Day of the week in surrounding years:
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—MON—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—TUE—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—WED—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—THU—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—FRI—. . . .
1985,1991,. . . .,2002,2008—SAT—2013
1986,1992,1997,2003,. . . .—SUN—2014
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Writers and Writing "Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in prefect freedom who has nothing more to say?" — Kurt Vonnegut
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Say What? ". . . Chris Matthews: Nobody ever shuts them down.
Sandy Rios: Wll, I know that. You know what we have found, that law enforcement doesn't even know what's illegal anymore because it is—you know, during the Clinton years, eight years under Reno, obscenity was not prosecuted, and, Chris, what happened was law enforcement has forgotten that it's illegal." — Sandy Rios, Concerned Women for America. "Hardball," MSNBC, 10-31-03.—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 the world of Sports "It gets late early out there."—a reference to the visual conditions in Yankee Stadium's left field when the setting sun affects playing fly balls — 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 12, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 16% Age: 13% Rise: 9:55 AM Set: 9:51 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 12, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 16% Age: 13% Rise: 10:11 AM Set: 10:10 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 12, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 15% Age: 13% Rise: 9:53 AM Set: 9:41 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 12, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 15% Age: 13% Rise: 9:30 AM Set: 9:15 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Mercury Chases the Sunset
Image Credit & Copyright: Doug Zubenel
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople.
● 1493 - Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily.
● 1528 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
● 1592 - Titus Andronicus first staged at the Rose Theatre.
● 1641 - James City, Virginia, passes law that if any Indian commits a crime, the first Indian apprehended must pay penalty, with life if necessary.
● 1773 - The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
● 1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
● 1808 - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.
● 1833 - Act passed making it unlawful for any Indian to remain within the boundaries of the state of Florida.
● 1848 - The Palermo rising in Sicily rises against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies
● 1864 - Kit Carson's patrol kills 11 Navajo in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Territory.
● 1866 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
● 1872 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
● 1875 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
● 1876 - Jack London, novelist and socialist, born.
● 1879 - The British-Zulu War begins as British troops under Lieutenant General Frederic Augustus invade Zululand from the southern African republic of Natal. In 1843, Britain succeeded the Boers as the rulers of Natal, which controlled Zululand, the neighboring kingdom of the Zulu people. Boers, also known as Afrikaaners, were the descendants of the original Dutch settlers who came to South Africa in the 17th century. Zulus, a migrant people from the north, also came to southern Africa during the same century, settling around the Tugela River region. In 1838, the Boers, migrating north to elude the new British dominions in the south, first came into armed conflict with the Zulus, who were under the rule of King Dingane at the time. The European migrants succeeded in overthrowing Dingane in 1840, replacing him with his son Mpande, who became a vassal of the new Boer republic of Natal. In 1843, the British took over Natal and Zululand. In 1872, King Mpande died and was succeeded by his son Cetshwayo, who was determined to resist European domination in his territory. In December of 1878, Cetshwayo rejected the British demand that he disband his troops, and in January of the next year, British forces invaded Zululand to suppress Cetshwayo. The British suffered grave defeats at Isandlwana, where 1,200 British soldiers were killed, and at Hlobane Mountain, but on March 29, the tide turned in favor of the British at the Battle of Khambula.
● 1882 - Christian Christiansen, antimilitarist activist, born, Cornwall, Denmark.
● 1893 - Birth of Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi race theorist, Reval, Estonia. Joins the Nazi Party before Hitler, administers occupied Russia during World War II, and is executed at Nuremberg for war crimes.
● 1895 - The National Trust is founded in Britain.
● 1898 - Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
● 1900 - Freeland utopian colony founded at Holmes Harbor, Whidby Island, Island County, north of Seattle, Washington.
● 1906 - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H.H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
● 1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
● 1915 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
● 1915 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
● 1918 - Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
● 1920 - Birth of James Farmer, founder of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality).
● 1922 - China - Three-year strike wave begins.
● 1928 - Police raid IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) Hall, Walsenburg, Colorado.
● 1928 - Police seize 800 copies of the lesbian novel "The Well of Loneliness" by Radcliffe Hall.
● 1928 - Ruth Snyder first woman to die in electric chair.
● 1932 – Ophelia (Hattie) Wyatt Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas, becomes the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Caraway, born near Bakerville, Tennessee, was appointed to the Senate two months before to fill the vacancy left by her late husband, Thaddeus Horatio Caraway. With the support of Huey Long, a powerful senator from Louisiana, Caraway was popularly elected to the seat.
