Happy birthday and many happy returns Wei Qi Adam Wang and Do Re Mon. Born on the same day, across the years. The same day, when in 1533 when the English Reformation began with Henry Viii divorcing his first wife. It was an act of compassion he didn't extend to his second.
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LIFE’S DEFINING MOMENT
Tim Blair – Thursday, May 23, 2013 (12:17pm)
SMH ultrasnob Elizabeth Farrelly, still fuming over a 2012 bicycle lane incident and her subsequent embarrassment, now tries a new angle:
A few months back, when I stopped to query a man who’d parked his removal truck across the cycle lane – the third such blockage in half a kilometre – he instantly upped the decibels.‘’Tell that to Clover,’’ he yelled. ‘’She’s such an educated woman.’’He was making some impressive leaps, real Alan Jones specials, from cycling to Clover Moore to education-as-insult, in order to collect them all in one elitist basket. What was he saying, exactly? Decently ignorant blokes drive utes? Good guys pollute? Thoughtfulness is unAustralian?Blogging about this I was immediately accused by a thousand foul-mouthed trolls of hating the proletariat. (I’m sorry, the what?) Of trying to get the poor truckie sacked or jailed so he couldn’t feed his countless hungry children. In fact, for all they knew, the driver was an unusually rude inner-city gay of private means, moving his own stuff into his penthouse as part of a fitness regime.So, who’s drawing the stereotypes here?
It’s taken her 274 days to come up with this bizarre diversionary argument. By comparison, simply getting off her bike and walking around the truck would have taken mere seconds.
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LEAF SENTENCE - DAY TWO
Tim Blair – Thursday, May 23, 2013 (12:13pm)
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NO MO FOMOCO
Tim Blair – Thursday, May 23, 2013 (12:06pm)
It’s over for the Blue Oval:
Ford Australia has announced the closure of its Broadmeadows car factory and Geelong engine plant by October 2016, a move that will cost 1200 people their jobs.Up to 1200 workers will go from the Broadmeadows and Geelong plants by October 2016 with full entitlements.
Ford CEO and president Bob Graziano told a media conference that “manufacturing is not viable for Ford in the long term.”Australia’s Ford operations have lost $600 million in Australia over five years.
The Falcon name is likely to be retired when local manufacturing ends. Ford’s Australian production history began in 1925.
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BLOOD ON HIS HANDS
Tim Blair – Thursday, May 23, 2013 (5:49am)
Islamist horror in the UK:
Two suspected terrorists were shot by armed police after attacking a pedestrian, believed to be a soldier, with a machete-style knife close to military barracks in an ‘Islamist attack’ …The BBC reported sources had told them the men were shouting “Allahu Akbar” as they carried out the attack and had filmed carrying it out.One witness, called James, told LBC radio: “We saw clearly two knives, meat cleavers, they were big kitchen knives like you would use in a butcher’s, they were hacking at this poor guy, we thought they were trying to remove organs from him …“They were just animals. They then dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road.”
One of the killers then delivered this statement:
ITV’s voiceover obscured the murderer’s full message:
ITV’s voiceover obscured the murderer’s full message:
We have heard from a man - an attacker, who you see in the ITV News footgage - with a knife and blood on his hands, saying “...we swear by almighty Allah, that we will never stop fighting you. Until you leave us alone, your people will never be safe”.
The Guardian reports:
Brandishing a cleaver and a knife, and with the body of the victim lying yards away, the man said: “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day. This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
Follow updates here.
UPDATE. British Muslims denounce the murder:
I can’t tell you how sick I am of having to tweet every time that these are NOT Muslims. This is NOT Islam. These are f***** up barbarians.
Key words: “Every time.”
UPDATE II. The BBC reports:
Footage has emerged showing a man wielding a bloodied meat cleaver and making political statements.
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CHECKER CHECKED
Tim Blair – Thursday, May 23, 2013 (4:01am)
Roger Franklin examines the beliefs of official ABC fact-checker Russell Skelton, who five years ago hailed the “great significance” of Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Summit:
For one weekend a national conversation took place about the future of the country without a bunch of once-influential marsupials shouting down discussion of significant policy issues.These are the possums of the conservative commentariat. They are an invasive, boisterous species. They make their nests within the pages of Quadrant magazine (an obscure journal with a circulation that is a fraction of the Kmart catalogue), and invade the columns of News Limited papers and the hollowed-out walls of right-wing think tanks.
He’ll fit in just fine at the ABC, don’t you think? Do read on. Further fact-checker fact-checking atThe Australian.
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JUNIOR PRESBYTERIANS AT PLAY
Tim Blair – Thursday, May 23, 2013 (3:42am)
Youth-based car-b-q activity in Sweden:
Groups of youth have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural center as the riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread to other low-income areas of the Swedish capital …Gangs of up to 60 youths also set fire to a school and a nursery and hurled rocks at police and fire fighters.
Prime Ministerial reaction:
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Reinfeldt said: “We’ve had two nights with great unrest, damage, and an intimidating atmosphere in Husby and there is a risk it will continue.“We have groups of young men who think that that they can and should change society with violence. Let’s be clear: this is not okay. We cannot be ruled by violence.”
To paraphrase Kofi Annan: “Sweden has recently acquired a significant youth population, and is not yet sure how to adjust to it.”
(Via Mr Bingley, who suspects the involvement of his fellow Presbyterians)
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CLOSE TO HOME
Tim Blair – Thursday, May 23, 2013 (3:39am)
The Prick flirts with cannibalism.
