This Day in History

July 25

2010-07-23T21:01:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-23T16:01:00.001-07:00

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

2010-07-22T17:05:00.001-07:00

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

2010-07-21T16:01:00.001-07:00

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

2010-07-20T17:01:00.001-07:00

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

2010-07-19T17:01:00.001-07:00

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)

2010-07-17T15:21:00.001-07:00

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

2010-07-17T15:01:00.000-07:00

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)

2010-07-16T17:01:00.000-07:00

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)

2010-07-15T17:01:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-14T17:01:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-13T17:01:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-12T17:01:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-10T19:01:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-09T19:01:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-09T17:05:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-08T21:01:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-08T00:01:00.000-07:00

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)

2010-07-07T00:02:00.000-07:00

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)

2010-07-06T00:02:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-05T00:01:00.000-07:00

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)

2010-07-04T00:04:00.000-07:00

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)

2010-07-03T00:02:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-02T00:02:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-01T00:01:00.000-07:00

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?**

June 30

2010-06-30T00:03:00.000-07:00

1865 - A military tribunal decided the eight defendants in the Lincoln Assassination trial were guilty. Four went to prison and four were sentenced to hang.

**Can you imagine if this happened in modern-day America?

1. Liberals would go insane at the thought of a murderer facing a military tribunal.

2. Liberals would go insane at the thought of a murderer receiving the death penalty; sentenced to hang no less.

Alright, alright, we don’t need any of this to happen for Liberals to go insane...They are anyway.**
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1894 - Korea declared independence from China and asked for Japanese aid.

**The Japanese gladly give the Koreans 'aid'...The Koreans soon regretted their call for help.**
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1934 - The Night of Long Knives: Adolf Hitler began his 'blood purge' of political and SA leaders in Germany. Among those killed was one-time Hitler ally Ernst Roehm, leader of the Nazi stormtroopers (SA).

**This was a huge night in the history of the Nazis...Hitler destroyed his main impediment to total power (Roehm) and reinforced his control of the party. Also, Himmler became Hitler’s #2 (even though his titles didn’t reflect it).

Of equal importance, by destroying the power of the SA Hitler bought fealty from the German military.**
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1986 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Georgia's sodomy law, ruling states could ban homosexual acts between consenting adults.

**Personally I couldn’t care less what consenting Normos do in private, but it is amazing this ruling was overturned by another ruling 17-years later with Lawrence v. Texas...So much for judicial precedence.**
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1994 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled judges can bar peaceful demonstrators from getting too close to abortion clinics.

**How come PETA demonstrators can stand in the door to the circus barring entrance to an event, and union workers can picket up and down a business causing its customers to stay away, but peaceful abortion demonstrators must stay away from the offices of Fetus Killers?...I guess animals and employee benefits have more value than unborn human beings.

Hell, garden snakes have more value than human fetuses in the eyes of American law.**
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1997 - In Hong Kong, the Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House as Britain prepared to hand the colony back to China after ruling it for 156-years.

**It was inevitable, but how sad for a free people to be handed over like a piece of dirt to the Chinese Communists.**
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1998 - Officials confirmed the previously unidentified remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were those of Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie.

**FYI!**

June 29

2010-06-29T00:01:00.000-07:00

64 (Traditional date) - Saint Peter was executed in the Gardens of Nero at the foot of Vatican Hill. He was supposedly crucified head downward at his own request.

67 (Traditional date) - Saint Paul, one of the greatest preachers, writers, and organizers of the early Christian Church was executed on the Via Ostia, three miles from Rome.

**What a historical irony the Church’s two greatest leaders (after Christ himself) were both executed in/near Rome, and within 400-years their names were synonymous with the Church which took its residence in and became great in Rome.**
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904 - Sergius III was crowned pope, beginning the 'Pornocracy.'

**By definition, a pornocracy is a government dominated by prostitutes.

The Papal Pornocracy, also known as the 'Rule of the Harlots,' wasn’t really a period of Papal authority by prostitutes, but one where the Popes (from Sergius to John XII in 963) were under the influence of corrupt women.**
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1767 - Britain passed the Townshend Acts, levying duties on glass, lead, tea, paint and paper sent to America.

**Just another in a long list of taxes placed on the Colonists...They weren't willing to pay them for much longer.**
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1850 - Henry Clay introduced a compromise bill in the U.S. Senate on slavery, which included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.

**The Compromise of 1850 did much more than bring California in as a free state, it was also the straw that broke the Whig Party’s back.

The Whigs were split over this bill into two camps: 'Cotton Whigs' and 'Conscience Whigs'...The Cotton Whigs were against bringing on new states as 'free states.'

The bill permanently fractured the Whig Party, and signalled the beginning of the Republican Party (which took in the Conscience Whigs), and the Cotton Whigs joined forces with the Democrat Party...Just another of many points every black American should know about the sordid history of the Democrat Party.**
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1896 - Physician Emile Grubbe became the first to use radiation treatment for breast cancer.**

Cancer is a true scourge of humanity, and anything done to treat it deserves notice on this blog.**
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1940 - The U.S. passed the Alien Registration Act.

**The Alien Registration Act made it a criminal offense for anyone to "knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise, or teach the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing the Government of the United States or of any State by force or violence, or for anyone to organize any association which teaches, advises, or encourages such an overthrow, or for anyone to become a member of or to affiliate with any such association."...It also required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government. Within four months 4,741,971 aliens had registered under the Acts provisions.

In 1957 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned many convictions based on this law, but the law is still in effect...I don't see how any part of the bill is unconstitutional, and we should all pray for a return to sanity and a reestablishment of the prosecution of those breaking this law.**
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1964 - The TV remote control was invented.**

One of man’s greatest inventions...**
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1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Furman v. Georgia, ruled the death penalty, as invoked by the states at that time, is unconstitutional.

**How pathetic for those who commit the worst of crimes to be treated better than those they commit them against.

"When Criminals are not given Justice, the Just will be given Criminals." - D. Prager.
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1977 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty for rapists of adults was unconstitutional.**

There are two ways to read this:

1. How ridiculous to claim rape of any kind is any less a crime than murder. ALL RAPISTS SHOULD BE EXECUTED!

2. At the very least, it vaguely says those who rape non-adults (children) should be executed...Unfortunately, the Supremes screwed this up in June 2008.

June 28

2010-06-28T00:02:00.000-07:00

1519 - King Charles I, of Spain (better known as Charles V), was elected Holy Roman Emperor.

**Charles inherited Spain and its New World possessions, the Netherlands, parts of France and Italy, and was given control of the Germans states as emperor...His possessions matched any great leader in European history, but his reign proved to be as tumultuous as any as well.

The Reformation broke much of Charles' power, and constant wars with France, the Turks and in his own lands made him one of the least powerful of the great sovereigns in history.**
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1914 - Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist; the event which triggered World War I.

1919 - WWI officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

**The Great War began on this day (virtually), and ended on it as well...Too bad the factors which started it weren’t eliminated, and the victors who set the terms of the treaty weren’t foresighted enough to see the war hadn’t ended...Germany surrendered, but Germany was not defeated. This fact would haunt the world in less than 20 years.

As such, Versailles was a holding-point, not an end-point, and was nothing more than a stop-gap between WWI and WWII.**
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1945 - The Polish Provisional Government of National Unity was set up by the Soviets.

**The poor Poles...They went from their Nazi overlord to an equally terrible Soviet master.

This is exactly why the Poles are currently one of America’s best allies. They know they are sandwiched between the German and Russian beasts and only American cover can guarantee their independence and safety.**
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1978 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the University of California at Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he'd been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.

**If Mr. Bakke has recourse against 'affirmative racism' then we all should...And if we all do, then the program itself must be wrong. This is so obvious it’s painful.**
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1989 - China's new Communist Party chief, Jiang Zemin, said the Beijing government would show no mercy to leaders of the pro-democracy movement, which he termed a "counter-revolutionary rebellion."

**Duh! Dictators don’t go away willingly, and Communism is nothing more than a dictatorship with a party name.**
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1991 - In Detroit, a white woman was attacked by a group of black women at a downtown fireworks display in an incident captured on amateur video.

**This wasn't a hate-crime by the way, because it is less of a crime for blacks to assault whites...So much for the concept of being 'equal in the eye of the law.'**
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1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court kept alive a 'racial gerrymandering' case, saying congressional districts designed to benefit racial minorities may violate white voter's rights.

**How is this any different than 'affirmative racism?' It isn’t...And of course it 'violates white voter’s rights.' It invalidates their votes.**
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2000 - Seven months after cast adrift in the Florida Straits, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba.

**Elian’s mother gave her life to give her child in exchange for a chance at freedom, but Bill Clinton and 'James' Reno decided to return him to Castroville...I will never understand the logic behind this one, but I learned to be surprised by nothing during the Clinton years.**
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2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders.

**Come on now, who are we to disallow Normos the right to camp out and sleep with little boys...How dare we protect children at the risk of offending some predatory perverts!**
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2004 - The United States transferred some power back to the Iraqis, two days earlier than planned.

**The Iraqis have been handed the gift of opportunity...Will they make good on it? Only time will tell, but if they chose to, Iraqis could become some of the most prosperous people on Earth.

But they must kill all the Islamist nuts, and allow the U.S. to be their ally...See post-WWII Japan.

Unfortunately, I don't see this turning out quite as well as Japan.**

June 27

2010-06-27T00:01:00.000-07:00

1776 - Thomas Hickey, one of George Washington's guards, was convicted of plotting to deliver George Washington to the British, becoming the first person to be executed by the U.S. Army.

**I’m sure Hickey thought himself an honorable Brit, but thankfully he didn’t succeed...Obviously, the Brits knew the value of the 'Irreplaceable Man.'**
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1844 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith, and his brother Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.

**This act convinced the Mormons they needed to find a ‘land of their own’...Soon after, they elected another strong leader (Brigham Young), who set them out to find their ‘Zion.’**
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1929 - German President Von Hindenburg refused to pay Germany's war debt for World War I.

**The French should have let this go, instead they created the perfect conditions for a strongman to arise in Germany...That strongman took control four years later and was soon knocking on France’s door for a little payback.**
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1950 - President Truman ordered the U.S. Navy and Air Force into the Korean conflict following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.

**With this order, Truman committed to involvement in the Korean War, which was the right thing to do for America and the world...Unfortunately, he wasn’t as wise in his handling of the war.

Truman should have treated this as a war, the natural outgrowth of WWII (the Cold War), and destroyed the North Koreans, Chinese and any other third party who chose to enter the fray. Fighting a 'holding war' or a 'police action' was tragic, and a trap we should never have fallen into.

Sadly, we repeated this act of stupidity in Vietnam. And are doing so again at this very time in Iraq and Afghanistan...All three were 'the right war,' but were (are being) fought incorrectly for political reasons.**
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1986 - The World Court ruled the U.S. broke international law by aiding Nicaraguan rebels.

**Screw 'The Hague,' and all its Leftist, America haters.**
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2000 - President Robert Mugabe's ruling party was assured a majority in Zimbabwe's new parliament despite historic gains by the opposition.

**Congratulations to the people of Zimbabwe! Nothing could be finer for them than another period of rule by 'The Beast'...Not that there was any chance in Hell he was going to relinquish power if he lost the election.**

June 26

2010-06-26T00:01:00.000-07:00

1284 - The Pied Piper lured 130 children of Hamelin away, and they were never seen again. The reasons behind the mass-abduction is obscured by legend and the tale that he did it in revenge for not being paid for clearing the town of rats was a fiction added later.

**An interesting tale, but not a historical event: The Pied Piper.**
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1900 - Dr. Walter Reed and his medical team began a successful campaign to wipe out Yellow Fever in the Panama Canal Zone.

**The 'bugs' destroyed previous attempts to build a canal, and the first priority of the American operation was to wipe out Yellow Fever before it wiped out the workers...This method of sanitation-first became the standard worldwide for building projects in the undeveloped world.**
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1917 - The first troops of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during World War I.

**It was a little late in the war, and there was little chance of the Axis winning by this point, but the entry of the U.S. signified the end was in sight.**
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1934 - Germany and Poland signed a non-aggression pact.

**You have to wonder if the Poles actually thought this would be upheld, or if they were just buying time? Either way, in five years Hitler used this pact as toilet-paper.**
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1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.

**The U.N. Charter is little more than a comic book, without pictures...One which isn't funny.**
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1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled murderers as young as 16, or who were mentally retarded, could be sentenced to death.

**And then the 2005 Supremes overruled the 1989 Supremes...I can live with not executing the mentally retarded, but 16 year olds who kill should be killed.**
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1993 - President Bill Clinton announced the U.S. launched missiles against Iraqi targets because of "compelling evidence" Iraq plotted to assassinate former President Bush.

**Good on Bubba...He had a few moments where he acted Presidential, and this was one.**
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1994 - Hundreds of thousands of homosexuals gathered in New York City to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn Riot, considered the birthplace of the gay-rights movement.

**For this brief moment in time NYC was the world's largest epidemic site...Try to imagine how much AIDS/HIV, STD's, etc. was floating around in this cesspool of inhumanity.**
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1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark sexual harassment ruling, putting employers on notice they can be held responsible for supervisors' misconduct even if they knew nothing about it.

**This makes no sense at all. How can a company be held responsible for a problem it doesn’t know exists??? This is nothing but a lawyer’s wet-dream**

June 25 (A Double)

2010-06-24T00:03:00.000-07:00

1139 - The Battle of Ourique: Alfonso I defeated the Moors.

**This battle reestablished Portuguese independence from its Muslim masters...It took Spain another 300+ years to earn such independence.

Interestingly, Alfonso’s troops had to kill five Moorish kings, which is noted on Portugal's national coat of arms, containing five standards and five escudets.**
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1513 - The Confession of Augsburg: The distinct break between Catholicism and Protestantism.

**Other than Luther’s '95 Thesis,' the Confession of Augsburg is the most important document in the Reformation period, outlining the differences and disagreements between what became modern Protestantism and Catholicism.**
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1798 - The Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 empowered the U.S. President to deport any alien he found dangerous to the peace and safety of the nation.

**The Founders were so much smarter than we are...They knew the danger of allowing the 'enemy within' to fester, but we are stupid enough to do just that and lose everything the Patriots fought for.**
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1876 - The Battle of Little Big Horn: General George Custer and his force of 208 men were annihilated by Chief Sitting Bull's Sioux warriors at Little Big Horn in Montana.

**A big day for the Indians, and a bad one for the U.S. Army...It was a rare occasion, and one which didn't happen again.

The end result of the slaughter was the Army’s realization it needed to put more troops in the field, not to turn tail...Again, thankfully our forebears weren’t a bunch of pansies, because if this happened in a battle today Liberals would be crying to 'bring the boys home.'**
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1940 - Hitler toured Paris: the Eiffel Tower, Tomb of Napoleon, and the Opera.

**How nice of the French to invite Der Fuhrer in for a field trip.**
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1942 - General Dwight Eisenhower was appointed Commander of U.S. troops in Europe.

**Ike was a brilliant political general, and no one could have molded the Allied forces as well as he did...Monty and Patton alone would have been too much for a lesser leader to handle, but Eisenhower not only controlled these two, but also the rest of the multinational force (U.S., Brit, Poles, French, Canadian, Australian, etc.)**
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1943 - The Crematory III at Birkenau was finished.

**WooHoo! Another big day for the Nazi psychopaths.**
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1950 - North Korean forces invaded South Korea, claiming it was defending itself.

**The Korean War began, and the U.S. was caught completely by surprise...Five days earlier Secretary of State Dean Acheson told Congress war was unlikely, even though the CIA predicted in March there would be an invasion in June.

Obviously the CIA was correct, and the North gave the South an early beating...It took until July 5 before the U.S. first met the North Korean enemy.

Many Americans look at the 'Korean Conflict' as a loss, and to a point they are correct. On the other hand, the people of South Korea were saved from the dread of Communism and an American presence has remained in the Far East since this time, which must be looked at as a huge positive...Either way, the Cold War became extremely HOT on this day.**
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1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court decided male-only draft registration was constitutional.

**This is a correct decision, but the Court should have taken the next logical step and declared it was constitutional to have a 'male-only' military.**
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1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in its first 'right-to-die' decision, ruled family members can be barred from ending the lives of persistently comatose relatives who have not made their wishes known conclusively.

**Someone forgot to tell Terri Schiavo’s executioners about this decision.**
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1996 - At the Al-Khobar Towers, where U.S. Troops in Saudi Arabia were housed, a tanker truck exploded, killing 19 U.S. military personnel.

**Just another step on the way to 9/11/01...We should have seen it coming, and we should have attacked them before 2001.**

June 24 (A Triple)

2010-06-23T17:09:00.000-07:00

217 B.C. – The Battle of Lake Trasimeno: Hannibal defeated the Romans at Lake Trasimeno in the Second Punic War.

**Another victory for Hannibal on his way to Rome.

The battle was a slaughter, with the Romans suffering about 15,000 losses, compared to barely any for Hannibal...As a result of this loss, Rome was left virtually defenseless, except for its powerful walls, but Hannibal had no means of successfully overcoming these walls. So, Hannibal ravaged Italy, continued to crush any Roman army he met in the field, and destroy its Italian allies. His inability to seize Rome, however, eventually proved fatal for the Carthaginians, however. Which also proved pivotal for Western Civilization.**
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1314 - The Battle of Bannockburn: The forces of Scotland's King Robert the Bruce defeated the English.

**The English had a 3-1 advantage in manpower, and the dominant weapon of the period (longbow), but couldn’t overwhelm the defending forces of Robert the Bruce...As a result the Scots were able to reestablish their independence, and the English lost their best chance to militarily force a union of the two nations into a united Britain.

FYI: I’m proud to say my family surname is descended from the 'Clan Bruce.'**
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1497 - The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place when explorer John Cabot, on a voyage for England, spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.

**At the time this land was considered much less valuable than that found by the Spanish and Portuguese, an opinion which prove to be infinitely shortsighted.**
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1509 - Henry VIII was crowned King of England.

**England was in for a wild ride, and its social, religious and military history was soon turned upside down...Henry took six wives, separated England from the Roman Church, challenged the Holy Roman Emperor, united England and Wales, dissolve the monasteries, and since he didn't produce a male heir he left the kingdom in a period of chaos over his succession.**
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1793 - The first republican constitution in France was adopted.

**From 1793-present the French have had five different systems of government (none of which has been worth a damn)...In this same period of time the U.S. has had one!!!

The French have been anything but stable, and have taken a thorough military ass kicking on at least three occasions during this time...So, the next time you hear people talk of French brilliance make sure to remind them of the joke they have been for the past 200+ years.**
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1917 - The Russian Black Sea fleet mutinied at Sevastopol.

