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THERE’S YOUR TROUBLE
Tim Blair – Saturday, July 13, 2013 (5:06pm)
Historian Anne Summers hails chick power:
In 2003 a member of the Dixie Chicks, the Texan all-girl group, rebuked President George Bush for invading Iraq. As a result they were told they needed to apologise. No way, the group said.
Yes way, Anne:
Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines was singing a new tune late Friday, this time in the form of an apology to President Bush for saying she was ashamed that he was from Texas.“As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect,” Maines said in her latest statement.
Some years later, Maines and her bandmates apologised for that 2003 apology. They’re Flexi Chicks. Also, their “rebuke” of Bush came before Iraq was invaded.
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EDGE UNSEEN
Tim Blair – Saturday, July 13, 2013 (3:57pm)
Umpire Aleem Dar gets it wrong:
Dar, generally a reliable umpire, is now copping it from everyone – with some justification, in this particular case. So is English batsman Stuart Broad, although by declining to walk Broad was merely following general Australian cricket protocols. The Australian line, as described by former captain Ian Chappell, is that umpires rather than players are responsible for decisions. If you’re given out, you go. If not, you stay.
Dar, generally a reliable umpire, is now copping it from everyone – with some justification, in this particular case. So is English batsman Stuart Broad, although by declining to walk Broad was merely following general Australian cricket protocols. The Australian line, as described by former captain Ian Chappell, is that umpires rather than players are responsible for decisions. If you’re given out, you go. If not, you stay.
The bigger issue is the flawed decision review system, which should be taken out of the hands of players and applied as needed by technology-assisted officials. Following Broad’s non-dismissal, for example, a simple alert from the third umpire would have taken care of matters. Then again, even video evidence isn’t always faultless.
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TREE AGAINST TURBINES
Tim Blair – Saturday, July 13, 2013 (2:33pm)
Near Victoria’s Newell Highway, a bold gum tree takes a stand:
Well said, tree. As I took this shot, a local resident joined us in support. Too shy for a picture, however.
Well said, tree. As I took this shot, a local resident joined us in support. Too shy for a picture, however.
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GERMAN CAR SOLD
Tim Blair – Saturday, July 13, 2013 (1:11pm)
Remember that old Mercedes we were talking about the other day? Someone bought it.
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REUBEN NOT RUNNING
Tim Blair – Saturday, July 13, 2013 (2:14am)
Caption of the week from the Age, helpfully pointing out that the PM’s favoured candidate isn’t a cavoodle:
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INSTANT PROTEST GENERATOR
Tim Blair – Friday, July 12, 2013 (5:25pm)
An impressive conceptual and physical gulf between protest and that which is protested against:
A group of activists from Greenpeace on Thursday scaled the Shard, the tapered 310m glass tower next to London Bridge station, as a protest against oil and gas drilling in the Arctic.
To them, it makes sense. Just as singer Grace Knight once thought it made sense to take her clothes off – in private – with a bunch of other women to protest against the war in Iraq:
She says she’s never done anything like this before, and the momentum her email has generated “thrills me but scares me as well”. She’s nervous about stripping off, as are most women who’ve agreed to come, and she asked me not to reveal the location of the protest for fear of unwanted onlookers.
That’s tough to beat, but let’s try. Readers are invited to nominate a subject of protest: Arctic mining, Tony Abbott, whatever you like. Readers are also invited to separately nominate protest actions: climbing buildings and the like.
Then we’ll match ‘em all up in a frenzy of logic-free leftoid activity-ism.
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And Rudd will do what about the boats? UPDATE: Another boat sunk
Andrew Bolt July 13 2013 (11:00am)
Reader Gab on the second-biggest boat arrival for the year:
Another boat has sunk, north of Christmas Island. Reader J reports some 100 people are believed to be involved and there are bodies in the water. The Home Affairs Minister, Jason Clare, will give a press conference soon.
UPDATE
Clare says 88 rescued, one baby dead, eight missing. Man in Melbourne alerted them to vessel sinking, and gave them coordinates - 108 nautical miles north of Christmas Island.
Another day, another boat. This one boat is costing us a whopping $13,790,000, conservatively. 197 on board.I know some Labor Ministers know perfectly well the boats can and should be turned back:
A DETAILED plan to deal with people-smuggling has been developed by the opposition based on advice from senior members of the armed forces.UPDATE
“The Coalition has delved into this very deeply with some very experienced people in our defence forces,” opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison told The Australian.
Former navy chief Chris Ritchie, retired major general Jim Molan and a recent defence attache in Jakarta, Gary Hogan, have all made the case that while turning back boats would be difficult and had risks, it had been done before and could be done again. They have argued it would send a strong message to the region.
Mr Morrison would neither reveal if the Coalition’s military advisers were serving or past members of the Australian Defence Force nor release details of the plan.
Another boat has sunk, north of Christmas Island. Reader J reports some 100 people are believed to be involved and there are bodies in the water. The Home Affairs Minister, Jason Clare, will give a press conference soon.
UPDATE
Clare says 88 rescued, one baby dead, eight missing. Man in Melbourne alerted them to vessel sinking, and gave them coordinates - 108 nautical miles north of Christmas Island.
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Courage, hope, inspiration
Andrew Bolt July 13 2013 (9:14am)
The Pakistani teenager who was shot in the head by the Taliban last year has addressed the United Nations on her 16th birthday, vowing not to silenced by terrorists.
