1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a “Definitive Treaty of Peace” between France and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. That makes you wonder about that whole “Waterloo” thing in 1815. Who was Britain fighting? The Belgians???

1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. Now you can enroll in a CATHOLIC university and create a national furor by demanding muzzy prayer space and demand that crucifixes be removed because that create a hostile environment for unbelievers and everybody’s okay with it. We’re just sooooo tolerant, right?

1894 – Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.

1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.

1949 – The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivization by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union. Wait until they start balancing out the flyover states to bring them into line with Washington.

1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew. This a perfectly normal method of succession in many Muslim countries.

1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

1996 – The European Union’s Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy). And I thought “Mad Cow Disease” was the Hillary (Haauuugghhhh! Spit!) Clinton campaign theme. I was wrong, though. It was actually the operative underpinning of the Michele Obama role as First ‘Lady’. Nope! It’s back as Hillary Clinton’s campaign theme! Now it’s Hillary Clinton’s sole reason for existence.