879: POPE JOHN VIII RECOGNIZES THE DUCHY OF CROATIA UNDER DUKE BRANIMIR AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE.
How about the rubber duchy of Croatia?
1099: THE FIRST CRUSADE BEGINS.
About the time I went to sleep in World History class.
1494: SPAIN AND PORTUGAL SIGN THE TREATY OF TORDESILLAS WHICH DIVIDES THE NEW WORLD BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
Tordesillas...with beef or chicken.
1654L LOUIS XIV IS CROWNED KING OF FRANCE.
Is it my imagination or did they have a ton of King Louises?
1692: PORT ROYAL, JAMAICA, IS HIT BY A CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE IN JUST THREE MINUTES.
My egg is done.
1776: RICHARD HENRY LEE PRESENTS THE "LEE RESOLUTION" TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. THE MOTION IS SECONDED BY JOHN ADMAS AND WILL LEAD TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
All in favor?
1832: ASIAN CHOLERA REACHES QUEBEC, BROUGHT BY IRISH IMMIGRANTS, AND KILLS ABOUT 6,000 PEOPLE IN LOWER CANADA.
As the guy said in Blazing Saddles..."we don't want the Irish."
1863: DURING THE FRENCH INTERVENTION IN MEXICO, MEXICO CITY IS CAPTURED BY FRENCH TROOPS.
Ne drink pas l'eau.
1892: HOMER PLESSY IS ARRESTED FOR REFUSING TO LEAVE HIS SEAT IN THE WHITES-ONLY CAR OF A TRAIN.
A policy ultimately adopted by United Airlines.
1893: MOHANDAS GANDHI COMMITS HIS FIRST ACT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
There will be others.
1906: THE HMS LUSITANIA IS LAUNCHED FROM SCOTLAND.
Who put that target on the hull?
1917: SINGER DEAN MARTIN IS BORN.
One of my favorites.
1936: THE STEEL WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, A TRADE UNION, IS FOUNDED IN PITTSBURGH.
Where else...
1937: ACTRESS JEAN HARLOW DIES.
Waste.
1940: SINGER TOM JONES IS BORN.
How unusual.
1942: WORLD WAR II - THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY ENDS IN AMERICAN VICTORY.
And the tide turns.
1943: ACTOR KEN OSMOND IS BORN.
Hello, Mrs. Cleaver.
1947: BASEBALL STAR THURMAN MUNSON IS BORN.
And unfortunately will be given a pilot's license some years later.
1955: LUX RADIO THEATER SIGNS OFF THE AIR PERMANENTLY.
No soap, no radio.
1963: ACTRESS ZASU PITTS DIES.
Spit out.
1965: ACTRESS JUDY HOLLIDAY DIES.
Died Tomorrow.
1965: THE SUPREME COURT OF THE US HANDS DOWN ITS DECISION IN GRISWOLD VS. CONNECTICUT, EFFECTIVELY LEGALIZING THE USE OF CONTRACEPTION BY MARRIED PEOPLE.
It took that long?
1971: THE US SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS THE CONVICTION OF PAUL COHEN FOR DISTURBING THE PEACE, SETTING THE PRECEDENT THAT VULGAR WRITING IS PROTECTED UNDER THE FIRST AMENDMENT.\
Well, fuck me.
1977: 500,000,000 PEOPLE WATCH THE HIGH DAY OF THE SILVER JUBILEE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH ON TELEVISION.
Boy, what lucky advertiser bought time that day?
1982: PRISCILLA PRESLEY OPENS GRACELAND TO THE PUBLIC; THE BATHROOM WHERE ELVIS PRESLEY DIED IS KEPT OFF-LIMITS.
They did move the body, right?
2008: SPORTSCASTER JIM MCKAY DIED.
He's gone. He's all gone.
2013: A GUNMAN OPENS FIRE AT SANTA MONICA COLLEGE, KILLING SIX PEOPLE.
I remember this well. My personal trainer was late for our session.
2015: ACTOR CHRISTOPHER LEE DIES.
One of those actors who died long after I thought he did.
Dinner last night: Pepperoni pizza at the Dodger game.
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