Day of the week in surrounding years:
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—MON—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—TUE—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—WED—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—THU—2010
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—FRI—2011
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—SAT—2012
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—SUN—2013
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Aging "When our memories outweigh our dreams, we become old." — Bill Clinton
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On He Said/He Said "2. I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it." — Robert Novak. Timothy M. Phelps and Knut Royce, "Columnist Blows CIA Agent's Cover," Newsday, 7-22-03.—Part 2 of 4 {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 "I take a two-hour nap, from one o'clock to four." — 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)
First Quarter Moon: Jan 15, 2008 11:46 AM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 25% Rise: 11:12 AM Set: 12:06 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
First Quarter Moon: Jan 15, 2008 12:46 PM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 25% Rise: 11:38 AM Set: 12:20 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
First Quarter Moon: Jan 15, 2008 1:46 PM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 25% Rise: 11:01 AM Set: 12:03 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
First Quarter Moon: Jan 15, 2008 2:46 PM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 25% Rise: 10:36 AM Set: no set
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Double Supernova Remnants DEM L316
Credit & Copyright: Gemini Observatory, GMOS-South, NSF
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 588 B.C.E. - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 B.C.E.
● 69 - Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only rules for three months before committing suicide.
● 1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
● 1582 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
● 1771 - "Bloody Act" passes North Carolina assembly, making rioters guilty of treason.
● 1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
● 1782 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
● 1809 - Birth of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, France. Philosopher, economist, sociologist, often referred to as the "father of modern anarchism."
● 1811 - Acting in secret session Congress authorizes President James Madison to annex East Florida without consent of inhabitants.
● 1822 - Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.
● 1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
● 1865 - American Civil War - Fort Fisher North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy
● 1870 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with an ass ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
● 1877 - Standing Bear, Ponca chief, refuses to move to reservation because it is within lands already given to Lakota.
● 1885 - Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake.
● 1919 - Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland.
● 1919 - Peasants in central Russia rise against the Bolsheviks.
● 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebinecht, libertarian socialists murdered by police. Arrested and taken to the Eden Hotel in Berlin, then taken out, smashed in the head repeatedly with rifle butts before being shot in the head in separate locations. Luxemburg's body was dumped in a canal and not recovered until March.
● 1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.
● 1922 - Irish Free State established.
● 1927 - Tennessee Supreme Court upholds law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.
● 1929 - Congress passes the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, signed by 62 nations outlawing war. Yup.
● 1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr., born, Atlanta.
● 1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company).
● 1939 - Birth of Agustin Gomez Arcos (1939-1998), Almeria, Andalusia. Spanish anarchist dramatist/novelist. Because of censorship he took refuge in England, then Paris, where he wrote many many novels about pro-Franco Spain.
● 1943 - The Pentagon, originally planned as a research hospital and then built as a military facility in eleven months during World War II, is completed in Arlington, Virginia, becoming the world's largest office building.
● 1943 - World War II: The Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal.
● 1943 - World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
● 1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
● 1951 - "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea. The three-day volcanic eruption kills 3 to 5 thousand.
● 1951 - Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
● 1961 - U.S. Air Force "Texas Tower" radar station topples into the Atlantic, sinks off the coast of New Jersey, killing all 28 men aboard. A Senate subcommittee report charged the Navy with the major responsibility for the "defects, deficiencies, and inadequacies that led to the structure's failure."
● 1966 - The government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa in Nigeria is overthrown in a military coup.
● 1968 - Jeannette Rankin Brigade--a coalition of women's peace groups led by 87-year-old Rankin, the first U.S. Congresswoman and the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. entry to both World Wars, marches on Washington to protest war in Vietnam. The New York Radical Women (no relation to the Freedom Socialist Party group) staged a "Burial of Traditional Womanhood." This was the first use of phrase "Sisterhood is Powerful."
● 1969 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
● 1969 - Trial of Janet McCloud (Tulalip) and others for "fish-in" on Nisqually River in 1965; all are found not guilty.
● 1970 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
● 1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
● 1971 - Seven months after it began, the jury starts deliberations in the trial of Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Leslie van Houten, and Patricia Krenwinkel for the brutal, arrogant Tate/LaBianca murders, Los Angeles.
● 1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
● 1974 - An expert testifies before the House Judiciary Committee that an 18-1/2-minute gap discovered during a critical subpoenaed recording of a White House conversation between President Richard M. Nixon and White House staff member H. R. Haldeman was caused by deliberate and repeated erasures. The White House fails to satisfactorily explain the long silence during the key conversation between Nixon and Haldeman.
