Today in History – 17 March

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.

Today in History – 16 March

1789 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician is born. He’s kind of important to me, what with Ohm’s Law playing a big part in my career.

1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. And lest you get confused, this is not the same as the Engineer Corps.

1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy. Texas always has been a bit different.

1864 – American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana, looting and pillaging the whole way.

1867 – First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.

1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa. Mexico lost control of its people. We had a president that knew he had a duty to protect our borders. Today: Mexico lost control of its people. Now we have a president who is scrambling to erase the effects of his clueless predecessor and we still have a Congress who’ll sell their daughters’ bodies for votes.

1918 – Finnish Civil War: Battle of Länkipohja is infamous for its bloody aftermath as the Whites executed 70–100 capitulated Reds created a hundred ‘good communists’.

1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. Today he’d never be able to do it, instead spending all his energy trying to find which bureaucrat needed to okay the experiment.

1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht. Treaty? Just piece of paper signed by some people who don’t run things now.

1942 – History of Rocketry: The first V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff). Apparently somebody was reading Goddard’s notes, and it wasn’t US!

1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist. The last Japanese surrender in 1951! For the Americans who wrested the territory from Japan, “Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company’s founding.

1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado, a gas-guzzling, wallowing dinosaur that shows the pinnacle of American automotive engineering.

1977 – US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland. Jimmuh “The Dhimmi” Carter: Kissing Palestinian ass for his whole life.

1988 – Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people. But the Left still insists that Saddam had NO weapons of mass destruction, even AFTER he used them against his own people AND against the Iranians in the Iran-Iraq War.

2003
 – Rachel “Crunchy” Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah. The Palestinians have always found plenty of useful idiots among the American Left.

2016 – Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 22 and injuring 18. I’m confused. Muslims being muslim or politics as usual in Africa? I have to go with the first.

Today in History – 15 March

44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. His check to the Clinton Foundation bounced.

1776 – South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government. Also was to fire the first shot of the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War, to some…)

1819 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton. Turns out they’re BOTH right.

1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign : U.S. Navy fleet arrives at Alexandria, Louisiana. I drive through the place quite often, crossing the Red River heading north.

1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 4800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa. Now Mexican presidential candidates campaign in Mexico del Norte California

1917
 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar. It doesn’t matter to the Left. They still want him dead. There’s a lesson here about trying to appease the Left.

1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. Oh, I know… Let’s negotiate…

1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress “We shall overcome” while advocating the Voting Rights Act. In private conversation he tells his cronies “I’ll have those ni**ers voting Democrat for a hundred years.”

1968 – LIFE Magazine calls Jimi Hendrix “most spectacular guitarist in the world”. Yeah. Right…

1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union. Somebody had to be the last president of the Soviet Union.

2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War, yet another brilliant diplomatic coup by the Obama administration under the tutelage of Her Filthiness Felonia von Pantsuit.

2019 – Approximately 1.4 million useful idiots young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change. How do you ‘go on strike’ when you don’t do anything useful?

Today in History – 14 March

1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War. His crime? Losing to the French.

1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. Others had working machines, but ol’ Eli patented his and cotton moved from an expensive thing to a commodity. We should have picked our own cotton, though.

1889 – German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his “Navigable Balloon”. And rigid-framed light-than-air craft became “Zeppelins”.

1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard. Today it’s on the “whatever you believe it’s worth” standard, and that’s not good. Gold was $35 an ounce when we got off the gold standard. Now it’s right at $5100 an ounce, so either the dollar’s worth less, or gold’s worth a LOT more.

1937 – Pope Pius XI officially issued the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge to Nazi Germany. Among other things it speaks against replacing God-centered religion with a worship of the people and the state.

8. Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community—however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly things—whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God; he is far from the true faith in God and from the concept of life which that faith upholds…

Now it’s perfectly acceptable to worship the State as long as the Church gets a cut.

1943
 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is “liquidated”, unlike today’s ‘ghettoes’, where you just walk out, or more likely, just sit there waiting for free shit…

1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul. The North Koreans and Red Chinese keep Pyongyang. Compare the two today.

