962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum, recognizing John as ruler of Rome. Jesus might’ve said his kingdom wasn’t of this world, but several centuries of popes chose otherwise.

1566 – St Augustine, Florida founded.

1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. Replays coming soon as global warming deniers play Galileo’s part.

1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange. Kind of like committee assignments in a dimmocrat-run congress.

1866 – Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery in United States history during peacetime in Liberty, Missouri. They were pikers compared to the IRS.

1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels’s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards. Keeps the German army from getting their boots wet.

1880 – Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission. Later developments by others develop various iterations of the vacuum tube and electronics becomes a thing.

1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the “high-water mark” of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences. The war becomes a stalemate as a dimmocrat president lacks the fortitude to do what needed to be done.

1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided “smart bombs” destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians human shields inside were killed. Hiding military targets in the middle of a crowd of civilians is a common muslim tactic.

2000 – The last original “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

2017 – Kim Jong-nam is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport by agents acting for North Korean despot Kim Jong Il, his younger brother. That’s okay, though because his sister was the darling of the Left at the Winter Olympics in Seoul.

1502 – Isabella I issues an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity.

1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication. When De Gaulle did it in the oppposite direction in 1940, it was a ‘brave’ move.

1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13th United States colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day). It’s a good thing he named it “Georgia” because only seventeen people in the whole state can spell “Oglethorpe”.

1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, offering certain members of the vibrant diversity the opportunity to wear fine suits and live the high life on other people’s money.

1915 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place. Today the most woke of the woke are disassembling Lincoln’s legacy. Those slaves freed THEMSELVES!

1924 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio. Dimmocrats demand equal time.

1924 – George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled “An Experiment in Modern Music”, in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.

1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks. They’re big and they’re fragile and the winds at one end can be way too different from the winds at the other, especially around thunderstorms.

1947 – Christian Dior unveils a “New Look”, helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world. Previously it was THE place to visit to get your Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and SS uniforms tailored.

1950 – Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees. Hell, there are more than THAT in CONGRESS today.

1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue“, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. This is the military equivalent of giving a fish a bicycle.

1999 – President Bill “Bring on the chubby chicks!” Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial. We’re sooooooooooo proud!

2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. Yep! American!

2004 – The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom. Yeah, THAT Gavin Newsom. And he aspires to bring that same lofty governance to the whole country.

660 BC – Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.

55 AD – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor. Mysterious circumstances? Like Vince Foster’s ’suicide’? Or maybe Kneepads Harris’s nomination for the presidency?

1534 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England. Coincidentally, the Church of England allows divorce.

1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, opens. Emergency room immediately fills with illegal aliens.

1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry gerrymanders for the first time. “Gerrymandering” is setting boundaries for a voting district to favor a particular group. It was considered bad. Now it’s accepted SOP to ensure minority representation. You mean like that one snaking all the way across Louisiana to make sure we send a properly pigmented representative to Washington?

1861 – American Civil War: The United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.

1946 – The New Testament of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first significant challenge to the Authorized King James Version, is published. No other book has been subject to as extensive research.

1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place. John Kerry claims another Purple Heart.

1979 – Islamic revolution of Iran achieves victory under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Freed of the oppression of the American-backed shah’s government, Iran becomes a beacon of peace and fairness in the region. Jimmuh Carter goes all wobbly in the knees…

2006 – Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney shoots Harry Whittington in the face, neck, and upper torso while hunting quail, and the press wants us to get upset because he shot a LAWYER?

2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests. Egypt flowers into a beacon of peace and tolerance. Nightly crowds demonstrate to praise obama and Hillary Clinton who are hoping to emulate Jimmy Carter’s level of diplomacy. As a direct result of this spectacular display of statesmanship on the part of those two bozos, the Muslim Brotherhood makes a run at taking over the country. Only a move by Egypt’s military prevents obama from creating another Islamic republic.

2015 – A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women. As Turkey slides toward fundamental islam, women lose their protections and rights and this thing would be solved by calling her a whore and stoning her to death. Wonderful, people, those muslims.

1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. Estimates of the number killed by the Mongols range from 90,000 to two million.

1355 – The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. It’s about beer…

1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. And that’s how most of Canada ended up speaking English. Of course the British exiled some of my ancestors from Acadia, and that’s where we Cajuns come from…

1897 – New York Times begins using slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print”. Today adds words “as long as it promotes the goals of our socialist friends.”