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APPLIANCES FOR THE PEOPLE
Tim Blair – Thursday, May 23, 2013 (3:26am)
The glorious revolution continues:
Cuba has authorized individual imports of appliances like air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban in place since 2005, when the measure was adopted amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts.Cuban citizens can now bring up to two such appliances per person into the country for noncommercial purposes.
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Hazel Hawke dies
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (7:40pm)
She seems to have been a nice woman:
HAZEL Hawke, who was a popular first lady as the former wife of Labor’s longest serving prime minister Bob Hawke, has died.Sympathies to her family.
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“It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose”
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (3:36pm)
True courage from a woman who tried to help the soldier slaughtered by jihadists:
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett ... was a passenger on a number 53 bus which was travelling past the scene, and jumped off to check the soldier’s pulse.The women or the jihadists. Only one group represents civilisation.
“Being a cub leader I have my first aid so when I saw this guy on the floor I thought it was an accident then I saw the guy was dead and I could not feel any pulse.
“And then when I went up there was this black guy with a revolver and a kitchen knife, he had what looked like butcher’s tools and he had a little axe, to cut the bones, and two large knives and he said ‘move off the body’.
“So I thought ‘OK, I don’t know what is going on here’ and he was covered with blood. I thought I had better start talking to him before he starts attacking somebody else. I thought these people usually have a message so I said ‘what do you want?’…
“...he said ‘I killed him because he killed Muslims and I am fed up with people killing Muslims in Afghanistan they have nothing to do there."… I started to notice more weapons and the guy behind him with more weapons as well. By then, people had started to gather around. So I thought OK, I should keep him talking to me before he noticed everything around him…
“I said ’right now it is only you versus many people, you are going to lose...’
“The other one was much shier and I went to him and I said ‘well, what about you? Would you like to give me what you have in your hands?’...”
Mrs Loyau-Kennett was not the only woman to show extraordinary courage. Others shielded the soldier’s body as the killers stood over them.
UPDATE
From The Sun:
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Tasmania deep in debt: Giddings does a Gillard
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (3:29pm)
Labor’s new generation of leaders - not least the women - are reviving the party’s reputation for reckless spending and debt:
TASMANIA’s budget has plunged into record deficit, but the Labor-Greens government, facing an election within 10 months, has chosen ballooning debt rather than further savings to avoid a crisis.The profligacy of Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Anna Bligh and Giddings will take a generation to live down.
Premier and Treasurer Lara Giddings is this afternoon delivering a budget that outlines a deficit of $425m for the 2013-14 financial year, and a debt of $229m by 2014-15.
Despite the budget crisis, the budget will see a pre-election spending increase of almost 3 per cent...
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Give us your money, the students cried
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (1:58pm)
Markkoh attends a protest demanding free education. He discovers protesters in bad need of some.
(Thanks to reader Daniel.)
(Thanks to reader Daniel.)
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The Left must cut its alliance with Islamism
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (9:25am)
Former Labor adviser Cassandra Wilkinson on the sinister alliance between the far Left and Islamism - like the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel that is backed by Greens MP:
The BDS presents itself as a reaction to the power of the state of Israel. In reality it is the most recent name for a centuries-old economic persecution of Jews for having the temerity to become educated and entrepreneurial despite their exclusion from many occupations, geographies and institutions…
During a recent visit by Israeli politicians, NSW Labor MLC Shaoquett Moselmane disgraced the house by accusing Israel of running torture camps and claiming Israel is driven by a, “craving to take over other people’s lands"… Moselmane is particularly guileless in his views but others in caucus apply more subtlety to their anti-Israel positions. Several ALP members of the NSW, Victorian and federal parliaments have refused to support resolutions to condemn the BDS…
The [pro-BDS] student protests at UNSW and Sydney University may seem trivial or childish—hardly a “potent force in politics”. However, when a significant minority of our political leaders supports these protests it begins to be possible for them to become potent. All social change, good or bad, begins at the margin…
The London Left is starting to examine the consequences of having made friends with the enemies of Israel. Seeing leading Left politicians such as Ken Livingstone posing with extremists who vilify homosexuals, women and Jews has British lefties such as Nick Cohen asking how a shared hatred of imperialism can paper over the differences between the radical Left and radical Islam.
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Ford to quit Australia. Government subsidies wasted
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (8:58am)
January 2012:
UPDATE
The Ford Falcon will continue to be produced in Melbourne until at least 2016 after a $103 million investment from the car company and the Victorian and Federal governments…January 2012:
The Commonwealth will provide $34 million… This funding will also see the Falcon produced at Broadmeadows in Melbourne to at least the end of 2016…July 2012:
The Prime Minister said today’s announcement was great news for the future of the automotive industry in Australia…
This is exactly the type of investment we identified at the Future Jobs Forum and the PM’s Manufacturing taskforce to help shore up the future of our manufacturing sector.
It’s smart, it’s competitive and best of all it will secure jobs, not only in Victoria but also across the nation.
Ford Motor Co’s (F.N) Australian unit will announce plans later on Tuesday to cut up to 440 jobs at two production plants in Melbourne and nearby Geelong ...April 2013:
FORMER Ford president Jac Nasser says the demise of the struggling Australian carmaking industry appears inevitable in the face of a high dollar, high costs and excess overseas capacity…Today:
Former Mitsubishi managing director Graham Spurling said this week Holden’s manufacturing days were numbered. “For anybody like the Premier of South Australia to think they’re (Holden) going to stay here until 2022, as they say in that classic movie, ‘He’s dreaming, love’,” he told the ABC. “I also think Ford is on the cusp of shutting up shop as well.”
