Day of the week in surrounding years:
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—MON—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—TUE—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—WED—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—THU—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—FRI—. . . .
1985,1991,. . . .,2002,2008—SAT—2013
1986,1992,1997,2003,. . . .—SUN—2014
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Animal Rights & Vegetarianism "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to fore only when its recipient has no power. Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals." — Milan Kundera
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On A Balanced Budget or The Dive to Red Ink "Mr. Speaker, House Democrats, searching vainly for an issue to sidetrack the Contract With America, have now decided to attack the Speaker regarding a book he has not written yet. Instead of attacking Republicans for writing books, I suggest the Democrats write their own book. The suggested title might be "The Gang That Wouldn't Shoot Straight." . . ." — Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA). Congressional Record, H308, 1-18-95. The Speaker, Newt Gingrich, had signed a book contract with Rupert Murdoch's HarperCollins publishing house at a time when various legislation affecting Murdoch's interests was pending.—Part 1 of 2 {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 made a wrong mistake." — 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 19, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 87% Age: 38% Rise: 2:10 PM Set: 4:59 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 19, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 87% Age: 38% Rise: 2:44 PM Set: 5:02 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 19, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 86% Age: 38% Rise: 1:46 PM Set: 5:06 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 19, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Gibbous Percent of Full: 86% Age: 38% Rise: 1:17 PM Set: 4:43 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Starry Night Castle
Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.
● 1511 - Mirandola surrenders to the French.
● 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
● 1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
● 1788 - Second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
● 1795 - Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands. End of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
● 1806 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
● 1808 - Birth of utopian, individualist anarchist Lysander Spooner. Massachusetts abolitionist and anti-monopolist. Spooner set up a private postal service so successful that the federal government decided to outlaw it.
● 1812 - Luddites torch Oatlands Mill in Yorkshire, England.
● 1812 - Peninsular War: After a ten day siege Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, ordered British soldiers of the Light and third divisions storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
● 1817 - An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crossed the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
● 1839 - British East India Company captures Aden.
● 1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
● 1857 - After killing the sheriff and a prefect, Indians force their way into the house of New Mexico's first American Territorial Governor, Charles Bent, and scalp him and three others, Taos, New Mexico.
● 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs - The Confederate States of America suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
● 1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon dies. Early French anarchist philosopher/economist. "Property is theft!"
● 1869 - Susan B. Anthony elected president of the American Equal Rights Association.
● 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of St. Quentin is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
● 1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
● 1893 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin.
● 1893 - Omcadina revolutionaries on trial.
● 1898 - George Claude Etievant, French typographer and anarchist, stabs a sentry at the Berzeliu street police station, and wounds another after being locked up. He had previously, in 1892, received a five year sentence for providing dynamite for Ravachol, and again another five year prison sentence for a series of articles he published in "Le libertaire." Condemned to die for the act, his sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life. He died a few years later in the penal colony in Guyana.
● 1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
● 1903 - Birth of Kay Boyle, St. Paul, Minnesota. Novelist and short story writer, later a blacklist victim in the '50s, prominent Vietnam War opponent in the '60s, Amnesty International activist in the '80s.
● 1910 - Andrea Costa (1851-1910), dies, Imola. Italian anarchist, participant in the national conference under the direction of Bakunin.
● 1912 - Birth of Armand Robin (1912-1961), Plouguernovel (Brittany). French translator, writer/poet, anarchist. Died mysteriously in a police infirmary in 1961.
● 1915 - During World War I, Britain suffers its first casualties from an air attack when two German Zeppelins drop bombs on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn on the eastern coast of England, killing two Britons and injuring three.
● 1915 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
● 1915 - Twenty rioting striking workers shot by factory guards at Roosevelt, New Jersey.
● 1917 - German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the United States. {The Mexican government tell him to piss up a rope.}
● 1917 - Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
● 1918 - Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
● 1920 - Led by the Filipino Federation of Labor, 3,000 Filipino workers on the plantations of Oahu, Hawai'i, go on strike. Their ranks swell to 8,300 when Japanese workers organized by the Japanese Federation of Labor join the strike. The plantation owners try to break the strike by hiring Hawaiian, Portuguese, and Korean workers, and by creating distrust between the Filipino and Japanese unions. Planters also evict strikers, forcing them to find shelters in empty Honolulu lots. Crowded into encampments during the height of an influenza epidemic, thousands fall ill, and 150 will die. Under these conditions, the unions will call off the strike in July.
