Day of the week in surrounding years:
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—MON—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—TUE—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—WED—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—THU—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—FRI—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—SAT—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—SUN—2011
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Alienation "Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total. . . . Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his own creations, and has lost ownership of himself." — Erich Fromm
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On He Said/He Said "3. Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this. There is no great crime here." — Robert Novak. "Crossfire," CNN, 9-29-03.—Part 3 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 "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." — 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 16, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 57% Age: 27% Rise: 11:45 AM Set: 1:18 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 16, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 56% Age: 27% Rise: 12:13 PM Set: 1:28 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 16, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 56% Age: 27% Rise: 11:29 AM Set: 1:17 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 16, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 55% Age: 27% Rise: 11:04 AM Set: 12:53 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
MESSENGER Passes Mercury
Credit: MESSENGER Teams, JHU APL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 27 B.C.E. - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.
● 550 - Gothic War (535–552): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
● 929 - Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III of Cordoba declares himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Cordoba.
● 1120 - The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
● 1362 - A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt.
● 1412 - The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy.
● 1492 - The first grammar of a modern language, in Spanish, is presented to Queen Isabella.
● 1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
● 1556 - Philip II becomes King of Spain.
● 1572 - The Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
● 1581 - English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
● 1605 - The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid.
● 1707 - The Scottish Parliament ratified the Act of Union, paving way for the creation of Great Britain.
● 1761 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
● 1776 - Continental Congress approves General George Washington's order to enlist free Negroes.
● 1777 - Vermont declares its independence from New York.
● 1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
● 1795 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands.
● 1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
● 1847 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
● 1864 - Danish-Prussian War (Second war of Schleswig): King Christian IX of Denmark declares war to the German Confederation in order to occupy Schleswig
● 1878 - Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from the Ottoman rule.
● 1883 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
● 1896 - Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
● 1900 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
● 1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
● 1919 - Argentina - End of the "Sanglante" ("Bloody Week") in Buenos Aires. The general strike begun a week ago was crushed in blood, with as many as 700 dead and 2000 wounded. Argentinean anarchism was decimated by the following repression, and the trade unions reformists were left fully in control.
● 1919 - Police smash peaceful IWW demonstration in Seattle; 43 are arrested and later sentenced to prison.
● 1919 - Temperance movement: The United States of America ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by 3/4 of the states; Nebraska is 36th, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
● 1920 - 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933.
● 1920 - First meeting of League of Nations Council, Paris, France.
● 1933 - Birth of Susan Sontag, American "new intellectual" essayist and novelist; opposed Vietnam War, her post-Sept. 11 essay in the New Yorker, mildly questioning U.S. government characterizations of the attack, raised a firestorm of criticism and gave the first clear indication of how little tolerance there would be for mainstream dissent against Bush's policy choices in response to the attack.
● 1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
● 1952 - Senator James Eastland (D-MS) introduces resolution to declare a "state of emergency" in the U.S. Allows Congress to invoke a McCarran Internal Security Act provision under which American Communists could be rounded up and incarcerated, also ushers in restrictions, which still stand, on allowing homosexuals into the country.
● 1956 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
● 1963 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb.
● 1965 - An Air Force tanker plane crashes into a residential area of Wichita, Kansas, killing the seven member crew and 23 on the ground.
● 1966 - Joan Baez jailed in Vietnam anti-war demonstration, Oakland, California.
● 1968 - Youth International Party (Yippies) is founded.
● 1969 - Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
● 1969 - Metroliner train starts running.
● 1970 - Soledad Brothers (including black revolutionary George Jackson) are accused of killing a guard in Soledad (California) state prison.
● 1979 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates {hides out in} to Egypt.
● 1981 - Irish radical Bernadette Devlin shot.
● 1985 - Primatologist Dian Fossey killed by poachers, Karisoke Center, Rwanda.
● 1986 - First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
● 1986 - U.S. Energy Department announces 12 potential nuclear waste sites in eastern U.S., including a Penobscot (Native American) site in Maine only re-granted to the tribe six years before, along with four other tribal sites.