FORD is expected to announce a huge cut to its Australian operations from 2016.Rumors suggest Ford will cease production in Australia.
UPDATE
FORD will cease producing vehicles in Australia from October 2016, in a move that will cost 1200 jobs.
Company boss Bob Graziano announced the closure of Ford’s Broadmeadows and Geelong plants in Victoria while unveiling a $141 million after-tax loss for the year.
He said the company had come to the conclusion that it was no longer viable to produce vehicles in Australia.
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A fact-checker after the ABC’s own heart
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (8:36am)
Is this the kind of fact-checking the ABC’s fact-checker will do?
Accuracy and integrity. Nick Leys, The Australian online, yesterday:Here is more on the “97 per cent” claim Skelton swallowed. A bit of the fact-checking we hope for from the ABC but so rarely see.
THE ABC has named senior Fairfax journalist Russell Skelton as the editor of its new fact checking unit ... head of current affairs Bruce Belsham (said:) “The ABC news division is delighted to attract to this position a journalist with Russell’s reputation for accuracy and integrity.”Is that a fact? Skelton tweets, May 15:
YES there really (i)s a 97 per cent scientific consensus on global warming.Let’s check. William Jasper, The New American, May 21:
THE actual number of studies ... that can be said to endorse the position that human activity is responsible for most of the experienced global warming is - get ready for this (drum roll ) - sixty-five. Yes, 65, or around half a per cent, not 97 per cent! And this minuscule number of strong endorsers is actually less than the number of sceptical scientific papers included in the (John) Cook study.Another fact? Skelton in The Age, September 19, 2011:
ALMOST 20 years have passed since Gerry Hand, a left-wing minister in the Hawke government, introduced mandatory detention. It is hard to think of a more toxic, socially damaging and costly public policy.More facts. Skelton in The Age, April 25, 2008:
THE 2020 Summit has been just such an exercise. For one weekend a national conversation took place about the future of the country without a bunch of once-influential marsupials shouting down discussion of significant policy issues. These are the possums of the conservative commentariat. They are an invasive, boisterous species. They make their nests within the pages of Quadrant magazine (an obscure journal with a circulation that is a fraction of the Kmart catalogue), and invade the columns of News Limited papers and the hollowed-out walls of right-wing think tanks.
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Our courts must stand up to the Muslim who sits
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (8:29am)
Magistrate Jacqueline Milledge was correct. Mohammed Issai Issaka was ”very disrespectful” in refusing to stand for her,
So she was wrong to not send him to the cells until he learned his manners.
Yes, credit to Milledge for at least challenging Issaka when he claimed this week his Muslim faith obliged him to stand for no person. Other magistrates and judges don’t.
But it is a pity it was a confrontation Isaaka won after half an hour.
Isaaka, charged over last year’s riot against an anti-Islamic YouTube video, had his defiance legitimised. He will inspire others who see Australian authorities as weak, and Islam as a powerful creed that justifies trampling on our laws and customs.
In this case the 44-year-old Lakemba immigrant trampled on a tradition – not law – of standing as a judge enters court.
This is not a mark of respect for the judge as a person. Isaaka was not, as he claimed, asked to stand for Ms Jacqueline Milledge.
He was asked to show respect for our rule of law – vital in turning individuals into a community, and tribes into a nation.
Does Isaaka understand that? He’s said to come from Africa. What does he think helped make Australia the safe and well-regulated haven that so many Africans and Muslims bust a gut to come to?
It is that we have laws which bind everyone, regardless of faith, color, wealth or place of birth. Equal protection under the law means we are judged on our merits, not identities.
This breaks down that dangerous temptation to play us-against-them games - to rob or bash Peter because he’s not in the tribe of Paul.
So it’s no surprise that Muslims who in the past refused to stand for our judges include some who feel so little duty to non-Muslim Australians that they plot to kill them.
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Modern immigration: Muslims butcher British soldier, torch Swedish buildings
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (8:26am)
In England, Muslim fanatics hacks a soldier to death and then boasts - in an English accent - to the cameras:
Brandishing a cleaver and a knife, and with the body of the victim lying yards away, the man said: “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day. This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”“Our land”?
Speaking in a British accent, the man said: “We must fight them. I apologise that women had to witness this today. But in our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don’t care about you.”
In Sweden, an imported Muslim underclass riots again (although many newspapers are still too polite to use descriptors):
Hundreds of youths set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in poor immigrant suburbs in three nights of rioting in Stockholm, Sweden’s worst disorder in years.The BBC is more frank:
Last night, a police station in the Jakobsberg area in the northwest of the city was attacked, two schools were damaged and an arts and crafts centre was set ablaze, despite a call for calm from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt…
Some 15 percent of the population is foreign-born, the highest proportion in the Nordic region. Unemployment among those born outside Sweden stands at 16 per cent, compared with 6 per cent for native Swedes, according to OECD data.
Among 44 industrialised countries, Sweden ranked fourth in the absolute number of asylum seekers, and second relative to its population, according to UN figures.
More than 80% of Husby’s 12,000 or so inhabitants are from an immigrant background, and most are from Turkey, the Middle East and Somalia.The Economist earlier this year:
Per Brinkemo ... runs an organisation that specialises in helping Somali refugees from the basement of a Rosengard block of flats… But he is no fan of government policies, pointing out that politicians have little sense of how difficult it is to integrate Somalis into Swedish society. They hail from nomadic societies where trust is reserved for the clan, literacy is rare and timekeeping is rudimentary. Three-quarters of Somali children drop out of school. “For Somali immigrants [coming to Sweden] is like being transported to Mars,” he says.It’s easy to blame a failure of government programs. It’s telling that such programs are needed in the first place, and it’s fanciful to imagine better ones would solve everything.
