivity
● India - The Armed Forces Flag Day
● US - Pearl Harbor Day (observance)
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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