July 25

325 - The Council of Nicaea ended. Its 300 attending bishops drafted the 'Nicene Creed' and fixed the formula for Easter Sunday.

**This was the first 'ecumenical council’ (universal)...The council was also a strong denunciation of the Arians, and helped pull the various churches together.**
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326 - Roman Emperor Constantine refused to carry out the traditional pagan sacrifices.

**This was a truly revolutionary event, and one which could have only been gotten away with by an emperor of such strength and standing.**
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1394 - Charles VI of France issued a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France.

**Just another country which threw the Jews out. It’s been happening since the days of the Babylonians, and continues to this day...Which is why the Israelis must be willing to go nukes if need be to keep Israel.**
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1554 - Mary Tudor, Queen of England, married King Philip of Spain.

**It was bad enough for the queen to be a Catholic, but marrying the Spanish monarch was too much...This was a choice she felt she had to make to protect herself from the Protestant lords, but ended up being the beginning of the end of her 3+ year reign.**
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1570 - Ivan 'the Terrible,' Czar of Russia, attended the public execution of almost all his advisers and ministers.

**Imagine how he treated his enemies...I guess Ivan earned his nickname.

It's amazing two of the most revered Russian leaders are also two of it's most brutal: Ivan the Terrible and Joseph Stalin.**
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1805 - Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital city.

**One year earlier Burr was Vice President of the U.S, and also the man who killed U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel...A truly bizarre character and one I recommend you read about: Aaron Burr.**
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1866 - David Faragut became the first admiral in the U.S. Navy; Ulysses S. Grant became the first General of the Army.

**There would be other admirals, but only John Pershing (Army) attained such a lofty rank as Grant until WWII.**
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1943 - Benito Mussolini was dismissed as Premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest.

**Amazingly, the useless Italians allowed Mussolini to be ‘rescued’ by the Nazi’s, but his day was coming...Within two years Il Duce's bald ass was swinging from a lamp-post.**
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1947 - The National Security Act: Established a linkage between the military and national security, establishing the National Security Council, the CIA, Department of Defense, and several other new agencies, including the National Military Establishment with three separate departments (Army, Navy and the new U.S. Air Force), and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

**You’d think there would have already been such a 'linkage.'**
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1968 - Pope Paul VI published the encyclical 'Humanae Vitae,' restating the Catholic position on the family, and condemning all artificial methods of birth control.

**I’m not Catholic, but I respect many of the positions and views of the Church...This is one I wish they’d revisit.**
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1969 - Senator Ted Kennedy plead guilty to leaving the scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident which killed Mary Jo Kopechne.

**How can driving drunk, then driving into a lake, then leaving the passenger to die and not reporting the crash for hours after the fact be anything less than manslaughter?

Only in Kennedyville could this fat POS get away on a charge of 'leaving the scene.'**
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1978 - The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in Lancashire, England.

**This is an awesome display of the power of science...And a worrisome one.

In an age of uncountable abortions and fears of overpopulation you would think there’d be no need for such creations...But there are few restrictions on modern-day Mengelians, who care only about playing God in their attempt to disprove Him.**
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1986 - Former Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth was convicted of selling U.S. military secrets to the Soviets through the John Walker spy ring.

**Sounds like treason to me, and treason should always be met with death...But this POS received a 365-year sentence, and we’ll all be paying for him to live out the rest of his life.**
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1990 - Roseanne Barr sparked controversy with an off-key rendition of the 'Star-Spangled Banner' during a double-header at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego.

**'Off-key' is selling this fat pig’s effort short...Rosie was completely out of line, and if the Color Guard had loaded a couple rounds in the chamber and shot her dumb ass the world would have been much better off.**
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1990 - U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, met with Saddam Hussein, assuring him, "...we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait."

**No wonder he felt free to invade Kuwait...The logic of this meeting escapes me.**
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1991 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev told Communist Party leaders it is was no longer a realistic goal of building Communism, and the party must reject "outdated ideological dogmas."

**Unfortunately the Chinese, Koreans, Cubans, American Democrats, etc., didn’t get the memo...Or simply rejected Gorbi’s rejection of the failure known as Communism.**

July 24

1847 - Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived at the valley of the Great Salt Lake.

**The Latter Day Saints found a home, and had to do much fighting (politically and militarily) to keep it...I admit I know next to nothing about the Mormon religion, but it is one of the fastest growing in the world, and will be a force in American life before we know it.**
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1866 - Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.

**The long road to recovery began...Unfortunately the Civil War still scars America, and its legacy is felt in everything we are and do; good and bad.**
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1929 - President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy.

**Hoover was a good man, but a terrible president...The Depression hadn’t started by this time, but his hopes for this Utopian pact were pathetic.

Within ten years the world realized the joke they were playing on themselves expecting peace, and learned this lesson to the tune of over 40,000,000 deaths in WWII...What’s even more crazy is the world returned to such ridiculous thinking after this war as well.**
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1990 - Iraq, accusing Kuwait of conspiring to harm its economy through oil overproduction, massed tens of thousands of troops, and hundreds of tanks, along the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border.

**Saddam was preparing his excuse to invade Kuwait...He learned well from his Nazi and Soviet heroes.**

July 23

1532 - A Turkish invasion forced Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to agree to peace with his Protestant enemies.

**The role of the Turks in the success of the Protestant Reformation isn’t given enough credit for the success of the Reformation...If Charles didn’t have to fight constant battles with the Ottomans, to guard his eastern flank, it is much less likely he would have been outmaneuvered (politically, economically, and militarily) by his European enemies.**
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1914 - Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin.

**The tinder-box was about to blow and the world soon witnessed the greatest war to that time.**
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1979 - Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini, who overthrew the Shah of Iran and made the country a theocracy, laid down the law on music. He said, "Music is no different from opium. Music affects the human mind in a way that makes people think of nothing but music and sensual matters."

**What a bizarre edict, but nothing out of the norm for this bizarre man. Plus, it was almost directly from the Koran itself.

Unfortunately, Khomeini's importance on the Islamist movement is huge, and the world is paying dearly for allowing such a man to take power in Iran.**
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1990 - President GHW Bush announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court.

**Ugh!!! Bush had good intentions, but Souter turned out to be one of the most Liberal voices on the Supreme Court.

This event has caused Conservatives to be much more cautious when it comes to Republicans selecting judges...We can't have any more 'Souters,' which is why we must select solid Conservatives, instead of 'moderates.' A term I don't believe is real, anyway.**

July 22

1620 - A small congregation of English separatists, led by John Robinson, began their emigration to the New World. Today, we refer to these folks as the 'Pilgrims.'

**After multiple failures in the New World, the English finally had a group of people who were tough enough to make a go of it and make it work**
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1775 - George Washington took command of the American Army outside Boston.

**I can’t stress how important this one individual was to the Revolutionary effort...It is extremely unlikely it would have succeeded without him, no matter who else would have led the way.**
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1812 - The Battle of Salamanca: English troops, under the Duke of Wellington, defeated the French, in Spain.

**Wellington performed well at this battle, and was figuring out how to fight the French...His brilliance was his ability to find cracks in battle plans, and Spain was the training ground for what eventually ended in him defeating Napoleon.**
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1917 - Alexander Kerensky became Prime Minister of Russia.

