1500 – Pedro Cabral lands & annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz). A year later he returns to Lisbon. Based on this ‘discovery’ the Pope sees fit to divide the entire Western Hemisphere between Spain and Portugal. Britain, France and others didn’t get the letter.

1516 – Bayerische Reinheitsgebot signed in Ingolstadt. In the original text, the only ingredients that could be used in the production of beer were water, barley and hops. (Yeast hadn’t been discovered yet. It was just THERE) I see absolutely nothing wrong with this approach. I feel the same way about beans and tomatoes in chili and tomatoes in gumbo.

1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston. And today instead of teaching foreign languages in high school, we teach remedial English in college. Now we’re pulling our advanced placement classes and math requirements so that morons can get high school and college diplomas.

1910 – Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara, Turkey. It denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution. And a hundred years later, Turkey is on the verge of becoming a corrupt, religion-based dictatorship once more.

1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler’s designated successor, Hermann Göring, sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich. Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels advise Hitler that the telegram is treasonous. That’s less angst that what happened when Her Fithiness was denied her rightful place as Our President. And just wait until Biden* gets slid aside by Kneepads Harris. I can’t imagine why Biden is still *resident except that Harris is too stupid for even the Left to imagine as president.

1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, the major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces. How could there even be a war? The UN issued a resolution making Israel a nation.

1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. A British knighthood USED to mean something. Now it’s given to faggots and footballers.

1961 – The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged. Makes the Titanic look like a blazing success. Like the Titanic, she sank on her maiden voyage, however, Vasa didn’t make two miles.

1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months. (No, it’s not. It had cane sugar when it went out and when it came back, it was high fructose corn syrup. There’s a difference.)

1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province. Poor ol’ Joe needs to watch out. I’m beginning to believe that all they want out of Ol’ Joe is for him to stand vertically most of the time and make some sounds. The media will take care of the rest.