I am one of the 85% of Australians not driving as much as 100 kms a day. And I don't own an iMieve. Why doesn't the Australian government do anything about that monster killing people in our streets, hurting children and pets and wearing shoes of every Australian on a daily basis. I am referring to pavement. It is similar as with the excuses given by an AGW alarmist who got stuck in ice in the middle of summer. It is very lucky there wasn't an iron pole nearby, or he'd have gotten his tongue stuck.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Wei SU. Born on this day, across the years, along with
- 1463 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
- 1574 – Robert Fludd, English physician, astrologer, and mathematician (d. 1637)
- 1666 – Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723)
- 1706 – Benjamin Franklin, American politician, scientist, and publisher, 6th President of Pennsylvania (d. 1790)
- 1820 – Anne Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1849)
- 1863 – David Lloyd George, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
- 1899 – Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
- 1922 – Betty White, American actress and singer
- 1927 – Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
- 1928 – Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and entrepreneur (d. 2012)
- 1931 – James Earl Jones, American actor
- 1942 – Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist
- 1949 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian and actor (d. 1984)
- 1997 – Jack Vidgen, Australian singer-songwriter
Matches
- 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate andSextus Pompey.
- 395 – Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum underHonorius, his brother (aged 10).
- 1562 – France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain.
- 1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
- 1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
- 1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.
- 1852 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
- 1885 – A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
- 1893 – The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii
- 1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
- 1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
- 1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
- 1941 – Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
- 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
- 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
- 1945 – The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
- 1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
- 1966 – Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
- 1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
- 1982 – "Cold Sunday": in numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years.
- 1983 – The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating.
- 1989 – Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.
- 1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
- 1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
- 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
Despatches
- 395 – Theodosius I, Roman emperor (b. 347)
- 1654 – Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
- 1996 – Amber Hagerman, American kidnapped victim, inspired the AMBER Alert system (b. 1986)
Labor, Greens and unions reveal their fraudulent selves
Piers Akerman – Friday, January 17, 2014 (5:49am)
LABOR, the Greens and the trade union movement have exposed themselves as frauds and charlatans with their criticism of the Coalition’s so-far successful border immigration policy. When the conservatives came to office, Labor and Green members vehemently ridiculed their plans to execute one of the principal planks of their policy platform and “stop the boats”.
Now that there have been no boats for four weeks, the same shrill voices are demanding more information on the operational details, full-knowing the people smugglers would love to know how Operation Sovereign Borders is effected so they can modify their own plans.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison is adamant he will not help the people smugglers but Labor and the Greens seem determined to do their utmost to ensure his effective policy can be undermined and more people will commit to risking their lives in leaky boats to jump the legal queue.
In seeking to have details of Operation Sovereign Borders revealed before a senate committee, Labor and the Greens are showing no appreciation of the national interest nor any concern for those involved in stopping the illegal people smuggling racket.
They have studiously ignored the reality that secrecy in this operation is of paramount importance and that just three days after the federal election, the Border Protection Command director of operations advised that no information should be released on where or when asylum seeker boats were detected or which navy vessel was involved in the operation.
With fewer boats and fewer illegal arrivals, Australia stands to reap a nearly $90 million-a-year dividend as Morrison closes four superfluous-to-needs detention centres. One would think Labor and the Greens would be turning cartwheels at the news. For years, they have been carrying on about the necessary detention of illegal arrivals but now the closures are a matter of grave consternation.
Acting Greens leader Richard di Natale has said he had “huge” concerns about the Coalition government’s approach to asylum seekers.
“We’ve got a situation where all of our detention centres are under huge strain … and we’re going to close down a number of centres in Australia, move those people (to) where there’s less scrutiny, where tensions are already at boiling point, what do we think’s going to happen?”
Let me remind di Natale of his party’s social justice policy, specifically this paragraph: “We will close down the worst remote Australian detention centres, including Curtin, Scherger, Wickham Point, Northern and North West Point on Christmas Island, saving $366 million.” Scherger is one Morrison intends closing, along with Port Augusta, Leonora and Pontville.
Pontville has been empty since last September, when the former (failed) Immigration Minister Tony Burke ordered the transfer of juvenile residents into community care.
The fact Pontville has stood empty, but staffed, for four-and-a-half months has not deterred Tasmania’s Labor Premier Lara Giddings, the Greens or the trade union involved from protesting its formal closure.
Ignoring the reality that federal Labor’s Burke emptied the facility, Giddings this week said the closure was a continuation of “the Liberal Party’s attack on Tasmanian jobs”.
“This is an appalling decision by the Liberal Party which makes a mockery of its promise to create jobs in Tasmania,” she scolded.
In Giddings’ Tasmania, it is smart to pay people to sit in an empty facility knowing that the state relies on mainlanders to fund their lifestyle.
United Voice, formerly the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union, wheeled out its Tasmanian secretary Helen Gibbons to express her dismay.
“This is a really sad scenario,” she said. “This centre had a reputation for being really well run. The staff there were trying to make the best possible environment.”
How difficult would it be to run a superb empty facility and create a great environment for non-existent illegal arrivals?
Gibbons wistfully harked back to an earlier era when federal Labor’s failed border protection policy ensured there were 270 jobs at Pontville. “They were all Tasmanians,” she wailed.
“There have been no refugees at all since late last year, which was a political decision by the new government when it first came to power.”
This is a great example of the need for illegal arrivals to prop up an industry which takes in rafts of workers from the former Miscos union, armies of social workers, and cadres of card-carrying Labor lawyers. Those lawyers are going to have to find other avenues of opportunity when the illegal arrival traffic is fully halted.
Morrison has also signalled he will personally cancel the visas of undesirable residents from now, denying them any right of appeal.
He acted after a string of Administrative Appeals Tribunal decisions that blocked the deportation of convicted criminals - including a New Zealand man who had a hand in the 2008 violent robbery of a prominent Melbourne doctor, and a Vietnamese man with a 17-year-long criminal record of robbery, thefts, weapons offences and crimes of dishonesty and assessed as having “a significant possibility that he may reoffend”.
Morrison’s actions are going to help the budget bottom line, they are going to save lives, and they are going to remove the stress that the unionists who have been working in detention centres have been complaining about.
This is a win-win-win result for the nation.
These should be causes for celebration, but not if you’re Labor or Greens supporter in search of causes for condemnation.
i-MiEV DOESN’T MoVE
Tim Blair – Friday, January 17, 2014 (12:44pm)
Mitsubishi launched its electric i-MiEV in Australia nearly four years ago:
The company said that, despite the total cost of $62,640, there was a lot of interest from a broad range of buyers including governments, businesses and individuals.Mitsubishi expects demand for electric vehicles and hybrids to run hot over the next few years ...
Warmists were expected to adore the planet-saving travel pod:
The i-MiEV’s big selling point is that it doesn’t produce any carbon emissions.
Yay! No wonder Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong totally loved it:
Mr Albanese said 85 per cent of Australians drive less than 100 kilometres a day, so the car was ideal for their needs.“Fully electric vehicles offer significant benefits in dealing with climate change in the longer term,” he said.“There’s no doubt that the Australian market is ready for an electric vehicle and that electric vehicle is right here today.”
Really, Albo? Let’s see how the i-MiEV is doing lately:
Not a single Mitsubishi i-MiEV was sold in Australia in 2013.