**The Revolution was up and down at the time, but this mutiny gave the communists a fighting force behind its political and anarchical goals...The Black Sea Fleet was of huge importance in the next year; it also had to be eliminated once Lenin assumed control.**
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1948 - The Soviets began a blockade of Berlin, stopping all land traffic and food from entering the city from West Germany.

**The Soviets were playing games and Truman reacted beautifully with the Berlin Airlift, flying in more than two million tons of supplies over the next year...This was round one of the Cold War, which was relatively COLD. And the 'Good Guys' won.**
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1966 - The 'Period of the Great-Power Peace in Europe' exceeded that following WW I.

**Many will say 'whoopty-doo,' but this would be those who don't understand history.

For the better part of the past 1000-years Europe rarely went through any extended period of peace, and this 20-year period is truly exceptional...Of course those other years didn’t have the American super-power around to broker the peace, which has been the overriding factor in the world being in a relative truce due to the ‘Pax Americana'; the 'American Peace.'

It should be noted this period of relative peace is now in its 43rd year.**

June 23

2010-06-22T17:03:00.000-07:00

930 - The world's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, was established.

**This parliament is known as the Althing and is the oldest, but has little if any other historical significance...Such is Icelandic history.**
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1888 - Abolitionist Frederick Douglass became the first American black nominated for U.S. President.

**Frederick Douglass was born a slave, but escaped to freedom in 1838, and went on to be the most important black man of his time, and one of the five most important in American history...It should be noted, Douglass wasn't nominated by either the Republican or Democrat Party.

FYI: Top 5 American blacks = Barack Obama, Jackie Robinson, M.L. King, Frederick Douglas, George Washington Carver.

Being elected President of the U.S. instantly jumped Obama to #1...I didn't want him to win the job, but unlike Liberals, I am an honest historian.**
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1983 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions.

**DUH!!! But is anyone surprised to see a Democrat led Congress trying to push its luck constitutionally?**
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1993 - In a case which drew widespread attention, Lorena Bobbitt sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her. John Bobbitt was later acquitted of marital sexual assault; Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding by reason of insanity.

**If he did rape her, more power to her! If he didn’t, he should be justified in cutting off her breasts, as a moment of insanity...One had to be wrong, and at least one should have done jail time.

That said, I tend to believe Lorena and John probably got what he deserved.**
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1995 - Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine to halt the crippling disease of polio, died.

**Salk, known as 'The Man Who Saved the Children,' was a giant of his time...His vaccine has saved millions from the debilitating effects of polio, and his name should be listed with the brilliant minds of any time.**
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2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan's School of Law affirmative action policy.

**Someone please show me the portion of the Constitution which explains how the sins of the past are to be paid for by the generations of the future..Affirmative Racism is bad for blacks and wrong for America.**

June 22 (A Quadruple)

2010-06-21T15:50:00.000-07:00

168 B.C. - The Battle of Pydna: Rome defeated Macedonia, ending the Macedonian Wars.

**This is one of the classic battles in history, and the conclusive battle between the battle formations of the Roman Legions and the Macedonian phalanx.

The Legions won the day, and Alexander the Great’s homeland was finally conquered by the Romans...It was completely annexed into the Empire in 146 B.C.**
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1535 - A month after the Pope made him a cardinal, John Fisher was executed at Tower Hill in London after refusing to recognize King Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the English Church.

**Henry wasn’t screwing around, and wanted the world to know he controlled his kingdom, not the Church.

That said, he was lucky not to be part of the Continent, or his ‘control’ would have been tested by the armies of Charles V...Instead Henry was able to be an instigator from across the sea, and a giant thorn in Charles' and the Pope’s side.**
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1772 - England outlawed slavery.

**A great act, but only one in a long series of baby-steps ending the world-wide practice of African Slavery...The English banned slavery in England, but not in its colonies, and did nothing to end the slave trade, which was legal in the Empire until 1807.**
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1808 - Zebulon Pike reached the peak which is named after him: Pike's Peak.

**Zebulon Pike is an interesting character who gained fame by chance, and did little to deserve such fame.

Pike was hated by the U.S. Army high command because he was a political appointee, not much of an officer, and a pompous pain in the ass. So, the Army sent him to the West as a means of getting him out their hair (not to discover anything), and hopefully to meet his end at the hands of the Indians...Also, Pike was a bumbling fool, who almost died on the Peak, and had to be saved multiple times before reaching his destination.**
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1812 - Napoleon and the French Grande Armee invaded Russia.

**Napoleon lived a charmed life up to this point, having never suffered a serious loss...His luck changed in Russia.

The Emperor limped back to France in December of this year, after wasting his 600,000 man 'Grande Armee' in the Russian wasteland.**
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1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of France, for the second time.

**There wasn't a third time...And never should have been a second.**
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1941 - Operation Barbarossa Began: Germany and its Axis allies invaded the Soviet Union.

**Amazingly, the very date Hitler followed Napoleon into Hell……It took much longer, but Hitler’s troops met the same end as the 'Grande Armee.'**
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1944 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act; the 'GI Bill of Rights.'

**A small token of our appreciation for the troops...And it is way too small!!**
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1970 - President Nixon signed the 26th Amendment, dropping the voting age to 18.
**The Democrats pushed their desire to allow the ‘mush-minds’ to vote, knowing they have the mechanism to control the youth through the propaganda of the American educational system...Nixon had no choice but to sign it after it was pushed through the states.

I know many will say, if a person is old enough to fight for their country they should be old enough to vote...If we had compulsory military service I could see this, but we don’t and the military is completely voluntary.

Plus, if this were the logic they were looking for, why is it the same group of Liberals who pushed for this amendment are also the same group who pushed to raise the drinking age to 21? The decision was 100% political, not about rights, per normal!**
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1994 - President Bill Clinton announced North Korea confirmed its willingness to freeze its nuclear program.

**Wow! Good thing Clinton got this concession...Riiiiiiight.**
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2000 - The state of Texas executed Gary Graham for the 1981 killing of a man in a holdup outside a Houston supermarket. Graham insisted to the end he was innocent.

**There’s a shock! Every prisoner claims to be innocent...We should execute one per day until they are all gone**

June 21

2010-06-19T18:47:00.000-07:00

1633 - Galileo Galilei was forced by the Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views.

**Galileo's choices: Reject his views and live a life of relative piece, or continue and die...He made the choice most would have.**
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1788 - The U.S. Constitution was ratified when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.

**One of the greatest non-religious documents in world history was about to be put into play, and the American nation took a new course as a federal republic.**
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1814 – The Battle of Vitoria.

**Napoleon’s rule in Spain ended with this battle, won by the British who were led by the Duke of Wellington...Wellington wasn’t Napoleon’s superior, but he learned much in Spain, and along with Blucher eventually put an end to Napoleon in 1815.**
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1945 - Japanese forces on Okinawa surrendered to the U.S. during WWII.

**Okinawa was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Campaign, the largest triphibious battle (sea-land-air) in world history, and the last major battle of WWII...Ironically, neither side expected Okinawa to be the last battle, because both expected Japan Proper to be invaded.**
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1963 - France withdrew its navy from NATO.

**French Navy?!?!? Couldn't have been much after the Frenchies surrendered to the Krauts, forcing the Brits to sink it in WWII.
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1982 - John Hinckley Jr. was found not guilty by reason of insanity of the March 1981 shooting of President Reagan and three other people.

**Hinckly shot four people, including the President of the U.S., and got away with it on an insanity plea?

Of course he was insane! Anyone who shoots at someone in cold-blood is insane, but they should be strung up for murder/attempted murder...That would be too cruel I guess.**
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1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled burning the American Flag is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.

**Michael Savage is 100% correct when he says “Liberalism is a mental disorder" and "the stench from the bench is making me clench."**

June 20

2010-06-19T17:55:00.000-07:00

451 - The Battle of the Catalaunian Field (Also knows as the Battle of Chalons, or the Battle of the Catalun): Atilla the Hun was defeated by a Roman-Visigoth Army, led by Flavius Aetius Theodoric.

**Until this battle, Attila had been virtually unchallenged, and even this defeat wasn't conclusive...But it was the first defeat of any kind for Attila, and planted a seed of doubt in his mind (as well as that of his troops) of his own invincibility. In fact, Attila contemplated suicide before coming to his senses.

This battle was also the last successful major military operation of the Western Roman Empire.**
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1499 - Queen Isabella, of Spain, condemned the enslavement of American Indians.

**This sounds nice, but in reality had little if any effect in the New World...It took revolutions in South and Central America before the Spanish were forced to accept the native population as anything other than a people to be used for production and profit.**
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1782 - The U.S. Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States and the Eagle as it's symbol. William Barton designed the seal, which is still used today, consisting of an eagle, an olive branch and 13 arrows - one for each of the original 13 colonies.

**History of the Seal: Click each link to learn the significance of each item.

Front: On the breast of the American bald eagle is a shield with thirteen vertical white and red stripes beneath a blue chief. In the eagle's right talon is an olive branch, and in his left a bundle of thirteen arrows. In his beak is a scroll inscribed with the motto E Pluribus Unum.

Over the head of the eagle, a golden glory is breaking through a cloud and surrounding a constellation of thirteen stars on an azure field.

Back: In the zenith of an unfinished pyramid is an eye in a triangle surrounded with a golden glory. Over the eye are the words Annuit Coeptis. On the base of the pyramid are the numerical letters MDCCLXXVI, and underneath, the motto Novus Ordo Seclorum.**
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1791 - King Louis XVI was caught trying to escape the French Revolution.

**Louis met his end at the bottom of the guillotine in January 1793.**
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1936 - The Anti-Price Discrimination Act made it illegal for big companies to set prices so low that smaller companies are driven out of business.

**So much for a 'Free Market'...And the question must be asked: Exactly who did this help??

It didn't help the consumer, because it kept prices up (artificially), and it hurt workers because it kept businesses which should be naturally swallowed up from going under, even if they weren't legitimately competitive.**
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1960 - Flemming v. Nestor: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled workers have no legal right to Social Security; Congress can cut or eliminate Social Security benefits at any time regardless of a worker's contributions.

**Unfortunately this will be forced on the people...Not by legislation, but by reality when the system self-destructs.**
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1977 - Oil began to flow through the $7.7 billion, 789-mile Alaska pipeline.

**Oil was discovered in 1968, and within nine years The Pipeline was flowing...One step towards becoming less dependant on the OPEC cabal.**

June 19

2010-06-18T17:37:00.000-07:00

1269 - King Louis IX of France decreed all Jews must wear a badge of shame.

**I bet most think the Nazi’s were the first to do this...Nah. Anti-Semitism has been rampant in Europe for thousands of years.**
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1429 - Joan of Arc raised the Siege of Orleans.

**The Maid of Orleans arrived and turned a loss into a victory...What great honor and gifts was she given? She was handed over to the English to be executed.

Such was the gratitude of the French...Some things never change.**
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1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.

**Thankfully the English didnt' give up...It had to have gone through their minds, however.**
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1787 - The U.S. Constitutional Convention voted to strike down the Articles of Confederation and form a new government.

**Sadly, most Americans don't know there was such an entity as the Articles of Confederation...Which speaks to the success of the U.S. Constitution, and the failure of the modern-day Education System destroying American History.

Thankfully, the Founders were farsighted enough to see the flaws of the Articles (namely the disunity of the young nation), and created a federal system.

That said, every American should know of and read the Articles of Confederation.**
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1846 - The first baseball game with set rules was played at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, N.J.

**Final Score: N.Y. Nines 23, N.Y. Knickerbockers 1.**
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1865 - Union General Gordon Granger informed the citizens of Galveston, Texas, the slaves were freed. The celebration of this day became known as 'Juneteenth.'

**Word of the Emancipation Proclamation hadn’t reached Texas till this time, and the reality was no slaves were legally freed until the 13th Amendment was ratified in December of this year.**
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1910 - Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Washington

**Long overdue...Especially considering Mother's Day had been celebrated since 1908.**
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1917 - King George V ordered members of the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. They took the name Windsor.

**Such things happen during war...Windsor sounds so much better than Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, anyway.**
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1940 – Hermann Goering ordered the seizure of Dutch horses, cars, buses, and ships.

**The Fat Field Marshal needed more toys...What a crack-pot.**
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1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electric chair at Sing Sing prison for conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

**It's always good to pull out Ol' Sparky on traitors.**
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1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 survived an 83-day filibuster in the Senate.

**An 83-day assault by Senate Democrats0...Lets never forget this, and remind those who don’t know. Which is almost every American.**
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1998 - Switzerland's three biggest banks offered $600 million to settle claims they'd stolen the assets of Holocaust victims. Outraged Jewish leaders called the offer insultingly low.

**There were approximately 10 million Jews in Europe prior to WWII = $60/Jew...There were approximately 5.5 million Jews executed during WWII = $109/Jew.

Ya, I’d say that is an insulting offer.**
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2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that praying in public schools had to be private, barring officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games.

**I’m not Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or any other recognized religion, but this is blatantly stupid...America is a Christian nation (lets face reality), and prayer shouldn’t be forced on students and shouldn’t be restricted either.**

June 18

2010-06-17T00:22:00.000-07:00

1538 - The Treaty of Nice: 'Peace' was agreed on by Charles V (Holy Roman Empire and Spain) and Francis I (France).

**Those familiar with the period know this was a worthless piece of paper, because there were rarely consecutive days of peace between France and the Empire, let alone anything resembling a real peace.**
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1812 - The War of 1812 began: The U.S. Congress declared war against Britain for repeated violations of American rights to the sea, and the incitement of Indians on the frontier.

**The War of 1812 was nothing short of a continuation of the Revolutionary War. Is should be seen as a last ditch effort by the Brits to reclaim their former colonies, and a second chance for the former colonists to show they would never return to British rule.**
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1815 - The Battle of Waterloo: British and Prussian forces defeated Napoleon.

**The French Revolution and Napoleonic Age came to an end at Waterloo, and began a new day of British and Prussian/German hegemony in Europe (around the globe for the Brits)...The brilliant Emperor was finally defeated, and the names of Wellington and Blucher found their way into the realm of greatness in military history as a result of this victory.**
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1878 - The Posse Comitatus Act passed, making it a felony to willfully use "any part of the Army...to execute the laws" except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or by act of Congress.

**When used properly, the Army has more than enough on its plate, and domestic law enforcement should be left to the various police agencies (including the FBI).

That said the law was revised in 1981 "to permit increased Department of Defense support of drug interdiction and other law enforcement activities," and revised again after 9/11/01 to increase the military's role in the War on Terror...Lets hope we never have to use our military on our soil, but that day is always a possibility.**
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1900 - Empress Tsu-tse ordered the Boxers to expel all foreigners from China.

**This order turned out very badly for the Chinese, who were defeated by the Western powers, lost many of its traditional territories, and handed over hegemony in the East to Japan.**
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1940 - Winston Churchill urged perseverance among the British people so future generations would remember "this was their finest hour."

**“……What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"**

June 17

2010-06-16T17:14:00.000-07:00

1775 - The Battle of Bunker Hill took place near Boston.

**This was one of the first battles of the Revolutionary War, and even though it was a victory for the Brits it was a rude awakening for them as well.

The Battle of Bunker Hill (fought mostly at Breed’s Hill, by the way) showed the Colonists could and would fight, would not be intimidated by the site of the ‘Red Coats,’ and woke the Brits to the reality the ‘Colonial skirmish’ had turned into a war.

Troops/Casualties: Brits = 2600/1200, Colonists = 1400/450...By no means should these Colonials be considered troops, though.**
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1940 - France asked Germany for terms of surrender in WW II.

**Four words: THE FRENCH ARE PATHETIC!!!**
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1967 - China became the world's fourth thermonuclear power.

**I hope you know this means they produced a hydrogen-bomb, which is an enormous event for any nation which is able to pull it off...Welcome to the club.

There will be more, and the question isn’t who will get them, but who will use them...And where.**
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1991 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Wilson v. Seiter, prison conditions such as overcrowding, poor sanitation, and exposure to violence do not violate the 8th Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

**They are prisoners!! Prison isn’t supposed to be easy, and we shouldn’t even try to make it so...Otherwise it becomes a more preferred home than some people’s regular life.

If prisoners don’t like the prison homes they choose to occupy by being criminals, they should be given the option of execution.**
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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.

**I still have visions of the white Bronco driving through the freeways of L.A. followed by police on the ground and in the sky...Equally bizarre was the sight of crowds lining up watching the event occur; some even had signs cheering on the murderer.**

June 16

2010-06-15T17:01:00.000-07:00

1487 - The Battle of Stoke Field ended the War of the Roses.

**This battle is often overlooked in the English civil war, but it was the last real challenge presented by the Yorkists to Henry VII...Needless to say, Henry won the battle, but it is interesting to note his opponent was a 10-year old pretender to the throne.**
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1858 - "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Abraham Lincoln, Senate candidate, made this statement in a speech saying the slavery issue had to be resolved.

**Lincoln said what he meant, and meant what he said...Unfortunately, the South was willing to do what they had to do in order continue slavery.

Even more sad, current-day America is a much more 'divided house' than it was prior to the Civil War...Slavery isn't the issue, class warfare and values are the issues.**
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1977 - Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev was named President, becoming the first person to hold both posts simultaneously.

**Woopty-doo!! He held nice titles, but had nowhere near as much power as Lenin, Stalin or Khrushchev.**
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1994 - Jimmy Carter, on a private visit to North Korea, reported the Communist nation's leaders were eager to resume talks with the United States on resolving disputes about Pyongyang's nuclear program and improving relations.

**Check out this moron. Jimmy was a failure as president, and has continued this legacy as a former-president...Building a houses for the poor doesn’t change this fact.

It’s nice to know Dr. Ill agreed to play nice though...And kept his promise. Riiiiiiight.**

June 15

2010-06-15T00:01:00.000-07:00

1215 - Under pressure from rebellious barons, England's King John signed the 'Magna Carta;' a crucial first step toward creating Britain's constitutional monarchy.

**King John signed the 'Great Charter' limiting the power of the English monarchy, but it is interesting that he immediately tried to invalidate his agreement. He appealed to Pope Innocent III, who issues a bull annulling the charter, and imported foreign mercenaries to fight the barons...But John couldn't defeat the barons, and the Magna Carta became the basis of English feudal law, and the foundation for every English-based constitution on Earth (U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, etc.)**
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1520 - Pope Leo X condemned Martin Luther's '95 Theses' and threatened to toss Luther out of the Catholic Church.

**Leo assumed Luther would back down and rescind his Theses, but Luther did no such thing...He was a man of conviction, and more importantly had the protection of many German princes to guarantee his safety.**
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1752 - Benjamin Franklin, demonstrated the relationship between lightning and electricity by flying a kite during a storm in Philadelphia. An iron key suspended from the string attracted a lightning bolt.

**Franklin was a true Renaissance Man, and was not only one of America's greatest politicians, but also one of the world's greatest inventors.**
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1775 - The Second Continental Congress appointed George Washington Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.