**Who knows how Russian history (world history) would have been different had the Mensheviks managed to keep control...Sadly we know the reality of Bolshevikism: Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ceausescu, Castro, etc., etc., etc.**
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1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

**I bet most Americans have no idea about Roosevelt’s 'Court Packing Scheme.'

FDR wanted to 'reorganize' the Supreme Court to give it 15 justices...Six of which he would be able to pick at the time of the increase.

Roosevelt was unhappy with the Supremes for ruling some of his 'New Deal' projects were unconstitutional, and wanted to put an end to this, by controlling the Court with his appointees...Thankfully the Senate said 'Hell no,' because this is how dictators are born.

It’s bad enough he ran for four terms, but can you imagine if FDR also had the Supreme Court ‘in pocket’?**
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1942 - 300,000 Warsaw Ghetto Jews were sent to the Treblinka Extermination Camp.

**Another big day for the Nazi death machine...Congratulations.**
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1942 - The U.S. began wartime gasoline rationing.

**It makes me shutter to think if this ever had to happen again...The ACLU, and other Leftist groups, would go insane at the thought of people’s liberties being obstructed. EVEN IN A TIME OF WAR!!**
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1986 - For the first time in a half-century, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached a federal official; Judge Harry E. Claiborne. He was later convicted by the Senate of tax evasion and bringing disrepute on the federal courts.

**Congress has a responsibility to oversee the actions of the Executive and Judiciary branches (as they do each other and Congress), but all three have declined to take this issue seriously.

There are way too many scoundrels in the government, and the impeachment process should be put to much better and frequent use...Unfortunately, neither of the political parties are decent enough to use this power wisely, but would chose to use it as a political tool instead of to maintain legitimacy.**
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2003 - Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight.

**A good day for the world. Especially for the Iraqi people, who will never have to live through the Hell of the civil war these two nuts would have fought after Saddam was gone.

And thank God they decided to fight, because taking them prisoner would have been a tragedy of justice.**
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2004 - The September 11 Commission issued a report saying America's leaders failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats before the devastating attacks of 9/11, but stopping short of blaming President Bush and former President Clinton.

**Of course America failed on 9/11...And of course no one was to blame.

The idiots who made the report were Clinton or Bush lackeys. What did we expect they'd say in their report?**
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2005 - North Korea offered to abandon its nuclear weapons if the two sides in the Korean War signed a peace agreement to replace the 1953 cease-fire that halted hostilities but did not resolve the conflict.

**Of course they did.**

July 21

70 - Romans secured Jerusalem after four months of battle and great slaughter.

**The Jews put up a good fight, but there is no way they could have held back the awesome Roman machine...Unfortunately, this began a new Diaspora.**
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1306 - Philip 'the Fair's' secret commission resulted in the arrest and confiscation of all the goods and money of every Jew in France.

**No wonder the French did nothing when the Nazi’s took on the 'Jewish Problem'...They have their own sordid history against the Jews.**
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1542 - In a strengthening of the fight against Protestantism, Pope Paul III set up the Inquisition.

**The various Inquisitions did little if anything in Protestant lands, but were a great tool for Catholic countries to keep check and control of their people...Never forget: Everything is politics. Even religion.**
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1798 – The Battle of the Pyramids.

**Napoleon defeated the Egyptian Mamelukes on his path to becoming the new Pharaoh...In his own mind anyway.

In the end Napoleon must have wished he never went to Egypt, because there was no way he could control the Egyptian populace, and the Brits were constantly on his heals in the Mediterranean destroying his supply routes...But at least the French found the Rosetta Stone on this little foray.**
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1861 – The Battle of Bull Run.

**This was the first major military battle of the American Civil War; it is called the Battle of Manassas in the South.

Bull Run was one of the few battles where the Confederates had relatively equal troop numbers, and was a very one-sided battle (for the South).

Neither commanding general performed well (McDowell or Johnston), and neither side gained anything with this battle...The importance of Bull Run is it showed the war would be costly in years, suffering, and life.

FYI: Bull Run is also where General Thomas Jackson picked up the nickname of 'Stonewall': Look! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!" – Confederate General Barnard Bee.**
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1904 - The 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway was completed.

**This is an awesome railway connecting European Russia with the Russian Far East. Primarily, Moscow to Vladivostok.**
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1925 - The so-called 'Monkey Trial' ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

**In less than 100-years the U.S. went from disallowing teaching evolution, to disallowing teaching creation...How did this country get turned upside down??? LIBERALISM!!!**
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1954 - France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists.

**How pathetic...Even more pathetic, the U.S. did likewise 20-years later**
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1994 - After a two-month trek across Russia following his return from 20-years of exile, Alexander Solzhenitsyn arrived back in Moscow.

**The importance of Solzhenitsyn cannot be minimized, and he must be recognized as one of the most important 'freedom fighters' of the second half of the 20th Century...Right along with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II.**
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2005 - Explosions struck three London Underground stations and a bus at midday in a chilling but less deadly replay of the suicide bombings that killed 56 people two weeks prior to this date. One person was seriously wounded.

**Europe hasn't had it's 9/11/01, yet, but this was another warning Islamist nutters are trying.**

July 20

1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed when a bomb explosion at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters only wounded the Nazi leader.

**Between 1933-1945 there were at least 26 plans or attempts on Hitler’s life, but none were successful (except his own of course). Check out the list.

Of all the attempts, this was the one which came closest to succeeding. Unfortunately, Hitler was saved by a damn table leg, which absorbed much of the blast...Needless to say, there was Hell to pay for those involved in the plot, and for those the Nazi’s just wanted to blame for it.**
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1969 (10:56 PM) - Apollo Eleven astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon as they stepped out of their lunar module.

**WOW! “A small step” and “giant leap” indeed.

A huge event, and an even bigger accomplishment, which has never been replicated by any other nation...Man isn’t made to leave Earth, but American’s are destined to make it happen.**
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1993 - Vincent Foster, White House deputy legal counsel, was found dead in Ft. Marcy Park in Washington, D.C., after 'allegedly' committing suicide.

**'Allegedly' the suicide letter was found to have various letters scattered across it: Y R A L L I H...This could be urban legend, however.**
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1995 - Leaders of the University of California voted to drop affirmative action policies on admission and hiring.

**Of course this was the right thing to do, but considering what institution it came from the amazement level of it being done was almost infinite...Not that they've followed their new policy.**

July 19 (A Double)

711 - Rodric, Visigoth King of Spain, was defeated by the Moors.

**This event marks the beginning of Muslim rule in Spain, which continued for another 700+ years.

Were it not for the Franks the Muslim Horde would have likely overtaken all of Western Europe. One of the few moments of honor for the French nation...Even though it was much more Germanic than French at this time.**
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1870 - The Franco-Prussian war began.

**This war lasted less than a year and confirmed two things:

1. Prussia was the leader of the German states, and soon united them forming the German Empire.

2. France has been a joke since the fall of Napoleon, and they got used to having the German boot up their rear for the next 75-years.**
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1799 - French troops in Egypt discovered the Rosetta Stone.