● 1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola.
● 1976 - Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
● 1977 - The Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history.
● 1978 - The brutal Shah of Iran (installed in a CIA-engineered 1953 coup and then continuously supported by the CIA) flees Peacock Throne of Iran, leading to Islamic overthrow.
● 1990 - AT&T's long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
● 1991 - President Bush restores $42.5 million in military aid to El Salvador.
● 1991 - Vigils around the world mark expiry of US/UN deadline for military attack on Iraq if they don't leave Kuwait.
● 1992 - The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
● 1993 - District Court judge grants gay rights activists' injunction keeping discriminatory Colorado Amendment 2 from being enforced until a trial is held.
● 1993 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive.
● 1999 - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces.
● 2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
● 2005 - An intense solar flare blasts X rays across the solar system.
● 2005 - ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
● 2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
● 2007 - Comet McNaught makes perigee after coming close to the sun.
BIRTHS
● 1342 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
● 1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)
● 1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)
● 1538 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599)
● 1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
● 1671 - Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)
● 1674 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)
● 1716 - Philip Livingston, American founding father (d. 1778)
● 1747 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
● 1754 - Richard Martin, Irish founder of the SPCA (d. 1834)
● 1791 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (d. 1872)
● 1795 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)
● 1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1865)
● 1812 - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1885)
● 1816 - Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
● 1824 - Marie Duplessis, French courtesan, inspiration for La Dame aux Camelias (d. 1847)
● 1841 - Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Governor General of Canada (d. 1908)
● 1842 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (d. 1925)
● 1850 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (d. 1889)
● 1850 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)
● 1855 - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889)
● 1863 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
● 1866 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1931)
● 1869 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)
● 1872 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
● 1875 - Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929)
● 1879 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961)
● 1882 - Princess Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden (d. 1920)
● 1885 - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)
● 1885 - Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (d. 1973)
● 1885 - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (d. 1968)
● 1891 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
● 1891 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (d. 1938)
● 1892 - Rex Ingram, Irish director (d. 1950)
● 1893 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor (d. 1951)
● 1895 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
● 1897 - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931)
● 1899 - Goodman Ace, American actor (d. 1982)
● 1901 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
● 1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
● 1908 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003)
● 1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
● 1909 - Gene Krupa, American drummer (d. 1973)
● 1912 - Michel Debré, French politician (d. 1996)
● 1913 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
● 1913 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (d. 2005)
● 1914 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (d. 2003)
● 1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
● 1918 - Édouard Gagnon, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2007)
● 1920 - John Cardinal O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000)
● 1920 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (d. 2002)
● 1923 - Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician
● 1923 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
● 1926 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress (d. 2005)
● 1926 - Florence Buchsbaum, theater director (d. 1996)
● 1927 - Phyllis Coates, American actress
● 1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968)
● 1930 - Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler (d. 1985)
● 1933 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author
● 1937 - Margaret O'Brien, American actress
● 1938 - Chuni Goswami, Indian actor
● 1941 - Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart, American musician and visual artist
● 1943 - Mike Marshall, American baseball player
● 1945 - Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993)
● 1947 - Andrea Martin, Canadian actress
● 1948 - Ronnie Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
● 1949 - Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2001)
● 1949 - Panos Mihalopoulos, Greek actor
● 1950 - Marius Trésor, French footballer
● 1951 - Charo, Spanish-born singer
● 1953 - Kent Hovind, American evangelist and Young Earth creationist
● 1953 - Ta-Tanisha, American actress
● 1954 - Nikos Sarganis, Greek footballer
● 1955 - Nigel Benson, English author
● 1956 - Mayawati, Indian politician
● 1957 - Marty Lyons, American football player
● 1957 - Mario Van Peebles, American actor
● 1957 - Patrick Dixon, British entrepreneur
● 1958 - Boris Tadić, President of Serbia
● 1959 - Pete Trewavas, English bass guitarist (Marillion)
● 1960 - Aaron Jay Kernis, American composer
● 1960 - Kelly Asbury, American director and actor
