Day of the week in surrounding years:
1977,1983,. . . .,1994,2000—MON—2005
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—TUE—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—WED—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—THU—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—FRI—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—SAT—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—SUN—2010
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On America "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men {persons} are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." — Declaration of Independence {Thomas Jefferson}
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On He Said/He Said "4. I'm only saying something I have written in print before, that I said that the person who told me was not a political gunslinger. I mean that literally. And that indicates that this was not a—some kind of plot to discredit Ambassador Wilson, that it came about almost incidentally. And that's all I say." — Robert Novak. "Crossfire," CNN, 1-3-04.—Part 4 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.} {This series of self-serving statements only go to prove that this traitorous putz realized the seriousness of outing a covert CIA agent and no amount of rationalization was going to mitigate the wrong.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left." — 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 17, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 68% Age: 31% Rise: 12:23 PM Set: 2:32 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 17, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 68% Age: 31% Rise: 12:54 PM Set: 2:39 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 17, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 67% Age: 31% Rise: 12:04 PM Set: 2:34 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 17, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 67% Age: 30% Rise: 11:38 AM Set: 2:11 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Thor's Emerald Helmet
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 38 B.C.E. - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla.
● 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
● 1377 - Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back from Avignon to Rome.
● 1524 - Beginning of Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage to find a passage to China.
● 1562 - France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain.
● 1595 - Henry IV of France declares war to Spain.
● 1648 - England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Address, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
● 1706 - Birth of early electrician Benjamin Franklin.
● 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens - Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
● 1799 - Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a handful of other patriots was shot, after that an attempted revolt went awry.
● 1819 - Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Colombia.
● 1852 - United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
● 1863 - Mangas Colorado, Apache chief, agrees to peace talks, was then arrested, imprisoned, and tortured at Fort McLane, New Mexico, then a soldier takes his scalp, and another cuts off his head and boils the flesh away so he can sell it to a phrenologist. They dump the headless body in a ditch. The official military report will state that Mangas was killed while attempting to escape. After learning of Mangas' death, Apache chiefs Cochise and Victorio will lead their warriors in a guerrilla war against whites in the Southwest.
● 1873 - First Battle of the Stronghold in the US Modoc War.
● 1885 - A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
● 1893 - Hawai'i - Queen Lilluoka'ani's regime is overthrown by U.S. pineapple tycoon Sanford Dole and pro-annexation sugar interests. With an amazing sense of timing, U.S. troops land, "to protect U.S. interests." With U.S. support, Dole declares himself Hawai'i's president and lobbies for U.S. annexation. It's in the can. In 1898, President William McKinley will sign a joint resolution of Congress authorizing the annexation.
● 1898 - Two-day general strike, and riots, against the increase of bread prices, Ancine, Italy. The army occupies the city.
● 1899 - The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
● 1902 - Washington State Federation of Labor formed.
● 1912 - Sir Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
● 1913 - Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
● 1915 - Anarchist Lucy Parsons leads hunger march in Chicago.
● 1917 - Dr. Ben Reitman is convicted on charges resulting from his arrest the previous month in Cleveland for organizing volunteers to distribute birth control information at an Emma Goldman lecture on birth control. He is sentenced to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, plus court costs, for the crime.
● 1917 - U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
● 1920 - Finland - S.S. Buford, full of labor activists and radicals kicked out of the U.S. during the Palmer Raids, lands at Hange. Two days later the deportees are met at the Russo-Finnish border by Russian representatives and received warmly at a mass meeting of soldiers and peasants in Belo-Ostrov.
● 1929 - Uprising in Afghanistan against British rule.
● 1938 - Birth of Martha Cotera, Chicana feminist, librarian, and civil rights worker.
● 1941 - Kuomintang forces under the order of Chiang Kai-Shek opened fire at communist force, Chinese Civil War resumes after WWII.