**At the time they had no idea what to do with this tablet, but knew it was unique...Soon it was discovered the Rosetta Stone was the key to breaking the Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Napoleon’s adventure into Egypt was a mess, but the finding of this tool should be seen as one of the high-points in his reign.**
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1993 - President Bill Clinton announced a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from all homosexual activity, known as the "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy.

**This policy is bad for the military, which is bad for national defense, which is bad for America...Maybe Bill was hoping he’d get the same leeway, and be allowed to not 'tell' about his special 'activities' as Commander-in-Chief.**

July 18

390 B.C. – The Battle of Allia: Gauls defeated and sacked Rome.

**This Celtic force must have been a horrific sight, attacking in the nude, with a furor the Romans had never seen on the Italian Peninsula.

The Gauls more or less raped, pillaged and burned everything they could find, then stayed for about seven months...Who knows how history would have turned out had they been able to completely defeat the Romans and settle in their place?

This isn’t the way it was meant to be, however, and Rome went to great lengths to increase its military size and strength, and spent the next 300+ years attempting to conquer and control their Celtic neighbors.**
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64 - The Great Fire of Rome began, ultimately destroying most of Rome. Emperor Nero blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman persecution of them.

**The Christians didn’t start the fire, and Nero didn’t sit around fiddling while it burned...But both make for good folklore.**
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1768 - The Boston Gazette published 'The Liberty Song,' America's first patriotic song.

**Click here to sing along.**
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1870 - The Vatican I Ecumenical Council issued the proclamation 'Pastor Aeternus,' declaring the pope's primacy and infallibility in deciding faith and moral matters.

**I’m quite certain few Protestants, and no Muslims, Buddhists, etc., bought into this proclamation, which was simply an attempt by the Pope to grab more power.**
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1925 - Adolf Hitler published the first volume of his personal manifesto 'Mein Kampf.'

**He said what he was going to do, but the world either didn’t read his book, didn’t take him seriously, or was too apathetic to care...Unfortunately, Der Fuhrer soon proved to be true to his word.

This is something we must always remember..Especially with nuts like the Iranian Mullahs.**
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1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne and Senator Ted Kennedy plunged off Chappaquiddick Bridge. Kennedy escaped but Mary Jo drowned. What caused the real stir was his failure to report the incident for almost ten hours. He was later found guilty of leaving the scene of the accident and given a two-month suspended sentence.

**How the Duke of Chappaquiddick Bay got away with a two-month suspension is a mystery, and a travesty of justice...I guess Mary Jo's life wasn’t worth much compared to this fat POS’s.**
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1972 - Jane Fonda delivered an anti-war speech on Hanoi Radio, one of a series of six.

**This bitch gave six speeches against the U.S., in the land of our enemy!!!!

How wasn’t she tried for sedition or treason??? Answer: Because the Liberal jokers controlling the country agreed with her.

By the way, how many of you lined her pockets by going to see her latest stinking movie? Too damn many, I'm sure.**
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1994 - Tutsi rebels declared an end to Rwanda's 14-week civil war.

**After the slaughter of almost one million people the civil war ended...Read that again: 1,000,000 executed in 14 weeks. WOW!!

That is an awesome display of executions. And trust me, the war may have been over, the killing wasn’t, though.

But, no one cared. The U.N. and Bill Clinton sent troops to Serbia to keep the Serbs from slaughtering Muslims, but didn’t send jack to Africa...I wonder why? Could it be they didn’t care about the death of black Africans?

Their lack of response can say little else**

July 17 (A Double)

1453 - The Battle of Castillon: The French routed the English, ending the Hundred Years War.

**As a result of losing this war, the English lost almost every claim it had on the European continent, which it previously clung to as part of William the Conqueror's lands.

This was a major event in the history of France, as well, because it secured it's western flank, allowing France to start expanding south and east.

It was also an important event for the English, even though it couldn't have been seen as such at the time...England became much more English and less French (Norman), since it had no claims to the Continent, and began expanding in the British Islands (Scotland, Wales, Ireland, etc.) and across the Atlantic. Which laid the foundation for the great empire the U.K. became.**
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1789 - The French Third Estate declared itself a national assembly.

**Most are confused by the term Third Estate, so lets go over it:

First Estate = The Clergy
Second Estate = The Nobility
Third Estate = Those not part of the First or Second

The creation of the National Assembly was a radical idea in France, where all power was previously in the hands of the Clergy and Nobility...In other words, they were trying to replicate what the Americans did.**
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1898 - Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.

**This war marks the beginning of America's rise as a world power...It also marks the end of Spain's downfall as a world power.**
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1936 - The Spanish Civil War began when General Francisco Franco led an army revolt.

**Normally a civil war in Spain would barely be news, but this event was much more than a Spanish war...The Spanish Civil War was a dress rehearsal for WWII, particularly for the Germans and Soviets.**
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1945 - President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the opening of the Potsdam Conference.

**Many look at the Potsdam Conference as a giant sell-out to the Soviets, because much of Eastern Europe and Germany was more or less handed over to their control.

Truman is often rebuked for being outmaneuvered by Stalin, but the truth is he had no choice...The Soviet Army controlled the areas described in the treaty, and the only way they would have been removed is if Truman was willing to send in Ike, Bradley, Patton, and the troops. Which wasn't going to happen.

The Soviets did as much, if not more, of the fighting in the European Theatre of the war, and had a legitimate claim to what they'd consolidated...Reality isn't always pretty, but it is what it is.**
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1982 - Ronald Reagan gave his 'Evil Empire' speech.

**The Right Man, At the Right Place, At the Right Time!!! This is what Ronald Reagan was in the history of our great country...He was a man of conviction, and a man who said what he meant and meant what he said.

Reagan called the Soviets an 'Evil Empire,' and he meant it...He also meant to let them know their days were numbered.

Amazingly, the Liberal fools in the U.S. and Europe hated Reagan for using such a phrase...Much as they hated President George W. Bush when he spoke of an 'Axis of Evil' regarding global terrorism.

History will be just as kind to G.W. Bush as it has been to Reagan, because both are/were LEADERS. Not poll takers.**
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1993 - U.N. forces in Somalia searched in vain for warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.

**Bill Clinton sent our troops into Somalia to take out a two-bit warlord...And did nothing but embarrass our troops and get them killed.

Bush sent our troops to one of the world's flash points (Iraq), and succeeded in capturing Saddam and his boys. Why is it the media and Liberals can justify Clinton's wars, but not Bush's?

Bombs with (D) = Good, Bombs with (R) = Bad?**
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1994 - After leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

**This is still the most pathetic night of TV watching in my life...Why the helicopters didn't shoot his ass off the freeway I'll never know.**

July 16 (A Triple)

622 - The Hajj: The starting point of the Muslim calendrical era. Islamic prophet, Mohammad and his disciples left Mecca for Medina.

**This is a major point in Muslim history, and as such is an important one in world history.

Regardless of what one thinks of Islam there is no denying Mohammad is one of the top five figures in history, and the religion he created is one of the most important entities as well.**
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1054 - The 'Great Schism' between the Western and Eastern churches began over rival claims of universal pre-eminence.