(Via Gavin)
THEY MUST RECEIVE US
Tim Blair – Friday, January 17, 2014 (12:27pm)
A bunch of boaties are rescued by the Australian Navy after deliberately sinking their own vessel – and they’re not happy about it:
Pakistani asylum seeker, Fazal Qadir, 28, said he had set sail from an island off Java on January 5 bound for Christmas Island with 56 people from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and Palestine on board, along with an Indonesian captain and one crew member. There was one woman with a 20-month-old toddler.After about three or four days at sea, he said the group was spotted by an Australian aeroplane flying overhead. The boat was already leaking.“We were very happy [when we saw them] because we thought when the boat went into the water, then they must receive us,” Mr Qadir said.All of the people on board already knew of other vessels which had been returned to Indonesia, so were determined to be rescued rather than escorted back. One passenger took a piece of wood and prised open the hole that was already in the hull. Others rocked the boat.When it foundered, two Australian speedboats reached them and the 12 navy personnel on board told the asylum seekers to cling to the side. The toddler was provided with a life jacket, Mr Qadir said.
The group were subsequently loaded aboard the HMAS Stuart before being transferred to a Customs and Border Protection boat. Conditions were just terrible, according to Qadir:
“The navy and Customs would not give us a phone.”
Oh no! Then came the final Australian treachery:
Mr Qadir said a small orange boat with a weather canopy was tied to the back of the Customs ship. They were told to board it because it would ferry them to Christmas Island.At the last minute, though, a Customs officer came on board, tossed the asylum seekers a four-page document in a range of languages, and returned to the large ship, which sailed away.The document, dated December 2013, reads: “You only have enough fuel to reach land in Indonesia. You do not have enough fuel to continue your voyage to Australia.“The master of your vessel is now responsible for your safety. You must co-operate with the master and not act in a manner that risks your safety. You are responsible for your own actions. Your vessel is not equipped for a voyage to Australia. It is not safe to continue your voyage to Australia …”The men said they were dropped very close to Indonesia. It took only three hours to reach shore.
Job done. Naturally, Fairfax and the ABC are outraged.
BAN PAVEMENT
Tim Blair – Friday, January 17, 2014 (11:38am)
Seven’s Robert Ovadia looks at the legal reasoning involved in certain recent street violence cases:
In the Thomas Kelly case, forensic pathologists determined that a crack on the front of the teenager’s skull was caused by the back of his head hitting the pavement after Loveridge punched him.Therefore, prosecutors argued, it could not be proven it was the actual impact of Loveridge’s fist that killed him. Therefore, prosecutors argued, they could not pursue a charge of “grievous bodily harm occasioning death”. Therefore, prosecutors argued, they could not pursue a charge of murder because – and I’m not joking – you cannot charge a pavement with such a crime. It was the pavement, you see, that killed poor Thomas Kelly – not the punch – never mind how inextricably intertwined the two events are.
This seems ridiculous.
CANON FIRED
Tim Blair – Friday, January 17, 2014 (11:00am)
Guardian readers carefully consider claims that the navy fired “warning shots” at asylum seekers, and deliver theirverdicts:
• Chance it actually happened then = 100%. If Morriscum denies it, then you know it’s true. He couldn’t lie straight in bed, as the old saying goes.• Well I believe Morrison. But then, I also believe that putting dog hair on a bite cures the wound if that particular dog bit you, and that the Catholuc priests were just checking that the hidden bits were in working order.• If Oberfuhrer Morrision said it, it must be true..not!• the willing liars don’t have to worry about having a canon fired in their direction.• What more can one say about this dysfunctional idiot, I’m am totally lost for words.• Considering the lies Morrison has told during the election campaign and since he became minister, it is pretty easy to believe they are telling the truth and he is lying....again• Why is there no news leaking out from the Defence Force Personnell or their family’s. There must be an absolute climate of fear in our defence force. Funny thing though the truth will eventually leak out. Bet your life it will.• This piece of sewer refuse has no concern for the lives of defenseless men women and children and he now uses the Navy to hide behind, as they carry out his filthy deeds on the high seas. Disgrace, absolute disgrace.• The threat to use deadly force against refugees is unconscionable.• Morrison denies it? I’d call that official confirmation it happened• Interestingly “I can`t disclose that, because is an operational matter” is an anagram of “I`m a lying liberal c*nt”.
And the best, most paranoid line of them all, which deserves to appear in every Guardian comment thread:
• One word.....................Murdoch.
Sarah Hanson-Young furious that boat people safely returned
Andrew Bolt January 17 2014 (12:42pm)
Greens child-Senator Sarah Hanson-Young in 2011 when another 200 boat people are lured to their deaths by Labor policies:
It really is just about them. That is why intentions for the Left count for more than consequences. Slogans above gulags.
UPDATE
The Age is also outraged on Indonesia’s behalf.
Strangely, this same paper now so angry that we crossed into Indonesian waters to safely turn boat people back to Indonesia seemed unfussed when Labor instead lured hundreds to their deaths:
UPDATE
Maybe Hanson-Young is just cross at being proved so wrong - again. What she claimed before the election:
===Pressed on whether the Greens accepted responsibility for the tragedy, Senator Hanson-Young said: “Of course not. Tragedies happen, accidents happen.”Greens child-Senator Sarah Hanson-Young today after learning our navy accidentally entered Indonesian waters in safely returning dozens of boat people to Indonesia in line with Liberal policies:
The minister is begging for forgiveness while carrying on with a policy that was always going to lead to this type of disaster.Again, the monstrous self-absorption of the Left. So indifferent when their policies cost lives, so angry when policies they oppose save lives.
It really is just about them. That is why intentions for the Left count for more than consequences. Slogans above gulags.
UPDATE
The Age is also outraged on Indonesia’s behalf.
Strangely, this same paper now so angry that we crossed into Indonesian waters to safely turn boat people back to Indonesia seemed unfussed when Labor instead lured hundreds to their deaths:
If the Government has blood on its hands for persisting in policies that have lured so many to their deaths - more than 200 now in at least 10 known disasters since 2008 - what of the journalists who backed them?Final toll? Perhaps 2000 or even more. And the journalists who said nothing to stop the drownings are now outraged that Tony Abbott has taken the steps to stop them.
In their guilty rage they have lashed out at me. But, far worse, they have shielded Gillard.
Barely one has held the Prime Minister to account for those policies. Too soon, they cry.
Yet it’s not too soon for journalists such as David Marr to blame the navy, or a Dennis Atkins to blame the meanness of the Australian mob, or a Heather Ewart to wonder if the Christmas Islanders could have done more.
But Gillard is spared almost all such blame and questioning. It is sick…
The Age’s Michelle Grattan on Saturday accused me of “not a little distasteful triumphalism about prior warnings”, but I don’t know how else to prove the Government was warned its policies were costing lives than by quoting earlier warnings, and I also don’t know which other journalist issued warnings I could quote.
If Grattan had said before last week the Government was luring men, women and children on to sinking boats, I’d have gladly quoted her instead.
But she never did. Not once did she speak, as the tally of known deaths jumped from five, to 14, to 25, to 42 and then, even before last week’s tragedy, to as many as 170 or even more.
UPDATE
Maybe Hanson-Young is just cross at being proved so wrong - again. What she claimed before the election:
Punishing asylum seekers by turning boats around - or sending people to Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Nauru, anywhere but here - will not deter desperate people from making dangerous journeys by boat. It never has and it never will.Actually, such policies did work under John Howard and are working again under Tony Abbott:
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison ... says the number of asylum seekers arriving by boat in Australia has fallen 80 per cent since Operation Sovereign Borders began four months ago.Hanson-Young should simply say sorry. She has been demonstrably and fatally wrong. How many people have drowned as a consequence?
He said trend is supported by a decrease in the arrival of asylum seekers in Indonesia as well.
“The number of persons newly presenting to the UNHCR in Jakarta for registration per month has fallen from 1,608 in September to just 296 in December,” he said.
