An eight hour siege in Gold coast finished with the gunman walked out of a unit in handcuffs. It isn't analogous to Sydney, where there were hostages. The gunman threatened to harm the property he was holed up in. He had fired two 'warning shots' and police got a siege squad with negotiators involved. The man is said to be suffering from diverse personal issues, but did not appear to be drunk or drug affected.
US police shooting. Man pulled gun on police and was killed as they fired in self defence. It is important that police always do that, and not hesitate. To hesitate is to risk the police being the victim. Pulling a gun on police is supposed to be dangerous. Meanwhile the mother has tried to create a riot suggesting her son had been chased and shot by police. Video evidence shows that is not true. It is apparent her son had been with a friend involved with theft at a petrol station. The friend is not yet apprehended.
Nanobots .. the next best thing since GM food. Expect scare stories meant to prevent research into something useful.
Students need to participate in activities. All of them. The idea that protesting an activity is enlightened, is harmful for kids, as was the idea of exploiting kids for the Chinese cultural revolution or for the Nazi fascist ideal. There is consistent anecdotal evidence that despite the protest movement instilling the unproductive practice of students protesting worthwhile activity such as math drill work or non routine exercises such as BMI discovery, still the AGW hysteric movement has successfully exploited children to support their movement. Critical thinking is important, but obstruction is disempowering.
2013
As it is Christmas Day, regular columnists haven't posted. Yesterday's editorial focused on criticism of the church. Todays is about Jesus of Nazareth. This blog is secular and welcomes people of all religious persuasions, or none. This writer is a Christian and believes that Jesus was Christ, the son of God. I have embraced two decisions before coming to that conclusion. The first was to accept that God was possible, which at age eighteen, being raised by devout atheists, was a big leap. I had known the straw dogs which are often drawn to demolish the plausibility of a concept such as God. God, as I'd thought before I accepted the possibility, was not only not possible, but absurd. If God could do anything, could he build a bridge so vast he couldn't leap across it? If he couldn't leap across it, he wasn't God, if he couldn't build it he wasn't God, ergo, God could not exist as it is not possible to satisfy both conjectures. Clearly, if God were to exist, he would not be capable of all things. But the mistake of my thinking, I later came to believe, was that my construction of God was what was not possible. If God exists, he is clearly not what I was portraying Him as being. What is the world like without God? Is it any different? Why would God make the world the way he did if he had existed? I accepted that God was possible only after I admitted he was different to what I had constructed him as being.The second decision took twenty five years for me. It was to accept that the resurrection was real. I had thought it inspired by an army of devout believers and hucksters. But, for some reason, it is natural for a person to be religious, and those that don't tend to suffer. The accounts of the gospels and contemporaneous sources are compelling for me that the resurrection happened .. a group of late teen, early twenties men and women who were not well educated did not deceive the best learners of the age. The authorities could have challenged assertions but chose not to. If one accepts the resurrection happened, and that God is possible .. there is debate in Christian circles as to how to worship God, but there is unanimity of thought too .. Jesus was God, and he died for a purpose, and he resurrected. What that means for you, is only something you and the Lord know. Maybe he wasn't born on this precise Day. Maybe he wasn't thirty three years old when he was crucified. But, what does it mean? Merry Christmas.
Special thanks to birthday girl Chih Yun, who founded, with her husband, David, the Jesus Family Centre in Cabramatta over twenty years ago. Thanks to her choice to open a church for Chinese peoples living in Sydney, the church has grown to embrace peoples of all nationalities and ethnicities. They accepted me on Christmas Day in 2007. I had become a recluse, besieged by some very bad people. But her family gave me a home.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 333, Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevated his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar. 336, First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in ancient Rome 350, Vetranio met Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and was forced to abdicate his title (Caesar). Constantius allowed him to live as a private citizen on a state pension. 496, Clovis I, king of the Franks, was baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius. 597, Augustine of Canterbury and his fellow-labourers baptised in Kent more than 10,000 Anglo-Saxons. 800, Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. 1000, the foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary was established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary. 1025, Coronation of Mieszko II Lambert as King of Poland 1066, William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy was crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. 1076 coronation of Bolesław II the Generous as king of Poland.In 1100, Baldwin of Boulogne was crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity. 1130, Count Roger II of Sicily was crowned the first King of Sicily. 1261, John IV Laskaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire was deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaiologos. 1492, Carrack Santa María captained by Christopher Columbus ran onto reefs off Haiti due to a proper watch not being kept. Local natives helped to save food, armory and ammunition but not the ship. 1553, Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeated the Spanish conquistadors and executed the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia. 1643, Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean found and named by Captain William Mynors of the English East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary. 1776, George Washington and the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day. 1809, Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor. 1814, Rev. Samuel Marsden held the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay. 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continuously performing arts organisation in the United States, gave its first performance. 1826, the Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concluded after beginning the previous evening. 1837, Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor led 1100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee. 1868, United States President Andrew Johnson granted unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
In 1914, a series of unofficial truces occurred across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas. 1926, Emperor Taishō of Japan died. His son, Prince Hirohito, succeeded him as Emperor Shōwa. 1927, the Vietnamese Nationalist Party was founded. 1932, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China killed 275 people. 1941, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrived at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Also 1941, World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ended, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Also 1941, Admiral Émile Muselier seized the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which became the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces. 1946, the first in Europe artificial, self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was initiated within Soviet F-1 nuclear reactor. 1947, the Constitution of the Republic of China went into effect. 1950, the Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, was taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turned up in Scotland on April 11, 1951. 1963, Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio began transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots were forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. 1965, the Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz 1968, Apollo program: Apollo 8 performed the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) manoeuvre, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. Also 1968, Kilvenmani massacre, 44 Dalits (untouchables) burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
In 1974, Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. Also 1974, Marshall Fields drove a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff. 1977, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat. 1989, deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena Ceaușescu were condemned to death and executed after a summary trial. 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as General Secretary of the Soviet Union (the union itself was dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum was finalized and Ukraine officially left the Soviet Union. 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law that officially established a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov. 2003, the ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, disappeared shortly before its scheduled landing. 2004, Cassini orbiter released Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempted a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253 2012, an Antonov An-72 plane crashed close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people.
