Day of the week in surrounding years:
. . . .,1982,1988,1993,1999—MON—. . . .
1977,1983,. . . .,1994,2000—TUE—2005
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—WED—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—THU—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—FRI—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—SAT—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—SUN—2009
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Anger "When anger rises, think of the consequences." — Confucius
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Homeland Security "Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our [Intelligence] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors." — George H. W. Bush at the dedication ceremony for the George Bush Center for Intelligence, 4-26-99. {George W. "War Criminal" Bush is said to have skipped this ceremony because he feared it meant getting a dose of intelligence, something he rightfully felt ill-equipped to use.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "Ninety percent of the putts that are short don't go in." — 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 18, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 78% Age: 35% Rise: 1:11 PM Set: 3:48 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 18, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 78% Age: 34% Rise: 1:45 PM Set: 3:52 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 18, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 77% Age: 34% Rise: 12:49 PM Set: 3:52 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 18, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 77% Age: 34% Rise: 12:21 PM Set: 3:29 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Supernova Factory NGC 2770
Credit: A. de Ugarte Postigo (ESO) et al., Dark Cosmology Centre (NBI, KU), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), University of Hertfordshire
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor.
● 474 - Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor
● 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
● 1126 - Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne to his son Emperor Qinzong
● 1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV.
● 1520 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Åsunden.
● 1535 - Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru.
● 1562 - Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
● 1670 - Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama.
● 1701 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
● 1777 - Representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the Vermont Republic from Britain.
● 1778 - English explorer Captain James Cook stumbles over ("discovers") the Hawai'ian Islands, renames them the "Sandwich Islands."
● 1788 - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
● 1854 - Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in northwestern Mexico.
● 1857 - Birth of Gustave Boullard, Launois-sous-Vence, France. Ardennes anarchist, member of the groups "The Stateless Persons" of Charleville, then "The Disinherited" of Nouzon, and the "Libertarians of Nouzon" who met in the Colony of Aiglemont, founded by Fortune Henry. He was once imprisoned for six weeks for declaring his refusal to recognize the authority of the Mayor of Nouzon.
● 1861 - American Civil War - Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in secession from the United States.
● 1867 - Birth of Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario.
● 1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the 'Hall of Mirrors' of the Palace of Versailles towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire, to the Germans, was known as The Second Reich
● 1881 - Spokane (Indian) Reservation established.
● 1884 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the UK.
● 1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
● 1903 - Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States, sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
● 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
● 1912 - British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrives at the South Pole only to find that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded them by just over a month.
● 1913 - A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
● 1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
● 1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
● 1919 - World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
● 1922 - Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and several Republican comrades take over the Rotunda in Dublin; they will hold the building for several days.
● 1925 - Birth of radical anti-capitalist philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Paris, France.
● 1930 - Fourteen African miners killed in uprising at Crown mines, Johannesburg, South Africa.
● 1932 - Spain - In the Catalonia mine fields of High Llobregat, in Berga, Cardona, Fijols, Sallent, Suria, a libertarian communism is proclaimed. The government subdues the insurrection in one week. Over 100 militants, including the anarchists Ascaso and Durruti, were sent to Rio de Oro, aprison colony in Africa. The Republic had recently been proclaimed, but the hopes of the Spanish people were quickly dashed. Several times, there were open revolts against the state, with numerous attempts to immediately establish libertarian communism. This began with the rising in Fijols in Catalonia, which was repressed. The socialist Republican government shipped 120 Catalan anarchists to Africa, where several died of fever contracted there.
● 1943 - Mary Kenney O'Sullivan dies. First American Federation of Labor (AFL) woman organizer and cofounder of the National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL). O'Sullivan organized the Woman's Bookbinder Union in 1880.
● 1943 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
● 1943 - WW II hardship, American style - U.S. bans sale of pre-sliced bread for duration of the war. (Not unlike current practice, the government never explained how this action helped the war effort.)
● 1944 - WW II hardship, Soviet style - Red Army breaks 890-day-long German siege of Leningrad.
● 1945 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army
● 1952 - U.N. General Assembly recommends abolition of corporal punishment.
● 1955 - Battle of Yijiangshan occurred.
● 1958 - Lumbee Indians drive Ku Klux Klan off their land in Maxton, N. Car.
● 1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City.
