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 Belief "The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us." — Mario Cuomo
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On SexSexSex "During routine systems checks conducted on staff office computers during the first week of June 1999, certain inappropriate material was discovered. This resulted in immediate and appropriate disciplinary actions being taken against those involved. In deference to legitimate privacy concerns, our office plans no further comment." — Gary Hoitsma, spokesman for Sen. James Inhofe(R-OK). Three male staffers in the Senator's office downloaded so many porno files, the computer system malfunctioned. Hoitsma would not say if the staffers had been fired. Ed Henry, "Pornography Problem, Heard on the Hill Column," Roll Call, 6-14-99. {Knowing the penchants of Republicans, one is forced to wonder if it was kiddie or homosexual pornography.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name."—after receiving a check from Jack Buck made out to "BEARER" — 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 24, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 96% Age: 57% Rise: 8:03 PM Set: 8:40 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 24, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 96% Age: 56% Rise: 8:26 PM Set: 8:55 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 24, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 96% Age: 56% Rise: 7:51 PM Set: 8:40 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 24, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 96% Age: 56% Rise: 7:25 PM Set: 8:18 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Andromeda Island Universe
Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 41 - Mentally unbalanced Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew.
● 661 - Ali ibn Abu Talib, kalief of Islam (656-61), murdered.
● 1438 - The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
● 1679 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.
● 1742 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
● 1776 - Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
● 1814 - Salvadorans unsuccessfully rise up against Spanish rule.
● 1826 - In the first of a series of removal treaties, the Creek agree to cede their land in Georgia and move west.
● 1826 - Mississippi College is founded in Clinton, becoming the first college in the state of Mississippi.
● 1848 - James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento at Sutter's Creek, California. By the end of the next year, 80,000 prospectors had emigrated.
● 1857 - The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.
● 1859 - Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
● 1869 - In Madrid, Spain, Giuseppe Fanelli (sent by Bakunin) gathers the first Spanish group to join the First International and sows the seeds of anarchism among the peasants and workers, with lasting effect for over the next century.
● 1878 - The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
● 1885 - Martin Robinson Delany, American physician, editor, Pan-Africanist, dies.
● 1887 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
● 1890 - Birth of Jeanne Humbert. Pacifist, anarchist militant.
● 1892 - Battle at Mengo, Uganda; French missionaries attack British missionaries.
● 1907 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.
● 1911 - Shusui Denjiro Kotoku (1871-1911) and 11 other anarchists hanged for plot on Japanese emperor's life. They were among 25 anarchists and trade union organizers arrested five days previous for the alleged plot. Journalist, writer, one of the most outstanding figures of Japanese anarchism. Among the hanged is his partner Yugetsu Sugo Kanno.
● 1916 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
● 1918 - The Gregorian calendar introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective from February 14(NS)
● 1921 - Death of Cap'n Streeter, Chicago. His scow, the "Reutan," ran aground on a sandbar in Lake Michigan on the Chicago waterfront. The wreck caused the sandbar to grow, marshland filled it in, and Streeter proclaimed it a free district open to the poor, homeless, tramps, etc. He successfully defended his territory against Chicago cops and developers until his death.
● 1924 - Petrograd, formerly St. Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
● 1927 - Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
● 1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
● 1936 - Sheriff shoots Ozie Powell, a "Scottsboro boy," the day after he is sentenced to 75 years. Powell was one of several blacks falsely accused of the 1933 rape of a white woman in a heavily publicized series of trials that over three years unleashed a wave of anti-black terror in the area. Charges are dropped against five remaining defendants in 1937.
● 1942 - Peace Pledge Union launches Food Relief Campaign for occupied Europe.
● 1942 - U.S. submarine S-26 sinks after colliding with another Navy ship off the coast of Panama. Thirty-two die.
● 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
● 1952 - End of Empire Zinc Strike, Silver City, New Mexico.
● 1952 - Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
● 1955 - Ira Hamilton Hayes, a Native American (Pima) who was one of six U.S. Marines to raise the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima, dies of exposure.