● 1945 - Hungary - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, age 32, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by Soviet secret police never to be seen or heard from again.
● 1945 - Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
● 1945 - The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
● 1946 - The UN Security Council holds its first session.
● 1949 - U.S. - Conspiracy trial against 11 Communist Party leaders opens.
● 1950 - The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
● 1961 - Patrice Lumumba, former premier of the newly independent Republic of the Congo, is assassinated; CIA involvement is widely suspected.
● 1961 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns "the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." {Advisors have him remove reference to the government, both executive and Congressional, as the third pillar of complex.}
● 1966 - B-52 collides with an Air Force jet tanker while refueling over the coast of Spain. Two hydrogen bombs ruptured, scattering radioactive particles; a third landed intact near the village of Palomares; a fourth was lost at sea. Fifteen hundred tons of radioactive soil and tomato plants were removed to the U.S. for burial. The U.S. tried first to cover it up, then downplay the incident.
● 1967 - London's "Daily Mail" reports the Blackburn City Council's road hole survey. John Lennon mentioned the 4000 holes in the song "A Day in the Life."
● 1970 - Chicano activists gather in Crystal City, TX to found Raza Unida Party.
● 1970 - Jerry Rubin addresses an overflow Seattle crowd of 4,000 at the University of Washington Student Union Building.
● 1973 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes "President for Life" of the Philippines. {He doesn't quite make it, popular revoltion forces him to leave office before he dies.}
● 1977 - Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore executed by a Utah firing squad in the first exercise of capital punishment in the U.S. in 10 years. Gilmore opposed all attempts to delay the execution; his last words - "Let's do it!" Gilmore was the illegitimate grandson of magician Harry Houdini.
● 1981 - Pres. Reagan invokes special executive powers to send $10 million of military assistance to the fascist military junta governing El Salvador, which faces a fierce rebel offensive from the FMLN. The aid package will include three military advisor teams.
● 1982 - "Cold Sunday" in the United States sees temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
● 1984 - U.S. Supreme Court rules (5-4) private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws. One vote separates you from a felony every time you pressed "record."
● 1985 - British Telecom announces the retirement of the United Kingdom's famous red telephone boxes.
● 1985 - Hashimoto Yoshiharu, 55, dies in Tokyo. Japanese anarchist.
● 1989 - Stockton massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.
● 1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm began early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
● 1991 - Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
● 1992 - Eight Protestant workers killed by IRA bomb, Teebane, Northern Ireland.
● 1993 - Native Hawai'ians demonstrate against U.S. control of their homeland, on the 100th anniversary of the U.S.-backed overthrow of the independent government of Hawai'ian Queen Lilluokalani by pineapple tycoon Sanford Dole.
● 1994 - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California. {I was awaken that morning with items falling off my headboard.}
● 1995 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake (known as "the Great Hanshin earthquake") hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,433 people.
● 1996 - The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
● 1997 - A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
● 1997 - Twenty activists arrested for trespass at the Waihopai spy station in New Zealand.
● 1998 - Mexico - Over 2000 indigenous Tzeltals and Tojolbals from the state of Chiapas occupy the military barracks of the 39th Military Zone in protest over Army incursions into their communities.
● 1998 - Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. {Deposition taken in this lawsuit leads to impeachment, trial and acquittal.}
● 2001 - President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Captain Meriwether Lewis' rank from Lieutenant to Captain.