**Pope Leo IX excommunicated Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, who did likewise to Leo.

Western and Eastern Europe had been split since the time of the Roman Empire, but this event put a huge dent in what little relations they had...It took over 900-years before the two churches ended the Schism, with the edicts of Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I.**
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1429 - The Battle of Orleans: France, led by Joan of Arc, defeated the English.

**The 'Maid of Orleans' saved the French’s ass, and as thanks they handed her over to the English to meet her death...Always have been, and always will be, a nation of ungrateful pricks.**
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1918 - Russia's Czar Nicholas II, his empress, and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks.

**How they made it out of 1917 I’ll never know, but the czar was eliminated and the Bolshevik Communists were in the process of firmly entrenching themselves in power.**
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1945 - The United States exploded the world's first experimental atomic bomb, in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico.

**WOW!!! Few events have ever changed the world as this one did.

”The device exploded with an energy equivalent to 19 kilotons of TNT. It left a crater in the desert 3 metres deep and 330 metres wide. At the time of detonation, the surrounding mountains were illuminated for one to two seconds. The observed colors of the illumination ranged from purple, to green, and eventually to white. The roar of the shock wave took 40 seconds to reach the observers. The shock wave was felt over 160 km away, and the mushroom cloud reached 12 km.” - Trinity Site**
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1969 - Apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.

**These astronauts were the the Lewis and Clark’s of our time...No other country has ever done it, and it’s debatable if they every will. But there is little doubt we can anytime we want to.**
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1979 - Saddam Hussein became President of Iraq.

**The 'Butcher of Baghdad' finally took complete control of Iraq...He actually controlled it for a long time (through various posts), but on this date he claimed the title.**
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1996 - President Bill Clinton told the National Governors Association he was granting states new powers to deny benefits to recipients who refuse to move from welfare to work.

**A Liberal president made this Conservative decree...I don’t think any of the Republican presidents of the past 50-years could have gotten away with it, and regardless of his faults Clinton must be praised for this action.**

July 15

1099 - The Muslim citizens of Jerusalem surrendered to the armies of the First Crusade. The Crusaders then proceeded to massacre thousands of unarmed men, women and children.

**The Medieval Christian world was definitely semi-barbaric, and the Crusader's actions in the Holy Land were anything but holy.

What’s amazing is the 11th Century Muslim world was more civilized than the Christians of their time, and were more civilized than 21st Century Muslim descendants.

The tables of time have been completely turned upside-down, and the West has lapped the Muslim world in most every aspect of civilization...The great civilization of the Muslim world has went backwards in time and is often closer to that of the 8th Century than the 11th, and surely nowhere near the 21st.**
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1205 - Pope Innocent III issued a doctrine which doomed all Jews to perpetual servitude and subjugation because of the crucifixion of Jesus.

**Another sign of Medieval Christianity's failings...And sadly, an excuse for Europe to increase its anti-Semitism, which has never waned.**
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1410 - The Battle of Tannenberg: Poles and Lithuanians defeated the Teutonic Knights.

**The battle should really be called the Battle of Grunwald, but Tannenberg is much more well known.

It is one of the few times the Poles defeated the Germans, whose Knights were whipped and never fully recovered from the battle...Unfortunately for the Poles, a new German force emerged: Brandenburg (later becoming East Prussia, then the German State).**
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1830 - The Sioux, Sac and Fox Indians ceded all their lands east of the Mississippi to the U.S. The terms being that the lands ceded were not opened to white settlement, expressly stipulating "The lands ceded and relinquished by this treaty are to be assigned and allotted under the direction of the President of the United States to the tribes living thereon, or to such other tribes as the President may locate thereon for hunting and other purposes."

**There's no doubt the treaty was never intended to be followed, but truth be told the Indians were either going to give up their lands without a fight or be exterminated through conquest...Seems to me they made the better choice.

Such is the history of the world. We don’t cry for the Celts, Scythians or Hittites, and we shouldn’t for the American Indians either, who by the way, did the same to each other before the white man arrived in the Americas...Those who do cry for them, however, need not worry because someday our people will be treated to the same fate.**
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1834 - The Spanish Inquisition ended.

**The Inquisition was founded in 1478 as a tool to forcefully convert Spanish Muslims and Jews to Christianity, and was also used to eliminate homosexuals...Over time it became little more than a state-run operation to control the Spanish people, and killed between 50,000-150,000 in its 350+ year history**
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1918 - The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.

**The Marne is one of the last great battles of WWI, and nothing more than another tactical stalemate, even though on a strategic level it was won by the Allies...Over 280,000 casualties were had between the two, and the Germans were stopped from invading Flanders.
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1937 - Buchenwald Concentration Camp opened.

**Buchenwald was one of the most notorious Nazi camps, and home to the 'Bitch of Buchenwald' (Karl Otto Koch), one of the cruelest of the Nazis...Which is saying a lot.

Buchenwald wasn’t technically an extermination camp, but plenty of Jews met their end here, through starvation, exhaustion, torture, and as part of the vast Nazi science project...Particularly testing for treatments and vaccination against typhus disease.**
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1945 - Italy declared war on its former Axis partner, Japan.

**Ho hum! Another world war flip-flop for the Italians.**
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1979 - President Carter delivered his famous 'malaise speech' in which he lamented what he called a "crisis of confidence" in America.

**After half a term of Jimmy Carter as president there is no surprise the American people were suffering such a “crisis.”

There have been very few American presidents who were more useless, and no 20th Century president allowed the world around him to turn on America’s fortunes as much as the ‘Peanut Farmer.’**
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1999 - China declared it invented its own neutron bomb.

**The U.S. used to have this great weapon (and still may), but its production was officially ended by Jimmy Carter...Then restarted by Reagan, then ended by George Bush (the elder).

Since the end of WWII, the U.S. has been ahead of the weapons curve, but we’ve dropped the ball on this one, and hopefully never have to face the prospect of this mistake at the hands of the Chinese or other forces.

Here's hoping we're secretly producing them.**

July 14

1789 - The French Revolution began with the Storming of the Bastille.

**The French watched the American Revolution, and finally had the balls to attempt their own...Unfortunately they got it wrong, and the Revolution turned into a bloodbath and dictatorship, which drove the Continent into a 25-year period of constant warfare.**
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1798 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the United States government.

**These kind of acts are committed on a daily basis by the scumbags in the media today...Oh, for the good ol’ days.**
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1850 - The first ice made by refrigeration was unveiled.

**I’m sure this seems like a small event to many, but those of us living in the American Southwest appreciate it greatly.**
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1867 - Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite.

**And then created a 'peace prize' with his massive fortune.**
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1917 - Three months after declaring war, the first American casualty of World War I was sustained at Arras, France.

**The first of many...Unfortunately, the U.S. didn’t have a lead in this war, and the Euro’s ended it before its natural conclusion, which led to a 20-year ‘phony peace’ followed by WWII.**
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1933 - Germany began mandatory sterilization of people with hereditary illness and banned all political parties except the Nazi Party.

**Another huge day in the '12-Year Reich.'**
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1958 - A military coup overthrew the monarchy in Iraq, killing King Faisal II. General Abdul Karim Kassem became Iraq's leader.

