1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.

For if our Trade may be taxed why not our Lands? Why not the Produce of our Lands & every thing we possess or make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our Charter Right to govern & tax ourselves – It strikes our British Privileges, which as we have never forfeited them, we hold in common with our Fellow Subjects who are Natives of Britain: If Taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal Representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the Character of free Subjects to the miserable State of tributary Slaves.

Today’s American bureaucracy isn’t as responsive as the Brits against whom we rebelled. Taxation without representation sucks, but so does taxation WITH the ‘representation’ we have today.

1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.

1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris. Germany kicked French butt and quite naturally Paris fell completely apart.

1895 – 200 blacks leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia where, out from under white rule, they will bring forth a utopia of fairness and opportunity. That pretty much describes Liberia today, right?

1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919). Oh, wow! The SENATE? Didn’t rubberstamp a treaty? Historians know that this treaty was the foundation for WW II, mainly because the French were MAD at having to have been rescued by the Brits and Americans, a feat they replicate again in a couple of decades.

1937 – The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children. Unodorized natural gas was used for heating. It leaked.

1931 – First electric shavers go on sale in US by Schick. I still prefer blades.

1940 – World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom, like Germany really needs help kicking French butt. No, but Italy does…

1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. Officially, an ounce of gold was $35. Now an ounce of gold is $1300+ and the Federal Government is printing dollars like it’s the end of the world. This will surely end well.

1992 – Leona Helmsley is sentenced to 4 years for tax evasion and becomes qualified for a cabinet post in a dimmocrat administration.

1992 – In a national referendum white South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favor of ending apartheid. “Please cut my throat, rape my women and steal my stuff.”

2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities. Seventeen years and thousands of American lives later, the country is still in a condition where it will slide back into chaos as soon as we leave.

2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded. Just a bit of energetic proselytizing by the Religion of Peace.