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 Wealth "The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit." — Confucius
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Earth Day at the GOP ". . . research is needed to understand both the cause and the impact of global warming. That is why the Kyoto treaty was repudiated in a lopsided, bipartisan Senate vote. A Republican president will work with businesses and with other nations to reduce harmful emissions through new technologies without compromising America's sovereignty or competitiveness—and without forcing Americans to walk to work." — Republican Party Platform 2000. RNC.org.—Part 3 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 "It was impossible to get a conversation going—everybody was talking too much." — 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)
New Moon: Jan 8, 2008 3:38 AM Percent of Full: 0% Age: 100% Rise: 7:53 AM Set: 5:24 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
New Moon: Jan 8, 2008 4:38 AM Percent of Full: 0% Age: 100% Rise: 7:58 AM Set: 5:55 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
New Moon: Jan 8, 2008 5:38 AM Percent of Full: 0% Age: 100% Rise: 8:00 AM Set: 5:03 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
New Moon: Jan 8, 2008 6:38 AM Percent of Full: 0% Age: 100% Rise: 7:39 AM Set: 4:34 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
A Jupiter-Io Montage from New Horizons
Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army.
● 1297 - Monaco gains its independence.
● 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
● 1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address in New York City.
● 1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
● 1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
● 1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
● 1835 - US national debt is zero for the first and only time.
● 1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
● 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
● 1864 - Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, first AFL woman organizer, born. Organized the Woman's Bookbinder Union in 1880 and a founder of the National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) in 1903.
● 1867 - Birth of Emily Balch, co-founder of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
● 1867 - Congress overrides President Andrew Johnson's veto of a bill granting all adult male citizens of the District of Columbia the right to vote, and the bill thus becomes law. It is the first election law passed in the U.S. granting African-American men the right to vote. The amendment of voting practices in the nation's capital stipulates that every male citizen of the city who is 21 years of age or over has the right to vote, except welfare or charity recipients, those under guardianship, men convicted of major crimes, or men who voluntarily sheltered Confederate troops or spies during the Civil War. {Women would have to wait for over fifty years for the right to vote.}
● 1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).
● 1880 - Death of Norton I, Emperor of the United States; drops dead on California St. at Grant Ave. He was on his way to a lecture at the Academy of Natural Sciences in San Francisco. His funeral was a grand procession of tens of thousands, followed by a rousing party that lasted for days.
● 1885 - A.J. Muste, radical American pacifist priest and co-founder of Fellowship of Reconciliation and War Resisters League, born.
● 1892 - Anarchist revolt in Andalusia, Spain, with the cry of "Vive la révolution sociale." Hundreds of farm laborers take the town of Jerez, but the uprising is quickly subdued and its leaders captured and tortured. Four are condemned and executed the following month, setting off new waves of violence.
● 1894 - Yakama sign away 23,000 acres of timberland formerly inhabited by Wenatchee tribe to the U.S. for $20,000.
● 1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
● 1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, kills 20 people due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.
● 1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
● 1911 - Pietro Gori dies, age 46, Italian lawyer, ardent defender of the anarchists and himself an anarchist and labor propagandist. He was forced into exile numerous times by government repression. In 1894, he escaped the repression in Italy, attending conferences and agitating in England and the US. Returned to Italy in 1898 to defend the many defendants (including Malatesta) indicted after the general strike against the increase of bread prices on January 17-18, in Ancine. The movement grew and, on May 7, riots took place in Milan. The army fired on demonstrators, killing hundreds. Repression was wild and Gori went into exile in Buenos Aires, and initiated, in 1901, the FORA (Federation Obrera Regional Argentina). He returned to Europe in 1902. The FORA grew to 250,000 members.
● 1912 - African National Congress founded, South Africa.
● 1916 - After almost a year of battle, Allied forces stage a full retreat from the shores of Gallipoli. The Gallipoli peninsula, guarding the opening to the Sea of Marmara, became the scene of heavy bloodshed as Allied forces attacked Turkish forts in early 1915. British and French battleships proved superior to Turkish land-based artillery, but German mines damaged the Allied fleet, forcing a land battle that cost nearly 500,000 lives.
● 1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
● 1920 - Five socialists are expelled from the New York State Assembly.
● 1920 - The AFL Iron and Steel Organizing Committee calls off the "Great Steel Strike," in which up to 395,000 steelworkers had been striking for over three months for union recognition. The strike failed.
● 1920 - The Czechoslovak Hussite Church was founded by Dr. Karel Farský.
