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Saturday, January 26, 2008

January 26......

January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 (340 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

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 Bigotry & Prejudice "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract." — Oliver Wendell Homes

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Judicial Activism "All these so-called culture wars reflect this incredible disconnect between an out-of-control, despotic, high-handed elite in the courts and the other two branches, which still seem to have some responsiveness and some accountability to the electorate." — Mary Parker Lewis, chief of staff to Alan Keyes. Abby Goodnough, "Victory in Florida Feeding Case Emboldens the Religious Right," New York Times, 10-24-03.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win." — 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 26, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 84% Age: 63% Rise: 10:09 PM Set: 9:29 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 26, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 84% Age: 63% Rise: 10:25 PM Set: 9:49 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 26, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 84% Age: 63% Rise: 10:02 PM Set: 9:23 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 26, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 85% Age: 63% Rise: 9:38 PM Set: 9:00 AM


NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

Crescent Mercury in Color


Credit: MESSENGER, NASA, JHU APL, CIW
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation


EVENTS

● 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France.

● 1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.

● 1531 - Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die.

● 1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

● 1565 - Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.

● 1589 - Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

● 1699 - Treaty of Carlowitz signed.

● 1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.

● 1736 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.

● 1784 - Benjamin Franklin, noting the bald eagle was "a Bird of bad moral character" who lived "by Sharping and Robbing," expressed regret it had been selected to be the U.S. national symbol. Franklin's choice - the turkey, "a much more respectable Bird and withal a true original Native of America."

● 1788 - Australia - A fleet of 11 ships lands in Port Jackson after sailing with the continent's first 1,030 English settlers, including 736 convicts. England will ship more than 160,000 men, women, and children in bondage to Australia in the largest forced exile of citizens by a European government in pre-modern history. The exiles that land today will become known as the First Fleet. They'll be so unfit for survival in the new land that they will live near starvation amid what is natural abundance to Aborigines. Most of the First Fleet convicts have never traveled more than 10 miles from their birth places. They saw the sea for the first time when they were clapped in irons and thrust onto the ships. All the convicts were transported for crimes against property. They include 70-year-old Elizabeth Beckford, who was exiled for stealing 12 pounds of Gloucester cheese. West-Indian Thomas Chaddick was sent to Australia after hunger drove him to steal cucumbers from a kitchen garden. Obviously, not much has changed in 200-plus years. Commemorated as Australia Day

● 1808 - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.

● 1837 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.

● 1838 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States

● 1841 - The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally ceded.

● 1855 - What's the point? - Clallam band signs Treaty of Point-No Point in what is now Washington state.

● 1856 - In the first "Battle of Seattle," settlers drove Indians off from their land so that a little town of white folks could prosper.

● 1861 - American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.

● 1863 - American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.

● 1863 - American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.

● 1870 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.

● 1885 - Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum.

● 1904 - Sean Macbride, diplomat and peacemaker, born, Ireland.

● 1905 - The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.

● 1907 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.

● 1907 - U.S. Congress passes an act forbidding corporations from contributing to election campaigns for national office. Hahahahaha.

● 1911 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.

● 1913 - Native American sensation Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro.

● 1920 - Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.

● 1924 - Birth of Armand Gatti, Monaco. Libertarian playwright, author of more than 40 plays. A Resistance member during WWII, he was captured in 1943, condemned to death and shipped to Germany, near Hamburg, from which he escaped to England. After the war he became a prize-winning journalist, then devoted himself to the theatre. His "La passion du general Franco” (1968) was banned in France, under pressure from Franco's Spain.

● 1926 - Television demonstrated publicly for the first time by J. L. Baird in London.

● 1928 - Eleven French soldiers condemned to death for fraternizing with Moors in colonial war. {Nothing like having sex with blacks to endanger your country.}

● 1929 - Birth of cartoonist/dramatist Jules Feiffer, New York City.

● 1930 - The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.

● 1934 - German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

● 1934 - The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.

● 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.

● 1942 - World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.

● 1944 - Birth of Angela Davis, Black Panther, radical, activist, author. Birmingham, Ala.

● 1945 - Liberation of extermination camp, Auschwitz/Oswiecim, Poland.

● 1950 - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president Republic Day.

● 1952 - Black Saturday in Egypt: riots burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.

● 1953 - Radioactive rain falls on Troy, New York.

