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 Authority "If you obey all the rules you will miss the fun." — Katherine Hepburn
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Campaign Strategies "Heard the one about Republicans "cutting" Medicare? The fact is Republicans are increasing Medicare spending by more than half. I'm Haley Barbour, and I'm so sure of that fact I'm willing to give you this check for a million dollars if you can prove me wrong." — Republican National Committee 1995 newspaper ad with a picture of Haley Barbour, then RNC Chairman, promoting the "Million Dollar Medicare Challenge,' to counter Democratic claims that the Republicans would cut Medicare. The eighty people who entered the contest were told their responses were incorrect. One of the contestants, Robert Shireman, filed a lawsuit in Washington D.C. Superior Court to claim the Million dollars he said he was owed by the Republican Party.
Haley Barbour responded to this filing an action of his own in U.S. District in Mississippi. All eighty people who responded to the advertisement received "a summons notifying then that if they wanted to claim they deserved the $1 million prize, they would have to respond to the court in Mississippi." Dan Balz, "After One 'Medicare Challenge' Entrant Goes to Court, Party Sues Them All," Washington Post, 1-30-97.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't." — 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 23, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 99% Age: 53% Rise: 6:56 PM Set: 8:12 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 23, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 99% Age: 53% Rise: 7:22 PM Set: 8:23 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 23, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 99% Age: 53% Rise: 6:40 PM Set: 8:14 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 23, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 99% Age: 53% Rise: 6:13 PM Set: 7:53 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Orbiting Astronaut Reflects Earth
Credit: Clayton C. Anderson, Expedition 15 Crew, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor.
● 1368 - In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
● 1510 - Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.
● 1556 - The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
● 1570 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.
● 1579 - The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
● 1719 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
● 1789 - Georgetown College becomes the first Roman Catholic college in the United States (Washington, DC).
● 1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
● 1809 - Baker massacre of Blackfeet.
● 1812 - 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri.
● 1844 - Birth of Paul Brousse (1844-1912). Member of the anarchist Jurassic Federation; later became a socialist reformist.
● 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first {official} woman doctor.
● 1855 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
● 1870 - Red Horn, Piegan chief, and 175, mostly women and children, others were surprised and killed by US cavalrymen in camp ravaged by smallpox on Marias River, Montana.
● 1875 - First British disarmament campaign founded, Liverpool, England.
● 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
● 1897 - Elva Zona Heaster found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband was perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
● 1899 - Emilio Aguinaldo was sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
● 1904 - Ålesund Fire: Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil architecture.
● 1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first American Indian to serve as a U.S. Senator. He resigned in March of 1929 to become President Herbert Hoover's Vice President.
● 1912 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
● 1913 - Joe Hill's song "Mr. Block" published in the "Industrial Worker."
● 1919 - First Regional Conference of Peasants, Workers, and Insurgents (Makhnovists), in Bolche-Mikhailovska (Ukraine).
● 1920 - The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
● 1923 - France - The young individualist Germaine Berton attempts to kill Leon Daudet, a rightwing extremist and propagandist of l'Action Française. A solidarity campaign by "Libertaire" rallied anarchists, militants, Severine, Louis Lecoin, and others in support of her defense, and she was acquitted.
● 1924 - Bal Thackeray - The leader of Indian Politician Party Shiv Sena was born
● 1930 - British India - Subhaschandra Bose and 11 others sentenced to one year in prison for Calcutta parade against imperialism.
● 1937 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
● 1941 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with {his buddy and fellow bigot} Adolf Hitler.
● 1943 - Jewish resistance to Nazis erupts in the ghettoes, Warsaw, Poland.
● 1943 - World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
● 1943 - World War II: British forces capture Tripoli in Libya from the Nazis.
● 1945 - Georges Gourdin dies in Nazi camps of Elbruck (Germany). French anarchist, born around 1916. Active in Jeunesses Anarchistes and l'Union Anarchiste, in the Resistence during WWII, and in rebuilding, underground, the anarchist movement, aiding many comrades in trouble. Arrested and tortured in May 1944 before being sent to Germany.
● 1945 - World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
● 1950 - The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
● 1957 - Ku Klux Klan members abducts Willie Edwards Jr., a black truck driver from Montgomery, Alabama, and force him at gunpoint to jump from a bridge into the Alabama River. His body wasn't found for months. No one was arrested, and the case closed. 19 years later, murder charges were brought against three Klansmen after a confession from a fourth, who was at the slaying's scene. But the case never make it to trial. Alabama Judge Frank Embry quashed the indictments, ruling that (quote) - "merely forcing a person to jump from a bridge does not naturally and probably lead to the death of such person."