In the US:
AN Orlando, Florida man who was shot dead after attacking an FBI agent carried out a gruesome 2011 triple murder with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, NBC News reports.UPDATE
Ibragim Todashev, 27, and Tsarnaev murdered the three men in Massachusetts after a drug deal, NBC News reports, citing law enforcement sources…
Todashev, 27, is not suspected of playing a part in the Boston Marathon attacks, but confessed he was involved in a gruesome triple-murder before allegedly attacking an FBI agent with a knife and being shot dead, NBC News reported earlier.
Why all the claims of shock and surprise at the murder in London? Hadn’t Muslim protesters in Britain made it perfectly clear they see British soldiers as the enemy?
London, 2006 - did we really think this was just words, with no consequences?
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Fat white scribblers gotta just suck it up
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (8:20am)
AS AN ageing, fat,
white journalist - and married - I am confused. In how many ways can I
be insulted before the police are called?
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Abbott offers Labor-lite, plus honesty
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (8:18am)
IS this really what I want from an Abbott government? The same as Labor, only better?
The excitement among conservatives at the now near-certain defeat of the Gillard Government in September is cooling.
It is being replaced with the realisation that Opposition leader Tony Abbott is not promising big changes, social or economic.
He is instead doing a Kevin Rudd. Rudd campaigned successfully in 2007 as Liberal-lite – someone like John Howard, but fresher.
Likewise, for all his rhetoric, Abbott is campaigning as Labor-lite - without the stuff-ups.
The excitement among conservatives at the now near-certain defeat of the Gillard Government in September is cooling.
It is being replaced with the realisation that Opposition leader Tony Abbott is not promising big changes, social or economic.
He is instead doing a Kevin Rudd. Rudd campaigned successfully in 2007 as Liberal-lite – someone like John Howard, but fresher.
Likewise, for all his rhetoric, Abbott is campaigning as Labor-lite - without the stuff-ups.
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Labor’s surplus could be a $20 billion deficit
Andrew Bolt May 23 2013 (6:53am)
Labor’s “surpluses” will actually be deficits? You could have fooled me - not:
David Uren warns Treasury could be very wrong again:
Niki Savva blames the rose-coloured glasses of a Treasurer who believed his own bull:
Terry MCrann warns the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics predicts mining investment is about to go over a cliff:
THE nation’s finances are facing a deep structural challenge that could turn Labor’s promised budget surplus into a $20 billion deficit…Professor Judith Sloan isn’t buying the Big Government vision of Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson or attempts to blame the Howard Government:
...two independent reports from the Parliamentary Budget Office and the federal Treasury reveal a sharp decline in the structure of the budget that will last for most of the decade…
The simultaneous studies, which were released yesterday in an apparent coincidence, show that the deficit in 2016-17, when the government is promising a $6.7bn surplus, would be between $5bn and $22bn that year, were it not for the Treasury’s assumption that commodity prices would only fall very gradually.
Deloitte Access Economics director Chris Richardson said the average estimate of a $16bn deficit in 2016-17 was a “stunning difference” from the official forecast.
So here is Parkinson’s view of the world. “As the economy expands, government expenditure has tended to expand with it and thus the scope of government services per person has increased, albeit remaining roughly constant as a share of GDP. We also know that health and pension expenditure are set to increase further as the population ages and as changes in preferences and technology drive increased expenditure on health services.”UPDATE
But here’s the thing - as the economy expands and per capita income rises, we should expect the role of government to diminish, not expand. As a consequence of being wealthier, the welfare bill should decline, at least relatively, and an increasing proportion of the population should purchase services privately....
This point links in with one of the key messages of the Treasury working paper and the PBO report: if it were not for those damned income tax cuts implemented through 2003-04 and 2008-09, all would be hunky dory. The PBO, for instance, attributes two-thirds of the structural budget deficits in the 10 years ending 2011-12 to the income tax cuts.
Are they kidding? Are we expected to believe that the government would not have spent those extra income tax receipts? ...
But one of the messages of the estimates of the structural budget balances produced by Treasury and the PBO this week cannot go unchallenged. This message is that the budgetary pickle we are in is really all the fault of Howard and Peter Costello.
To be blunt, this is just rubbish. Even if we assume that Howard and Costello overspent by not producing even bigger cash surpluses, this government has had plenty of time to reverse the tax cuts and institute spending restraint. It has done neither.
David Uren warns Treasury could be very wrong again:
Treasury believes the continued urbanisation of China will keep Australia’s main exports in short supply, with only modest declines in coming years. Parkinson estimates there will be a 20 per cent fall in Australia’s export prices across the next 15 years, but they still will be about 50 per cent above their long-term averages…UPDATE
The one number that leaps off the pages of the latest budget documents is the forecast that the terms of trade will decline by no more than 0.75 per cent in the year ahead and a further 1.75 per cent in 2014-15. It is possible but, with iron ore prices having fallen by more than 20 per cent in the past six weeks, it doesn’t seem very likely.
A rival outlook to the one Treasury presents is that China’s growth will slow by more than expected, and the metal intensity of its growth will slow more rapidly as the government reins in the massive infrastructure and property development of the past decade. If Treasury is wrong about China and demand for our resources, it will be wrong about everything else in the budget.