● 2002 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
BIRTHS
● 1463 - Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
● 1484 - George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545)
● 1501 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
● 1504 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
● 1560 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)
● 1600 - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
● 1612 - Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (d. 1671)
● 1686 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766)
● 1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790)
● 1712 - John Stanley, English composer (d. 1786)
● 1719 - William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806)
● 1761 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (d. 1832)
● 1763 - John Jacob Astor, American entrepreneur (d. 1848)
● 1789 - August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
● 1820 - Anne Brontë, British author (d. 1849)
● 1828 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (d. 1918)
● 1831 - Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
● 1832 - Henry Martyn Baird, American educationalist (d. 1906)
● 1851 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)
● 1853 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (d. 1933)
● 1858 - Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian writer(d. 1940)
● 1860 - Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (d. 1949)
● 1863 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
● 1863 - Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner (d. 1938)
● 1867 - Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939)
● 1871 - David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936)
● 1871 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer (d. 1940)
● 1875 - Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan dramatist (d. 1910)
● 1880 - Mack Sennett, Canadian film director (d. 1960)
● 1881 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
● 1882 - Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946)
● 1886 - Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (d. 1955)
● 1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
● 1899 - Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960)
● 1901 - Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-born philosopher (d. 1973)
● 1903 - Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (d. 1953)
● 1905 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
● 1905 - Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d.2007)
● 1905 - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
● 1908 - Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985)
● 1911 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
● 1914 - William Stafford, American poet and essayist (d. 1993)
● 1914 - Anacleto Angelini, Chilean businessman (d. 2007)
● 1917 - M. G. Ramachandran, Indian politician, actor (d. 1987)
● 1917 - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (d. 2007)
● 1918 - Keith Joseph, British politician (d. 1994)
● 1921 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
● 1922 - Luis Echeverría Álvarez, President of Mexico
● 1922 - Nicholas Katzenbach, American politician
● 1922 - Betty White, American actress
● 1925 - Robert Cormier, American author (d. 2000)
● 1925 - Abdul Kardar, Pakistani cricketer
● 1926 - Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman
● 1926 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (d. 2006)
● 1927 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
● 1928 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
● 1928 - Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist
● 1929 - Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
● 1930 - Eddie LeBaron, American football player
● 1931 - James Earl Jones, American actor
● 1931 - L. Douglas Wilder, 66th Governor of Virginia
● 1931 - Don Zimmer, American baseball coach
● 1932 - Sheree North, American actress (d. 2005)
● 1933 - Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
● 1933 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003)
● 1933 - Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (d. 1998)
● 1935 - Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
● 1939 - Maury Povich, American talk show host
● 1940 - Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner
● 1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
● 1942 - Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
● 1942 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001)
● 1943 - René Préval, President of Haiti
● 1943 - Geoffrey Deuel, American actor
● 1943 - Chris Montez, American singer
● 1944 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
● 1945 - Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter
● 1948 - Davíð Oddsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
● 1948 - Jim Ladd, American freeform (radio format) Disc Jockey
● 1948 - Mick Taylor, British musician (The Rolling Stones)
● 1949 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
● 1952 - Darrell Porter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
● 1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician
● 1954 - Susan Kiefel, Australian lawyer and judge
● 1954 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and environmental activist
● 1955 - Steve Earle, American musician
● 1956 - Paul Young, English musician
● 1957 - Keith Chegwin, English television presenter
● 1957 - Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian and radio personality
● 1959 - Susanna Hoffs, American musician
● 1959 - Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
● 1960 - John Crawford, American musician
● 1960 - Chatchai Plengpanich, Thai actor
● 1961 - Brian Helgeland, American writer and film director
● 1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
● 1962 - Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author
● 1963 - Kai Hansen, German musician/singer
● 1964 - Andy Rourke, English bass guitarist (The Smiths)
● 1965 - Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1965 - Nikos Nioplias, Greek footballer
● 1966 - Stephin Merritt, American singer and songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies)
● 1966 - Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer
● 1967 - Richard Hawley, English singer, guitarist and songwriter (Pulp, The Longpigs)
● 1967 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007)
● 1967 - Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor
