Day of the week in surrounding years:
1980,1986,. . . .,1997,2003—MON—2008
1981,1987,1992,1998,. . . .—TUE—2009
1982,. . . .,1993,1999,2004—WED—2010
1983,1988,1994,. . . .,2005—THU—2011
. . . .,1989,1995,2000,2006—FRI—. . . .
1984,1990,. . . .,2001,2007—SAT—2012
1985,1991,1996,2002,. . . .—SUN—2013
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Progress "I do not believe in the indefinite progress for society as a whole. I believe in man's improvement in himself." — Balzac
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Their Cold Dead Hands ". . . Nancy Kearney: To paraphrase many of the questions tonight: why do we need assult weapons?
Tanya Metaksa: "Need" is something for each individual to decide for him or herself. The issue is not "need"—certainly not in a free society where liberty is paramount. The issue is rights. If you mean to ask what uses there are for various kinds of firearms, that's another matter. Ask if that is your direction." — 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 2 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 "Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? . . . I bet if they did, I hope I would say, "Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that." — George H. W. Bush
{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
Star Trails at Dawn
Credit & Copyright: Koen van Gorp
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EVENTS
● 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe.
● 1659 - Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco.
● 1828 - Birth of Joseph Dietzgen, socialist, near Cologne, Germany. Important socialist theorist whose writings exerted considerable influence on the workers' movement.
● 1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
● 1863 - Over 2,000 killed when the Church of Campania, in Santiago, Chile burns.
● 1864 - Pope Pius IX issues the Syllabus Errorum, condemning liberalism, socialism, and rationalism.
● 1864 - The Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon was officially opened.
● 1869 - Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada.
● 1886 - American Federation of Labor founded.
● 1886 - Birth of radical Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico.
● 1886 - The American Federation of Labor is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
● 1894 - Birth of James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist known for his dyspeptic wit.
● 1904 - Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) in Denmark is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen. Still existing today, it is the oldest youth political organisation in Denmark and believed to be one of the oldest remaining in the world.
● 1907 - King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
● 1912 - First Balkan War: The Greek army captures Korçë that had been under Ottoman rule.
● 1914 - World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands - The Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee is engaged by the Royal Navy.
● 1920 - Bosses lock out 75,000 New York clothing workers to impose a wage cut and 48-hour week.
● 1927 - Arthur Ponsonby presents British Premier with 128,770 signatures of persons refusing war service.
● 1933 - Spain - Over the following five days, some provinces (Andalusia, Aragon, Estremadure) experience uprisings, initiated by anarchists. In several villages, they declare anarchist-communism, destroy property files, and abolish the currency. But these movements remain insulated; on Dec. 10 Republican government declared a State of Emergency and sends in the army. Repression is severe - 87 dead, many arrests, tortures, and more than 700 imprisoned.
● 1935 - The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
● 1939 - Jean Grave dies. Significant activist in French anarchist movement.
● 1940 - Four hundred German planes bomb London, England.
● 1941 - Holocaust: Gas vans are first used as a means of execution, at the Chelmno extermination camp near Łódź in Poland.
● 1941 - Representative Jeanette Rankin casts the only vote in Congress against American entry into World War II.
● 1941 - World War II: First Japanese attack on Wake Island.
● 1941 - World War II: Pacific War - After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. Congress pass a declaration of war against Japan.
● 1941 - World War II: Pacific War - The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in China issues a proclamation which declared war against Japan and Germany on behalf of Korean people, who were under Japanese occupation since 1910.
● 1941 - World War II: Pacific War - the Republic of China officially declares war against Japan.
● 1941 - World War II: The Japanese invade the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies.
● 1942 - Holocaust: in Ternopil, Ukraine, German SS organise the last deportation of Ternopil Jews to death camp in Belzec, when 1,400 Jews were sent there. The chief of the Gestapo, SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Müller, bore overall responsibility for the mass murder of the Jews of Ternopil and Berezhany county.
● 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The capital of the Republic of China is moved from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.
● 1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the Atoms for Peace speech.
● 1963 - Ku Klux Klan members attack home of a black voter-registration worker in Dawson, Georgia with small arms fire and at least one dynamite bomb.
● 1966 - The Greek SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
● 1969 - An Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6 crashes in Keratea during a storm, killing 93 people.
● 1969 - Los Angeles police raid local Black Panther Party offices.
● 1972 - United Airlines Flight 533 crashes near Chicago Midway Airport, killing 45 people.
● 1974 - A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
● 1979 - The Oneida Nation files suit in an effort to regain control of the three million acres illegally taken by New York state.
● 1980 - Mark David Chapman shoots John Lennon in front of The Dakota apartment building with five bullets, murdering him.
● 1982 - In Suriname several opponents of the military government are killed.
● 1982 - Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, a veteran of the permanent anti-nuclear vigil in Lafayette Park (across the street from the White House), holds Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hours, police kill him. He has no explosives.
