1634 – Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston.

1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.

1791 – First internal revenue act, taxing distilled spirits & carriages.

1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise. This is about which territories can have slaves.

1835 – Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans, Louisiana. Now they dump a mint into New Orleans, Louisiana.

1836 – Texans celebrate the first Texas Independence Day with the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence, officially broke Texas from Mexico, and creating the Republic of Texas. And when Texas declares it’s independence THIS time, I’m gonna be there.

1843 – Congress appropriates $30,000 “to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs” by the United States. Today Congress is authorizing billions to research the efficacy of replacing fossil fuel powerplants with unicorn farts and rainbows.

1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. They wanted the right to SELL opium in China.

1875 – During a brawl on ice, the first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey broke out and was played played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.

1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time. Seventy years later it pushed out Pravda as the mouthpiece of socialism.

1924 – The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk. And now the dream of the Islamic world is to bring back the Caliphate.

1931 – The United States officially adopts “The Star-Spangled Banner” as its national anthem, soon to be replaced by “Kumbaya”.

1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers AFTER he’d led them on a 100 MPH car chase because he didn’t want to get a DUI which would have vacated his parole for his prior robbery conviction.