Nine months after a gunman shot her on a bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley for demanding education for girls, Malala Yousafzai received multiple standing ovations at the United Nations Youth Assembly in New York…
“Let us pick up our books and pens, they are our most powerful weapons,” she said.
“One child, one teacher ... can change the world.”
The best part:
On the 9th October 2012, the Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead and they shot friends too.
They thought that the bullet would silence us - but they failed.
Out of that silence came thousands of voices.
The terrorists thought they would change my aim and stop my ambitions.
But nothing changed except this weakness, fear and helplessness died, and strength, power and courage was born.
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The Bolt Report tomorrow
Andrew Bolt July 13 2013 (8:57am)
On The Bolt Report on Network 10 at 10 and 4pm.
Former Howard minister Peter Reith, former Victorian Labor vice president Kimberley Kitching (no longer now a candidate for Lalor) and the Liberals’ polling guru, Mark Textor.
On the Liberals’ new attack, Kevin Rudd’s shaving cut and - oh, yes, - some policy. Or the absence of it.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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Rudd finally unveils menu
Andrew Bolt July 13 2013 (8:50am)
We don’t know what Rudd will do to cut power prices.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to cut the carbon tax.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to cut the deficit.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to stop the boats.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to fund the disability scheme.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to lift productivity.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to help business.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to create jobs.
But today we did learn one thing on the Prime Minister’s plate has been dealt with:
We don’t know what Rudd will do to cut the carbon tax.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to cut the deficit.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to stop the boats.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to fund the disability scheme.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to lift productivity.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to help business.
We don’t know what Rudd will do to create jobs.
But today we did learn one thing on the Prime Minister’s plate has been dealt with:
Modern politics. Rudd has got the moron vote all sewn up. But glad to see he’s reading us and is nettled enough to respond.
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Another conservative best-seller the publishers wouldn’t print
Andrew Bolt July 13 2013 (7:51am)
I first realised how reluctant publishers and booksellers were to even believe conservatives could read when I put together Still Not Sorry, a collection of my columns.
Major stores such as Borders - now closed - would not even stock it, yet its first and only print run of 15,000 still sold out, making it what counts in Australia as a best-seller.
Professor Ian Plimer is a more astonishing example. Although already a successful author, he struggled to find a publisher willing to take on his Heaven + Earth, which attacked the global warming faith with cool reason. His manuscript was turned down by Random House, Allen and Unwin and East Street, which were otherwise happy to publish global warming tracts which sold in tiny numbers. Heaven + Earth was even rejected by ABC Books, which had previously sold 16,000 copies of Plimer’s prize-winning A Short History of Planet Earth.
Yet Heaven + Earth became an international bestseller, and sold more than 30,000 copies in Australia alone.
Now it’s the turn of Taxing Air: Facts and Fallacies About Climate Change - a sceptical analysis that is primarily the work of internationally respected geologist Bob Carter and Age cartoonist John Spooner, aided by such experts as former National Climate Centre chief Bill Kininmonth.
They, too, could not find a publisher, and had to publish it themselves. Moreover, The Age has not granted this heretical book a review, even though one of the co-authors is a distinguished member of its staff.
Is that because the book won’t sell?
No, because once again the evidence shows that, yes, conservatives do read and are hungry for the debate that publishers seem only too quick to deny. Amazon says Carter and Spooner’s book is already selling handsomely:
From the launch:
Order Taxing Air: Facts and Fallacies about Climate Change here.
Reviews here.
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Not our economic messiah. Just a naughty boy with our money
Andrew Bolt July 13 2013 (7:32am)
Kevin Rudd this week sold himself at the great savior of the economy, who spent us out of trouble:
But Adam Creighton fact-checks Rudd’s boast to see what we got for the $52.5 billion Rudd blew on pink batts, housing grants, school halls and $900 cheques:
Had the government not intervened, with a temporary, targeted and timely national stimulus strategy as we did, what would’ve happened? The economy would’ve gone into recession as those around the world did.
But Adam Creighton fact-checks Rudd’s boast to see what we got for the $52.5 billion Rudd blew on pink batts, housing grants, school halls and $900 cheques:
Academic authors have delivered damning verdicts on the efficacy of Rudd’s fiscal stimulus, which the government is yet to refute.Verdict on Rudd’s claim?
Tony Makin, an Australian economics professor at Griffith University, has forensically examined Australia’s national accounts in the critical months during 2008 and 2009, when the global economic free-fall risked dragging Australia down, demonstrating clearly that government spending did little to boost economic activity. The spending on pink batts and school halls came much later.
What kept the economy afloat was the Australian dollar’s collapse - down more than 20c against the US dollar in late 2008 - which prompted an export goldmine at the same time that China’s demand for resources was rapidly growing.
“The federal government’s direct contribution to the change in consumption and investment was minimal, with its major impact arriving several quarters after it was deemed necessary,” Makin writes.
As for the notorious $8 billion worth of cheques that hit Australians’ bank accounts in April or May 2009, a more recent paper by four academics, including a Treasury official, shows Australians on average spent only an extra $1 of their windfall, saving much of the rest.
“The effect of the fiscal transfer on the change in household consumption expenditures is insignificant and quantitatively small - the average household spent less than 0.2 per cent of the income windfall,” the authors write.
