November 5
1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected U.S. President for a historic third time, defeating Wendell Wilkie.
George Washington established the precedent of presidents serving no more than two terms, because he believed the nation needed a constant inflow of new leadership to remain vibrant - and honest.
The egomaniac FDR thought otherwise...No president should have stayed in office longer than two terms. FDR not only did three, he did four.
1556 - The Battle of Panipat.
Mughal ruler, Akhbar the Great routed the Hindus under Hemu by turning their elephants in the Hindu revolt. The result of this battle was the end of a period of Afghan rule in India.
1775 - Commodore Esek Hopkins was named Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy: American Revolutionary War.
The Colonial fleet was a rag-tag group, but managed to do enough to hassle the Brits and force them out of strategic positions, which helped Washington's army.
1862 - Ambrose Burnside replaced General McClellan as head of the U.S. Army of the Potomac: U.S. Civil War.
Lincoln replaced one incompetent commander with another.
How incompetent was Burnside? So much so, he asked Lincoln to change his mind and choose another commander...Lincoln refused, and the general went on to prove his incompetence at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
1912 - Woodrow Wilson was elected President of the United States.
Not a big event, but Wilson is the answer to an interesting election fact: Wilson is the only president to defeat two former presidents (Taft and Theodore Roosevelt) in one election.
He is also the first truly Liberal American president.
1914 - Britain, France, and Russia declared war on Turkey: WWI.
I hope you know the European powers weren’t the only ones in WWI...The Ottoman Empire was a pathetic mess, but required a final whipping before it disappeared from history.
1996 - California's Proposition 209 passed. Also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative, CCRI passed by a 10% margin.
A 10% majority is a significant voting total, and the people of California raised their voice by punching their ballots...A great day for the people, who stood up and said discrimination against any people (including whites) was unacceptable.
It didn't take long for the lawyers to get involved, though, with a lawsuit filed in less than 24 hours of the proposition passing.
So much for the "will of the people." Liberals much prefer the "will of the courts"...Liberal courts that is.
George Washington established the precedent of presidents serving no more than two terms, because he believed the nation needed a constant inflow of new leadership to remain vibrant - and honest.
The egomaniac FDR thought otherwise...No president should have stayed in office longer than two terms. FDR not only did three, he did four.
1556 - The Battle of Panipat.
Mughal ruler, Akhbar the Great routed the Hindus under Hemu by turning their elephants in the Hindu revolt. The result of this battle was the end of a period of Afghan rule in India.
1775 - Commodore Esek Hopkins was named Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy: American Revolutionary War.
The Colonial fleet was a rag-tag group, but managed to do enough to hassle the Brits and force them out of strategic positions, which helped Washington's army.
1862 - Ambrose Burnside replaced General McClellan as head of the U.S. Army of the Potomac: U.S. Civil War.
Lincoln replaced one incompetent commander with another.
How incompetent was Burnside? So much so, he asked Lincoln to change his mind and choose another commander...Lincoln refused, and the general went on to prove his incompetence at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
1912 - Woodrow Wilson was elected President of the United States.
Not a big event, but Wilson is the answer to an interesting election fact: Wilson is the only president to defeat two former presidents (Taft and Theodore Roosevelt) in one election.
He is also the first truly Liberal American president.
1914 - Britain, France, and Russia declared war on Turkey: WWI.
I hope you know the European powers weren’t the only ones in WWI...The Ottoman Empire was a pathetic mess, but required a final whipping before it disappeared from history.
1996 - California's Proposition 209 passed. Also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative, CCRI passed by a 10% margin.
A 10% majority is a significant voting total, and the people of California raised their voice by punching their ballots...A great day for the people, who stood up and said discrimination against any people (including whites) was unacceptable.
It didn't take long for the lawyers to get involved, though, with a lawsuit filed in less than 24 hours of the proposition passing.
So much for the "will of the people." Liberals much prefer the "will of the courts"...Liberal courts that is.
Labels: Afghanistan, Civil War, FDR, France, India, Revolutionary War, Russia, Turkey, UK, US, WWI
posted by Poison Pero @ Sunday, November 04, 2018
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