● 1956 - Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested for the first time; his home will be bombed in a few days.

● 1961 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.

● 1962 - Bishop Burke of the Buffalo, New York Catholic Diocese bans the Twist. It can't be danced, sung about, or listened to in any Catholic school, parish, or youth event. Later in the year, the Twist will be banned from community center dances in Tampa, Fla. as well.

● 1962 - Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

● 1962 - The U.S. destroyer Hobson sank in the Atlantic after colliding with the aircraft carrier Wasp; 175 lives were lost.

● 1965 - Hindi becomes the official language of India.

● 1966 - Eruption of Mt. Kelud, in Java, kills 1,000 people.

● 1966 - The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.

● 1969 - Edwin Pratt, director of Seattle Urban League, is assassinated; police involvement is widely suspected. An arrest is never made in the case.

● 1970 - State capitol of Louisiana, in Baton Rouge, is damaged by a dynamite explosion.

● 1970 - Twenty thousand riot in Manila to protest the regime of U.S.-backed Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

● 1973 - U.S. puts Selective Service military draft on standby, never (so far) to return. {Registration however is mandatory.}

● 1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.

● 1988 - Australia - Aborigines mark 200th anniversary as "invasion day."

● 1990 - Technology critic Lewis Mumford dies, Amenia, New York.

● 1991 - Mohamed Siad Barre is removed in Somalia, ending centralized government

● 1991 - One hundred thousand march against Gulf War, New York City and San Francisco.

● 1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

● 1993 - Women in Black demonstrate in solidarity with their Serbian sisters, Toronto, Canada.

● 1995 - New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern. And to think that Dubya hired her (as head of the EPA) to keep America clean...

● 1998 - "I am not a dick" - Bill Clinton assures America - "I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky...."

● 2000 - Rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds.

● 2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.

● 2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.

● 2004 - President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.

● 2005 - Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post. {We still wait for a qualified and competent one.}

● 2005 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.

● 2006 - Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.


BIRTHS

● 1497 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)

● 1541 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)

● 1714 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)

● 1716 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)

● 1722 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)

● 1763 - Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general (d. 1844)

● 1781 - Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)

● 1813 - Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876

● 1826 - Julia Dent Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)

● 1832 - George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)

● 1842 - François Coppée, French poet and novelist (d. 1908)

● 1852 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà), explorer (d. 1905)

● 1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)

● 1868 - Juventino Rosas, Mexican composer (d. 1894)

● 1880 - Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)

● 1887 - François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)

● 1887 - Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (d. 1947)

● 1891 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)

● 1891 - Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)

● 1892 - Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)

● 1893 - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)

● 1900 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)

● 1901 - Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)

● 1902 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)

● 1904 - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)

● 1904 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)

● 1905 - Charles Lane, American actor (d. 2007)

● 1905 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (d. 1987)

● 1908 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)

● 1908 - Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)

● 1910 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)

● 1911 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1993)

● 1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990)

● 1914 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)

● 1915 - William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)

● 1918 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)

● 1918 - Philip José Farmer, American writer

● 1921 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)

● 1921 - Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)

● 1922 - Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)

● 1923 - Anne Jeffreys, American actress

● 1924 - Rauf Denktash, Cypriot politician

● 1924 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)

● 1924 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer

● 1925 - Joan Leslie, American actress

● 1925 - Paul Newman, American actor, philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner

● 1925 - Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper editor (d. 2004)

● 1926 - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar

● 1927 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)

● 1927 - Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985)

● 1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)

● 1928 - George H. Ross, American attorney and TV reality show star

● 1929 - Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer

● 1929 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000)

● 1931 - Mary Murphy, American film actress

● 1932 - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer

● 1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist

● 1934 - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher

● 1935 - Bob Uecker, American baseball player and broadcaster

● 1937 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003)

● 1941 - Scott Glenn, American actor

● 1941 - Henry Jaglom, English director

● 1943 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)

● 1943 - Jean Knight, American singer

● 1943 - Austin "Jack" Warner,Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President

● 1944 - Angela Davis, American feminist and activist

● 1945 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)

● 1946 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999)

● 1947 - Michel Sardou, French singer

● 1947 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)

● 1949 - Jonathan Carroll, American author

● 1949 - David Strathairn, American actor

● 1950 - Janet Lupo, American model

● 1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark

● 1953 - Lucinda Williams, American singer

● 1954 - Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer

● 1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch musician

● 1958 - Anita Baker, American singer

● 1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedian

● 1958 - Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer

● 1960 - Road Warrior Hawk, wrestler (d. 2003)