Niki Savva blames the rose-coloured glasses of a Treasurer who believed his own bull:
It is a myth that Treasury offered Peter Costello a range of forecasts during budget preparations and that he chose the most conservative…UPDATE
Swan also was not offered a choice of forecasts. That does not mean he and his office have not influenced a massaging upwards of the final numbers presented to him…
It is easy to picture what happens. Treasury officials discuss the landscape with Swan, who has returned from yet another International Monetary Fund or G20 finance ministers’ meeting with a rosier outlook of the world and Australia’s place in it. Treasury puts its more sombre view, gets a “come on guys, get real” response from the minister and—voila—the revenues end up higher and the deficit smaller.
When this scenario was put to people in the know, they did not deny it. Also, Parkinson did not deny government influence on forecasting under questioning by opposition assistant Treasury spokesman Mathias Cormann in Senate estimates in February.
Terry MCrann warns the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics predicts mining investment is about to go over a cliff:
... in the past year, the [mining] boom had switched to money pouring into Australia to fund the construction of new projects that would generate the growth in future export earnings.
When those projects came into production, the increased volumes of exports were expected - hoped - to make up for lower prices…
But what we face is ... an investment cliff…
As BREE noted, in the past 12 months, about $150 billion of projects had either been delayed, cancelled or had “re-assessed development plans.”
Putting it all together, BREE expects that $268 billion committed investment figure to slip only gently to about $256 billion by the end of the year. But then it expects it to plummet to just $70 billion by 2017.
The cliff. It comes in four years, if BREE is accurate.
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OMG it is real .. like big foot or Nessie! - ed
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After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved
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This is the British soldier who was beheaded on the streets of London today by two Islamic terrorists. May he rest in peace. Condolences to his family.
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BOATLOADS OF OYSTERS BUT WHICH ARE THE DODGY ONES?
The UK, and continental Europe, is feeling the wrath of the Islamic imperative: We infidels have no right to life and the question now being asked is whether it's time to take oysters off the menu.
Islamic spokespeople have denounced the Barbaric act of terrorism in London (as they always do) but of course they dutifully return to the mosques that preach the destruction of their politically correct hosts.
Some Western countries have banned Islamic immigration, others have always banned it and have escaped the worst of what Islam has to offer.
The word “Barbaric” conjures up lessons never learnt...
From the North African Barbary Coast in 395 AD, Barbarian tribes conducted murderous forays into the Roman Empire.
They also infiltrated Rome from the north but the mighty empire foolishly ignored the invasion as something that could be contained.
Soon, many Barbarians began to settle deep within the borders of the empire. It was allowed to happen despite the Barbarian culture openly embracing a bloodthirsty and arrogant war-like lifestyle.
Once they had infiltrated in sufficient numbers they attacked the city of Rome itself, slaughtering and raping Roman citizens, looting and laying waste to the Eternal City.
By 412 AD, they had gained sufficient momentum to attack Spain and parts of what is now France.
The Roman Empire, along with its mighty legions, was brought to its knees by the immigration of a subversive foreign culture.
Rome was to regret that it did not initially meet the Barbarian threat head on when it could easily have dealt with it.
Sixteen hundred years later we discard history in the name of politically correct multiculturalism.
And it’s not as if Islam hasn’t given us notice of what it intends to achieve.
A line in the sand needs to be drawn... and soon.
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Character is how you treat those who can nothing do for you ...
Andreas Herrmann'
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Costa Rica's beaches are the nesting sites of four endangered sea turtle species, which return each year to lay their eggs, but egg-poaching is up 30 percent since removing turtle eggs from Costa Rica's beaches became illegal in 1996, said Beth Adubato, a New York Institute of Technology criminologist. http://bit.ly/10S3OkJ
Many of the culprits are Panamanians, who cross the border and take eggs by the truckload. "We see the trucks coming, we see the eggs being taken away, but we don't know how to stop it," she said.
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With impeccable timing, watch as 9 Stream Livehost, and self-proclaimed Doctor Who fan, Rob McKnight interviews, err, himself live at the Doctor Who pop-up shop in Sydney, Australia:http://bit.ly/18fsRU4
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- 1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (pictured) annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, beginning a chain of events that would culminate in the English Reformation.
- 1844 – Siyyid `Alí-Muhammad Shírází proclaimed that he was "the Báb", after a Shi`a religious concept, marking the beginning of the Bábí movement, the forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith.
- 1873 – The North West Mounted Police, the forerunner of theRoyal Canadian Mounted Police, was established to bring law and order to and assert Canadian sovereignty over theNorthwest Territories.
- 2008 – To resolve a 29-year-old territorial dispute, theInternational Court of Justice awarded Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca to Singapore.
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- 844 – Battle of Clavijo: The Apostle Saint James the Greater is said to have miraculously appeared to a force of outnumbered Asturians and aided them against the forces of the Emir of Cordoba.
- 1430 – Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
- 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.
- 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
- 1568 – The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
- 1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
- 1609 – Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
- 1618 – The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
- 1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
- 1706 – Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal Villeroi.
- 1788 – South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.
- 1793 – Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
- 1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
- 1829 – Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna.
- 1844 – Declaration of the Báb: a merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
- 1846 – Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
- 1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- 1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
- 1907 – The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
- 1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
- 1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1932 – In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which occurred in the city of São Paulo. Their names/surnames were used to form the M.M.D.C., a revolutionary group that would act against the dictatorial governament, especially in the Constitutionalist Revolution ("Revolução Constitucionalista", in Portuguese), the major uprising in Brazil during the 20th century.
