1492 – The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista. Once freed of the expenses of fighting off the Moslems, they can devote energies to something else, like discovering the New World, resulting in…

1494 – The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola. Nasty ol’ oppressors went on to eradicate the peaceful religions of the Native Americans that involved quaint customs like human sacrifice.

1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.

1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address. There’s a fifth freedpm implied in the speech, the freedom for the government to dip into my pocket to finance that ‘freedom from want’.

1974 – In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. And I can cut a foot off the foot of my bed and add it to the head and it gets LONGER!

1975 – “Wheel Of Fortune,” (AKA “Jeopardy for Dumba**es” ) debuts on NBC-tv

1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan. In an unrelated incident, two competing male figure skaters get into a big slap-fight over mascara.