● 1922 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
● 1923 - Birth of Sembone Ousmane, Ziguinchor. Senegalese labor union activist, writer, and film director, best known for his historical-political works with strong social comment.
● 1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
● 1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
● 1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
● 1958 - Radio Moscow devotes airtime to radiation sickness. A nuclear accident, shrouded in secrecy by the Soviet government, has contaminated thousands of square miles in the central Ural Mountains and killed hundreds of people. The accident occurred at the Cheylabinsk-40 plutonium-production plant near the town of Kyshtym. The government ordered the hasty evacuation of surrounding towns, imposing wartime rationing and sealing off the area. The main north-south road will be closed for nine months. A hundred kilometers from Sverdlovsk, a road sign warns drivers not to stop for the next 30 kilometers and to drive at maximum speed with the windows closed. On both sides of the road, the land is dead -- no towns, farm fields, animals or people.
● 1959 - Conquest of Cuba by Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of Santiago de Cuba. U.S. continues to be in denial.
● 1961 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
● 1962 - Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in The Netherlands.
● 1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).
● 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States. {A move designed like the "War on Drugs," to take the spotlight off of failed policies in other areas, in this case Vietnam.}
● 1966 - Vietnam - 8,000 GIs attack Iron Triangle, after B-52 bombing strikes.
● 1967 - Excesses of Cultural Revolution trigger counter-riots and strikes in Shanghai, China.
● 1969 - At San Fernando State in California 1,000 anti-Vietnam War students attempt to occupy administration building.
● 1969 - In San Jose, California, teachers join strike with students opposed to the Vietnam War.
● 1973 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
● 1973 - Tupamaro terrorists kidnap British ambassador Geoffrey Jackson; although the government refuses their demands to free 150 prisoners, they release him unharmed eight months later. Montevideo, Uruguay.
● 1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
● 1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
● 1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).
● 1982 - Thirteen-year-old lawsuit against AT&T by the U.S. is settled. AT&T gives up the 22 Bell System companies but, in return, allowed to expand into previously prohibited areas, including data processing, telephone and computer equipment sales, and computer communication devices.
● 1983 - Legislation passed allowing Kickapoo tribal members, who live on both sides of Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, to apply for U.S. citizenship.
● 1986 - U.S. strategists and Salvadoran Army begin scorched earth "Operation Phoenix."
● 1988 - One hundred farmers in Novahl, France, destroy $1 million worth of genetically modified crops.
● 1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
● 1989 - Kegworth air disaster kills 47 people in Leicestershire, England.
● 1991 - Two hundred Teamsters leaders hold "Labor for Peace" meeting to oppose Gulf War, New York City.
● 1992 - President George Bush gets ill and pukes on Japanese prime minister's lap during Japanese tour. {He later blames it on bad sushi not the lies he was trying to swallow.}
● 1993 - A European Community investigation reveals that Bosnian Serbs, in an orchestrated campaign, had raped up to 20,000 Muslim women.
● 1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
● 1995 - Mothers' March For Life and Compassion to Grozny, Chechnya, leaves Moscow, Russia.
● 1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
● 1999 - Death of Michael Tippett, pacifist composer. Britain.
● 2002 - United States President George W. Bush signs into law the controversial No Child Left Behind Act.
