October 17 (A Triple)

1777 - The Battle of Saratoga ended: American Revolutionary War.  British General John Burgoyne surrendered to American General Horatio Gates.

Saratoga was a series of battles, and one of the most important in the American Revolution because it kept the Americans in the war and was the deciding factor in the French entering the 'North American skirmish' against the Brits...As such it is one of the turning points of the Revolution.
 
1781 - The Battle of Yorktown ended:  American Revolutionary War.

Yorktown was the last major battle of the American Revolution...The combined American and French troops killed or captured almost every British soldier in the battle, and the Brits were forced to the negotiation table as a result of their losses.

A true 'revolution' in the history of mankind, with an upstart group of colonies breaking away from the world's greatest power - creating a nation unlike any previously seen in history.

1956 - The first nuclear power plant in the world opened in England.

Someday every power plant will run on the power of the atom...It is much more efficient than oil, coal, water, wind, etc., and exponentially less dirty than oil and coal - secrets the EnvironMENTALists choose to ignore.

Why the U.S. has allowed the anti-nuclear psychos to keep us dependent on oil and coal is beyond me...Same for the nuts who think we can be powered by the sun and wind - or unicorn farts.

1244 - The Sixth Crusade ended when an Egyptian-Khwarismian force almost annihilated the French Army.

The Sixth Crusade is important because it was the first which wasn't called for by the Pope. Like the others, however, this one was doomed to failure, and after almost 250-years and six different invasions of the Holy Land the West reclaimed nothing...But did stall the advance of Islam towards the West.

1931 - Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to eleven years in prison. He was released in 1939.

How does a notorious gangster get released early? Who cares if he was going to die? He should have died in his jail cell, or in the grips of 'Ol Sparky.'

1933 - Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

Hitler was a stupid-ass...Thankfully!

The present world might be spinning on the axis of the swastika had Der Fuhrer not chased off or killed most of Germany's Jewish scientists.

1973 - Arab oil-producing nations announced they would begin cutting back on oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result was a total embargo which lasted until March 1974.

To combat this the U.S. decided to cut back on oil drilling and refining...To appease the EnvironMENTALists.

Talk about national suicide.

1980 - Mt. St. Helens erupted three times in 24 hours, in Washington.

Global Warming!!!  No, make that George W. Bush’s fault.

1989 - An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale hit Northern California, killing 67 people.

Much of the U.S. watched this event unfold, during the pregame of the Giants-A's World Series...A horrible scene.

What's amazing is less than 100 people died in the earthquake...San FranSicko is an enormously dense city, and other cities of its size worldwide with such earthquakes usually have deaths in the thousands.

Again, Global Warming, or W...Or maybe Donald Trump's fault.

1995 - President Bill Clinton told wealthy contributors at a Houston fund-raiser "you think I raised your taxes too much? It might surprise you to know that I think I raised them too much, too." - A statement which drew criticism from both Republicans and Democrats.

I still don’t know how Bubba does the triangulated-calculus of the bullshit he spews out...It truly is a talent.