1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. It’s important for career enhancement, sort of like Obama being ‘Christian’.

1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick. And that’d be some of my ancestors…

1788 – Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550). Let me show you it.

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1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed. Yeah, the crowd paid attention to THAT one…

1861 – American Civil War: the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.

1897 – Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.

1907 – Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan. I was in Korea in 1969-70, and Koreans STILL did not speak highly of Japan at that time.

1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes. Fifty years later in 1959, the SR-N1 hovercraft crosses in just over 2 hours, at a much lower altitude.

1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. Its role as the propaganda arm of the socialist movement has since been supplanted by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, etc.

1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio. The country is falling down around their ears. Parallels today?

1944 – Leutnant Alfred Schreiber in an ME-262 damaged a Mosquito reconnaissance aircraft which subsequently crashed upon landing at an air base in Italy. It was the first victory for a turbojet fighter aircraft in aviation history.

1956 – 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.

1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. This is very comforting to the US Army’s Berlin Brigade, surrounded by the Soviets and East Germans.

2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground, leading to the demise of supersonic commercial flight.