● 1991 - U.S. invades Kuwait and Iraq. Several dozen U.S. troops (many victims of friendly fire) and up to 400,000 Iraqi citizens die in the following weeks. At least 1,000,000 Iraqis have died due to the effects of the following decade plus of U.S.-led global economic embargo.
● 1992 - El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City that ends a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
● 1996 - Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou resigns from office for health reasons.
● 2000 - Ten Greenpeace protesters board damaged British nuclear submarine, Gibraltar.
● 2001 - Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
● 2001 - US President Bill Clinton awards former US President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.
● 2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
● 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.
● 2005 - Adriana Iliescu gives birth at age 66 and becomes the oldest woman in the world to do so.
● 2006 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
BIRTHS
● 1245 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
● 1409 - René I of Naples (d. 1480)
● 1477 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
● 1501 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
● 1616 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
● 1626 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
● 1634 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
● 1675 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
● 1728 - Niccola Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
● 1807 - Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d 1877)
● 1815 - Henry W. Halleck, American Civil War general (d. 1872)
● 1821 - John C. Breckenridge, Confederate general (d. 1875)
● 1834 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)
● 1838 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
● 1853 - Andre Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
● 1874 - Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
● 1875 - Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
● 1885 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
● 1886 - John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
● 1888 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
● 1895 - Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
● 1897 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977)
● 1898 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
● 1901 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
● 1901 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
● 1902 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
● 1903 - William Grover-Williams, British racing driver (d. 1945)
● 1906 - Diana Wynyard, British actress (d. 1964)
● 1907 - Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
● 1908 - Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
● 1910 - Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
● 1911 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
● 1911 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician (d.1982)
● 1918 - Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
● 1918 - Stirling Silliphant, American writer (d. 1996)
● 1920 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (d. 1991)
● 1921 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
● 1922 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer
● 1923 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
● 1924 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
● 1928 - William Kennedy, American author
● 1930 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
● 1931 - Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)
● 1932 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
● 1933 - Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
● 1934 - Marilyn Horne, American opera singer
● 1935 - A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner
● 1937 - Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver
● 1942 - René Angélil, Canadian music executive
● 1942 - Barbara Lynn, American singer
● 1943 - Brian Ferneyhough, British composer
● 1943 - Ronnie Milsap, American singer and songwriter
● 1944 - Jim Stafford, American singer and songwriter
● 1946 - Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
● 1946 - Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano
● 1947 - Laura Schlessinger, American radio talk show host
● 1947 - Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
● 1947 - Harvey Proctor, British politician
● 1948 - John Carpenter, American film director
● 1948 - Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
● 1948 - Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
● 1948 - Ruth Reichl, American magazine editor
● 1950 - Debbie Allen, American dancer and choreographer
● 1950 - Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer (Can)
● 1951 - Glenn Ordway, American radio talk show host
● 1952 - King Fuad II of Egypt
● 1953 - Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi (d. 1984)
● 1956 - Martin Jol, Dutch football manager
● 1956 - Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (d. 2007)
● 1958 - Anatoli Boukreev, Russian climber (d. 1997)
● 1958 - Lena Ek, Swedish politician
● 1959 - Juanita Bynum, American televangelist
● 1959 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer
● 1961 - Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke) (d. 2007)
● 1961 - Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter
● 1962 - Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk, .O.rang)
● 1963 - James May, English television presenter
● 1966 - Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
● 1969 - Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
● 1969 - Dead, Swedish black metal vocalist (Mayhem) (d. 1991)
● 1970 - Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author
● 1970 - Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer (Teenage Fanclub, Telstar Ponies)
● 1970 - Ron Villone, American baseball player
● 1972 - Greg Page, Australian actor
● 1973 - Josie Davis, American actress
● 1974 - Marlon Anderson, American baseball player
● 1974 - Kate Moss, English model
● 1975 - Greg Strause, American visual effects creator
● 1975 - Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
● 1976 - Viktor Maslov, Russian racing driver
● 1976 - Martina Moravcová, Slovak female swimmer
● 1977 - Jeff Foster, American basketball player
● 1979 - Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
● 1979 - Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1979 - Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1980 - Albert Pujols, Dominican-born baseball player