● 1933 - Spain - The anarchist uprisings which began on Jan. 8 are brutally suppressed. Their greatest successes were in Andalusia. Police and army buildings were attacked, and the anarcho-trade unionists seized public buildings and proclaimed libertarian Communism there. In the small village of Casas Viejas, the "Gardes d'assaut" (created by the Republic), demonstrate their cruelty by assassinating many of the villagers, burning alive others gathered in a thatched cottage.
● 1940 - World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland.
● 1942 - Birth of Bernadine Rae Doehm, SOS and Weatherman activist in Vietnam era.
● 1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
● 1945 - World War II: The Soviets begin a large offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis.
● 1948 - Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast.
● 1951 - International Convention on Genocide comes into force.
● 1954 - Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces U.S. abandonment of President Truman's doctrine of "containing Communism" for a new policy of "massive retaliation" - deterring "red aggression" by threatening to respond with a rain of nuclear bombs.
● 1962 - President Kennedy signs Executive Order 10988, guaranteeing federal workers the right to join unions and bargain collectively.
● 1964 - Black rebels overthrow the predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar after heavy fighting. Zanzibar became a British colony in the 19th century. The British established a protectorate in 1890, treating Zanzibar as an Arab state even though Arabs constituted only one-sixth of the population. In today's fighting, the black majority is led by John Okello, whose small army attacks the Zanzibar armory and seizes the radio station. The Sultan flees on his yacht. Independence will not dramatically change the country's social relations. Arabs own the large plantations and run the government. Eventually Zanzibar forms a union with Tanganyika. The new nation will be called Tanzania.
● 1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaimed a republic.
● 1965 - Playwright Lorraine Hansberry dies in New York, her promising career cut short by cancer. Her popular play, "A Raisin in the Sun," is the first drama by a black woman produced on Broadway.
● 1966 - Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
● 1967 - Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryogenically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
● 1968 - U.S. and Cambodia announce an agreement designed to insulate Cambodia from the war in Vietnam.
● 1969 - Some 5,000 anti-racism marchers clash with London Bobbies during an immigration protest.
● 1970 - Badger Bomb Plant in Wisconsin is bombed with stolen airplane.
● 1970 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
● 1971 - "All in the Family" premiere on CBS featured first toilet flush on TV. Its depiction of a working class family would never be approved on modern network TV; wrong advertising demographics.
● 1971 - Rev. Philip F. Berrigan, founder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship anti-Vietnam War organization, is indicted along with five others on charges of conspiring to kidnap national security advisor and future Nobel Peace Prize recipient Henry Kissinger and to bomb the heating systems of federal buildings in Washington, D.C. At the time, Berrigan was serving a six-year sentence at a federal prison in Connecticut with his brother Daniel for their destruction of military draft records in Maryland during 1967/68. Given Berrigan's strict ethic of nonviolence toward human beings, the charges are seen by many as preposterous; the six are eventually not convicted of conspiracy to kidnap and bomb federal buildings, but Berrigan and Elizabeth McAllister (later to become his wife) were convicted of smuggling mail out of a federal penitentiary.
● 1976 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
● 1987 - Twenty West German judges arrested for blockading the U.S. Air Force base at Mutlangen, West Germany.
● 1991 - Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
● 1992 - A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by referendum in Mali.
● 1994 - Tens of thousands march in Mexico City; government declares ceasefire with Zapatistas in Chiapas.
● 1995 - Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan.
● 1996 - Police SWAT team raids Florida Anarchist Black Cross house in Jacksonville, Fla.
● 1998 - Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
● 2002 - "Refusenik" movement begins when 53 Israeli soldiers sign ad refusing to serve in West Bank or Gaza Strip.
● 2004 - The World's largest ocean liner RMS Queen Mary 2 makes it's maiden voyage.
● 2005 - Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.
● 2006 - A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
● 2006 - The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
● 2006 - The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
● 2006 - Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.