These outcomes are not unique. In a 2011 study, Makin and Paresh Narayan, a finance professor at Deakin University, highlight the remarkable off-setting relationship between public and private savings in Australia from 1980 to 2008, suggesting the recent surge in household saving is at least in part a nervous reaction to the Rudd government’s fiscal excess.
...risible(Thanks to reader Peter.)
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Prince Rudd
Andrew Bolt July 13 2013 (6:58am)
At the court of King Kevin:
KEVIN Rudd’s son Nicholas, 24, has been appointed to one of the most senior roles in Labor’s election campaign team - as a key adviser to his father.Naturally, the courtiers compete with each other to praise the son of Heaven:
Mr Rudd Jr, a lawyer, has been employed by Labor’s national secretariat to be an member of the Prime Minister’s travelling party.
The Daily Telegraph has learned that the Prime Minister’s eldest son was also a key adviser on the drafting of the controversial reforms of the ALP announced by Mr Rudd on Monday.
“He is very smart, and is of enormous value to us, for many reasons,” said one senior insider.With each day, this New Kevin looks just like the last - but bigger.
“He is very good at keeping things on an even keel.”
UPDATE
Reader Stuart has seen this movie before:
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Don’t charge the grade four bully. Just free his teacher
Andrew Bolt July 13 2013 (6:45am)
This is way over the top - an overreach of the state:
What kind of state would have such laws? What kind of culture of complaint would we build?
An easier fix? Go exactly the other way. Don’t pass new laws but repeal old ones, and let principals and teachers enforce discipline without fear of being sued for discrimination or assault, or of being appealed against in any forum.
CHILDREN as young as 10 could be criminally charged as part of a radical proposal to overhaul Australia’s approach to bullying.What would this lead to? Police called to playgrounds and primary schools everywhere to arrest young boys? Irate mothers sicking police onto the children of mums they don’t like? Court hearings to determine whether playground chants were just teasing or bullying?
A symposium organised by the National Centre Against Bullying (NCAB) and Australian Federal Police will next week consider how laws should be strengthened to fight bullying and cyberbullying…
NCAB chairman Alastair Nicholson, the former chief justice of the Family Court, said ... it was hoped it would lead to recommendations to federal and state governments for law reform. Asked what the laws could look like, Justice Nicholson said the offence would mean children as young as 10 could be charged but that it would not lead to young people being jailed.
What kind of state would have such laws? What kind of culture of complaint would we build?
An easier fix? Go exactly the other way. Don’t pass new laws but repeal old ones, and let principals and teachers enforce discipline without fear of being sued for discrimination or assault, or of being appealed against in any forum.
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Liberals attack All Talk Rudd
Andrew Bolt July 13 2013 (6:35am)
We’ll show you some of the attack ad on The Bolt Report tomorrow, and get Liberal pollster Mark Textor to explain the strategy:
The Liberals were actually heartened by Kevin Rudd’s appearance at the National Press Club this week - even if there’s some doubt over the strategy to deny him a debate.
After three years away from the job, and two weeks back in it, Rudd had nothing of substance to say about what he would actually do about the economy. Talking about having talks is just all talk.
UPDATE
The attack ad does not yell or get too tricky. It has a voice calmly reading out Rudd’s record:
The Liberals know Rudd’s verbal fluency and use of warm-fuzzy phrases are great strengths. (Real Worm food in the debates, which will scare the Opposition.) Add to that Rudd’s desperate need for approval, and his speeches become effective appeals for applause - although not plans for government. That makes them potent when campaigning, even if dead losses when governing.
So the Liberals will paint Rudd as all talk, so that the finer Rudd’s phrase, the emptier it will sound.
As for Abbott, painted so often as too conservative and inflexible, the Liberals will hope again to be able to shift the light so those alleged failings seem instead the virtues of a man who is rock solid.
The contest is on.
UPDATE
Henry Ergas explains the All Talk Rudd phenomenon:
Terry McCrann also exposes the All Talk Rudd who gave the National Press Club speech this week:
TONY Abbott and the Liberal Party are fighting back against Kevin Rudd’s sizzling return as leader and the revival of Labor’s electoral chances with a national television campaign promoting existing Coalition policies and targeting the Prime Minister’s first-term record.The Liberals will take on All Talk Rudd by connecting this New Kevin to the Old Kevin. The ad campaign is going to be the most expensive pre-election one the Liberals have ever run.
After being thrown on the defensive and appearing flat-footed in the face of Mr Rudd’s resurrection and Labor’s return to 50-50 on second preferences in the latest Newspoll, the Opposition Leader has ticked off a television advertising campaign to start tomorrow and run through next week.
Although the campaign has been restructured in part to take account of Mr Rudd’s replacement of Julia Gillard two weeks ago, it is not in the style of US political “attack ads” and goes through Mr Rudd’s policy record between 2007 and 2010 and signals no policy changes from the Coalition.
The Liberals were actually heartened by Kevin Rudd’s appearance at the National Press Club this week - even if there’s some doubt over the strategy to deny him a debate.
After three years away from the job, and two weeks back in it, Rudd had nothing of substance to say about what he would actually do about the economy. Talking about having talks is just all talk.