● 1965 - Segregationists assault Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama, as he registers as the first black guest in a hotel built a century earlier with slave labor.
● 1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
● 1968 - Eartha Kitt disrupts White House luncheon giving her views on poverty and the Vietnam War.
● 1968 - Police attack a crowd of 600 protesting an appearance by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk in San Francisco.
● 1969 - 8,500 riot police storm University of Tokyo to end student occupation.
● 1969 - The U.S., North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the National Liberation Front begin peace talks in Paris. {Talks for fist six months drag over shape of table. Kissinger is using talks to buy time for military victory which he believes is just around the corner if only enough force could be employed.}
● 1969 - United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay resulting in the loss of all 32 passengers and six crewmembers.
● 1971 - Fifty march against naval target shelling, Flamingo Beach, Culebra, Puerto Rico.
● 1973 - Seven disciples of the black Islamic Hanafi Musselman sect slaughtered by an organized band of armed intruders which stormed their Washington, D.C. headquarters -- a brick and fieldstone house purchased for the sect by Milwaukee Bucks basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Three of the dead were youngsters drowned in an upstairs bathroom; a fourth was a nine-day-old baby found submerged in a water-filled sink.
● 1974 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
● 1977 - Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
● 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
● 1978 - British government cancels arms sale to El Salvador.
● 1978 - Ending of the last show of the Sex Pistols' U.S. tour, Johnny Rotten sneers at his San Francisco audience, "How does it feel to be swindled?" The next morning he announces the group is history, blaming manager Malcolm McLaren for "sensationalizing" everything about the band. That afternoon Sid Vicious is taken unconscious off their London bound plane in New York and rushed to a hospital. He is treated for an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol.
● 1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
● 1982 - Anti-nuclear Greenham Commons women "keen" outside House of Commons in London.
● 1982 - U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds: "Diamond Crash" kills four team members.
● 1983 - Pres. Reagan asks for largest peace-time build-up of the CIA in history -- including a 25% budget increase.
● 1983 - The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe Olympic medals to his family.
● 1990 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
● 1991 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems.
● 1993 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states.
● 1994 - The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
● 1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc cave paintings and engravings over 17,000 years old discovered.
● 1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
● 1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
● 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.
● 2000 - The strange Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth.
● 2001 - The British digital television channel e4 (TV) was launched.
● 2002 - Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
● 2003 - A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
● 2005 - A U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan begins.
● 2007 - The strongest storm in the UK for 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm of the coast of Devon, England.
BIRTHS
● 885 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
● 1519 - Isabella Jagiełło, queen of Hungary (d. 1559)
● 1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (d. 1588)
● 1641 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
● 1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
● 1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
● 1689 - Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
● 1779 - Peter Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
● 1782 - Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
● 1795 - Anna Pavlovna of Russia, queen of The Netherlands (d. 1865)
● 1813 - Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906)
● 1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874)
● 1840 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
● 1841 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (d. 1894)
● 1842 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
● 1848 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
● 1849 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
● 1850 - Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916)
● 1854 - Thomas Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934)
● 1856 - Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon (d. 1931)
● 1867 - Rubén Dario, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916)
● 1877 - Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d.1961)
● 1879 - Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
● 1881 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1975)
● 1882 - A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
● 1886 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (d. 1962)
● 1888 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989)
● 1892 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)
● 1892 - Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
● 1901 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
● 1904 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
● 1904 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006)
● 1905 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
● 1908 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974)
● 1908 - Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
● 1910 - Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (d. 1983)
● 1913 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
● 1914 - Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)
● 1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
● 1917 - Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman
● 1918 - Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996)
● 1922 - Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
● 1925 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
● 1927 - Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990)
● 1931 - Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
● 1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
● 1933 - John Boorman, Irish film director
● 1933 - Ray Dolby, American inventor (Dolby noise reduction system)
● 1934 - Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator
● 1935 - Albert Millaire, Quebec actor and theatre director
● 1935 - Jon Stallworthy, English poet
● 1935 - Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
● 1937 - John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
● 1938 - Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
● 1940 - Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
● 1941 - David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
