November 20

1497 - Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, en route to discovering a water route to India.

At the time this was a much bigger find than Columbus discovering the New World. In fact India and China were Columbus’ real goal.

The trade route to India established Portugal as one of Europe’s great powers, but its star only lasted as long as the opinion that da Gama’s discovery was more important than Columbus’ - which wasn't for very long.

1521 - Arabs attributed a shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine.

I thought the Arabs started blaming the Jews for everything after the creation of Israel (400+ years later)...So much for that piece of popular fiction.

1815 - With the Second Peace of Paris, Napoleon was involuntarily exiled to St. Helena.

This time the Brits made sure there would be no escape...How Napoleon escaped the hangman I’ll never know.

1950 - U.S. troops pushed to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria:  Korean War.

China was getting close, Truman was about to lose sphincter control, and General MacArthur was about to get fired.

We had victory in our hands, but backed off. Could we have completely destroyed the North Koreans and Chinese? Probably. Would going forward and pushing the Chinese have started WWIII? Probably not.  But, it would have resulted in an awful lot of American deaths.

I say Truman made the right decision to back off...Including not putting much thought into using our new Atomic Bombs, as well.

1959 - The United Nations issued its 'Declaration of the Rights of the Child.'

They’ve since 'unofficially' declared the 'Lack of Rights of the Unborn Child.'

1962 - President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba after the USSR agreed to remove bombers from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The good ol’ days for the Democrats, a time when they were pro-America and anti-Communist...Oh how things have changed.

1975 - An interim report by the U.S. Senate revealed the Central Intelligence Agency had plotted to kill foreign leaders, including Fidel Castro of Cuba and Patrice Lumumba of the Congo.

And this is a bad thing for what reason? Both are/were minor Stalins, and it would have been a gift to their countries (and humanity) to take them out.

1999 - A day after violent anti-American protests in Greece, President Clinton sought to heal old wounds by acknowledging the United States failed its "obligation to support democracy" when it backed the Greek's harsh military junta during the Cold War.

Hey Bill, of course our first option shouldn't be to support 'military juntas,' but our other option was Communists!!!! Which is why he was upset about our support.

October 21 (A Double)

1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar.

This is one of the greatest naval battles in world history, ending with a British victory which destroyed Napoleon's hope of invading England.

Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson was the commander of the British force, and is forever linked to the battle...Unfortunately, he was fatally wounded, but lived long enough to see the British victory.

1879 - Thomas Edison successfully tested an electric incandescent lamp with a carbonized filament at his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory. It stayed alight for over 13-hours.

The world of darkness was lit with this event...It's impossible to evaluate the importance of 'light,' but it is more than enough to make this one of the great events in world history.

1837 - General Thomas Jesup of the U.S. Army managed to win the Seminole Wars in the Florida Everglades by the use of deception. He invited Osceola to a peace conference, where Osceola and his cohorts were captured. Osceola died in jail shortly thereafter.

You know the old saying: "All's fair in love and WAR!!"...Truth is the Seminoles were doomed the day the white man was allowed to survive its first day in North America.

1944 - The first Japanese kamikaze attack took place near Leyte Island:  WWII.

The war was going very badly for the Japanese, and they were getting desperate...As such, they resorted to desperate tactics -
 tactics which accomplished little.

The importance of the Japanese using this kamikazes is they showed they wouldn't give up without a thorough ass kicking.

1971 - The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to KGB agent Pablo Neruda.

A KGB agent should never earn any award...Unless it is a Nobel Peace Prize, of course, which can go to any degenerate. Even Barack Obama.

1992 - A report prepared for the Los Angeles Police Commission found the city was unprepared to handle the rioting which broke out the previous spring.

They were unprepared because they were unwilling to gas, mace, shoot and arrest every scumbag involved in the riot...I guarantee this solution would end almost all rioting - end and stop them from occurring in the future.

1994 - The United States and North Korea signed an agreement requiring the communist nation to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.

This turned out well...Thank goodness the North Koreans always keep their word.

I'm sure the Iranians will follow suit, as well.

1997 - Reversing months of strong opposition, the Clinton administration endorsed a revised Republican bill to restructure the Internal Revenue Service and shift the burden of proof from the taxpayer to the government in court-contested cases.

What a concept.  This country was founded to defend the people against the government, and the burden of proof should always be on the accuser.

Good for President Clinton to do the right thing.

