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Sunday, January 13, 2008

January 13......

January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 (353 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

Day of the week in surrounding years:
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—MON—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—TUE—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—WED—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—THU—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—FRI—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—SAT—. . . .
1985,1991,. . . .,2002,2008—SUN—2013

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Activism "The hands that help are better than the lips that pray." — Robert Ingersoll

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Civil Wars & Sore Losers "She's a liar. The whole thing stinks to high heaven . . . What beat me was more homosexual money than in any race in history, including from a group called Lesbians for Motherhood . . . She lied her way into office . . . She played the Hispanic card to the utmost." — Rep. Bob Dornan (R-CA) on his loss to Loretta Sanchez. Christopher Georges, "Liars, Gays, Aliens, Hispanics, Women: It's All Their Fault," Wall Street Journal, 11-20-96. {I was living and voting in Orange County at this time. Dornan failed to account for the large Vietnamese immigrant population that had historically voted for him, switched to Sanchez when he beat the "blame everything on immigrants" drum. In subsequent elections, Dornan wasn't even capable of getting the Republican nomination.}

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "Surprise me."—when his wife asked, "Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you do go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?" — 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 13, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 25% Age: 17% Rise: 10:19 AM Set: 10:58 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 13, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 24% Age: 16% Rise: 10:39 AM Set: 11:14 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 13, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 24% Age: 16% Rise: 10:14 AM Set: 10:51 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 13, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 23% Age: 16% Rise: 9:52 AM Set: 10:25 PM

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Hurricane Ivan from the Space Station


Credit: Expedition 9 Crew, International Space Station, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation



EVENTS

● 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople.

● 888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.

● 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.

● 1559 - Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

● 1605 - The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.

● 1607 - Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

● 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter.

● 1625 - John Milton is admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge at the age of 16.

● 1733 - James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.

● 1777 - Jefferson gets Virginia to make "sodomy" punishable by castration.

● 1810 - Birth of Ernest Rose, utopian socialist.

● 1822 - The patterns of the Greek flag are adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.

● 1830 - The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.

● 1832 - President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

● 1840 - The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

● 1842 - On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.

● 1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.

● 1869 - National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C..

● 1871 - Birth of Karl Liebinecht, German Spartacus League leader.

● 1874 - As unemployed workers demonstrate in New York City's Tompkins Square Park, mounted police officers charge into the crowd, indiscriminately clubbing adults and children, leaving hundreds of casualties. Police commissioner Abram Duryee boasts, (quote) - "It was the most glorious sight I have ever seen..." Except for the 1930s, the U.S. never knew a more serious economic catastrophe than the depression of 1873 to 1877. The four years left three million workers unemployed. Those with jobs face wage cuts, while the jobless go hungry. In the winter of 1873, 900 people starved to death, and 3,000 deserted their infants on doorsteps. Today's Tompkins Square Park demonstration is part of a wave of unemployed parades and bread riots across the nation. In Chicago, 20,000 people march. Even under police attack, workers in New York, Omaha, and Cincinnati refuse to disperse.

● 1893 - The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.

● 1893 - US Marines land in Honolulu from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

● 1894 - Insurrection in Lunigiana, Italy as anarchists bands arm themselves in support of Sicilian victims of the State of Siege (beginning of January to repress the revolts against increased flour prices.) A military tribunal will condemn Luigi Molinari to 23 years imprisonment as the instigator of the insurrection. Following a movement of protest, Molinari was amnestied 20 months later.

● 1898 - Birth of Kaj Munk. Danish playwright and priest, whose outspoken sermons and plays during World War II led to his murder. Believing the truths of Christianity can be realized only in action, his plays appealed to Danes to resist the occupiers. On January 4, 1944, Munk was taken from his home by the Gestapo and shot.

● 1898 - Novelist Emile Zola blows the lid off rampant French anti-Semitism and a military cover up in the Dreyfus Affair with publication of "J'accuse!" Dreyfus was a Jewish army captain accused of spying and causing the loss of the war of 1870 with Germany. "J'accuse!" was written in a feverish two days, following the acquittal of the real culprit -- after three minutes deliberation. Published in an edition of 300,000 -- 10 times his publisher's normal printing -- it sold out within days. Zola accused the military of seeking scapegoats, and he galvanized public opinion in favor of Dreyfus. French anti-Semitism later culminated in the Vichy regime's persecution and deportation of 76,000 Jews from France between 1941-1944. Only 2,500 survived.

● 1915 - An Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.

● 1919 - Chicano citrus workers strike in Covina, CA.

● 1921 - William Baird, militant coal miner leader, dragged out of jail cell and killed.

● 1934 - The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.

● 1935 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.

● 1938 - The Church of England accepts theory of evolution.

● 1939 - The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.

● 1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

● 1942 - The United States begins Japanese American internment.