**Normally this event would be just another in the history of Turd World coups, but it is significant because it was where Saddam Hussein first came to note.**
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1994 - Scores of Hutu refugees from Rwanda's civil war flooded across the border into Zaire, swamping relief organizations.

**Where was President Clinton and all the Liberal whiners while this was happening?

Well, we all know why Clinton wasn’t paying attention (too many BlewClinky’s), but how about the rest of the 'do-gooders' at the U.N., E.U., etc...Ahhh, no one cares about Africa.**
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1999 - Race-based school-busing in Boston ended.

**I can’t believe the land of Fat Teddy Kennedy and Johnny Heinz-Kerry continued such racist practices almost to the very end of the 20th Century.

I’m sure most blacks don’t know this, because the North has managed to permanently pin the ‘racist tag’ on the South while shielding itself against such claims...PATHETIC!!!!**

July 13

1643 - The Battle of Roundway Down: English Parliamentarians were defeated by the Royalists under Prince Maurice in the English Civil War.

**This was one of the few victories for the crown, which received many 'whoopins' from the Parliamentarians in the near future...It was also the greatest cavalry battle of the civil war.
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1863 - Anti-draft riots broke out in several Northern U.S. cities when many citizens opposed being drafted into the Union Army. In New York City alone, hundreds were killed and there was over $2 million in property damage. Hostility was vented mostly against blacks, as they were considered the cause of the 'War Between the States.'

**These same 'Northern U.S. cities' are today’s pansies as well.

It is interesting to note their anger at blacks...I hope you aren't foolish enough to think this wasn’t the case in the North.**
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1954 - The United States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on Indochina, dividing Vietnam into two countries, North and South along the 17th parallel.

**Someone should have made sure 'Uncle Ho' was on board.

Dividing the country in two was a formula for disaster in Korea, and should have been recognized as the same in Vietnam...Unfortunately, none of the signatories above had the stomach to uphold the treaty.**
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1977 - Electricity went out for 25-hours in New York City due to a short in neighboring Westchester County. 776 looters were arrested, 100 policemen injured, nearly 500 fires reported, and $135 million worth of property was damaged or destroyed.

**I’m sure Al Qaeda is familiar with this event...If I were them this would be one of the many terror plans I'd pursue.**
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1983 - The U.S. Senate approved, 50-49, the production of nerve gas weaponry, with Vice President George Bush casting the tie-breaking vote.

**We have 'nerve gas weaponry'???? I am so shocked!! Not.**
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1995 - President Bill Clinton denounced a base-closing list for the damage it would do to California and Texas, but then approved the package while promising to save jobs in those states.

**Someone forgot to tell Bill, and his Liberal jackass pals who hate the military, the function of military bases is to support the needs of the military, not to create artificial jobs for those living around them.

This is why they are called military bases, instead of ‘civilian welfare plants.'**

July 12

1290 - Jews were expelled from England.

**From the farthest reaches of Eastern Europe (Russia) to Western Europe (England), every European country has either thrown their Jews out or executed them...It is universal, it is timeless, and it is disgusting.

And no, I am not a Jew.**
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1843 - Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith announced a divine revelation had been given to him sanctioning polygamy among his newly organized religious followers.

**There are many issues of contention between the Mormons and 'average Americans,' but this has been by far the most divisive.

That said, what kind of horrible god would want a man to have to suffer through two wives? One is more than enough...LOL!**
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1862 - The U.S. Congress authorized a new award, the U.S. Medal of Honor, often called the Congressional Medal of Honor.

**The Medal of Honor is the highest honor an American soldier can receive, and one which has been bestowed upon almost 3,400 of America's finest.

Those who would like to read tributes to these heroes can do so by visiting my Medal of Honor Recipient Blog, which has been created to recognize, honor and thank those who have earned the Medal of Honor. It is also to honor and thank every soldier who has ever served in the U.S. Military.

The original posts used on this blog can be found at: Medal of Honor.**
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1920 - The Panama Canal was officially opened by President Woodrow Wilson.

**There had been many attempts to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but it took the Americans to get it done...The project began in 1881, and officially opened on this date, but the first ship actually sailed through on January 7, 1914.

I still can't believe Jimmy Carter gave the canal to Panama, who is in the process of ceding it to China...There will come a day when America will regret this decision in a terrible way.

Just another reason to never vote for a Democrat.**
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1933 - A new U.S. industrial code was established to fix a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour. This was the first national minimum wage law passed by the U. S. Congress.

**Exactly what was the logic in creating wage standards in the middle of a depression?

Minimum wages are bad for businesses, which is bad for employment!! There is little doubt laws like this helped keep the Depression going, and hurt many more people than it helped...But it was a nice thought, which is all that matters in the minds of Liberal idiots.

Also, it's believed an estimated 500,000 blacks were put out of work by this act and others passed at the time...But no one cared about that back then.**
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1981 - For the first time a woman in the United States was ordered to pay alimony to her husband.

**What’s good for the gander must be good for the goose!**
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1996 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to define marriage in federal law as a legal union of one man and one woman.

**The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) had overwhelming support and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent...Votes: House = 342-67, Senate = 85-14, and signed by President Clinton.

Make sure you remind Normo nuts it was CLINTON who gave this bill the final approval, after many, many Democrats in the House and Senate approved it as well.**

July 11

1613 - Michael Romanov was crowned Czar of Russia.

**Michael founded the Romanov Dynasty, which ruled Russia for the next 300+ years.**
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1798 - The U.S. Congress re-established the Marine Corps, disbanded in 1784.

**I had no idea the Marine Corps was disbanded after the Revolutionary War. The site listed can give the Marine Corps much better due than I can: History of the Marine Corps.**
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1804 - Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel.

**Hamilton died the following afternoon...I hope you understand this was the Vice President of the U.S. dueling Hamilton (the most brilliant man of the period as well as former Treasury Secretary).

Politics has always been messy, and the battles of our time are pretty tame compared to those of the past...So, next time you hear a TV talking-head say politics is "worse now than ever," remember this incident and also remember modern-day hyperbole experts are trying to pull one over on you.**
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1862 - President Lincoln appointed Henry Halleck as General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army.

**Halleck was an old man, and it's a good thing Lincoln recognized he was useful as a desk-general and little else...Unfortunately, the fools Lincoln appointed as field commanders in the early part of the Civil War were as useless as Halleck as a field commander behind his desk.**
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1863 - The first U.S. Military draft was held.

**The nation was in need as never before, and the draft was an absolute necessity...Sadly, it will eventually be needed again.**
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1944 - President Franklin Roosevelt said he would run for a fourth term.

**FDR was an excellent war-time president, but he had no business running for a third term, and a fourth was absurd...George Washington set the standard and no president had ever pushed his bounds past that set by Washington.**
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1945 - The U. S. Army used napalm on Japanese forces on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. This is the first recorded use of Napalm.

**Napalm, Nukes, blah, blah, blah. When you commit to war, you must commit to winning...Not doing so has been our downfall since WWII.**
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1955 - The U.S. Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado.

**A brilliant school for the world's greatest air fighting force.**
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1955 - The U.S. Congress said all U.S. currency would carry the term "In God We Trust."