1998 - A radical environmental group, the Earth Liberation Front, claimed responsibility for fires which caused $12 million in damage at the nation's busiest ski resort in Vail, Colorado.

Every member of this group should have been charged and convicted...Instead they got a slap on the wrist.

We have lost our minds allowing the 'Enemies Within' to bend us over and do just about anything they want in the name of their radical causes.

October 10

1911 - The Chinese Revolution began with a bomb explosion and the discovery of revolutionary headquarters in Hankow.

Nationalist leader Sun Yat Sen proclaimed a republic, and began the revolution which eventually forced the abdication of the last emperor of the Manchu Dynasty - Henry Pu-Yi, 6 years old.

China had been pathetic for a long time, being a bit player in Asia and a pawn for the major Western Powers...Sun Yat Sen wasn't a communist, but his movement paved the way for the eventual communist takeover of China, and the re-emergence of China as a major player in Asia and the world - a role it has held for most of human history.

1789 - In France, Joseph Guillotine claimed the most humane way of carrying out a death sentence is decapitation by the single blow of a blade.

Guillotine was a man of good intentions, but needless to say his idea didn’t turn out as he planned. The guillotine became the favorite tool of 'The Terror' in the French Revolution, and was used for every reason except in a 'humane way.'

1845 - The U.S. Naval Academy was formally opened at Fort Severn, Annapolis, Maryland.

This great college gave birth to the most awesome navy in the history of the world. One which gives the U.S. "global reach and global power" at a moment's notice.

1935 - The League of Nations denounced the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia).

And the League did what to bring Italy in line after this denouncement? Hahahaahahaha!

The League of Nations was even more useless than it's offspring - the United Nations...Too bad it didn't die without an heir.

1995 - University of Chicago professor Robert E. Lucas won the Nobel Prize in Economics for demonstrating how people's fears and expectations can frustrate policy-makers' efforts to shape the economy.

This guy got a prize for such an obvious concept? Okie dokie.

September 14

1829 - The Peace of Adrianople: Ended the Russo-Turkish War.

The Ottoman Empire was on its death-bed and was forced to give much to the Russians.  Including:  access to the mouth of the Danube and additional territory on the Black Sea, opened the Dardanelles to all commercial vessels, granted autonomy to Serbia, promised autonomy for Greece, and allowed Russia to occupy Moldavia and Walachia until Turkey paid a large indemnity.

Needless to say, the Ottomans were falling apart, and the Russian Empire was growing in every direction...And the rest of Europe was getting very nervous about both facts.

1812 - Napoleon’s invasion of Russia reached its climax when the Grande Armee entered Moscow.

Napoleon thought he had a great victory, but entered the city only to find the enemy capital deserted and burning - set afire by the few Russians who remained...It burned until September 19 and much of it was destroyed.

The Russians went into a slash and burn defensive mode, and planned on forcing Napoleon to spend the winter in Russia, without food, winter clothing or shelter - and to the ravages of disease...Which were the eventual reasons for the Grande Armee’s downfall.

Napoleon's invasion was just one of many instances of Russian 'strategic depth' and willingness to suffer...Two of the many reasons such a backward nation has been able to keep its independence from its much more prosperous and advanced Western peer-powers.

1901 - President McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him as President.

It's a terrible event anytime a president is assassinated...Luckily, the U.S. had the right man, in the right place, at the right time in Teddy Roosevelt.

1930 - The National Socialist (Nazi) Party won a stunning election triumph, becoming the second largest party in the Reichstag (parliament).

Again, it’s important to note the Nazi’s were elected to power...Sure they used force during these elections (as did every party involved), but for the most part they were put in power by the German people.

1940 - Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.

Yet FDR had no intent of the U.S. entering WWII, or knowledge of a pending attack...Uh, huh!

1950 - On the heels of the landing at Inchon, the U.S. Eight Army and South Korean allies broke out of the Pusan Perimeter:  Korean War.

Inchon was General MacArthur’s masterpiece - his most brilliant tactical battle...There were few in the military who thought he could pull off the landing, and President Truman only gave him the go because he was afraid of the public relations nightmare of taking the general on.

MacArthur was one of the most brilliant military minds in American history, and is one of my five favorite American characters to read about, but it’s too bad he made the mistake of challenging Truman at every step in the Korean War...It was a mistake which cost him his job - deservedly.

1959 - The Soviet space probe 'Luna Two' became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.

The Soviets were the first to successfully launch a rocket at the Moon, but never put a human there.