● 1961 - B-52 carrying nuclear weapons accident, 24-megaton bomb dropped near Goldsboro, North Carolina, before crashing. Five of the six safety mechanisms to prevent it from exploding are ineffective.
● 1962 - U.S. Navy confirms plans to build Polaris submarine base at Bangor, Washington.
● 1966 - An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117.
● 1972 - Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
● 1974 - White House plumber Egil Krogh sentenced for burglarizing office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
● 1975 - A group identifying themselves as members of FALN (a Puerto Rican nationalist group) explode a bomb at Fraunces Tavern, in New York City's financial district, killing four and injuring 53.
● 1977 - Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
● 1978 - Cosmos 954, a Soviet radar satellite equipped with a nuclear reactor crashes in Canada's Northwest Territories and spreads radioactive debris across 61,000 square miles, including snow-covered Great Slave Lake. Some of the debris is so radioactive that clean-up workers will have to use long tongs from behind a 1,600-pound lead shield -- in 35 mph winds and sub-zero temperatures.
● 1978 - Robert Proix dies. Anarchist, then a pacifist socialist.
● 1978 - Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.
● 1986 - Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 km (50,680 miles) of Uranus.
● 1986 - Wapping dispute. Newspaper workers in London launch ultimately unsuccessful strike against Rupert Murdoch's News International.
● 1987 - Three American faculty members of Beirut University taken captive by Muslim terrorists.
● 1989 - First reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex.
● 1992 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall dies, Bethesda. Maryland.
● 1993 - Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara
● 1996 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges he spied for Moscow.
● 2003 - The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation. {Only truly effective result is color coordination.}
BIRTHS
● 76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
● 1287 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop (d. 1345)
● 1444 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
● 1540 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581)
● 1638 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706)
● 1670 - William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
● 1674 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
● 1679 - Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
● 1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
● 1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
● 1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
● 1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
● 1742 - Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808)
● 1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
● 1754 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
● 1763 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)
● 1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822)
● 1779 - Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Russian tsarina (d. 1826)
● 1848 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
● 1862 - Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937)
● 1864 - Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936)
● 1872 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
● 1873 - Leon Czolgosz, American anarchist, assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (d. 1901)
● 1888 - Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)
● 1888 - Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
● 1891 - Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945)
● 1895 - Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
● 1898 - Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (d. 1939)
● 1901 - Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
● 1902 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965)
● 1905 - J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (d. 1995)
● 1907 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician (d. 1999)
● 1909 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (d. 2005)
● 1909 - Ann Todd, English actress (d. 1993)
● 1913 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer
● 1915 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
● 1916 - Jack Brickhouse, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998)
● 1917 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor
● 1918 - Oral Roberts, American evangelist
● 1919 - Coleman Francis, American film director
● 1922 - Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
● 1925 - Maria Tallchief, American ballerina
● 1927 - Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, British aristocrat (d. 2007)
● 1928 - Desmond Morris, British anthropologist
● 1928 - Michel Serrault, French actor
● 1934 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976)
● 1936 - Doug Kershaw, American musician
● 1939 - Ray Stevens, American musician
● 1941 - Neil Diamond, American singer
● 1941 - Aaron Neville, American singer
● 1943 - Subhash Ghai, Indian film director
● 1943 - Sharon Tate, American actress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
● 1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
● 1945 - John Garamendi, American politician
● 1946 - Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor
● 1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician (d. 2003)
● 1947 - Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
● 1949 - John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
● 1950 - Gerald Brisco, American professional wrestler
● 1950 - Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian writer
● 1950 - Daniel Auteuil, French actor
● 1951 - Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-born American comedian
● 1954 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1986)
● 1956 - Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks)
● 1957 - Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
● 1958 - Neil Allen, American baseball player
● 1958 - Jools Holland, British musician
● 1959 - Vic Reeves, English comedian
● 1961 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
● 1961 - Vince Russo, American writer
● 1963 - Martyn Grimley, English field hockey player
● 1963 - Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer
● 1965 - Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian director
● 1965 - Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
