Day of the week in surrounding years:
. . . .,1982,1988,1993,1999—MON—. . . .
1977,1983,. . . .,1994,2000—TUE—2005
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—WED—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—THU—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—FRI—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—SAT—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—SUN—2009
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Work "Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them." — Benjamin Franklin
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Say What? "Chris Matthews: When you go down the streets of any major city, there's an area called usually the DMZ where they sell adult books, they sell adult videos. Are they illegal?
Sandy Rios: Well, many of them are. Absolutely.
Matthews: They are?
Rios: Oh, yes because Chris . . ." — Sandy Rios, Concerned Women for America. "Hardball," MSNBC, 10-31-03.—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 the world of Sports "Nobody goes there anymore—it's too crowded." — Few sports figures—and indeed, few figures of any endeavor—have achieved the verbal notoriety of Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, former catcher of the New York Yankees. This is one of the indescribable utterances of Hall of Shame member #6.
{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.}
MOON PHASE
Berkeley, California—Times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)
Jan 11, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 9% Age: 10% Rise: 9:29 AM Set: 8:44 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 11, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 9% Age: 9% Rise: 9:43 AM Set: 9:07 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 11, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 8% Age: 9% Rise: 9:30 AM Set: 8:31 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 11, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 8% Age: 9% Rise: 9:08 AM Set: 8:04 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Polaris Dust Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Mandel (Hidden Valley Observatory) Research Collaboration: Adolf Witt (University of Toledo) et al.
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
● 1158 - Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
● 1569 - First recorded lottery in England.
● 1571 - Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion. {The poor still have no freedoms of any kind.}
● 1693 - Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta
● 1779 - Ching-Thang Khomba crowned King of Manipur
● 1787 - William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
● 1794 - Robert Forsythe, a US Marshal was killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US Marshal to die in action.
● 1805 - Michigan Territory is created.
● 1861 - Alabama secedes from the United States.
● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post - General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
● 1867 - Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again.
● 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War begins.
● 1880 - Total solar eclipse blackens the sky of San Francisco one day after the funeral of Emperor Norton.
● 1885 - Alice Paul, first peace picketer at White House, born. A leading suffragist and, a half-century later, author of the Equal Rights Amendment.
● 1887 - Birth of American naturalist Aldo Leopold, whose "Sand Country Almanac" is an early environmentalist classic.
● 1887 - France - Clement Duval, anarchist expropriator and member of the "Panthers of Batignolles" is condemned to death. Following the protests of anarchists, his sentence was commuted life. In 1901, he escaped from servitude in Guyana to New York, where he lived until age 85, surrounded by Italian anarchist comrades.
● 1890 - Anonymous woman revolutionary assassinates Sololouchin, chief of Tsar's secret police. Moscow, Russia.
● 1908 - A prominent young lawyer, Mohandas Gandhi, is jailed for the first time, for refusing to register as an Asian. Johannesburg, South Africa.
● 1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
● 1911 - First "Modern School", based on ideas of Francisco Ferrer, founded by a group including Leonard Abbott, Alexander Berkman, and Emma Goldman, New York City.
● 1912 - Beginning of IWW-organized "Bread and Roses" textile strike of 32,000 women and children at Lawrence, Massachusetts.
● 1917 - Kingsland Explosion Sabotage of munitions factory.
● 1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
● 1922 - At Toronto General Hospital, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for diabetes. Diabetes had been recognized as a distinct medical condition for over 3,000 years, but its cause (pancreatic failure) was a mystery until the 2Oth century, and what causes the pancreas to fail is only being solved now in the 21st.
● 1923 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
● 1932 - Massacre of Casas Viejas Pueblo in Cadiz, Spain, heralds Civil War. A peasant uprising is put down with the killing of 16 peasants and workers by the civil guard.
● 1935 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
● 1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
● 1942 - The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
● 1943 - Assassination of anarchist militant Carlo Tresca, New York City, murdered by an unknown assailant. Gentle and courtly in person, Tresca was an outspoken foe of fascism in Germany and Italy and of communism in the Soviet Union. Tresca was also a skilled labor agitator, leading strikes and urging workers to stand up for their rights. Served on the John Dewey Commission, which declared Trotsky "not guilty" of the charges presented at the Moscow Purge Trials. Once Tresca took such positions, the communists conducted a campaign of character assassination aimed at destroying his influence in the anti-fascist movements.
● 1943 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
● 1946 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as dictator.
● 1949 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
● 1952 - Peace Pledge Union organizes "Operation Gandhi," first British protest against nuclear weapons. Ten sit down on War Office steps, London.