1960 - Representatives of oil-producing countries finished a meeting in Baghdad which led to the formation of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

Congratulations to them...They will only dominate the market as long as U.S. politicians (pushed by insane EnvironMentalists) and Russian incompetence allow them to.

1983 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted, 416-0, in favor of a resolution condemning the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean jetliner on Sept. 1, calling it a "cold-blooded, barbarous attack."

Whoa, whoa, whoa!! I can’t believe there wasn’t at least one Democrat to vote against this resolution...There were no Rep. Barbara Lee’s around???

1986 - President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, appeared together on radio and television to appeal for a ''national crusade'' against drug abuse.

If we really wanted to stop 'drug abuse' we’d shut the damn southern border.

But then again that would be an answer to other 'if we really wanted to stop it' issues...You know, things like Illegal Immigration, terrorism, destruction of our health care and education systems, etc.

Unfortunately, we’ve never gotten completely serious about any of these problems.

1998 - President Bill Clinton, struggling to regain his footing from the Monica Lewinsky scandal, pledged during a speech in New York to work with America's allies to deal with the "biggest financial challenge facing the world in a half-century."

Re-read that, and skip the BlewClinsky BS.

Bill was talking about the upcoming financial problem...The one which lead to the 2000 and 2008 recessions. The same ones he and his cronies blame on Bush, even though they knew it was coming long before Bush was elected.

Bunch of duplicitous SOB's.

2005 - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed to world leaders marking the 60th anniversary of the United Nations to help restore confidence in the world body. He also said that U.N. members had failed to achieve the profound reform the global organization needed on its 60th anniversary.

Hard to restore confidence in what has always been a failed group...The sooner this entity joins the League of Nations in the dustbin of history the better.

September 5 (A Double)

1774 - The First Continental Congress convened.

The First Continental Congress of the 13 American colonies met in Philadelphia with all attending except Georgia...Many of the Founding Fathers attended, but it must be noted the intent of most was not to sever ties with Britain.

The Congress ended with criticism of British influence in North America, but no declaration of independence - which was an impossibility in the eyes of most in the Colonists and those representing them.

In fact most of the citizens were against any kind of break from England, or they were indifferent, and only about 40% were 'Patriots' at all...Plus there were many who were very against the activities of the Congress, and some chose to leave the colonies and go back to England or one of the other British possessions.

1914 - The First Battle of the Marne began:  WWI.

This battle was a major turning point in the war, and notes the first battle where the Allies were able to halt the German advance (on September 10)...The Germans were on the verge of capturing Paris, but were turned away by the Anglo-French force.

Overall there were about 2,000,000 troops in the battle, with over 500,000 casualties.

The battle also marks the end of mobile warfare in WWI. Prior to this point the Germans had been able to fight in the open, and use their superior mobility, logistics and leadership to their advantage...From here on the war became stagnant and trench warfare the standard method of battle.

1793 - The French Revolution's 'Reign of Terror' began.

The 'Terror' lasted until the Summer of 1794, and ended with the death of at least 20,000.

The official purpose of the 'Terror' was to suspended most of the democratic achievements of the Revolution, and pursue the Revolution on social matters...Unfortunately, it took on a life of its own and became a means of perpetuating itself - what often happens when zealots take over.

1905 - The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed:  Ending the Russo-Japanese War.

The Ruskies were humiliated by the Japanese, and the terms of the treaty were very favorable to Japan...As they always are for the victor.

The importance of the treaty isn't in the document, but the fact Japan was on the march towards becoming a world power...Within 35-years the world felt its strength, just as the Russians did in 1905.

1939 - The United States proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.

Too bad FDR was a politician instead of a statesman...WWII could have ended much sooner had he committed the U.S. to the war in 1939.

Luckily, once FDR got in the war he was an excellent Commander-in-Chief...Something that makes it even worse that he didn't get in in 1939.

1972 - Terror struck the Munich Olympic games in West Germany when Arab guerrillas attacked the Israeli delegation. Eleven Israelis, five guerrillas and a police officer were killed in the siege.

It was Israel's own fault! They had it coming to them!

Such was the feeling in most of the world...Sadly, this is still the case.

1987 - President Reagan urged American workers to shun protectionist legislation and "meet the competition head-on."

The U.S. is the greatest industrial nation in the history of the world, and has the ability to run laps around the international field...But we go through extended periods of apathy.