● 1942 - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

● 1953 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.

● 1957 - Hungary - Death penalty enacted for strikers as government calls for order and quiet.

● 1957 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.

● 1958 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

● 1962 - One hundred fifty members of the Committee of 100 (an anti-nuclear group) launch a sit-down protest at the U.S. consulate, Glasgow, Scotland.

● 1964 - An American B-52 carrying two nuclear weapons crashes near Cumberland, Maryland.

● 1964 - Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.

● 1964 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland.

● 1966 - Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon Johnson.

● 1968 - Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison. {Plans for 40th anniversary concert fall through in 2008, with promoters and prison officials blaming each other.}

● 1970 - Three black prisoners killed by guard at California's Soledad Prison during melee.

● 1971 - Arrest of Pepe Beunza, first of many political conscientious objectors imprisoned in Spain.

● 1972 - New York rules a woman may become a professional baseball umpire.

● 1972 - Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong.

● 1974 - Seraphim is elected elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.

● 1982 - Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. Coincidentally, a Washington DC Metro Rail train is derailed, killing 3 people.

● 1986 - A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.

● 1990 - L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

● 1991 - Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.

● 1992 - Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. {This must be the quintessential case of "too little, too late."}

● 1992 - Wisconsin serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer enters a plea of guilty but insane in 15 of the 17 murders he confessed to committing. Over a 13-year period beginning in 1982, Dahmer murdered at least 17 men and boys. Most victims were young, gay African Americans, who he lured to his home, promising to pay them money to pose for nude photographs. He then drugged and strangled them, often mutilating, and occasionally cannibalizing, their bodies afterwards. Dahmer was beaten to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver while performing cleaning duty in a bathroom at the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin. Scarver, a convicted murderer, also fatally beat the third man on their work detail, inmate Jesse Anderson, who was serving a life sentence for brutally killing his wife. Scarver's motive in killing the two men was not entirely clear; however, in his subsequent criminal trial he maintained that God told him to kill them both.

● 1993 - Vigil against arrival of ship bringing plutonium for nuclear reactor, Tokai, Japan.

● 1995 - Eight opposition groups sign plan for ending civil war in Algeria.

● 2001 - An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.

● 2007 - Two thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightened as something triggered aerosols to form at a furious rate.


BIRTHS

● 1334 - King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)

● 1562 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601)

● 1596 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)

● 1610 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)

● 1616 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)

● 1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)

● 1635 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)

● 1651 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)

● 1720 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)

● 1749 - Friedrich Müller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825)

● 1777 - Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1820)

● 1805 - Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)

● 1808 - Salmon P. Chase, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)

● 1812 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)

● 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899)

● 1859 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)

● 1861 - Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)

● 1864 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)

● 1865 - Princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)

● 1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)

● 1878 - Lionel Groulx, Canadian nationalist (d. 1967)

● 1869 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)

● 1884 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and performer (d. 1966)

● 1886 - Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1964)

● 1893 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)

● 1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (d. 1961)

● 1901 - Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)

● 1904 - Richard Addinsell, British composer (Warsaw Concerto) (d. 1977)

● 1905 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)

● 1909 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist (d. 1934)

● 1910 - Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter (d. 1989)

● 1911 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)

● 1919 - Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)

● 1922 - Albert Lamorisse, French film director and producer (d. 1970)

● 1924 - Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)

● 1924 - Roland Petit, French choreographer

● 1925 - Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)

● 1926 - Michael Bond, British writer

● 1926 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author (d. 2003)

● 1927 - Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)

● 1927 - Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate

● 1930 - Frances Sternhagen, American actress

● 1930 - Liz Anderson, American singer

● 1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)

● 1934 - Rip Taylor, American actor

● 1935 - Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress

● 1935 - Mauro Forghieri, Italian engineer

● 1938 - William B. Davis, Canadian actor

● 1938 - Tord Grip, Swedish football manager

● 1939 - Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1939 - Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer

● 1940 - Edmund White, American author

● 1941 - Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician

● 1943 - Richard Moll, American actor

● 1943 - Carol Cleveland, English actress

● 1946 - Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician

● 1947 - Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Kraków

● 1947 - Carles Rexach, former Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach

● 1948 - Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur

● 1949 - Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)

● 1950 - Bob Forsch, American baseball player

● 1950 - John McNaughton, American film director

● 1954 - Trevor Rabin, South African guitarist (Yes)

● 1955 - Jay McInerney, American writer

● 1957 - Lorrie Moore, American writer

● 1957 - Mark O'Meara, Major winning American Golfer

● 1959 - James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth)

● 1960 - Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and coach

● 1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress

● 1961 - Graham McPherson, English singer

● 1961 - Wayne Coyne, American singer (The Flaming Lips)

