July 18

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, subdue and control their Celtic neighbors.

64 - The Great Fire of Rome began, ultimately destroying most of the great city. 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.

That said, this fire purged Rome of most of its dilapidated structures, paving the way for a rebirth of the city...A rebirth which made it grander than ever.

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.

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 the multitude of nuts running around the globe in our current time.

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.

1972 - Jane Fonda delivered an anti-war speech on Hanoi Radio, one of a series of six:  Vietnam War.

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 movies or buying her horrible exercise tapes? Too damn many.

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.

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 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!!!!

July 4 (A Double)

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.

That said, the new nation may have declared it's birth, but it took a lot of fighting to stay alive...A lot of fighting which will be required for all of time.

1863 - The Battle of Vicksburg ended (began on May 14):  U.S. Civil War.  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 convinced President Lincoln that Grant was the man to bring a conclusion to the war.

Also important to note:  Vicksburg is the largest siege battle in the history of the New World.

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.

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 life-long political enemies) died on the same day - 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 actually died before him.

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.

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.

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.'

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!

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.

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.  Sort of like the Italian invasion of Ethiopia listed above....The U.N. talked about it plenty, but actions speak much louder than words - the world's actions said they didn’t care.

May 17 (A Double)

1756 - Britain declared war on France, beginning the Seven Years War - known as the French and Indian War in North America.

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, feeding its troops, and pressing the population into service), which increased colonial discontent with the mother country...It is also where George Washington got his first real schooling in war - even though he performed miserably it was a good education.

1954 - Brown v. Topeka Board of Education: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled racially segregated public schools are inherently unequal.  Overturning the court's 1896 'Plessy v. Ferguson' ruling.

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

It is unfortunate, but it is normal...So maybe it's not unfortunate - it just is what it is.

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 largest financial market in the history of the world...For better or worse.

1809 - Napoleon annexed the Papal States.

Just another in a long line of French interference in Papal politics.

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.

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.
 
1961 - Fidel Castro offered to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers.

Such is the value of human life in communist nations.

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.

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.

2004 - In Massachusetts, same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows for the first time in the United States.

Time will tell how this affects our nation.  I can't imagine how it will be positive, but I could be wrong.

April 30 (A Triple)

1789 - George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States.

Washington was much more than the ‘right man, in the right place, at the right time’...He was probably the ONLY man who could have orchestrated the uniting of the states into a federal republic.

So, not only was he the man who led the battle to escape British rule, but he was the man who forged the Union...As such, he is 'The Great Man' in American history.

1803 - The Louisiana Purchase:  The United States more than doubled its land area after obtaining all French territory west of the Mississippi River for $15 Million.

1. Talk about a steal. This $15 million has multiplied in worth many times over...In many more ways than just economically.

2. Napoleon accepted he couldn’t invade the U.S., and would likely not be able to hold his American lands for much longer anyway.

3. The Brits were pissed at what looked like an American alliance with the French. And during America's first century the French were much more trustworthy than the Brits when it came to American sovereignty...Even if it mostly was because the French couldn't get here with much of a force.

1945 - Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.

Very few human being (maybe two or three) have ever deserved to die more than Hitler, but it would have been nice to see 'The Madman' swinging from a lamp-post like his Italian friend: Mussolini.

311 - Galerius Valerius Maximianus issued an edict legally recognizing Christians in the Roman Empire.

Legal but loathed, which was the norm in the Empire until Constantine made Christianity the preferred religion.

711 - The Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula began with the invasion of Gibraltar by Tariq ibn-Ziyad.

This conquest was rapid, and the region of Spain and Portugal was part of the Islamic Empire for over 700 years.

It's important to remember this, because Muslims believe any land which is or has been Muslim must always be Muslim...There is little doubt in my mind they will attempt to return in due-time.

1492 - Spain announced the expulsion of all Jews in its kingdom.

1563 - Jews were expelled from France by order of Charles VI.

A double for my Jewish friends...And I bet many thought it was the Germans who first practiced anti-Semitism in Europe.

I guess the Spanish and French should be commended for not exterminating them, though...Such are the low standards of decency in Euroville.

1943 - The Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews was established:  WWII.

The final resting place of approximately 50,000 Jews.
 
1961 - Fidel Castro received the Lenin-Peace Prize.

This is classic...I’m sure Fidel was thrilled with such an honor, however.

1975 - South Vietnam unconditionally surrendered to North Vietnam.

A tragedy was on the verge of unfolding, with the U.S. leaving the South Vietnamese to the whim of the North...Which led to hundreds of thousands of executions.

At least in Korea we stuck around to protect the South and saved them from the horrors of Communism, but in Vietnam we turned tail and ran...A terrible mark on our history.

1994 - 100,000 men, women and children fleeing ethnic slaughter in Rwanda crossed into neighboring Tanzania.

No one cared to stop the slaughter...The U.N. sat on its thumbs, and who knows what our illustrious president was doing with his hands at the time.

