1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech -”give me liberty or give me death” at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia. Today’s version: “Give me earmarks. Lots of earmarks, and I’ll vote to throw my own momma out of house and home and sell my daughter to Haitian ‘refugees’ along with a book of recipes…”

1903 – The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes.

1913 – As the effect of Global Warming grip the nation a tornado outbreak kills more than 240 people in the central United States, while an ongoing flood in the Ohio River watershed was killing 650 people.

1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. Twenty-six years later Italy is in ruins and his bleeding body is hung upside down from a lamp-post in Milan.

1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. He didn’t just walk in one day and say “Hi, I’m your new dictator.” No, he had a willing and complicit majority in the national legislature. Just like the Feeler and the Kneeler.

1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. This date is now celebrated as Republic Day in Pakistan.

1962 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, was launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace initiative. Back when America led the way for innovation instead of being rife with pants-shitting, hand-wringing enviro-whackos.

1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States’ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).

1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line. The Israelis pay attention to the line. That horde of barbaric followers of a seventh-century pedophile don’t.

1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. His opposition call it ‘Star Wars’ and laugh. And today, we have technology that shoots down a lot of missiles. Maybe not ALL of them, but a lot more than if we listened to Reagan’s opponents.

1991 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War. This is ‘politics as usual’ in Africa.

1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez. Even Hillary Clinton isn’t this open – she sent Bernie Sanders the keys to a new mansion and a note of worry about his impending suicide.

2005 – Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.

2010 – The Affordable Care Act becomes law in the United States. It’s not affordable and th government doesn’t care.

1413 – Henry V becomes King of England. His minor claim to fame is that he’s one of a thundering herd of people who kicked French butt.

1556 – On the day of his execution in Oxford, former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing the recantations he has made and adds, “And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ’s enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine.” When you go against the established government and its preferred religion, this is the result.

1788 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins. FEMA slow to respond. Bush widely blamed. Today much of New Orleans is in ruins because of the tender and enlightened care of decades of dimmocratic governance. “Gummint grant?!? Half a million for me. Half a million for you. And enough to build a couple of basketball courts in the Ninth Ward.”

1919 – The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia. Basically a puppet government of the Kremlin, it lasts six months. That’s okay, though. the Soviet Army put one in place in 1945 that would last until the Soviet Union came apart. Communism – such a great idea that it must be enforced by guns.

1939 – Nazi Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland. So much for “peace for our time” and negotiating with appeasing murderous dictators.

1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. All that ‘Kneepads’ Harris had to do was be less obnoxious and wait for Biden to use the stairs. And she failed.

1947 – President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States. Today half the freakin’ congress and nost of the federal bureaucracy doesn’t have allegiance to the United States.

1963 – Alcatraz, the legendary federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.

1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto. California. Figures.

1980– US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. That’ll show ‘em, Jimmuh!

1986 – In a blatant example of cultural appropriation Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships

1994 – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force. China and India have their fingers crossed.

1997 – In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49. Terribly brave, those mooslime ‘splodey-dopes!

1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. Following this success, today streams of graceful, ecologically smart passenger balloons daily circle the globe.

235 – Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne. Big deal. Our Kenyan got elected to a second term.

1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule. This leads to yet another opportunity for France to get its collective butt kicked, this time in such a fashion as to found a new term for butt-kicking, “Waterloo”. France, after disastrous tries at democracy (the French Revolution) and dictatorship (Napoleon, TWICE!) gives up (how French!) and installs Louis XVIII, brother of the guy they beheaded in 1793. You’d think they’d learn. You’d be wrong.

1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published. It is a poorly-disguised work of propaganda that establishes stereotypes active to this day. Like “Uncle Tom”. And Dreams of My Father.

1854 – The Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin, by politicians opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States.

1896 – US Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens. Today we’d have to get permission from the UN to send a sternly worded letter. The previous pREsident couldn’t locate Nicaragua on a map.

1914 – In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place, providing a venue for gay men and gracefully athletic women.

1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

1942 – Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik, Iceland, headed to Russia with 20 ships. The German Navy sinks six of them.