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The attack ad does not yell or get too tricky. It has a voice calmly reading out Rudd’s record:
Fact: Kevin Rudd was borrowing 100 million dollars every day.In advertising - and politics - it is pointless to argue the public out of believing what’s obvious or entrenched. The skill is in shifting the light, so that a characteristic that seems a strength is revealed as a weakness, and vice versa.
Fact: Now we have a 254-billion dollar debt.
Fact: He wasted up to eight billion dollars on school hall rip offs.
Fact: He was the architect of the roof batts disaster.
Fact: In 2008 he dismantled our border protection polices and now 45,000 boat people have flooded in.
Fact: He attacked our mining industry with a super profits tax that failed.
Fact: He did a backflip on the carbon emissions trading scheme and supported the world’s biggest carbon tax.
Fact: With five budget deficits and the carbon tax Kevin Rudd and Labor have driven up the cost of living.
Fact: Now he’s divided the Labor Party again, with one third of cabinet ministers refusing to work with him.
The Liberals know Rudd’s verbal fluency and use of warm-fuzzy phrases are great strengths. (Real Worm food in the debates, which will scare the Opposition.) Add to that Rudd’s desperate need for approval, and his speeches become effective appeals for applause - although not plans for government. That makes them potent when campaigning, even if dead losses when governing.
So the Liberals will paint Rudd as all talk, so that the finer Rudd’s phrase, the emptier it will sound.
As for Abbott, painted so often as too conservative and inflexible, the Liberals will hope again to be able to shift the light so those alleged failings seem instead the virtues of a man who is rock solid.
The contest is on.
UPDATE
Henry Ergas explains the All Talk Rudd phenomenon:
Although no single policy could possibly capture all of Rudd’s flaws, the response to illegal boat arrivals must come close. It is impossible to say what, if anything, he now believes, or has ever believed, about this issue. Alternating between hawk and dove, he campaigned in 2007 on a tough, “turn back the boats” line; but once in office, he made a virtue of dismantling the Howard government’s Pacific Solution, describing it as “just wrong” and inconsistent with “the humanity of the situation”.Read it all.
As boat arrivals picked up, he disregarded departmental advice and repeatedly denied there was any relation whatsoever between that increase and his scrapping of Howard’s policies. With detention centres overflowing, a de facto toughening was under way; but Rudd nonetheless went into the 2010 leadership challenge vowing that he would not “be lurching to the Right” on asylum-seekers…
[C]raving approval, Rudd needed to be all things to all people: a humanitarian for those who advocated for refugees; tough-minded for the swinging voters in western Sydney. With their fine antennas, the people-smugglers saw through his inconsistencies; and by 2010, immense damage had been done…
Terry McCrann also exposes the All Talk Rudd who gave the National Press Club speech this week:
His performance was a classic Rudd cocktail of cynical dishonesty and pompous, total unknowingness.(Thanks to reader Peter.)
He purported to commit to a national drive to boost our productivity—to achieve a growth rate of 2 per cent a year “or better”.
Does he have the faintest idea that, to achieve that, he would have to commit to reversing just about everything he either did in his first incarnation, or set his successor on the road to doing?
Starting with bringing back more or less the entirety of the Howard government’s Work Choices? Then undoing big chunks of his or Gillard’s spending, to enable business tax cuts and broader tax reform?
One had to marvel at his chutzpah, when he put cutting electricity prices at the top of the agenda. When his “greatest moral challenge” demanded—and he and his successor delivered—that they had to go up.
If you believe Rudd Mark Two would be the slightest bit different to Rudd Mark One, I have a Harbour Bridge, an NBN, and a few wind turbines to sell you.
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How did Mike Quigley con the Independents on a NBN he wasn’t sure would work?
Andrew Bolt July 13 2013 (6:23am)
Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard promised a $37 billion project that not even the bloke running it was sure could work:
Terry McCrann on the slow unraveling of Kevin Rudd’s colossal NBN folly:
(Mike Quigley) said it wasn’t until a deal was signed with Telstra that he thought the project would work and generate a return for the government.Reader Peter of Bellevue Hill:
In October 2011 Telstra’s 1.4 million shareholders overwhelmingly backed a historic agreement that handed Telstra a compensation package totalling $11 billion in return for decommissioning its copper network as the new fibre-based NBN was rolled out.
“When I first took the job I didn’t know whether it would work,” Mr Quigley admitted.
What an extraordinary admission. It now confirms all of the big commitments the ALP took to the 2010 election were, to varying degrees, con jobs:UPDATE
1. East Timor Offshore Processing Centre (a complete fantasy)If you take all these off the table, what did the ALP take to election? Nothing.
2. Return to Surplus in 2012-13 (constructed on the completely compromised PEFO numbers)
3. A national debate - primarily through the Climate Change Citizens’ Assembly - to ensure consensus before moving to an ETS in 2013 at the earliest (dumped shortly after PM Gillard broke her no carbon tax promise)
4. Revised mining tax (it was always going to raise next to nothing after the Big Three designed it so as they, for all intents and purposes, would never have to pay it)
5. NBN (the bloke in charge of it didn’t know whether it would work until a year after the election).
And what did Quigley say to the Independents when they met during the negotiations to form minority government? Windsor and Oakeshott said the NBN was critical in their decision-making process.
We can assume Quigley didn’t say “Look lads, between you, me and the back fence, at this stage I’m not sure at this stage if this thing will fly”.