**They couldn't have chosen a more perfect leader, even though his military resume was less than sterling...The 'Indispensable Man' was the revolution, and there would be no such thing as the United States of America without him.**
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1864 - Secretary of War Edwin Stanton established a military cemetery at Arlington National Cemetery.

**Arlington is an amazing cemetery and a terrific monument to the American soldier, which should be visited by every American citizen.

It was nice of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to donate it (not)...Stanton specifically selected Lee's former land as the site to honor the Union dead.**
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1931 - Poland and the USSR signed a friendship treaty.

**The Poles have been screwed over by every neighbor they have, and could only hope the Soviets would truly be 'friends'...Eight years later reality set in.**
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1940 - France surrendered to Germany.

**WOW! 39-days of fighting the Krauts!!

The French are ridiculous, and should be forever humiliated for such a pathetic showing in the greatest war ever fought...But they won't be, because they've become a nation with no pride. Sure they portray themselves as a great people and nation, but in reality they know since the fall of Napoleon they've been nothing more than a second rate power.**
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1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the government may kidnap criminal suspects from a foreign country for prosecution.

**Of course they can...The Supremes should have stated 'the government may -AND SHOULD- kidnap criminal suspects from a foreign country.'**

June 14

2010-06-13T12:01:00.000-07:00

1775 - The United States Army was founded.

**Happy 235th Birthday U.S. Army.**
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1777 - The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the U.S. Flag, replacing the Grand Union Flag.

**This is the worlds most recognizable flag, and a symbol of freedom for the world to rally around...To some it is one of the most beautiful pieces of artwork they can imagine, due to the fact wherever it is flown is a place of more peace and freedom than if any other flag were in it's place.

Unfortunately, too many Americans don't see it for it's beauty.**
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1937 - Pennsylvania became the first state in the United States to observe Flag Day as a legal holiday.

**Happy Flag Day...Follow this link to read more about Flag Day.**
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1940 - German forces occupied Paris during World War II.

**As highly as the French think of themselves you’d think they would fight a little harder for their homeland...Unless they have accepted they are nothing more than Germany’s bitch, which has been the case since at least 1870.

No need to fret, though. The Americans and Brits will always be there to save their sorry asses.**
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1940 - The Nazis opened the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland.

**A big day for the 'Master Race.'

Auschwitz proved to be the crown jewel of the Nazi concentration/death camp system, killing over 1,100,000 Jews, and was also the site of many medical experiments performed on humans.

Congratulations.**
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1944 - The First B-29 raid against mainland Japan occurred.

**The first of many...All of which Japan brought on itself. Never forget this.

We tried our damnedest to stay out of the war (wrongly in my opinion), but the Japanese brought it to the U.S. They should have had no doubt they would be on the wrong side of history in the end, and American might made sure to prove this fact.**
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1954 - President Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.

**Ugh, the horror!! The ACLU(seless) and it’s Communist pals have been going nuts about this since it came into being...How the U.S. has managed to survive such an onslaught against religion is a miracle.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!**

June 13

2010-06-12T21:08:00.000-07:00

323 B.C. - Alexander the Great died of fever in Babylon.

**Alexander is one of the ten most important people in the history of the world, and it is doubtful anyone has accomplished anywhere near what he did in such a short lifetime; 33 years.

It's too bad he didn't have a chance to consolidate his empire, though, because his successors (his Macedonian generals, the 'Diodachi') were nowhere near as skilled militarily or administratively as Alexander...Who knows how history would have turned out if he had been given the opportunity to live a full life?**
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1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.

**The rebellion gets its name from the revolutionaries who started it, the 'Fists of Righteous Harmony.'

For most of the late 1800’s, every world power picked away at Chinese sovereignty, and the Chinese had enough...I can’t say I blame them, but they were eventually overwhelmed by an international force (U.S., Japan, Austria-Hungary, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia).

The overall result was the continued weakening of China, which also propped Japan up as the lone Asian power...Unfortunately, within 50-years we paid the price for creating a 'victorious' Japan, and for sticking it to China.**
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1920 - The U.S. Post Office Department ruled children may not be sent by parcel post.

**You’d think this ruling would be unnecessary, but there is no limit to human debauchery.**
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1966 - Miranda v. Arizona: The U.S. Supreme Court declared a suspect must be informed of his rights.

**This is a reasonable decision, but no one could have foreseen how lawyers would use it as a tool against justice, instead of as part of it.**
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1979 - Sioux Indians were awarded $105 million in compensation for the U.S. seizure of the Black Hills in South Dakota.

**So we should be even, right? Nah! The ball-busting and extortion will continue forever.**
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1983 - Pioneer-10, a robotic spacecraft, became the first man-made object to leave the solar system, eleven years after it was launched.

**Eleven years to leave the solar system and still nowhere near another one...A huge event for science, and a harsh reality for those with the pipe-dream of finding life outside of our solar system.**
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1992 - Bill Clinton stirred controversy during an appearance before the Rainbow Coalition by criticizing the rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks "filled with hatred" toward whites.

**Freedom of speech only applies when it meets agendas. Truth-telling isn’t good enough...Clinton should have told these thugs to 'go to Hell.'**
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1996 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Bush v. Vera, placed greater limits on congressional districts intentionally drawn to get more minorities elected to Congress.

**So the Court ruled Affirmative Action for congressmen is unconstitutional...How about for the rest of the country?**

June 12 (An Enormous Day)

2010-06-11T17:42:00.000-07:00

There are so many huge events on this day it makes more sense to color the entire day blue then to try to pick the top few.
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1665 - The English renamed New Amsterdam 'New York' after the Dutch pulled out.

**I hope you knew this region was part of the Netherlands prior to being English...This fact is often forgotten, and the English, French and Spanish are usually the only ones remembered as North American colonizers. Don't forget the Ruskies held Alaska, too.**
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1775 - The first naval battle of the Revolutionary War occurred, with the USS Unity defeating the British Margaretta.

**This was a bright beginning for the pathetic new American Navy...It was a small battle, but still a battle won against the greatest naval power of the time.**
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1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia began.

**This was a fight the Emperor should have avoided. Russia has proven to be unconquerable by Europeans because they are unable to handle the conditions (weather, terrain, disease, etc), and the defensive spirit of the Russians and Cossacks has proven to be better than the offensive spirit of the Euros...It should be noted Asian hordes have been able to tame this beast, however.

Napoleon entered Russia with approximately 600,000 troops and by the time he reached Moscow in September was down to 110,000. In the end, the Emperor fled for his life and left his army behind. By the time the invasion force retreated to Poland it had less than 10,000 troops.

Although the Grand Armee was a much better fighting force, Russia gave Napoleon a thorough ass kicking. One which another European madman repeated 130-years later...Thankfully the Austrian Corporal was a poor student of history.**
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1839 - The first baseball game was played in America.

**America’s pastime was born...It is still a great game and may be the country’s pastime, but is no longer its passion. College and pro football are.**
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1937 - Eight of Stalin's generals were sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union.

**Stalin was killing off any possible chance of a coup, and was destroying his military in the process, making the Soviet Union easy pickings for invasion.

He should have seen Hitler’s intentions, but instead hoped he could become part of Hitler’s plans in Eastern Europe...Which was exactly what Hitler had in mind, but in a different way than Stalin was hoping for.**
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1942 - American bombers struck the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania for the first time.

**Destroying German logistics was of huge strategic significance, and taking out its ability to drive and fly began at Ploesti...It was so important to German success that Churchill referred to Ploesti as “the taproot of German might.”**
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1943 - Heinrich Himmler ordered the extermination of all Polish ghettos.

**Another big day for the 'Chicken Farmer'...How such a lowly man rose to affect the life/death of so many is truly amazing.**
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1944 - The first V-1 cruise missile attack on London occurred.

**It’s not much of a stretch to imagine Hitler with the V-1/V-2 and an atom-bomb attached to them...I have no doubt Werner von Braun and the boys would have made it happen if given a few more years to perfect their designs.**
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1987 - President Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."

**The Great Man’s speech was an awesome challenge not only to the Soviets, but to the world...It was a warning that the U.S. will not sit around forever and watch the world go down the toilet. Reagan said what he meant and meant what he said.

Pathetically (predictably), Euros and American Liberals went nuts and accused Reagan of being a “war monger.” Which is exactly what they did with President G.W. Bush as well...Both Reagan and Bush were right, and history will be very kind to them for their efforts.**
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1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled white workers who claim to be treated unfairly as a result of affirmative action programs can sue for remedies under civil rights legislation.

**If this is the case then isn’t the whole program of Affirmative Racism unconstitutional? Of course it is, but the Court didn’t have the stones to go this far.**
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1991 - The Russian Republic held its first-ever direct presidential elections and elected Boris Yeltsin president.

**This wouldn’t have happened without the man who told them to “tear down this wall”...Another reason the Libs hate him. They never wanted to see the Soviet experiment end in failure.**
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1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home.

**I still can’t believe this event, and the court case which followed, is the most televised event in my lifetime...More than the two Gulf wars, more than 9/11/01, more than Bill Clinton’s impeachment, more than Hurricane Katrina, more even than Obama's coronation.

And the SOB got away with murder in front of the whole world.**
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1995 - The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a potentially crippling blow to federal affirmative action programs, ruling Congress was limited by the same standards as states in offering special help to minorities.

**If this is the case, then isn’t the whole program of Affirmative Racism unconstitutional? Of course it is, but the Court didn’t have the stones to go this far...I think I've said this before. See above (1989).**
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1999 - Bill Clinton issued Executive Order #13126 "to fighting abusive child labor practices." Not in the U.S., but in the rest of the world.

**So, what was he going to do? Was he going to spank China, India, Korea, etc.?

Per normal, Clinton was saying great stuff, but had no ability to enact his wishes…As a great man once told me: "Bill Clinton is nothing more than a shit-salesman with a mouth full of samples." - Rich Karlin

Talking about utopia has always been a Liberal specialty, however, and none have been better at it than Bill Clinton...Not until, Barack Obama came around singing the 'hope & change' tune, that is.**

June 11

2010-06-10T19:15:00.000-07:00

1184 B.C. (Traditional Date) - The Fall of Troy.

**Long thought to be legend, the city of Troy is coming to life near modern-day Istanbul, Turkey (ancient Byzantium/Constantinople).

Who cares if this date is legendary or not, the story is great and much of its history is proving to be just that: Historical...Read more about Ancient Troy.**
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1509 - Henry VIII, King of England, married Catherine of Aragon.

**This was supposed to be a grand union of the Tudor and Hapsburg families, but was doomed to failure. Never forget Catherine was Emperor Charles V’s aunt, which tied her to the Spanish throne and Holy Roman Empire, as well as the Papacy.

Henry made a huge miscalculation marrying Catherine, and then an even bigger leap divorcing her...Thankfully for English history, Charles had too many other problems to go after England.** -----------------------------
1934 - The Geneva Disarmament Conference failed.

**How shocking!! Not...No one was in the mood to give up their toys (per normal), and Hitler was just starting to feel his way through his weakling European peers.**
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1942 - The U.S. and USSR signed the Lend-Lease Agreement.

**In times of war you make strange bedfellows...Uncle Joe was in no way a 'good guy' in this war, but Der Fuhrer was definitely the worse of the two.**
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1947 - U.S. WWII sugar rationing finally ended.

**Again, can you imagine the furor of the ACLU if we had to do rationing today?...NO WAY!! WE CANNOT INFRINGE ON OUR RIGHT TO SUGAR DURING A TIME OF WAR!!**
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1963 - George Wallace backed down at the Alabama 'schoolhouse door.'

**”In Birmingham they love the governor.” – ‘Sweet Home Alabama’, Lynard Skynard.

Governor Cracker was a Democrat, right?? Ya, I thought so.**
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1979 - Actor John Wayne died.

**I don’t note many deaths, especially not for Hollywood fools, but the country lost a lot when it lost The Duke...At this time there are very few 'manly' actors, and most male roles are played by metrosexual femboys.**
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1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down an anti-flag burning law passed by Congress in 1989, re-igniting calls for a constitutional amendment.

**The Liberal Mantra: “Freedom without limits.”

Of course, you can’t say prayer in school, or wear a shirt saying 'Homo’s Suck (pun intended),' etc...So their real mantra is: "Freedom to do degenerative Liberal shit without limits."**
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1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled people who commit 'hate crimes' motivated by bigotry may be sentenced to extra punishment.

**This is so ridiculous...Why is it if a white man kills a black man the life lost is worth more than if the white man killed another white man???

I thought we were supposed to be equal in the eyes of the law.**
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2001 - Timothy McVeigh, the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber, was executed.

**Good riddance to dead 'enemies within'...Especially those we actually get to execute.**
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2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Kyllo v. U.S., ruled police violate the Constitution if they use a heat-sensing device to peer inside a home without a search warrant.

**Someday a small, but deadly, nuke will be stored in a home and we won’t be able to tell because of idiocy like this...But we won't be disturbing the 'rights' of those with the nuke, so it's all good.**

June 10

2010-06-09T00:00:00.000-07:00

1801 - The North African Bey of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.

**Tripoli demanded protection money for 'safe passage' through parts of the Mediterranean, and the U.S. refused to pay...As a result, the U.S. was forced to send it's fleet to the Mediterranean and kick ass on these pirates.

It’s ironic it was a group of Muslim terrorists (pirates) who first went to war with the new United States...Once a pain in the ass, always a pain in the ass.**
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1861 – The Battle of Big Bethel: the 'first battle' of the Civil War.

**There were other skirmishes before (Fort Sumter was one), but this was the first land-based battle in Virginia.**
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1863 - The Battle of Brice's Crossroads. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeated the numerically superior Union troops.

**N.B. Forrest was an amazing tactical general, and the Union was very happy the Confederate leaders despised him so much. He was a self-made military man, without formal training, and by far the most impressive Confederate general in the Western theatre of the Civil War.

Oh by the way, he was also the first Grand Wizard of the KKK...Doh!**
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1916 – The Great Arab Revolt began, at Mecca and Medina.

**The once powerful Ottomans Empire had completely fallen in the toilet...For almost 400 years the Turks kept the Bedouins at bay, but 'the frenzy' couldn’t be contained forever.

Sadly, history will show the fall of the Ottoman Empire to be almost as important as the fall of Rome, because of the worldwide problems allowed to spew out without Ottoman control of the region's lunatics.**
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1920 - The League of Nations convened for the first time.

**Ugh...I don’t know what the female version of the Circle Jerk Group should be called, but this was the mother of the U.N.**
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1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.

**Hitler thought he had a powerful ally, but instead Italy was nothing but a weak pain in the ass for the Reich to have as a partner.**
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1940 - President Franklin Roosevelt said the U.S. switching from "neutral" to "non-belligerent" meant the U.S. would support the Allies without itself going to war against the Axis.

**This was a political way of saying the U.S. was going to puss out for a while longer, and FDR was trying to continue America's stance of ‘Non-Belligerent Neutrality’...This was an unacceptable situation, and the U.S. should never have gotten this deep into WWII without entering it.

I hate to admit it, but this is something we need to keep in mind when our allies don't come to our aid.**
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1943 - The Allies began bombing Germany around the clock.

**Germany Proper finally began to feel the pain it’s military had been giving to the rest of Europe...It was overdue, and an awesome display of power.

Amazingly, modern-day Liberals beat on the U.S. for brutalizing German cities. Huh??**
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1964 - The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states.

**THE REPUBLICANS BROKE THE FILIBUSTER AND PASSED THE BILL!!! Why don't American blacks know this? Why don't most Americans know this??

The Dems controlled the Senate (67-33), and they didn't have the votes to override the Democrat filibuster, because they had too many racists in their ranks...Senators Bobby Byrd and Richard Russell were the two major Democrats against the bill, and the Dems could never have gotten enough votes to overwhelm them.

THE BILL WAS SAVED BY SENATE MINORITY LEADER EVERET DIRKSEN (R)!!!!!

"The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!" - Sen. Everet Dirksen (R)

Final Senate vote: Democrats = 44-23 (68%) Republicans = 27-6 (82%)

Things haven't changed, but the Democrats have miraculously managed to portray themselves as the 'Black Party.' They talk good, but have done very little for American blacks. If anything they have kept them in perpetual political slavery through the creation and propagation of Affirmative Action...Which should otherwise be known as the 'Democrat Plantation Program.'**
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1967 - The Six Day War between Israel, Egypt, Syria Iraq and Jordan ended.

**What a pathetic showing by the Arab 'powers,' and an equally weak display of Soviet armaments (used by the Arabs).

As a result of the war, Israel gained strategic lands (Gaza, West Bank, Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula, etc.), humiliated the Arabs and set the stage for the 1973 Yom Kippur War.**
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1993 - Scientists announced they extracted genetic material from the preserved remains of an insect which lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

**This should be great news, but we must always temper our excitement with the fear of what the Mengelians might do with such a find. I can already see a bug-headed-human-fetus being created...Just for kicks and grins.**
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1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the city of Chicago went too far in its fight against street gangs by ordering police to break up groups of loiterers.

**'Freedom of assembly,' aye? What a joke. This is just one of many Liberal jackass bastardizations of the First Amendment, which reads: “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”

There is a huge difference, and when the 'peace' isn’t respected, neither should the right to 'assemble.'

This isn’t rocket science, but Liberal judges have twisted the Constitution so much the Founding Fathers wouldn’t even recognize their own document.**

June 9

2010-06-08T00:01:00.000-07:00

68 - Roman Emperor Nero died.

**The story of Nero fiddling as Rome burned is myth, but I’m quite certain few Romans cried when they heard of his suicide.**
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1863 - The Battle of Brandy Station.

**The importance of this battle is it was the largest cavalry battle ever fought in North America, and one of the first where the Union stood toe-to-toe with the Confederates...It was fought at the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg, and both sides lost an equal amount of cavalry troops, but the Union was the eventual victor of the larger battle.**
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1864 - The U.S. 1st Tennessee Cavalry attacked buck-naked across the Chattahoochee River, in Roswell, Georgia during the Civil War.

**This attack occurred at the beginning of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, but I can’t tell you why the group decided to attack 'naked'...Anyone with information on this event is encouraged to comment or email me.**
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1938 - China breached the Yellow River dykes to stop the Japanese invasion. 840,000 died.

**Over 840,000 deaths. That's an enormous sacrifice, and an awesome event...As a point of reference, the U.S. lost less than 300,000 troops in all of WWII.

Most Americans have no idea WWII started in 1937 between Japan and China. Sadly, most Americans probably think WWII started with the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor...The fact China was willing, able, and needed to sacrifice almost a million people to stop the Japanese is proof the Great War was on.**
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1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.

**The Norwegians should be proud...They lasted almost as long as the French.**
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1942 (June 9-10) - Nazis rounded up and killed all the male inhabitants of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.

