1520 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish. The Spanish objected to the quaint custom of the peace-loving Aztecs of sacrificing a few    hundreds thousands of living humans in the celebration of their feast.

1812 – Action of 22 May 1812: A small French two-frigate squadron comprising Ariane and Andromaque, returning from a commerce raiding campaign in the Atlantic, meets the 74-gun HMS Northumberland while trying the slip to Lorient through the British blockade. Score? Britain 2, France 0.

1819 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20. Even though the majority of the trip was under sail, the baby seals begin to cry.

1900 – The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative. Now they’re a propaganda mouthpiece for the Left.

1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.

1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel. Italy signs in crayon…

1942 – World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor. Back when you could still be a celebrity AND a patriot…

1955 – Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th, runs entire course with wrong blinker on and seatbelt hanging out the door…

1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an “end to poverty and racial injustice” in America. Yeah, that’s worked REAL well. Any farmer knows that if you feed the weeds, you get more weeds. Johnson feeds the dimmocrat voters, makes welfare and illegitimacy common predominant lifestyle choices.

1967 – Engaging in a big game of FAFO, Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.

1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

1980 – Namco releases the highly influential video game Pacman. “Pacman fever” sweeps the nation. I make a pretty good pile of spending money repairing arcade games as a sideline to my ‘day job’ as an industrial electrician.

1990 – The Windows 3.0 operating system is released by Microsoft. Apple’s Mac users snort derisively.

1992 – After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time. I have fond memories of watching Johnny Carson’s nightly monologue with Dad before he left for graveyard shift at the refinery.

1994 – A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country’s ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. That’s like boycotting the whacked-out homeless guy because he shits on the sidewalk.

2011– An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing 161 people, the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.

2012 – SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.

2017 – Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. It’s just some followers of The Religion of Peace™ sharing the joys of their religion.

996 AD – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. He was more qualified for this than Hillary Clinton was to be Secretary of State.

1703 – Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel. First Amendment, anyone?

1871 – Fresh from a world-class butt-kicking at the hands of the Germans, French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of “Bloody Week” some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested. Most of France’s greatest military victories in the last two hundred years have been against themselves.

1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He’s the second man killed by the fourteen-pound lump of plutonium.

1996 – The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed in Algeria by the peaceful followers of the Pedophile Prophet Mohammed following the conversion procedures outlined in their teachings and history.

2017 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. You could see more than their freak show any evening at WalMart.

794 – While visiting the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia is taken captive and beheaded. The pathway in pursuit of The Great Bearded Clam is often frought with danger.

1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India. This was important because muslims controlled all the overland routes.

1609 – Shakespeare’s sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe. “Hey, buddy! Wanna buy some nasty poems?”

1639 – Dorchester, Massachusetts forms first school funded by local taxes.

1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution. The government giveth, and the government taketh away. You can look at the French Revolution and the years following – this is what an ascendant Left will be like.

1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. They sell for $13.50 per dozen.

1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people, widely attributed to global warming.

1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope. Popcorn and a drink cost more than the movie.

1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street. Nowadays traffic fines are an important revenue stream for many cities and counties. It’s also big business as companies install and administer red light and speeding cameras and pocket a percentage of the take. The local government gets a steady revenue stream for essentially no effort.

1927 – At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day. He would’ve taken off three hours sooner, but TSA was giving him the “Glove Job”.

1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day with her left turn signal still blinking.

1956 – In Operation Redwing, (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over in the general vicinity of Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, a mere 3.8 megatons… Bang! And they missed the target by four miles. With 3+ megatons, that’s close enough.

1967 – The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The party wasn’t that popular and the Congo was neither democratic nor a republic. Still isn’t.

1985 – Israel exchanges 1,100+ Arab prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers. Incidentally, that’s about how many Israeli soldiers it takes to STOP a thousand Arabs.

1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

1990 – Hubble Space Telescope sends its first photographs from space.

1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. After lengthy recounts, Joe Biden declares victory.

1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest. For all that, she’s still half the genes for one of Britain’s greatest rulers, Queen Elizabeth I.

1848 – Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for $15 million. We kicked their butts and THEN we still paid them for the land.

