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 Certainty "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers." — Erich Fromm
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Barney Fag & Lesbian Spear-Chuckers ". . . Chris Matthews: Why would two homosexual activists. . . . Why would they choose to revise history per se?
Janet Parshall: Because they made up conversations that didn't take place because they didn't like Reagan's stand on AIDS when it came out. But, remember, he did put together an AIDS commission, they still want their pound of flesh. They don't like the way he did it.
Matthews: God you've got in Shylocks and everything here." — 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 2 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 "You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." — 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 30, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Third Quarter Moon Percent of Full: 48% Age: 76% Rise: 1:10 AM Set: 11:08 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 30, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Third Quarter Moon Percent of Full: 48% Age: 75% Rise: 1:19 AM Set: 11:39 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 30, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Third Quarter Moon Percent of Full: 49% Age: 75% Rise: 1:12 AM Set: 10:52 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Third Quarter Moon: Jan 30, 2008 12:03 AM Percent of Full: 50% Age: 75% Rise: 12:49 AM Set: 10:26 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Asteroid 2007 TU24 Passes the Earth
Credit: Green Bank Radio Telescope, Arecibo Radio Telescope
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
● 1649 - Charles I of England beheaded by Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads, Whitehall, as bourgeoisie take power in its own name and for its own interests -- overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of The (not-so) Commonwealth.
● 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed - after having been dead for two years.
● 1789 - Rep. Matthew Lyon of Vermont spat in the face of Rep. Roger Griswold of Connecticut during a violent argument on the floor of the House -- the first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives.
● 1790 - The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
● 1806 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
● 1815 - U.S. Library of Congress re-established after its destruction during the War of 1812, with the acquisition of Thomas Jefferson's 6,457-volume personal library.
● 1820 - Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctic mainland.
● 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales was opened. The bridge was not the first suspension bridge, but was so much larger than anything previously built that it is considered the world's first modern suspension bridge.
● 1835 - In the first assassination attempt against an USA President, a mentally ill man named Richard Lawrence attempts to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol. Both of Lawrence's pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.
● 1838 - Osceola, Seminole war chief, dies under questionable circumstances while imprisoned at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina.
● 1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
● 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
● 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
● 1871 - Birth of Stoyanov Parachkef (1871-1941), Giurgiu. Significant figure of Rumanian and Bulgarian anarchism. While studying medicine in Switzerland, he aligned with Kropotkin, Recluse, etc., and founded the first libertarian group in Romania.
● 1889 - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling .
● 1894 - Brazilian revolutionaries fire on the U.S. flag in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro.
● 1900 - United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements.
● 1909 - Birth of radical organizer Saul Alinsky, Chicago, Illinois.
● 1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
● 1911 - The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
● 1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill.
● 1920 - Labor Party of Oregon formed at convention in Salem.
● 1925 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
● 1933 - Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler assumes office, named Chancellor of Germany. Bad things follow.
● 1940 - Birth of Denis Langlois, Etrechy, France. Lawyer, anarchist, and pacifist writer who does prison time for his beliefs. From 1967 to 1971, legal adviser to the "League of Humans Rights." Party to many political lawsuits in Africa and Greece. During the Gulf War he organized, with other intellectuals, antiwar demonstrations. A supporter of ethnic minority militants in France, particularly Basques and Bretons.
● 1943 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: German Gestapo commence mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp were ordered to undress and were shot with machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7,000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv.
● 1943 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. U.S. cruiser Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedo bombers.
● 1944 - World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
● 1945 - Soviet submarine torpedoes and sinks German ship M/S Wilhelm Gustloff, carrying about 9,000 refugees fleeing the Red Army. Greatest loss of life at sea in recorded world history.
● 1945 - William Busch, pacifist musician, dies, England.
● 1945 - World War II: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
● 1945 - World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address; a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power. (A subsequent address on 24 February was not read by Hitler.)
● 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
● 1956 - As Martin Luther King, Jr. stands at the pulpit, leading a mass meeting during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, his home is bombed. By chance, King's wife & 10-week-old baby escape unharmed. Later in the evening, a thousand angry African Americans assemble on King's lawn. When King appears on his devastated front porch, he'll tell them (quote) - "If you have weapons, take them home....We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence....We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us." King's speech lifts the nonviolent protest movement to new levels of effectiveness.
● 1962 - Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
● 1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 6 launched.
● 1964 - South Vietnam - New military junta takes over. Part of U.S. plan to save democracy.
● 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam. Although an overall defeat for the Viet Cong, media coverage of the offensive would turn American public opinion against the war.
● 1969 - Howard University Medical School frosh boycott anatomy courses until the February ouster of the department chairman.
● 1970 - For the second time in six months, rioting erupts during an anti-war protest in East Los Angeles.
● 1972 - On "Bloody Sunday," British soldiers open fire and kill fourteen civilians during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland.
● 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
● 1973 - James McCord and G. Gordon Liddy of Nixon's re-election committee found guilty of Watergate burglary and wiretap attempt.
● 1976 - George Bush the first becomes 11th director of the CIA, four years before his first run for the Presidency and subsequent election as Reagan's VP.