● 1960 - The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet)in the Pacific Ocean.
● 1962 - Fifteen Committee of 100 supporters sit in at House of Commons demanding halt to nuclear weapon tests, Britain.
● 1964 - The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
● 1968 - U.S. Navy spy ship Pueblo, with a crew of 83 and all its secret gear intact, is seized without a struggle by North Korean patrol boats after it allegedly violated territorial waters in the Sea of Japan. The 83 were charged with spying within the 12-mile territorial limit; all but one were released 11 months later.
● 1969 - Three hundred ducks die when light from newly installed mercury vapor street lamps, shining through a heavy fog, caused them to mistake a parking lot for water and crash into buildings at St. Mary's College, Maryland.
● 1970 - Folksingers Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Country Joe McDonald, Phil Ochs, and Pete Seeger are denied permission to sing as part of Collins' defense testimony at the trial of "The Chicago Seven."
● 1973 - A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
● 1973 - President Nixon announces "Peace With Honor" accord with Vietnam, with all American troops to be out of Vietnam in 60 days.
● 1976 - Actor, athlete, and commie activist Paul Robeson dies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Blacklist during the Cold War basically destroyed his career.
● 1978 - Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's protective ozone layer.
● 1978 - Two-week strike against U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship begins, Nicaragua. Beginning of 18-month insurrection that brings Sandanista triumph.
● 1980 - Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier, already sentenced to two life sentences, is given an additional seven years for escaping from a federal prison.
● 1981 - A pipe bomb explodes at the Supreme Court building in New York City. No one is injured, but 1,500 people are forced to evacuate.
● 1982 - Ten thousand demonstrate against nuclear power plant, Frankenberg, West Germany.
● 1986 - About 1,000 pounds of uranium are accidentally pumped into the sea, Windscale, Britain.
● 1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. {To date the only qualified.}
● 2001 - The Chinese Communist Party staged a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.
● 2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States under FBI custody.
● 2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped -- and subsequently murdered -- in Karachi, Pakistan.
● 2006 - After over 12 years of Liberal Party rule, Stephen Harper's Conservative Party wins the most seats in the Canadian federal election. Harper becomes the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada with a minority government, assuming office February 6.
BIRTHS
● 1350 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
● 1688 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
● 1719 - John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
● 1745 - William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
● 1783 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
● 1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
● 1813 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895)
● 1827 - Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)
● 1832 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
● 1840 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
● 1857 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
● 1862 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
● 1872 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary from Macedonia (d. 1903)
● 1872 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
● 1872 - Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)
● 1876 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
● 1884 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (d. 1956)
● 1888 - Leadbelly, American blues and folk musician (d. 1949)
● 1896 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
● 1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (d. 1945)
● 1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
● 1897 - Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (d. 1989)
● 1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
● 1898 - Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
● 1898 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978)
● 1899 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
● 1900 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
● 1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
● 1907 - Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968)
● 1907 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
● 1910 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
● 1915 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
● 1915 - Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1985)
● 1918 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
● 1919 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
● 1919 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
● 1919 - Bob Paisley, English Football player and manager. (d. 1996)
● 1923 - Cot Deal, major league baseball player and coach
● 1923 - Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer (d. 1996)
● 1927 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
● 1928 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
● 1928 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress
● 1929 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
● 1929 - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
● 1930 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel laureate
● 1930 - Teresa Żylis-Gara, Polish singer
● 1933 - Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer
● 1934 - Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003)
● 1936 - Jerry Kramer, American football player
● 1938 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
● 1938 - Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
● 1939 - Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
● 1939 - Arlene Golonka, American actress
● 1940 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
● 1942 - Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director
● 1943 - Gil Gerard, American actor
● 1943 - Millie Jackson, American singer
● 1943 - Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist
● 1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
● 1945 - Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
● 1946 - Arnoldo Alemán, ex-president of Nicaragua
● 1947 - Thomas R. Carper, American politician.