So what did he say?
Terry McCrann on the slow unraveling of Kevin Rudd’s colossal NBN folly:
THE departure of Mike Quigley from the National Broadband Network is a very timely reminder of just exactly what was so bad about Kevin Rudd as prime minister and the government that he so chaotically led…
The NBN is simply an out-of-control mess… Four years into his time as chief executive, barely 70,000 premises are actually connected to the NBN, after billions have been spent…
What Quigley’s departure should vividly remind us, is that the person, the one and only person, on whom it can and should, all be blamed, is of course Kevin Rudd.
Rudd and Conroy roughed up the commitment to the NBN, perhaps literally, certainly figuratively, on the back of an envelope, during a VIP flight to Canberra.
They got on to the plane with their plan to spend $12 billion on a more modest, more sensible, essentially rational fibre to the node network in ruins, because of Telstra playing hardball. They get off the plane committed to spending $40bn, almost certainly going on $60bn, and ending up as much as who knows where, on an utterly, hysterically irrational fibre to the premises network…
It was just crazy grandiloquence. Rudd-as-the-Down Under-Sun King—his 21st century tech Versailles indulgence.
And why was Conroy on that plane discussing what would turn into a $40bn project in the first place? Because he couldn’t get to see our whirlygig masquerading as a prime minister over months and months in the normal ministerial way.
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I put up two landscape shots, an urban industrial, and now a stormscape... that's a full day of imagery!
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Holly Sarah Nguyen
There is such a thing as good luck and bad luck .. but only a fool would follow it. - ed
I don't believe in bad and good luck, I believe in Lessons and Blessings.
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Sometimes the Island security is on your side and lets you wander around this area at night freely and sometimes it doesn't... just matters who the guard is. I have to say this night was enhanced by the island security... he had no troubles with us, but did have concerns with a couple who seemed strange and possibly threatening, who might have been scoping us and our equipment out. Sometimes you need a protector in the night. This evening we had one.
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Home made porridge with brown sugar apples
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New Star Trek ornaments debut this weekend. Details at http://bit.ly/18dzief
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If you make a mistake with her, your stuffed - ed
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Meticulously Detailed Drawing Made with Graphite and Chalk!
Artist : ©Paul Cadden
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oh! and nothing beats natural window light!! mum was extra excited today because she's finally fit into her pre-preggers jeans! Love IT!
Mary Cagalitan Photography |www.marycagalitan.com
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Pastor Rick Warren
At 3 months, an unborn baby girl in her mother's womb can swallow, squint, swim, grasp, suck her thumb, and feel pain.
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Finally found a place to fix my frozen yogurt addiction in Canberra Noggi Belconnen Love Taro yogurt. Thy Hadba Jeremy Nilsvang
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Dr. Phil issues words of warning to a husband and father about how his infidelity may be affecting his daughters. http://bit.ly/DRPMSV0712 #DrPhil
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2004: The lost patriots of Hollywood by Michelle Malkin
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Box-office patriotism is dead. And so the question is: If Hollywood refuses to support America, why should we support Hollywood?
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Chisum – Trailer
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Am I the only one who never head of a fiddlehead fern? Saw one for the first time on ColoradoASTA newsletter.
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Tuolomne Twilight. I shot this last night after the sun had set. I had taught an Aperture Academy class right next to this location a month ago and have been dying to return. Cathedral peak can be seen in this image, standing tall over this high valley in the lowering light of evening time.
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Dave Lux remembers that he lived with his family in an isolated rural area in Slovakia near the Hungarian border, and that his father was a baker in a nearby village. He also recalls that his parents fled with him and his older brother the day after some soldiers came to their house in spring 1939.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
You Are Made Righteous When You Believe.
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Allyson Christy.
Kerry set to make sixth Mideast visit next week in attempt to restart peace talks - jpost
'The visit, if it indeed takes place, comes as some in the US are questioning whether this is the area where Kerry should be focusing his time and energy right now.
US sources said..... US President Barack Obama – who, beyond giving Kerry public backing, has kept a low profile during the secretary of state’s efforts to prod the sides back to the table – has given Kerry the green light to try to move the sides together, but does not want to get too personally involved to avoid a diplomatic failure.
The sources said the feeling in the White House was that in this way if Kerry succeeded, Obama would obviously enjoy much of the credit, but if he failed, then Obama could distance himself from the failure that would be dropped at Kerry’s doorstep." - Herb Kenon
And as, an Administration remains entrenched within scandals, weakened economic policies and failed foreign policy directives, a determined pursuit lies within the scope of creating a presidential legacy; and a sentiment to include....if only.
http://paper.li/allysonchristy/1338794440
US sources said..... US President Barack Obama – who, beyond giving Kerry public backing, has kept a low profile during the secretary of state’s efforts to prod the sides back to the table – has given Kerry the green light to try to move the sides together, but does not want to get too personally involved to avoid a diplomatic failure.