● 1957 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
● 1957 - Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
● 1962 - Eruption of the Huascaran volcano in Peru; 4,000 deaths.
● 1963 - The Whisky a Go Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.
● 1964 - United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health. It is the first such statement ever made by the U.S. government.
● 1972 - East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
● 1973 - President Nixon ends 17 month wage-price controls, unthinkable government interference in the market by the country's last truly liberal president.
● 1973 - The Open University, Britain's distance-learning university, awards its first degrees.
● 1974 - The world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa.
● 1975 - CIA assassinates two Puerto Rican independence activists, Luis Chavonnier and Eddie Ramos, also killing a six-year-old child and injuring ten others.
● 1981 - Embattled El Salvadoran junta imposes dawn-to-dusk curfew. The Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN) launches a general offensive. In two days the guerrillas' political arm will call for a general strike. By January 15, about half the shops in the capital city, San Salvador, will be closed and 20,000 government workers will walk out. U.S. military assistance and advisors follow shortly.
● 1986 - First African American Lieutenant Governor since reconstruction sworn in. Douglas Wilder of Virginia later becomes governor and briefly runs for president.
● 1986 - The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
● 1990 - 300,000 march in favor of Lithuanian independence.
● 1994 - Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin
● 1996 - Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1998 - Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.
● 1998 - Twenty-five thousand occupy Namada dam site in Western India, a World- Bank funded megaproject slated to submerge 61 villages.
BIRTHS
● 1322 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (d. 1380)
● 1359 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (d. 1393)
● 1395 - Michelle of Valois, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1422)
● 1503 - Parmigianino, Italian artist (d. 1540)
● 1591 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646)
● 1630 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard in the US (d. 1684)
● 1671 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745)
● 1723 - Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (d. 1774)
● 1755 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
● 1757 - Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)
● 1788 - William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
● 1800 - Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (d. 1895)
● 1807 - Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
● 1815 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
● 1842 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
● 1845 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (d. 1912)
● 1852 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
● 1853 - Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (d. 1926)
● 1856 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (d. 1932)
● 1858 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
● 1859 - Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India (d. 1925)
● 1868 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940)
● 1870 - Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945)
● 1873 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (d. 1949)
● 1875 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (d. 1956)
● 1876 - Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971)
● 1885 - Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (d. 1965)
● 1885 - Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (d. 1977)
● 1887 - Aldo Leopold, American ecologist (d. 1948)
● 1890 - Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (d.1954)
● 1897 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
● 1901 - Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (d. 1988)
● 1902 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986)
● 1903 - Alan Paton, South African writer (d. 1988)
● 1906 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist
● 1907 - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (d. 1982)
● 1908 - Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994)
● 1910 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (d. 1975)
● 1911 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
● 1915 - Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service (d. 1955)
● 1916 - Bernard Blier, French actor (d. 1989)
● 1917 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (d. 1982)
● 1921 - Juanita M. Kreps, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
● 1921 - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (d. 1990)
● 1923 - Carroll Shelby, American automobile designer
● 1924 - Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, Nobel laureate
● 1924 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
● 1924 - Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
● 1924 - Don Cherry, American singer and golfer
● 1925 - Grant Tinker, American television executive
● 1926 - Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
● 1928 - David L. Wolper, American television producer
● 1930 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
● 1932 - Alfonso Arau, Mexican film director
● 1934 - Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
● 1938 - Fischer Black, American economist (d. 1995)
● 1938 - Arthur Scargill, Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader
● 1939 - Anne Heggtveit, Canadian alpine skier
● 1941 - Gérson, Brazilian footballer
● 1942 - Clarence Clemons, American musician (E Street Band)
● 1943 - Jim Hightower, American radio host and author
● 1944 - John Piper, American theologian
● 1944 - Shibu Soren, Indian politician
● 1944 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989)
● 1945 - Samdech Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry, Supreme Patriarch of the Cambodian Dhammayutt Order
● 1945 - Christine Kaufmann, German-Austrian actress
● 1946 - Naomi Judd, American singer
● 1946 - Tony Kaye, British keyboard player (Yes)
● 1951 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (d. 2000)
● 1952 - Ben Crenshaw, American golfer
● 1952 - Lee Ritenour, American musician and composer
● 1953 - John Sessions, Scottish actor
● 1956 - Robert Earl Keen, American singer
● 1957 - Bryan Robson, English footballer and manager
● 1958 - Vicki Peterson, American musician (The Bangles)
● 1958 - Diego León Montoya Sánchez, former Columbian crime boss
● 1959 - Rob Ramage, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1961 - Jasper Fforde, British author
● 1962 - Susan Lindauer, American peace activist and accused spy
● 1963 - Dean Reynolds, English snooker player
● 1966 - Marc Acito, American novelist and humorist
● 1966 - Kelley Law, Canadian curler
● 1968 - Tom Dumont, American musician