● 1987 - Alianza Lima air disaster
● 1987 - Protestor Hatem Abu Sisseh, 16, killed by Israeli soldiers, igniting the Intifada for self-rule. In the seven years to follow, 1,306 Palestinians slain by Israelis, 192 Israelis killed by Palestinians.
● 1987 - Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Washington, D.C., and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all 1,752 U.S. and 859 Soviet missiles with a 300-3,400 mile (short) range.
● 1987 - The Queen Street Massacre: Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills 8 people at the offices of Australia Post in Melbourne, Australia before being killed himself.
● 1988 - Twelve Plowshares activists arrested for hammering on U.S. nuclear cruise missile bunkers. Woensdrecht, The Netherlands.
● 1991 - The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
● 1991 - The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
● 1993 - First silo implosion in the United States takes place in accordance with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) signed by George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
● 1993 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton. {Thus proving he is the best Republican president of recent years.}
● 1995 - Accidental leakage at a fast breeder nuclear reactor in Monju, Japan, calls into question the future of Japan's extensive high-tech nuclear energy program.
● 1998 - Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
● 2002 - The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
● 2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
● 2005 - Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
BIRTHS
● 65 B.C.E. - Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 B.C.E.)
● 1542 - Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
● 1574 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1616)
● 1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689)
● 1678 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757)
● 1699 - Maria Josepha of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1757)
● 1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
● 1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch-born British physiologist and botanist (d. 1799)
● 1765 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
● 1795 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (d. 1874)
● 1815 - Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1905)
● 1816 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890)
● 1817 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (d. 1896)
● 1832 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
● 1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, American author and folklorist (d. 1908)
● 1861 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (d. 1947)
● 1861 - Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (d. 1944)
● 1861 - Georges Méliès, French filmmaker (d. 1938)
● 1862 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921)
● 1864 - Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)
● 1865 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
● 1865 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (d. 1963)
● 1874 - Ernst Moro, Austrian physician (d. 1951)
● 1886 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
● 1890 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (d. 1959)
● 1894 - James Thurber, American writer (d. 1961)
● 1894 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (d. 1938)
● 1900 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
● 1909 - Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright, actor, director and producer (d. 1999)
● 1911 - Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
● 1911 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (d. 1992)
● 1913 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
● 1915 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
● 1916 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
● 1918 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
● 1919 - Peter Tali Coleman, American politician (d. 1997)
● 1922 - Jean Ritchie, American folk singer
● 1923 - Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist
● 1925 - Sammy Davis Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990)
● 1925 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (d. 2005)
● 1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet Union-born cosmonaut
● 1930 - Maximilian Schell, Austrian-born Swiss actor, film director, and author
● 1933 - Flip Wilson, American comedian (d. 1998)
● 1935 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
● 1935 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
● 1936 - David Carradine, American actor
● 1937 - James MacArthur, American actor
● 1937 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004)
● 1939 - Red Berenson, National Hockey League player
● 1939 - Jerry Butler, American soul singer
● 1939 - Sir James Galway, Northern Irish flute player
● 1939 - Soko Richardson, American rhythm and blues drummer. (d. 2004)
● 1940 - Brant Alyea, baseball player
● 1941 - Ed Brinkman, baseball player
● 1941 - Bob Brown, American football player
● 1941 - Randall "Duke" Cunningham, US Navy fighter pilot and Congressman
● 1941 - Sir Geoff Hurst, ex-English footballer
● 1943 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
● 1943 - Mary Woronov, American actress
● 1945 - John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist
● 1946 - John Rubinstein, American actor, composer, director
● 1947 - Gregg Allman, American musician
● 1947 - Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Finnish writer
● 1947 - Thomas R. Cech, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
● 1949 - Mary Gordon, American writer
● 1949 - Ray Shulman, English musician
● 1949 - Robert Sternberg, Proposed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
● 1950 - Rick Baker, American film makeup artist
● 1950 - Tim Foli, American baseball player
● 1950 - Dan Hartman, American musician (Edgar Winter Group) (d. 1994)
● 1951 - Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter
● 1951 - Bill Bryson, American author
● 1952 - Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore Health Minister
● 1953 - Kim Basinger, American actress
● 1953 - Sam Kinison, American comedian (d. 1992)
● 1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, American musician
● 1957 - Phil Collen, British guitarist (Def Leppard)
● 1958 - Bird McIntyre, Thai pop singer / musician
● 1961 - Ann Coulter, American author, political commentator, and attorney
● 1962 - Marty Friedman, American guitarist
● 1963 - Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1964 - Sandy Burnett, British record producer