Tasmanian Labor sorry it got caught in bed with Greens
Andrew Bolt January 17 2014 (7:24am)
Tasmanian Labor assumes voters are suckers:
That’s like the thief who’s sorry only for being caught.
Hypocrites.
The Greens have long claimed Tasmania is a beautiful island being wrecked by humans.
True enough, but those human wreckers are the Greens and their Labor enablers. A state that can’t give work to its young has committed suicide.
===TASMANIAN Labor has ended the nation’s first experiment of Greens in cabinet, conceding power-sharing with the minor party alienates its core supporters, suffocates its messages and must never be repeated.For four years Labor stuck with the Greens to stay in power. Only on the eve of an election defeat does it say this was a mistake and it won’t do it again – well, kind of.
However, Premier Lara Giddings yesterday risked undermining Labor’s attempt to restore faith among its traditional voters by refusing to rule out trading policies for support with the Greens after a March 15 election.
That’s like the thief who’s sorry only for being caught.
Hypocrites.
The Greens have long claimed Tasmania is a beautiful island being wrecked by humans.
True enough, but those human wreckers are the Greens and their Labor enablers. A state that can’t give work to its young has committed suicide.
Tasmania’s youth jobless rate has more than doubled to 15.9 per cent, from 6.7 per cent in November 2007.
Attacking Abbott for not killing boat people
Andrew Bolt January 17 2014 (5:54am)
Leftist journalists cheered when Labor in 2008 scrapped our tough border laws:
But now?
Under the Abbott Government’s “tough” laws the drownings have virtually stopped because the boats have largely stopped. We have not had one boat arrive in nearly four weeks.
That lack of corpses seems to disappoint some in the Left. Some who never blamed Labor for the real deaths it caused have now resorted to attacking Tony Abbott for deaths they lavishly imagine:
More evidence that their “compassion” is phony. It really is all about them, and the dead boat people - in the sea or in their minds - are mere props for their plays, in which they always cast themselves as the hero.
UPDATE
Badham, of the Guardian, is also angry about imagined ”warning shots” allegedly fired by our navy over one boat - a false claim peddled by Fairfax.
More extraordinary is that she even fancies that those imagined warning shots were aimed not above one boat but were actually fired at several of them:
===The Age crooned that “yesterday a stain was removed from the soul of this nation” and “Australia began the process of restoring some of its lost humanity”.The Left kept backing Labor’s ”more compassionate” approach even when it predictably lured more than a thousand people to their death. In fact, many in the Left ignored the reality. Some criticised conservatives who repeatedly warned the drownings were inevitable while the laws were so soft. The Left seemed almost unmoved by the deaths caused by its “compassion”:
The Australian’s Mike Steketee added “Australia at least has a policy it can justify in terms of basic humanity”.
The Age’s immigration reporter said the new policy” more closely reflects the values of Australian society”.
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Adele Horin cried “a shameful era is over in Australian politics”.
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young yesterday stood by her party’s policies. Pressed on whether the Greens accepted responsibility for the tragedy, Senator Hanson-Young said: “Of course not. Tragedies happen, accidents happen.”By Labor’s end, Fairfax reporters hardly bothered even reporting the latest drownings.
But now?
Under the Abbott Government’s “tough” laws the drownings have virtually stopped because the boats have largely stopped. We have not had one boat arrive in nearly four weeks.
That lack of corpses seems to disappoint some in the Left. Some who never blamed Labor for the real deaths it caused have now resorted to attacking Tony Abbott for deaths they lavishly imagine:
The Guardian’s Van Badham gets on a Twitter war footing against Tony Abbott, Tuesday:Badham, of course, may simply be angry that Abbott proved her wrong when she brainlessly claimed last year:
IF Abbott wants a “war-footing” against refugees, his actions demand an internal resistance. We must be that resistance. Enough of this.She creates her own #tag writeyourowninevitablemaritimeincident and sets the ball rolling:
THE navy fire warning shots at a smuggler vessel, accidentally shoot a pregnant refugee.And:
THE navy fire warning shots at a smuggler vessel, sink ship, everyone drowns.And...:
BOAT load of refugees commit suicide rather than be forced back to countries of origin.
...deterrent policies are completely ineffectualBut it is striking that such Leftists are angrier about imagined dead boat people under Abbott than they were about real dead boat people under Labor.
More evidence that their “compassion” is phony. It really is all about them, and the dead boat people - in the sea or in their minds - are mere props for their plays, in which they always cast themselves as the hero.
UPDATE
Badham, of the Guardian, is also angry about imagined ”warning shots” allegedly fired by our navy over one boat - a false claim peddled by Fairfax.
More extraordinary is that she even fancies that those imagined warning shots were aimed not above one boat but were actually fired at several of them:
McIntyre shreds Chris Turney’s excuse for having his Ship of Fools stuck in ice
Andrew Bolt January 16 2014 (4:36pm)
Influential climate sceptic Steve McIntyre is puzzled by the excuses given by warmist professor Chris Turney for having his Ship of Fools get stuck in Antarctic ice:
McIntyre concludes:
And, once again, we must ask: where is the mainstream media in exposing this?
===Dozens of tourist vessels visit the Antarctic without becoming trapped by ice. So it’s entirely valid to inquire into why the one tourist vessel led by a “climate scientist” became trapped by ice.And by many Leftist journalists and warmist science journals keen to cover for Turney:
The leader of the expedition, Chris Turney ... claimed that the incident could not have been predicted. He said that they were trapped by a sudden “breakout” of multi-year ice ("fast ice") that had previously been part of the ice shelf and that there was no way that they could have anticipated this. Turney’s claim has been uncritically accepted by the climate community...
With escalating derision towards Turney’s expedition, Nature rushed another self-serving account of the events into print on January 6, apparently without the slightest peer review, quality control or due diligence.McIntyre shows the MODIS imagery of ice spread though December that suggests Turney and his team of warmists blundered where they should have avoided. They sailed to the west of a mass of sea ice that could be pushed against their ship by an utterly predictable easterly gale. Then they got out on the ice and had fun:
In this article, Turney’s claims became even more fanciful and untrue.
Turney falsely stated that the Akademik Shokalskiy was an “ice breaker”, even though it was merely a passenger ship that had been ice strengthened.
Turney falsely claimed that the “science case” for the tour had been “approved by the New Zealand Department of Conservation, the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service and the Australian Antarctic Division”, an assertion that was quickly denied by the head of the Australian Antarctic Division, who accused Turney of misrepresentation and said that he had written to Turney asking him to cease such misrepresentations.
In respect to the entrapment incident, Turney re-iterated the false assertion that they had been trapped by a “mass breakout” of “multiyear ice”, whereas ...they had been trapped by mobile pack ice within the polynya [an area of open water surrounded by sea ice]…
December 23 was the critical day. The Akademik Shokalskiy had moored in the Mertz Glacier polynya on the east face of the Commonwealth Bay “permanent” ice about 8 km from the Antarctic coast. Watt Bay is to the southwest.Is this how seriously and meticulously Turney does all his climate “research”? And who paid for his wife and two children to accompany him? Who pays for their rescue?
Sources include several contemporary or near-contemporary blog posts: Turney...; Kerry-Jayne Wilson of the Blue Penguin Trust here; Green politician Janet Rice here and Robbie Turney here. The normally active twitter accounts from Turney, Guardian Antarctica and Alok Jha of the Guardian are surprisingly silent on events of December 23 ( Guardian posts from December 23-24 instead document the December 19-20 expedition to Mawson’s Huts.) Shub Niggurath also did a chronology of events on this day, which is consistent on overlapping points.