● 1968 - Anders Borg, Swedish politician
● 1969 - Manny Acta, Dominican baseball player
● 1969 - Kyle Richards, American actress
● 1970 - Mary J. Blige, American singer
● 1970 - Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
● 1972 - Marc Blucas, American actor
● 1972 - Amanda Peet, American actress
● 1972 - Luís Delgado, Angolan footballer
● 1973 - Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
● 1973 - Joanna Brodzik, Polish actress
● 1974 - Jens Nowotny, German footballer
● 1974 - Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
● 1975 - Rory Fitzpatrick, American ice hockey player
● 1976 - Efthimios Rentzias, Greek basketball player
● 1977 - Shomari Buchanan, American football player
● 1977 - Nadia Turner, American singer
● 1978 - Emile Heskey, English footballer
● 1978 - Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer
● 1979 - Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
● 1980 - Mike Williams, American football player
● 1980 - Deanna Wright, American actress
● 1981 - Jamelia, English singer
● 1981 - Tom Meighan, British singer (Kasabian)
● 1981 - Chris Edwards, British musician (Kasabian)
● 1982 - Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress
● 1982 - Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor and singer
● 1983 - Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
● 1983 - Matthew Palleschi, Canadian soccer player
● 1985 - Rie fu, Japanese singer
● 1985 - Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
● 1987 - Scotty Cranmer, American professional BMX rider
DEATHS
● 314 - St. Miltiades
● 705 - Pope John VI
● 802 - St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
● 812 - Stauracius, Byzantine Emperor
● 844 - Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
● 1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1000)
● 1083 - Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria
● 1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
● 1495 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
● 1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
● 1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
● 1696 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
● 1703 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632)
● 1713 - Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
● 1762 - Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
● 1763 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)
● 1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (b. 1704)
● 1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)
● 1801 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749)
● 1836 - John Molson, Canadian brewer (b. 1763)
● 1843 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and writer of the American national anthem (b. 1779)
● 1882 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
● 1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
● 1902 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
● 1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
● 1914 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)
● 1923 - King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
● 1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
● 1931 - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
● 1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
● 1952 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (b. 1889)
● 1952 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (b. 1885)
● 1954 - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
● 1958 - Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
● 1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
● 1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
● 1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
● 1970 - Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
● 1978 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
● 1979 - Jack Soo, American actor (b. 1917)
● 1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
● 1980 - Laurie Knox, former tax accountant and current kindergarten teacher
● 1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888)
● 1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
● 1988 - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, American WW II Marine aviator (b. 1912)
● 1988 - Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world (b. 1873)
● 1991 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
● 1994 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (b. 1902)
● 1998 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
● 1999 - Fabrizio de André, Italian singer (b. 1940)
● 1999 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)
● 2000 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (b. 1911)
● 2000 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (b. 1920)
● 2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)
● 2002 - Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (b. 1920)
● 2003 - Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947)
● 2003 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
● 2003 - Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
● 2005 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938)
● 2005 - James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943)
● 2005 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)
● 2005 - Fabrizio Meoni, Italian motorcyclist (b. 1957)
● 2006 - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
● 2006 - Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (b. 1998)
● 2007 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
● 2007 - Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
● 2007 - Puchi Balseiro, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexander
● St. Anastasius X
● St. Boadin
● St. Brandan
● Sts. Ethenea and Fidelmia
● St. Honorata
● St. Hyginus, Pope
● St. Leucius of Brindisi
● St. Palaemon
● Sts. Paldo, Tato, and Taso
● St. Paulinus of Aquileia
● Sts. Peter, Severus and Leucius
● St. Salvius
● St. Theodosius of Antioch
● St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch
● St. Vitalis of Gaza
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 29 (Civil Date: January 11)
● Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ.
● The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem.
● St. Marcellus, abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones.
● St. Thaddaeus, confessor, of the Studion.
● St. Benjamin, monk of Nitria in Egypt.
● St. Athenodorus, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great.
● St. George, Bishop of Nicomedia.
● St. Mark the Grave digger of the Kiev Caves.
● Saints Theophilus and John of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Theophilus of Luga and Omutch.
● Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezing.
● Repose of Elder Basiliscus of Siberia (1824).
● Roman Empire - First day of Carmentalia in honor of Carmenta
● Albania - Republic Day (1946)
● Morocco - Independence Resistance Day
● Nepal - Unity 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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