** ”Just five days after Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich's death, ten truckloads of the Security Police came and quickly surrounded the village. No one was allowed to leave the village; a 12 year old boy and a peasant woman were shot as they tried to escape. All the men and boys over 16 years old, 172 in all, were rounded up and locked in a barn. They were then shot the next day in groups of ten, which lasted from dawn until 4 in the afternoon. 19 men who were working in the mines during the shooting were also rounded up and sent to Prague where they were killed” - Read more about Heydrich

The Butcher of Prague, The Blond Beast and Der Henker (German for 'the hangman') was dead, and I’m sure the populace of Lidice happily traded the deaths listed above in exchange for Heydrich’s death...Especially considering the reality is the Nazis had the Czechs marked to meet the same fate as the Jews.**
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1943 - The U.S. Congress passed an act authorizing employers to withhold income tax payments from salary checks.

**Taxes have always been cumbersome, but this act perfected the practice of the government extorting money from its citizens.**
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1963 - President Kennedy named Winston Churchill an honorary U.S. citizen.

**As the “Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave,” I can’t think of anyone who has deserved such an honor more than Churchill: The most important freedom fighter of the 20th Century, and definitely one of the bravest as well.

An interesting side note: I'm not sure why Churchill isn't considered a natural born citizen since his mother was an American from New York.**
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1996 - White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, appeared on NBC's 'Meet the Press,' and said it was wrong for an investigator to have obtained secret FBI files on 341 people, including prominent Republicans. President Clinton agreed with Panetta that an apology was called for.

**Can you imagine the feeding-frenzy the media would have if a Republican president did this. The jackals would be howling...But Clinton got a pass, per normal.**

June 8 (A Double)

2010-06-07T15:57:00.000-07:00

65 - Jewish rebels captured the fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem, beginning the Jewish rebellion against Rome.

**This can be looked at in the way listed, or as the beginning of the end of the Jewish nation...Within five years the Temple was destroyed, and the 1900-year Diaspora began.**
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452 - Attila the Hun invaded northern Italy.

**After years of slapping around the eastern portion of the Empire, and then a little setback in Gaul, the 'Scourge of God' decided to bring Hell to Italy...Amazingly, he never went after Rome Proper, which began the ascension of a new power; the power of the Papacy.**
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632 - Mohammad died.

**Good riddance to child molesting, false prophets!!

As much as I hate to admit it, though, Mohammad must be given his due: Mohammad is tied with Christ for the title of 'Most Important Person in History.'

I'm sure Christians don't like reading this comparison, but real history is predicated on being honest and telling the truth.**
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793 - Norsemen sacked Lindisfarne.

**This is a huge event, but sadly most Americans have never heard of it. Don’t blame yourself. It’s not your fault our educational system pays no attention to 'real' history.

The Sack of Lindisfarne was the first major assault the Norsemen made on Europe, and marks the beginning of the Viking Age...Lindisfarne was easy pickings for the Vikings, because it was an unguarded island, inhabited mostly by monks from the local monastery.

"In nearly 350 years we and our forefathers have been living in this the best of countries and never before has such terror struck Britain as the one we now have to suffer from this heathen race. Nor was it thought to be possible that such an attack could be carried out from the sea. Look at St Cuthbert's church sprinkled with the blood of the holy priests, deprived of its decorations, a room more venerable than any in Britain given as spoils to this Heathen race." - Alcuin (French historian)**
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1965 - U.S. troops were ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam.

**What a disgusting order...U.S. troops should always be allowed to 'fight offensively.' Even when fighting a defensive battle.

The U.S. Military knows its job, and does it better than any other on the planet, but when it is handcuffed it is no more powerful than the simplest rock-thrower.**
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1967 - The USS Liberty was attacked for over two hours in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel, using rockets, torpedoes, and napalm. 34 crew members died and 171 were wounded.

**I am a friend of Israel, but it would be nice to find out the truth behind this incident. The BS we’ve been given for the past 40 years is unacceptable...The U.S. has been Israel’s lone friend, and even if the truth is extremely disheartening we deserve to know why this happened.**
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1989 - Chinese Premier Li Peng appeared on TV praising a group of army soldiers, apparently for their role in crushing the student-led pro-democracy movement.

**Of course he did...Peng was a descendant of Mao, and Mao would have awarded the military great honors for such a deed.**

June 7 (A Triple)

2010-06-05T17:23:00.000-07:00

30 [or 33] - The traditional date of the 'Crucifixion of Christ.'

**Who knows if this date is correct, the date isn’t important…What’s important is the significance of Christ’s life and afterlife, which shaped much of the modern Western world.**
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1494 - The Treaty of Tordesillas: Proclaimed by Pope Alexander VI, divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.

**The Portuguese got a raw deal, because only Brazil was in their sphere in the New World.

At this time papal declarations still held some authority with the rest of Europe, but within 50 years the Reformation changed this reality, leading the Brits, French and Dutch put little if any stock in papal declarations...Who knows how the world would be if they had.**
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1776 - Richard Henry Lee put forward a resolution to the Continental Congress for a Declaration of Independence, saying "These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states."

**The Patriots were getting bolder by the day, and within a month made the declaration Lee called for...It was inevitable, but at the time such a declaration was almost as revolutionary as Luther’s 95 Thesis.**
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1862 - Union General Ben Butler hung William Mumford for desecrating the American Flag.

**This was back in the 'good ol days' when national pride and common sense ruled the day. Now-a-days you can piss on, crap on, burn, etc., the flag...But you can’t even look at a Koran with crossed eyes.

How have we gotten here?? Liberalism!!**
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1948 - Communists completed the takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Eduard Benes.

**Such was the reality of our WWII alliance with the Soviets...The East was turned over to Uncle Joe, and it took 40+ years before it was able to escape the Communist horror.**
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1981 - Israeli military planes destroyed the Osiraq Nuclear Power Plant in Iraq, a facility designed to make nuclear weapons.

**The world denounced Israel for this attack, including the U.S. and President Reagan, but due to this event the world will never know the possibility of Saddam Hussein with a nuke...We should have given the Israelis gifts and thanks, but such was and is the situation of geopolitics.

Those who question if Iraq had a WMD program in 2003 must remember Saddam almost had a nuke in 1981. Logic tells you 22-years later he had something. Plus he used bio/chem weapons on his own people in the 1990's.

Thank you Israel!! Any chance you’ll do the same in Iran?**
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1996 - The Bill Clinton White House acknowledged it "accidentally" obtained the FBI files of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's press secretary, former Bush chief of staff James A. Baker III and other appointees from Republican administrations, by "an innocent bureaucratic mistake."

**Sure it was!! And Vince Foster was an 'accident' too.**
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1997 - An 18-member presidential commission approved a report saying cloning a human being was "morally unacceptable," but added research using cells of humans and animals should be allowed.

**Every part of this statement is justifiable...Unfortunately, the Mengelians are doing everything they can to skirt the cloning issue, and are willing to sell it by means.

Science is an awesome tool, but must be a function of ethics. Not vice verse.**
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2000 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation, declaring the software giant should be split into two because it had "proved untrustworthy in the past."

**What a joke!! This case should have never seen its day in court, let alone get to the appellate courts.

Those going after Microsoft should be very leery because if they ever become as 'successful' as they wish, they might be the next target of those looking to take a few notches out of big business.**

June 6

2010-06-05T16:23:00.000-07:00

1944 - 'D-Day': The Allied invasion of Europe took place during World War II when forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.

**There was almost another year of fighting, but with this event the end was in sight.

The Germans had to keep the Allies from establishing a beachhead or face the reality of a full-scale two front war in the German homeland; something they were able to avoid in WWI...The Russians were already pushing them west, and it wasn't long before the Americans and Brits were able to start sending them east as well, creating a vise from which the Reich could not emerge victorious.

The fight was brutal and millions of lives were lost in this final year, but the success of the 'D-Day' landings put the final day of fighting closer into sight.**
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1978 - California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, calling for major cuts in property taxes.

**Proposition 13 became article 13A of the California State Constitution, limiting the real estate tax on a parcel of property to 1% of its purchase price, forever, until the property is resold.

This was huge in California, but also had a national effect, because other states took a similar stance...It also did much to propel Ronald Reagan to the Republican nomination and eventual presidential election success in 1980.**
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1985 - Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi 'Angel of Death.'

**It’s a shame the doc escaped a just death at Nuremberg or at the hands of the Israelis...It's also a shame there have been so many Mengele wannabe's since his time.**
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1998 - The U.N. Security Council demanded, in a unanimous vote, that India and Pakistan refrain from further nuclear tests and sign nuclear control agreements.

**Or what??? What was the U.N. going to do if they refused to bow down?

That said, no one should be shocked to wake up one morning and find these two have launched on each other.**

June 5

2010-06-04T15:01:00.000-07:00

1794 - The U.S. Congress prohibited citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.

**This law has been flaunted since the day it was enacted, but generally Americans have joined worthy fights to serve in. That said, any American found fighting for our enemies should be considered an absolute traitor and face a traitors execution.**
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1872 - The Republican National Convention, the first major political party convention to includes blacks, commenced.

**Read that again, and make sure you remind black Democrats every chance you get.**
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1933 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill abolishing the gold standard.

**The 'gold standard' is the best, but the American dollar is backed by something much more powerful than gold...The American dollar is backed by America's political and economic stability, production potential and military might.

Of course, it would be great if we were to return to the gold standard, but it will never happen.** -------------------------------
1940 - The Battle of France began, World War II.

**This didn’t take long...The French should have just invited the Krauts in if they weren’t going to fight.**
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1944 - The first B-29 bombing raid over Tokyo occurred.

**The first of many, in what became a B-29 induced Hell on Earth.**
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1967 - The Six Day War erupted in the Middle East when Israel, convinced an Arab attack was imminent, raided Egyptian military targets.

**This was the third of the Arab-Israeli Wars, and a pathetic showing by the Arabs, who were routed in six days.

Israel probably could have made itself master of the Middle East had it wished, and this was their last chance to do so, but after American prompting decided to end it with some minor changes in the map: Seizing the Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, West Bank and Golan Heights.

These areas are strategically important lands and Israel is stupid to return them, which they are in the process of doing and will eventually regret terribly.**
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1968 -Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.

**Jack and Bobby should have known better than to double-cross the mob...How Fat Teddy escaped the assassins bullet I’ll never know.**
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1981 - The Centers for Disease Control published the first report about the disease which later become known as AIDS.

**A new plague was discovered and is in the process of killing millions. Fortunately, most AIDS deaths can be spared if people show a minimal amount of personal restraint...Unfortunately, restraint is an afterthought to many, and AIDS is running rampant among IV drug users and those practicing promiscuous sex (particularly homosexual men).

We should feel sorry for each AIDS victim, but those who bring it on themselves should be noted for all but asking for the death penalty of AIDS.**
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1986 - A federal jury in Baltimore convicted Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus ten years.

**How pathetic we are going to have to pay for this treasonous piece of crap for the rest of his 'three lives'...A bullet to the back of the head would have cost $1, but instead we’ll pay millions.** -------------------------------
1997 - Harold J. Nicholson, the highest-ranking CIA officer ever caught spying against the U.S., was sentenced to 23-years in prison for selling defense secrets to Russia after the Cold War.

**How did 'Treasonous POS Pelton' (above) get three life sentences, plus ten years, but 'Treasonous POS Nicholson' only got 23-years?

Treason is treason!! Both should have died, but at worst they should have receive similar life sentences.**

June 4 (A Double)

2010-06-03T17:02:00.000-07:00

1717 - The Freemasons were founded in London.

**Regretfully, I admit to knowing next to nothing about the Freemasons...Anyone who can give me a good link will be thanked for doing so.**
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1911 - Gold was discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.

**'Seward’s Folly' keeps proving to be anything but a folly...Plus, try to imagine the havoc the Soviets would have caused if they owned Alaska.**
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1940 - The Allied evacuation of Dunkirk ended with the rescue of 340,000 troops.

**Operation Dynamo was a miracle, but also a failure of epic proportions by Hitler and his general staff.

There is no way the Brits should have made if off the Continent, but thankfully they did...Had they not, it is very likely Operation Sealion (Hitler’s plan to invade England) would have occurred, with at least a 50/50 chance of succeeding.**
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1942 - The Battle of Midway began (ended June 7).

**Midway was the turning-point in the Pacific Theatre of WWII...A four day battle, which was planned by both the Japanese and Americans to set the other up for destruction.

Luckily the U.S. intercepted the Japanese plans, and were prepared for the assault...The Americans also had luck on its side, catching the Japanese between flights refueling their planes.

The end result: The U.S. lost one carrier, one destroyer and 307 troops, and the Japanese lost four carriers, one cruiser, and 2,500 troops...The carrier loss was one the Japanese couldn’t recover from, and set the stage for the next three years of American victories throughout the Pacific.**
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1954 - France granted full independence to Vietnam.

**What a pathetic 'cut and run'...Even more pathetic, the U.S. did likewise 20-years later.**
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1956 - A speech by Nikita Khrushchev blasting Joseph Stalin was made public.

**This would have been much more impressive had Nikki done it while Uncle Joe was alive...But then again, Nikki would have never lived to see 1956 if he had done this.**
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1985 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court's ruling striking down an Alabama law providing for a daily minute of silence in public schools.

**What a wonderful event for the nation. We are so much better off as a society...Hardly. Just look outside, read and watch the news.**
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1989 - The Tienanmen Square Massacre. At least hundreds of pro-democracy students were killed and thousands wounded when Chinese troops opened fire on crowds and sweeping demonstrators from the square in Beijing.

**20-years later and democracy and human liberty are no closer to success in China than they were in 1989...The Communist overlords have opened the economy a little, but the shackles are still firmly on the people.**
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1999 - President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order #13124 "to give individuals with psychiatric disabilities the same hiring opportunities as persons with severe physical disabilities or mental retardation under the Civil Service Rules, and to permit individuals with psychiatric disabilities to obtain Civil Service competitive status."

**I’m empathetic towards those with limited ability, but do we really need our government employees to be 'mentally retarded' or have 'psychiatric' troubles? Is this any way to effectively do 'the people’s business?'**

June 3

2010-06-02T17:01:00.000-07:00

1098 - The Fall of Antioch: Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, in modern day Turkey.

**At the time this looked like a great victory for the Crusaders, but it didn’t take long to realize it was an untenable situation; a costly and deadly proposition to even try...That said, the Crusades may have been a tactical debacle, but they were an absolute strategic victory, because they helped keep the Muslim Horde at bay, keeping them from conquering Europe.**
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1938 - The German Reich ordered the confiscation of 'degenerate art.'

**And the top Nazi 'degenerate' made sure all of the art found its way to his personal treasure chest. Of course that degenerate was the 'Fat-Ass Reichsmarshal': Hermann Goering.**
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1989 - Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died.

**Good riddance to dead dictators!!! Especially the Lenin of the Middle East.**

June 2

2010-06-01T17:01:00.000-07:00

455 – Vandals, led by Gaiseric, sacked Rome.

**The Empire was in shambles and the Vandals gave rise to a new word (vandalism) due to their actions...This was one of many sackings of the great city, which only had 21 more years of imperial existence in the West.**
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1774 - Britain passed the fourth of the 'Intolerable Acts' (the Quartering Act), requiring American colonists to house British soldiers upon request.

**Just another slap in the face for the Colonists, and another event leading to the Revolutionary War**
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1924 - The Snyder Act: The U.S. Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.

**This was an act which was overdue, and it is unfortunate (tragic?) that more Indians don't take advantage of the rights of citizenship...The sooner they get off the reservation and completely integrate into society the better they will be.

And I don't want to hear any racist BS! I have some Indian blood myself, and am a realist...As long as they insist on being separate, they will never be equal.

Also, I am an absolute believer in the 'right of conquest,' and don’t sob for the loss of the American Indian culture any more than I do the loss of the Scythians, Avars, Phillistines, etc...Someday ours will be conquered as well.

History is what it is, and all of humanity will be recycled over time.**
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1941 - Baseball's 'Iron Horse,' Lou Gehrig, died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease).

**A great player, and an honorable and decent man...Ripken shouldn’t have broken his record, by the way.**
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1994 - The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency reported it could no longer verify the status of North Korea's nuclear program, prompting the United States to seek economic sanctions.

**So, Bill Clinton decided to give them the ‘whole enchilada’...Ugh!!!**
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1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227, effectively abolishing the state's 30-year old bilingual education program by requiring all children to be taught in English.

**And then the courts overruled the ‘will of the people.’

I hope you know when Liberals say - “Leave it to the states” – they don’t mean the people of the states. They mean the state judges and Democrat run governments; whichever carries the biggest Liberal stick.**

June 1

2010-05-31T17:01:00.000-07:00

1774 - The British closed the port of Boston as punishment for the 'Boston Tea Party.'

**This worked wonderfully...Wonderfully for those trying to foment revolution.

Instead of coming back to the Colonists with a hand of reconciliation the Brits spit on them, which did nothing but turn more Colonists towards the upcoming battle.**
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1813 - The U.S. Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the U.S. frigate 'Chesapeake,' Captain James Lawrence, was heard to say, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with a British frigate.

**What a great motto for what has become the greatest naval power in the history of the world.**
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1941 - Germany banned all Catholic publications.

**American Liberals could only hope for such a victory over religion...They've had no such luck so far, but they’re trying their best.**
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1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court banned prayer and Bible teaching in public schools on the constitutional grounds of separation of church and state.

**Talk about sliding down a slippery slope...Ask yourself: Are we better off as a nation after this ruling, or not?

I'm not a religious person, but I’d say we’ve hit a moral low-point in American history since this ruling...And the education level of our students isn't much to write home about either.**
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1990 - The U.S. and U.S.S.R. signed an agreement to stop producing chemical weapons.

**You believe this, right? Sure.**
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1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a criminal conviction must be overturned if the jury was given a constitutionally flawed definition of "beyond reasonable doubt."

**So criminals get off on flawed logic even if they are guilty?

“The stench from the bench is making me clench.” - Michael Savage**

May 31

2010-05-29T18:11:00.000-07:00

455 - Petronius Maximus, Western Roman emperor, was torn to pieces by a Roman mob.

**Being the Emperor had its positives, but it also had its negatives. The constant threat of assassination was one of the negatives...Needless to say, the Roman Empire was in it's last years.**
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1162 - Genghis Khan, founder of the united Mongol nation, was born.

**The 'Great Khan' was a giant figure in history, and his accomplishments have shaped 800-years of history throughout all of Asia and much of Europe...Genghis' effect was direct in Asia and Eastern Europe, but Western Europe was affected as well by the push of new people from east to west who were looking to escape the Mongols.

It's also important to note the Mongols were a significant force in keeping the Muslims from conquering all of Central and Eastern Europe...Much more of a factor than the various European crusader wars.**
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1578 - The Catacombs of Rome were discovered, by accident.

**The 'Underground City' of ancient Rome (25-65 ft underground) is one of the most bizarre stories in the ancient world...What’s bizarre about them is they have been misrepresented since being rediscovered in 1578.