1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia AFTER they’d split Poland between themselves and Germany, an arrangement made by secret treaty from before WW II began. The Soviets murdered thousands upon thousands of Poles to make sure that Poland would not be a threat to the Communist utopia.

1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. He was Republican. Dimmocrats Kennedy and Johnson thought they could make it work.

1984 – Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre, just down the block from Wakanda. Africa being Africa.

1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. Color is mandatory. Competence is optional.

2021 – Texas’ worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts. What most people don’t know it that foundation of the failure is federal push to prioritize wind and solar power over fossil fuels.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. Yah think? Of course, today Massachusetts would mesh perfectly with Britain’s Left, and they’d have already confiscated all those dangerous guns, so the “rebellion” would be limited to snarky blog articles.

1799 – USS Constellation captures French frigate L’Insurgent off Nevis, West Indies. This is the first time an American naval vessel defeated and captured an foreign enemy vessel. We almost don’t count it today since it was French, but the French were sort of a ‘big deal’ back then…

1825 – After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.

1861 – Confederate Provisional Congress declares that all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states. Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & vice president of the Confederacy.

1870 – The U.S. Weather Bureau was established. We had no weather before that.

1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency because nothing is better able to regulate a nation’s agriculture than a bunch of entrenched bureaucrats in a big city.

1925 – Haifa Technion, in what is to be Israel opens. There go those insidious Jews, moving in, starting universities and stuff and just bringing the whole neighborhood down. Next thing you know they’ll be voting and having symphonies and libraries and stuff.

1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war while Japan is kicking our butt all over the Pacific and Germany is torpedoing ships in the sight of cities on the East Coast as their submarine captains enjoy their “Happy Time”. Get it while you can, boys. This dog WILL have its day.

1950 – Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. Today it’s filled with raghead-loving careerists, but few Congress have the guts to say so because much of Congress is anti-American socialists.

1965 – Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam under the administration of the big-eared lying dimmocrat m***F*** LBJ, who lacked a plan, a staff, or the guts to do the job right. Nothing like a dimmocrat ‘managing’ the military.

1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747. A year later I flew in one coming back from Korea on leave.

1692 – A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials. The guy could be a medical ‘expert’ for CNN or the former Biden* regime.

1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War. This war works so well for them that thirty-seven years later they use the same move against the United States. The results were much worse in the long run.

1923 – German Nazi Party Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily. In today’s America, the Left has equivalents: NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, etc., etc., ad infinitum.

1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada. “Better living through chemistry.”

1942 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore, ultimately giving the Brits their greatest defeat in history.

1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. And now we have many US, state and local ‘law enforcement’ organizations that are following the the KGB and Stasi footsteps. For your safety, you know…

1993 – General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day. NBC News has a motto: “If the truth doesn’t match our agenda, we’ll make sh*t up!” And they’re STILL doing it.

2013 – As global warming tightens its grip on a hurting planet, a blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.

1497 – In Florence, Italy, supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books, in a “Bonfire of the vanities“.

1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri. And we’re due for another… And there have been some recent rumblings beneath Yellowstone Park, wherein resides a supervolcano.

1943 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign. Japan is starting the death spiral, but doesn’t believe it just yet.

1949 – Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000 per year baseball player for the NY Yankees. $100K won’t pay the bat boy these days.

1974 – Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles” opens in movie theaters. Still one of the funniest movies ever…

1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation. Twenty-eight years of a political dynasty? Who do they think they are? The Kennedy family? Or the Clintons?

1990 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power. Our own Leftists say, “They didn’t have the right people in charge. We can do the better”.

1991 – Haiti’s first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in. Aristide was deposed on 29 September 1991 by coup d’etat, a recognized political process in any Third-world Hellhole… In a demonstration of Haiti’s continued pursuit of good government, he’s re-elected in 2000 and re-couped in 2004, and now he’s back, no doubt to help with the billions of dollars in aid money thrown at Haiti after their earthquake.

1991 – The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street in London, the headquarters of the British government. That’s bit more ‘activism’ than some fruit stnading around beating a pot with a spoon.

1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union. Rome tried. Napoleon tried. Hitler tried. Each was worse than the previous. This time the bureaucrats did it. Wanna bet on the outcome?

1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan. He should have been immediately sewn into a bloody pigskin and left to die slowly in the noonday sun.

1997 – NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X. I loves me some OS X.