1797 – The Last Invasion Of Great Britain – A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists, resulting in a French unconditional surrender.

1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales.

1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto. You’ll find it on obama’s bookshelf in place of the Bible and the Constitution.

1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut, with 50 entries.

1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins. Before the battle ends in December, 300,000 men from both sides will lie dead in the mud. Another half million were wounded.

1945 – World War II: At Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga. This is the last American carrier sunk in WW II.

1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first “instant camera”, the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.

1948 – NASCAR is incorporated. That’s National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, and folks, if those are ‘stock’, then I’m Katerina, Tsarina of All the Russias. I propose that each team be given $40,000, told to go to a dealer in small-town America, buy any car with a production run of more than 50,000 units, then go to the track and race THAT!

1960 – Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba. American Leftists start taking notes, thinking this is a Good Idea.

1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam. This is the exactly same way dissenting points of view are handled in Mother Africa.

1972 – President Richard Nixon visits the People’s Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations. Truman stopped MacArthur from atomically normalizing them back to the Stone Age in 1950, a dimmocrat president insuring that yet another population stays enslaved for generations.

1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon, his success thereby opening the floodgates as today, dozens of passenger balloons trek across the Pacific daily.