Q:  What’s the difference between Texas and a sh*tpile?

A:  The Rio Grande River. (For the time being.  The Obama administration almost fixed this, too. *Biden doubled down)

1921 – The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration. Today? Who cares, as long as they work cheap and vote dimmocrat. On second thought, forget that “work” thing.

1921 – The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration. How quaint!

1941 – German battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland for her first and only combat sortie. Kind of like an ballistic version of Titanic.

1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe’s rendition of Happy Birthday. JFK was doing Marilyn Monroe. Bill Clinton was doing Monica Lewinsky. Obama LIVED with MichaelMoochelle. *Biden sniffs little girls. Tell me that the dimmocrat party hasn’t gone downhill.

2024 – A helicopter crash in Iran leaves 8 people dead, including the country’s president Ebrahim Raisi & foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. “Crash”. Sure!

332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. “He that robs Peter to pay Paul can be assured of Paul’s support.”

1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India, the first European recorded to have done so.

1756 – The Seven Years’ War begins when Great Britain declares war on France. We know it as The French and Indian War.

1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate. In less than two decades, France has gone from monarchy through a revolution to a republic and now they have an emperor. Way to go there, Gaston!

1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Vicksburg begins.

1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate but equal is constitutional. This is not the only time the Supreme Court had to later change a ruling. They are NOT infallible. And now many on the Left are clamoring to bring ‘separate but equal’ back under the guise of ‘safe spaces’. No, actually what they’re shooting for is ‘separate but BETTER’ because of slavery ‘n’ shit.

1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California. She was sort of the Jim Bakker of her day.

1927 – The Bath School disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan. Massive school killings are not a particularly modern phenomenon.

1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.

1958 – An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h). The “G” model gained a reputation as a high-speed lawn dart in fighter-bomber service in the Luftwaffe.

1974 – Nuclear test: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so. Multiple pants are shat in Pakistan.

1980 – 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage. global warming widely accepted as the cause.

1994 – Israeli troops finish retreating from the Gaza Strip after occupying it, giving the area to the Palestine to govern. Freed of the Israeli overlords, the Palestinians turn their energies into making the deserts bloom again as peace and prosperity reign. Right?!?

1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate, a decade after they cut the head off the previous monarch because the government was controlled by a single person with god-like powers but this time it’s different because he’s OUR person with god-like power. Terribly clever, those French. And a decade later, ol’ Nappy’s in exile and the french have themselves a king again.

1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form the Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway. The name “quisling” becomes an epithet for any person with a collaborative or anti-patriotic stance. Today in America we call that the dimmocrat party and a broad selection of RINOs.

1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium. Brussels is like the training version of Paris – no tower, etc., but good enough streets to give your soldiers time to polish up for the big parade through the real thing in Paris later.

1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools. Now it seems to be coming back under the guise of creating ‘safe spaces’ for down-trodden groups.

1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends. Less than two decades later, refugees from Vietnam have to escape in boats as the United States “gives peace a chance” and the country is taken over by Communists.

1967 – Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt. He doesn’t want the UN in the way when victorious Egyptian columns roll into Israel. This is prelude to the administration of the greatest kicking of Egyptian ass since the Red Sea closed behind Moses.

1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate. Today we have dimmocrat fingerprints all over a faked-up case against Trump, etc., and from the media? Crickets…

1974 – Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army‘s headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall. Hah! Some ‘army’ they were. Twenty members at the peak of their delusions, led by a ‘general field marshal’.

1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases. They’re working out the details for pedophilia now, waiting for the OK from China.

1995 – Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego. He’s a copycat. In 1973, after his arrest and return to my company, a drunk soldier stole a tank from my motor pool at Fort Knox, destroyed a PX and then drove it into and out of the post MP station. (Both were brick buildings, similar-looking) It was a brand new tank, and they don’t ship with a lot of fuel, so he ran out of fuel while still on post. He was headed for Louisville. My next door neighbor was one of the MP’s who apprehended him. If you start digging, stealing tanks has happened quite a few times.

1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo which goes on to become a beacon of justice, prosperity and fairness in a continent known for pushing civilization forward.