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August https://www.createspace.com/4124406
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or http://wh.gov/ilXYR
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
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Walt Whitman
"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
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This is why we can't have nice things? - ed
John Tran ...Yep, the trouble with guns is that it takes little skill to kill. So therefore there is little thought involved in training how to use a gun. He could've easily yell out "identify yourself or I will shoot". But a nervous person with a deadly weapon can't think straight.
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<Yet despite all the evidence morons still keep electing these left wing Socialist alliance cretins.>
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I want to wish you a merry Christmas. Special thanks to Stephanie Ann,Mandy Mclean, John Tran for their support with Bolt report and everywhere else. Special shout out to Timothy Ly, who took me to Jess Family Centre on Christmas 2007 .. you have a gift, mate and the Lord has blessed you. And many thanks to her, for whom I dream that He might make me young. I see in her the promise of new life .. ed
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<My father told me the Red Cross is corrupt and he is gone over 50 years. This video certainly has proved him right.>
http://youtu.be/ar3Hr77gUQ0
What evil spirit possessed Moshe Dayan to give up Har Habayit/The Temple Mount?
http://youtu.be/7l1ol69rRxo
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Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
King of the nations.
4 Who will not fear you, Lord,
and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship before you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed....”
This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August https://www.createspace.com/4124406
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or http://wh.gov/ilXYR
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Smail Cehic, Tina, Chih Yun and Jesus of Nazareth. Born on this day, across the years, along with
- 1250 – John IV Laskaris, Byzantine emperor (d. 1305)
- 1642 – Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1727)
- 1674 – Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
- 1728 – Johann Adam Hiller, German composer and conductor (d. 1804)
- 1771 – Dorothy Wordsworth, English author and poet (d. 1855)
- 1821 – Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (d. 1912)
- 1870 – Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman (d. 1965)
- 1878 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and automobile magnate (d. 1941)
- 1887 – Conrad Nicholson Hilton Sr., American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (d. 1979)
- 1889 – Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1984)
- 1890 – Robert LeRoy Ripley, American cartoonist and anthropologist, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (d. 1949)
- 1891 – Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (d. 1980)
- 1899 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
- 1907 – Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (d. 1994)
- 1918 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- 1924 – Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer, created The Twilight Zone (d. 1975)
- 1944 – Kenny Everett, English comedian and radio host (d. 1995)
- 1950 – Karl Rove, American journalist, White House Deputy Chief of Staff
- 1954 – Annie Lennox, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Tourists and Eurythmics)
- 1957 – Shane MacGowan, English-Irish singer-songwriter (The Pogues, The Nips, and Shane MacGowan and The Popes)
- 1971 – Dido, English singer-songwriter
- 1984 – Alastair Cook, English cricketer
- 1984 – Georgia Moffett, English actress
- 1984 – Jessica Origliasso, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (The Veronicas)
- 1984 – Lisa Origliasso, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (The Veronicas)
- 1995 – Mimmi Sandén, Swedish singer and actress
- 1066 – Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, although he still faced rebellions over the following years and was not secure on his throne until after 1072.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: At night, George Washington and his army crossed the Delaware Riverto launch a surprise attack against the Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton the next morning.
- 1926 – Emperor Taishō died of a heart attack, and was succeeded by his son, Hirohito, who ruled until his death in 1989, becoming the longest-reigning Emperor of Japan.
- 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu (pictured) and his wife Elena were condemned to death under a wide range of charges and executed.
- 2007 – A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its enclosure and attacked three patrons before it was shot and killed.
Matches
- 333 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar.
- 336 – First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in ancient Rome
- 350 – Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicate his title (Caesar). Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension.
- 496 – Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius.
- 597 – Augustine of Canterbury and his fellow-labourers baptise in Kent more than 10,000 Anglo-Saxons.
- 800 – Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
- 1000 – The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
- 1025 – Coronation of Mieszko II Lambert as King of Poland
- 1066 – William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
- 1076 – Coronation of Bolesław II the Generous as king of Poland.
- 1100 – Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity.
- 1130 – Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first King of Sicily.
- 1261 – John IV Laskaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaiologos.
- 1492 – Carrack Santa María captained by Christopher Columbus runs onto reefs off Haiti due to a proper watch not being kept. Local natives help to save food, armory and ammunition but not the ship.
