1690 – Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes first American colonial government to borrow money. They got this act down pat now… Along with that ‘taxation’ thing.

1884 – Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time. Good, but not his best.

1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize. This is before the Nobel Committee was taken over by anti-American moonbats. He’d actually been in office more than two weeks when this happened, having been president since 1901.

1907 – Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel prize for literature.

1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya. Lesson learned? Don’t move without air cover.

1948 – The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document would be used as toilet paper in 80% of the member nations of today’s UN. That is, if those countries used toilet paper…

1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. At this point the UN is years past any usefulness.

1978 – Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Because they actually achieved, you know, PEACE. At least for the time being. Obama’s “Arab Spring” brought us the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ and ISIS and they don’t honor anything.

1983 – Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín after the preceding military government is hounded out of office after the butt-kicking of the war over the Falklands with Great Britain.

1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down. Because Zaire, you know, is just a beacon of tolerance and justice now, right?

1996 – The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela. Keep an eye on south Africa and watch it descend in the kind of chaos that Africa is famous for.

2017 – New York City attempted bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator. Annnndddd… It’s muslims.