● 1920 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
● 1932 - Armed miners' uprising in Spain's Barcelona region in response to anarchist uprisings in Catalonia. "Libertarian communism" declared, including the abolition of money and property, followed by general strikes and armed uprisings throughout Spain over the next five days.
● 1936 - General strike in Damascus, Syria, against French regime.
● 1937 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
● 1941 - Paul Reclus dies, Montpellier, France. Anarchist militant, engineer, and professor. Went into hiding, then joined his family in Switzerland with the crushing of the Paris Commune in 1871. Returned to Paris in 1877 and became an engineer in 1880. An anarchist propagandist for expropriation, he was accused in the "Lawsuit of the 30" and took refuge in London, living in a small anarchist community. In 1895, he moved to Scotland, working as a cartographer, then as a professor. Allowed to re-enter to France in 1914, he was a signatory to the "Manifesto of the 16" (favoring participation in the allied cause during WWI).
● 1941 - World War II: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
● 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
● 1943 - Birth of Janis Joplin. "Freedom's just another word for nothin’ left to lose." {She became really free when she dies from heroin and alcohol overdose.}
● 1945 - World War II: Soviet forces liberate ghetto of Łódź. Out of 230,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived Nazi occupation.
● 1946 - General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
● 1947 - Luigi Bertoni (1872-1947) dies in Geneva. Swiss anarchist, typographer.
● 1949 - Cuba recognises Israel.
● 1960 - Fifty-nine arrested at Chattanooga, Tennessee civil rights sit-in.
● 1965 - Cheating scandal revealed at the Air Force Academy, forcing 105 cadets to resign.
● 1966 - Georgia State House of Representatives refuses to seat black state rep. Julian Bond because of his opposition to the war in Vietnam; he is not admitted until January 1967. {He would later become US ambassador to the UN.}
● 1966 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India.
● 1968 - Lower Elwha band, after decades of struggle, are allotted reservation land on Olympic Peninsula.
● 1969 - Student Jan Palach died after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
● 1971 - Indian fishing rights organizer Hank Adams is shot in Tacoma.
● 1973 - Yuba City, California labor contractor Juan V. Corona found guilty of murdering 25 itinerant farm workers he employed during 1970 - 1971.
● 1976 - Spanish government drafts 70,000 railroad workers to crush strike.
● 1977 - As one of his last acts in office, Pres. Gerald Ford pardons "Tokyo Rose," convicted during WWII for making Japanese propaganda broadcasts to U.S. troops. Iva Toguri D'Aquino, an American citizen of Japanese descent, had been convicted of treason. In an attempt to demoralize its American listeners by making them homesick, Radio Tokyo broadcast dance music and nostalgic reminiscences about everyday American life. The radio programs were extremely popular with U.S. servicemen located in remote areas of the Pacific, although there is little evidence that the broadcasts had any negative effect. Among several English-speaking female announcers at Tokyo Radio, D'Aquino was the favorite of U.S. troops, who fondly referred to her as "Tokyo Rose." During her subsequent trial, she maintained that she was visiting a sick aunt in Japan at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and thus had not been able to return to the U.S. Looking for a way to support herself in wartime Japan, she went to work for the state radio network as a secretary, and was later coerced into her position as an announcer.
● 1977 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas.
● 1978 - British government cancels arms sales to El Salvador.
● 1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America will continue until 2003.
● 1981 - Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
● 1982 - Newbury Council votes to evict women's peace camp, Greenham Common, England.
● 1982 - Protesters blockade U.S. munitions transport to West Germany. Grooningens/Devinggen [sp?], Netherlands.
