44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. He should have offered to sign off on some more pork for their states. Or cabinet posts. That would have eased things.

1776 – South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government. Also was to fire the first shot of the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War, to some…)

1819 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton. Turns out they’re BOTh right.

1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign : U.S. Navy fleet arrives at Alexandria, Louisiana. I drive through the place quite often, crossing the Re River heading north.

1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa. Now they want to vote without proof of citizenship.

1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar. It doesn’t matter to the Left. They still want him dead.

1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. Oh, I know… Let’s negotiate…

1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress “We shall overcome” while advocating the Voting Rights Act. In private conversation he tells his cronies “I’ll have those ni**ers voting Democrat for a hundred years.”

1968 – LIFE Magazine calls Jimi Hendrix “most spectacular guitarist in the world”. Yeah. Right…

1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union. Somebody had to be the last president of the Soviet Union. Kind of like Obama and the USA…

2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War, yet another brilliant diplomatic coup by the Obama administration under the tutelage of Her Filthiness.