- 1553 – Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
- 1643 – Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean found and named by Captain William Mynors of the English East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
- 1776 – George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
- 1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor.
- 1814 – Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay.
- 1815 – The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.
- 1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
- 1837 – Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor leads 1100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
- 1868 – United States President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
- 1914 – A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.
- 1926 – Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito, succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
- 1927 – The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
- 1932 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
- 1941 – Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
- 1941 – World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
- 1941 – Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
- 1946 – The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet F-1 nuclear reactor.
- 1947 – The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
- 1950 – The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
- 1963 – Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
- 1965 – The Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz
- 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
- 1968 – Kilvenmani massacre, 44 Dalits (untouchables) burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.
- 1974 – Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
- 1974 – Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
- 1977 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat.
- 1989 – Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena Ceaușescu are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial.
- 1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
- 2000 – Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.
- 2003 – The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
- 2004 – Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
- 2009 – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253
- 2012 – An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people.
Hatches
- 1250 – John IV Laskaris, Byzantine emperor (d. 1305)
- 1461 – Christina of Saxony (d. 1521)
- 1583 – Orlando Gibbons, English organist and composer (d. 1625)
- 1584 – Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1611)
- 1628 – Noël Coypel, French painter (d. 1707)
- 1642 – Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (d. 1727)
- 1652 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician, anatomist, and scholar (d. 1713)
- 1665 – Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish-English poet and songwriter (d. 1746)
- 1667 – Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal (d. 1743)
- 1674 – Thomas Halyburton, Scottish minister and theologian (d. 1712)
- 1686 – Giovanni Battista Somis, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1763)
- 1696 – Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1715)
- 1700 – Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1758)
- 1711 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer (d. 1772)
- 1716 – Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (d. 1774)
- 1717 – Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
- 1728 – Johann Adam Hiller, German composer and conductor (d. 1804)
- 1730 – Philip Mazzei, Italian-American physician and philosopher (d. 1816)
- 1742 – Charlotte von Stein, German assistant of Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1827)
- 1745 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1799)
- 1757 – Benjamin Pierce, American general and politician, 17th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1839)
- 1763 – Claude Chappe, French engineer (d. 1805)
- 1771 – Dorothy Wordsworth, English author and poet (d. 1855)
- 1776 – Sydney, Lady Morgan, Irish-English author (d. 1859)
- 1817 – John Hewitt Jellett, Irish priest and academic (d. 1888)
- 1821 – Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (d. 1912)
- 1829 – Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer and bandleader (d. 1892)
- 1856 – Pud Galvin, American baseball player (d. 1902)
- 1856 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913)
- 1860 – Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (d. 1921)
- 1861 – Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian educator, lawyer, and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1946)
- 1864 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (d. 1951)
- 1865 – Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1950)
- 1869 – Charles Finger, English-American journalist and author (d. 1941)
- 1870 – Lloyd Hildebrand, English cyclist (d. 1924)
- 1870 – Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman (d. 1965)
- 1871 – Katherine McKinley, American daughter of William McKinley (d. 1875)
- 1873 – Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-American agriculturalist and educator (d. 1959)
- 1874 – Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and actress (d. 1944)
- 1875 – Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (d. 1955)
- 1876 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Pakistan (d. 1948)
- 1876 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
- 1877 – Noël Bas, French gymnast (d. 1960)
- 1878 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver (d. 1941)
- 1878 – Noëlle, Countess of Rothes (d. 1956)
- 1878 – Joseph Schenk, Russian-born American film executive (d. 1961)
- 1883 – Hugo Bergmann, Czech-Israeli philosopher and academic (d. 1975)
- 1884 – Samuel Berger, American boxer (d. 1925)
- 1884 – Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (d. 1967)
- 1886 – Kid Ory, American trombonist and bandleader (d. 1973)
- 1887 – Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (d. 1979)
- 1889 – Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1984)
- 1890 – Noel Odell, English geologist and mountaineer (d. 1987)
- 1890 – Robert Ripley, American anthropologist and publisher, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (d. 1949)
- 1891 – Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (d. 1980)
- 1899 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor and singer (d. 1957)
- 1901 – Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004)
- 1902 – Barton MacLane, American actor, singer, and playwright (d. 1969)
- 1902 – William Bell, American tuba player and educator (d. 1971)
- 1903 – Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (d. 1981)
- 1904 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1906 – Lew Grade, Ukrainian-English film producer (d. 1998)
- 1906 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
- 1907 – Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (d. 1994)
- 1907 – Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-American wrestler and actor (d. 1990)