● 1983 - Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Gestapo chief in Lyons, France, during the German occupation, is arrested in Bolivia on charges of crimes committed against humanity four decades earlier. As chief of Nazi Germany's secret police in occupied France, Barbie had sent thousands of French Jews and French Resistance members to their deaths in concentration camps, while torturing, abusing, or executing many others. Barbie worked as a U.S. agent in Germany for two years, and in 1949 was smuggled to Bolivia, where he assumed the name of "Klaus Altmann" and continued his work as a U.S. agent. In addition to his work for the Americans, he increasingly performed services for Bolivia's various military regimes, especially that of Hugo "El Petiso" Banzer, who came to power in 1971 and became one of the country's most oppressive leaders. Barbie performed a similar type of work for Banzer as he had for the Nazis, torturing and interrogating political opponents, and dispatching many of these political prisoners to special internment camps where many were executed or died from mistreatment.
● 1989 - In one of his last acts in office, Pres. Ronald Reagan pardons notorious New York Yankees baseball owner George Steinbrenner for illegal donations to the campaigns of Pres. Richard Nixon.
● 1991 - Over 100,000 march in San Francisco to protest Gulf War. An equally large anti-war march, sponsored by a competing coalition, fills the streets of San Francisco (along with New York) the following weekend.
● 1991 - The Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in Luanda, Angola.
● 1992 - Decree time is restored in Russia after its previous abolition in March 1991.
● 1994 - "Shoes for Guns" firearm buyback effort begins in Chicago. Program is denounced by the National Rifle Association.
● 1997 - Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
● 2006 - A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
● 2006 - Jet Airways announces its purchase of Air Sahara, creating the largest domestic airline in India.
● 2006 - The New Horizons probe was launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
BIRTHS
● 399 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
● 1544 - King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
● 1736 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
● 1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
● 1757 - Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
● 1807 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
● 1808 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
● 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
● 1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898)
● 1832 - Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
● 1833 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
● 1839 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
● 1848 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
● 1851 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
● 1863 - Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
● 1878 - Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934
● 1879 - Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925)
● 1887 - Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943)
● 1892 - Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician (d. 1964)
● 1905 - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (d. 1991)
● 1908 - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
● 1909 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
● 1912 - Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
● 1913 - "Minnesota Fats", American billiards player (d. 1996)
● 1913 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
● 1914 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990)
● 1917 - John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. 2005)
● 1918 - John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005)
● 1920 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
● 1921 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
● 1921 - "Billy Batts" Devino, American gangster (d. 1970)
● 1922 - Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
● 1923 - Jean Stapleton, American actress
● 1923 - Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
● 1924 - Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
● 1924 - Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
● 1926 - Fritz Weaver, American actor
● 1930 - Tippi Hedren, American actress
● 1931 - Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist
● 1932 - Richard Lester, British director
● 1936 - Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
● 1939 - Phil Everly, American musician
● 1940 - Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
● 1940 - Mike Reid, English comedian (d. 2007)
● 1941 - Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003)
● 1941 - Tony Anholt, British actor
● 1942 - Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
● 1943 - Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
● 1943 - Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress
● 1943 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
● 1944 - Shelley Fabares, American actress
● 1944 - Peter Lynch, American investor
● 1944 - Dan Reeves, American football coach
● 1944 - Laurie London, English singer
● 1946 - Julian Barnes, English author
● 1946 - Dolly Parton, American singer and actress
● 1947 - Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
● 1947 - Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
● 1947 - Ann Compton, American news reporter
● 1948 - Frank McKenna, Canadian politician
● 1949 - Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
● 1949 - Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
● 1950 - Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
● 1951 - Dewey Bunnell, American singer and songwriter (America)
● 1953 - Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
● 1953 - Richard Legendre, Canadian politician
● 1954 - Katey Sagal, American actress
● 1954 - Ted DiBiase, American professional wrestler
● 1954 - Cindy Sherman, American artist
● 1954 - Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director
● 1955 - Simon Rattle, English conductor
● 1955 - Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-born actor and comedian
● 1956 - Carman Licciardello, American Christian singer
● 1957 - Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
● 1962 - Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
● 1963 - Michael Adams, American basketball player
● 1963 - Caron Wheeler, British singer (Soul II Soul)
● 1963 - Martin Bashir, Pakistani-born reporter
● 1964 - Janine Antoni, Bahamian artist
● 1964 - Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
● 1966 - Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
● 1966 - Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