● 1980 - Michelle Wild, Hungarian model
● 1981 - Bobby Zamora, English footballer
● 1981 - Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)
● 1982 - Samuel Preston, British singer (The Ordinary Boys)
● 1982 - Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer
● 1983 - Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
● 1987 - Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model
● 1988 - Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
● 1990 - Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
DEATHS
● 960 - Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople
● 1400 - John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) (b. 1352)
● 1545 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
● 1547 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
● 1554 - Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
● 1585 - Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
● 1659 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
● 1710 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
● 1711 - Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
● 1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
● 1748 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
● 1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667)
● 1752 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
● 1794 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
● 1809 - John Moore, British general (b. 1761)
● 1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765)
● 1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
● 1834 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
● 1856 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
● 1865 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
● 1879 - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)
● 1891 - Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
● 1898 - Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
● 1917 - George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)
● 1919 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
● 1924 - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (b. 1859)
● 1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
● 1942 - Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
● 1957 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
● 1962 - Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)
● 1963 - Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player (b. 1918)
● 1967 - Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
● 1969 - Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
● 1969 - Jan Palach, Czech freedom fighter (b. 1948)
● 1971 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
● 1972 - Ross Bagdasarian, American actor and creator of The Chipmunks (b. 1919)
● 1979 - Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
● 1979 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
● 1981 - Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
● 1982 - Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905)
● 1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
● 1988 - Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899)
● 1988 - Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)
● 1993 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
● 1995 - Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)
● 1997 - Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (murdered) (b. 1969)
● 1998 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
● 2000 - Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1928)
● 2000 - John Rankin, musical entertainer (b. 1959)
● 2001 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
● 2002 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
● 2002 - Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
● 2002 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
● 2002 - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
● 2003 - Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
● 2004 - Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
● 2005 - Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)
● 2006 - Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery, (b. 1923)
● 2007 - Ron Carey, American actor ("Barney Miller") (b. 1935)
● 2007 - Benny Parsons, American Racecar driver & Commentator (b. 1941)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Berard of Carbio
● St. Dunchaid O'Braoin
● St. Fulgentius
● St. Fursey
● Sts. Fusca & Marura
● St. Henry of Cocket
● St. Honoratus of Arles
● St. James of Tarentaise
● St. Liberata
● St. Melas
● St. Titian
● St. Triverius
● St. Valerius
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 4 (Civil Date: January 16)
● Fast-free period.
● Forefeast of the Theophany.
● Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles: James the brother of the Lord, Mark the Evangelist, Luke the Evangelist, Cleopas the brother of Joseph the Betrothed, Symeon the son of Cleopas, Barnabas, Justus, Thaddaeus, Ananias, Stephen the Archdeacon; Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, and Parmenas of the seven deacons; Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Onesimus, Epaphras, Archippus, Silas, Silvanus, Crescens, Crispus, Epenetus, Andronicus, Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles, Aristobulus, Herodion, Agabus, Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobus, Hermas, Linus, Gaius, Philogogus, Lucius, Jason, Sosipater, Olympas, Tertius, Erastus, Quartus, Euodias, Onesiphorus, Clement, Sosthenes, Apollos, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Carpus, Quadratus, Mark called John, Zenas, Aristarchus, Pudens, Trophimus, Mark, Artemas, Aquila, Fortunatus and Achaicus.
● St. Theoctistus, abbot at Cucomo in Sicily.
● Martyr Zosimas the Hermit, and Martyr Athanasius the Commentarisius, anchorites of Cilicia, Martyrs.
● Abbot Euthymius and twelve monks of Vatopedi Monastery on Mt. Athos.
● Repose of St. Eustathius (Eustace), first Archbishop of Serbia.
● St. Aquila, deacon of the Kiev Caves.
● New-Martyr Onuphrius Manassias of Chilandar Monastery on Mt. Athos.
● St. Gregory of Langres (Gaul).
● Repose of Symeon, metropolitan of Smolensk.
● Teacher's Day in Thailand
● National Religious Freedom Day in the United States, to commemorate the adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING SEVEN SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
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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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