- 1907 – Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (d. 1988)
- 1908 – Quentin Crisp, English actor, author, and illustrator (d. 1999)
- 1908 – Ernest L. Massad, American general (d. 1993)
- 1908 – Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- 1909 – Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-American engineer (d. 1996)
- 1911 – Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor and painter (d. 2010)
- 1913 – Candy Candido, American singer, bass player, and voice actor (d. 1999)
- 1913 – Tony Martin, American singer and actor (d. 2012)
- 1913 – Henri Nannen, German journalist (d. 1966)
- 1914 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand businessman (d. 2007)
- 1915 – Pete Rugolo, Italian-American composer and producer (d. 2011)
- 1916 – Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (d. 2012)
- 1917 – Lincoln Verduga Loor, Ecuadorian journalist and politician (d. 2009)
- 1918 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian lieutenant and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- 1919 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer and director (d. 2006)
- 1919 – Paul David, Canadian cardiologist and politician, founded the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999)
- 1919 – Noele Gordon, English actress (d. 1985)
- 1920 – Artur Agostinho, Portuguese journalist (d. 2011)
- 1921 – Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (d. 2000)
- 1921 – Steve Otto, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
- 1922 – William Demby, American author (d. 2013)
- 1923 – René Girard, French historian, philosopher, and critic
- 1924 – Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer, created The Twilight Zone (d. 1975)
- 1924 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian poet and politician, 10th Prime Minister of India
- 1925 – Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (d. 1998)
- 1925 – Ned Garver, American baseball player
- 1925 – Sam Pollock, Canadian businessman (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Febo Conti, Italian actor (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Enrique Jorrín, Cuban composer and violinist (d. 1987)
- 1927 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player and coach (d. 1975)
- 1927 – Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player
- 1927 – Leo Kubiak, American basketball and baseball player
- 1928 – Dick Miller, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1929 – Stuart Hall, English radio and television host
- 1929 – Christine M. Jones, American educator and politician (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Chris Kenner, American singer-songwriter (d. 1976)
- 1930 – Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian-American boxer
- 1930 – Armenak Alachachian, Armenian basketball player and coach
- 1930 – Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet and illustrator (d. 1986)
- 1932 – Mabel King, American actress and singer (d. 1999)
- 1933 – Basil Heatley, English long-distance runner
- 1935 – Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan
- 1935 – Stephen Barnett, American academic and scholar (d. 2009)
- 1935 – Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, American politician (d. 2007)
- 1935 – Anne Roiphe, American author and activist
- 1936 – Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
- 1936 – Ismail Merchant, Indian-English director and producer (d. 2005)
- 1937 – O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer-songwriter (The Isley Brothers) (d. 1986)
- 1938 – Duane Armstrong, American painter
- 1938 – David Borden, American composer and academic
- 1938 – Noel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1939 – Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Pakistani businessman
- 1939 – Bob James, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Fourplay)
- 1939 – Akong Rinpoche, Tibetan-Chinese spiritual leader (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Royce D. Applegate, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2003)
- 1940 – Pete Brown, English singer-songwriter
- 1940 – Hilary Spurling, English journalist and author
- 1941 – Kenneth Calman, Scottish physician, surgeon, and academic
- 1942 – Françoise Dürr, Algerian-French tennis player
- 1942 – Barbara Follett, Jamaican-English politician
- 1942 – Enrique Morente, Spanish singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
- 1943 – Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Brazilian race car driver
- 1943 – Hanna Schygulla, German actress and singer
- 1944 – Jairzinho, Brazilian footballer and manager
- 1944 – Kenny Everett, English comedian, actor, and radio host (d. 1995)
- 1944 – Nigel Starmer-Smith, English rugby player and journalist
- 1944 – Henry Vestine, American guitarist (Canned Heat and The Mothers of Invention) (d. 1997)
- 1945 – Rick Berman, American screenwriter and producer
- 1945 – Eve Pollard, English journalist and author
- 1945 – Mike Pringle, Zambian-Scottish politician
- 1945 – Noel Redding, English singer-songwriter and bass player (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Fat Mattress, Road, and The Noel Redding Band) (d. 2003)
- 1945 – Gary Sandy, American actor
- 1945 – Ken Stabler, American football player and sportscaster
- 1946 – Jimmy Buffett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
- 1946 – Larry Csonka, American football player and sportscaster
- 1946 – Christopher Frayling, English academic and author
- 1946 – Gene Lamont, American baseball player and manager
- 1946 – Stuart Wilson, English actor
- 1947 – Twink Caplan, American actress and producer
- 1948 – Alia al-Hussein, Egyptian wife of Hussein of Jordan (d. 1977)
- 1948 – Barbara Mandrell, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1948 – Joel Santana, Brazilian footballer and manager
- 1949 – Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer
- 1949 – Nawaz Sharif, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan
- 1949 – Sissy Spacek, American actress and singer
- 1949 – Joe Louis Walker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
- 1950 – Peter Boardman, English mountaineer and author (d. 1982)
- 1950 – Yehuda Poliker, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1950 – Karl Rove, American journalist and diplomat, White House Deputy Chief of Staff
- 1950 – Manny Trillo, Venezuelan baseball player and manager
- 1952 – Desireless, French singer
- 1952 – Tolossa Kotu, Ethiopian athlete and coach
- 1952 – C. C. H. Pounder, Guyanese-American actress
- 1953 – Kaarlo Maaninka, Finnish long-distance runner
- 1954 – Annie Lennox, Scottish singer-songwriter and pianist (The Tourists and Eurythmics)
- 1954 – Steve Wariner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1955 – Brett Vroman, American basketball player
- 1957 – Chris Kamara, English footballer and sportscaster
- 1957 – Shane MacGowan, English-Irish singer-songwriter (The Pogues, The Nips, and Shane MacGowan and The Popes)
- 1958 – Cheryl Chase, American voice actress and singer
- 1958 – Hanford Dixon, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1958 – Rickey Henderson, American baseball player and coach