- 1934 – American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
- 1934 – The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
- 1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
- 1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
- 1945 – World War II: The Flensburg government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by Britishforces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
- 1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul-General assassinated in Jerusalem.
- 1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
- 1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China.
- 1958 – Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
- 1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping.
- 1992 – Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than 2 months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
- 1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
- 1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
- 2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
- 2004 – Part of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
- 2006 – Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
- 2008 – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-yearterritorial dispute between the two countries.
- 2010 – Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 bystanders are killed.
Births [edit]
- 1052 – Philip I of France (d. 1108)
- 1100 – Emperor Qinzong of Song (d. 1161)
- 1606 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician, and writer (d. 1682)
- 1617 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692)
- 1696 – Johann Caspar Vogler, German organist and composer (d. 1763)
- 1707 – Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
- 1718 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
- 1729 – Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer (d. 1799)
- 1734 – Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician and hypnotist (d. 1815)
- 1741 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1801)
- 1790 – Jules Dumont d'Urville, French naval officer, admiral, and explorer (d. 1842)
- 1794 – Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso (d. 1870)
- 1795 – Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860)
- 1810 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist (d. 1850)
- 1820 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor, designed and built the Eads Bridge (d. 1887)
- 1820 – Lorenzo Sawyer, American jurist (d. 1891)
- 1824 – Ambrose Burnside, American general (d. 1881)
- 1834 – Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
- 1844 – `Abdu'l-Bahá, Iranian religious figure (d. 1921)
- 1848 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer and engineer (d. 1896)
- 1855 – Isabella Ford, English activist (d. 1924)
- 1859 – Joseph-Alfred Archambeault, Canadian Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1913)
- 1864 – William O'Connor, American fencer (d. 1939)
- 1865 – Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian politician and jurist, 11th President of Brazil (d. 1942)
- 1867 – John Exley, American rower (d. 1938)
- 1871 – Saint George Ashe, British rower (d. 1922)
- 1875 – Alfred P. Sloan, American businessman (d. 1966)
- 1879 – Elizabeth Gunn, New Zealand paediatrician (d. 1963)
- 1879 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian architect and sportsman (d. 1966)
- 1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
- 1883 – Ferenc Talányi, Slovene writer, journalist, and painter (d. 1959)
- 1884 – Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
- 1887 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
- 1888 – Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
- 1889 – Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)
- 1890 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1966)
- 1891 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974)
- 1893 – Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
- 1895 – Billy Smith, English footballer (d. 1956)
- 1896 – Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)
- 1898 – Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
- 1898 – Josef Terboven, German nazi leader (d. 1945)
- 1900 – Hans Frank, German lawyer and nazi official (d. 1946)
- 1902 – Frank Buckland, Canadian sports administrator (d. 1991)
- 1906 – Pran Nath Thapar, Indian military officer (d. 1975)
- 1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
- 1908 – Hélène Boucher, French pilot (d. 1934)
- 1908 – Paul Dozois, Canadian politician (d. 1984)
- 1910 – Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
- 1910 – Hugh Casson, English architect, designer, and artist (d. 1999)
- 1910 – Scatman Crothers, American actor singer, dancer, and musician (d. 1986)
- 1910 – Artie Shaw, American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2004)
- 1911 – Lou Brouillard, Canadian boxer (d. 1984)
- 1911 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (d. 2010)
- 1912 – Betty Astell, English actress (d. 2005)
- 1912 – Jean Françaix, French composer and pianist (d. 1997)
- 1912 – John Payne, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1914 – Celestine Sibley, American author, journalist, and columnist (d. 1999)
- 1917 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997)
- 1919 – Avraham Drori, Polish-Israeli politician (d. 1964)
- 1919 – Ruth Fernández, Puerto Rican singer and politician (d. 2012)
- 1919 – Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer (d. 2011)
- 1919 – Robert Bernstein, American writer and playwright (d. 1988)
- 1919 – Gayatri Devi Indian politician (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Helen O'Connell, American singer, actress, and dancer (d. 1993)
- 1921 – James Blish, American author (d. 1975)
- 1921 – Humphrey Lyttelton, English musician, composer, and broadcaster (d. 2008)
- 1921 – Edna Skinner, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (d. 2009)
- 1923 – Walter Wolfrum, German pilot (d. 2010)
- 1924 – Karlheinz Deschner, German researcher and writer
- 1924 – Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
- 1925 – Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Mac Wiseman, American singer-songwriter and musician (Foggy Mountain Boys)
- 1926 – Basil Salvadore D’Souza, Indian bishop (d. 1996)
- 1926 – Joe Slovo, South African politician (d. 1995)
- 1927 – Bodil Skjånes Dugstad, Norwegian politician
- 1928 – Jeannie Carson, English actress and comedian
- 1928 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
- 1928 – Nigel Davenport, English actor
- 1928 – Pauline Julien, French-Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and activist (d. 1998)