A blizzard on December 23 had been forecast (Janet Rice here). Conditions in the morning of December 23 were already very bad. Turney posted a tweet in the morning of December 23 (estimated 9:48 New Zealand time) [North America twitter time December 22 15:48]. Turney reported that they were in a “Blizzard. -4degC, -15degC wind chill”, a description that is inconsistent Turney’s subsequent claim that they had set out under “good conditions”. Kerry-Jayne Wilson also reported that they had set out in “blowing snow and near gale winds” and that it subsequently got worse…
Despite these very poor conditions, Turney authorized passengers to leave the vessel for an excursion to the mainland, where three science “projects” were carried out.
The offloading of the Argo vehicles was problematic: one of the vehicles got into the water and could not be used. Both the botched offloading and lack of a third vehicle further delayed the day’s activities (see Janet Rice’s facebook entry, cited in several discussions)
A couple of days later, Turney described the day’s events in a self-serving report that made no mention of the morning’s impending blizzard. Instead, Turney claimed that there had been “good conditions” on December 23 and that these “good conditions” permitted Kerry-Jayne Wilson to inspect a penguin rookery, Tracey Rogers to sample seal blubber and Eleanor Rainsley to collect geological samples. Turney said that conditions closed in during the day and that they “quickly” loaded the vehicles onto the vessel, but were unfortunately trapped:
Good conditions allowed the team to reach the Hodgeman Islets to continue our science programme and make comparisons to our findings around Mawson’s Hut… Returning to the Shokalskiy, conditions started to close in and we quickly loaded the vehicles on to the vessel.Obviously; Turney’s retrospective claim of “good conditions” in the morning of December 23 is inconsistent with Wilson’s report and Turney’s own contemporary tweet.
Unfortunately proceeding north we found our path blocked by ice pushed in by an increasingly strong southeasterly wind. On Christmas Eve we realised we could not get through, in spite of being just 2 nautical miles from open water.
At least six passengers accompanied the three scientists on this outing, including Green politician Janet Rice, Turney’s 12-year old son Robbie, Mary [Regan], two “skiers” Peter [Stevenson?] and Steve [Lambert?] and Ben [Hines, Fisk or Maddison].
The impending gale did not deter 12-year old Robbie Turney, who described the day’s events as the “most fun that I’ve ever had outdoors before”:
Today was absolutely stunning. This was the day we got a full on drive in the Argos, along the fast ice and straight to the continent. It was very enjoyable, possibly the most fun I’ve ever had outdoors before. The ride was really bumpy and we were going up and down getting some jumps when at full speed. … Once we got to the continent we saw a massive towering rock that was home to a colony of Adelie Penguins which were all laying on their eggs. This made great photos but they were pretty aggressive because of it. But that pretty much wraps it up for the day.Meanwhile, according to [Greens senator-elect] Janet Rice, the Captain became very concerned about the closing weather, but was unable to immediately recall the passengers. The vessel appears to have left at least several hours after the captain’s already risky target.
The third drama of the day is the one which is still unfolding. Because of the Argo mishap we got off late, and had one less vehicle to ferry people to and fro. I’m told the Captain was becoming rather definite late in the afternoon that we needed to get everyone back on board ASAP because of the coming weather and the ice closing in… I’m sure the Captain would have been much happier if we had got away a few hours earlier. Maybe we would have made it through the worst before it consolidated as much as it has with the very cold south- easterly winds blowing the ice away from the coast, around and behind us as well as ahead.
McIntyre concludes:
Even if an adventure tour ventured into a polyna it is doubtful that a tour leader would decide to moor the vessel on the exposed shore of the polyna with an impending easterly gale. Or if such a decision were made, to allow passengers to disembark. But the most startling aspect of the affair is surely Turney’s decision to authorize passengers to go well out of immediate contact with the vessel so that they were not immediately recallable in a matter of minutes. As discussed above, it seems beyond dispute that Turney was pinned by pack ice that was unstably perched to the northeast of Mertz Glacier and not by a sudden break of more or less ‘permanent’ shelf ice; that this “peninsula” of pack ice was highly exposed to the easterly gale that had already developed; and that heavy blowing of this (and other mobile ice) onto the southwest shore of the Mertz Glacier polynya was not only a possibility, but a probability, if not, near certainty.Read it all. It is devastating to Turney’s credibility.
One can see why Turney wants to characterize the movement of sea ice as something that could not have been predicted or mitigated, but there is no reason why anyone else should accept Turney’s characterization and many reasons to reject it.
And, once again, we must ask: where is the mainstream media in exposing this?
Stripe Seekers! Where are Wally, Wizard Whitebeard and Odlaw?
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PRAY.
Father God, You already know what I have done, and I confess to You that I have had an abortion and that it is a sin. You know of my sorrow for having done this, and how I grieve for my unborn baby. I feel like I cannot approach you for forgiveness. I realize that I can't contain the guilt the shame and the grief. I feel like I must release this pain to You. I truly long for your forgiveness and realize that I do not deserve it. It is truly by Your grace and mercy that You would extend this forgiveness to me. In Jesus' Name,Amen.
Father God, You already know what I have done, and I confess to You that I have had an abortion and that it is a sin. You know of my sorrow for having done this, and how I grieve for my unborn baby. I feel like I cannot approach you for forgiveness. I realize that I can't contain the guilt the shame and the grief. I feel like I must release this pain to You. I truly long for your forgiveness and realize that I do not deserve it. It is truly by Your grace and mercy that You would extend this forgiveness to me. In Jesus' Name,Amen.
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LET THE LIVING CHILD LIVE.
life is precious, in the eyes of God.God says thou shalt not kill. In this commandment God has established the sanctity of human life.We learn from the Bible that God is solely the giver of life and only He has the right to take it away. It is important to remember that the unborn are just as precious to the Lord as the living.I write this because of the number of people coming to my office for abortion.Society tells us that the unborn are not human. However, as Christians, we know that the Bible tells us otherwise, that human life begins at conception.
If someone has had an abortion and is feeling guilt and grief about it, the Holy Spirit can provide inner healing to them. Ask for for forgiveness.Jesus will extend his grace and mercy to forgive us of all our sins, no matter the magnitude of them. It is our job as believers, to reach out and minister to those who have been affected by abortion in their personal lives or in their family. Abortion is not only a criminal act,it is totally condemn by God. Let's take time to remember this commandment, where God established the sanctity of human life.Thou shall not kill.God bless you.
life is precious, in the eyes of God.God says thou shalt not kill. In this commandment God has established the sanctity of human life.We learn from the Bible that God is solely the giver of life and only He has the right to take it away. It is important to remember that the unborn are just as precious to the Lord as the living.I write this because of the number of people coming to my office for abortion.Society tells us that the unborn are not human. However, as Christians, we know that the Bible tells us otherwise, that human life begins at conception.
If someone has had an abortion and is feeling guilt and grief about it, the Holy Spirit can provide inner healing to them. Ask for for forgiveness.Jesus will extend his grace and mercy to forgive us of all our sins, no matter the magnitude of them. It is our job as believers, to reach out and minister to those who have been affected by abortion in their personal lives or in their family. Abortion is not only a criminal act,it is totally condemn by God. Let's take time to remember this commandment, where God established the sanctity of human life.Thou shall not kill.God bless you.
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PRAY.
Father,I thank You for setting me up for success in everything I do. I choose to trust and rely on You knowing that Your plans are for my good. I know my best days are ahead of me and look ahead to the blessings You have in store for me in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Father,I thank You for setting me up for success in everything I do. I choose to trust and rely on You knowing that Your plans are for my good. I know my best days are ahead of me and look ahead to the blessings You have in store for me in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Life is full of things that try to push us down but if you fall,get up.The Scripture says,“For though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again.”(Proverbs 24:16, NIV)
It’s easy to get discouraged or lose your enthusiasm or even be tempted to just settle where you are. But if we’re going to see God’s best, we have to have a “bounce-back” mentality. That means when you get knocked down, you don’t stay down. You get back up again. You have to know that every time adversity comes against you, it’s a setup for a comeback.