● 1966 - Jimeoin, Northern Irish comedian
● 1967 - Mark Kozelek, American singer/songwriter (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon)
● 1967 - Phil LaMarr, American voice actor
● 1967 - John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater)
● 1968 - Michael Kiske, German musician
● 1968 - Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
● 1969 - Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Icelandic actor
● 1970 - Matthew Lillard, American actor
● 1971 - Cory Bailey, American baseball player
● 1971 - Andrea Mackris, American television producer
● 1972 - Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese composer
● 1974 - Shii Ann Huang, American game show contestant
● 1974 - Ed Helms, American actor
● 1975 - Rónald Gómez, Costa Rican footballer
● 1976 - Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer with Victor Kraatz
● 1979 - Tatyana Ali, American actress
● 1980 - Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
● 1981 - Travis Hanson, American baseball player
● 1983 - Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
● 1983 - Scott Speed, American race car driver
● 1984 - Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
● 1984 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)
● 1986 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
● 1986 - Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
● 1989 - Calvin Goldspink, English singer
DEATHS
● 41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (assassinated) (b. 12)
● 772 - Pope Stephen III (b. 720)
● 1002 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
● 1125 - David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
● 1366 - Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
● 1376 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
● 1473 - Conrad Paumann, German composer
● 1595 - Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
● 1626 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)
● 1639 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596)
● 1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
● 1709 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
● 1769 - François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)
● 1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)
● 1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
● 1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
● 1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
● 1895 - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
● 1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
● 1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
● 1924 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
● 1932 - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
● 1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)
● 1943 - John Burns, English politician (b. 1858)
● 1948 - Maria Mandel, Camp Leader at Auschwitz (b. 1912)
● 1948 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901)
● 1955 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
● 1960 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
● 1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
● 1962 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877)
● 1962 - André Lhote, french painter.
● 1965 - Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
● 1966 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)
● 1970 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
● 1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
● 1973 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)
● 1975 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
● 1978 - Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (b. 1911)
● 1982 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918)
● 1983 - George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
● 1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
● 1986 - Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)
● 1986 - Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
● 1988 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
● 1989 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
● 1989 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (b. 1937)
● 1990 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
● 1991 - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
● 1992 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)
● 1993 - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)
● 1998 - Walter D. Edmonds, American author (b. 1903)
● 2000 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
● 2002 - Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)
● 2002 - Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces militia commander (b. 1956)
● 2003 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
● 2004 - Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
● 2005 - June Bronhill, Australian singer (b. 1929)
● 2005 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933)
● 2005 - Chalkie White, English rugby union coach (b. 1929)
● 2006 - Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
● 2006 - Schafik Handal, Salvadorean politician
● 2006 - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
● 2007 - Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1920)
● 2007 - Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
● 2007 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's Oldest Military Veteran (b. 1891)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Peace
● St. Artemius
● St. Babylas
● St. Bertrand
● St. Cadoc of Wales
● St. Exuperantius
● St. Felician
● St. Francis de Sales
● St. Guasacht
● St. Macedonius
● St. Mardonius
● Sts. Thyrsus & Projectus
● St. Zama
● Bl. John Grove
● Bl. William Ireland
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 12 (Civil Date: January 24)
● Martyr Tatiana of Rome.
● St. Sabbas I, Archbishop of Serbia.
● Martyr Mertius of Mauretania.
● Martyr Peter Apselamus of Palestine.
● St. Eupraxia of Tabenna in Egypt.
● Virgin Martyr Euthasia.
● St. Martinian of Byelozersk, abbot.
● Blessed Galacteon, disciple of St. Martinian.
● Greek Calendar:
● Eight Martyrs of Nicea.
● St. Elias the wonderworker, of the Paradise.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, "The Milk-giver".
● Archimandrite Theodosius of Tisman and Sophroniev Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802).
● Roman Empire - first day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra
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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