1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the “invincible” Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Gives the Germans something to march under when they conquer the country…
1901 – The Socialist Party of America founded. Its positions have since been co-opted by the dimmocrat party.
1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement.
1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established, providing yet another featherbed for international bureaucrats at the UN.
1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). And it’s eleven years to the moon.
1965 – Vietnam War: the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. Dimmocrat L.B. (Lyin’ B*stard) Johnson is in the White House.
I did not realize just how bad a bastard L B J was until I read on his own library web page that he prolonged the war so that his wife’s shipping company could continue to make huge profits from shipping all the supplies that went to Vietnam. They both should have been shot along with Hanoi Jane.