January 12 (A Double)

1896 - H.L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph - a hand with a bullet in it.

This was a huge development in the history of medicine..And one which extended well past medicine. For better and for worse.

1943 - Soviet forces penetrated the siege of Leningrad, creating a breach in German lines, which had encircled the city for a year and a half. This breach allowed more supplies to come in along Lake Ladoga, the lifeline of the Leningrad resistance:  WWII.

The Battle of Leningrad is one of the greatest battles in world history, and should be read by all...I recommend 'The 900 Days,' by Harrison Salisbury.

The Russians lost approximately one million lives in almost 900-days; around 1,000 per day for 2 1/2 years...As a point of reference, imagine the effect a 9/11/01 or Pearl Harbor every 2-3 days for almost three years would have on America.

The 'City of Lenin,' (or 'Peter' for those who are true historians) much like Stalingrad, could not fall to the Germans, and Hitler was so maniacal he insisted on conquering it, when bludgeoning, isolating and bypassing the city made much more strategic sense.

1893 - Hermann Goering was born.

Happy Birthday, you fat-ass, psychotic, piece of human garbage!!

That said, the field marshal is one of my favorite Nazis to read about.

1918 - The U.S. government agreed to use state prisoners as farm laborers.

Can you imaging if we did this today? The ACLU and the rest of the Liberal Jackals would be howling mad.

Who cares what the ACLU wants, though.  It sounds like a much better plan than bringing in millions of illegal aliens to do the same work...But I’m sure in modern-day, moronic, Liberal America this would be considered “cruel and unusual punishment.”

1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.

Of course race shouldn’t preclude anyone from law school (or any school)...Neither should gender, etc.

This should include whites and men, by the way, because 'Reverse Racism' is as repugnant as 'Direct Racism'...Except in Liberalville, of course, where they not only push for Reverse Racism but also push for the "soft bigotry of low expectations." - G.W. Bush.

It's what keeps Democrats in office, and has been a brilliant political scheme for over 60-years.

1950 - The USSR reintroduced the death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage.

In 1950?  That would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

1961 - A United Nations pact banning genocide went into effect.

Bangladesh (1971), East Timor (1975-99), Cambodia (1975-79), Bosnia (1992-95), Rwanda (1994), Darfur (2004-today).

Looks like banning genocide works really well.

1976 - The U.N. Security Council voted 11-1 to seat the Palestine Liberation Organization for its debate on the Middle East. The United States cast the only dissenting vote.

Yet we continue to prop up this joke of an organization - actually both...So, we get what we ask for.

1990 - Romania became the first Warsaw Pact member to ban the Communist Party.

Considering Romania's sordid history, banning Commies is unlikely to keep them from reverting to poor form.

1991 - A deeply divided U.S. Congress gave President G.H.W. Bush the authority to expel Iraq from Kuwait.

Wait a minute.  I thought everyone supported the first Gulf War - just not the second one...This is the mythology we've all heard from Democrats and their lap-dogs in the media for the past two decades.

For the record:  The Senate voted 52-47, the House voted 250-183.

Can you believe there were actually 48 dirt bag Senators (47 + 1 dissenter) and 183 POS Representatives who voted to allow Saddam to keep Kuwait?

Democrats of course!

This same group of clowns were raging again 12-years later when the time came to get rid of the 'Butcher of Baghdad'...So much for the lie that Democrats supported the First Gulf War because we had a 'global mandate' to free Kuwait.

1995 - Amid unprecedented media hype, the murder trial of Hall of Fame football star O.J. Simpson began in a Los Angeles Superior Court. Simpson was accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.

It’s hard to believe, but this is still the biggest media story in my 40+ year existence...It got every bit as much play as 9/11, Iraq War, Katrina, Obama, etc., and certainly was overwhelmingly covered for a longer period of time.

Incredibly, 'The Juice' got away with murder...Equally incredible, justice was finally served when he was put in prison for such a stupid act as trying to steal his own stolen football paraphernalia.

1998 - Nineteen European nations signed a treaty in Paris opposing human cloning.

Sure...We’ll see how long the Mengelian-wannabes are held at bay on this one.

1998 - Germany said it agreed to establish a $110 million fund to compensate Jewish victims of the Nazis in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Payments from the fund would be released starting in 1999 over a period of four years, benefiting an estimated 17,000 to 20,000 victims.

So the other 9-10 million were ‘freebies’? I guess this makes everything alright, though, for the 17,000.

Uhhh, do you realize that comes to a paltry $6,471 per person? (110,000,000/17,000).

A piece of crap used car costs over $6,471. I guess Der Fuhrer was right and the life of a Jew really is cheap.

2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.

They should have given the police the 'authority' to see if the 'runners' can outrun a bullet...If you have nothing to run from, then don't run.

2010 - A massive earthquake struck Haiti.

200,000-300,000 Haitians were killed as a result of this event...As a point of reference, the U.S. had around 400,000 deaths in all of WWII.

Nature is truly a 'mother.'