Remember, as a believer in Jesus, the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you. There is no challenge too difficult, no obstacle too high, no sickness, no disappointment, no person, nothing that can keep you from your God-given destiny. If you stay in faith, then God will turn what was meant to be a stumbling block into a stepping stone, and you’ll move forward in strength, full of faith and victory.
===It’s easy to get discouraged or lose your enthusiasm or even be tempted to just settle where you are. But if we’re going to see God’s best, we have to have a “bounce-back” mentality. That means when you get knocked down, you don’t stay down. You get back up again. You have to know that every time adversity comes against you, it’s a setup for a comeback.
Remember, as a believer in Jesus, the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you. There is no challenge too difficult, no obstacle too high, no sickness, no disappointment, no person, nothing that can keep you from your God-given destiny. If you stay in faith, then God will turn what was meant to be a stumbling block into a stepping stone, and you’ll move forward in strength, full of faith and victory.
Dean Hamstead
Eating one cookie is good, eating two is better. But 100 is actually worse.
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There's a difference between sounding intelligent and sounding middle class. Just saying'.
Our brains, when they function right, have mirror neurones which tend to copy what we observe, allowing us insight into a smile and empathy. It also means we tend to copy what we aspire to. Resisting such behaviour which can be positive or at worst benign seems demented .. but I just throw that out there to be persuaded. - ed
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dear Secretary Kerry,
After listening to you declare repeatedly over the past weeks that "Israel's settlements are illegitimate", I respectfully wish to state, unequivocally, that you are mistaken and ill advised, both in law and in fact.
Pursuant to the "Oslo Accords", and specifically the Israel-Palestinian Interim Agreement (1995), the "issue of settlements" is one of subjects to be negotiated in the permanent status negotiations. President Bill Clinton on behalf of the US, is signatory as witness to that agreement, together with the leaders of the EU, Russia, Egypt, Jordan and Norway.
Your statements serve to not only to prejudge this negotiating issue, but also to undermine the integrity of that agreement, as well as the very negotiations that you so enthusiastically advocate.
Your determination that Israel's settlements are illegitimate cannot be legally substantiated. The oft-quoted prohibition on transferring population into occupied territory (Art. 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention) was, according to the International Committee Red Cross's own official commentary of that convention, drafted in 1949 to prevent the forced, mass transfer of populations carried out by the Nazis in the Second World War. It was never intended to apply to Israel's settlement activity. Attempts by the international community to attribute this article to Israel emanate from clear partisan motives, with which you, and the US are now identifying.
The formal applicability of that convention to the disputed territories cannot be claimed since they were not occupied from a prior, legitimate sovereign power.
The territories cannot be defined as "Palestinian territories" or, as you yourself frequently state, as "Palestine". No such entity exists, and the whole purpose of the permanent status negotiation is to determine, by agreement, the status of the territory, to which Israel has a legitimate claim, backed by international legal and historic rights. How can you presume to undermine this negotiation?
There is no requirement in any of the signed agreements between Israel and the Palestinians that Israel cease, or freeze settlement activity. The opposite is in fact the case. The above-noted 1995 interim agreement enables each party to plan, zone and build in the areas under its respective control.
Israel's settlement policy neither prejudices the outcome of the negotiations nor does it involve displacement of local Palestinian residents from their private property. Israel is indeed duly committed to negotiate the issue of settlements, and thus there is no room for any predetermination by you intended to prejudge the outcome of that negotiation.
By your repeating this ill-advised determination that Israel's settlements are illegitimate, and by your threatening Israel with a "third Palestinian intifada" and international isolation and delegitimization, you are in fact buying into, and even fueling the Palestinian propaganda narrative, and exerting unfair pressure on Israel. This is equally the case with your insistence on a false and unrealistic time limit to the negotiation.
As such you are taking sides, thereby prejudicing your own personal credibility, as well as that of the US.
With a view to restoring your own and the US's credibility, and to come with clean hands to the negotiation, you are respectfully requested to publicly and formally retract your determination as to the illegitimate nature of Israel's settlements and to cease your pressure on Israel.
Respectfully,
Alan Baker, Attorney, Ambassador (ret'),
Former legal counsel of Israel's Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
Former ambassador of Israel to Canada,
Director, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,
Director, International Action Division, The Legal Forum for Israeli Keffiyeh
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- 1377 – Pope Gregory XI (pictured) moved the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon, effectively becoming the last Avignon Pope.
- 1524 – Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano set sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: American forces won a surprising victory over the British at the Battle of Cowpens, one of the most pivotal battles of the war.
- 1989 – Patrick Purdy opened fire in an elementary school inStockton, California, killing five and wounding 30 others.
- 1991 – Harald V, the current King of Norway, succeeded to the throne upon the death of his father Olav V.
Events[edit]
- 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate andSextus Pompey.
- 395 – Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum underHonorius, his brother (aged 10).
- 1287 – King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
- 1377 – Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
- 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
- 1562 – France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain.
- 1595 – Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
- 1608 – Emperor Susenyos surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
- 1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
- 1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant ColonelBanastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
- 1799 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
- 1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.
- 1852 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
- 1873 – A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
- 1885 – A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
- 1893 – The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- 1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1903 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
- 1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
- 1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
- 1913 – Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
- 1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
- 1918 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
- 1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
- 1929 – Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days.
- 1941 – Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
- 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
- 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
- 1945 – The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
- 1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
- 1946 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
- 1949 – The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time.
- 1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".
- 1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
- 1966 – Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
- 1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
- 1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
- 1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
- 1982 – "Cold Sunday": in numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years.
- 1983 – The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating.
- 1989 – Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.
- 1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
- 1991 – Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
- 1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
- 1994 – 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
- 1995 – The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
- 1996 – The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
- 1997 – A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
- 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
- 2001 – U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously promotes Meriwether Lewis from Lieutenant to Captain.
- 2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
- 2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
- 2008 – British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
- 2010 – Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.