The sources said the feeling in the White House was that in this way if Kerry succeeded, Obama would obviously enjoy much of the credit, but if he failed, then Obama could distance himself from the failure that would be dropped at Kerry’s doorstep." - Herb Kenon
And as, an Administration remains entrenched within scandals, weakened economic policies and failed foreign policy directives, a determined pursuit lies within the scope of creating a presidential legacy; and a sentiment to include....if only.
http://paper.li/allysonchristy/1338794440
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The account is ok, but it fails to raise the most salient issue .. why. I believe the reason for the destruction of the evidence is related to the politics of the day. Before the myth of the stolen generations, a big issue was Aboriginal deaths in custody. Steps had been taken to ensure Aboriginal people wouldn't suicide in custody. For an ALP government to have detained an Aboriginal girl who was subsequently pack raped would have looked very bad for the entire ALP brand ..
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Holly Sarah Nguyen
There are so many different "points" of our day/lives. High points, low points, sadness, pain, happiness, excitement and so on. But remember to keep yourself girded in prayer. God has a solution for every problem; a smile for every tear and a "lift up" for every fall. Through the good times and the bad he's still so worthy to be praise. And he truly sticks closer than a brother:)
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Holly Sarah Nguyen
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
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- 1793 – Charlotte Corday (pictured) assassinatedJean-Paul Marat, a leader in both the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, in his bathtub.
- 1863 – Three days of rioting began in New York City by opponents of new laws passed by theUnited States Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
- 1962 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismissed seven members of his Cabinet.
- 1977 – Ethiopia and Somalia went to war over the disputedOgaden region in eastern Ethiopia.
- 2003 – French DGSE personnel aborted an operation to rescue Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, causing a political scandal when details were leaked to the press six days later.
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- 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II ofEngland.
- 1249 – Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
- 1260 – The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- 1490 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje (now southwestern Slovenia).
- 1558 – Battle of Gravelines: in France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
- 1573 – Eighty Years' War: the Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
- 1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalistforces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
- 1787 – The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
- 1793 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
- 1794 – The Battle of the Vosges is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria.
- 1814 – The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.
- 1830 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
- 1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
- 1863 – New York City draft riots: in New York, New York, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst inUnited States history.
- 1878 – Treaty of Berlin: the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of theOttoman Empire.
- 1905 – The verdict in the six-month long Smarthavicharam trial of Kuriyedath Thathri is pronounced, leading to the excommunication of 65 men of various castes.
- 1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
- 1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
- 1941 – World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
- 1962 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of theNational Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
- 1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
- 1977 – Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ethiopian-Somali War.
- 1977 – New York, New York, amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
- 1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London, England, United Kingdom and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as other venues such asSydney, Australia and Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
- 1985 – Vice President George Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
- 1990 – An earthquake with its epicenter in Afghanistan results in the greatest number of fatalities in a mountaineering accident in High Asian mountains when an avalanche kills 43 climbers in Camp I on Pik Lenina (Lenin Peak).
- 2003 – French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
- 2011 – Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
Births[edit]
- 1527 – John Dee, English mathematician and scientist (d. 1609)
- 1579 – Arthur Dee, English physician (d. 1651)
- 1590 – Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
- 1607 – Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian-English etcher (d. 1677)
- 1608 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
- 1745 – Robert Calder, English navy admiral (d. 1818)
- 1760 – István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovene priest and writer (d. 1829)
- 1770 – Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)
- 1776 – Caroline of Baden (d. 1841)
- 1793 – John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)
- 1798 – Alexandra Feodorovna, German-Russian wife of Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1860)
- 1821 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American army officer (d. 1877)
- 1831 – Arthur Böttcher, Baltic German pathologist and anatomist (d. 1889)
- 1841 – Otto Wagner, Austrian architect, designed the Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station (d. 1918)
- 1858 – Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and author (d. 1929)
- 1859 – Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, British economist, co-founded the London School of Economics (d. 1947)
- 1864 – John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman, investor, and writer, victim of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1912)
- 1876 – William Michaels, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1934)
- 1889 – Louise Mountbatten, German wife of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1965)
- 1892 – Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, music critic and educator (d. 1941)
- 1894 – Isaak Babel, Soviet writer (d. 1940)
- 1895 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1896 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)
- 1898 – Julius Schreck, German SS commander (d. 1936)
- 1900 – George Lewis, American clarinet player and songwriter (d. 1969)
- 1901 – Eric Portman, English actor (d. 1969)
- 1903 – Kenneth Clark, British author and historian (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino military leader (d. 1990)