● 2007 - Comet McNaught reached perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
BIRTHS
● 1483 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (d. 1538)
● 1562 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
● 1576 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (d. 1660)
● 1591 - José Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652)
● 1597 - François Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643)
● 1628 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
● 1715 - Jacques Duphly, French composer (d. 1789)
● 1716 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general (d. 1795)
● 1721 - Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prussian general (d. 1792)
● 1723 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (d. 1797)
● 1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman (d. 1797)
● 1737 - John Hancock, American statesman (d. 1793)
● 1746 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827)
● 1751 - Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
● 1786 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
● 1792 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
● 1797 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873)
● 1849 - Jean Béraud, French painter (d. 1935)
● 1852 - Joseph Joffre, French general (d. 1931)
● 1856 - John Singer Sargent, American artist (d. 1925)
● 1860 - Henry Larkin, American baseball player (d. 1942)
● 1863 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
● 1873 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner, winner of the first modern Olympics marathon (d. 1940)
● 1876 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
● 1876 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (d. 1948)
● 1877 - Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934)
● 1878 - Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian writer (d. 1952)
● 1879 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (d. 1968)
● 1882 - Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
● 1884 - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
● 1892 - Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1976)
● 1893 - Hermann Göring, Nazi official (d. 1946)
● 1893 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official (d. 1946)
● 1894 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (d. 1975)
● 1896 - Rex Ingram, Irish director (d. 1950)
● 1899 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
● 1902 - Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
● 1904 - Fred McDowell, American blues musician (d. 1972)
● 1905 - Tex Ritter, American country singer and actor (d. 1974)
● 1905 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
● 1906 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (d. 1942)
● 1907 - Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
● 1907 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
● 1908 - Jean Delannoy, French film director
● 1908 - Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)
● 1910 - Luise Rainer, German two-time Academy Award winning actress
● 1915 - Paul Jarrico, American writer (d. 1997)
● 1916 - Pieter Willem Botha, former President of South Africa (d. 2006)
● 1916 - Jay McShann, American musician (d. 2006)
● 1917 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist
● 1917 - Jimmy Skinner, professional hockey coach (d. 2007)
● 1920 - James L. Farmer, Jr., American activist (d. 1999)
● 1922 - Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (d. 1994)
● 1923 - Ira Hayes, American soldier (d. 1955)
● 1924 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998)
● 1925 - Scottie MacGregor, American actress
● 1926 - Ray Price, American singer
● 1928 - Ruth Brown, American singer (d. 2006)
● 1928 - Lloyd Ruby, American race car driver
● 1930 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (d. 1974)
● 1930 - Glenn Yarborough, American singer
● 1932 - Des O'Connor, British television presenter
● 1935 - Kreskin, mentalist
● 1935 - Tomiko Ishii, Japanese actress
● 1937 - Shirley Eaton, British actress
● 1937 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (d. 2002)
● 1941 - Long John Baldry, British blues singer (d. 2005)
● 1944 - Joe Frazier, American boxer
● 1944 - Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovakian chess player
● 1944 - Carlos Villagrán, Mexican actor
● 1946 - George Duke, American musician
● 1946 - Lady Cosgrove, Scottish judiciary figure
● 1946 - Cynthia Robinson, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
● 1948 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (d. 2001)
● 1948 - Kenny Allen, English footballer
● 1948 - William Nicholson, English writer
● 1949 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
● 1949 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007)
● 1949 - Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born film director
● 1950 - Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician
● 1950 - Bob McEwen, American politician
● 1950 - Göran Lindblad, Swedish politician
● 1950 - Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland
● 1950 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (d. 1992)
● 1951 - Kirstie Alley, American actress
● 1951 - Ann Althouse, American law professor
● 1951 - Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality
● 1952 - Walter Mosley, American author
● 1954 - Howard Stern, American radio host
● 1955 - Rockne S. O'Bannon, screenwriter
● 1957 - John Lasseter, American director, founder of Pixar Animation Studios
● 1959 - Blixa Bargeld, German singer and musician (Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
● 1959 - Per Gessle, Swedish songwriter and musician (Roxette)
● 1959 - Nick Nairn, British celebrity chef
● 1960 - Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
● 1960 - Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
● 1963 - François Girard, French Canadian film director and screenwriter
● 1964 - Jeff Bezos, American entrepreneur
● 1965 - Rob Zombie, American musician
● 1966 - Olivier Martinez, French actor
● 1967 - Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish supermodel
● 1968 - Heather Mills, British activist
● 1968 - Junichi Masuda, Japanese composer
● 1968 - Rachael Harris, American actress
● 1968 - Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer
● 1969 - Robert Prosinečki, Croatian footballer.
● 1970 - Zack de la Rocha, American musician (Rage Against the Machine).
● 1970 - Raekwon, American rapper.