Reagan was correct, but it required hard work...Unfortunately, we have far to many American citizens who shun work of any kind. Especially hard work.

2005 - President George W. Bush nominated John Roberts to succeed William H. Rehnquist as Supreme Court Chief Justice.

Roberts is a fantastic jurist, and this nomination (along with that of Samuel Alito) may prove to be the crowning achievement of the Bush administration...Even though many were disappointed by his decision in the ObamaCare care, which I think he ruled correctly on - even though its result frustrates me to no end.

July 28

1914 - Austria declared war on Serbia, marking the start of World War I.

The First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations and the War to End All Wars...The first three of those names are reasonable, but the last one is a cruel joke.

Sadly, WWI led to over 15,000,000 civilian and battle deaths...Even more sadly, it didn’t come to a conclusive finish, and another 40,000,000+ deaths and the destruction of most of Europe and much of Asia followed in the 1930's and 1940's.

As a result, the peace treaty which ended the war was nothing more than the establishment of a ‘phony peace’ and a path towards WWII.

1588 - The Spanish Armada set sail to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I.

Two days till one of the most important naval battles in history...And it didn’t turn out well for the Grande y Felicissima Armada - "large and most fortunate fleet".

1794 - Maximilien Robespierre was guillotined. Known as 'The Incorruptible,' he launched the French Revolution's 'Reign of Terror.'

I guess this is a perfect example of the old saying: "Those who live by the sword (guillotine), die by the sword (guillotine)."

1866 - The metric system was authorized for the standardization of weights and measures throughout the United States.

I’m a traditionalist, but the metric system is so superior to the U.S. Customary Unit System...Any time a system of 10’s can be used it should, and our current system is almost impossible to memorize.

For once I will give it to the Euros - we should change 100%.

1868 - The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, establishing citizenship for American blacks and guaranteeing due process of law, was ratified.

The 14th is one of the most important Amendments, even though many question its legitimacy because it was forced on the Southern states as a prerequisite to rejoin the Union...Such are the spoils of war. The Southerners made their bed, and this was a condition of getting out of it.

Unfortunately,  much legal gymnastics has been done by the Left to pursue their radical agenda through the bastardization of this amendment.

1931 - The U.S. Congress established 'The Star-Spangled Banner' as the national anthem.

What a brilliant song:

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

I’m sure you are familiar with this portion of the song, but there are three other parts...Click here to see the lyrics, hear the tune and read a history of the Star Spangled Banner.

1943 - President Franklin Roosevelt announced the end of coffee rationing:  WWII.

Whoa!!! Can you imagine if the president did this in our time? I can already see the ACLU(seless) running wild, complaining about civil rights being trampled on.

Psychos.

1945 - The U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter.

The U.N. is the most corrupt, unethical, crooked entity in the world, and the U.S. is it's major benefactor...Which makes us guilty by association.

1995 - A jury in Union, South Carolina, rejected the death penalty for Susan Smith, sentencing her instead to life in prison for drowning her two young sons. She will be eligible for parole after 30-years.

1. This mother strapped her kids into a car, locked the doors and rolled them into a lake to die by asphyxiation due to drowning...Is there a worse way to die?

2. Senator Ted Kennedy (the Duke of Chappaquiddick Bay) did more or less the same thing (only one victim, though), but received little more than a few months probation...Mrs. Smith should have appealed to get double what Teddy got.

3. Had Susan Smith executed her children before they were born there would have been no consequences for her...So she decided to perform a post-term abortion?!?! Either way you have dead kids, but who are we to deny her the 'right to choose' to kill them?

All kidding aside, THIS PATHETIC BITCH KILLED HER CHILDREN!!! The worst crime imaginable...And she didn't even do it in a quick, 'humane' way. They suffered and had to think through their deaths and wonder why their MOMMY was doing it to them.

Susan Smith deserved the death penalty, and justice was screwed by the decision to give her life in prison - with an opportunity for parole.

Here's hoping justice is eventually served at the hands of a shank-wielding bull dyke in the pen.

July 17 (A Double)

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 Norman holdings.

This was a major event in the history of France, 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.  Which laid the foundation for the worldwide empire the U.K. became.

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 were LEADERS. Not poll takers, pretenders or resigned to seeing the U.S. taken down a few pegs.

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.

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 pretending to be a world power.

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.

1945 - President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the opening of the Potsdam Conference:  WWII.