Births[edit]
- 1463 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
- 1484 – George Spalatin, German religious reformer (d. 1545)
- 1501 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
- 1504 – Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
- 1560 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)
- 1574 – Robert Fludd, English physician, astrologer, and mathematician (d. 1637)
- 1600 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright and poet (d. 1681)
- 1612 – Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1671)
- 1640 – Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler (d. 1724)
- 1659 – Antonio Veracini, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745)
- 1666 – Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723)
- 1686 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766)
- 1706 – Benjamin Franklin, American politician, scientist, and publisher, 6th President of Pennsylvania (d. 1790)
- 1712 – John Stanley, English organist and composer (d. 1786)
- 1719 – William Vernon, American businessman (d. 1806)
- 1728 – Johann Gottfried Müthel, German composer and pianist (d. 1788)
- 1732 – Stanisław August Poniatowski, Polish-Lithuanian king (d. 1798)
- 1733 – Thomas Linley the elder English singer and conductor (d. 1795)
- 1734 – François Joseph Gossec, French composer (d. 1829)
- 1761 – Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist (d. 1832)
- 1789 – August Neander, German theologian and historian (d. 1850)
- 1793 – Antonio José Martínez, Spanish-American priest, rancher and politician (d. 1867)
- 1814 – Ellen Wood, English author (d. 1887)
- 1820 – Anne Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1849)
- 1828 – Lewis A. Grant, American lawyer and general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1918)
- 1828 – Ede Reményi, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1898)
- 1831 – Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
- 1832 – Henry Martyn Baird, American historian and educator (d. 1906)
- 1834 – August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914)
- 1850 – Alexander Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1918)
- 1851 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)
- 1853 – Alva Belmont, American activist (d. 1933)
- 1857 – Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
- 1857 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American inventor (d. 1935)
- 1858 – Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian author (d. 1940)
- 1860 – Douglas Hyde, Irish politician, 1st President of Ireland (d. 1949)
- 1863 – David Lloyd George, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
- 1863 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (d. 1938)
- 1865 – Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)
- 1867 – Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer, co-founded Universal Studios (d. 1939)
- 1867 – Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English pilot and polo player (d. 1934)
- 1871 – David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty English admiral (d. 1936)
- 1871 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1940)
- 1872 – Henri Masson, French fencer (d. 1963)
- 1875 – Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan playwright (d. 1910)
- 1876 – Frank Hague, American politician, 30th Mayor of Jersey City (d. 1956)
- 1877 – May Gibbs, Australian author (d. 1969)
- 1879 – Burt McKinnie, American golfer (d. 1946)
- 1880 – Mack Sennett, Canadian director (d. 1960)
- 1881 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
- 1881 – Harry Price, English psychic researcher and author (d. 1948)
- 1882 – Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946)
- 1882 – Arnold Rothstein, American businessman (d. 1928)
- 1883 – Compton Mackenzie, Scottish author (d. 1972)
- 1886 – Ronald Firbank, English author (d. 1926)
- 1886 – Glenn L. Martin, American pilot, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (d. 1955)
- 1887 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
- 1888 – Babu Gulabrai, Indian author (d. 1963)
- 1895 – John Duff, Canadian racing driver, winner of 1924 24 Hours of Le Mans (d. 1958)
- 1897 – Marcel Petiot, French doctor and serial killer (d. 1946)
- 1899 – Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
- 1899 – Robert Maynard Hutchins, American philosopher and academic (d. 1977)
- 1899 – Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960)
- 1901 – Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American philosopher (d. 1973)
- 1903 – Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1904 – Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
- 1905 – Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1905 – Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007)
- 1905 – Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, music teacher and critic (d. 1950)
- 1905 – Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
- 1905 – Jan Zahradníček, Czechoslovak poet (d. 1960)
- 1907 – Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987)
- 1908 – Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager and trainer (d. 1985)
- 1911 – John S. McCain, Jr., American admiral (d. 1981)
- 1911 – George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- 1914 – Anacleto Angelini, Italian-Chilean businessman (d. 2007)
- 1914 – Irving Brecher, American screenwriter, producer, and director (d. 2008)
- 1914 – William Stafford, American poet (d. 1993)
- 1916 – Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr., American politician (d. 2011)
- 1917 – Ramón Cardemil, Chilean horse rider (d. 2007)
- 1917 – M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor, director, and politician, 5th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1987)
- 1918 – Keith Joseph, English politician (d. 1994)
- 1918 – George M. Leader, American politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Corsica Joe, French-American wrestler (d. 2010)
- 1920 – Georges Pichard, French illustrator (d. 2003)
- 1921 – Herbert Ellis, American writer and actor
- 1921 – Asghar Khan, Pakistani pilot and politician
- 1921 – Antonio Prohías, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
- 1922 – Robert De Niro, Sr., American painter (d. 1993)
- 1922 – Luis Echeverría, Mexican politician, 50th President of Mexico
- 1922 – Nicholas Katzenbach, American lawyer, 65th United States Attorney General (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Betty White, American actress and singer
- 1923 – Rangeya Raghav, Indian author (d. 1962)
- 1923 – Carol Raye, English-Australian actress
- 1924 – Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian footballer and journalist (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Robert Cormier, American author and journalist (d. 2000)
- 1925 – Abdul Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1996)
- 1925 – Edgar Ray Killen, American Ku Klux Klan organizer
- 1925 – Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (d. 2000)
- 1926 – Newton N. Minow, American politician and attorney
- 1926 – Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (d. 2006)
- 1927 – Thomas Anthony Dooley III, American physician and humanitarian (d. 1961)
- 1927 – Norman Kaye, Australian actor (d. 2007)
- 1927 – Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
- 1927 – E.W. Swackhamer, American director (d. 1994)
- 1928 – Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
- 1928 – Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and entrepreneur (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
- 1929 – Tan Boon Teik, Malaysian-Singaporean politician, Attorney-General of Singapore (d. 2012)
- 1930 – Eddie LeBaron, American football player
- 1931 – James Earl Jones, American actor
- 1931 – Douglas Wilder, American politician, 66th Governor of Virginia
- 1931 – Don Zimmer, American baseball player, manager, and coach
- 1932 – Sheree North, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1933 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-Pakistani diplomat (d. 2003)
- 1933 – Dalida, Egyptian-French singer and actress (d. 1987)
- 1933 – Shari Lewis, American actress, puppeteer, and television host (d. 1998)
- 1934 – Donald Cammell, Scottish director (d. 1996)
- 1934 – Stuart Nisbet, American actor
- 1934 – Zlatko Papec, Croatian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Cedar Walton, American pianist and composer (d. 2013)
- 1935 – Ruth Ann Minner, American businesswoman and politician, 72nd Governor of Delaware
- 1936 – John Boyd British diplomat
- 1937 – Alain Badiou, French philosopher and educator
- 1938 – John Bellairs, American author (d. 1991)
- 1938 – Percy Qoboza, South African journalist (d. 1988)
- 1939 – Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (d. 2008)
- 1939 – Maury Povich, American talk show host
- 1940 – Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner
- 1940 – Umashanker Singh, Indian politician (d. 2013)
- 1940 – Tabaré Vázquez, Uruguayan politician, President of Uruguay
- 1941 – István Horthy, Jr., Hungarian physicist and architect
- 1941 – Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist
- 1942 – Muhammad Ali, American boxer
- 1942 – Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist
- 1942 – Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
- 1942 – Nigel McCulloch, English Anglican bishop
- 1942 – Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1943 – Geoffrey Deuel, American actor
- 1943 – Chris Montez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1943 – René Préval, Haitian politician, 52nd President of Haiti
- 1944 – Françoise Hardy, French singer and actress
- 1945 – Javed Akhtar, Indian composer, poet, and scriptwriter
- 1946 – Michèle Deslauriers, Canadian actress
- 1947 – Jane Elliot, American actress
- 1948 – Jim Ladd, American radio host and producer
- 1948 – Davíð Oddsson, Icelandic politician, 21st Prime Minister of Iceland
- 1948 – Anne Queffélec, French pianist
- 1948 – Michael Rake, English businessman Chairman of BT Group
- 1949 – Gyude Bryant, Liberian politician and businessman
- 1949 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian and actor (d. 1984)
- 1949 – Mick Taylor, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones)
- 1950 – Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican author
- 1952 – Darrell Porter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1952 – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese pianist, composer, producer, and actor (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
- 1953 – Jeff Berlin, American bass player