- 1958 – Konstantin Kinchev, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alisa)
- 1958 – Alannah Myles, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1958 – Martin Wiesner, German footballer
- 1959 – Michael P. Anderson, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2003)
- 1960 – Ron Bottitta, English actor
- 1961 – Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian politician
- 1962 – Dean Cameron, American actor
- 1964 – Ian Bostridge, English tenor
- 1964 – Gary McAllister, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1964 – Tim Royes, American director (d. 2007)
- 1964 – Bob Stanley, English keyboard player, songwriter, producer, and journalist (Saint Etienne)
- 1965 – Edward Davey, English politician
- 1965 – David Rath, Czech physician and politician
- 1966 – Toshi Arai, Japanese race car driver
- 1967 – Jason Thirsk, American bass player (Pennywise and Humble Gods) (d. 1996)
- 1968 – Helena Christensen, Danish model and actress
- 1968 – Jim Dowd, American ice hockey player
- 1969 – Frederick Onyancha, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- 1970 – Nagma, Indian actress
- 1970 – Emmanuel Amuneke, Nigerian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1970 – Rodney Dent, American basketball player
- 1971 – Dido, English singer-songwriter
- 1971 – Noel Hogan, Irish guitarist and producer (The Cranberries, Mono Band, and Arkitekt)
- 1971 – Justin Trudeau, Canadian educator and politician
- 1972 – Josh Freese, American drummer and songwriter (The Vandals and Devo)
- 1972 – Mac Powell, American singer-songwriter and producer (Third Day)
- 1972 – Qu Yunxia, Chinese middle-distance runner
- 1973 – Robbie Elliott, English footballer and coach
- 1973 – Chris Harris, American wrestler
- 1973 – Alexandre Trudeau, Canadian journalist and director
- 1974 – Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (d. 2012)
- 1975 – Rob Mariano, American reality show contestant, winner of Survivor: Redemption Island
- 1975 – Daniel Mustard, American singer-songwriter
- 1975 – Hideki Okajima, Japanese baseball player
- 1975 – Choi Sung-yong, South Korean footballer and manager
- 1975 – Marcus Trescothick, English cricketer
- 1976 – Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Nightwish and For My Pain...)
- 1976 – Tim James, American basketball player and coach
- 1976 – Atko Väikmeri, Estonian footballer
- 1976 – Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ and producer
- 1977 – Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress
- 1977 – Priya Anjali Rai, Indian-American porn actress
- 1977 – Israel Vázquez, Mexican boxer
- 1978 – Simon Jones, Welsh cricketer
- 1978 – Joel Porter, Australian footballer and manager
- 1978 – Bridgetta Tomarchio, American actress and model
- 1979 – Laurent Bonnart, French footballer
- 1979 – Robert Huff, English race car driver
- 1979 – Hyun Young-min, South Korean footballer
- 1980 – Kahi, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (After School)
- 1980 – Locó, Angolan footballer
- 1980 – Joanna Angel, American porn actress, director, and producer
- 1980 – Reika Hashimoto, Japanese model and actress
- 1980 – Laura Sadler, English actress (d. 2003)
- 1980 – Marcus Trufant, American football player
- 1981 – Trenesha Biggers, American wrestler
- 1981 – Christian Holst, Danish-Faroese footballer
- 1981 – Willy Taveras, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 – Katie Wright, American actress
- 1982 – Dev, Indian actor and singer
- 1982 – Shawn Andrews, American football player
- 1982 – Rob Edwards, Welsh footballer
- 1982 – Ethan Kath, Canadian keyboard player, songwriter and producer (Crystal Castles and Kïll Cheerleadër)
- 1982 – Chris Rene, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1984 – Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer
- 1984 – Alastair Cook, English cricketer
- 1984 – Georgia Moffett, English actress
- 1984 – Jessica Origliasso, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (The Veronicas)
- 1984 – Lisa Origliasso, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (The Veronicas)
- 1984 – Chris Richard, American basketball player
- 1985 – Martin Mathathi, Kenyan long-distance runner
- 1985 – Alexander Rusev, Bulgarian wrestler
- 1985 – Leon Pisani, Welsh singer-songwriter (V)
- 1985 – Perdita Weeks, Welsh actress
- 1986 – Aya Suzaki, Japanese voice actress
- 1987 – Ceyhun Gülselam, Turkish footballer
- 1987 – Julian Lage, American guitarist and composer
- 1987 – Jorgie Porter, English actress
- 1987 – Justin Sweeney, Australian footballer
- 1987 – LJ Reyes, Filipino actress and dancer
- 1988 – Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1988 – Eric Gordon, American basketball player
- 1988 – Lukas Hinds-Johnson, German rugby player
- 1989 – Djameleddine Benlamri, Algerian footballer
- 1989 – Michael Green, American soccer player
- 1989 – Shahzaib Hasan, Pakistani cricketer
- 1989 – Keri Wong, American tennis player
- 1990 – Conny Perrin, Swiss tennis player
- 1993 – Emi Takei, Japanese model, actress, and singer
- 1995 – Mimmi Sandén, Swedish singer and actress
Despatches
- 795 – Pope Adrian I (b. 700)
- 820 – Leo V the Armenian, Byzantine emperor (b. 775)
- 940 – Makan ibn Kaki, Iranian general
- 1156 – Peter the Venerable, French saint (b. 1092)
- 1553 – Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish-Chilean explorer and politician, 1st Royal Governor of Chile (b. 1500)
- 1635 – Samuel de Champlain, French soldier, geographer, and explorer (b. 1567)
- 1676 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (b. 1592)
- 1676 – Matthew Hale, English lawyer and jurist, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (b. 1609)
- 1683 – Kara Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman general (b. 1634)
- 1758 – James Hervey, English priest and author (b. 1714)
- 1763 – Suraj Mal, Indian ruler (b. 1707)
- 1784 – Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1716)
- 1824 – Barbara von Krüdener, German mystic and author (b. 1764)
- 1868 – Linus Yale, Jr., American engineer and businessman (b. 1821)
- 1875 – Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851)
- 1880 – Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1828)
- 1916 – Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (b. 1845)
- 1916 – Solko van den Bergh, Dutch target shooter (b. 1854)
- 1921 – Vladimir Korolenko, Russian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1853)
- 1925 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
- 1926 – Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
- 1928 – Miles Burke, American boxer (b. 1885)
- 1933 – Francesc Macià i Llussà, Catalan colonel and politician, 122nd President of Catalonia (b. 1859)
- 1935 – Paul Bourget, French author and critic (b. 1852)
- 1938 – Karel Čapek, Czech author and playwright (b. 1890)
- 1940 – Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)
- 1941 – Richard S. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1884)
- 1944 – George Steer, South African-English journalist and author (b. 1909)
- 1945 – Franz Kröwerath, German rower (b. 1880)