**OH MY GOD!!!! I bet you cringe every time you pull a dollar out of your wallet knowing such a vile inscription is on that dollar.

Of course you don't, but this is what the Commie-Libs want us to believe.**

July 10

1553 - Lady Jane Grey became Queen of England after Edward VI died.

**I’m not sure, but her 10-day reign before being imprisoned has to be some kind of record.**
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1919 - President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered the 'Treaty of Versailles' to the U.S. Senate and urged its ratification.

**The Treaty of Versailles was an abortion, and the fact it did nothing but act as a bulwark between WWI and WWII proves it.

The Senate knew it was a bad treaty, and didn't want the U.S. tied to any of it's insanity; especially joining the League of Nations...Thankfully they didn't ratify it.**
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1925 - The 'Scopes Monkey Trial' began in a small town in Tennessee. School teacher John Scopes was charged with teaching evolution.

**It is amazing how we went from one extreme to another...There has to be room for both creation and evolution, and we would be much better off if we could find this happy medium.**
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1940 – The 114-day Battle of Britain began with Nazi forces attacking southern England by air.

**114 days of Hell, but the Nazi's couldn't break the Brit's. Lets look at a few numbers to see what they were up against.

The Brits had approximately 700 fighter planes - The Germans over 1,000, along with 1,500 bombers...The Brits had over 51,000 casualties, with over 32,000 dead - The Germans barely had 2,000 casualties.

So what tipped the battle? The Brits were led by Churchill and Air Marshal Dowding, the Krauts had Hitler and Goering. A huge advantage for Britain...Lucky for England the Fat Field Marshal was in charge of the German Luftwaffe, and was about as incompetent as any German commander has ever been in any operation in history. Equally important was Hitler's trust in Goering.**
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1943 - Operation Husky began: U.S. and U.K. forces invaded Sicily during WWII.

**The Allies continued to claw at Germany's 'soft underbelly'...This plan has often been criticized, but it did tie up German troops and kept them from retreating to Germany in good order.

Most importantly, it allowed the Ruskies to continue taking the brunt of the German fight...Uncle Joe brought it on himself, and the Soviets paid a terrible price for dealing with the Devil.**
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1998 - Bringing to a close one of the biggest sex scandals ever to hit the Roman Catholic Church, the Diocese of Dallas agreed to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who said they'd been molested by a priest.

**Of course these scoundrels should be punished, and the Church should pay if they covered up the scandal, but why is it we believe former children when it comes to priests but not when it comes to Michael Jackson?**
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2003 - Spain opened its first mosque (in Granada) since the Moors were expelled in 1492.

**Stupid fools...History does repeat itself, and the Muslim Reconquista is well on its way.**

July 9

1497 - Vasco Da Gama set sail to find a sea route to India.

**At the time, Da Gama’s discovery was considered a much bigger find than Columbus’...This was a short lived perception, however.**
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1595 - Johannes Kepler discovered the perfect geometric solid "construction of the universe."

**I can't impress on you the importance of Kepler, even though he's a distant afterthought compared to Newton.**
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1868 - The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, defining U.S. citizenship. It took effect on July 28, 1868.

**The main point of this amendment is all people born in the United States are citizens, and therefore granted equal protection under the law regardless of race. This includes the protection of their right to vote.

It's unfortunate this wasn't included in the original Constitution, and also that it didn't include women, but the 13th and 14th Amendments were a giant leap forward for all Americans, and proves the brilliance of the Founders who created a method for righting wrongs in the original document.**
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1934 - Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler took command of the German concentration camp system.

**The Chicken Farmer got a major promotion...It's hard to believe anyone could have done such a demonic job, which made him Hitler's perfect henchman.**
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1960 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev threatened nuclear attack if the United States invaded Cuba attempting to oust the communist government of Cuba.

**Thankfully he was bluffing, because Kennedy tested Nikki's threat in 1961 with the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

Obviously, Khrushchev didn't launch nukes, but he had to be cracking up at the poor showing of the Americans and their Cuban allies against Castro's pathetic force.**

July 8

371 B.C. - The Battle of Leuctra: Thebes defeated Sparta.

**The Spartans ended the Peloponnesian War in 404 B.C. as the undisputed master of Greece, but the war sapped the once great strength of the Spartans. This left Sparta open to defeat due to its lack of manpower and will.

The Battle of Leuctra finished off Spartan hegemony in Greece, and more or less ended Spartan influence in Greece because they chose to live mostly in isolation from this point on.**
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452 - Pope Leo I convinced Atilla the Hun not to attack Rome.

**The Pope stopped Atilla!!!! One of the great turning-points in world history.

1. Atilla could have crushed Leo and the dilapidated city.

2. There is little the Emperor or his army's could have done to stop Atilla...But the Pope did. No one knows what Leo said to Atilla, but it must have been powerful for the 'Scourge of God' to turn tail on the order of the Pope.

This event set the stage for the strengthening of the Church, and the enormous power the Papacy achieved after the fall of the western portion of the Roman Empire.**
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1173 - Elanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II, King of England, sailed to England as her husband's prisoner.

**Nice marriage...We've all heard the 'ball & chain' jokes but in this case the wife was really the prisoner.**
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1776 - Colonel John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence to a crowd gathered at Independence Square in Philadelphia.

**The colonel put his life in extreme danger with this act, but the people wanted to hear what he had to say...As they should, considering its one of the greatest non-religious document in history.**
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1800 - Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gave the first cowpox vaccination, to his son, to prevent smallpox.

**Jenner created the vaccine, but it was Waterhouse who proved is efficacy. And he did it on his own family...I'm pretty sure the FDA would frown on this today.**
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1835 - The Liberty Bell cracked while being rung during the funeral of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall in Philadelphia.

**I tend to think it cracked as a symbol of Justice Marshall cracking the nation, as a result of him over-empowering the Supreme Court...The Framers of the Constitution never planned on giving the Court such power, and Marshall couldn't have foreseen the havoc the future Court would wreak.**
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1838 - Arabs attacked the Jewish community of Safed.

**I thought the Arabs/Muslims loved the Jews before they created the state of Israel...THE BIG LIE!! But many fools believe it.**
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1947 - Demolition work began in New York City to make way for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations.

**Oh, for a return of those same demolition crews to this same sight.**
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1991 - Reversing earlier denials, Iraq disclosed for the first time it was carrying out a nuclear weapons program, including the production of enriched uranium.

**No way! The Iraqi's lied??? I'm so NOT shocked.

Yet the U.N. and European jerkoffs all wanted to continue being lied to, rather than take on the problem...I wonder why? BRIBES!!!**
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1994 - Kim Il Sung, North Korean dictator since 1948, died at age 82.

**Il Sung was a butcher and a nut, but he was pretty normal compared to his mentally ill son, Kim Jong Il.

Paranoids with nukes are a scary thing...Thanks a lot Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Madalyn Halfbright.**

July 7 (A Double)

1456 - Pope Calixtus III annulled the heresy charges brought against Joan of Arc, twenty-five years after her execution.

