Day of the week in surrounding years:
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—MON—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—TUE—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—WED—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—THU—2010
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—FRI—2011
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—SAT—2012
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—SUN—2013
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Censorship "The freedom to read is essential to our democracy. It is continuously under attack. Private groups and public authorities in various parts of the country are working to remove books from sale, to censor textbooks, to label "controversial" books, to distribute lists of "objectionable" books or authors, and to purge libraries." — American Library Association and Association of American Publishers
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Barney Fag & Lesbian Spear-Chuckers "Chris Matthews: Are you being hotted up by this effort by [Republican National Committee Chairman Ed] Gillespie to razz you up about the issue of this Reagan movie? Would you watch it anyway? Would you watch a movie like that about . . .
Janet Parshall: No. No. No, no, no. I wouldn't watch it . . . The producers, by the way, folks—let's be honest here—two homosexual activists. Do you think this is going to be revisionist history or it's going to be the real story? . . . " — Talk Radio Host Janet Parshall on the then as-yet-unaired two-part CBS TV mini-series, "The Reagans." "Hardball," MSNBC, 10-31-03.—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 "It ain't the heat; it's the humility." — 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)
Third Quarter Moon: Jan 29, 2008 9:03 PM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 75% Rise: 12:09 AM Set: 10:39 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Third Quarter Moon: Jan 29, 2008 10:03 PM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 75% Rise: 12:20 AM Set: 11:08 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Third Quarter Moon: Jan 29, 2008 11:03 PM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 75% Rise: 12:09 AM Set: 10:26 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 29, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 59% Age: 72% Rise: no rise Set: 10:01 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
West Valley Panorama from the Spirit Rover on Mars
Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
● 1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
● 1737 - Thomas Paine, radical writer, born, Thetford, Britain. Will die in obscurity, still a revolutionary.
● 1814 - France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
● 1834 - US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
● 1845 - "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror.
● 1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
● 1856 - Leschi, chief of the Nisqually and Yakama, leads 1,000 warriors in an attack on the town of Seattle. The attack is repulsed by naval forces in the harbor.
● 1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
● 1861 - Kansas admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
● 1863 - Col. P.E. Connor surprises Bannock and Shoshone Indians in camp on Bear River, Utah; 400 massacred in four hours.
● 1885 - Congress rejects Central American canal treaty with Nicaragua.
● 1886 - Birth of Romain Rolland (1866-1944), author and pacifist, France. Won 1915 Nobel Prize.
● 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
● 1889 - Six thousand railway workers strike for union and end of 18-hour day.
● 1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
● 1910 - Birth of Maurice Joyeux, outstanding figure of French anarchism. In and out of prison for his activities, including the Committee of the Unemployed, l'Union Anarchiste, factory occupations, prison revolt.
● 1911 - The Mexican liberal party of anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon goes on the offense. The town of Mexicali is taken, under control of Simon Berthold and Jose Maria Leyva. Tijuana falls next, and the revolution extends to the other states. The Magonistes were joined by many internationalists, revolutionaries, and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) who came to help. Under the rallying cry of "Tierra y Libertad," the "commune of Lower California" attempts a libertarian communist experiment - abolition of property, collective work of the land, cooperative groups of producers, etc. Five months later, in late June, revolutionary opportunist Francisco Madero, with the support of the American government, sends troops to crush them. The Magonistes are routed from Tijuana, and are trapped by the American army when they attempt to take refuge in the U.S. This libertarian revolution remains little-known, eclipsed by the exploits of Villa and Zapata.
● 1912 - During the Bread & Roses Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, police kill Anna LoPizzo. Nineteen witnesses see an officer named Benoit fire the fatal shot, but strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, three miles away at the time, are arrested and held for eight months as accessories. The city will declare martial law and bring in 22 extra militia companies. For more than nine weeks, strikers will not waver, even when 18-year-old Syrian worker John Rami is killed, when Annie Welzenbach and her two teenage sisters are arrested and dragged from their beds in the middle of the night, or when 200 police draw their clubs on February 19th and go after 100 women pickets, knocking them to the ground and beating them.
● 1916 - World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
● 1927 - Birth of Edward Abbey, American xenophobic anarchist/ecologist/writer, Home, Pennsylvania. Generally considered the godfather of the Earth First! movement, his uncompromising works include The Monkey Wrench Gang," "Desert Solitaire," and "Hayduke Lives."