- 1946 – W. C. Fields, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
- 1947 – Gaspar G. Bacon, American politician, 51st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
- 1949 – Leon Schlesinger, American animator and producer, founded Warner Bros. Cartoons (b. 1884)
- 1950 – Neil Francis Hawkins, English politician (b. 1903)
- 1952 – Margrethe Mather, American photographer (b. 1886)
- 1953 – Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1865)
- 1953 – William Haselden, Spanish-English cartoonist (b. 1872)
- 1954 – Johnny Ace, American singer (b. 1929)
- 1956 – Robert Walser, Swiss author (b. 1878)
- 1957 – Charles Pathé, French record producer, founded Pathé Records (b. 1863)
- 1961 – Owen Brewster, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (b. 1888)
- 1961 – Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
- 1963 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet, playwright, painter, and critic (b. 1896)
- 1970 – Michael Peto, Hungarian-English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)
- 1973 – İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884)
- 1973 – Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (b. 1880)
- 1975 – Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded Éditions Gallimard (b. 1881)
- 1975 – Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician and author (b. 1913)
- 1977 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director (b. 1889)
- 1979 – Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (b. 1906)
- 1979 – Jordi Bonet, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1932)
- 1983 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1893)
- 1988 – Shōhei Ōoka, Japanese author and critic (b. 1909)
- 1988 – Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle, English lepidopterist (b. 1920)
- 1989 – Benny Binion, American poker player and businessman (b. 1904)
- 1989 – Elena Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1919)
- 1989 – Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romanian general and politician, 1st President of Romania (b. 1918)
- 1989 – Betty Garde, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1989 – Frederick F. Houser, American judge and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1905)
- 1989 – Billy Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1928)
- 1989 – Florică Murariu, Romanian rugby player (b. 1955)
- 1989 – Robert Pirosh, American director and screenwriter (b. 1910)
- 1989 – Wally Ris, American swimmer (b. 1924)
- 1992 – Monica Dickens, English-American author (b. 1915)
- 1993 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
- 1994 – Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (b. 1916)
- 1995 – Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1906)
- 1995 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (b. 1917)
- 1996 – Bill Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1928)
- 1997 – Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer and explorer (b. 1958)
- 1997 – Denver Pyle, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1920)
- 1998 – Bryan MacLean, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Love) (b. 1946)
- 1998 – John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1926)
- 1999 – Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929)
- 2000 – Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939)
- 2000 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic (b. 1908)
- 2001 – Alfred A. Tomatis, French otolaryngologist (b. 1920)
- 2002 – William T. Orr, American actor and producer (b. 1917)
- 2003 – Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929)
- 2004 – Gennadi Strekalov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Robert Elliott, American actor (b. 1944)
- 2005 – Derek Bailey, English guitarist (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Robert Barbers, Filipino police officer, lawyer, and politician (b. 1944)
- 2005 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b. 1918)
- 2006 – James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Famous Flames) (b. 1933)
- 2006 – Hiroaki Hidaka, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
- 2007 – Des Barrick, English cricketer (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Jim Beauchamp, American baseball player and coach (b. 1939)
- 2007 – Mighty King Kong, Kenyan singer (b. 1973)
- 2008 – Eartha Kitt, American singer and actress (b. 1927)
- 2009 – Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (brute. and The Undertow Orchestra) (b. 1964)
- 2010 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, Venezuelan politician, 66th President of Venezuela (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Giorgio Bocca, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
- 2011 – Ben Breedlove, American blogger (b. 1993)
- 2011 – Jim Sherwood, American saxophonist (The Mothers of Invention) (b. 1942)
- 2011 – Simms Taback, American author and illustrator (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Sita bint Fahd Al Damir, Saudi Arabian wife of Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Erico Aumentado, Filipino journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1959)
- 2012 – Augusto Bracca, Venezuelan composer (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Frank Calabrese, Sr., American mobster (b. 1937)
- 2012 – Jane Dixon, American bishop (b. 1937)
- 2012 – Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, English wife of William Douglas-Home (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Halfdan Hegtun, Norwegian radio host and politician (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Edward Hughes, American bishop (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Henry Ford Kamel, Ghanaian banker and politician (b. 1961)
- 2012 – Joe Krivak, American football player and coach (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Anthony J. Bryant, American historian and author (b. 1961)
- 2013 – Luis Humberto Gómez Gallo, Colombian engineer and politician (b. 1962)
- 2013 – David R. Harris, English geographer, anthropologist, archaeologist and academic (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Wayne Harrison, English footballer (b. 1967)
- 2013 – Mike Hegan, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Andy Malcolm, English-South African footballer (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Mel Mathay, Filipino politician, 8th Mayor of Quezon City (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Adnan Şenses, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1935)
2014
- Christian feast day:
- Christmas Day, Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus. (International)
- Constitution Day (Taiwan)
- Malkh-Festival (Nakh peoples of Chechnya and Ingushetia)
- Quaid-e-Azam's Day (Pakistan)
- Takanakuy (Chumbivilcas Province, Peru)
HAVE AN ELVIS CHRISTMAS
Tim Blair – Thursday, December 25, 2014 (2:41pm)
Readers are invited to celebrate Christmas with Andy Kaufman’s uncanny Elvis Presley impersonation:
UPDATE. Click and scroll for an epic Christmas tune showdown between Iowahawk and veteran music critic Kurt Loder, whose own bizarre Elvis connection is revealed here.