**I'm sure this made Joan feel much better.

Leave it to the French to turn over for execution their national hero...LEAVE IT TO THE FRENCH TO HAVE A WOMAN AS A NATIONAL HERO.**
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1520 - Hernando Cortes defeated the Aztecs.

**Firearms, horses, smallpox and superstition were enough for Cortes and his band of a few hundred soldiers to overwhelm the greatest power in the New World, and establish Spain as the West's greatest power.

The Aztecs and every other American Indian group made a fatal mistake ignoring the 'First Rule of Invasions' by letting the invader into their lands...As a result, the invaders never left, and more or less wiped out the invaded.**
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1647 - Thomas Hooker, Puritan pastor, founder of Connecticut, and organizer of the first American federal government system, died. He is known as the 'Father of American Democracy.'

**I didn't know this...Learn something new every day.**
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1798 - The U.S. Congress rescinded all treaties with France; beginning the Quasi War.

**I'm sure many think the French were our 'friends' because they helped us during the Revolutionary War, but this is one of the biggest lies in the entire history of our country.

The French would have gladly conquered the 'British Colonies; themselves, but Napoleon knew he couldn't, so he stuck it to the Brits by helping the Colonists...This is also why France sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S.

The Quasi War was and undeclared naval war, and involved the young American fleet against French pirates, who were supported by the French Revolution (Napoleon). So, don't fall into the trap of believing the French have always been our 'allies.' If anything, they've always been a bunch of duplicitous pricks. Nothing more, nothing less.**
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1937 - The 'China Incident' began WWII in Asia.

**I bet most of you didn't know WWII started with this incident, at the Marco Polo Bridge...Heck, I bet most thought the war started when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

If I'm anywhere near correct on this assumption you desperately need this blog.**
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1997 - Three days after landing on Mars, the Pathfinder spacecraft yielded what scientists said was unmistakable photographic evidence that colossal floods scoured the planet's now-barren landscape more than a billion years ago.

**Floods = Water, Water = Life...There should be no problem with this on an evolutionary or religious level.**

July 6 (A Double)

1439 - The Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches signed the Decree of Union at the Council of Florence, creating an official union between the two churches.

**Like most 'decrees,' this one was more of a political move than a religious one, and the majority of both branches wanted no part of the other...Either way, the union was short, and the two Christian religions were doomed to separation due to geography, cultural differences, and the Muslim conquest of much of Southeast and Eastern Europe.**
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1775 - The Continental Congress issued the 'Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms,' listing grievances but denying there was intent to become independent of Great Britain.

**Almost a year to this date they changed their tone, and declared independence...Read the Document: Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms.**
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1854 - The Republican Party was formally established at a meeting in New York City.

**Within six years the 'Party of Lincoln' won the White House, and America's future was turned upside-down...FOR THE BETTER!!**
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1885 - French bacteriologist Louis Pasteur inoculated the first human being, a boy who had been bitten by a rabid dog.

**Pasteur is a giant, and should rank with the top scientists and most important people in history...His presence is felt in all of us who have received a vaccine, and also by those who haven't yet are protected because those around them have.**
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1923 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russia, the Ukraine, White Russia, and Transcaucasia), established on paper December 30, 1922, became a reality.

**The Hell State became a reality...There have been few before or since which have matched its insanity, and it would still be around if not for the strength of American Conservatives.**
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1989 - A Palestinian shouting "The glory of Allah!" grabbed the steering wheel of an Israeli bus, causing a crash which claimed 15 lives.

**Many Muslims take joy in killing in Allah’s name; one of their many differences from Jews and Christians, who are commanded not to “murder in God’s name.”

Most mistake the commandment of “thou shalt not kill” to mean, they can’t kill at all, which would forbid killing in self-defense as well...The commandment is properly understood as “thou shall not murder in God’s name” (Prager).**
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2000 - The German Parliament offered a formal apology to Nazi-era slave and forced laborers passing a bill setting up a five billion-dollar compensation fund.

**I suppose they feel like they are even now...Sick SOB's.**

July 5

1097 - The Crusaders captured Jerusalem (1st Crusade), and massacred 10,000 of its inhabitants.

**Lets not forget this was a semi-barbaric time, and the Christian Crusaders were anything but godly...This massacre was completely unnecessary and ridiculous, and was one they had reciprocated on them at a later date.**
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1870 - Georgia became the last Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.

**The nation was whole again...Physically, if not emotionally.**
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1943 - The Battle of Kursk began (ended August 23).

**Kursk was an awesome battle, fought with the most modern weapons of its time and massive armies. It is still the largest tank battle in history.

Germans: 2,700 tanks, 200 aircraft, 800,000 troops...Soviets: 3,500 tanks, 1,000 aircraft, 1,300,000 troops.

The Soviets suffered more casualties (a 4:1 ratio), but had many more troops and machines to expend, and the results of Kursk were such that the Germans spent the rest of the war (in the East) on the run.**
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1945 - Italy declared war on its former Axis partner, Japan.

**Gotta love the Italians playing all sides in the great wars...These losers probably claim to be on the winning side in each.**
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1950 - Israel passed the Law of Return, guaranteeing all Jews the right to live in Israel.

**A permanent homeland for a people who've been without one for millennia...They will have to fight to keep it, and the odds are overwhelmingly against them, but if they can hold it they deserve it as much as anyone.

This is the answer which should be given to anyone who questions Israel's right to exist; as well as those who claim it does...Every country has a right to exist as long as it can keep it. Such is the only true rule of history.**
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1979 - President Carter delivered his 'malaise' speech in which he lamented what he called a "crisis of confidence" in America.

**Jimmy was absolutely correct, which should be expected when the nation is led by such a pathetic leader as himself.**
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1993 - A United Nations team left Iraq after trying for more than a month to persuade the Baghdad government to allow surveillance cameras at two former missile test sites.

**So, Saddam thumbed his nose at the U.N. for the 100th time. Yet we were supposed to allow the U.N. to keep debating with Iraq instead of taking him out...Appeasement at its finest.**
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2000 - At the United Nations, President Bill Clinton signed an international agreement to ban the forcible recruitment of youths as soldiers in armed conflict, and a companion accord to protect children from being forced into slavery, prostitution and pornography.

**Horrible crimes for sure, but how did the U.N. and Clinton plan on upholding its ban? "With spitballs?" - Z. Miller**

July 4 (A Huge Day)

The 4th is another huge day, with a dominant event which changed the world and gave hope to all of humanity.
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1776 - The United States of America was born when the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.

**This is a seminal event in world history, and The Declaration Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, and edited by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, is one of the most important non-religious documents in the history of the world, signaling the beginning of a new age...An age of liberty and individual freedom, with the great American nation leading the way.**
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1802 - The United States Military Academy officially opened at West Point, New York.

**For over 200-years The Academy has trained what's become the world's greatest army, and continues to be the bulwark of American freedom.**
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1826 - 50-years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died.

**How ironic these brilliant creators of the Declaration of Independence (and 50-year political enemies) died on the same day, on the date of their grand creation.

Jefferson’s last words to his family: "I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.”

Adams' last words: "Thomas Jefferson still survives."

He had no way of knowing Jefferson was dead as well.**
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1848 - 'The Communist Manifesto' was published.