● 1972 - Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Rajiv Gandhi.
● 1972 - Espen Knutsen, Norwegian ice hockey player.
● 1972 - Jason Sklar, American comedian.
● 1972 - Randy Sklar, American comedian.
● 1973 - Dan Haseltine, singer (Jars of Clay).
● 1973 - Matt Wong, former bassist (Reel Big Fish).
● 1973 - Hande Yener, Turkish singer.
● 1974 - Melanie Chisholm, British singer.
● 1974 - Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skier.
● 1975 - Jason Freese, American musician
● 1975 - Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1977 - Dominic Etli, American soccer player
● 1977 - Yoandy Garlobo, Cuban baseball player
● 1977 - Cade McNown, American football player
● 1977 - Piolo Pascual, Filipino actor
● 1978 - Jeremy Camp, American musician
● 1978 - Kris Roe, American musician (The Ataris)
● 1978 - Kim Sa Rang, Korean actress
● 1978 - Luis Ayala, baseball pitcher
● 1979 - Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
● 1979 - Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
● 1980 - Amerie, American singer and songwriter
● 1980 - Bobby Crosby, American baseball player
● 1982 - Sherzod Abdurahmonov, Uzbekistanian boxer
● 1982 - Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player
● 1982 - Chris Ray, American baseball player
● 1982 - Dimitrios Tsiamis, Greek triple jumper
● 1982 - Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
● 1984 - Scott Olsen, American baseball player
● 1985 - Yohana Cobo, Spanish actress
● 1986 - Miguel Ángel Nieto, Spanish footballer
● 1987 - Will Rothhaar, American actor
● 1987 - Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer
● 1988 - Chris Casement, Irish footballer
● 1988 - Andrew Lawrence, American actor
● 1990 - Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player
● 1992 - Mao Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol
● 1995 - Laurel McGoff, singer/actress best known for Kid Nation appearance
DEATHS
● 1321 - Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
● 1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
● 1583 - Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1508)
● 1665 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
● 1674 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
● 1700 - Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint (b. 1620)
● 1705 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
● 1732 - John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. 1685)
● 1735 - John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
● 1759 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
● 1777 - Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726)
● 1781 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691)
● 1817 - Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740)
● 1834 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
● 1856 - Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)
● 1899 - Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
● 1909 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
● 1940 - Edward Smith, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1899)
● 1943 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1902)
● 1944 - Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
● 1956 - Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
● 1960 - Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
● 1962 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist (b. 1869)
● 1965 - Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (b. 1936)
● 1976 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
● 1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
● 1983 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (b. 1944)
● 1983 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
● 1990 - Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator et writer (b. 1919)
● 1996 - Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
● 1997 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
● 1997 - Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)
● 1999 - Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
● 1999 - Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
● 2000 - Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
● 2000 - Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
● 2001 - Affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975)
● 2001 - William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
● 2001 - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
● 2002 - Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
● 2002 - Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
● 2003 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
● 2003 - Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (b. 1930)
● 2003 - Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (b. 1926)
● 2003 - Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
● 2004 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
● 2004 - Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
● 2005 - Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. 2003)
● 2005 - Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
● 2005 - Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
● 2007 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Anthony Mary Pucci
● St. Arcadius
● St. Bartholomew Alvarez
● St. Benedict Biscop
● St. Caesaria
● Martyrs of Ephesus
● St. John of Ravenna
● St. Marguerite Bourgeoys
● St. Martin of Leon
● St. Martina
● St. Salvius
● St. Satyrus
● St. Tatiana
● St. Tigrius & Eutropius
● St. Victorian of Asan
● St. Zoticus
● Bl. John Gaspard Cratz
● Bl. Vincent de Cunha
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 30 (Civil Date: January 12)
● Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ.
● Virgin Martyr Anysia at Thessalonica.
● Martyr Zoticus, Keeper of Orphans.
● Martyr Philoterus of Nicomedia, and with him six soldiers and one Count.
● St. Theodora, nun of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
● St. Theodora, nun of Constantinople.
● Apostle Timon the Deacon.
● Martyrs Magistrianus, Paulinus, Umbrius, Verus, Severus, Callistratus, Florentius, Arianus, Anthimus, Ubricius, Isidore, Euculus, Sampson, Studius, and Thespesius.
● New Martyr Gideon of Mt. Athos.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Daniel of Pereyaslavl.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Leo the Archimandrite.
● India - National Youth Day—Swami Vivekananda's birthday
● Tanzania - Zanzibar Revolution 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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