● 1960 - Charlie Gillingham, American musician (Counting Crows)

● 1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1962 - Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer

● 1963 - José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager

● 1963 - Andrew Ridgeley, English musician

● 1964 - Paul Johansson, American actor

● 1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast

● 1965 - Thomas Östros, Swedish politician

● 1968 - Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor

● 1970 - Kirk Franklin, American singer

● 1971 Bryan Callen, American actor

● 1971 - Dorian Gregory, American actor

● 1974 - Shannon Hale, American author

● 1976 - Frankie Rayder, American model

● 1976 - Willie Adler, American guitar player

● 1977 - Vince Carter, American basketball player

● 1977 - Justin Gimelstob, American tennis player

● 1978 - Corina Morariu, American tennis player

● 1978 - Kelly Stables, American actress

● 1979 - Sara Rue, American actress

● 1981 - Juan Jose Haedo, Argentinian Cyclist

● 1984 - Layla Kayleigh, British television personality

● 1984 - Iain Turner, Scottish footballer

● 1984 - Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer

● 1986 - Gerald Green, American basketball player

● 1986 - Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium)

● 1986 - Shantelle Taylor, Canadian professional wrestler

● 1987 - Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)

● 1988 - Mia Rose, British-Portuguese singer

● 1989 - Emily Hughes, American figure skater

● 1993 - Cameron Bright, Canadian actor


DEATHS

● 946 - Eadgyth, German Queen

● 1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat

● 1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)

● 1636 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)

● 1697 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)

● 1744 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)

● 1750 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)

● 1795 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732)

● 1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)

● 1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)

● 1824 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)

● 1855 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)

● 1869 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)

● 1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)

● 1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)

● 1885 - Charles George Gordon, British general (b. 1833)

● 1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)

● 1891 - Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (b. 1833)

● 1893 - Abner Doubleday, credited inventor of baseball (b. 1819)

● 1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)

● 1926 - John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University

● 1932 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (b. 1861)

● 1933 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)

● 1942 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)

● 1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)

● 1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (b. 1887)

● 1946 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)

● 1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano (b. 1898)

● 1947 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, (b. 1906)

● 1952 - Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)

● 1953 - Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman (b. 1882)

● 1961 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)

● 1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)

● 1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)

● 1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)

● 1973 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)

● 1976 - João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (b. 1901)

● 1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)

● 1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913)

● 1990 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)

● 1990 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)

● 1992 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)

● 1993 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (b. 1905)

● 1993 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)

● 1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)

● 1996 - Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959)

● 1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)

● 1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (b. 1898)

● 2000 - Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)

● 2000 - Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)

● 2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)

● 2001 - Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)

● 2003 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic athlete (b. 1942)

● 2003 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)

● 2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)

● 2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)

● 2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)

● 2006 - Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)

● 2006 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)

● 2007 - Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)

● 2007 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alberic
● St. Ansurius
● St. Athanasius
● St. Conan
● St. Margaret of Hungary
● St. Paula
● St. Robert of Newmister
● St. Theofrid
● St. Thordgith
● St. Timothy
● St. Titus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 14 (Civil Date: January 26)
● Apodosis of the Theophany.
● The Holy Fathers slain at Sinai and Raithu: Isaiah, Sabbas, Moses and his disciple Moses, Jeremiah, Paul, Adam, Sergius, Domnus, Proclus, Hypatius, Isaac, Macarius, Mark, Benjamin, Eusebius, Elias and others.
● St. Stephen, abbot of Chenolakos Monastery near Chalcedon.
● St. Theodulus, son of St. Nilus of Sinai.
● St. Joseph Analytinus of Raithu Monastery.
● St. Nina (Nino), Equal-to-the-Apostles, Enlightener of Georgia.
● Virgin Martyr Agnes.
● New-Martyr Platon, Archbishop of Reval (Estonia) (1919).
● New Martyrs slain at Raithu Monastery, and New Hieromartyr Ambrose of Sarapul (1918).

● Roman Empire - third day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra.

● Australia - Australia Day.

● India - Republic Day - One of only three national holidays in India, celebrated with pomp and a military parade in New Delhi & across Nation.

● Uganda - Liberation Day.



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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