1096: DURING THE PEOPLE'S CRUSADE, THE TURKISH ARMY SUCCESSFULLY FIGHT OFF THE PEOPLE'S ARMY OF THE WEST.
Rhetorical question: was there a People's Army of the East?
1097: FIRST CRUSADE - CRUSADERS LED BY GODFREY OF BOUILLION BEGIN THE SIEGE OF ANTIOCH.
Against Bouillion, the enemy was really in the soup.
1520: FERDINAND MAGELLAN DISCOVERS A STRAIT NOW KNOWN AS STRAIT OF MAGELLAN.
Well, that was easy to name.
1774: FIRST DISPLAY OF THE WORD "LIBERTY" ON A FLAG, RAISED BY COLONISTS IN MASSACHUSETTS.
...and justice for all.
1797: IN BOSTON HARBOR, THE 44-GUN US NAVY FRIGATE USS CONSTITUTION IS LAUNCHED.
I always love the word "frigate."
1824: JOSEPH ASPDIN PATENTS PORTLAND CEMENT.
A national holiday declared by the Mafia.
1833: ALFRED NOBEL IS BORN.
He invented dynamite and that stupid award.
1854: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND 38 NURSES ARE SENT TO THE CRIMEAN WAR.
I wonder how many of them were cute. And wearing squeaky shoes.
1861: THE CIVIL WAR - UNION FORCES UNDER COLONEL EDWARD BAKER ARE DEFEATED BY CONFEDERATE TROOPS IN THE SECOND MAJOR BATTLE OF THE WAR.
Back when they were not shy about raising that flag.
1879: THOMAS EDISON INVENTS A WORKABLE ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB.
Good. Now he could see the other things he was inventing.
1902: IN THE US, A FIVE-MONTH STRIKE BY UNITED MINE WORKERS ENDS.
Dig they now must.
1921: PRESIDENT WARREN G. HARDING DELIVERS THE FIRST SPEECH BY A SITTING US PRESIDENT AGAINST LYNCHING IN THE DEEP SOUTH.
He was sitting because he wanted to. FDR was sitting because he had to.
1921: "THE SHEIK" STARRING RUDOLPH VALENTINO PREMIERES.
And women swoon all over America.
1924: ACTRESS JOYCE RANDOLPH IS BORN.
I met her once. Nice lady.
1928: BASEBALL STAR WHITEY FORD IS BORN.
I met him once. Dirt bag.
1940: ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S NOVEL "FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS" IS PUBLISHED.
It tolls for thee.
1942: JUDGE JUDY SHEINDLIN IS BORN.
Boy, I wish there were nine of her on the US Supreme Court.
1945: WOMEN ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE IN FRANCE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
Viva La France.
1959: US PRESIDENT DWIGHT EISENHOWER SIGNS AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TRANSFERRING WERNHER VON BRAUN AND OTHER GERMAN SCIENTISTS FROM THE US ARMY TO NASA.
Outer space, here we come.
1959: IN NEW YORK CITY, THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM OPENS TO THE PUBLIC.
Yeah, that round looking building.
1967: VIETNAM WAR - MORE THAN 100,000 PROTESTERS GATHER IN WASHINGTON, DC. A PEACEFUL RALLY IS HELD AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL.
As opposed to the thousand other non-peaceful rallies that will happen over the next five years.
1969: POET JACK KEROUAC DIES.
On the road no more.
1973: JOHN PAUL GETTY III'S EAR IS CUT OFF BY HIS KIDNAPPERS AND MAILED TO A NEWSPAPER IN ROME. IT DOESN'T ARRIVE UNTIL NOVEMBER 8.
Forget the ear. That's some shitty mail service.
1973: FRED DRYER OF THE LA RAMS BECOMES THE FIRST PLAYER IN NFL HISTORY TO SCORE TWO SAFETIES IN THE SAME GAME.
Seems odd that it took that long.
1979: MOSHE DAYAN RESIGNS FROM THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT BECAUSE OF DISAGREEMENTS OVER POLICY TOWARDS THE ARABS.
Moshe Dayan: "Are they coming on the left?"
1983: BASEBALL PITCHER ZACK GREINKE IS BORN.
He had a phenomenal season for the Dodgers this year.
1984: FILM DIRECTOR FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT DIES.
Truly that was the Last Metro.
1992: LAWYER JIM GARRISON DIES.
Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left.
2003: ACTOR FRED "RERUN" BERRY DIES.
No longer happening.
2012: POLITICIAN GEORGE MCGOVERN DIES.
And he thought he lost big in 1972.
2013: RECORD SMOG CLOSES THE CITY OF HARBIN, CHINA.
Doesn't say much about the emission controls over there.
Dinner last night: Leftover sausage and peppers.
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