Day of the week in surrounding years:
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—MON—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—TUE—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—WED—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—THU—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—FRI—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—SAT—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—SUN—. . . .
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On War "The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies." — Lester Pearson
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Earth Day at the GOP ". . . Its punitive approach actually encourages landowners to remove habitat to avoid federal intervention. This serves as a disincentive for private landowners to more to restore habitat and become private stewards of wildlife. The legislation needs incentive-based cooperation among federal, state, local, and tribal governments, and private citizens. The result will be a more effective ESA that better protects wildlife diversity. . . ." — Republican Party Platform 2000. RNC.org.—Part 2 of 3 {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 "Baseball is 90 percent mental—the other half is physical." — 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 7, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 1% Age: 97% Rise: 7:09 AM Set: 4:20 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 7, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 1% Age: 96% Rise: 7:13 AM Set: 4:53 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 7, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 1% Age: 96% Rise: 7:17 AM Set: 3:57 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 7, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 1% Age: 96% Rise: 6:56 AM Set: 3:29 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Quadrantid Meteors and Aurora from the Air
Credit: Jeremie Vaubaillon et al., Caltech, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
● 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
● 1598 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.
● 1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
● 1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
● 1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
● 1797 - The current flag of Italy is first used.
● 1800 - Revolution in Switzerland.
● 1806 - Cherokee cede 7,000 square miles of land in Tennessee and Alabama.
● 1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
● 1873 - Birth of Charles Peguy, Roman Catholic socialist writer/poet, Orleans, France.
● 1891 - Birth of Zora Neale Hurston, author and African-American folklorist. The first black graduate of Barnard College in New York.
● 1894 - W. K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
● 1900 - Birth of Ludovic Masse, in Roussillon, France. Proletarian, pacifist, and libertarian writer.
● 1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."
● 1911 - First airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco.
● 1919 - Argentina - Beginning of "Bloody Week" ("Sanglante") in Buenos Aires. Workers, demonstrating for the eight-hour workday, are fired on, leaving four dead and about 30 wounded. Clashes with authorities the day of the funerals left another 50 dead. Workers seeking refuge in the Vasena factory were driven out as 30,000 infantrymen were called out. A general strike shut down the trade unions, printing works, libraries, etc. By January 16 the strike was crushed in blood, with as many as 700 dead and 2,000 wounded.
● 1920 - Five socialists expelled from New York Assembly for opposing WWI.
● 1922 - Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
● 1927 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London.
● 1935 - Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement.
● 1936 - Troops kill four in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during a general strike.
● 1939 - Tom Mooney, labor activist, freed after 22 1/2 years in jail on false charges. Convicted of murder in connection with a 1916 San Francisco bomb explosion.
● 1942 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
● 1943 - Romanian-born scientific genius Nicola Tesla dies, New York City.
● 1945 - World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
● 1950 - A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
● 1952 - Actor Phillip Loeb, blacklisted in 1950 as a possible Communist sympathizer, is fired from highly successful TV comedy "The Goldbergs" because no one would sponsor it otherwise.
● 1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
● 1954 - Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
● 1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
● 1969 - California Governor Ronald Reagan asks California legislature to "drive criminal anarchists and latter-day Fascists off the campuses." {Free speech was not considered a virtue even then.}
● 1969 - Look magazine issue devoted to relations between blacks and whites, has an article called "Jimi Hendrix Socks It to the White House" with a photo of the black musician lounging beside a swimming pool surrounded by bikini-clad white women. The story reads, "...Jimi is not so much the Experience as a menace to public health. Plugged in and zonked, he only has to step across the stage to turn on their high-pitched passion."
● 1970 - Owners of area farms sue neighbor Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages from the Woodstock Festival on his farm that summer.
● 1971 - Federal courts enjoin most uses of the pesticide DDT, nine years after the publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring."
● 1972 - Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashed into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
● 1977 - Charter 77 for human rights published, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
● 1979 - Pol Pot is overthrown as genocidal leader of Cambodia after Vietnam invades the country to stop the carnage.
● 1980 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation. {Actually paid back in full with interest.}
● 1983 - Felipe and Mary Barreda assassinated by Contras in Nicaragua.
● 1984 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
● 1986 - Pres. Reagan imposes economic sanctions on Libya for its role in international terrorism, in an effort to corner the market.
● 1990 - The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
● 1993 - The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
● 1996 - The North American blizzard of 1996 pounds the east coast of the U.S. with 1-4 feet of snow.
● 1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins.