- 1953 – Carlos Johnson, American singer and guitarist
- 1954 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer, radio host, and environmentalist
- 1954 – Susan Kiefel, Australian lawyer and judge
- 1955 – Steve Earle, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
- 1955 – Steve Javie, American basketball referee
- 1956 – Damian Green, English politician
- 1956 – Paul Young, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Q-Tips)
- 1957 – Keith Chegwin, English television host and actor
- 1957 – Steve Harvey, American comedian, actor, and author
- 1957 – Ann Nocenti, American author
- 1957 – Michel Vaarten, Belgian cyclist
- 1958 – Valdas Kasparavičius, Lithuanian footballer
- 1959 – Susanna Hoffs, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (The Bangles and Ming Tea)
- 1959 – Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
- 1960 – John Crawford, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Berlin)
- 1960 – Chili Davis, Jamaican-American baseball player
- 1960 – Tracey Moore, Canadian voice actress and singer
- 1960 – Chatchai Plengpanich, Thai actor
- 1961 – Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian chess player
- 1961 – Brian Helgeland, American screenwriter, producer, and director
- 1962 – Jun Azumi, Japanese politician
- 1962 – Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor and producer
- 1962 – Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author
- 1962 – Taija Rae, American porn actress
- 1962 – Ari Up, German-English singer (The Slits and New Age Steppers) (d. 2010)
- 1963 – Kai Hansen, German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Gamma Ray, Helloween, Unisonic, and Iron Savior)
- 1964 – Michelle Obama, American lawyer and activist, wife of Barack Obama, 46th First Lady of the United States
- 1964 – Andy Rourke, English bass player (The Smiths and Freebass)
- 1965 – Nikos Nioplias, Greek footballer
- 1965 – Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 – Joshua Malina, American actor
- 1966 – Stephin Merritt, American singer-songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, and The Gothic Archies)
- 1966 – Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer
- 1966 – António Zeferino, Cape Verdean athlete
- 1967 – Ahto Buldas, Estonian cryptographer
- 1967 – Richard Hawley, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Pulp and The Longpigs)
- 1967 – Wendy Mass, American author
- 1967 – Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007)
- 1967 – Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor
- 1968 – Svetlana Masterkova, Russian runner
- 1968 – Rowan Pelling, British journalist
- 1968 – Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch author, poet, and scholar
- 1968 – Jane Salumäe, Estonian runner
- 1969 – Naveen Andrews, English actor
- 1969 – Lukas Moodysson, Swedish screenwriter and director
- 1969 – Tiësto, Dutch DJ and producer (Gouryella and Kamaya Painters)
- 1970 – Cássio Alves de Barros, Brazilian footballer
- 1970 – Masaaki Mochizuki, Japanese wrestler
- 1970 – Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player
- 1970 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-American animator, director, and producer
- 1970 – James Wattana, Thai snooker player
- 1971 – Giorgos Balogiannis, Greek basketball player
- 1971 – Richard Burns, English race car driver (d. 2005)
- 1971 – Kid Rock, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1971 – Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress
- 1971 – Sylvie Testud, French actress
- 1971 – Paolo Vaccari, Italian rugby player
- 1971 – Ann Wolfe, American boxer
- 1972 – Benno Fürmann, German actor
- 1972 – Ken Hirai, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1973 – Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer
- 1973 – Chris Bowen, Australian politician
- 1973 – Liz Ellis, Australian netball player
- 1973 – Aaron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 – Danny Bhoy, Scottish comedian
- 1974 – Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (d. 2003)
- 1974 – Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian violist (Amparanoia)
- 1974 – Derrick Mason, American football player
- 1974 – Yang Chen, Chinese footballer
- 1975 – Freddy Rodriguez, American actor
- 1975 – Squarepusher, English singer-songwriter
- 1975 – Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter and producer
- 1977 – Kevin Fertig, American wrestler
- 1977 – Leigh Whannell, Australian actor, screenwriter, and producer
- 1978 – Ricky Wilson, English singer-songwriter (Kaiser Chiefs)
- 1979 – Oleg Lisogor, Ukrainian swimmer
- 1979 – Chase Stevens, American wrestler
- 1980 – Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American dancer and choreographer
- 1980 – Zooey Deschanel, American singer-songwriter and actress (She & Him)
- 1980 – Gareth McLearnon, Irish flute player
- 1980 – Modestas Stonys, Lithuanian footballer
- 1981 – Warren Feeney, Irish footballer
- 1981 – Ray J, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1981 – Scott Mechlowicz, American actor
- 1982 – Hwanhee, South Korean singer and actor (Fly to the Sky)
- 1982 – Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
- 1982 – Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer (The Wilkinsons)
- 1983 – Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer
- 1983 – Johannes Herber, German basketball player
- 1983 – Rick Kelly, Australian race car driver
- 1984 – Sophie Dee, Welsh porn actress
- 1984 – Calvin Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer
- 1984 – Sam Shaw, American wrestler
- 1985 – Pablo Barrientos, Argentine footballer
- 1985 – Mark Briscoe, American professional wrestler
- 1985 – Kangin, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Super Junior)
- 1985 – Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer and actress (BeForU)
- 1985 – Betsy Ruth, American wrestler
- 1985 – Simone Simons, Dutch singer-songwriter (Epica)
- 1986 – Max Adler, American actor
- 1986 – Hale Appleman, American actor
- 1986 – Viktor Stalberg, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1987 – Oleksandr Usyk, Ukrainian boxer
- 1988 – Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2013)
- 1988 – Will Genia, Australian rugby player
- 1988 – Héctor Moreno, Mexican footballer
- 1989 – Hollie-Jay Bowes, English actress and singer
- 1989 – Björn Dreyer, German footballer
- 1989 – Taylor Jordan, American baseball player
- 1990 – Santiago Tréllez, Colombian footballer
- 1991 – Trevor Bauer, American baseball player
- 1991 – Lee Kiseop, South Korean singer and dancer (U-KISS)
- 1993 – Frankie Cocozza, English singer and TV personality
- 1997 – Jack Vidgen, Australian singer-songwriter
Deaths[edit]
- 395 – Theodosius I, Roman emperor (b. 347)
- 1229 – Albert of Riga, German bishop (b. 1165)
- 1345 – Martino Zaccaria, former Genoese Lord of Chios
- 1345 – Henry of Asti, titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1369 – Peter I of Cyprus (b. 1328)
- 1468 – Skanderbeg, Albanian lord (b. 1405)
- 1598 – Feodor I of Russia (b. 1557)
- 1617 – Fausto Veranzio, Croatian bishop (b. 1551)
- 1654 – Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
- 1705 – John Ray, English historian (b. 1627)
- 1718 – Benjamin Church, American captain (b. 1639)
- 1737 – Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
- 1738 – Jean-François Dandrieu, French organist and composer (b. 1682)
- 1751 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671)
- 1826 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
- 1834 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
- 1861 – Lola Montez, Irish-American dancer and actress (b. 1821)
- 1863 – Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
- 1869 – Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
- 1874 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai conjoined twin (b. 1811)
- 1878 – Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian (b. 1812)
- 1884 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
- 1887 – William Giblin, Australian politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
- 1891 – George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1800)
- 1893 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American politician, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
- 1903 – Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
- 1908 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
- 1909 – Francis Smith, Australian politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819)
- 1911 – Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, and geographer (b. 1822)
- 1927 – Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
- 1931 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (b. 1864)
- 1932 – Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1893)
- 1933 – Ruurd Leegstra, Dutch rower (b. 1877)
- 1933 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848)
- 1936 – Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
- 1942 – Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
- 1947 – Pyotr Krasnov, Russian general (b. 1869)
- 1947 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (b. 1883)
- 1951 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Indian poet, playwright, and director (b. 1903)
- 1952 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American businessman (b. 1877)
- 1956 – Blind Alfred Reed, American singer-songwriter (b. 1880)
- 1960 – Andrew Kennaway Henderson, New Zealand illustrator (b. 1879)
- 1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
- 1963 – Henri Masson, French fencer (b. 1872)
- 1964 – T. H. White, English author (b. 1906)
- 1967 – Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884)
- 1970 – Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoon player (b. 1890)
- 1970 – Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist (b. 1937)
- 1972 – Betty Smith, American author (b. 1896)
- 1973 – Takis Hristoforidis, Greek actor (b. 1914)
- 1977 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
- 1977 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)
- 1981 – Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
- 1983 – Doodles Weaver, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1984 – George Rigaud, Argentinian actor (b. 1905)
- 1987 – Hugo Fregonese, Argentine director (b. 1908)
- 1988 – Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (b. 1938)
- 1991 – Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
- 1992 – Frank Pullen, English businessman (b. 1915)
- 1993 – Albert Hourani, English-Lebanese historian (b. 1915)