● 1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
● 1948 - Anita Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
● 1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
● 1950 - Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band)
● 1950 - John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health)
● 1952 - Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick)
● 1953 - Antonio Villaraigosa, American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
● 1954 - Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter
● 1954 - Edward Ka-Spel, English musician (Legendary Pink Dots)
● 1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
● 1957 - Lou Schuler, American fitness journalist
● 1959 - Clive Bull, English radio talk show host
● 1960 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
● 1962 - Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist
● 1962 - Vasia Panayopoulou, Greek actress
● 1963 - Gail O'Grady, American actress
● 1964 - Mariska Hargitay, American actress
● 1964 - Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1967 - Naim Süleymanoğlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
● 1968 - Petr Korda, Czech tennis player
● 1969 - Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
● 1969 - Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1969 - Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress
● 1970 - Spiridon Vasdekis, Greek long jumper
● 1971 - Kevin Mawae- American Football Player
● 1972 - Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
● 1972 - Mark Curry, American rapper
● 1973 - Lanei Chapman, American actress
● 1974 - Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
● 1974 - Richard T. Slone, British artist
● 1974 - Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball star
● 1974 - Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
● 1975 - Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter
● 1976 - Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
● 1976 - Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler
● 1979 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player
● 1979 - Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi)
● 1981 - Greg Smith, American UFC fighter
● 1982 - Wily Mo Pena, Dominican baseball player
● 1983 - David Firth, British Animator
● 1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
● 1985 - Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
● 1985 - Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
● 1986 - José Enrique Sánchez, Spanish footballer
● 1986 - Steven Taylor, English footballer
● 1987 - Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer
DEATHS
● 1199 - Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)
● 1548 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
● 1549 - Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
● 1567 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507)
● 1570 - James Stewart, Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated)
● 1622 - William Baffin, English explorer (b. 1584)
● 1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
● 1785 - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
● 1789 - Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
● 1789 - John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709)
● 1800 - Edward Rutledge, American statesman (b. 1749)
● 1803 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
● 1805 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
● 1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
● 1812 - Robert Craufurd, British general (b. 1764)
● 1820 - Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
● 1833 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757)
● 1837 - John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
● 1866 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
● 1875 - Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819)
● 1883 - Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
● 1893 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825)
● 1922 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
● 1923 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
● 1931 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
● 1937 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
● 1937 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
● 1939 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1903)
● 1943 - Alexander Woollcott, American actor, author, and bon vivant (b. 1887)
● 1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
● 1944 - Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
● 1956 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian/British film director (b. 1893)
● 1958 - Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880 )
● 1971 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871)
● 1973 - Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)
● 1973 - Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
● 1976 - Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
● 1976 - Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and social activist (b. 1898)
● 1977 - Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (b. 1903)
● 1978 - Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (b. 1946)
● 1978 - Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903)
● 1978 - Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
● 1981 - Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
● 1983 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
● 1984 - Mu'in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926)
● 1986 - Joseph Beuys, German artist (b. 1921)
● 1989 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
● 1990 - Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
● 1992 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (b. 1924)
● 1993 - Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer (b. 1899)
● 1994 - Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (b. 1917)
● 1994 - Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
● 1997 - Richard Berry, American composer and musician (b. 1935)
● 1999 - Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)
● 1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
● 2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
● 2002 - Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934)
● 2002 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
● 2003 - Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
● 2004 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)
● 2004 - Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
● 2005 - Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
● 2005 - Douglas Knight, American university president (b. 1921)
● 2006 - Ernie Baron, Philippine newscaster (b. 1940)
● 2006 - Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
● 2007 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (b. 1918)
● 2007 - Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Abakuh (Apa Kauh), Egyptian martyr
● St. Agathangelus
● St. Amasius
● St. Asclas
● St. Barnard
● St. Colman of Lismore
● St. Emerentiana
● St. Eusebius
● St. Henry Suso, Blessed
● St. Ildephonsus
● St. John the Almoner
● St. Luthfild
● St. Maimbod
● St. Ormond
● St. Parmenas
● Sts. Severian & Aquila
● Bl. Marianne of Molokai
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 11 (Civil Date: January 23)
● St. Theodosius the Great, the Cenobiarch.
● St. Michael of Klops Monastery, fool-for-Christ (Novgorod).
● St. Theodosius of Antioch.
● St. Stephen of Placidian near Constantinople.
● St. Theodore.
● St. Agapius of Apamea in Syria.
● Martyr Mairus.
● St. Theodosius, Metropolitan of Trebizond.
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Romil the hermit of Veddin.
● St. Vitalis of the monastery of Abba Serid at Gaza.
● Repose of Blessed Nun Eupraxia of Teliakov village, Kostroma (1823).
● Bounty Day, celebrating the burning of HMAV Bounty in 1790, Pitcairn Island
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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