**Another great irony of 'the 4th'...The book and theory which inspired the horrors of Soviet Communism (anti-Americanism) were published on America’s birthday.**
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1862 - Lewis Carroll began the 'Alice in Wonderland' story.

**It would be nice if someone put an and to this story, because the 'Wonderland' we live in is getting so far down the ‘rabbit-hole’ we may never get out if we don’t do so soon.

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" – Alice

Sounds like the ideal Liberal-utopia to me.**
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1863 - The Battle of Vicksburg ended (began on May 14): Union troops defeated Confederate forces.

**Vicksburg was General Grant’s finest hour, and a major turning-point in the war.

The battle was a siege which ended with the destruction of one of the best forts in the West, and the Union controlling the Mississippi River, the 'Lifeblood of the South.'

Equally important, the results of the battle finally brought Grant to President Lincoln’s attention.**
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1884 - France presented the Statue of Liberty to the U.S.

**This is a nice myth, but it isn’t true in reality.

A few wealthy Frenchmen had the Statue constructed and donated it to America in the name of France...France has been our ally on a few occasions (usually to be a thorn in Britain’s side, or to have it's ass saved from the Krauts), but it is a fallacy to think they’ve ever been our 'friend.'**
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1895 - The poem, 'America the Beautiful,' by Katherine Lee Bates, was first published in the 'Congregationalist,' a church publication.

**Sadly, if something like this came out today the Liberal nuts would have it banned from the schools and public as a "violation of separation of church and state.”

By the way, have any of you found this part of the Constitution yet? You won't!**
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1936 – The League of Nations applied sanctions against Italy for invading Ethiopia.

**This sounds just like its equally 'toothless' daughter: the U.N...But it sounded nice, and that’s all that matters.**
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1994 -Rwandan Tutsi rebels seized control of most of the capital, Kigali, and continued advancing on areas held by the Hutu-led government.

**A slaughter was occurring and no one cared...The U.N. talked about it plenty, but actions speak much louder than words. And their actions said they didn’t care.**

July 3 (A Big Day, A Great Day for Pero)

THIS DAY HAS FEW EVENTS OF NOTE, BUT THOSE THAT DID OCCUR WERE HUGE...So, they will all be highlighted in blue.
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1775 - General George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

**The 'Irreplaceable Ma' took control of the rag-tag Colonial force, which should have never been successful against the greatest military force in the world at the time; the Brits.

Washington was the perfect choice...Likely the only choice who could have succeeded in the impossible task of getting the Colonials to fight together for the common cause of independence.**
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1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg ended in a major victory for the North.

**Gettysburg is the main turning point of the Civil War in the eastern theatre.

There were over 50,000 Union and Confederate casualties in the battle, with an approximately equal amount of casualties for each side...The South couldn't afford losses on this scale, and although their losses were substantial the North could more easily replace its troops and materiel.

Gettysburg was General Lee's last great chance to end the war, and from this point he saw his army dwindle to a point of uselessness. As such, after this battle he won many battles, but his eventual defeat was no longer in doubt.**
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1898 - The Battle of Santiago de Cuba.

**A Spanish squadron was destroyed by the American fleet during this naval battle, which ended Spanish naval influence in the New World, and foretold its end as a colonial power as well.**
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1972 – MY SISTER (KRISSI) WAS BORN!

**I couldn’t ask for a better sister or friend, and I can't thank her enough for everything she means to me.**
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1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled states have the right to restrict abortions.

**1990 = 1,608,600 abortions in the U.S.
1991 = 1,556,500
1992 = 1,528,900
1993 = 1,500,000
1994 = 1,431,000
1995 = 1,363,700
1996 = 1,365,700
1997-2005 Estimates = Over 1,325,000/year

Liberal Fetus-Killers must be distraught to see the number of baby executions going down every year, but they need not worry, their killing field is still well over a million year.

Congratulations.**

July 2

1633 - The Catholic Church sentenced Galileo to house arrest for the rest of his life for writing the Earth was not the center of the universe.

**Galileo was one of many geniuses squashed by the Church...He was eventually released, after rescinding his views, but was never the same.**
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1644 - The Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeated the Royalists.

**This is one of the most important and decisive battles of the English Civil War, and by winning the battle, the Parliamentarians assumed control of the northern portion of England.

It was also the first battle where Oliver Cromwell showed himself as a brilliant commander, which eventually proved fatal for the Crown and Parliament.**
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1776 - The Continental Congress passed a resolution saying "these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States."

**The Continentals were performing an act of treason against the British crown, and within two days committed the highest act of treason by declaring independence.**
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1777 - Vermont became the first American colony to abolish slavery.

**Vermonters should be proud of this fact...It's unfortunate every colony didn't follow suit, but isn't unexpected.**
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1926 - The United States Army Air Corps was created.

**I hope you know the Air Force hasn't always been an independent branch of the U.S. Military, but was and auxiliary branch of the Army...Similar to the Marines being part of the Navy.**
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1964 - President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act into law.

**Acts which were long overdue...Slavery and its aftermath are definitely sore spots in the history of this great nation.

Thankfully, a few brave Republicans had the stomach and decency to break the backs of the DEMOCRAT FILIBUSTER...Who knows if blacks would have ever gotten legitimate freedom if the Senator Byrd's of the Democrat Party had been allowed to continue on their destructive path.**
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1976 – Gregg vs. Georgia: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.

**Strangely, in 1972 they ruled the death penalty was unconstitutional, cruel and unusual.**
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1998 - Apologizing to viewers and Vietnam veterans for "serious faults" in its reporting, CNN retracted a story alleging U.S. commandos used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the war.

**CNN IS A BUNCH OF LYING SOB's!!!!! And so are its pals at all the 'Alphabet Networks.'

How can they all get away with telling out and out lies? Especially making such serious charges, which have no substance.**

July 1

69 - Vespasian was proclaimed Roman Emperor.

**Titus Flavius Vespasianus was the victor after a civil war, and reestablished peace in the Empire...He also founded the Flavian Line of Emperors.**
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1569 - The Union of Lublin: Uniting Poland and Lithuania.

**Unfortunately for both, the Russians, Prussians and Austrians weren’t much for respecting other nation’s sovereignty, and swallowed both up in due time.**
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1595 - An English fleet sacked Cadiz, Spain.

**During this time the English made many raids on the Spanish fleet, and Cadiz was one of their favorite locations...There were many others, including the various Spanish ports in the New World.**
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1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg began (ended July 3).

**General Lee won Day 1, but the battle got away from him in a few days...Gettysburg should be noted as one of the turning-points of the war, along with Vicksburg and New Orleans.**
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1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his 'Rough Riders' waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.

**I love Teddy Roosevelt, and he was a great man long before San Juan Hill, but it was this battle and his heroics which gave him the final accomplishment he needed to be chosen as President McKinley's vice president...Thankfully, Teddy was every bit as good a president as he was a soldier.**
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1991 - President GHW Bush nominated federal appeals court judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, beginning a confirmation process marked by allegations of sexual harassment.

**Nice excuse for the Democrats to begin a full-scale attack on an honorable black man...Can you imagine if the Republicans ever did this to a Democrat nominee?**