1964 – Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy, neatly wrapping up all questions about the assassination, right?!?

1967
 – The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. Interesting thought: Does it still have that “Eternal Flame”, and if so, has the government purchased carbon offsets for it? Or are dimmocrat demi-gods exempt?

1992
 – Soviet newspaper “Pravda” suspends publication since it is redundant to the function of the New York Times.

1994
 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle. For too many years it’s the ONLY way an American get to space. From footprints on the moon to thumbing rides on a Russian POS in forty years… At least American private enterprise still has a vision while NASA engages in Muslim outreach.

Today in History – 13 March

1639 – Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard, one of the white religious colonizers. It’s time we changed the name to one of the caring First Peoples.

1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus, thereby providing snickers for generations of juvenile minds.

1862 – The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves is passed by the United States Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. You can pass a lot of legislation if you talk the opposition into not showing up.

1884 – The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885. The natives are running the place now. It’s a veritable paradise now, ain’t it?!?

1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a “bank holiday”. Just let our banks get in trouble and watch…

1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. They don’t call them names or talk bad about them or make them show identification before they vote. They KILL them.

1954 – Battle of Dien Bien Phu: Viet Minh forces attack the French.

1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. This is what a REAL insurrection looks like.

1963 – Police in Phoenix, Arizona arrest Ernesto Miranda and charge him with kidnap and rape. His conviction is ultimately set aside by the United States Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona. “You have the right to remain silent…”

1989 – A geomagnetic storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. Six million people were left without power for nine hours. If anything, we’re more susceptible today than we were then…

2008 – Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time. Right now it’s sitting at around $5100.

2016 – Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people. Wanna play “Guess the religion”?

Today in History – 12 March

1894 – In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.

1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States, go on to promote cookies made with opium.

1918
 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years. And they renamed Saint Petersburg to Leningrad because apparently Tsar Peter the Great didn’t slaughter enough of his countrymen. And now the city is Saint Petersburg again. Putinopolis, anybody?

1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his “fireside chats”. “Hi! I’m your president. This is my pet camel. Let him get juuuust his NOSE under the edge of your tent…”

1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.

1945 – Diarist and Jewish teen Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp. Real Nazis kill schoolgirls.

1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism. How droll! A Democrat against communism. Today’s dimmocrats slobber all over themselves for every tinpot commie on the planet. Case in Point: Jimmuh “the dhimmi” Carter. And Obummer. And Bernie Sanders. And *Biden. And Harris.

1989 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the world wide web. Al Gore curiously absent.

1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites. But fear not! The Obama regime trades them food in return for GUARANTEES that the NorKs will behave. And we KNOW that they can be trusted. We’re gonna have to bomb these fools one day. I wonder what will trigger it?

1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.

2003 – The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). We all didn’t die from that one, either.

Today in History – 11 March

222 – Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber. Now THAT is what is called an ‘insurrection’.

1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. I’ve had a few returned Lend-Lease rifles pass through my hands.

1977The 1977 Hanafi Siege: Around 150 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations. The perpetrators get better treatment than Jan. 6 captives.

1978 – Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Palestinian terrorists hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel’s Operation Litani. Palestinians were brave when attacking unarmed civilians on a bus. When faced with REAL fighters, the Israeli armed forces, they moved out of southern Lebanon.

1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the Soviet Union’s leader. He picked a very bad time to take over, because his opponent was President Ronald Reagan at the peak of his game. Gorby rode the USSR into the ground…

1990
 – Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. Words cannot convey the thoughts that went through my head as the Evil Empire unraveled…

1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States. On her watch, under the sterling leadership of President Bill “Where’s the chubby chicks?” Clinton, she presides over the torching of the Branch Davidian complex, killing over eighty people, and the snatching of Elian Gonzalez, deporting him back to Cuba.

2004
 – Madrid Train Bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid (Spain) kill 191 people. Spain caved and elected a Lefty appeaser.

2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares ChinkvirusCOVID-19 virus a pandemic.

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