● 1979 - Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander of Flight 820, disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
● 1981 - Endangered Species List de-emphasized "to concentrate on recovery rather than reporting new species."
● 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner."
● 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
● 1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in chess.
● 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
● 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
● 1996 - Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit.
● 2000 - Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
● 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
BIRTHS
● 133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
● 1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
● 1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
● 1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler (d. 1675)
● 1661 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
● 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
● 1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
● 1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
● 1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
● 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
● 1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
● 1832 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
● 1841 - Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
● 1859 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
● 1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
● 1873 - Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939)
● 1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
● 1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
● 1889 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
● 1894 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
● 1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)
● 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
● 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)
● 1910 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
● 1911 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
● 1912 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
● 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
● 1913 - Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988)
● 1914 - John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)
● 1914 - David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
● 1915 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (d. 1976)
● 1915 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
● 1917 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver
● 1918 - David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
● 1919 - Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
● 1920 - Delbert Mann, American film director
● 1920 - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
● 1921 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
● 1922 - Dick Martin, American comedian
● 1924 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
● 1925 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
● 1925 - Dorothy Malone, American actress
● 1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
● 1928 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
● 1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
● 1930 - Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
● 1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor
● 1930 - Magnus Malan, South African politician
● 1931 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
● 1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
● 1931 - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
● 1932 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
● 1933 - Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
● 1935 - Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
● 1936 - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
● 1936 - F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
● 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
● 1937 - Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
● 1937 - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
● 1938 - Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
● 1941 - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
● 1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
● 1941 - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
● 1942 - Marty Balin, American musician
● 1943 - Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
● 1945 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
● 1947 - Les Barker, English poet
● 1947 - Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
● 1948 - Nick Broomfield, English film- and documentary-maker
● 1948 - Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
● 1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
● 1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
● 1951 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor
● 1951 - Bobby Stokes, English former footballer
● 1952 - Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
● 1955 - Judith Tarr, American author
● 1955 - Curtis Strange, American golfer
● 1956 - Jeremy Gittins, English actor
● 1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
● 1957 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
● 1958 - Brett Butler, American actress and comedian
● 1959 - Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)
● 1959 - Jody Watley, American singer
● 1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan
● 1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rapist
● 1965 - Julie McCullough, American model and actress
● 1966 - Danielle Goyette, Quebec female ice hockey player
● 1968 - Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
● 1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain
● 1969 - Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star
● 1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
● 1972 - Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
● 1972 - Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1973 - Jalen Rose, American basketball player
● 1974 - Christian Bale, Welsh actor
● 1974 - Olivia Colman, English actress
● 1974 - Jemima Khan, British socialite
● 1975 - Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
● 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
● 1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian
● 1977 - Deltha O'Neal, American football player
● 1978 - John Patterson, American baseball player
● 1980 - Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
● 1980 - Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
● 1980 - Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
● 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
● 1981 - Peter Crouch, English footballer
● 1981 - Josh Kelley, American musician
● 1981 - Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
● 1982 - Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
● 1984 - Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
● 1984 - Josh Harris, American Videographer/Musician
● 1985 - Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer
● 1986 - Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter
● 1987 - Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
● 1988 - Rob Pinkston, American actor
● 1989 - Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
● 1990 - Jake Thomas, American actor
● 1992 - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
● 2005 - Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan
DEATHS
● 1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
● 1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
● 1384 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
● 1574 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
● 1606 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
● 1649 - King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600)
● 1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
● 1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
● 1867 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
● 1869 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
● 1889 - Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858)
● 1926 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
● 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
● 1929 - La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
● 1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
● 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1869)
● 1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
● 1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
● 1958 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
● 1958 - Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
● 1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
● 1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
● 1969 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
● 1980 - Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
● 1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
● 1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
● 1991 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
● 1994 - Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
● 1995 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
● 1998 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
● 1999 - Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
● 1999 - Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
● 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
● 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915)
● 2005 - Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
● 2005 - Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
● 2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
● 2007 - Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor, artistic director of the Greek National Theater (b. 1934)
● 2007 - Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aldegonde
● St. Aldegunais
● St. Aleaunie
● St. Alexander
● St. Armentarius
● St. Balthild
● St. Barsimaeus
● St. Bathildis
● St. Felician
● St. Hippolytus
● St. Hyacintha Mariscotti
● St. Martina
● St. Matthias
● St. Mutien-Marie Wiaux (1917)
● St. Savina, martyred under Emperor Diocletian
● St. Tudy
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 18 (Civil Date: January 30)
● St. Athanasius the Great, and St. Cyril, Archbishops of Alexandria.
● St. Marcian of Cyrrhus in Syria, monk.
● Martyr Xenia.
● St. Maximus, ruler of Serbia, metropolitan.
● St. Athanasius, abbot of Syandemsk.
● St. Silvanus of Palestine, monk.
● St. Athanasius of Novolotsk, monk.
● St. Leobardus of Marmoutier (Gaul).
● Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church:
● Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs honoring the three great Fathers of the Eastern Church -- St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom
● Coptic Church:
● Saint Anthony the Great
● Anglican:
● King Charles the Martyr
● Martyr Day, India - India. Also called Sarvodaya 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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