● 1966 - Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
● 1966 - Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1967 - Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
● 1969 - Junior Seau, American football player
● 1969 - Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
● 1970 - Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian
● 1971 - Shawn Wayans, American actor and producer
● 1971 - John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground)
● 1972 - Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
● 1972 - Drea de Matteo, American actress
● 1972 - Ron Killings, American professional wrestler
● 1972 - Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
● 1972 - Elena Kaliská, Slovak slalom canoer
● 1972 - Troy Wilson, Australian racing driver and AFL player
● 1973 - Antero Manninen, Finnish Cellist
● 1973 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (d. 2005)
● 1974 - Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
● 1974 - Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1974 - Frank Caliendo, American comedian
● 1976 - Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver
● 1977 - Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
● 1977 - Nicole, Chilean singer
● 1979 - Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
● 1979 - Wiley (rapper), English Rapper (Grime)
● 1980 - Jenson Button, English Formula One driver
● 1981 - Asier Del Horno, Spanish footballer
● 1981 - Lucho González, Argentine footballer
● 1982 - Jodie Sweetin, American child actress
● 1982 - Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
● 1982 - Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
● 1983 - Utada Hikaru, American-born Japanese singer and songwriter
● 1984 - Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
● 1984 - Euan Blair, Eldest son of Tony Blair
● 1984 - Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver
● 1985 - Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
● 1985 - Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver
● 1991 - Erin Sanders, American child actress
DEATHS
● 639 - Dagobert I, King of the Franks
● 1526 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
● 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
● 1576 - Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494)
● 1661 - Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed)
● 1729 - William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
● 1757 - Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674)
● 1766 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian-born French architect and painter (b. 1695)
● 1785 - Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
● 1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
● 1847 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (assassinated)
● 1851 - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
● 1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
● 1869 - Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
● 1874 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
● 1878 - Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
● 1905 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
● 1929 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
● 1939 - Cliff Heathcote, baseball player (b. 1898)
● 1948 - Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
● 1954 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (b. 1885)
● 1957 - József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
● 1964 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
● 1968 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
● 1969 - Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist (suicide) (b. 1948)
● 1971 - Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
● 1972 - Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
● 1973 - Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903)
● 1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
● 1980 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
● 1982 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
● 1984 - Max Bentley, National Hockey League player (b. 1920)
● 1990 - Rajneesh, Indian religious leader (b. 1931)
● 1990 - Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
● 1990 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
● 1991 - John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
● 1991 - Marcel Chaput, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
● 1996 - Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)
● 1997 - James Dickey, American writer (b. 1923)
● 1997 - Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b 1916)
● 1998 - Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
● 1999 - Ivan Francescato, Italian Rugby Union star (b. 1967)
● 2000 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
● 2000 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress (b. 1913)
● 2001 - Dario Vittori, Argentinean actor (b. 1921)
● 2003 - Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist (b. 1916)
● 2004 - Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) (b. 1917)
● 2004 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
● 2005 - Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
● 2005 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
● 2006 - Wilson Pickett, soul singer (b. 1941)
● 2006 - Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
● 2006 - Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
● 2006 - Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921)
● 2007 - Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
● 2007 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
● 2007 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
● 2007 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1940)
● 2007 - James Alenson, Lincoln-Sudbury student, stabbed to death by John Odgren (b. 1992)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abachum
● St. Absadah
● St. Arcontius
● St. Arsenius
● St. Audifax
● St. Bassian
● St. Branwallader
● St. Canute IV of Denmark
● St. Catellus
● St. Contentius
● St. Fillan
● St. Firminus
● St. Germanicus
● St. Henry of Sweden and Uppsala
● St. Maris
● St. Mark of Ephesus
● St. Martha
● St. Messalina
● Sts. Paul, Gerontius and Companions
● St. Pontian
● St. Remigius
● St. Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester
● Bl. Nathalan
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 7 (Civil Date: January 19)
● Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist, John
● New-Martyr Athanasius of Attalia.
● Bahá'í Faith — Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty) — First day of the 17th month of the Bahá'í calendar.
● Confederate Heroes Day in Texas.
● Kappa Alpha Order Convivium (Founders Day)
● The Poe Toaster commemorates the death of Edgar Allan Poe at his grave in Baltimore.
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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