● 1964 - Teri Hatcher, American actress
● 1964 - James Blundell, Australian country singer
● 1965 - Carina Lau, Hong Kong actress
● 1966 - Sinéad O'Connor, Irish musician
● 1967 - Jeff George, American football player
● 1967 - Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
● 1968 - Mike Mussina, American baseball player
● 1968 - Michael Cole, American professional wrestling commentator
● 1969 - Jeff Tremaine, American television & film director
● 1972 - Marco Abreu, Angolan footballer
● 1972 - Frank Shamrock, American MMA-Fighter and younger brother of MMA-Fighter Ken Shamrock
● 1973 - Corey Taylor, American singer (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
● 1973 - Doron Bell Jr., Canadian actor
● 1974 - Tony Simmons, American football player
● 1974 - Nick Zinner, American guitarist (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
● 1975 - Kevin Harvick, American NASCAR driver
● 1976 - Dominic Monaghan, German-born British actor
● 1976 - Naimee Coleman, Irish singer and songwriter
● 1976 - Reed Johnson, American baseball player
● 1977 - Ryan Newman, American NASCAR driver
● 1977 - Elsa Benítez, Mexican supermodel
● 1977 - Sébastien Chabal, French international rugby player
● 1978 - John Oster, Welsh footballer
● 1978 - Anwar Siraj, Ethiopian footballer
● 1978 - Ian Somerhalder, American actor
● 1978 - Vernon Wells, American baseball player
● 1979 - Johan Forssell, Swedish politician
● 1979 - Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1979 - Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer
● 1981 - Jeremy Accardo, American baseball player
● 1981 - Philip Rivers, American football player
● 1982 - Dee Dee Trotter, American athlete
● 1983 - Neel Jani, Swiss racing driver
● 1983 - Liu Song, Chinese snooker player
● 1984 - Greg Halford, English footballer
● 1984 - Badr Hari, Dutch kickboxer
● 1985 - Dwight Howard, American basketball player
● 1986 - Amir Khan, British boxer
● 1993 - AnnaSophia Robb, American actress and singer
DEATHS
● 899 - Arnulf of Carinthia (b. 850)
● 1626 - John Davies, English poet (b. 1569)
● 1632 - Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)
● 1638 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
● 1643 - John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
● 1649 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)
● 1680 - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
● 1691 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
● 1695 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)
● 1709 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1625)
● 1722 - Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (b. 1652)
● 1744 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1717)
● 1745 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683)
● 1746 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (b. 1693)
● 1756 - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat
● 1768 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1702)
● 1779 - Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
● 1830 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (b. 1767)
● 1859 - Thomas de Quincey, British author (b. 1785)
● 1864 - George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. 1815)
● 1885 - William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1821)
● 1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
● 1907 - Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
● 1914 - Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
● 1917 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (b. 1836)
● 1938 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896)
● 1952 - Charles Lightoller, British second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874)
● 1958 - Tris Speaker, American baseball player (b. 1888)
● 1963 - Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
● 1975 - Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948)
● 1978 - Golda Meir, Russian-born Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
● 1980 - John Lennon, English musician and peace activist (b. 1940)
● 1982 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (b. 1951)
● 1983 - Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
● 1984 - Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
● 1984 - Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist (b. 1953)
● 1991 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1911)
● 1992 - William Shawn, American magazine editor (b. 1917)
● 1993 - Mike Stringer, Mad man from Dapto
● 1994 - Tom Jobim, Brazilian composer and arranger (b. 1927)
● 1996 - Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
● 1999 - Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (b. 1923)
● 2001 - Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b. 1922)
● 2003 - Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
● 2004 - Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Abbott), American guitarist (b. 1966)
● 2005 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915)
● 2006 - Martha Tilton, American singer (b. 1915)
● 2006 - José Uribe, Dominican baseball player (b. 1959)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● The solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary (Holy Day of Obligation in Ireland, U.S.)
● St. Eucharius, first bishop of Trier
● St. Macarius
● St. Patapius
● St. Romaric
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 26 (Civil Date: December 8)
● Nativity Fast.
● Repose of St. Innocent, first Bishop of Irkutsk.
● St. Alypius the Stylite of Adrianopolis.
● Dedication of the Church of St. George at Kiev.
● St. James the Solitary of Syria.
● St. Nicon Metanoeite ("preacher of repentance").
● New Martyr George of Chios.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Stylianos of Paphlagonia, monk.
● St. Silas, Bishop of Persidos.
● Eastern Catholic:
● Conception of the Theotokos (Mother of God) by Anna - Major Feast Day
● Buddhism - The Enlightenment of Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day)
● Afflux (50 Aftermath) (Discordianism)
● Austria - Public Holiday.
● Bulgaria - Day of the Student (Студентски празник)
● CARICOM-Cuba Day - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
● France - Fête des Lumières (Festival of Lights) held in Lyon to honor the Virgin Mary.
● Italy - In Milan, the opera season starts.
● Malta - Public Holiday.
● Panama - Mother's Day
● Portugal - Immaculate Conception - Day of the national Patron Saint
● Romania - Constitution Day
● Spain - Immaculate Conception - Day of the National Army
● International - Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
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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