Many stories have been 'made up' about the catacombs as a place of escaping persecution (Christians, criminals, debtors, etc.). This is untrue however. Of course some may have sought them out as a place to hide, but in general the catacombs are what they were designed to be: An underground burial site.**
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1864 - The Battle of Cold Harbor began (ended June 12).

**Grant had no problem putting his men in battle, but this was one he should have walked away from:

"One attack I always regretted ordering...At Cold Harbor no advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained." - Gen. Grant

Union Troops/Casualties: 108,000/13,000
Confederate Troops/Casualties: 62,000/2,500

It was so bad, Union troops new they were being led into a blood-bath and pinned their names to their back...They did so because they knew after the battle ‘no one would recognize their front’.**
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1889 - Heavy rains caused the South Fork Dam to collapse, sending 20-million tons of water into Johnstown, Pa. Over 2,200 people were killed and the town was nearly destroyed.

**This is one of the great disasters in U.S. history, and one of the biggest stories in the post-Civil War 19th Century era.

Much has been made of the men who used the lake behind the dam (Lake Conemaugh), but the accident was just that...Unfortunately the owners of the lake were the Carnegie’s, Mellon’s, Frick’s, Pitcairn’s, etc, and the incident was turned into an abuse of wealth at the expense of the common man. This was not the case, and the incident was simply a terrible accident.**
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1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its first conference.

**Maybe its me, but it seems as though the only 'color' they choose to 'advance' is black...And since the death of the 1950-60's Civil Rights leaders, the NAACP has become little more than a group of complainers with more work put towards graft than advancing anyone other than themselves.**
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1916 – The Battle of Jutland began (ended June 1). British and German fleets fought off the mainland of Denmark.

**Jutland was the largest naval battle in WWI, and one both the Germans and Brits claim as a victory.

In actuality the Brits lost more men and ships, but the Germans couldn't afford the losses they suffered, and never challenged the Brits for supremacy of the North Sea again...The battle should be considered a draw, but if a winner must be declared it should be the Brits, because the losses affected them much less than it did the Germans.**
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1962 - Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel.

**A fitting end to one of Hitler’s leading henchmen...It's too bad all of them didn't die at the end of the rope.**
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1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline, three years in the making, was completed.

**This is an awesome engineering project, which crosses 600 rivers and streams, two mountain ranges, and allows for earthquakes.

The pipeline has been much maligned by EnvironMENTALISTS, but is much cleaner than the other options of transporting the product.

As a result of the pipeline, the U.S. receives up to 20% of its yearly oil supply from Alaska...We could easily increase this amount to 30% if we opened up ANWAR and let the pipes flow, but the MENTALists would rather we be dependant on our enemies in the Middle East than be self-sufficient.**
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1993 - President Bill Clinton paid a Memorial Day visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where some in the crowd jeered him for his efforts to avoid military service; Clinton exhorted his critics to remember that "disagreement is freedom's privilege."

**What a disgrace to have such a dishonorable man as Commander-in-Chief...Bill would have done better to keep his mouth shut on this issue.

Also, Clinton and his Lefty pals never seem to agree with 'disagreement' when it comes from the Right...They surely don't believe it is their 'privilege.'**
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1994 - The United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.

**I’m sure we've pointed some at other targets, but anyone who believes all our missiles were taken off the Ruskies is a moron.**
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1999 - During a Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery, President Bill Clinton asked Americans to reconsider their ambivalence about Kosovo, saying it is "a very small province in a small country. But it is a big test of what we believe in."

**Why did the Democrats 'believe in' sending our military to Serbia (which had never been a threat to the U.S.), but belligerently refuses to support our efforts in Iraq?

Again: Bombs with (D) = Good. Bombs with (R) = Bad.

And lets remember the Republicans were decent enough to stand behind this scoundrel of a Commander-in-Chief when he pulled out the military on such threats to America's national security as Somalia and Serbia...UGH!!**

May 30

2010-05-28T17:01:00.000-07:00

1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon, after being duly convicted of high treason against God by an ecclesiastical court.

**Nice of the French to hand her over to the English after she saved their ass...The French king was afraid of her 'power,' and figured it'd be easier to do away with Joan.

Oddly enough, this war was one of the few they won in the next 500+ years...Could it be they've been cursed for betraying 'The Maid?'**
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1539 - Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed on the coast of Florida.

**From this discovery came the Spanish claim to North America, which they believed the Treaty of Tordesilla guaranteed them...Unfortunately for Spain, the Brits, French, and later United States, had no use for Papal declarations.**
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1814 – The Treaty of Paris (one of many) was signed, ending the war between France and the United Kingdom, Russia, Austria, Sweden and Prussia. It also enforced the abdication of Napoleon I.

**This treaty ended the French Revolution...Many consider the end of the Revolution to be when Napoleon was crowned Emperor, but Napoleon was a product of the Revolution, and his reign should be considered part of it.

Unfortunately, the treaty didn't end the Napoleonic Wars, however, because the Euro's were too stupid to have him executed, and another Peace of Paris was required in 1815 after they finally defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.**
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1868 - The first 'Decoration Day' (Memorial Day) observance occurred in Columbus, MS.

**A well deserved day, and one we should all take time to embrace...Freedom isn't free!!! It never has been, and never will be.**
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1913 - The First Balkan War ended with the Treaty of London.

**Much of Southeastern Europe won its freedom from the Turks in this war, which presented a challenge to the ever-weakening Austro-Hungarian Empire.

As such, the result of the Balkan War was to create increased tension between the Empire and Russia (semi-protector of the newly independent nations)...Which played a huge role in the beginning of WWI.**
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1922 - The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was dedicated by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

**This is an incredibly powerful monument, with the great man seated and flanked by the inscriptions of the Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address..Above Lincoln's head is the dedication:

IN THIS TEMPLE
AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE
FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION
THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
IS ENSHRINED FOREVER.**
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1943 - American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.

**I am amazed many Americans don't know the Japanese had a foothold on part of North America during WWII.

Japan held the Aleutians for a very short time, but proved they could get a landing force to the continent, and had they not been discovered could have wreaked havoc with chemical and biological weapons from this range...And they were very close to having such weapons.**
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1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

**I highly recommend you go to Arlington and take some time to walk its grounds...Most importantly, make sure you go to the The Tomb of the Unknowns.**
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1994 - The U.N. Security Council warned North Korea to stop refueling a nuclear reactor and allow U.N. monitors to perform full inspections.

**WOW!!! I bet the North Koreans almost pee'd themselves when the Circle Jerk Group made this declaration.

As we know, there are no monitors in North Korea, Bill Clinton gave them the 'nuclear farm' in exchange for peace (ha ha), and Dr. Ill is constantly waiving the middle finger and his new toys at America.

Obviously, the U.N. warning meant nothing to North Korea...And why should they worry? The U.N. is a paper tiger and Clinton was a jackass.**
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1997 - Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, New Jersey, of raping and strangling a seven year old neighbor, Megan Kanka, whose 1994 murder inspired 'Megan's Law,' requiring communities to be notified when sex offenders move in. (Timmendequas was later sentenced to death.)

**Megan's Law is a fantastic tool, but a much better method of protecting the public would be to execute all sex offenders.

1. They'd be dead (duh!).

2. This would put fear in the mind of those who might otherwise become predators...And yes, I do believe they can control themselves.

Anyone who argues they can't control themselves, must agree option '1' is the best way, because if they can't be controlled they should be terminated. Unless those who argue against execution don't mind setting these 'uncontrollable freaks' loose on the public, that is.

3. They'd be dead (DUH!!!).**

May 29

2010-05-28T00:01:00.000-07:00

1453 - The Byzantine Empire fell to Sultan Mehemet II, who captured Constantinople.

**This is the 'real date' of the Fall of the Roman Empire...The Western capital (Rome) fell in 476, but the Eastern capital lasted for almost another 1000 years.

It's sad this isn't properly taught in schools. I'm not sure if it's intentional or not.

The splendor of the Byzantines was every bit as impressive as that of Rome, and the power of the Roman empire was centered in the East long before the West fell.**
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1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses. Responding to a cry of "Treason!," Henry replied, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"

**Henry is one of my favorite Patriots, and one of the leading advocates of revolution...Check out some of his famous quotes, and you'll see why I'm so fond of him: Patrick Henry.**
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1864 - Archduke Maximilian of Austria arrived in Mexico to become Emperor.

**Gotta love the Euro's trying to reestablish themselves in the Western Hemisphere while the U.S. was in the middle of a civil war.

It's too bad Lincoln didn't have a few extra divisions to send to Mexico and mop up on these pukes...Pathetically, the Euro-scum couldn't even handle the Mexican force, which tossed them out.**
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1943 - Meat and cheese rationing began in the U.S.

**CALL OUT THE ACLU(seless)...How dare the government restrict anyone's liberty of eating meat and cheese!!!

Of course we were in the middle of a world war, but this would mean nothing to the current group of anti-American POS's...In fact, they'd probably be crying we had no business fighting Germany, because they didn't attack us.**
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2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case of Elkhart v. Books letting stand the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling that the display of the Ten Commandments on an Elkhart, Indiana, city monument was in violation of the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

**How ridiculous!! Most of the laws we have are based on a scriptural reference or concept...And the Bible (Old and New) has always been a motivating force behind American justice.

I'm sure they'd have no problem if a judge decided to post the Code of Hammurabi, though! Which was codification of religious laws as well, but it isn't Judeo-Christian so it would pass.**

May 28

2010-05-27T18:01:00.000-07:00

1830 - President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, requiring Eastern Indians to be resettled west of the Mississippi.

**For this reason, modern-day Liberals beat up on President Jackson, and try to make him out as a horrible man...Jackson was a great president (easily in the top ten all time), and the fact he did what any president of his time would have done should not be a negative mark on his legacy.**
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1937 - Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister of Britain.

**The Brits made a tragic choice, and paid dearly for doing so...Proof of this mistake can be found in four simple words: "Peace in Our Time".**
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1940 - The Belgian Army surrendered to invading German forces.

**The pathetic Belgians lasted almost as long as the more pathetic French...I'm sure this is a badge of honor for both of them.**

May 27 (A Double)

2010-05-26T17:01:00.000-07:00

1679 - The British parliament passed the 'Habeas Corpus Act of Parliament.' Habeas Corpus is described as "Upon proper application, or even on naked knowledge alone, a court is empowered, and is duty bound, to issue the Extraordinary Writ of Habeas Corpus commanding one who is restraining liberty to forthwith produce before the court the person who is in custody and to show cause why the liberty of that person is being restrained."

**The application of this law in the American colonies was one of the many issues which caused the American Revolution, and is addressed in multiple places in the Constitution:

Article 1, Section 9, Paragraph 2 is the most specific: “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”

It is also implied and indirectly addressed in the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments.**
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1861 - Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled in Ex Parte Merryman that President Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus was unconstitutional. Lincoln ignored the Supreme Court's ruling.

**Lincoln was correct to make this policy decision, and to ignore the Court's ruling...And yes, his decision was constitutional.

Read what Article 1 states: “..., unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

We were in the early stages of the Civil War, and clearly in a state of “rebellion”...But the moral degenerates of the time (Democrats by the way) claimed we were not at war with another nation, so this was not a legitimate reason to suspend the law. Sounds familiar doesn't it?

Lincoln was right, and they were idiots. Either way, the judiciary had no way to enforce their ruling and Lincoln had a nation to save.**
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1994 - Nobel Prize winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after spending two decades in exile.

**Solzhenitsyn was the greatest 'freedom loving' Russian of the 20th Century, and one of the top four worldwide in the second half of the 20th Century...Along with Pope John Paul II, Reagan and Thatcher.

If you who decide to read one 'GREAT' (though terribly difficult) book before you die, take a look at: The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956.**

May 26

2010-05-25T17:01:00.000-07:00

1865 - The last Confederate resistance of the American Civil War ended when General Kirby Smith surrendered at Shreveport, near New Orleans. The Confederate government surrendered on April 9.

**Information transfer is always slow during war, and it must be remember this was long before the age of telephone, TV and the Internet.**
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1868 - President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives for "high crimes and misdemeanors."

**Those who pay attention know Johnson was the first U.S. President to be impeached...Not Nixon and not Clinton.

I also hope you know Nixon wasn’t impeached at all. He jumped before they could get him.**
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1938 - The House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) was founded.

**We could desperately use a renewal of this committee. It functioned properly before and would do so again. McCarthy was right (Venona Papers), and the scoundrels of our time should be ‘outed’ as well.**
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1940 - Operation Dynamo: The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France began.

**Hitler made a huge miscalculation not crushing the Brits on the beach.

His first mistake was not allowing his generals to continue the offensive, which would have destroyed the Brits before they even got to Dunkirk. The second mistake was allowing the 'Fat Field Marshal,' who failed his master at every turn, to destroy the evacuation with the Luftwaffe. Instead, the Germans had to fight the escaped Brits at a later date.

Thankfully, Hitler was an inept military leader, otherwise it is likely he could have kept the U.S. out of the war, by winning it before we entered.**
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2000 - President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order #13158, expanding the scope and jurisdiction of the 'Marine Protected Areas' (MPAs) along American coasts, lakes, "connecting waters," etc.

**What a jackass! He pushed this order and didn’t think through the effect it would have on Marine amphibious training sites, or naval maneuvers...Or, maybe he knew exactly what he was doing!! He was the 'smartest' president we ever had ya know

. Well, until Obama took over.**

May 25

2010-05-22T20:01:00.000-07:00

1521 - The Edict of Worms was proclaimed, declaring Martin Luther a "criminal and permitted anyone to kill him without consequences."

**This date marks the end of the Diet of Worms (Jan. 28-May 25, 1521).

The edict was a pronouncement by Emperor Charles V (along with the Church) against Martin Luther and the rising Protestant Reformation (which had no name at the time)...But Charles didn't kill Luther himself!!!

The irony of the declaration is the fact that regardless of the tough talk Luther wasn’t killed at the assembly, which made him and his movement stronger, and weakened the Emperor and the Church as a result.

Charles should have executed Luther when he had the chance, but didn’t do so because he didn’t want to upset the German princes...He should have been foresighted enough to realize he would have to fight them eventually, and should have killed Luther before he had the opportunity to escape to the the protection of the princes.**
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1787 - The first regular session of the Constitutional Convention was held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia after enough delegates had shown up for a quorum.

**Their original goal wasn’t to create a new Constitution, it was to revise the existing 'Articles of Confederation'...But the brilliant minds of the time knew the current system would never last, and it would have left the young nation at a terrible risk of being reconquered by the Brits or dissolving into open warfare among the states.**
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1935 - Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career.

**The end of the career of the greatest sports figure in American history was in sight...It’s a shame he had to hit his last home run in anything other than a Yankee uniform though.**
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1961 - President Kennedy asked the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

**This event was JFK’s shining moment. One of only two (along with the Cuban Missile Crisis)...I wonder if it would have happened if the cause didn't have his martyrdom to fuel it?**
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1965 - Muhammad Ali knocked Sonny Liston out in the first round, after 1 minute and 56 seconds, to gain the world heavyweight title.

**He wasn’t known as Ali at the time (Cassius Clay), but “shake up the world” he surely did...Liston was a huge favorite, but got his ass kicked, and a legend was born.**
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1996 - President Bill Clinton, honoring the men and women who died in military service, used his weekly radio address to defend America's global military role, saying it "is making our people safer and the world more secure."

**He said this for his mismanagement of Somalia, and what should have been a European problem in Serbia, but he and his Leftist friends can’t find it in themselves to say it when the world is relieved of Saddam Husein??**
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1997 - French voters gave the Leftist opposition the biggest share of votes in a surprising setback for President Jacques Chirac's Conservatives.

**Talk about 'relativity!' Chirac is a Lefty by any normal sense of the political spectrum, but in France he’s a Conservative.**

May 24 (A Double)

2010-05-22T19:01:00.002-07:00

1337 - French King Philip VI announced the confiscation of Gascony from England, beginning the Hundred Years War.

**Those wondering what claim the English had to any part of France must remember William the Conqueror was a Norman prince and as such ruled both Normandy and England.

The English kings who succeeded William kept the claim to Normandy (and other parts of France), which was unacceptable to the French and ultimately untenable for the English monarchs.**
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1543 - Nicolaus Copernicus published proof of a sun-centered solar system in 'De Revolutionibus.'

**Amazingly, he was pretty close to correct, but wasn’t acknowledged as so in his lifetime (or anywhere near his lifetime)...Sadly, he died shortly after his publication.**
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1607 - Captain Christopher Newport and 105 followers founded the colony of Jamestown at the mouth of the James River on the coast of Virginia. They left England with 144 members, 39 died on trip across the Atlantic.

**The English previously attempted other colonies, but Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in the New World to survive.**
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1764 - Bostonian lawyer James Otis denounced "taxation without representation" and called for the colonies to unite in demonstrating their opposition to Britain’s new tax measures.

**A battle-cry was born, and the Colonials were awakening to an impossible-possibility...Sadly, Americans have found 'taxation with representation' isn't much better.**
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1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message, "What hath God wrought!" from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America's first telegraph line.

**The world shrank greatly with this simple sentence...Anytime information transfer is sped up the world gets smaller, and Morse set off a shrinking which brought the world within a fingertip's reach in 150 years.**
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1965 - A federal law authorizing the postal interception of communist propaganda was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

**Huh?? You ask why? The Liberal Court didn’t want their, and their friends, mail 'intercepted'...That's my take on the ruling, anyway.**
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1980 - Iran rejected a call by the World Court to release the American hostages.

**Instead of raising Tehran, our pansy leader (Jimmy Carter) sat on his thumbs and allowed the Ayatollah to continue his game...A game the current mullahs continue playing to this day.**
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1990 - Two members of the militant environmental group Earth First! were injured when a pipe bomb exploded in their car in Oakland, California.

**It's terrible these people were injured...Would have been better if they had died.**
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2001 - Vermont Senator James Jeffords quit the Republican Party and became an Independent, giving Democrats control of the Senate.

**Congratulations to the (D)’s...They controlled the Senate for a whole year before it was reclaimed by the (R)’s.**
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2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a nuclear arms reduction treaty which called for each nation to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear warheads to no more than 2200 (from 6000) within 10-years. However, at Bush's insistence, the removed warheads may be put in storage instead of destroyed.

**I seriously doubt either party lived up the terms of this deal.**

May 23 (A Double)

2010-05-22T18:49:00.000-07:00

1533 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declared Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon void and his marriage to Anne Boleyn legal.

**Not only did Henry upset the Pope by directly challenging his spiritual authority, but he pissed off Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Catherine of Aragon’s nephew). Amazingly, he got away with it...As a result of Henry's bold action, England's place in history was in the process of changing; leaving the Catholic sphere of influence and entering the Protestant.**
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1618 – The Defenestration of Prague: Three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window.