Many look at the Potsdam Conference as a giant sell-out to the Soviets, because much of Central and Eastern Europe - including most of 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 - as well as much more of the dying - and had a legitimate claim to what they'd consolidated...Reality isn't always pretty, but it is what it is.

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 justify Clinton and Obama's wars, but not Bush's?

Bombs with (D) = Good, Bombs with (R) = Bad?

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 - which says a lot....Why the helicopters didn't shoot his ass off the freeway I'll never know.

July 14

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.

That said, it did produce a genius in the form of Napoleon Bonaparte...Unfortunately, again, this genius was the cause of much of the hell on earth created by the French Revolution.

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.

For some reason the current media was pretty good about upholding this standard during the Obama years...I wonder why.

I wonder why this wasn't true prior to or after Obama?  Hmmm?

Oh, I forgot.  Obama was 'their guy', so the perpetrators of 'Fake News' left him alone...Just as they would have if Hillary had won.

"Mainstream American news is all fake, because the major new outlets are so consistently biased towards the Left, that whether any given story they report is factual or not, their overall reportage is essentially Leftist propaganda...Now, it's not that these journalists are liars - exactly - it's that their bias skews their reporting in very specific ways." – Andrew Klavan

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.

1867 - Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite.

One of the ironies of history:  Nobel creating one of man's greatest killing tools, then created a 'peace prize' with his massive fortune.

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 Euro’s ended the war before its natural conclusion, which led to a 20-year ‘phony peace’ followed by WWII.

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.'

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.

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., Europe, etc...Ahhh, no one cares about Africa.

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 practises 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!!!!

June 20

451 - The Battle of the Catalaunian Field:  Attila the Hun was defeated by a Roman-Visigoth Army, led by Flavius Aetius Theodoric.

Also knows as the Battle of Chalons, or the Battle of the Catalun.

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.

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.

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.

1791 - King Louis XVI was caught trying to escape the French Revolution.

He didn't make it...Unless making it is hitting the bottom of the guillotine - January 1793.

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.

1960 - Flemming v. Nestor: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled workers have no legal right to Social Security, because Congress can cut or eliminate Social Security benefits at any time regardless of a worker's contributions.

Unfortunately this will eventually be forced on the people...Not by legislation, but by reality when the system self-destructs.

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 - if only our Democrat overlords would allow it.

April 20

1792 - France declared war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia, marking the start of the French Revolutionary Wars.

This began a 23-year period of Hell on the European continent...From the Revolution, to the Terror, to Napoleon's empire.

It's important to understand the Revolution didn't end with the founding of Napoleon’s reign, which is often taught in history classes...Napoleon was a son of the Revolution, and his rule was a continuation of it - even if he took it off the rails - or put it back on, depending on how you look at things.

It's also important to recognize the enormous difference between the American and French Revolutions...The American Revolution was about liberty, which created a great nation. The French Revolution was about equality, which created anarchy.

I hope you understand the difference between liberty and equality...It is not only what made these two revolutions different, but is also one of the biggest differences between Europe and the U.S. - as well as American Conservatives and Liberals.

1861 - Robert E. Lee resigned from the U.S. Army.

How was he allowed to walk away? Lincoln knew Lee was one of the U.S.'s best generals, and he also knew Lee was going to head the Confederate's Virginia forces. He should have ordered his arrest...Instead we got to fight Lee's brilliance for the next four years.

Limiting brutality and attempting decency are fine, but chivalry during a time of war is absolutely stupid.

1889 - Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria.

He didn’t have horns, but the Devil has never spawned a better son.

1902 - Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium.

Marie Curie is by far the most brilliant woman in history, and is also the most important woman of the 20th Century.

1934 - Heinrich Himmler became Head of the Prussian Secret State Police.

The 'Chicken Farmer' was getting stronger...A giant step towards becoming the second most powerful man in the Reich.

1940 - RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope.

This is a case where smaller is definitely greater. The ability to look deeper into even the smallest of items opens up the world immensely...We will never reach the infinite, but there is no reason to settle on the finite.

1976 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled federal courts could order low-cost housing for minorities in a city's white suburbs to ease racial segregation.

Which is exactly why many in the suburbs have moved out to the exurbs - blacks, whites or otherwise.

1977 - The U.S. Supreme Court said car owners could refuse to display state mottoes on license plates, such as New Hampshire's 'Live Free or Die.'

Who cares?!?!  Why the SCOTUS wastes precious time on garbage like this is beside me.

1999 - The Columbine Massacre:  Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.

