February 20

1809 - U.S. v. Peters: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the federal government has more power than any individual state.

In our time, this opinion is pretty self-evident, but at the time it was revolutionary...Within 51-years the Southern states decided to put this ruling to the ultimate test - and lost big.

Something modern-day states might want to keep in mind when threatening to secede because they don't like the will of their fellow citizens.

1936 - Switzerland barred all Nazis from entering the country.

Except those with gold bars and artwork, of course.

1938 - Hitler demanded self-determination for Germans in Austria and Czechoslovakia with his quest for Lebensraum ('living space').

This was a nice excuse for Hitler to invade these two countries and begin the war he was hoping for...But he had no idea his European peers would drop their pants and hand these lands over to him.

Poor guy. I guess he had to attack Poland before they were willing to fight...And even at that, the Frenchies did little more than roll over like a cheap whore for Der Fuhrer.

1943 - The Battle of Kasserine Pass: WWII.  German troops of the Afrika Korps broke through the Kasserine Pass, defeating U.S. forces.

Rommel gave the Americans a pretty thorough 'ass-whoopin' at this battle, but it was an excellent tune-up for the many battles which followed. Luckily, there were very few which went this way after this point.

1997 – Lt. Kelly J. Flinn faced a court-martial on charges of adultery, conduct unbecoming an officer, failure to obey a lawful order, making a false official statement and failure to obey the Air Force regulation on fraternization.

Lt. Flinn was rightly charged, and I’m sure the Liberal Jackals had a field-day attacking this soldier...WHILE AT THE SAME TIME THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE U.S. MILITARY WAS SHOOTING HIS SEMEN ALL OVER THE OVAL OFFICE, AND 'MAKING FALSE OFFICIAL STATEMENTS' AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY!

If Clinton could do it, why couldn’t Flinn? I guess the Lieutenant didn’t have enough rank to get away with it.

Actually, the answer is the U.S. Military is a job Americans expect excellence and decency from, but Presidents, Senators and Congressmen are generally accepted to be shitheads and liars...Nice system we have.

January 19

570 (assumed date) - Mohammad, founder of Islam, was born into the Quraysh tribe in Makkah. His birthday is observed on the 12th day of Rabi ul’Awwal, the 3rd month of the lunar calendar, in a festival known as Mawlid-al-Nabi.

Mohammad brought hell to the Bedouin people of the Middle East, and his successors spread this hell throughout North Africa, most of South and Southwest Asia, Spain and Southeastern Europe...It should be noted, this 'Religion of Peace' has never been about peace, and from the very beginning has been about conquest and subjugation - which should be evident in the meaning of the word Islam:  "submission."

That said, Mohammad will go down as one of the most important people in the history of the world. Right there with Christ, Alexander, Caesar, Augustus, etc...He may end up being the most important.

1523 - In Switzerland, Ulrich Zwingli published his 67 Articles, the first manifesto of the Zurich Reformation attacking the authority of the Pope.

Zwingli was a contemporary of Luther and Calvin, and a major player in the Protestant Reformation.

1917 - The Zimmermann Note.  A coded message sent to Germany’s minister in Mexico by German Foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann, proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event war broke out between the U.S. and Germany. Intercepted by British naval intelligence, the note proposed, among other things, "We shall give generous financial support, and it is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona." The message was forwarded by the British to the U.S. State Department:  WWII.

I'm not quite sure why Germany thought Mexico would be a strong or reliable ally, but this note blew up in their face politically.

President Wilson wanted very little to do with the 'European squabble,' but to a certain extent his hand was forced by the belligerence of the Germans themselves. As far as Mexico goes, they had another plan to reclaim the areas listed in the 'Note' - They'd just flood the areas with people and reconquer them right under our noses, through the process of creating a demographic shift in the Southwest U.S.

1920 - The U.S. Senate rejected American membership in the League of Nations.

Why couldn't we have been so lucky in 1945? We should have answered the U.N. in the same fashion we did the League of Nations...With a huge 'HELL NO!!'