- 1907 – George Weller, American novelist, playwright and journalist (d. 2002)
- 1910 – Loren Pope, American writer (d. 2008)
- 1913 – Dave Garroway, American journalist (d. 1982)
- 1913 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (d. 2012)
- 1913 – Kay Linaker, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1915 – Kaoru Ishikawa Japanese university professor and influential quality author (d. 1989)
- 1918 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
- 1918 – Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator
- 1920 – William C. Friday, American academic (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)
- 1921 – Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2007)
- 1921 – Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (d. 1999)
- 1921 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (d. 2005)
- 1922 – Leslie Brooks, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Louis R. Harlan, American historian and writer (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician, 16th Prime Minister of Denmark
- 1922 – Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor
- 1924 – Michel Constantin, French actor (d. 2003)
- 1924 – Johnny Gilbert, American game show host and announcer
- 1926 – Robert H. Justman, American television producer, director, and production manager (d. 2008)
- 1927 – Simone Veil, French politician
- 1928 – Tommaso Buscetta, Italian mobster (d. 2000)
- 1928 – Bob Crane, American actor (d. 1978)
- 1928 – Sven Davidson, Swedish tennis player (d. 2008)
- 1928 – Leroy Vinnegar, American bassist (d. 1999)
- 1929 – Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Sam Greenlee, African-American writer
- 1931 – Frank Ramsey, American basketball player and coach
- 1932 – Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
- 1933 – Patsy Byrne, English actress
- 1933 – David Storey, English writer and novelist
- 1934 – Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (d. 2002)
- 1934 – Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager
- 1934 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1934 – Aleksei Yeliseyev, Soviet astronaut
- 1935 – Jack Kemp, American football player and politician (d. 2009)
- 1935 – Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian nwriter
- 1935 – Monique Vézina, Canadian politician
- 1935 – Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist
- 1936 – Albert Ayler, American saxophonist, singer, and composer (d. 1970)
- 1940 – Donald Lautrec, Canadian singer and actor
- 1940 – Tom Lichtenberg, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
- 1940 – Patrick Stewart, English actor
- 1941 – Robert Forster, American actor
- 1941 – Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter and translator (d. 2005)
- 1941 – Jacques Perrin, French actor and director
- 1942 – Harrison Ford, American actor
- 1942 – Roger McGuinn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds)
- 1944 – Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor, architect, and educator, invented the Rubik's Cube
- 1946 – Cheech Marin, American actor
- 1948 – Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter
- 1948 – Tony Kornheiser, American sportscaster
- 1948 – Daphne Maxwell Reid, American actress
- 1950 – George Nelson, American astronaut
- 1950 – Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwanese politician
- 1951 – Rob Bishop, American politician
- 1951 – Didi Conn, American actress
- 1953 – Gil Birmingham, American actor
- 1953 – Mila Mulroney, Yugoslavian-Canadian wife of Brian Mulroney
- 1954 – Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer-songwriter and producer
- 1954 – Rick Chartraw, American ice hockey player
- 1954 – Louise Mandrell, American singer
- 1954 – David Thompson, American basketball player
- 1956 – Claude Giroux, Canadian wrestler
- 1956 – Michael Spinks, American boxer
- 1956 – Frank Dux, American martial artist and choreographer
- 1957 – Thierry Boutsen, Belgian race car driver
- 1957 – Cameron Crowe, American director
- 1957 – Jane Hamilton, American novelist
- 1957 – Phil Margera, American television personality
- 1959 – Richard Leman, hockey player, former British squad
- 1960 – Robert Abraham, American football player
- 1960 – Ian Hislop, British journalist, writer and editor
- 1960 – Curtis Rouse, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1961 – Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager
- 1961 – Tim Watson, Australian footballer
- 1962 – Tom Kenny, American comedian and actor
- 1962 – Rhonda Vincent, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1963 – Neal Foulds, English snooker player
- 1963 – Kenneth Johnson, American actor
- 1963 – Spud Webb, American basketball player
- 1964 – Paul Thorn, American singer-songwriter
- 1965 – Lesli Kay, American actress
- 1965 – Eileen Ivers, Irish-American fiddler (Cherish the Ladies)
- 1966 – Gil Birmingham, American actor
- 1966 – Gerald Levert, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (LeVert and LSG) (d. 2006)
- 1966 – Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan conductor
- 1967 – Dean Barnett, American columnist (d. 2008)
- 1967 – Benny Benassi, Italian DJ and producer (Benassi Bros.)
- 1967 – Richard Marles, Australian lawyer and politician
- 1968 – Robert Gant, American actor
- 1968 – Christian Taylor, British screenwriter
- 1969 – Barney Greenway, English singer-songwriter (Napalm Death and Benediction)
- 1969 – Ken Jeong, American actor
- 1969 – Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-Greek weightlifter
- 1969 – Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan politician
- 1970 – Barry Pinches, English snooker player
- 1971 – Craig Elliott, American illustrator
- 1972 – Sean Waltman, American wrestler
- 1973 – Mohamed Atiq Awayd Al Harbi, Saudi Arabian terrorist
- 1973 – Ariel Zárate, Argentine footballer
- 1974 – Deborah Cox, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1974 – Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver
- 1975 – Danni Boatwright, American model and sportscaster, Miss Kansas USA 1996
- 1975 – Mariada Pieridi, Greek singer-songwriter
- 1976 – Al Santos, American model, actor, and producer
- 1976 – Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 – Chris Horn, American football player
- 1977 – Ashley Scott, American actress
- 1978 – Eva Jinek, Dutch-American journalist
- 1978 – Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player
- 1978 – Kate More, American porn actress
- 1978 – Prodromos Nikolaidis, Greek basketball player
- 1978 – Ryan Reaves, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer
- 1979 – Jonathan Goulet, Canadian mixed martial artist
- 1979 – Libuše Průšová, Czech tennis player
- 1979 – Daniel Díaz, Argentine footballer
- 1979 – Lucinda Ruh, Swiss figure skater
- 1979 – Fernando Salazar, Mexican footballer
- 1980 – Corey Clark, American singer
- 1980 – Karolina Gruszka, Polish actress
- 1980 – Becky O'Donohue, American actress
- 1980 – Jessie O'Donohue, American actress
- 1980 – Master Saleem, Indian singer
- 1981 – Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer
- 1981 – Fran Kranz, American actor
- 1981 – Mirco Lorenzetto, Italian cyclist
- 1981 – Ineta Radēviča, Latvian athlete