What a terrible wake-up call to a nation which had put it’s children in harm’s way...It's amazing this hadn’t happened before, but not amazing it happened.

Children have been forced to grow up too fast, left alone for too long, and too many have been mentally and emotionally neglected for generations.

So who is to blame? We have no one to blame but ourselves for accepting the idiocy of Liberalism when it comes to raising children.

2010 - The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded killing 11 people.

Better known as the BP Oil Spill.

The rig sank and massive amounts of oil broke free from its casing - spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.

I'm 100% for drilling - on and off land - but the drilling companies have a responsibility to do it in the cleanest way possible...I have no doubt shortcuts are taken on a regular basis, and the companies should be forced to comply with the laws.

Luckily, the ocean has an immense capability to clean itself.  Hopefully, the world learned much from this event - morally and technologically.

March 27

30 - Jesus was condemned to be crucified by Pontius Pilate. The date, which is highly uncertain, is said to have been set down on a copper plate discovered in 1810, in the ancient city of Aquileia.

Is it the real date or not? This question has no importance, because the event and the effect of the event is what's important...Something to keep in mind for every event.

And this was an event of monumental importance - regardless of one's religious, or lack of religious, persuasion.

47 B.C. - Ptolemy XII, King of Egypt and brother of Cleopatra, drowned in the Nile, probably with an assist by Julius Caesar, who thereby made Cleopatra queen.

Cleopatra was one of the most influential and important woman in the ancient world.

She wasn’t overly beautiful, in fact she was pretty ugly by modern standards, but was a renown seducer of Rome’s most powerful leaders...Unfortunately for her and her country, she chose the wrong leader to seduce after Caesar’s death, and created a personal death-wish by attaching herself to the star of Marc Antony instead of Octavian - not that Octavian was interested.

1513 - Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida.

The Spanish were far ahead of their European peers in the New World, and the discovery of Florida gave them a head start in the conquest of North America...Luckily they didn't get far into the area of the modern-day U.S., because the areas across the globe which were ruled by Spain have proven to be a mess.

A couple questions I've long pondered:  Did the Spanish ruin these areas, or were the Spanish just unlucky to have landed in ruined areas?  Or was it Catholicism which ruined the areas?

It's an impossible question to answer, but the answer is probably the combination of Spanish Catholicism - along with the fact the Spanish conquered areas with near-Stone Age cultures.

1794 - U.S. President George Washington and Congress authorized the formation of the U.S. Navy.

Six small frigates were the original mandate, but within 150-years this pathetic little band of ships evolved into the greatest naval power in the history of the world.

1802 - The Treaty of Amiens ended the Wars of the French Revolution.

This sounds like a big event, but all it is is a starting point for the Napoleonic Wars...Which were nothing less than a continuation of the Revolution.

1933 - Japan withdrew from the League of Nations.

Four years later they began WWII by invading China.

Japanese encroachment was terribly predictable. It was also logical in the Japanese mind...Japan is such a small nation, with few natural resources, that if it was to become a great nation it had to extend to and through its neighbors.

1940 - Heinrich Himmler ordered the building of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp:  WWII.

Another big day for the ‘Chicken Farmer.’

Has any other man in history ever risen from such a low social status to affect the lives of so many? Maybe his boss (Hitler), Stalin and Mao, but after that, there haven’t been many.

1941 - The U.S. Congress authorized $7 billion in Lend-Lease aid to Russia in fighting Germany, another $6 billion on October 28 and an additional $10 billion on December 15 for Lend-Lease and U.S. armed forces:  WWII.

Of course it was the right thing to do, just as it was the right thing to help Iraq in the 1980’s against Iran...Choosing ‘strange bedfellows’ is a constant balancing act for any decent nation.  The key is to always choose the correct bedfellows.

1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became Soviet Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party.

Nikki had been the major power broker in the USSR since September 1953, but like every dictator he loved the acquisition of titles...Plus, claiming the premiership limited the opportunity of his political enemies, which were numerous.

1997 - Heaven's Gate Suicide:  39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult were found dead.

I have to admit I encourage this behavior for nuts of all kinds.

2001 - A federal judge ruled the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policy was invalid.

Of course 'Reverse Racism' is wrong...But this country has long gone away from the concept of right an wrong.

The problem is: Why should millions (like myself) be negatively affected because of the actions of those in the past? How is it my poor, pathetic, Scots-Irish ancestors did any wrongs which need to be righted in our current time?