**Normally this would be an uneventful act, but it was the spark which ignited the 30-Years War.

The war started as a battle between Protestants and Catholics, and was fought primarily in the German lands of the Holy Roman Empire, but eventually spread to include every major power in Europe and the New World...As such, it isn’t a stretch to consider the 30-Years War as the first World War.**
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1864 - The Battle of North Anna, Virginia: Union General Ulysses Grant attempted to outflank Robert E. Lee.

**This was one of the few times Grant tried to get cute and outmaneuver Lee; he performed miserably.

Grant learned very quickly that Lee was his tactical superior, and after this battle rarely strayed from the strategy of driving straight ahead to cause as many Confederate casualties as possible...A strategy which couldn’t fail as long as Grant followed it to its natural conclusion; a rule he followed from here out.**
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1945 - Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.

**This is an unjust death if there ever was one...The Chicken Farmer deserved to die a long-drawn, painful death, and allowing him to go on his own terms was a crime.**
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1958 - Mao Tse Tung began China's 'Great Leap Forward.'

**The Great Leap Forward was a plan to increase China’s industrial production, through the use of its massive amount of cheap (slave) labor...Like many of Mao’s ‘movements’ it closely resembled a bowel movement, and resulted in the death of millions.**
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1960 - Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and spirited him back to Israel.

**After 15-years of living on the run, the S.S. Obersturmbannfuhrer was caught...Thankfully, unlike Himmler, justice was served at the hands of the Jews he previously aimed to slaughter.**
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1994 - Funeral services were held at Arlington National Cemetery for former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

**I don’t mean to be a hater, and I have nothing against Jackie or JFK, but the whole Kennedy landmark at Arlington is disgusting...There are over 260,000 buried at this most honored American cemetery and there is no way the Kennedy’s should hold any honor over any other person interred there.**
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1997 - Iranians elected a moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, over hard-liners in the ruling Muslim clergy.

**Khatami isn’t a moderate by any means, but everything is relative. And never forget, this is the leader who secretly began Iran's nuclear program...A peaceful program for sure.**

May 22 (A Triple)

2010-05-21T17:01:00.000-07:00

334 B.C. - The Battle of Granicus: Alexander the Great defeated Persian King Darius III, in modern-day Turkey.

**This battle has historical significance for many reasons:

1. It was Alexander's first great victory in his conquest of the Persian Empire.

2. It was the closest Alexander ever came to losing a battle...In fact he almost lost his life.

3. It was the first recorded battle dominated by the strength of cavalry.**
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337 - Constantine 'the Great' died.

**Constantine’s life was one of the greatest of all time, because his actions affected so many (during and after his time).

He made Christianity the official religion of the Empire, was one of the last of the great Roman emperors, and founder of one of the ancient world's greatest cities; Constantinople.**
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1455 - The Battle of St. Albans began England's 30-year War of the Roses. The Lancastrians defeated the Yorkists.

**This battle began a civil war, which wasn't won by either of the 'Roses.'

FYI: The House of Lancaster was symbolized by the 'Red Rose,' and the House of York by the 'White Rose'...Both the Lancasters and Yorks descended from the Plantagenet royal line, which was their basis for claiming the throne

Unfortunately for both, neither ultimately won the war, because it was the House of Tudor which came out the victor...Founding the Tudor Dynasty.**
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1807 - Former Vice President Aaron Burr was put on trial for treason in Richmond, Virginia. He was acquitted in August.

**It’s hard to believe this scoundrel was one electoral vote away from being President of the United States, and actually was the V.P.**
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1863 - Union general Ulysses S. Grant’s second attack on Vicksburg failed and he began a siege of the fort.

**Grant’s finest hour was upon him, and the fall of Vicksburg was a crushing blow to the Confederacy because the Union gained control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy between east and west.

It's important to point out this is the greatest siege in the history of the American nation.**
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1872 - The Amnesty Act restored civil rights to U.S. Southerners.

**As a result of this act, most Southerners were allowed to reclaim their position in American society (property, voting, etc)...An important point in the healing of the torn nation.**
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1939 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed the 'Pact of Steel' committing Germany and Italy to a military alliance.

**Both would regret their decision to take the other as a partner, which ended with their deaths.**
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1947 - The 'Truman Doctrine' was enacted when Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.

**There have been three great National Defense strategies in U.S. history:

1. The Monroe Doctrine: Keeping Europe out of the Western Hemisphere.

2. The Truman Doctrine: Stopping the spread of Communism.

3. The Bush Doctrine: Attacking international terrorism, and those who support terrorists...Make no mistake, to this point the Bush Doctrine has been as effective as the other two, but only time will tell if our current leaders keep it in play. If they don't they better hope against hope it doesn't come back to haunt us all.**
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1985 - U.S. sailor Michael L. Walker was arrested aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz, two days after his father, John A. Walker Jr., was apprehended; both were later convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.

**Both were Navy officers, and both escaped the hangman...What a pathetic lack of justice for two traitorous POS's.

Read more about the Walker Family.**

May 21

2010-05-20T17:04:00.001-07:00

1832 - The first Democratic National Convention got underway, in Baltimore. The delegates nominated President Andrew Jackson for a second term.

**These Democrats wouldn’t even recognize the current party of their name...They’d probably think degenerate Martians took it over.**
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1941 - President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed "an unlimited state of national emergency," seven months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

**Did he know something was going to occur in the Pacific? Of course he did.**

May 20

2010-05-19T17:43:00.000-07:00

1862 - The Homestead Act was passed by Congress, giving 160 acres of land in the West free to homesteaders if they agreed to stay and improve it for five years.

**This act was a major boom for the West, but was enacted at an odd time: During the Civil War.

In order to qualify a person had to be a current citizen and never have taken up arms against the country, which disqualified the entire South; white and black...Plus, movement from East to West was extremely difficult because much of it was a war-zone.**
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1997 - The U.S. Senate approved legislation to ban certain late-term abortions, but fell three votes shy of the total needed to override President Bill Clinton's threatened veto.

**Lets revisit the late-term abortion procedure (Partial Birth Abortion):

1. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the BABY’S leg with a forceps.
2. The BABY’S leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
3. The abortionist delivers the BABY’S entire body, except for the head.
4. The abortionist jams scissors into the BABY’S skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.
5. The scissors are removed and a suction tube is inserted. The CHILD’S brain is sucked out causing the skull to collapse.
6. The dead BABY is then removed.

If a person kicks their dog they can go to jail, but this act of cruelty was legal???

Congratulations on your political victory Bill Clinton. The Prenatal Holocaust is in good hands!!! Dr. Mengele would be so proud...Luckily, we currently have a Supreme Court with the decency to squash the modern-day Mengelians.**
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2000 - The five nuclear powers on the U.N. Security Council agreed to eventually eliminate their nuclear arsenals, as part of a new disarmament agenda approved by 187 countries.

**This is one of the biggest jokes of all time. None of the existing nuclear nations will disarm (unless President Obama unilaterally disarms the U.S., that is), and another 25-50 will eventually do whatever they can to join the club.**

May 19

2010-05-18T17:01:00.000-07:00

1588 - The Spanish Armada set sail for England.

**The 'Invincible Armada' was on its way to put England in her place...But history proved otherwise, with its destruction in August at the hands of the English Navy, Nature, and Providence.**
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1864 - The Battle of Spotsylvania ended.

**Spotsylvania was a brutal battle, like two heavyweight fighters standing toe-to-toe throwing haymakers at each other.

Grant threw his troops into the fray, and sent them out to die. He didn’t do so to kill Union boys, he did it to win the war...The next year was horrific, but achieved Lincoln and Grant’s ultimate goal of ending the war.**
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1921 - The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas for immigrants.

**The problem hasn’t ceased to be an 'emergency,' and another such law is well overdue.**
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1943 - Berlin was declared 'Judenrien' (Free of Jews).

**What a proud day this must have been for Der Fuhrer. He and his henchmen next tried to rid the entire Reich of Jews...And did a pretty thorough job of accomplishing their goal.**
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1986 - Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the school board, maintaining that for their policy of protecting minority employees by laying off non-minority teachers first (even though the non-minority employees had seniority) the injury suffered by non-minorities affected could not justify the benefits to minorities.

**Of course ‘whities’ shouldn’t have to pay for the historical crimes of the people of their race...This is such an obvious truth. For this same reason every Affirmative Racism policy should be ended as well.**
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1994 - President Bill Clinton held a news conference defending his foreign policy against suggestions he improvised it from crisis to crisis, saying, "I continue to look for new solutions."

**Lets just look at some of Billy's great foreign policy 'solutions':

1. He gave North Korea nuclear technology, materiel and money.
2. He allowed Iraq to keep shooting at our planes, training terrorists, and giving money to the families of martyred terrorists.
3. He sent our troops to Somalia without proper supply, and sent them out to die with no purpose.
4. He allowed Chinese spies to infiltrate our national defense institutions and production facilities, while taking millions of dollars in Chinese 'contributions.'

These were just some of his brilliant 'new solutions'...Forget the BlewClinsky episode, these reasons were enough for him to be impeached, the Republicans just didn't have the testicular fortitude to say it.**
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1995 - The U.S. Senate voted 99-to-0 to reject President Bill Clinton's spending blueprint.

**The Republicans controlled the Senate (52-48), but in order to get this 99-0 vote, 47 Dems voted against Clinton’s plan.

I’m pretty sure this was the greatest smack down ever given by the Senate to a U.S. President, especially considering his own party couldn’t even vote for his idea…I’m also sure the abstaining voter would have voted against it too, but didn’t want to see Clinton go down 100-0.

Incredibly, President Obama is going to get away with a budget a hundred times more irresponsible than this one; every Democrat, and a few Republicans, will vote for it...Amazing how things change in such a short span of time.**
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1998 - French lawmakers voted to cut the work-week from 39 hours to 35 by 2002, a measure aimed at reducing France's 12% unemployment rate.

**No wonder the French produce NOTHING!!! They spend more time on their arses than at work...Similar to how they fight wars.**

May 18 (A Double)

2010-05-17T03:00:00.000-07:00

1291 - The Mameluke Sultan of Egypt and his son took the last Christian stronghold of Acre, breaking the hold of Christians in the Holy Land.

**The Crusades were doomed to failure, even though they continued for a while longer...The logistics of fighting battles a continent away were miserable, and holding and maintaining them was even more cumbersome.**
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1896 - 'Plessy v. Ferguson: The U.S. Supreme Court endorsed the concept of "separate but equal" racial segregation.

**This is the same branch of government Liberals claim has always been the beacon of hope for the republic...By the way, it was the Dems who pushed to continue slavery and segregation as well.**
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1908 - The motto "In God We Trust" was made mandatory on all United States coins.

**How long till the ACLU(seless) goes after this as a 'separation of church and state' issue? Bunch of communist jackals.**
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1933 - The Tennessee Valley Authority was created. It's purpose was to control Tennessee River floods, institute a reforestation program on lands in the valley and provide rural electrification.

**Of all FDR’s New Deal programs this is the one that has had the most positive effect...But it wasn't created to 'control floods.' It was founded to create jobs, and compared to the ridiculous government stimulus programs in our time it was genius.**
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1944 - During World War II, Allied forces finally occupied Monte Cassino in Italy after a four-month struggle which claimed about 20,000 lives.

**A hard fought victory, and one that had to be won, even if the monastery needed to be destroyed...The Germans had to be routed out of Italy and forced to surrender or retreat to Germany, and couldn't be bypassed allowing them to have forces at our back on the way to Germany.**
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1944 - In the Soviet Union, the expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from the Crimea began after the Tartars were accused of collaborating with the Germans.

**They may or may not have been helping the Krauts, but the reality of the situation is Stalin was looking for any excuse to remove an impediment to his power, and used expulsion, the Gulag, and famine as his tools of choice.**
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1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of U.S. citizenship if they return to their country of birth for more than three years.

**Why did they come here to establish citizenship if they didn’t want to be here? To get free shit of course.**
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1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Head Start Bill into law.

**What a waste of time...This program is in its 45th year, and American school children are worse off than they’ve ever been.

If the government spent nearly as much money and time keeping families together and executing criminals and child abusers, children would have an infinitely better chance of succeeding by having steady homes and safe places to study and live.**
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1974 - India became a nuclear power when its first atomic bomb successfully exploded in the Rajasthan Desert.

**The 'Smiling Buddha' exploded and India became the sixth nation to join the most exclusive club on Earth...Sadly, I can easily see India being the next country to take an atomic hit. From members of the 'Religion of Piece,' of course.**
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1980 - The 9,677-foot Mt. St. Helens volcano in Washington state, quiet for 93 years, exploded. The volcanic blast was five hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb which leveled Hiroshima. Steam and ash erupted more than eleven miles into the sky and darkened skies in a 160-mile radius. Forest fires erupted around the volcano and burned out of control, took 1,300 feet off the top of the mountain and left 57 people dead or missing.

**Nature truly is a “mother.”**
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1983 - The U.S. Senate approved a major revision of the nation's immigration laws giving millions of illegal aliens already in the United States the opportunity to gain legal status under an amnesty program.

**UGHHHH!!!! We are asking for our own demise...Say what you will, but the Goths overran Rome after centuries of ‘legal’ migrations. We will all be dead when it happens, but the U.S. is following the same path.**

May 17 (A Double)

2010-05-15T16:18:00.000-07:00

1756 - Britain declared war on France, beginning the French and Indian War.

**Victory in this war greatly expanded Britain’s empire, but also played a large role in the beginning of the American Revolution.

Much of the war was fought in the American colonies, and the Brits leaned very heavily on the colonial population (taxes, direct housing and feeding its troops), which increased colonial discontent with the mother country...It is also where George Washington got his first real schooling in war, and even though he performed miserably it was a good education.**
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1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement.

**From a meager beginning came the greatest financial market in the history of the world...For better or for worse.**
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1809 - Napoleon annexed the Papal States.

**Just another in a long line of French interference in Papal politics**
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1938 - The U.S. Congress passed the Vinson Naval Act, providing for a two-ocean navy.

**This seems to be a common-sense decision, but prior to this time the U.S. thought it could avoid the rest of the worlds conflicts...We were terribly unprepared when entering WWII in 1941, but thankfully due to this act had enough foresight to have the logistics in place to fight a two ocean war.**
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1946 - President Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.

**One year after WWII ended and the unions couldn't wait to go on strike? Typical.

Truman may or may not have been correct in grabbing the railroads, but he wasn't afraid to make decisions.**
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1954 - Brown v. Topeka Board of Education: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.

**Of course segregation creates 'unequal' conditions...That said, it's interesting how the public has 'segregated' schools on its own (whites, blacks, Hispanic, etc) without any mandate from the government?

It is unfortunate, but it is normal.**
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1961 - Fidel Castro offered to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers.

**Such is the value of human life in communist nations.**
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1994 - The U.N. Security Council approved a peacekeeping force and an arms embargo for violence-racked Rwanda.

**How gracious of the U.N...After sitting on their thumbs and watching 800,000 people be executed in a 13-week period, they decided to 'help.'

”France, a close ally of the Hutu government in Rwanda, has been accused of sending them military support both before and during the genocide. Although France did send 2,500 soldiers to Rwanda before withdrawing, which estimated saving 15,000 to 17,000 lives, the U.N. forces were unable to save twice as many lives before withdrawing their troops as well.”

What a sad joke...The U.N., that is.**
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1996 - President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. 'Megan's Law' is named for Megan Kanka, a seven-year-old New Jersey girl who was raped and slain in 1994.

**This sounds nice, and is better than the previous system, but there is no way sex offenders should be released on the public...They are every bit as bad as murderers, because they kill their victim’s spirit, and should be executed.**
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2004 - In Massachusetts, same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows for the first time in the United States.

**What a great day for Normoism...And a pathetic one for civilization.**

May 16

2010-05-15T14:01:00.000-07:00

1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg.

**St. Petersburg is one of Europe’s great cities, and the site of one of history’s most awesome battles; the Battle of of Leningrad...St. Petersburg was changed to Leningrad in honor of Communist leader Vladimir.I. Lenin, and renamed St. Petersburg after the fall of the Soviet Union.**
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1804 - The French Senate declared Napoleon Bonaparte emperor.

**The French Senate? What a joke...Napoleon may as well have declared himself emperor. Which he more or less did.**
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1868 - The U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson after taking its first ballot on one of eleven articles of impeachment against him.

**This is the closest any U.S. President ever came to being thrown out on his ass.

I hope you understand the difference between 'impeachment' and 'conviction,' and don’t make the mistake of thinking Nixon was impeached or Clinton convicted.**
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1869 - Baseball's first professional team, the Cincinnati Reds, played their first game.

**America’s Pastime was in its infancy, and gained popularity very quickly...Football is the best pro sport, but baseball is America’s passion, flaws and all.**
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1918 - The Sedition Act was passed, defining as criminal the direct advocacy of treason and criticism of the U.S. government, conscription, or the American Flag.

**I can think of thousands of Liberal Jackasses who should be arrested for being seditious bastards.**
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1927 - Whitney v. California: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the state has the power to punish those who abuse their rights to speech "by utterances inimical to the public welfare, tending to incite crime, disturb the public peace, or endanger the foundations of organized government and threaten its overthrow."

**Again, I can think of thousands of Liberal Jackasses...**
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1943 - Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ended after 30-days of fighting, and German troops destroyed the city’s main synagogue.

**This was a battle doomed to fail from the very beginning, but one well worth fighting...They would have died either way, so they may as well have taken a few Germans with them.**
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1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled police can search discarded garbage without a search warrant.

**How ridiculous it had to come to the Supremes to determine 'trash' was fair game for the police...If criminals want to preserve the privacy of their trash they shouldn’t throw it away.

Even more ridiculous is some ACLU(seless) lawyer defended criminals rights to their garbage**

May 15

2010-05-14T17:02:00.000-07:00

1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered the 'Harmonics Law.'

**Newton was the greatest mind of this era (and maybe any other), but much of what he discovered was nibbled on by Kepler previously.**
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1765 - The Quartering Act became law in the American colonies, requiring colonists to provide barracks and supplies for British troops.

**Just another reason for the Colonists to become Patriots...And the direct reason for the Third Amendment to the Constitution:

“No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”**
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1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of J.D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

**From one monopoly were born 34 companies, which created an oligopoly, otherwise known as a monopoly of a few rather than one.

Oligopoly = A market structure dominated by a small number of large firms, selling either identical or differentiated products, and significant barriers to entry into the industry.

In other words, the company was broken up, but doing so helped the people very little.**
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1940 - The Dutch Army surrendered to Nazi Germany.

**Amazingly, they lasted almost as long as the French.**
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1942 - Gasoline rationing was introduced in the U.S.

**Oh my goodness!! Due to WWII, the rights of millions of Americans were trampled on by the government limiting their ability to purchase gas.

That was tough. I’m auditioning for a role in an ACLU(seless) movie.**
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1957 - Britain tested its first hydrogen bomb, at Christmas Island in the Pacific.