1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: “I came out of Bataan and I shall return”. Meanwhile, American forces stayed behind, fighting:

“We’re the battling bastards of Bataan”
“No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam,
And nobody gives a damn”

1991 – Michael Jackson signs $65M deal with Sony records for six albums, receives an entire Cub Scout troop as a signing bonus.

2006 – Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby. This is politics as usual in Africa.

2010 – Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland begins eruptions that would last for three months, heavily disrupting air travel in Europe.

1649 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it “useless and dangerous to the people of England”. We could say that about the whole *Biden administration and much of the vast, unelected Federal bureaucracy.

1687 – French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men somewhere in Texas. Not even close.

1916 – Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.

1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time. Time zones make sense. Daylight savings time doesn’t.

1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada. WE didn’t legalize gambling in Louisiana. It’s still illegal. ‘Gaming’, on the other hand, is a multi-million dollar industry, much of which consists of liberating Texans from their excess funds. That’s okay because it dumps millions of those dollars into state tax coffers where it is doled out by to our ‘leaders’.

1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a kamikaze hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.

1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his “Nero Decree” ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed. That’s pretty much the same effect that the Obama regime achieved with much of American industry. Trump tried to straighten out the mess. Biden liked it the other way. Trump’s trying again.

1978 – UN Security Council Resolution 425 and 426 are passed, calling upon Israel immediately to cease its military action and withdraw its forces from all Lebanese territory (Operation Litani), and establishing the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), keeping UN forces in the area to watch terrorist groups arm themselves and bully the citizenry.

1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN. Several viewers imagine they’re watching “Three Stooges” re-runs.

1982 – Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the U.K.. Iron Meg says The Lion still has fangs. It’s defanged now. They’d have appeal to the UN for a Sternly Worded Letter™.

2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election. In Africa, this is business as usual. Using this criteria in America, we could disown just about every major metropolitan area in the country except perhaps Salt Lake City except that in every case, the dimmocrat candidate benefits from any fraud.

2011 – Libyan civil war: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi’s forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya. Because of careful and thoughtful planning by President Obama and his eminently capable Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Libya emerges from the conflict as a beacon of peace and democracy in the region.

45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. Being too successful makes lesser men jealous, gets you stabbed.

432 AD – Saint Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave. Wait a minute! He’s white. He can’t be a slave. He’s one of the Oppressors. Nobody cain’t be slaves but black people!

624 AD – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr. Military defeat and enslavement has been the major tool for propagation of the Muslim ‘faith’ since its inception.

1756 – St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern). There is no provision for ‘Gay Pride’.

1776 – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery overlooking the city.

1780 – American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday “as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence”. Recently I read “Ireland is the Palestine of the British Isles” and with their current immigration policies, it’s even more true.

1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.

1836 – The Republic of Texas abolishes slavery. It comes back when Texas becomes a state of the United States.

1845 – The rubber band is patented by Stephen Perry of London, adding a new weapon to the classroom arsenal.

1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed. Again. See ‘1805’ above. The Italians do ‘kingdoms’ almost like the French do ‘republics’.

1945 – The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture. It’s too late. The Americans are all over the east bank of the Rhine and other bridgeheads are established.

1947 – First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber, America’s first operational jet strategic bomber.

1948 – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO. They can afford to be brave. Germany’s lying in ashes.

1950 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name “californium”. If they named an element ‘californium’ today, it would have a new sub-atomic particle, the ‘homotron’, a gay electron that went around blowing fuses.

1958 – The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite, our second. It’s still up there, the oldest man-made object still in orbit.

1968 – As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead. That sh*t works!

1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel. Has more balls than many of the previous occupants of the White House. (I’m talking about Barack. We ain’t so sure about ‘Moochele’)

1992 – Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242. Just the ‘Religion of Peace™’ proselytizing in the same manner as its founder.

1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%. Recently their government agreed to strip white farmers of land. Look for South Africa to go the way of the REST of sub-Saharan Africa, starving, barbaric, dependent on the Magic Dirt of the rest of the world to keep from starving.

2008 – New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor. Makes darned little difference in how well (or poorly, actually) the state is run.