● 1962 - Trace Adkins, American country music singer-songwriter

● 1963 - Kevin McClatchy, American businessman

● 1964 - Penelope Ann Miller, American actress

● 1966 - Patrick Dempsey, American actor

● 1968 - Traci Bingham, American actress

● 1968 - Mike Whitlow, English footballer

● 1969 - Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player

● 1969 - Stefania Belmondo, Italian cross-country skier

● 1970 - Keith Coogan, American actor

● 1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)

● 1972 - Nicole Eggert, American actress

● 1972 - Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast

● 1972 - Atoosa Rubenstein, Iranian-born American magazine editor

● 1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player

● 1974 - Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player

● 1976 - Tania Vicent, Canadian short track speed skater

● 1977 - Orlando Bloom, English actor

● 1980 - Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist

● 1980 - Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer

● 1980 - Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player

● 1980 - Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer

● 1981 - Reggie Brown, American football player

● 1981 - Darrell Rasner, American baseball player

● 1981 - Shad Gaspard, American professional wrestler, bodyguard, and actor

● 1981 - Jason James, America musician (Bullet for My Valentine)

● 1982 - Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player

● 1983 - Julian Morris, English actor

● 1983 - Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player

● 1986 - Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater

● 1989 - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer

● 1997 - Marius Borg Høiby, son of Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway


DEATHS

● 86 B.C.E. - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 B.C.E.)

● 703 - Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)

● 858 - King Ethelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)

● 888 - Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)

● 1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)

● 1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)

● 1177 - Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)

● 1330 - Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)

● 1363 - Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. 1344)

● 1599 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)

● 1630 - Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584)

● 1658 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)

● 1691 - George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (b. 1624)

● 1766 - King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)

● 1775 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)

● 1790 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)

● 1796 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)

● 1797 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)

● 1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)

● 1853 - Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest, humanist and revolutionary (b. 1783)

● 1860 - William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)

● 1864 - Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826)

● 1885 - Schuyler Colfax,American politician (b.1823)

● 1889 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)

● 1906 - Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)

● 1923 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)

● 1924 - Georg Hermann Quincke, German phsycist (b. 1834)

● 1929 - Wyatt Earp, American Western lawman (b. 1848)

● 1932 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)

● 1934 - Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)

● 1941 - James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)

● 1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)

● 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)

● 1971 - Robert Still, English composer (b. 1910)

● 1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)

● 1974 - Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (b. 1906)

● 1976 - Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)

● 1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)

● 1978 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (b. 1887)

● 1979 - Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)

● 1980 - Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born popular music conductor and arranger (b. 1901)

● 1982 - Marcel Camus, French film director (b. 1912)

● 1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)

● 1993 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)

● 2001 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)

● 2002 - Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963)

● 2002 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)

● 2003 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)

● 2004 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber (b. 1937)

● 2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)

● 2005 - Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)

● 2005 - Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)

● 2006 - Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)

● 2006 - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)

● 2007 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)

● 2007 - Danny Oakes, racecar driver (b. 1911)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agrecius
● St. Andrew of Trier
● St. Elian ap Erbin
● St. Enogatus
● St. Erbin
● St. Glaphyra
● St. Gumesindus
● St. Hermylus
● St. Hilary of Poitiers
● St. Kentigern Mungo
● St. Leontius of Cuesaren
● St. Viventius
● Bl. Yvette

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 31 (Civil Date: January 13)
● Apodosis of the Nativity of Christ.
● St. Melania the Younger, nun of Rome.
● St. Gelasius, monk of Palestine.
● St. Gaius, monk.
● St. Theophylactus of Ochrid.

● Greek Calendar:
● Ten Virgin Martyrs of Nicomedia.
● Martyrs Busiris, Gaudentius and Nemo.
● St. Zoticus, feeder of orphans.
● Repose of Metropolitan Peter Moghila of Kiev (1646).

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 1 (Civil Date: January 13)
● The Circumcision of Our Lord Jesus Christ
● St. Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesaria in Cappadocia.
● Martyr Basil of Ancyra.
● St. Fulgentius, Bishop of Ruspe in North Africa.
● Martyr Theodotus.
● St. Gregory, Bishop of Nazianzus and father of St. Gregory the Theologian.
● St. Theodosius of Tryglia, abbot.
● New-martyr Peter of the Peloponnesus.
● New-Martyr Bishop Platon of Revel, Estonia, and with him priests Michael and Nicholas (1919).

● In Sweden, Christmas ends on the 20th day, St. Knut's Day or Tjugondag Knut. Children celebrate a party throwing out the Christmas tree (julgransplundring).

● In Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, in various Russophone communities, and in the Republic of Macedonia the Old New Year is celebrated (the New Year by the Old Style calendar) on the night of January 13/14.

● In UK, as proposed by comedian Bob Mills on BBC Radio 5 Live's Fighting Talk this is the day beyond which the penalty for wishing someone a Happy New Year should be death.

● Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm designated January 13 "Steve Yzerman 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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