● 2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
● 2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
BIRTHS
● 1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
● 1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
● 1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
● 1628 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
● 1632 - Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
● 1635 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)
● 1735 - John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
● 1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
● 1786 - Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844)
● 1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
● 1792 - Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
● 1805 - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)
● 1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
● 1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
● 1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
● 1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)
● 1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
● 1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
● 1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
● 1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)
● 1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)
● 1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
● 1843 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
● 1852 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
● 1860 - Emma Booth, daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1903)
● 1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
● 1866 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940)
● 1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)
● 1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)
● 1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
● 1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
● 1873 - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)
● 1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
● 1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
● 1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
● 1885 - John Curtin, Australian politician (d. 1945)
● 1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch activist and pacifist (d. 1967)
● 1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
● 1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957)
● 1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
● 1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
● 1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
● 1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
● 1902 - Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
● 1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
● 1904 - Karl Brandt, Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
● 1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
● 1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
● 1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)
● 1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
● 1909 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
● 1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
● 1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988)
● 1911 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (d. 2006)
● 1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
● 1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard
● 1923 - Larry Storch, American actor
● 1923 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
● 1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist
● 1924 - Ron Moody, English actor
● 1925 - Helmuth Hubener, German anti-Hitler activist (d. 1942)
● 1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano
● 1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
● 1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian
● 1926 - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
● 1927 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator
● 1928 - Gaston Miron, Quebec poet and editor (d. 1996)
● 1931 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
● 1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
● 1933 - Jean-Marie Straub, French film director
● 1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet
● 1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
● 1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
● 1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
● 1934 - Gene Freese, American baseball player
● 1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
● 1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
● 1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
● 1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
● 1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
● 1942 - Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author
● 1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
● 1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
● 1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer
● 1945 - Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host
● 1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
● 1947 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master
● 1947 - David Bowie, English musician
● 1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
● 1947 - Terry Sylvester, British singer and musician (The Hollies)
● 1948 - Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director
● 1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician
● 1951 - John McTiernan, American film director
● 1953 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
● 1955 - Mike Reno, Canadian musician (Loverboy)
● 1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
● 1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican professional wrestler
● 1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House) (d. 2005)
● 1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
● 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh
● 1962 - Chris Marion, American musician (Little River Band)
● 1965 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
● 1966 - Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player
● 1966 - Andrew Wood, American musician (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)
● 1967 - R. Kelly, American singer
● 1968 - Keith Mullings, American boxer
● 1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress
● 1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician (Fuel)
● 1970 - Melissa Hill, American porn actress
● 1971 - Jason Giambi, American baseball player
● 1971 - Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
● 1973 - Mark Knight, English sound designer
● 1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
● 1973 - Jason Stevens, Australian rugby league footballer
● 1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
● 1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician (Rilo Kiley)
● 1976 - Josh Meyers, American actor
● 1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player
● 1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
● 1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
● 1978 - Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
● 1978 - Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster
● 1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
● 1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
● 1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
● 1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress
● 1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
● 1982 - Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer
● 1982 - Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
● 1982 - John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
● 1982 - wiL Francis, American singer
● 1983 - Chris Mordetzky, American professional wrestler
● 1984 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
● 1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer
● 1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
● 1986 - David Silva, Spanish footballer
● 1988 - Adam T. Siska, American Musician, (The Academy Is...)
● 1990 - Maci Wainwright, American singer
● 1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer
● 1995 - Hannah Robinson, American actress
● 2000 - Noah Cyrus, American actress, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus
DEATHS
● 482 - Saint Severinus of Noricum
● 1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
● 1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
● 1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
● 1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
● 1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)
● 1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
● 1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
● 1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510)
● 1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (b. 1564)
● 1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
● 1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
● 1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
● 1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)
● 1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
● 1815 - Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
● 1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
● 1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
● 1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
● 1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
● 1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
● 1880 - Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (b. 1811)
● 1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
● 1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
● 1901 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
● 1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
● 1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
● 1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
● 1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
● 1935 - Jesse Garon Presley, stillborn twin brother of Elvis Presley
● 1938 - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
● 1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857)
● 1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
● 1943 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
● 1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
● 1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
● 1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
● 1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
● 1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
● 1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
● 1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
● 1967 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1927)
● 1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
● 1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
● 1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)
● 1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
● 1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
● 1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
● 1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898)
● 1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
● 1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
● 1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
● 1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
● 1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
● 1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
● 1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
● 1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
● 1994 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
● 1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
● 1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
● 1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
● 1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
● 2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
● 2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
● 2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
● 2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
● 2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
● 2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
● 2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer
● 2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
● 2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
● 2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
● 2007 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
● 2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
● 2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
● 2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Feast day of Our Lady of Prompt Succor
● St. Abo of Tiflis
● St. Albert of Cashel
● St. Apollinaris
● St. Athelm
● St. Atticus
● St. Carterius
● St. Ergnad
● St. Erhard
● St. Eugenian
● St. Frodobert
● St. Garibaldus
● St. Gudula
● St. Lucian of Beauvais
● St. Maximus
● St. Pega
● St. Severinus of Noricum
● Sts. Theophilus & Helladius
● St. Thorfinn of Hamar
● St. Wulsin
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 26 (Civil Date: January 8)
● Second Day of the Feast of the Nativity.
● Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Hieromartyr Euthymius, Bishop of Sardis.
● St. Evaristus of the Studion Monastery.
● St. Constantine, monk of Synnada.
● New Hieromartyr Constantius the Russian, at Constantinople.
● St. Nicodemus the Serbian.
● New Hieromartyr Andrew, Bishop of Ufa (1937).
● New Martyr Valentina (1937).
● Repose of Abbot Barlaam of Vallam (1849).
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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