● 1933 - Mass anti-Nazi demonstrations throughout Germany the day before Adolf Hitler's ascension to Chancellor.
● 1936 - Sit-down strike helps establish United Rubber Workers as a national union, Akron, Ohio.
● 1940 - Three gasoline multiple units carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi station, Yumesaki Line (Nishinari Line), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people and injuring at least 92.
● 1943 - The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
● 1944 - In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid bombing
● 1944 - USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
● 1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
● 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
● 1946 - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established. Its predecessor, the OSS, was instrumental, along with the Vatican, in helping Nazi war criminals flee to North and South America, and in creating a new German spy agency run by former Nazis.
● 1956 - H. L. Mencken dies at 75, Baltimore.
● 1964 - Stanley Kubrick's regrettably timeless Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the United States.
● 1967 - Bobby Baker, former secretary to the Senate Democratic majority, convicted of income tax invasion, theft, and conspiracy to defraud the government.
● 1971 - Three cosmonauts die on re-entry over the U.S.S.R. from depressurization of their space craft.
● 1975 - Bomb explosion, set off by the left-wing Weather Underground, damages 20 rooms in Washington's State Department Building.
● 1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
● 1979 - Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in San Diego, California, killing two adults and wounding eight children and one police officer.
● 1983 - Demonstrators against military aid to El Salvador blockade naval base, Port Chicago, California.
● 1987 - William J. Casey ends term as 13th director of CIA.
● 1989 - Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making them the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
● 1996 - Bowing to massive international pressure, French President Jacques Chirac orders an early end to a planned series of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific and announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
● 1996 - Four women Ploughshares activists cause millions in damage, disarming a British Aerospace F-16 fighter jet destined to be sold to Indonesia for use in its illegal occupation and genocide of East Timor. The women were later acquitted of all charges on the grounds of preventing a greater crime. Warton, England.
● 1996 - La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
● 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
● 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
● 2002 - In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
● 2004 - Cannabis and cannabis resin downgraded from Class B in United Kingdom
● 2005 - The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing.
● 2006 - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of Kuwait.
BIRTHS
● 1584 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
● 1632 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
● 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (d. 1772)
● 1711 - Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)
● 1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777)
● 1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797)
● 1718 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
● 1737 - Thomas Paine, American patriot (d. 1809)
● 1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
● 1754 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of the city of Cleveland (d. 1806)
● 1782 - Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
● 1801 - Horatia Nelson, the illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881)
● 1810 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
● 1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
● 1846 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
● 1860 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
● 1862 - Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
● 1866 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1944)
● 1867 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
● 1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
● 1876 - Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
● 1877 - Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969)
● 1880 - W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
● 1891 - Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
● 1891 - R. Norris Williams, American tennis player, also a survivor of the RMS Titanic Disaster d. 1968)
● 1895 - Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
● 1901 - Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965)
● 1905 - Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
● 1910 - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
● 1911 - Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
● 1913 - Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
● 1913 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
● 1913 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
● 1915 - John Serry, Sr., American musician, composer, arranger (d. 2003)
● 1918 - John Forsythe, American actor
● 1920 - José Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat, author, and actor (d. 2007)
● 1921 - Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1922 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetraation camp supervisor (d. 1946)
● 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
● 1923 - Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
● 1924 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
● 1924 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
● 1926 - Franco Cerri, Italian musician
● 1926 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
● 1927 - Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (d. 1989)
● 1928 - Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong property developer
● 1929 - Gordon Solie, American professional wrestling announcer (d. 2000)
● 1930 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
● 1930 - John Junkin, English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter (d. 2006)
● 1932 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
● 1932 - George Allen, English footballer
● 1933 - Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
● 1933 - Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension) (d. 2001)
● 1936 - James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
● 1939 - Germaine Greer, Australian writer
● 1940 - Katharine Ross, American actress
● 1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
● 1942 - Claudine Longet, French singer, dancer and convicted murderer
● 1944 - Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
● 1945 - Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
● 1945 - Tom Selleck, American actor
● 1947 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
● 1947 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (d. 1985)
● 1947 - Marián Varga, Slovak musician
● 1948 - Cristina Saralegui, American talk-show host
● 1948 - Marc Singer, Canadian-born actor
● 1950 - Ann Jillian, American actress
● 1950 - Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver and one-time F1 world champion
● 1951 - Andy Roberts, West Indian cricketer
● 1952 - Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
● 1953 - Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
● 1953 - Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
● 1953 - Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
● 1954 - Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba, American singer (The Dictators and MC5)
● 1954 - Terry Kinney, American actor
● 1954 - Oprah Winfrey, American producer, actress, talk show host, car giver and publisher
● 1954 - Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
● 1955 - Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
● 1957 - Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
● 1960 - Matthew Ashford, American actor
● 1960 - Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
● 1960 - Sean Kerly, English field hockey player
● 1960 - Greg Louganis, American diver
● 1960 - Steve Sax, American baseball player
● 1960 - J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician
● 1962 - Nicholas Turturro, American actor
● 1963 - Bob Holly, American professional wrestler
● 1964 - Andre Reed, American football player
● 1964 - John Habyan, American baseball player
● 1964 - Roddy Frame, lead singer of Scottish New Wave band Aztec Camera
● 1964 - Anna Ryder Richardson, British interior designer and television presenter.
