November 7 (A Huge Day)

There are too many big events on this day to only highlight one...Therefore, each will be highlighted in blue
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1793 - The French Revolution abolished Christianity in favor of 'Reason.'

"Those who cease to believe in God don't believe in nothing, they believe in anything." - G.K. Chesterton

This event is one of many separating the French Revolution from the American Revolution...America is a country created on the principles of  'liberty' and the values of Judeo-Christian moral standards; France (most of Western Europe) is a based on 'equality' and no moral standards.

It was one thing for the French to abandon Christianity, but it's another to claim they were heading towards 'reason.' If anything the French Revolution proved to be one of the most 'unreasonable' events in pre-WWII European history.

1811 - The Battle of Tippecanoe.

U.S. General William Henry Harrison defeated the Shawnee Indians, led by Tecumseh.

Tecumseh was a brilliant leader, and attempted to create Indian alliances to confront the oncoming U.S...But the Indians were never able to unite for a common cause, which is why the 'white man' was able to land in the New World and eventually dominate it.

Harrison used his popularity after this battle to propel himself to the presidency in the 1840 election...His campaign slogan was: 'Tippecanoe and Tyler Too' (John Tyler was his V.P.).

1874 - The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.

I've always wondered where this symbol came from, so here we go:

"Nast invented another famous symbol - the Republican elephant. In a cartoon that appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1874, Nast drew a donkey clothed in lion's skin, scaring away all the animals at the zoo. One of those animals, the elephant, was labeled 'The Republican Vote.' That's all it took for the elephant to become associated with the Republican Party." - Fact Monster

1876 - The presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden was so close there was no discernible winner.

I know some think the 2000 Election was the first close, contested, U.S. Presidential election, but that's only because the American Education Propagandameisters have done a good job brainwashing America's youth.

This election was as close as possible, and it's more than likely Tilden was cheated in Louisiana, which was stolen for Hayes...But it should be noted, Tilden cheated as well, which is why he eventually settled on a deal.

The Hayes-Tilden Compromise gave Hayes the Electoral College votes needed to win the election (by 1 vote), in exchange for agreeing to end the Federal presence in the South...Which finally put an end to the Civil War.

1900 - Heinrich Himmler, Head of the Nazi S.S. and organizer of the Nazi extermination camps was born.

The 'Chicken Farmer' is one of the most hideous people in world history, and his birth is only noted because this is one abortion the world could have done better by having.

1917 (October 25 on the old Russian Calendar) - The Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd.

The Mensheviks feared Lenin more than anyone else, and their fears were realized...They knew him well, because the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were originally united.

In the early 1900's, the Communist movement split in two because the majority of the group refused to allow Lenin to dominate it...As a result, Lenin was isolated but went on to win the battle of wits and gained the support of the Russian working-class.

Lenin also had an ace up his sleeve in the form of Leon Trotsky, who proved to be the second most important figure in the Russian Revolution, and the Russian Civil War which followed.

1944 - President Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected to a record fourth term.

I went over his re-election on November 6th, and ditto my statement here...#3 should never have happened - let alone #4.

1986 - The Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration Act was signed into law by President Reagan, permitting millions of illegal immigrants to remain in the country legally.

Reagan was a great president, and a hero of the Conservative movement, but this act was a horrible decision - with tremendous long-term repercussions.

1. It rewarded millions for breaking the law.
2. It encouraged millions more to break the law in the hope another president would recognize their legal status as well...Unfortunately, I'm afraid we are eventually heading this way again with who-knows-how-many more illegals.

2000 - The U.S. Presidential election ended with the count for the two primary candidates, Gore and Bush, being so close as to make the results a statistical tie.

This wasn't a Constitutional crisis, as many idiots called it, and it certainly wasn't the first contested election in U.S. history (see 1876 election, above)...It was a chance for the Constitution to prove itself.

The importance of the Constitution, of a free democracy in general, is to determine who will lead a nation, through the will of the people instead of with arms...Never forget the 'Clausewitz-Pero Corollary':

"War is the continuation of Politics by other means" - Clausewitz
"Politics is the continuation of War by other means" - Pero

The beauty of peaceful democracy is it solves the question of governance without bloodshed. Democracy is always messy, because it is war without warfare (political war)...Which is a far superior method to the only other alternative: War with warfare (civil war).

2004 - Iran and a European delegation of nations reached a preliminary agreement on Iran's nuclear program at talks hoped to avoid a U.N. showdown. The UK, France and Germany persuaded Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program.

They did??? Seems to me the Euro's accomplished nothing...Which is a little more than was expected of them.