- 1929 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
- 1930 – Friedrich Achleitner, German poet
- 1931 – Barbara Barrie, American actress
- 1933 – Joan Collins, English actress
- 1933 – Jean-Louis Lagadec, French footballer and coach (d. 2012)
- 1933 – Ove Fundin, Swedish Motorcycle Speedway rider Five times world champion
- 1934 – Robert Moog, American businessman and inventor, founder of Moog Music and invented the Moog synthesizer (d. 2005)
- 1935 – Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer (d. 2009)
- 1936 – Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
- 1936 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor
- 1938 – Peter Preston, English journalist and author
- 1939 – Reinhard Hauff, German director
- 1939 – Michel Colombier, French composer, songwriter, and conductor (d. 2004)
- 1939 – Jack McCarthy, American poet
- 1940 – Giles Gordon, Scottish writer and agent (d. 2003)
- 1942 – Zalman King, American writer, director, and producer (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher
- 1942 – Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao, Indian director
- 1943 – General Johnson, American singer-songwriter and producer (Chairmen of the Board and The Showmen) (d. 2010)
- 1943 – Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)
- 1943 – Alan Walden, American manager publisher, agent, and promoter, co-founder of Capricorn Records
- 1944 – John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
- 1945 – Padmarajan, Indian director (d. 1991)
- 1945 – Lauren Chapin, American actress
- 1946 – Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
- 1946 – H. Paul Shuch, American scientist
- 1947 – Bernard Comrie, English linguist
- 1947 – Ann Hui, Hong Kong director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1947 – Jane Kenyon, American poet (d. 1995)
- 1948 – Myriam Boyer, French actress
- 1948 – Reggie Cleveland, Canadian baseball player
- 1949 – Daniel DiNardo, American cardinal
- 1949 – Alan Garcia, Peruvian politician
- 1950 – Bruce Hay, Scottish rugby player (d. 2007)
- 1950 – Martin McGuinness, Irish politician
- 1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
- 1951 – Antonis Samaras, Greek politician
- 1952 – Anne-Marie David, French singer
- 1953 – Dick Stellingwerf, Dutch politician
- 1954 – Marvin Hagler, American boxer
- 1954 – Hans Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
- 1955 – Luka Bloom, Irish singer-songwriter and musician
- 1956 – Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician
- 1956 – Mark Shaw, New Zealand rugby player
- 1956 – Buck Showalter, American baseball player and manager
- 1956 – Andrea Pazienza, Italian Comics Artist and Painter
- 1956 – Albert Voorn, Dutch horse rider
- 1957 – Mark Arnold, American actor
- 1957 – Jimmy McShane, Irish singer (Baltimora) (d. 1995)
- 1958 – Mitch Albom, American writer
- 1958 – Drew Carey, American actor and comedian
- 1958 – Serge Dupire, French-Canadian actor
- 1958 – François Feldman, French singer-songwriter
- 1958 – Paul Street, American author and historian
- 1959 – Ryuta Kawashima, Japanese neuroscientist
- 1959 – Marcella Mesker, Dutch tennis player
- 1959 – Bob Mortimer, English comedian
- 1960 – Linden Ashby, American actor
- 1961 – Karen Duffy, American actress
- 1963 – Wally Dallenbach Jr., American race car driver and announcer
- 1963 – Gregg Hughes, American radio host
- 1964 – Ruth Metzler-Arnold, Swiss politician
- 1965 – Charlie Hayes, American baseball player
- 1965 – Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, Spanish footballer
- 1965 – Melissa McBride, American actress (The Walking Dead)
- 1965 – Athanasios Skourtopoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
- 1965 – Tom Tykwer, German director
- 1965 – Woorkeri Raman, Indian cricketer
- 1966 – Graeme Hick, English cricketer
- 1966 – Gary Roberts, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 – Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, Dutch television host and producer
- 1967 – Luis Roberto Alves, Mexican footballer
- 1967 – Anna Ibrisagic, Swedish politician
- 1967 – Phil Selway, English musician and songwriter (Radiohead)
- 1968 – Guinevere Turner, American actress
- 1970 – Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
- 1970 – Nanette Burstein, American director and producer
- 1970 – Matt Flynn, American drummer and producer (Maroon 5)
- 1970 – Bryan Herta, American race car driver
- 1971 – Laurel Holloman, American actress
- 1971 – George Osborne, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- 1972 – Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver
- 1973 – Jacopo Gianninoto, Italian composer and musician
- 1973 – Maxwell, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
- 1973 – Mirjam Sterk, Dutch politician
- 1973 – Ron Trent, American DJ and producer
- 1974 – Ken Jennings, American game show contestant, computer scientist, and author
- 1974 – Jewel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet
- 1974 – Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer
- 1974 – Charlie Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
- 1975 – Wafah Dufour, American singer-songwriter
- 1975 – Kim Sung-soo, South Korean actor
- 1976 – Kelly Monaco, American actress
- 1976 – Sinha, Mexican footballer
- 1976 – Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1977 – Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
- 1977 – Annabel Kosten, Dutch swimmer
- 1978 – Mike González, American baseball player
- 1978 – Carolyn Moos, American model and basketball player
- 1978 – Scott Raynor, American drummer (blink-182)
- 1979 – Rasual Butler, American basketball player
- 1979 – Brian Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Martin Giroux, French-Canadian singer
- 1979 – Kirk Saarloos, American baseball player
- 1980 – Gary Brackett, American football player
- 1980 – Lane Garrison, American actor
- 1980 – Theofanis Gekas, Greek footballer
- 1980 – Chris Gethard, American actor, comedian, and writer
- 1981 – Pierre Lapointe, Canadian singer
- 1981 – Tim Robinson, American comedian (SNL)
- 1981 – Gwenno Saunders, Welsh singer, keyboardist, and dancer (The Pipettes)
- 1982 – Cyrill Gloor, Swiss footballer
- 1982 – Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
- 1982 – Tristan Prettyman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and model
- 1983 – Heidi Range, English singer-songwriter (Sugababes and Atomic Kitten)
- 1983 – Alex Shelley, American wrestler
- 1984 – Sam Milby, Filipino-American actor and model
- 1984 – Adam Wylie, American actor
- 1984 – Hugo Almeida, Portuguese footballer
