AD 70 – Titus and his Roman legions, Fulminata, Fretensis, Apollinaris and Macedonica breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.

1829 – The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. And I’m thinking that calling yourself the commander of HMS Pickle would be a good way to get an audition with the Village People.

1837 – Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas. It’s named after Sam Houston, hero of the Texas Republic. The name is more melodious than the previous name for the area, “Huge, fetid, hot, humid, mosquito-infested swamp”.

1944 – On the eve of the Normandy invasion, German Fieldmarshal Rommel goes on vacation. I’ve timed vacations similarly.

1947 – Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.

1963 – British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair. Thirty years later the same sort of activity is practically a requirement in dimmocrat politics at the national level in the USA.

1965 – Showing America’s continued prominence in the realms of good taste in music, “Woolly Bully” by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs hits #2 on the pop charts.

Compared to rap, though, this stuff is freakin’ Beethoven!

1967 – Six-Day War begins: The Israeli Air Force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, hangs out sign: “Ass-kicking in Progress”.

1968 – U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day. Some of that ‘religion of peace’ at work. Sirhan believed he was deliberately betrayed by Kennedy’s support for Israel in the June 1967 Six-Day War. Imagine! A dimmocrat presidential candidate supporting Israel. But things were different back then. You could be a dimmocrat candidate and still have a brain.

1977 – The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale, 4 KILOBYTES (1/250,000th of a gigabyte) of RAM, a 1-megahertz processor, and NO disk drive, for ONLY $1298.00.

1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five people in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS. This was when ‘AIDS prevention’ meant sitting on your butt and keeping your mouth shut.

2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history. One of my former employers made MILLIONS restoring power to buildings flooded by this storm.