- 1994 – Yevgeni Ivanov, Russian spy (b. 1926)
- 1994 – Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
- 1996 – Amber Hagerman, American kidnapped victim, inspired the AMBER Alert system (b. 1986)
- 1996 – Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
- 1996 – Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
- 1997 – Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912)
- 1997 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
- 1998 – Junior Kimbrough, American singer and guitarist (b. 1930)
- 1999 – Robert Eads, American transsexual man (b. 1945)
- 1999 – Samantha Reid, American victim of GHB overdose (b. 1984)
- 2000 – Philip Jones, English trumpet player (b. 1928)
- 2000 – Ion Rațiu, Romanian politician (b. 1917)
- 2001 – Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
- 2002 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
- 2002 – Bishop Karas, Sudanese-American bishop (b. 1955)
- 2002 – Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
- 2002 – Eddie Meduza, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
- 2002 – Roman Personov, Russian physicist (b. 1932)
- 2003 – Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
- 2003 – Balint Vazsonyi, Hungarian pianist (b. 1936)
- 2004 – Raymond Bonham Carter, English banker (b. 1929)
- 2004 – Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter (Niebiesko-Czarni) (b. 1939)
- 2004 – Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
- 2004 – Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2005 – Charlie Bell, Australian businessman (b. 1960)
- 2005 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician, 3rd Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Pierre Grondin, Canadian surgeon (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Art Buchwald, American columnist (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
- 2008 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (b. 1943)
- 2008 – Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
- 2008 – Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Carlos, French singer, actor and entertainer (b. 1943)
- 2009 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Gaines Adams, American football player (b. 1983)
- 2010 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician, 9th Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1914)
- 2010 – Daisuke Gōri, Japanese voice actor (b. 1952)
- 2010 – Michalis Papakonstantinou, Greek politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
- 2010 – Erich Segal, American author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
- 2011 – Don Kirshner, American composer (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Bill Albright, American football player (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist (b. 1941)
- 2013 – Jakob Arjouni, German author (b. 1964)
- 2013 – Tissa Balasuriya, Sri Lankan priest and theologian (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Claude Black, American pianist (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Robert F. Chew, American actor (b. 1960)
- 2013 – Yves Debay, Belgian journalist (b. 1954)
- 2013 – Fernando Guillén, Spanish actor (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Sophiya Haque, English actress and singer (b. 1971)
- 2013 – James Hood, American activist (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Homayoun Khorram, Iranian violinist and composer (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Fred J. Lincoln, American porn actor, director, and producer (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Tony Martin, Trinidadian-American historian (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Jack McCarthy, American poet (b. 1939)
- 2013 – Paul McKeever, German-English police officer (b. 1956)
- 2013 – John Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Guram Sagaradze, Georgian actor (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Michael Triplett, American journalist (b. 1964)
- 2013 – Lizbeth Webb, English soprano and actress (b. 1926)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- National Day (Minorca)
- The opening ceremony of Patras Carnival, celebrated until Clean Monday. (Patras)
“So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.” -Galatians 5:16
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 16: Morning
"I will help thee, saith the Lord." - Isaiah 41:14
This morning let us hear the Lord Jesus speak to each one of us: "I will help thee." "It is but a small thing for me, thy God, to help thee. Consider what I have done already. What! not help thee? Why, I bought thee with my blood. What! not help thee? I have died for thee; and if I have done the greater, will I not do the less? Help thee! It is the least thing I will ever do for thee; I have done more, and will do more. Before the world began I chose thee. I made the covenant for thee. I laid aside my glory and became a man for thee; I gave up my life for thee; and if I did all this, I will surely help thee now. In helping thee, I am giving thee what I have bought for thee already. If thou hadst need of a thousand times as much help, I would give it thee; thou requirest little compared with what I am ready to give. 'Tis much for thee to need, but it is nothing for me to bestow. Help thee?' Fear not! If there were an ant at the door of thy granary asking for help, it would not ruin thee to give him a handful of thy wheat; and thou art nothing but a tiny insect at the door of my all-sufficiency. I will help thee.'"
O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the United Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit? Bring hither thine empty pitcher! Surely this well will fill it. Haste, gather up thy wants, and bring them here--thine emptiness, thy woes, thy needs. Behold, this river of God is full for thy supply; what canst thou desire beside? Go forth, my soul, in this thy might. The Eternal God is thine helper!
"Fear not, I am with thee, oh, be not dismay'd!
I, I am thy God, and will still give thee aid."
O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the United Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit? Bring hither thine empty pitcher! Surely this well will fill it. Haste, gather up thy wants, and bring them here--thine emptiness, thy woes, thy needs. Behold, this river of God is full for thy supply; what canst thou desire beside? Go forth, my soul, in this thy might. The Eternal God is thine helper!
"Fear not, I am with thee, oh, be not dismay'd!
I, I am thy God, and will still give thee aid."
Evening
"The Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself." - Daniel 9:26
Blessed be his name, there was no cause of death in him. Neither original nor actual sin had defiled him, and therefore death had no claim upon him. No man could have taken his life from him justly, for he had done no man wrong, and no man could even have lain him by force unless he had been pleased to yield himself to die. But lo, one sins and another suffers. Justice was offended by us, but found its satisfaction in him. Rivers of tears, mountains of offerings, seas of the blood of bullocks, and hills of frankincense, could not have availed for the removal of sin; but Jesus was cut off for us, and the cause of wrath was cut off at once, for sin was put away forever. Herein is wisdom, whereby substitution, the sure and speedy way of atonement, was devised! Herein is condescension, which brought Messiah, the Prince, to wear a crown of thorns, and die upon the cross! Herein is love, which led the Redeemer to lay down his life for his enemies!
It is not enough, however, to admire the spectacle of the innocent bleeding for the guilty, we must make sure of our interest therein. The special object of the Messiah's death was the salvation of his church; have we a part and a lot among those for whom he gave his life a ransom? Did the Lord Jesus stand as our representative? Are we healed by his stripes? It will be a terrible thing indeed if we should come short of a portion in his sacrifice; it were better for us that we had never been born. Solemn as the question is, it is a joyful circumstance that it is one which may be answered clearly and without mistake. To all who believe on him the Lord Jesus is a present Saviour, and upon them all the blood of reconciliation has been sprinkled. Let all who trust in the merit of Messiah's death be joyful at every remembrance of him, and let their holy gratitude lead them to the fullest consecration to his cause.
It is not enough, however, to admire the spectacle of the innocent bleeding for the guilty, we must make sure of our interest therein. The special object of the Messiah's death was the salvation of his church; have we a part and a lot among those for whom he gave his life a ransom? Did the Lord Jesus stand as our representative? Are we healed by his stripes? It will be a terrible thing indeed if we should come short of a portion in his sacrifice; it were better for us that we had never been born. Solemn as the question is, it is a joyful circumstance that it is one which may be answered clearly and without mistake. To all who believe on him the Lord Jesus is a present Saviour, and upon them all the blood of reconciliation has been sprinkled. Let all who trust in the merit of Messiah's death be joyful at every remembrance of him, and let their holy gratitude lead them to the fullest consecration to his cause.
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Today's reading: Genesis 39-40, Matthew 11 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 39-40
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
2 The LORD was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. 3 When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did, 4 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. 5From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the LORD was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. 6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph's care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate....
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 11
Jesus and John the Baptist
1 After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in the towns of Galilee.
2 When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples 3 to ask him, "Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?"
4 Jesus replied, "Go back and report to John what you hear and see: 5 The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. 6 Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me."
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