BIRTHS
● 1355 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
● 1502 - Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
● 1528 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
● 1647 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
● 1685 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
● 1706 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
● 1718 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
● 1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
● 1786 - John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme COurt (d. 1865)
● 1796 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
● 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
● 1827 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
● 1830 - Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (d. 1902)
● 1831 - Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer (d. 1897)
● 1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
● 1844 - Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
● 1860 - Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
● 1871 - Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
● 1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976)
● 1873 - Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914)
● 1875 - Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
● 1875 - Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
● 1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (d. 1960)
● 1896 - Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984)
● 1899 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
● 1903 - Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
● 1903 - Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
● 1908 - Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
● 1910 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
● 1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
● 1911 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
● 1912 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
● 1913 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
● 1916 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
● 1922 - Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (d. 1992)
● 1922 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
● 1922 - Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
● 1923 - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
● 1924 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
● 1925 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
● 1928 - William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter
● 1929 - Terry Moore, American actress
● 1934 - Charlie Jenkins, American runner
● 1934 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
● 1935 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
● 1935 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
● 1935 - Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut
● 1937 - Paul Revere, American musician
● 1938 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
● 1938 - Rory Storm, British singer (d. 1972)
● 1938 - Lou Graham, American golfer
● 1939 - Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
● 1941 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
● 1941 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1942 - Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter
● 1942 - Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
● 1942 - Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
● 1943 - Sadako Sasaki, World-famous victim of the atomic bomb when it was dropped on Hiroshima
● 1944 - Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator
● 1945 - Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
● 1945 - Dick Marty, Swiss politician
● 1946 - Jann Wenner, American publisher
● 1947 - Shobha De, Indian writer
● 1948 - Kenny Loggins, American singer
● 1949 - Marshall Chapman, American singer/songwriter
● 1949 - Anne Schedeen, American actress
● 1949 - Steven Williams, American actor
● 1950 - Erin Gray, American actress
● 1950 - Johnny Lever, Indian actor
● 1950 - Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter
● 1950 - Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
● 1951 - Helen Worth, British actress
● 1952 - Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
● 1956 - David Caruso, American actor
● 1956 - Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1957 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist
● 1957 - Katie Couric, American television host
● 1957 - Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
● 1959 - Kathy Valentine, American musician (The Go-Gos)
● 1962 - Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician
● 1964 - Nicolas Cage, American actor
● 1966 - Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
● 1967 - Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster
● 1967 - Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
● 1969 - David Yost, American actor
● 1970 - Doug E. Doug, American actor
● 1970 - Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
● 1971 - C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
● 1972 - Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
● 1973 - Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
● 1974 - John Rich, American guitarist and bassist (Big & Rich)
● 1976 - Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
● 1976 - Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
● 1977 - Michelle Behennah, British model
● 1977 - Dustin Diamond, American actor
● 1978 - Kevin Mench, American baseball player
● 1979 - Bipasha Basu, Indian model
● 1979 - Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
● 1981 - Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
● 1981 - Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1982 - Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
● 1982 - Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
● 1982 - Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver
● 1983 - Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
● 1984 - Jon Lester, American baseball player
● 1985 - Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver
● 1986 - Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
● 1988 - Scott Pendlebury, Australian rules footballer
● 1990 - Liam Aiken, American actor
● 1990 - Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
● 1990 - Camryn Grimes, American actress
DEATHS
● 1400 - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
● 1451 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (b. 1383)
● 1536 - Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
● 1566 - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystic (b. 1506)
● 1619 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547)
● 1625 - Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (bc. 1560)
● 1658 - Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
● 1694 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
● 1700 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
● 1715 - François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)
● 1758 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
● 1767 - Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703)
● 1770 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
● 1783 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
● 1786 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
● 1830 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
● 1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
● 1872 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
● 1876 - Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
● 1878 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
● 1892 - Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (b. 1852)
● 1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
● 1913 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
● 1919 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1843)
● 1920 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
● 1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856)
● 1944 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
● 1951 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
● 1953 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
● 1964 - Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932)
● 1967 - David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
● 1972 - John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
● 1972 - Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist
● 1980 - Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (b. 1935)
● 1984 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
● 1986 - Philip D. Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1909)
● 1986 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (b. 1917)
● 1988 - Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
● 1988 - Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
● 1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
● 1990 - Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
● 1990 - Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
● 1992 - Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (The Muppets) (b. 1951)
● 1995 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
● 1996 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
● 1996 - Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
● 1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
● 1998 - Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
● 2000 - Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
● 2002 - Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
● 2002 - Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
● 2004 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
● 2005 - Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
● 2006 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
● 2007 - Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
● 2007 - Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born television presenter (b. 1929)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aidric
● St. Anastasius XVIII
● St. Brannock
● St. Canute Lavard
● St. Charles of Sezze
● St. Clerus
● St. Crispin
● St. Cronan Beg
● St. Emilian
● Sts. Felix & Januarius
● St. Julian of Cagliari
● St. Kentigerna
● St. Lucian of Antioch
● St. Nicetas of Remesiana
● St. Raymond of Peñafort
● St. Reinold
● St. Theodore of Egypt
● St. Tillo
● St. Valentine
● Bl. Edward Waterson
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 25 (Civil Date: January 7)
● THE NATIVITY ACCORDING TO THE FLESH OF OUR LORD, GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST
● The Adoration of the Magi: Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar.
● Commemoration of the shepherds in Bethlehem who were watching their flocks and came to see the Lord.
● Massacre of monk martyr Jonah and with him 50 monks and 65 laymen at St. Tryphon of Pechenga Monastery, by the Swedes (1590).
● Commemoration of the holy and righteous Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, and James the brother of the Lord.
● Coptic Orthodox Church - Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist
● Eastern Orthodox Church - John the Baptist
● European traditional - Distaff day: women's traditional work begins again after Epiphany.
● Italy - Tricolour day (Festa del Tricolore)
● Japan - Nanakusa (Seven Herbs Festival).
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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