UPDATE. Click and scroll for an epic Christmas tune showdown between Iowahawk and veteran music critic Kurt Loder, whose own bizarre Elvis connection is revealed here.
BLACK IS WHITE
Tim Blair – Wednesday, December 24, 2014 (7:03pm)
On Saturday, the day of Victoria’s election, the Rise Up Australia Party posted the above photo to their Facebook page.Yes, it appears that Australia’s far right, ultra-nationalist, evangelical Christian, anti-abortion, and anti-immigration party has an extraordinary amount of gender and racial diversity. More so, as I noted someone comment dryly under the photo, than The Greens.How is this possible?
It is easily possible once you realise that superwhite middle- and upper-class Greens make Casper look like Blind Joe Reynolds. To get around this conundrum, Hamad literally argues that black is white:
Whiteness is essentially those cultural beliefs, practices, norms and values that are sanctioned by white, western society. The term “Judeo-Christian” values is simply a handy shorthand for all of the above. Rise Up Australia is an example of how you can share in the bounty of white privilege even if you are not white, as long as you are willing to play by the rules. And one of these rules is to talk about race in a way that legitimises the dominance of white culture.
Hamad concludes that people who don’t conform to her narrow notions of race and culture have “betray[ed] their respective communities. And themselves.” Yep. She’s straight-up calling them a bunch of Uncle Toms. Interestingly, Hamad previously complained about a too-white panel discussing multiculturalism. Yet, for all she knows, some may hold culural beliefs allowing them to share in the bounty of black history even if they are not black.
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Students need to participate in activities. All of them. .Girl, 13: "You don't need to know my weight" - Kidspot: http://t.co/l8QJQxhyZG
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) December 25, 2014
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Iran resistance leader predicts regime change in exclusive Fox News interview | http://t.co/UwjuTXrwVA
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) December 25, 2014
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IS shoots down warplane over Syria http://t.co/St2MygNDYy via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) December 25, 2014
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Polanski loses sex case dismissal bid http://t.co/XrvpW4eFQF via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) December 25, 2014
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Nanobots are going to be able to do mind-blowing things http://t.co/JSFvzyXuxe via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) December 25, 2014
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Gold Coast siege: Shots fired http://t.co/DxUcp75CT2 via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) December 25, 2014
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So who ended up with the pipe? http://t.co/lxTqSOd3D6
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) December 25, 2014
=== Posts from last year ===
Holly Sarah Nguyen
Misinformation and lies can strain families and relationships all the way to the grave. It takes real courage to give the truth and live the truth. That means going out of your way to see that it is correct and doing repair work when wrong. I know we each do not see things the same. We can make amends and someone can still be unsatisfied. Only do what you can from the well of a good heart, let the rest play out.
John Tran It is so true, and especially around this time of the year where family gets together.. it hurts more because it's family who can perpetuate misinformation and ill feelings. But I always turn to my wife and say "remember how when we met, we wanted a loving family ever since we grew up surrounded by the ones that let us down, this just reminds us to raise our kids by good example"
John Tran It is so true, and especially around this time of the year where family gets together.. it hurts more because it's family who can perpetuate misinformation and ill feelings. But I always turn to my wife and say "remember how when we met, we wanted a loving family ever since we grew up surrounded by the ones that let us down, this just reminds us to raise our kids by good example"
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Sometimes we feel unappreciated and alone as if we do not matter. It is key to try to remember feelings are not always accurate and they can be challenged. We are not prisoners of our thoughts. We can change them to be more realistic and less emotional... ((((Hugs)))) My Christmas wish to you is that we may know peace, serenity, and calmness from the start of the day til the end and may it begin again the following day.. Merry Christmas!!!
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Walt Whitman
"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
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How Do You Explain Jesus Christ?
