714: PEPIN OF HERSTAL, MAYOR OF THE MEROVINGIAN PALACE, DIES AT JUPILE, WHICH IS MODERN BELGIUM. HE IS SUCCEEDED BY HIS INFANT GRANDSON.
Who issued a decree and then had his diaper changed.
1431: HUNDRED YEARS WAR - HENRY VI OF ENGLAND IS CROWNED KING OF FRANCE AT NOTRE DAME.
I'm curious about the backstory on this.
1497: VASCO DA GAMA ROUNDS THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. NO ONE HAS DONE THIS BEFORE.
So good for him.
1653: OLIVER CROMWELL BECOMES LORD PROTECTOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.
Lord Protector sounds like something you would hear on Game of Thrones. By the way, I never watched that show.
1689: CONVENTION PARLIAMENT - THE DECLARATION OF RIGHT IS EMBODIED IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
Right on.
1707: THE LAST RECORDED ERUPTION OF MOUNT FUJI IN JAPAN.
So it's way overdue.
1773: BOSTON TEA PARTY - MEMBERS OF THE SONS OF LIBERTY DUMP CRATES OF TEA INTO BOSTON HARBOR.
The whole city must have smelled like one big Snapple bottle.
1826: BENJAMIN EDWARDS RIDES INTO MEXICAN-CONTROLLED NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS AND DECLARES HIMSELF RULER OF FREDONIA.
Hail, hail, Fredonia!
1899: PLAYWRIGHT NOEL COWARD IS BORN.
Private life no more.
1901: AUTHOR MARGARET MEAD IS BORN.
Her books sound boring.
1903: THE TAJ MAHAL PALACE AND TOWER HOTEL IN BOMBAY OPENS.
Attention, travel agents looking for good deals.
1907: THE AMERICAN GREAT WHITE FLEET BEGINS ITS CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE WORLD.
Today it would be known as the American Multi-Cultural Fleet.
1914: WORLD WAR I - GERMAN BATTLESHIPS UNDER FRANZ VON HIPPER BOMBARD ENGLISH PORTS.
I love that name.
1922: PRESIDENT OF POLAND GABRIEL NARUTOWICZ IS ASSASSINATED BY ELIGIUSZ NIEWIADOMSKI AT THE ZACHETA GALLERY IN WARSAW.
The poor Polish typesetter who had to put together the lettering for that newspaper headline.
1937: THEODORE COLE AND RALPH ROES ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE THE PRISON ON ALCATRAZ ISLAND. NEITHER IS EVER SEEN AGAIN.
My guess is that Roe wound up as fish food. Ha.
1938: ADOLF HITLER INSTITUTES THE CROSS OF HONOUR OF THE GERMAN MOTHER.
Sounds nice on the surface. Don't trust him.
1941: JOURNALIST LESLEY STAHL IS BORN.
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick....
1942: THE HOLOCAUST - SCHUTZSTAFFEL CHIEF HEINRICH HIMMLER ORDERS CANDIDATES FOR EXTERMINATION BE DEPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ.
Told you not to trust Hitler.
1943: TV PRODUCER STEVEN BOCHCO IS BORN.
Truth be told, I never liked Hill Street Blues.
1944: WORLD WAR II - THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE BEGINS.
For some people, it continues.
1950: KOREAN WAR - US PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN DECLARES A STATE OF EMERGENCY AFTER CHINESE TROOPS ENTER THE FIGHT IN SUPPORT OF COMMUNIST NORTH KOREA.
Send in the M*A*S*H* units.
1960: A UNITED AIRLINES PLANE COLLIDES WITH A TWA AIRCRAFT OVER STATEN ISLAND, KILLING 128 PEOPLE ON BOARD AND 6 MORE ON THE GROUND.
The way the planes fly over NY, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
1965: VIETNAM WAR - GENERAL WILLIAM WESTMORELAND SENDS US SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT MCNAMARA A REQUEST FOR 243,000 MORE MEN BY THE END OF 1966.
Yeah, that will work out well.
1978: CLEVELAND, OHIO BECOMES THE FIRST MAJOR AMERICAN CITY TO DEFAULT ON ITS FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
So what makes a depression "great?" Poor choice of words.
1980: FOUNDER OF KFC COLONEL SANDERS DIES.
I wonder if he was cremated. Make that extra crispy.
1985: PAUL CASTELLANO AND THOMAS BILOTTIE ARE SHOT DEAD ON THE ORDERS OF JOHN GOTTI.
The kind of stuff that happened on the Sopranos every season.
1995: OFFICIAL ADOPTION OF THE NAME OF "EURO."
The trash has been here all along.
1997: LILLIAN DISNEY DIES.
Walt's wife and see how interesting this is a little bit later.
1997: SINGER NICOLETTE LARSON DIES.
Lotta love going her way.
2009: BUSINESSMAN ROY DISNEY DIES.
On the same date that his aunt did.
Dinner last night: Chicken noodle soup.
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