● 1965 - Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player
● 1965 - Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach
● 1966 - Romário, Brazilian footballer
● 1967 - Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player
● 1968 - Edward Burns, American actor
● 1968 - Sora Jung, Korean actress
● 1969 - Thomas Jane, American actor
● 1969 - Hyde, Japanese singer
● 1970 - Heather Graham, American actress
● 1970 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
● 1970 - Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
● 1973 - Jason Schmidt, American baseball player
● 1975 - Sara Gilbert, American actress
● 1976 - Charles Divins, American model-turned-actor
● 1977 - Justin Hartley, American actor
● 1978 - Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
● 1978 - Rob Bironas, American football player
● 1979 - April Scott, American actress and model
● 1979 - Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
● 1980 - Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model
● 1981 - Jonny Lang, American musician
● 1981 - Álex Ubago, Spanish musician
● 1982 - Heidi Mueller, American actress
● 1983 - Nedžad Sinanović, Bosnian basketball player
● 1985 - Athina Onassis, French heiress
● 1985 - Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
● 1986 - Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
● 1986 - Mark Howard, English football player
● 1987 - Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d. 2006)
● 1987 - Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver
● 1988 - Stephanie Gilmore, Australian professional surfer
● 1991 - Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, Son of the British Duke of Westminster and heir-apparent to his father's estate
● 1993 - Michelle Larcher De Brito, Portuguese tennis player.
● 1996 - Megan Jossa, English actress
DEATHS
● 1119 - Pope Gelasius II
● 1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
● 1597 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
● 1608 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
● 1647 - Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
● 1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
● 1678 - Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
● 1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar (b. 1666)
● 1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
● 1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
● 1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
● 1743 - André-Hercule de Fleury, chief minister under Louis XV of France (b. 1653)
● 1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
● 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
● 1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
● 1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
● 1871 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)
● 1899 - Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
● 1901 - Milan I, King of Serbia (b. 1855)
● 1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
● 1918 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian counter revolutionary (b. 1861)
● 1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
● 1933 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
● 1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1868)
● 1941 - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (b. 1871)
● 1946 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
● 1948 - Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
● 1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
● 1951 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
● 1956 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
● 1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)
● 1963 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
● 1964 - Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
● 1966 - Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (b. 1927)
● 1969 - Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893)
● 1970 - Basil Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895)
● 1977 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
● 1977 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
● 1980 - Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)
● 1986 - Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
● 1989 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
● 1991 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
● 1993 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
● 1994 - Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967)
● 1998 - Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)
● 1999 - Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
● 2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
● 2002 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)
● 2003 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (b. 1911)
● 2004 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)
● 2004 - Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
● 2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
● 2005 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b. 1924
● 2007 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
● 2007 - Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, leader of the Iraqi cult Soldiers of Heaven (b. 1970)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aquilinus
● St. Blath
● St. Caesarius
● St. Juniper
● Sts. Papias and Maurinus
● St. Sabinian
● Sts. Sarbelius & Barbea
● St. Valerius of Trèves
● St. Voloc
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 17 (Civil Date: January 29)
● St. Anthony the Great.
● Emperor St. Theodosius the Great.
● St. Achilles the Confessor, hermit of Egypt.
● St. Anthony the New, of Berrhia in Macedonia.
● St. Anthony of Dymsk (Novgorod).
● St. Anthony of Krasny Kholm, monk.
● St. Anthony of Chernoezersk, monk.
● St. Anthony the Roman, of Novgorod.
● New-Martyr George of Ioannina.
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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