“A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father’s shop. He has no formal education. He owns no property of any kind. One day he puts down his tools and walks out of his father’s shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in the nearby countryside. Walking from place to place preaching all the while even though he is in no way an ordained minister he never gets farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most.
He does this for three years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing—the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place so he is interred in a borrowed tomb.
End of story? No, this uneducated, propertyless young man who preached on street corners for only three years who left no written word has for 2000 years had a greater effect on the entire world than all the rulers, kings and emperors, all the conquerors, the generals and admirals, all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who ever lived—all put together. How do we explain that?
Unless He really was what He said he was.”—Ronald Reagan
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He does this for three years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing—the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place so he is interred in a borrowed tomb.
End of story? No, this uneducated, propertyless young man who preached on street corners for only three years who left no written word has for 2000 years had a greater effect on the entire world than all the rulers, kings and emperors, all the conquerors, the generals and admirals, all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who ever lived—all put together. How do we explain that?
Unless He really was what He said he was.”—Ronald Reagan
www.washingtonpost.com
===This is why we can't have nice things? - ed
John Tran ...Yep, the trouble with guns is that it takes little skill to kill. So therefore there is little thought involved in training how to use a gun. He could've easily yell out "identify yourself or I will shoot". But a nervous person with a deadly weapon can't think straight.
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I want to wish you a merry Christmas. Special thanks to Stephanie Ann,Mandy Mclean, John Tran for their support with Bolt report and everywhere else. Special shout out to Timothy Ly, who took me to Jess Family Centre on Christmas 2007 .. you have a gift, mate and the Lord has blessed you. And many thanks to her, for whom I dream that He might make me young. I see in her the promise of new life .. ed
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www.jihadwatch.org
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http://youtu.be/ar3Hr77gUQ0
You'd think that that kind of aid was hard to mess up. I used to give to Medicine San Frantiere for that reason. But they do mess up badly .. they are compromised by evil people too. - ed
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www.israpundit.com
===What evil spirit possessed Moshe Dayan to give up Har Habayit/The Temple Mount?
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“So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.” Luke 2:16-20 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"For your sakes he became poor."
2 Corinthians 8:9
2 Corinthians 8:9
The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but "though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor." As the rich saint cannot be true in his communion with his poor brethren unless of his substance he ministers to their necessities, so (the same rule holding with the head as between the members), it is impossible that our Divine Lord could have had fellowship with us unless he had imparted to us of his own abounding wealth, and had become poor to make us rich. Had he remained upon his throne of glory, and had we continued in the ruins of the fall without receiving his salvation, communion would have been impossible on both sides. Our position by the fall, apart from the covenant of grace, made it as impossible for fallen man to communicate with God as it is for Belial to be in concord with Christ. In order, therefore, that communion might be compassed, it was necessary that the rich kinsman should bestow his estate upon his poor relatives, that the righteous Saviour should give to his sinning brethren of his own perfection, and that we, the poor and guilty, should receive of his fulness grace for grace; that thus in giving and receiving, the One might descend from the heights, and the other ascend from the depths, and so be able to embrace each other in true and hearty fellowship. Poverty must be enriched by him in whom are infinite treasures before it can venture to commune; and guilt must lose itself in imputed and imparted righteousness ere the soul can walk in fellowship with purity. Jesus must clothe his people in his own garments, or he cannot admit them into his palace of glory; and he must wash them in his own blood, or else they will be too defiled for the embrace of his fellowship.
O believer, herein is love! For your sake the Lord Jesus "became poor" that he might lift you up into communion with himself.
Evening
"The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."
Isaiah 40:5
Isaiah 40:5
We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when Romanism shall be exploded, and the crescent of Mohammed shall wane, never again to cast its baleful rays upon the nations; when kings shall bow down before the Prince of Peace, and all nations shall call their Redeemer blessed. Some despair of this. They look upon the world as a vessel breaking up and going to pieces, never to float again. We know that the world and all that is therein is one day to be burnt up, and afterwards we look for new heavens and for a new earth; but we cannot read our Bibles without the conviction that--
"Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run."
We are not discouraged by the length of his delays; we are not disheartened by the long period which he allots to the church in which to struggle with little success and much defeat. We believe that God will never suffer this world, which has once seen Christ's blood shed upon it, to be always the devil's stronghold. Christ came hither to deliver this world from the detested sway of the powers of darkness. What a shout shall that be when men and angels shall unite to cry "Hallelujah, hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!" What a satisfaction will it be in that day to have had a share in the fight, to have helped to break the arrows of the bow, and to have aided in winning the victory for our Lord! Happy are they who trust themselves with this conquering Lord, and who fight side by side with him, doing their little in his name and by his strength! How unhappy are those on the side of evil! It is a losing side, and it is a matter wherein to lose is to lose and to be lost forever. On whose side are you?
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Today's reading: Habakkuk 1-3, Revelation 15 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Habakkuk 1-3
1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received.
Habakkuk’s Complaint
2 How long, LORD, must I call for help,
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
but you do not save?
3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted....
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
but you do not save?
3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted....
Today's New Testament reading: Revelation 15
Seven Angels With Seven Plagues
1 I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed. 2 And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name. They held harps given them by God 3and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb:
“Great and marvelous are your deeds,Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
King of the nations.
4 Who will not fear you, Lord,
and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship before you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed....”
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