**Any time a nation gets a nuke (particularly a hydrogen bomb) it deserves notice as an outstanding event...Welcome to the club; an awesome club, which must use it's toys wisely and make sure they don't get in the hands of those who refuse to play nicely.**
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1994 - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Stephen G. Breyer arrived in Washington to spend the night at the White House, while Republicans joined Democrats in predicting swift Senate confirmation.

**We should all take notice of this event: Breyer is a Liberal...But the Republicans didn’t filibuster this nominee.

1. The Dems would have.
2. Due to previous filibusters by the Dems, the Republicans should reciprocate in the future...I'm counting on it, though I'm not holding my breath.**
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1995 - China conducted an underground nuclear test just days after it agreed to an extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

**Pretty much 'Flipping The Bird' at the West, and showing the real value of treaties.**
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2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a key provision of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, saying rape victims could not sue their attackers in federal court.

**The reasons behind this decision are based in the crime not being a federal crime...Which is why the Feds should pass legislation making rape and all other sex crimes (especially those committed against children) federal crimes, with a penalty of capital punishment.**
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2000 - More than two decades after a study in rats prompted scientists to link saccharin to human cancer, the federal government dropped the artificial sweetener from its list of cancer-causing chemicals.

**So the federal government virtually killed the saccharin industry on a whim? What a joke...Yet we trust our retirement and welfare (Social Security, Medicare, etc.) to this same group of jackasses. UGH!!**

May 14

2010-05-13T17:21:00.000-07:00

1787 - Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.

**These brilliant men met to create the most important non-religious text in the history of the world...Out of which grew the United States of America.**
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1796 - English physician Edward Jenner performed the first successful vaccination, inoculating an eight-year-old boy against smallpox and laying the foundation for modern immunology.

**WOW!!! How many millions (billions?) of human beings have been saved from the scourge of smallpox by this vaccine alone? And this was just the beginning in the history of immunology.

For this reason, Dr. Jenner should go down as one of the ten most important people in the history of the world...Alexander, Caesar, etc., were great leaders, but is their value for all of humanity, for the rest of time, even close to that of Dr. Jenner’s? I think not!**
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1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase left St. Louis. The expedition started up the Missouri in a 55-foot covered keelboat and two small craft.

**These explorers were the astronauts of their time, and their journey was every bit as dangerous as the trips to the moon...In fact, more people expected the astronauts to return home than those who expected this mission to end successfully.

I highly recommend you read about this great venture: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West.**
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1948 - British rule in Palestine came to an end with the Jewish National Council proclaiming the State of Israel. Within hours Israel was under attack from Arab forces.

**And they’ve been at war ever since...I am a huge proponent of the Israeli State, and hope with all my heart it lasts forever.

That said I am very leery of a few million Jews in a sea of a billion Muslims...Time will tell, but we should all pray for 'The People of the Book.'**
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1955 - Representatives from eight Communist Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland. The Warsaw Pact was inspired by Nikita Khrushchev to strengthen the Soviet hold over its Eastern European allies.

**The ‘Iron Curtain’ was 'strengthened' and the Cold War got much hotter.**
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1984 - The chairman of the Soviet Union's Olympic Committee told a Moscow news conference his country's decision to withdraw from the summer games in Los Angeles was "irrevocable."

**They were correct to withdraw, just as the U.S. was in 1980.**
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1986 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said in a televised address that casualties from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster had risen to nine dead and 299 hospitalized, but said, "The worst is behind us."

**9 or 299 or 2,999,999, what’s the difference in the 'Land of the Gulags?'...When life is cheap, statistics mean nothing. In fact the higher the number, the less important it often is.

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin.**
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1992 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev appealed to the U.S. Congress to pass a bill aiding the people of the former Soviet Union.

**What other people in history have rebuilt the nations and economies of the countries it defeated? NONE!**
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1993 - President Bill Clinton told a news conference his threat of military force to halt the war in the former Yugoslavia was "still on the table" despite opposition from European allies.

**How dare Clinton not pass the 'Global Test,' upsetting our European 'ALLIES?'**
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2000 - Tens of thousands of mothers rallied in Washington to demand strict control of handguns.

**If they really want handgun control they should have rallied to put more police on the streets, to arrest all of the shit-heads, and to execute those who murder...This is how you control the ‘handgun problem.’

Guns in the hands of good people are not dangerous, and the Second Amendment guarantees our right to them. Also, it's important to remember each of the amendments to the Constitution has equal value, and would be meaningless without the other.**

May 13

2010-05-12T17:01:00.000-07:00

1846 - The U.S. Congress formally declared war on Mexico, although fighting began days earlier.

**The Mexican-American War wasn't a major war, but it did much to increase the territory of the U.S...Who could have guessed the Mexicans would return to try and reclaim its lost lands through massive illegal immigration via the Mexican Reconquista?

Plus, the Mexican-American War was a proving ground for many of the future leaders of the American Civil War; on both sides.**
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1865 - The last engagement of the Civil War occurred in Brownsville, Texas.

**This sounds silly for a battle to occur after the war ended, but we must remember how slow information exchange was before the days of the telephone, TV, and Internet.**
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1927 - 'Black Friday' occurred in Germany, signaling the collapse of its economic structure.

**The Treaty of Versailles (ending WWI) was too much for Germany to handle, and it’s political system was chaotic at best...This event, along with the overall lawlessness of the country, set the stage for a strongman to come in and right Germany’s ship. That strongman proved to be Adolph Hitler.**
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1940 - After setting up Britain's wartime coalition, Winston Churchill told parliament he could offer "...nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

**The Brits had the perfect war leader, and Churchill made sure the Nazis suffered as much “blood, toil, tears and sweat” as they inflicted.

Without this great man it is debatable if Britain would even exist at this time...He was also lucky the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, because the U.S. seemed willing to allow Germany to swallow up Europe. Something we should all be ashamed of and never allow to happen again.**
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1941 - Martin Bormann was named Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany, following Rudolf Hess's mysterious flight to Scotland.

**One psycho succeeding another...Bormann had a nice title, but he was small peanuts compared to some of Hitler’s other henchmen.**
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1988 - The U.S. Senate voted 83-to-6 to order the U.S. military to enter the war against illegal drug trafficking, approving a plan to give the Navy the power to stop drug boats on the high seas and make arrests.

**Who were the 11 crack-head Senators who abstained from this vote? And why did they abstain?**

May 12

2010-05-11T17:01:00.001-07:00

1943 - During World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.

**Hitler’s 'soft underbelly' was collapsing...Taking Africa and Italy first was a brilliant strategy, and one Stalin cried about for years.

1. The German forces in North Africa and Italy would have likely enveloped a Continental invasion force. If this happened, instead of a forward fighting attack, the Allies would have had to fight German forces in front of them and those attacking their backside.

2. The 'underbelly' was a great training ground for American troops, because Rommel’s forces in Africa had been fighting the Brits for years and were wearing down. Also, the Nazi forces in Italy were probably Hitler’s worst units (even though they had great leadership), and the Italian troops were...Well they were Italians.

3. Instead of taking on the main German forces, the Allies allowed the Ruskies to take the brunt of the fighting...And they deserved such a double-cross for allying with Hitler in 1939 (as well as dropping out of WWI without the Western allies). So, Uncle Joe was right that the Soviets were screwed over, but Churchill and FDR were also right in thinking the USSR brought it on themselves.**
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1949 - The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin Blockade. The Berlin airlift bringing supplies into West Berlin, Germany (blockaded by the USSR from June 1948) ended after 277,264 flights when the USSR allowed normal land communications to resume.

**The first battle of the Cold War was over, and the good guys won...We weren't always so lucky.

Thankfully, old-school Democrats were in charge instead of today's Democrats. Had modern-day Democrats been in charge, much of Europe would currently be under the Soviet boot...And yes, there would still be a Soviet Union if the Democrats had their way.**
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2002 - Former president Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president (in or out of office) to visit Fidel Castro's Cuba.

**I’m sure they became great friends...No less should be expected from the worst U.S. president of the 20th Century.**

May 11

2010-05-10T15:29:00.000-07:00

330 - Constantinople, named after Emperor Constantine and built over the ancient city of Byzantium, was dedicated as the new capital of the Roman Empire.

**This was one of the greatest cities in the ancient world, and succeeded Rome as capital of the 'Roman Empire' after the fall of the Western Empire...I hope you understand the Roman Empire was much greater than Rome itself, and continued on for another thousand years after the 'fall of Rome.'**
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1864 - The Battle of Yellow Tavern: J.E.B. Stuart was mortally wounded.

**Lee lost Stonewall at Chancellorsville, and here he lost his next most trusted commander...Stuart was no Stonewall, but those who followed him weren’t his equal either; the result of which was another factor in the final Confederate defeat.**
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1960 - Israeli agents captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

**Eichmann was a special Nazi, as Head of the Gestapo Jewish Section (Final Solution), with the nickname of 'Chief Executioner of the Reich'...He escaped his day at Nuremberg but could not run forever from the Nazi Hunters, and received justice at the end of a rope in 1962.

Eichmann's last words: "I was just following orders."**
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1993 - The U.S. Senate approved the so-called 'motor voter bill,' designed to make voter registration easier.

**What a crock of crap...All it did was make ‘fraudulent voting’ easier.

And you should notice who was in power making this law: DEMOCRATS IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND CONGRESS!**
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1994 - Arkansas put to death two convicted murderers; it was the first time a state executed two people on the same day since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to restore the death penalty in 1976.

**What a beautiful day...Every murderer, every rapist, and every child abuser should be executed, and the more they do per-day the better.**
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1995 - A United Nations conference indefinitely extended the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which was originally set to expire after 25 years.

**Hahahaha!! What a waste of time...These ‘pie-in-the-sky’ morons have such wonderful ideas, but exactly how are they going to prevent nations from joining the Nuke Club?

Nice to know here in the U.S. our wonderful president has decided to become the first to cut back on nukes...And likely the only one.**

May 10 (A Double)

2010-05-08T18:28:00.000-07:00

1497 - Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci sailed on his first voyage to the New World. America was named for him.

**This was a strange twist of history, because the New World should have been called Columbia.

FYI: America was originally going to be called Americus, but was changed to America (the female version) instead.**
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1521 - Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes began the siege of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City).

**Cortes surely wasn’t Quetzalcoatl, but the fact he conquered the Aztecs and their million man empire with his 600 man, 20 horse and 10 cannon force is almost godly. At the very least it was an Alexandrian effort...Having a little bit of smallpox on his side didn’t hurt either.**
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1607 - The first permanent English colony in North America, the Jamestown Settlement, was founded near what is today Williamsburg, Virginia.

**This settlement could have easily had the same fate as the 'Lost Colony of Roanoke Island'...Thankfully it didn’t and Anglo-American history took hold from this point.**
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1863 - Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died after being accidentally shot by his own troops.

**A great general met his end...His troops and country (CSA) started a downward slide from this point on.**
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1869 - The 'golden spike' was driven at Promontory Point, Utah, joining the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific lines to form America's first transcontinental railway.

**The Gold Rush boom was huge, but linking the nation via rail was the real population boom in the American West.

Amazingly, California alone comprises 1/8 of the current U.S. population...And that doesn’t even include the illegals.**
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1924 - J. Edgar Hoover became FBI Director.

**Hoover was an extremely important person in American history, but no one should hold any government post for 48-years...New blood is vital to any organization, especially in doing the 'people’s business.'**
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1940 - Germany invaded France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

**It’s hard to believe the French surrendered almost as quickly as the other three.**
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1941 - Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into Scotland on what he claimed was a peace mission.

**Hess was a bazaar character: Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, and technically only behind Hitler and Goering on the Nazi food-chain.

In reality, however, Hess was a 'deputy' without duties, nothing more than Hitler’s lapdog, and by fleeing he saved his tail from the real power-brokers in the Reich: Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Heydrich, Borman, etc., who would have eventually swallowed him up.**
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1969 - The Battle of Hamburger Hill began; Vietnam War.

**This was a controversial battle, but in no way a large-scale, strategic or tactically important battle...It was a meat-grinder, however.**
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1984 - The International Court of Justice said the U.S. should halt any actions to blockade Nicaragua's ports. The U.S. previously said it would not recognize World Court jurisdiction on this issue.

**Thankfully we had a president in Ronald Reagan who told the globalists to stick it up their arse.

Do you think any of the (D)-boys would have done this? Jimmy D. Carter, William D. Clinton, John D. Kerry, Barack Obama? Hell NO!!

American sovereignty trumps any global authority and we run serious risks of losing such sovereignty every time we elect a Democrat president.**
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1993 - Members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee visited the Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia for a hearing on the issue of homosexuals in the military; most of the sailors said they favored keeping the ban on gays.

**I was in the military and can guarantee you many more than 'most of the sailors (military)' don’t want gays in the service...Probably over 95% of them would say NO WAY!!**
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1994 - The state of Illinois executed convicted serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murders of 33 young men and boys.

**Good riddance to serial killers.

It’s hard to believe a bunch of Liberal pukes protested the execution of this human piece of crap, but they did...Per normal, they were on the wrong side of humanity.

Oh, and I'm sure these same scum would fight like hell for the right to execute the unborn.**
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2000 - High winds drove what began as a deliberately set fire into a New Mexico canyon, forcing the evacuation of the entire town of Los Alamos and its 11,000 residents. The fire was set to contain an earlier blaze intended to clear brush.

**Nice 'controlled burn.'**

May 9

2010-05-08T12:01:00.000-07:00

This may be the most boring day of the year. None of the events below are very noteworthy, but I couldn't see having a blank day.
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1754 - The first American newspaper cartoon was published. The illustration in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, "Join or die."

**Interesting. I always wondered why the "Don't Tread on Me" slogan has a rattlesnake.**
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1936 - Fascist Italy annexed Ethiopia.

**WOW!!! The ‘Romans’ were really awakened with this fantastic conquest.**
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1962 - The Beatles signed their first recording contract and hired George Martin to be their producer.

**HoHum...This is how pathetic this day is.**

May 8 (A Double)

2010-05-07T18:51:00.000-07:00

1541 - Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovered the Mississippi River.

**No he didn’t, the Indians had been there for thousands of years…I’m practicing to be a Liberal.**
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1846 - The Battle of Palo Atlo: The first major battle of the Mexican-American War.

**General Zachary Taylor gave the Mexicans a 'whoopin,' which was the norm for the whole war...But make no mistake, the result of this battle was more a result of Mexican military inferiority than U.S. superiority.

It is kind of funny this same Mexican army, which couldn’t win a single battle against U.S. troops, spanked an invading French force 16-years later.**
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1864 - The Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse began; U.S. Civil War.

**Another bloodbath, another day closer to Union victory…Grant wasn’t winning battles but he was winning the war.**
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1945 – V.E.-Day (Victory in Europe); World War II in Europe was over.

**The U.S. saved Europe (from itself) and was able to put all its effort towards kicking the Hell out of Japan...And lets not forget, just like the Germans, the Japanese brought this ass kicking on themselves.

To see what an incredible human undertaking this war was look at the death statistics from the major players in the European Theatre:

USSR: Over 23 million dead
Germany: Over 7 million dead
Poland: Over 5 million dead
Yugoslavia: Over 1 million dead
Romania: Over 830,000 dead
Hungary: Over 580,000 dead
France: Over 560,000 dead
Italy: Over 450,000 dead
United Kingdom: Over 450,000 dead
United States: Over 410,000 dead
Lithuania: Over 350,000 dead
Czechoslovakia: Over 340,000 dead
Latvia: Over 220,000 dead
The Netherlands: Over 200,000 dead

WWII is by far the most destructive war in the history of humankind...Unfortunately, it will only hold this claim until the next worldwide conflict.**
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1948 - The state of Israel came into existence.

**Happy 62nd birthday Israel...I am proud to call you a friend to America.

That said, I have no idea how long Israel can exist. It may be the strongest military and economic nation in the Middle East, but living amongst a billion Muslims bent on its destruction is an almost impossible task over time.

Here's hoping I'm wrong in my concerns.**
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1952 - The U.S. conducted the first hydrogen bomb test, at the Eniwetok Atoll.

**This was a massive upgrade on the atom bomb...Many hundreds of times larger.

The big question is: Who will be the first to use one, and who will be the first to take one?**

May 7 (A Huge Day)

2010-05-06T17:44:00.000-07:00

This date has seven events which would be the top event on most normal days...It's rare, but it happens, so I'm not going to try to pick one or two over the others, and will highlight all seven.
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1429 - The English siege of Orleans was broken by Joan of Arc; 100 Years War.

**And what did the French do to repay 'The Maid?' They handed her over to the English to be executed…Bastards then, bastards now!!**
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1863 - The Battle of Vicksburg began when Union General Sherman reinforced General Grant and split the Confederate armies in two. The battle and siege lasted until July 4.

**Vicksburg was one of the turning points of the war, splitting the Confederate east and west, and giving the Union control of the Mississippi River...Other than ending the war, this was Grant's finest moment.**
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1915 - 1,198 people, including 63 children, died when a German torpedo sank the British liner Lusitania off the Irish coast. 114 of the victims were American.

**We should have been in WWI prior to this event, and it’s pathetic we waited almost two more years to get in, but the sinking of the Lusitania was a prime motivating factor of U.S. entry in 1917.**
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1939 - Germany and Italy announced a military and political alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.

**Hitler got a crappy ally, and Mussolini guaranteed his demise...Nice deal.**
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1940 - Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.

**One has to wonder how things would have turned out if this great man had been Prime Minister in 1936...Sadly the world will never know and had to go through the Hell of the 1940’s.**
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1945 - General Dwight Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany from General Alfred Jodl.

**The end of WWII in Europe was one day away.**
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1954 - The 55-day Battle of Dien Bien Phu ended: Vietnamese insurgents overran French forces, beginning the end of French involvement in Indochina.

**They not only lost, but got smoked in this battle...Question: Since 1918 have the French won a single military battle? Answer: None of consequence!!**
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1975 - President Ford formally declared an end to the 'Vietnam era.' In Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) the Viet Cong staged a rally to celebrate their takeover.

**It's ironic the date of the French capitulation in Vietnam matched that of the U.S...It's not something we should be proud of.

Incredibly, the U.S. won every battle, but lost the war...Has this ever happened?

Not only was Vietnam the right battle, at the right place, at the right time, it was one we won militarily. But we lost domestically because the 'Enemy Within' was stronger than the will of the general public, and surely stronger than that of our political leadership (some of which happened to be part of the 'Enemy Within')...A dangerous precedent we've been paying for on every front since this time.**
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1985 - 10-years after the Vietnam War ended, New York City honored Vietnam veterans with a huge ticker tape parade.

**Spit on our soldiers for 10-years, then throw them a parade? I think not...We must never screw over our troops again!!**
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1997 - A U.S. government study criticized Switzerland for dealing in Nazi gold during World War II.