1922 - A geological survey indicated America's oil supply would be depleted in 20-years.

The Enviro-Idiots are nothing new.  They've been running around, stark mad, for decades...I often wonder what their real goal is, because they can’t possibly be this stupid.

If anything, it's pretty likely if we drill anywhere dinosaurs or sea life lived (which is everywhere) we'd probably eventually strike oil - or some other useful natural resource.

1974 - UCLA's men's basketball winning streak was ended by Notre Dame.

88 consecutive wins in a major men's sport - at any level - is insane!  But these UCLA teams were insanely good.

1977 - President Gerald Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose (Iva Toguri D'Aquino)

WHY?  Why wasn't this traitorous piece of garbage hung?  There was no reason to save her, and the fact she didn't die at the hands of an American executioner is a disgrace.

September 28

1066 - William, Duke of Normandy, landed at Pevensey, Sussex, and began the Norman conquest of England.

The English were about to get a rude awakening...That said, English history was about to change its path from one of being average to one of being great.

Amazingly, William’s was the last successful invasion of the British Isles. Also, in order to understand the history of Western Europe, you must understand the importance of the 'Norman Invasion.'

The Duchy of Normandy was the most powerful of all the semi-independent French lands in the 11th-12th Centuries. In 1066, William invaded and invested England, but didn’t give up his French holdings in Normandy...Which led to many future problems concerning French and English dynastic successions, because the French couldn’t accept an English monarch ruling any part of France. Nor could either country have the other making claims on its throne.

As a result, the battle over this territory was waged for centuries, and the enmity between the two lasted well into the 19th Century.

48 B.C. - After landing in Egypt, Pompey was murdered on the orders of Ptolemy.

The Egyptians knew they had to kill Pompey. Either that or be overrun and killed themselves by Julius Caesar.

FYI: I hope you know Egypt was ruled by Greeks/Macedonians (Ptolemaic Dynasty) at this time...Please understand the Ancient Egyptians disappeared a long time before this and the modern Arab Muslims were in the future.

1106 - The Battle of Tinchebrai: King Henry of England defeated his brother Robert, reuniting England and Normandy.

See 1066...This was a continuation of the Anglo-Franco-Norman problem created by William the Conqueror.

1781 - The Siege of Yorktown Heights began: American Revolutionary War.

9,000 American troops and a French fleet of 7,000 forces attacked the British in what was the final battle of the Revolutionary War...The War of Independence was almost over, but the battle of founding a new nation was only beginning.

1920 - In baseball's biggest scandal, a grand jury indicted eight players of the Chicago White Sox for throwing the 1919 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds.

"Say it ain't so, Joe! Say it ain't so."

1996 - Asteroid 1991 CS passed closer than five million miles from Earth.

Make no mistake, Earth's days are numbered...The number may be in the billions of years, or maybe in minutes, but there will definitely be an eventual end.

1997 - Swiss voters overwhelmingly endorsed their government's liberal drug policies, including the controversial state distribution of heroin to hardened addicts.

By this same logic, they should hand out guns and knifes to 'hardened' criminals...Bunch of degenerate Euros.

June 19

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.

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 at least a thousand years.

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.

1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island (in modern-day North Carolina) after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.

Thankfully the English didn't give up...It had to have gone through their minds, however.

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.

1865 - Union General Gordon Granger informed the citizens of Galveston, Texas, the slaves were freed. The celebration of this day became known as 'Juneteenth':  U.S. Civil War.

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.

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.

1917 - King George V ordered members of the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames - They took the name Windsor:  WWI.

Such things happen during war...Though I personally like the sound of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha much better than Windsor.

1940 – Hermann Goering ordered the seizure of Dutch horses, cars, buses, and ships:  WWII.

The Fat Field Marshal needed more toys...What a crack-pot.

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.

1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 survived an 83-day filibuster in the Senate.

An 83-day assault by Senate Democrats...Lets never forget this, and remind those who don’t know. Which is almost every American.

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.

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 as much prayer shouldn’t be forced on students, it shouldn’t be restricted either.