1999 - President Bill Clinton declared May 1 to be 'National Law Day.'

What in the Hell does this mean??? Especially from a man who did so much to skirt the law.

April 22

1864 - By an act of Congress, the phrase "In God We Trust" was authorized to be stamped on all U.S. coins.

This is a very important event and I’m going to use it to state the importance of the four great motto's on our dollar bills and coins...Most people think nothing of them, but they are the basis of our nation (pull out a dollar and follow along).

E Pluribus Unum = “Out of many, one”
Originally signified the union of the thirteen colonies, but has equal importance for the many people (nationalities, religions, etc) who have formed the nation...Unfortunately, modern-day Liberals have completely bastardized this motto, and have changed it from being "Out of many, one" to being 'Out of many, many.'

Novus Ordo Seclorum = “A New Order of the Ages”
America was separating itself from the Old World (particularly Europe), and an American Civilization was being established with the clear intent of being different and better than the old.

Annuit Coeptis = “Providence Has Favored Our Undertaking”
Our Civilization is blessed by God, but also given the responsibility of evolving to His liking.

In God We Trust = We trust God to look over our well-being.

I hope you understand each of these four great motto's are part and parcel, and our nation cannot continue to be great without the inclusion of each in our national makeup. In fact it is likely American Civilization will cease to exist if we deviate from these four distinctly American statements printed on every dollar bill...A path of destruction we have already started walking along.

Also, please don't read this and assume I'm a religious nutter. I'm not Christian, not Jewish, not Hindu, not Buddhist, certainly not Jihadi, nor any other established religion...I am an American who loves this great country, which was founded on Judeo-Christian principles - warts and all.

1418 – The Council of Constance ended.

This council ended the Great Schism, re-uniting the Catholic Church...I hope you understand the Schism, but if not we’ll get there on the day of the breakup.

1529 - The Treaty of Saragossa was signed, dividing Spanish and Portuguese interests in the Pacific Ocean (the Eastern Hemisphere). Portugal regained control of the Moluccas in return for compensation.

Saragossa is much less well known than its sister-treaty, the Treaty of Tordesilla (1494), but was very important at the time...History proved unkind to the Portuguese with both treaties, however.

With Tordesilla they received everything south of Brazil (which isn't much, but no one knew it at the time), and Spain everything north of it (South, Central and North America).

With Saragossa the Portuguese received a good deal, but didn’t profit much because Spain soon swallowed up Portugal itself.

1889 - At twelve noon, the U.S. government opened nearly two million acres of Oklahoma land to settlement, inaugurating a furious land rush.

The 'Boomers' were let loose...They were beaten to the punch by many 'Sooners,' however.

1915 - During the Second Battle of Ypres, German forces became the first to use poison gas on the Western Front:  WWI.

It’s shocking they didn’t use gas in WWII, but after using it in WWI they realized the danger to their own troops as well...Or, maybe they saved it all for the Jews.

1930 - The United States, Britain, France, Italy and Japan signed the London Naval Treaty, regulating submarine warfare and limited shipbuilding.

What a joke!! Each of these countries cheated, and in a few years the Germans resumed production as well.

1954 - The Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began.

It turns out McCarthy was correct when it came to much of Hollywood and the State Department (see the Venona Papers)...He overshot his mark by attacking the Army, however.

1970 - Millions of Americans concerned about the environment observed the first 'Earth Day.'

What a pathetic excuse for a bunch of beatniks to get together and smoke a 'fatty.'

1990 - Millions of Americans joined in a worldwide 20th anniversary celebration of the first Earth Day.

Wow! I bet they brought the 'Purple People Eater Bong' this time.

1993 - The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington, D.C., to honor the victims of Nazi extermination.

I’ve been there and highly recommend it for everyone. Be prepared to feel emotions you have never experienced, because the proof of pure evil is overwhelming...And no, I'm not Jewish.

Walking through a real 'boxcar' (used to transfer humans like cattle), seeing a huge box of 'children’s shoes' (slaughtered), another box of 'gold fillings' (ripped from the mouth's of the dead), the many stories handwritten by survivors, etc., etc., etc...It's a heart-wrenching museum and will move any decent human-being in unimaginable ways.

1995 - At least 2,000 refugees were massacred by Rwandan troops at a camp in Kibeho.

This was a drop in the bucket for what ended up an African Holocaust...And where was the U.N. during this time? Circle jerking, per normal!

2000 - Armed immigration agents took Elian Gonzalez from the Miami home of his relatives to reunite him with his father.

This event was one of the most Gestapo-like acts I’ve ever seen in this county. How in the world did Bill Clinton and James Reno come to the conclusion this child needed to be ripped away from his American family and returned to Cuba? Remember his mother gave her life in an attempt to get him out of Cuba, and to the U.S. as a refugee.

Decency was never one of Clinton’s strong-suits, however, and we got what we asked for by voting for a man with such pathetic character flaws.