● 1941 - Bobby Goldsboro, American country/pop singer
● 1943 - Kay Granger, American politician
● 1944 - Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
● 1944 - Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)
● 1945 - José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
● 1946 - Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor
● 1947 - Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
● 1949 - Philippe Starck, French designer
● 1949 - Bill Keller, American newspaper editor
● 1950 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
● 1951 - Bob Latchford, English footballer
● 1951 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
● 1952 - R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
● 1953 - Brett Hudson, American actor
● 1955 - Kevin Costner, American actor
● 1955 - Fergus Martin, Irish artist
● 1956 - Sharon Mitchell, American porn actress
● 1956 - Tom Bailey, English singer (Thompson Twins)
● 1961 - Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1961 - Jeff Yagher, American actor
● 1962 - Alison Arngrim, American actress
● 1963 - Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland
● 1964 - Jane Horrocks, British actress
● 1965 - Dave Attell, American writer and comedian
● 1966 - Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player
● 1966 - André Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
● 1967 - Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999)
● 1967 - Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
● 1968 - Frank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist
● 1969 - Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
● 1969 - Batista, American professional wrestler
● 1969 - Jim O'Rourke, American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco)
● 1970 - DJ Quik, American rapper
● 1970 - Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist
● 1971 - Jonathan Davis, American singer (KoЯn)
● 1971 - Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
● 1971 - Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer
● 1972 - Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player
● 1973 - Anthony Koutoufides, Australian rules footballer
● 1973 - Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
● 1974 - Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio
● 1974 - Maulik Pancholy, American actor
● 1974 - Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak)
● 1974 - Princess Claire of Belgium
● 1976 - Damien Leith, Australian Idol 2006
● 1977 - Curtis Cregan, American actor
● 1977 - Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player
● 1978 - Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
● 1979 - Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
● 1979 - Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
● 1979 - Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player
● 1980 - Robert Green, English footballer
● 1980 - Julius Peppers, American football player
● 1981 - Kang Dong-won, South Korean model and actor
● 1981 - Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer
● 1982 - Quinn Allman, American musician (The Used)
● 1982 - Joanna Newsom, American harpist/singer-songwriter
● 1983 - Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
● 1984 - Benji Schwimmer, American dancer
● 1984 - Maarja Kivi, Estonian singer
● 1984 - Cho Seung-Hui, Korean-American mass murderer (Virginia Tech Massacre) (d. 2007)
● 1985 - Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer
● 1988 - Ronald Guglielmone Jr., American singer-songwriter
● 1993 - Morgan York, American Actress
DEATHS
● 52 B.C.E. - Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered)
● 350 - Constans, Roman Emperor, (b. 320)
● 474 - Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
● 1367 - King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
● 1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
● 1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
● 1583 - Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
● 1664 - Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
● 1677 - Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)
● 1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
● 1862 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
● 1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
● 1878 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
● 1892 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
● 1896 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
● 1923 - Wallace Reid, Actor (b. 1891)
● 1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)
● 1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
● 1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)
● 1952 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
● 1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
● 1963 - Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party (b. 1906)
● 1966 - Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
● 1967 - Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
● 1969 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
● 1970 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
● 1978 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
● 1978 - Carl Betz, English musician (b. 1921)
● 1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
● 1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
● 1985 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
● 1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
● 1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
● 1995 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
● 1995 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
● 1996 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao,Indian film actor (b.1923)
● 1997 - Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941)
● 2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
● 2001 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
● 2003 - Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
● 2005 - Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
● 2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
● 2007 - Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Chair of St. Peter
● St. Archelais and Companions
● St. Cyril of Alexandria
● St. Day
● St. Deicola
● St. Fazzio
● St. Leobard
● St. Liberata
● St. Margaret of Hungary
● Sts. Moseus & Ammonius
● St. Prisca
● St. Ulfrid
● St. Vincenza Mary Lopez y Vicuna
● St. Volusian
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 6 (Civil Date: January 18)
● THE HOLY THEOPHANY OF OUR LORD, GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.
● New Hieromartyr Romanus, beheaded by the Turks.
● New-Martyrs priest Andrew, and with him Lydia, Domnica, Maria and his two daughters (1919).
● Repose of Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam (1824), Schemamonk Sergius (Yanovsky), disciple of St. Herman of Alaska (1876), and Bishop Theophan the Recluse (1894).
● Anglican and Lutheran:
● Feast of the Confession of Peter
● Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins
● Winnie The Pooh Day (in observance of the birthday of Alan Alexander Milne, 1882.)
● Paryaya festival at Udupi held every alternate year—even years—i.e. 2006, 2008, 2010. . .
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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