**It took 50-years to figure this out??**

May 6

2010-05-05T17:49:00.000-07:00

1527 - Charles V's Spanish and German troops began the 'Sack of Rome.'

**This sounds like the Emperor attacked the Church, but it was not the case...At the time, Rome was a pawn between the French and Charles, and the Emperor had to take Rome in order to keep it from France.

The fact his troops sacked the city was a sad byproduct of a war-torn era.**
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1935 - The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was established under the direction of long-time aide to President Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins. The WPA philosophy was to put the unemployed back to work in jobs which would serve the public good and conserve the skills and the self-esteem of workers throughout the U.S.

**All of FDR’s 'work projects' were better than modern welfare 'give-aways,' but some were pretty pathetic.

Example: 5,300 visual artists, 16,000 musicians, 12,700 theater workers, 6,686 writers, and others were given Federal employment...No wonder most who have these jobs are now absolute Democrats?**
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1937 - The hydrogen-filled German dirigible 'Hindenburg' burned and crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 of the 97 people on board.

**How all 97 people didn't die is amazing.**
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1941 - Josef Stalin became the official leader of the Soviet government (replacing Vyacheslav M. Molotov) by appointing himself Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars.

**I hope you know this is true, yet untrue...Prior to this time Stalin wasn’t the titular head of the USSR, but he was the leader in reality as dictator, which is all that matters.

The fact he 'appointed himself' should be a pretty good clue of this truth.**
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1942 - During World War II, some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.

**The Fall of Corregidor gave the Japanese the highest ranking American soldier ever captured in battle (not including the Civil War): Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright.

When MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia, he put Wainwright in overall command, and ordered him to defend the Philippines to the last man...This was a fools order, because the battle wasn’t winnable and completely unnecessary strategically.

I love MacArthur, but Wainwright was right to surrender when he did, and saved the lives of many American troops. Even though they suffered through years of captivity and torture.**
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1994 - For the first time since the Ice Age, a direct link connected Britain and mainland Europe; the Channel Tunnel.

**This is an awesome feat of engineering...No surprise the Brits did most of the heavy lifting, but the French had reason to be proud as well.

Unfortunately for the Brits the 'Chunnel' will likely be a German invasion route after the next time the Frenchies roll over to the Krauts...Or maybe it'll be a Muslim invasion? Invasion or no invasion, if I were a Jihadist the Channel Tunnel would be on my high priority list of sites to cause massive terror.**
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1997 - President Bill Clinton wrapped up his visit to Mexico as he and Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo pledged closer cooperation on immigration and drug smuggling.

**If their goal was to INCREASE 'immigration and drug smuggling' they were wildly successful.**
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1998 - Astronomers announced the detection of a gamma ray burst in a galaxy 12 billion light years away that was equal to the energy expended by the sun in one trillion years.

**We are very small!!**

May 5

2010-05-04T17:01:00.000-07:00

614 - The Persians captured Jerusalem and seized the 'True Cross.'

**”According to Christian tradition, the True Cross is the cross upon which Jesus was crucified. According to medieval legend, the True Cross was built from the Tree of Jesse (father of King David), which became identified with the Tree of Knowledge that had grown in the Garden of Eden."

So you can imagine Christians were pissed to have this fall to the Persians...I hope you also know Islam was in its infancy, and Persia certainly wasn’t a Muslim nation at this time.**
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1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena.

**He went to the island in 1815 (for a second time)...How was he not executed? These Euro’s are pathetic.**
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1862 - The Battle of Puebla: Mexican forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeated French troops sent by Napoleon III.

**What a pathetic event for the French...But not surprising considering the ridiculous state of the French military after the fall of Napoleon.

- 1870 = Prussian debacle.
- 1914-18 = WWI (didn’t lose, but surely didn’t win).
- 1941 = Rolled over like a cheap whore for the Germans.
- 1954 = Whipped by the Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu (FYI: The U.S. wasn’t beaten in Nam, it quit.)

No wonder the Frenchies wanted no part of the war in Iraq. Besides the bribes of course.

By the way, Cinco de Mayo is a great holiday in Mexico, but the fact we even know what it is here in the U.S. is proof we have too many illegals...Think I'm wrong? Then name me a Canadian national holiday.**
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1864 - The Battle of the Wilderness started in the American Civil War. General Lee had just over 60,000 men against Grant's 100,000 men, but the Confederates heavily defeated the Federal troops who lost over 17,000 men.

**Lee won the battle, but like every battle from 1864-65 he couldn’t afford the losses associated with his 'victory.'

Grant may have lost 17,000, but at the end of the battle he still had 83,000 troops, more than Lee started with, which was Grants overall strategy...It was costly but as long as Grant was willing to do put his men in battle Lincoln knew he couldn’t fail in the long run.**
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1892 - The U.S. Congress passed the Geary Chinese Exclusion Act, which required Chinese in the United States to be registered, or face deportation.

**How horrible to single the Chinese out like this...We need a Foreigner Exclusion Act, which requires all foreigners to be registered or be deported.

Every American is registered at birth (Birth Certificate and SS#), so why is it unreasonable to expect every non-American to be registered as well?**
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1893 - The 'Panic of 1893' hit the New York Stock Exchange.

**It was George W. Bush’s fault!!! Just ask any Liberal, they’ll tell ya.**
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1912 - The first issue of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper 'Pravda' was published.

**I’m sure the LA and NY Times, along with other American Commie rags, celebrate this day like no other.**
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1925 - Biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in violation of Tennessee state laws.

**In less than 100 years we went from one extreme to another. Now a teacher would be arrested (or at least fired) for teaching anything other than evolution...The sooner we get to a happy medium of teaching both the better we will be.**
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1936 - Italian troops under Field Marshal Badoglio took Addis Ababa in Ethiopia (Abyssinia).

**The grand Italian Army was flexing its muscle by conquering the great world power of Ethiopia...What a joke.

Amazingly this conquest impressed Hitler, who believed Italy would be a strong ally.**
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1942 - Sales of sugar resumed in the United States under a rationing program.

**How un-American for sugar to be withheld from any citizen...I can’t believe the ACLU didn’t step in and fight for the right to make as much Kool-Aid as we wanted.

A different time. A better time. A pre-psycho Liberal America.**
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1945 - In the only fatal attack of its kind during World War II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing the pregnant wife of a minister and five children.

**They bombed the American mainland!!! Imagine if we hadn’t dropped the A-Bombs and they had been successful in their atomic program...These balloons were tests to see if it could be done.**
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1987 - The U.S. government began a year-long amnesty program, offering citizenship to illegal immigrants who met certain conditions.

**It was supposed to be a 'year long'...The offer of citizenship ended, but the illegal immigrants have never quit coming. In fact they are coming more than ever in the hope another 'offer' will eventually come.

I hate to admit it, but Reagan really blew it on this one.**
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1994 - Singapore caned American teenager Michael Fay for vandalism, a day after the sentence was reduced from six lashes to four in response to an appeal by President Clinton, who considered the punishment too harsh.

**We’d have a lot less crime here in the U.S. if we’d be a little more harsh...Funny though, Clinton didn’t think lighting up Waco was too harsh. Hmmm!**

May 4

2010-05-03T17:31:00.000-07:00

1493 - Pope Alexander VI decreed all new lands discovered west of the Azores were Spanish.

**In 1494 this decree took form as the Treaty of Tordesilla...Unfortunately for Spain, the English, French and Dutch had no intention of being held back by Papal decrees.

It is interesting to wonder how things would have turned out had the Protestant Reformation not torn these countries from the Catholic sphere, though...I think it’s fair to assume the countries currently known as the U.S. and Canada would be far worse off and much more like South and Central American ‘Banana Republics’ than the thriving nations they are today.**
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1776 - Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

**Tiny Rhode Island put its neck out on the chopping block, and should be noted as the first Patriots to have the testicular fortitude to challenge English hegemony in the colonies.**
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1814 - The Bourbon Dynasty was restored in France, under Louis XVIII.

**Louis should have insisted on Napoleon’s execution, instead he had to fight him again in less than a year.**
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1863 – The Battle of Chancellorsville ended; U.S. Civil War.

**"My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out may God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none." – Union General Joseph Hooker, prior to the battle.

How wrong he was.

Robert E. Lee had his finest moment at Chancellorsville, and handed Hooker his ass...That said, Hooker's loss ended up being a Pyrrhic victory for Lee, who wiped the field with Hooker's troops, but the outcome of Chancellorsville was one Lee couldn't afford to have.

A traditional Pyrrhic victory is one where the winner of a battle pays such a heavy casualty loss to win the victory it cannot fight again at a later date, or can fight but not win...Lee's casualties at Chancellorsville were not overwhelming, but he lost his best commander, Stonewall Jackson. A loss he was never able to make up.**
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1886 - The Haymarket Square Riot broke out as a result of a labor demonstration.

**The Haymarket Affair was a month-long event and much too difficult to explain here. You should note the episode was largely led by anarchists and wannabe communists, which is important to know because modern scholars have turned this event into a battle cry against business...I recommend you follow the link to read up on the event: HAYMARKET AFFAIR.**
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1919 - Students demonstrated in China against the Versailles Peace Conference decision to hand Germany's possessions in Shantung Province to Japan. Known as the May Fourth Movement, it led to the birth of the Chinese Communist Party.

**I can’t say I blame the Chinese for being angry. They were at war with the Japanese in 18-years, and a lot worse off due to the fact the Japanese controlled many Chinese ports; a result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, and the Versailles Treaty.

As far as the Chinese Commies go, they were always looking for any political crack in the nation, and this was a perfect opportunity against the Nationalist Chinese.**
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1942 - The Battle of the Coral Sea started when naval and air battles began off the Solomon Islands.

**The true turning-point in the Pacific came in June at Midway, but American victories in the Pacific began mounting from this time, making the Coral Sea a pseudo turning-point in the war.**
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1945 - A letter written by a British Soldier (A powerful reminder to us all).

**"The fact is that all these were once clean-living and sane and certainly not the type to do harm to the Nazis. They are Jews and are dying now at the rate of three hundred a day. They must die and nothing can save them - their end is inescapable, they are too far gone now to be brought back to life. I saw their corpses lying near their hovels, for they crawl or totter out into the sunlight to die. I watched them make their last feeble journeys, and even as I watched they died." - Peter Coombs, British soldier, May 4, 1945, letter to his wife after liberation of the Nazi Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp.**
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1970 - Ohio National Guard troops shot and killed four students and wounded eleven at Kent State University after demonstrations against the Vietnam War.

**The troops may have been a little heavy handed and trigger-happy, but I can’t say I blame them.**
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1988 - A year-long amnesty program for illegal aliens in the United States who met certain conditions was coming to a close, with thousands of applicants lining up nationwide on the last day.

**For all of his greatness, Reagan failed miserably on this issue.**

May 3

2010-05-01T17:22:00.000-07:00

425 - Pope Gelasius asserted his spiritual power was superior to the temporal power of the Roman Emperor.

**This declaration was looked at as a joke by most...Time told tell a different story, however, because it was the Pope (Leo) who kicked Attila the Hun out of Italy (who knows why Attila really left?) and the Pope who soon ruled Europe, not the Emperor, which proved Gelasius's proclamation to be true.

Looking back it was inevitable, even though at the time it was inconceivable, the Empire would fall in less than a hundred years...And the Church survived, becoming the main power broker in Europe for the next thousand-plus years.**
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1791 - A liberal bill of rights reforming gentry-ruled Poland and setting up a constitutional monarchy, was signed by King Stanislaw Augustus. It was only the second written constitution in the world after the United States.

**This sounds like a grand plan, but the reality was Poland was a bit player in the Russo/German/Austrian playground, and within four years ceased to exist as a free nation.**
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1944 - U.S. wartime rationing of most grades of meat ended.

**Can you imagine if current-day Americans had to give up anything for a wartime effort? The ACLU and other Liberal Jackals would be howling like never before...They cry enough about having to wait awhile at the airport.**
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1971 - National Public Radio began programming.

**There are thousands of radio stations across America, so why do we need a taxpayer funded radio station? And why is it such a Liberal joke?

NPR should be on the chopping block of every National Budget...People who want Liberal radio can dial up Air America (HAHAHAHA!) or get Sirius/XM Radio, which has plenty of options.**
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1979 - Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party won the British general election, making her the first woman prime minister of a major European nation.

**The Iron Lady was a great leader, and paired with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II as a leading force behind the destruction of the USSR...She is one of the three most important women in the 20th Century.**
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1983 - After two years of debate, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved a pastoral letter condemning the first use of nuclear weapons and virtually ruled out their use for retaliation.

**Good for them...America is the most Christian nation on Earth, thankfully, but is in no way bound to the edicts of any church.

This is not a 'separation of Church and State' issue...It is a separation of U.S. sovereignty and everything else issue.

When it comes to National Defense the rest of the world can 'sit & spin.'**
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1989 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat ended a two-day visit to France and stated the PLO charter calling for the destruction of Israel had been "superseded" by a declaration urging peaceful coexistence of the Jewish state and a Palestinian state.

**It may seem like it, but Yasser wasn’t speaking out of both sides of his mouth on this matter...He was speaking out of his ass.**
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1992 - An international conference in Geneva ended 30-months of arduous negotiations over whether to ban land mines with a weak compromise treaty giving countries nine years to switch to detectable, self-destructive devices.

**Another case of a nice idea in theory having absolutely no basis in reality.

As long as humans are on the planet they will be at war with one another, and no one will be able to stop them from finding newer, more effective means of killing each other...Also, how were these jackasses going to enforce such a marvelous idea? “WITH SPITBALLS?” - Zell Miller**
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2000 - Executive Order #13153 was issued by President Bill Clinton, authorizing the Education Department to reward low performing schools by sending them more money and other resources.

**Why 'reward' poor performance? And of how horrible for President Bush to insist on higher standards for schools to receive such 'rewards. Just horrible.

We are raising a generation of morons. A process begun by the current generation’s grandparent’s generation, the 60's idiots, and there is no end in sight. In fact, it's only getting worse.**
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2001 - The United States, a member of the U.N. Human Rights Commission since its inception, was ousted from its seat. It was restored the following year.

**The U.S. was out, but China and Cuba were in...Reason #3,721 the U.S. should 'oust' itself from the Circle Jerk Group completely and permanently.**

May 2

2010-04-30T19:20:00.000-07:00

1526 - The Protestant League of German princes was established.

**This league was a direct revolt against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the Catholic Church...Its importance is that Luther wouldn't have lived long without the cover provided by these princes.**
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1863 - Confederate General Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson was mistakenly shot by his own soldiers.

**The Battle of Chancellorseville was General Lee's 'perfect battle,' but it cost him his 'right arm,' and it's no coincidence the Confederates began a sudden decline with Stonewall's death.**
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1934 - The Nazi's instituted the 'People's Courts.'

**I’m sure the 'people' thought highly of these courts...Enter Roland Freisler, Hitler’s infamous 'Hangman’s Judge.'**
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1939 - Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees first baseman ended his record consecutive games streak. He did not play against the Detroit Tigers, ending his streak of 2,130. He never played another game.

**I don't list many sporting events here, but this is a great player, a great man and an almost mythological figure in my mind as a child.

Cal Ripken is one of my favorite modern-day players, but I wish he either sat out game 2,130 or tied the 'Iron Horse’s' record...If I were Cal, I’d rather have my name next to Gehrig’s (or just below than ahead of him. That's how much respect I have for Gehrig.**
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1945 - The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and Austria.

**The War in Europe was almost over...And the Cold War was about to begin.**
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1996 - The U.S. Senate passed an immigration bill (97-3) to tighten border controls, make it tougher for illegal aliens to get U.S. jobs and curtail illegal immigrants access to social services.

**What a joke! The Legislature can pass whatever laws it wants, but if the Executive refuses to pursue the law and the Judiciary refuses to process the law, there will never be a tightening of the borders...Which is supposedly the real goal.

Which is why the states will have to find a way to push the feds. Beginning with Arizona.**

May 1

2010-04-30T16:09:00.000-07:00

1045 - Pope Benedict IX sold the papacy to John Gratianus, Gregory VI.

**This was an extremely ugly event in the History of the Papacy, but not unlike many others during the Dark/Middle Ages.**
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1654 - "Under penalty of death, no Irish man, woman, or child, was to let himself, herself, itself be found east of the River Shannon."...An Order from the English Parliament.

**It’s no wonder the Irish have been known as the 'British Niggers'…They were treated like crap by the English, and given little respect as a people.**
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1707 – The Act of Union: Scotland and England were joined together under the name of Great Britain.

**After a thousand years of battle, the final unification was rather peacefully accomplished.

The two nations had been ruled by the same king for over a hundred years, but maintained separate Parliaments, and a semblance of independence from one another...This act ended the two parliaments, creating one for the entire country, and firmly established the permanency of the united rule of the two lands.**
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1898 - Commodore George Dewey gave the command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," as an American naval force destroyed a Spanish fleet in Manila Bay.

**This battle marks the birth of the modern American Navy...It also marks a final humiliation for the once proud Spanish Navy.

Amazingly, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt sent Dewey to the East with this very intention long before the Spanish-American War began...Many have called him a war monger, but prophet of America's overseas manifest destiny would be more appropriate.**
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1945 - Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels committed suicide in his Berlin bunker.

**I wonder if Dan Rather and his 'Old Media' buddies cry on this day?...Oh well. Good riddance to dead propagandameisters.**
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1948 - North Korea proclaimed itself the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

**It's almost humorous when commie countries put either of the words 'Democratic' or 'People’s' in their names...The Koreans had the gall to put both.**
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1960 - The Soviet Union shot down an American U2 spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers, who was captured.

**The Soviet’s had been bitching about U.S. spying for years. With this event they had proof…Plus they showed the ability to shoot down one of our most advanced, high-flying planes.

A great day for the Ruskies; definitely not for the U.S.**
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1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared the country a socialist nation and abolished elections.

**Sounds like a 'People’s Democratic' Republic to me.**
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1990 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and other Kremlin leaders were jeered by thousands of people during the annual May Day parade in Red Square.

**The end of the Hell-State was coming sooner than anyone could imagine.**
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1995 - President Bill Clinton defended his choice for Surgeon General, Henry Foster, as a "pro-life, pro-choice doctor."

**I don’t know how Bubba did it, but no one should ever get away with the amount of bullshit-speak he did.**
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2003 - President G.W. Bush made a speech aboard an aircraft carrier proclaiming “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”

**Many Americans loved seeing their Commander-in-Chief fly the plane onto the carrier, and see him strut up to the microphone in his jump-suit...More importantly, the troops loved it. And they love him. As they should.

Oh by the way, he was absolutely right in declaring “major combat operations” over, because from this point on there were small, local squabbles...Costly and deadly no doubt, but the war was no longer a general engagement.

That said, Bush would have been better off skipping this stunt and his statement.**