- 1982 – Brooke Ballentyne, American porn actress
- 1982 – Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (d. 2005)
- 1982 – Aya Cash, American actress
- 1982 – Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player
- 1982 – Simon Clist, English footballer
- 1982 – Dominic Isaacs, South African footballer
- 1982 – Nick Kenny, Australian rugby player
- 1982 – Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1982 – Samia Smith, British actress
- 1982 – Joost van den Broek, Dutch keyboard player (After Forever, Sun Caged, and Star One)
- 1983 – Kristof Beyens, Belgian sprinter
- 1983 – Marco Pomante, Italian footballer
- 1983 – Carmen Villalobos, Colombian actress and dancer
- 1983 – Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdler
- 1984 – Scott Gerbacia, American actor
- 1984 – Ida Maria, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1984 – Urvashi Sharma, Indian actress and model
- 1985 – Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
- 1986 – Pierrick Lilliu, French singer-songwriter
- 1987 – Neil Denis, Canadian actor
- 1988 – Tulisa Contostavlos, English singer-songwriter and actress (N-Dubz)
- 1988 – Marcos Paulo Gelmini Gomes, Brazilian footballer
- 1988 – Colton Haynes, American actor and model
- 1988 – Steven R. McQueen, American actor
- 1988 – He Pingping, Chinese world's shortest man (d. 2010)
- 1989 – Charis Giannopoulos, Greek basketball player
- 1989 – Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume and Ecomoni)
- 1990 – Ross Little, English actor
- 1990 – Eduardo Salvio, Argentine footballer
- 1990 – Matt Weinberg, American actor
- 1991 – Ungsumalynn Sirapatsakmetha, Thai actress and model
- 1992 – Dylan Patton, American actor
- 1992 – Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer
- 1994 – Ridge Canipe, American actor
- 1994 – Hayley Erin, American actress
- 1994 – Jolean Wejbe, American actress
- 1997 – Leo Howard, American actor and martial artist
Deaths[edit]
- 574 – Pope John III
- 678 – Aisha, Muslim wife of the Prophet Muhammad (b. 612)
- 939 – Pope Leo VII
- 1024 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 973)
- 1189 – Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (b. 1156)
- 1205 – Hubert Walter, English Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1160)
- 1357 – Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)
- 1399 – Peter Parler, German architect, designed St. Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge (b. 1330)
- 1402 – Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)
- 1551 – John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
- 1621 – Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (b. 1559)
- 1626 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)
- 1628 – Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. 1581)
- 1629 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
- 1683 – Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
- 1693 – Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
- 1705 – Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator, fabricated the Popish Plot (b. 1649)
- 1755 – Edward Braddock, English general (b. 1695)
- 1760 – Conrad Weiser, German-American interpreter and diplomat (b. 1696)
- 1761 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
- 1762 – James Bradley, English astronomer (b. 1693)
- 1789 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
- 1793 – Jean-Paul Marat, French physician, theorist, and scientist (b. 1743)
- 1807 – Henry Benedict Stuart, Italy cardinal (b. 1725)
- 1882 – Johnny Ringo, American outlaw (b. 1850)
- 1889 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
- 1890 – John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer, and politician (b. 1813)
- 1896 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
- 1907 – Henrik Sillem, Dutch sports shooter (b. 1866)
- 1921 – Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist and inventor, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
- 1922 – Martin Dies, Sr., American politician (b. 1870)
- 1937 – Robert Fournier-Sarlovèze, French politician and polo player (b. 1869)
- 1945 – Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, scriptwriter, and producer (b. 1879)
- 1946 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
- 1951 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
- 1954 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
- 1955 – Ruth Ellis, murderer and last woman to be hanged in United Kingdom (b. 1926)
- 1960 – Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)
- 1965 – Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer and painter (b. 1895)
- 1967 – Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
- 1967 – Tommy Lucchese, Italian-American mobster (b. 1899)
- 1970 – Leslie Groves, United States Army Corps of Engineer officer (b. 1896)
- 1973 – Willy Fritsch, German actor (b. 1901)
- 1974 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1974 – Marthe Vinot, French actress (b. 1894)
- 1976 – Frederick Hawksworth, British engineer (b. 1884)
- 1976 – Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (b. 1915)
- 1979 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
- 1980 – Seretse Khama, Botswana statesman, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)
- 1983 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
- 1993 – Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)
- 1995 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (b. 1920)
- 1996 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)
- 1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
- 1999 – Konstantinos Kollias, Greek general and politician (b. 1901)
- 2002 – Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-Armenian photographer (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Compay Segundo, Cuban guitarist, singer, and composer (b. 1907)
- 2004 – Arthur Kane, American bass player (New York Dolls) (b. 1949)
- 2004 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Michael Busselle, English photographer and writer (b. 1935)
- 2006 – Red Buttons, American comedian and actor (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Michael Reardon, American mountain climber (b. 1965)
- 2008 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist (b. 1931)
- 2010 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Allan Jeans, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Shlomo Bentin, Israeli neuropsychologist (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Polde Bibič, Slovenian actor and writer (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Warren Jabali, American basketball player (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Jerzy Kulej, Polish boxer and politician (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Ginny Tyler, American voice actress and singer (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Sage Stallone, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1976)
- 2012 – Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1934)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Feast of Kalimát, first day of the seventh month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
- Statehood Day (Montenegro)
- The last day of Naadam (Mongolia)
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