- 1985 – Shafiq Chitou, Beninese boxer
- 1985 – Sekou Cissé, Ivorian footballer
- 1985 – Sebastián Fernández, Uruguayan footballer
- 1985 – Wim Stroetinga, Dutch cyclist
- 1985 – Kennedy Kanyeria, Kenyan Music Producer
- 1985 – Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
- 1986 – Ruben Zadkovich, Australian footballer
- 1986 – Thanduyise Khuboni, South African footballer
- 1987 – Gracie Otto, Australian actress, writer, director, and producer
- 1987 – Windham Rotunda, American wrestler
- 1988 – Morgan Pressel, American golfer
- 1988 – Danny de Jong, Dutch actor
- 1988 – Lorenzo De Silvestri, Italian footballer
- 1988 – Vaness del Moral, Filipino actress and dancer
- 1990 – Kristína Kučová, Slovak tennis player
- 1991 – Sarah Jarosz, American singer-songwriter
- 1991 – Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer-songwriter
- 1992 – Asenate Manoa, Tuvaluan runner
Deaths [edit]
- 1125 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081)
- 1304 – Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer
- 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (b. 1452)
- 1523 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466)
- 1524 – Ismail I, Iran ruler, founder of the Safavid dynasty (b. 1487)
- 1662 – John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605)
- 1670 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
- 1691 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
- 1701 – William Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645)
- 1749 – Abraham ben Abraham, Polish nobleman
- 1752 – William Bradford, English printer (b. 1663)
- 1754 – John Wood, the Elder, English architect, designed The Circus and Queen Square (b. 1704)
- 1783 – James Otis, Jr., American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)
- 1786 – Maurice Benyovszky, Hungarian count, explorer, and writer (b. 1746)
- 1813 – Geraud Duroc, French general (b. 1772)
- 1815 – Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (b. 1753)
- 1825 – Gugsa of Yejju
- 1841 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
- 1846 – Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (b. 1778)
- 1855 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer and explorer (b. 1797)
- 1857 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
- 1868 – Kit Carson, American frontiersman and Indian fighter (b. 1809)
- 1886 – Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
- 1893 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)
- 1895 – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (b. 1798)
- 1906 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (b. 1828)
- 1908 – François Coppée, French poet and novelist (b. 1842)
- 1920 – Svetozar Boroević, Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
- 1921 – August Nilsson, Swedish athlete (b. 1872)
- 1934 – Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (b. 1909)
- 1934 – Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (b. 1910)
- 1937 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839)
- 1945 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi commander (b. 1900)
- 1949 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (b. 1872)
- 1960 – Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (b. 1870)
- 1962 – Louis Coatalen, French automobile engineer (b. 1879)
- 1965 – Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897)
- 1966 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
- 1967 – Lionel Groulx, French-Canadian priest and historian (b. 1878)
- 1975 – Moms Mabley, American comedian (b. 1894)
- 1981 – Gene Green, American baseball player (b. 1933)
- 1981 – Rayner Heppenstall, English novelist (b. 1911)
- 1981 – George Jessel, American actor (b. 1898)
- 1981 – David Lewis, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
- 1986 – Sterling Hayden, American actor (b. 1916)
- 1988 – Aya Kitō, Japanese author (b. 1962)
- 1989 – Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian director (b. 1915)
- 1989 – Karl Koch, German computer hacker (b. 1965)
- 1991 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
- 1991 – Jean Van Houtte, Belgian politician (b. 1907)
- 1992 – Kostas Davourlis, Greek footballer (b. 1948)
- 1992 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939)
- 1994 – Ray Candy, American wrestler (b. 1951)
- 1994 – George Metesky, American terrorist (b. 1903)
- 1994 – Joe Pass, American guitarist and composer (b. 1929)
- 1996 – Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist (b. 1934)
- 1998 – Telford Taylor, American lawyer (b. 1908)
- 1999 – Owen Hart, Canadian wrestler (b. 1965)
- 2002 – Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
- 2003 – Jean Yanne, French actor and director (b. 1933)
- 2004 – Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (b. 1919)
- 2005 – Fat-Tone, American rapper (b. 1981)
- 2006 – Clifford Antone, American businessman (b. 1949)
- 2006 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
- 2006 – Ian Copeland, American music promoter and agent (b. 1949)
- 2006 – Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer (b. 1921)
- 2008 – Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Spanish mountaineer (b. 1967)
- 2008 – Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter, poet, and activist (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean politician, 16th President of South Korea (b. 1946)
- 2010 – Princess Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani (b. 1914)
- 2010 – José Lima, Dominican baseball player (b. 1972)
- 2010 – Simon Monjack, English actor, producer, and writer (b. 1970)
- 2010 – Gane Todorovoski, Macedonian critic, poet, and publicist (b. 1929)
- 2012 – T. Garry Buckley, American politician (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Gyula Elek, Hungarian handball player and coach (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, Persian noble and writer (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Paul Fussell, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Hal Jackson, American disc jockey and sportscaster (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Joseph Lesniewski, American soldier (b. 1920)
- 2012 – William C. Wampler, American politician (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Hazel Hawke, Australian wife of 23rd Prime Minister Bob Hawke, author and amateur pianist (b. 1929)
Holidays and observances [edit]
- Birthday of Guru Amar Das (Sikhism)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Declaration of the Báb (Bahá'í Faith)
- Labour Day (Jamaica)
- World Turtle Day
- Rosalia (Roman Empire)
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