● 1961 - Yves P. Pelletier, Quebec comedian (Rock et Belles Oreilles), actor and film director
● 1962 - Creflo Dollar, American televangelist
● 1963 - Conrad Lant (aka Cronos), English musician
● 1964 - Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Finnish composer
● 1965 - Bernard Hopkins, American boxer
● 1965 - Adam Jones, American musician (Tool)
● 1965 - James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
● 1965 - Maurizio Fondriest, Italian cyclist
● 1968 - Chad Lowe, American actor
● 1968 - Iñaki Urdangarín, Spanish royalty
● 1969 - Delino DeShields, American baseball player
● 1970 - Shane McMahon, American professional wrestler
● 1971 - Teanna Kai, American porn star
● 1971 - Max Beesley, English musician and actor
● 1971 - Regina King, American actress
● 1972 - Kobe Tai, American porn star
● 1972 - Claudia Winkleman, English television presenter
● 1973 - Essam El-Hadary,Egyptian Football goal keeper
● 1974 - Ray King, American baseball player
● 1975 - Mary Pierce, French tennis player
● 1975 - Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio presenter
● 1975 - Greg Strause, American artist
● 1976 - Corey Chavous, American football player
● 1978 - Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist
● 1978 - Eddie Cahill, American actor
● 1979 - Drew Brees, American football player
● 1980 - Matt Holliday, American baseball player
● 1981 - El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer
● 1981 - Howie Day, American pop singer
● 1981 - Sean Lamont, Scottish rugby union footballer
● 1982 - Benjamin Agosto, American skater
● 1982 - Megan Quann, American swimmer
● 1982 - Philip and Alexander, American-born princes of the Yugoslav Royal Family
● 1983 - Jermaine Pennant, English footballer
● 1983 - Hugo Viana, Portuguese footballer
● 1984 - Victor Rasuk, American actor
● 1984 - Megan Jendrick, American professional swimmer
● 1985 - Kenneth Emil Petersen, Danish footballer
● 1986 - Fred Davis, American football player
● 1987 - Kelly Kelly, American WWE Diva
● 1987 - David Knight, English footballer
● 1987 - Michael Seater, Canadian actor
DEATHS
● 69 - Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 B.C.E.)
● 570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
● 936 - King Rudolph of France
● 1345 - Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
● 1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
● 1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
● 1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
● 1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
● 1790 - John Landen, English BUTT mathematician (b. 1719)
● 1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
● 1909 - Arnold Janssen SVD missionary (b. 1837)
● 1915 - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
● 1919 - Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
● 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870)
● 1945 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (b. 1865)
● 1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
● 1955 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
● 1964 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (b. 1905)
● 1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
● 1968 - Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
● 1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
● 1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
● 1983 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)
● 1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
● 1988 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
● 1990 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (b. 1923)
● 1992 - Dee Murray, English bassist (b. 1946)
● 1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
● 1994 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
● 1996 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
● 1996 - Minnesota Fats, American Billiards player (b. 1913)
● 1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
● 1998 - Junior Wells, American musician (b. 1934)
● 2000 - Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
● 2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
● 2000 - Georges-Henri Lévesque, French Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
● 2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
● 2002 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
● 2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
● 2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)
● 2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
● 2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
● 2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
● 2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)
● 2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
● 2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (b. 1951) (executed)
● 2007 - Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
● 2007 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
● 2007 - David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
● 2007 - James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abeluzius
● St. Blaithmaic
● St. Bonitus
● St. Ceolwulf
● St. Emebert
● St. Ephysius
● St. Eugyppius
● St. Ita, virgin, died January 15, 570
● St. John Calabytes
● Sts. Liewellyn & Gwrnerth
● St. Lleudadd
● St. Macarius (the Great) of Egypt
● St. Malard
● Sts. Maura & Britta
● St. Maximus of Nola
● St. Paul the Hermit
● St. Sawl
● St. Secundina
● St. Tarsicia
● St. Teath
● Bl. Arnold Jansen
● Bl. Frances de Capillas
● Bl. Peter of Castelnau
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 3 (Civil Date: January 15)
● Prophet Malachias.
● Martyr Gordius at Caesarea in Cappadocia.
● St. Genevieve of Paris.
● Repose of Schema-hierodeacon Elder Pantileimon, founder of Kostychev Convent (1884).
● Roman Empire - Second day of the Carmentalia in honor of Carmenta.
● Malawi - John Chilembwe Day.
● North Korea - Korean Alphabet Day.
● United States - Traditionally, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
● Kerala in India - Makaravilakku or Makara Sankranthy at Sabarimala.
● Jallikattu in South India.
● Pongal in Tamil Nadu (2007).
● Nigerian Armed Forces Rememberance 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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