1607 – Assassins sent by the Pope attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi. That’s an energetic approach to separation of church and state.

1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris. His wife shows people how to eat healthy foods and shop at Target.

1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France. “Enlightment” is supposed to fill the void that is left, dispensed by men “educated” past the need for “superstition”. It isn’t up to the task. Wasn’t then. Isn’t now. Man demands gods. And the new gods demand blood.

1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots the Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.

1914 – World War I: first aerial combat resulting in a kill. Not part of this incident, Britain’s first aerial wound results when a flight officer is shot “in the fleshy part of his rear”.

1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London, protesting about unemployment. In three years, there’s WW II and EVERYBODY goes to work.

1938 – In Nazi Germany, Jews’ passports are invalidated. A group is singled out, and rights taken, one right at a time, all perfectly legal.

1944 – Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.

1944 – Suffrage is extended to women in France. It’s amazing how free France can be with Allied armies pushing the Germans out.

1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.

1969 – The first episode of the famous comedy show Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on BBC.

1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.  2008 – the letters stay the same, but the meaning changes to Purely Biden’s Stations. Today they’re televangelists for the Left.

1982 – Tylenol products are recalled after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths. Now it takes power tools to open a medicine bottle.