● 1968 - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer
● 1968 - Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete
● 1969 - Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film writer and director
● 1969 - Naveen Andrews, British actor
● 1969 - Tijs Verwest, (DJ Tiësto) Dutch DJ
● 1970 - Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player
● 1970 - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born animator
● 1970 - James Wattana, Thai snooker player
● 1971 - Kid Rock, American singer
● 1971 - Richard Burns, English rally driver (d. 2005)
● 1971 - Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress
● 1971 - Ann Wolfe, female boxer
● 1971 - Leonardo Ciampa, Italian-American musician
● 1972 - Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter
● 1972 - Lil Jon, American rapper/producer
● 1973 - Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer
● 1973 - Liz Ellis, Australian netball captain
● 1974 - Yang Chen, Chinese footballer
● 1974 - Derrick Mason, American football player
● 1974 - Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian musician
● 1975 - Tom Jenkinson, English musician (Squarepusher)
● 1975 - Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican-American actor
● 1977 - Kevin Fertig, American professional wrestler
● 1977 - Leigh Whannell, Australian screenwriter/actor
● 1980 - Zooey Deschanel, American actress
● 1980 - Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian ballroom dancer
● 1980 - Kimberly Spicer, American model
● 1980 - Gareth McLearnon, Northern Irish flautist
● 1981 - Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer
● 1981 - Scott Mechlowicz, American actor
● 1981 - Ray J, American R&B singer
● 1982 - Alex Varkatzas, American singer
● 1982 - Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
● 1982 - Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer
● 1983 - Alvaro Arbeloa, Spanish Footballer
● 1983 - Johannes Herber, German basketball player
● 1983 - Andrea Lowell, American Model
● 1983 - Rick Kelly, Australian racing driver
● 1985 - Simone Simons, Dutch singer (Epica)
● 1985 - Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer BeForU
● 1985 - Kang-In, South Korean singer/dancer/actor/MC/DJ(Super Junior)
DEATHS
● 395 - Theodosius I, Roman Emperor
● 1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
● 1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
● 1468 - Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)
● 1617 - Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
● 1654 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
● 1705 - John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
● 1718 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
● 1737 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
● 1751 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671)
● 1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
● 1834 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
● 1861 - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
● 1863 - Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
● 1884 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
● 1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (b. 1834)
● 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
● 1903 - Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
● 1931 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (b. 1864)
● 1933 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
● 1942 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
● 1947 - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
● 1947 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
● 1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
● 1964 - T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)
● 1967 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884)
● 1970 - Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
● 1970 - Billy Stewart, American singer (b. 1937)
● 1972 - Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
● 1977 - Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
● 1981 - Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
● 1983 - Doodles Weaver, American actor (b. 1911)
● 1987 - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
● 1991 - King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
● 1993 - Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
● 1994 - Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
● 1996 - Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
● 1996 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
● 1996 - Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
● 1997 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
● 1998 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (b. 1930)
● 1999 - Robert Eads, American transexual (b. 1945)
● 2001 - Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
● 2002 - Bishop Karas, First Coptic Bishop of St. Antony Monastery (b. 1955)
● 2002 - Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
● 2003 - Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
● 2004 - Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
● 2004 - Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
● 2004 - Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
● 2004 - Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
● 2005 - Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
● 2005 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
● 2006 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
● 2006 - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
● 2007 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
● 2007 - Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Achillas
● St. Amelbert
● St. Anthony the Abbot
● St. Julian Sabas the Elder
● St. Mildgytha
● St. Nennius
● St. Pior
● St. Sulpitius the Pious
● Bl. Gonzalo de Amarante
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 5 (Civil Date: January 17)
● Fast day; wine and oil allowed.
● Eve of the Theophany.
● Martyrs Theopemptus, Bishop of Nicomedia, and Theonas.
● St. Syncletica of Alexandria.
● Prophet Micah.
● Virgin Apollinaris of Egypt.
● St. Gregory of Crete, monk.
● St. Phosterius the hermit.
● St. Menas of Sinai.
● Martyr Theoidus.
● Martyr Sais.
● New-Martyr Romanus of Mt. Athos.
● St. Tatiana.
● Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church:
● Ven. Anthony the Great
● Ancient Latvia - Zirgu Diena observed
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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