1373: JULIAN OF NORWICH HAS VISIONS WHICH ARE LATER TRANSCRIBED IN HER REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE.
Is that like an older version of Fifty Shades of Gray?
1568: THE FORCES OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, ARE DEFEATED BY A CONFEDERACY OF SCOTTISH PROTESTANTS UNDER JAMES STEWART, EARL OF MORAY.
As opposed to James Stewart, Awesome Actor.
1619: DUTCH STATESMAN JOHAN VAN OLDENBARNEVELT IS EXECUTED IN THE HAGUE AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF TREASON.
With a name like that, he deserves it.
1787: CAPTAIN ARTHUR PHILLIP LEAVES PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND, WITH ELEVEN SHIPS FULL OF CONVICTS TO ESTABLISH A PENAL COLONY IN AUSTRALIA.
If you have to be in jail, there's no better place than Australia.
1846: THE UNITED STATES DECLARES WAR ON MEXICO.
This never ended, right?
1848: THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF FINLAND'S NATIONAL ANTHEM.
Don't know it. Hum a few bars, please.
1861: DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, QUEEN VICTORIA OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ISSUES A PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY WHICH RECOGNIZES THE BREAKAWAY STATES AS HAVING BELLIGERENT RIGHTS.
A good fight to stay out of.
1861: PAKISTAN'S FIRST RAILROAD OPENS.
For those four of you who actually want to travel around Pakistan.
1880: IN NEW JERSEY, THOMAS EDISON PERFORMS THE FIRST TEST OF THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY.
Take that, Pakistan.
1914: BOXER JOE LOUIS IS BORN.
Pow! Crunch! Pow! Ouch!
1917: THREE CHILDREN REPORTS THE FIRST APPARITION OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA IN PORTUGAL.
Do you see what I see?
1922: ACTRESS BEATRICE ARTHUR IS BORN.
God will get you for that.
1933: BASEBALL CATCHER JOHN ROSEBORO IS BORN.
Hit in the head with a bat wielded by Juan Marichal in 1965. Just sayin'.
1939: THE FIRST COMMERCIAL FM RADIO STATION IN THE US IS LAUNCHED IN BLOOMFIELD, CONNECTICUT. THE STATION LATER BECOMES WDRC-FM.
1939? It's a little early for them to be playing Jethro Tull.
1940: WINSTON CHURCHILL MAKES HIS "BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS, AND SWEAT" SPEECH TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Earth, Wind, and Fire were not available.
1940: QUEEN WILHELMINA OF THE NETHERLANDS FLEES HER COUNTRY TO GREAT BRITAIN AFTER THE GERMAN INVASION.
I wonder how somebody from the Netherlands would say "let's get the hell out of here."
1941: SINGER RITCHIE VALENS IS BORN.
Died at the age of 18 in a plane crash. Waste.
1948: THE KFAR ETZION MASSACRE IS COMMITTED BY ARAB IRREGULARS, THE DAY BEFORE ISRAEL DECLARES ITS INDEPENDENCE.
PS, they're all still fighting.
1950: BASEBALL LEGEND BOBBY VALENTINE IS BORN.
How he got those Mets into the 2000 World Series is still a mystery to me.
1950: MUSICIAN STEVIE WONDER IS BORN.
When he really was Little Stevie Wonder.
1954: THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY PRODUCTION OF "THE PAJAMA GAME" OPENS.
Steam heat!
1958: DURING A TRIP TO VENEZUELA, VICE PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON'S CAR IS ATTACKED BY ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATORS.
Don't hit my dog Checkers.
1958: THE TRADEMARK VELCRO IS REGISTERED.
This will stick around for a while.
1958: A GROUP OF FRENCH MILITARY OFFICERS LEAD A COUP IN ALGIERS DEMANDING THAT A GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY BE FORMED WITH CHARLES DE GAULLE AT ITS HEAD IN ORDER TO DEFEND FRENCH CONTROL OF ALGERIA.
By the way, De Gaulle had really big ears.
1960: BERKELEY STUDENTS CONGREGATE FOR THE FIRST DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST A VISIT BY THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES.
There's always some kind of nonsense on this campus.
1961: ACTOR GARY COOPER DIES.
Dead. Yup.
1969: RACE RIOTS TAKE PLACE IN MALAYSIA.
Just in case you thought this only happened in this country.
1972: WILLIE MAYS PLAYS HIS FIRST GAME FOR THE METS AFTER BEING TRADED FROM THE GIANTS.
He hit a homer in the rain if my childhood memory is correct.
1972: ACTOR DAN BLOCKER DIES.
Hoss!
1977: MOBSTER MICKEY SPILLANE DIES.
No mystery.
1980: AN F3 TORNADO HITS MICHIGAN AND PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER DECLARES IT A FEDERAL DISASTER AREA.
If anybody knows disaster areas, it would be Carter.
1981: MEHMET ALI AGCA ATTEMPTS TO ASSASSINATE POPE JOHN PAUL II IN ROME'S ST. PETER'S SQUARE.
After emergency surgery, he lasted a whole bunch longer.
1989: LARGE GROUPS OF STUDENTS OCCUPY TIANANMEN SQUARE AND BEGIN A HUNGER STRIKE.
An hour later, they were still hungry all over again.
1994: JOHNNY CARSON MAKES HIS LAST TV APPEARANCE ON THE DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW.
Still miss the hell out of him.
2013: PSYCHOLOGIST DR. JOYCE BROTHERS DIES.
You think I got problems???
2018: ACTRESS MARGOT KIDDER DIES.
Not kidding any more.
2019: ACTRESS DORIS DAY DIES.
They should have given her an Oscar while she was alive.
Dinner last night: The last of the pork tenderloin.
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