1789 – The U.S. War Department first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. today, the Department of Agriculture has a bigger standing army. Or most medium-sized cities.

1916 – John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire. Oil!

1936 – Radio used for first time for a presidential campaign. Obama loyalists try to get the ads pulled.

1938 – Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier & Chamberlain. “If we give them a little of what they want, they will think we’re nice people and stop doing mean things.”

1942 – French government of De Gaulle cancels Agreement of Munich. The REAL French government, still actually IN actually in FRANCE, is collaborating its butt off. That 1938 agreement in Munich wasn’t worth the paper it was written on. Of course, from the safety of England, neither is the De Gaulle government…

1960 – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts. Obama shows up and members erupt in giggling fits.

1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced, features in many an episode of “Hold mah beer an’ watch this!”

1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world’s first black-owned-and-operated television station, helping lift Detroit to its current position as a jewel in America’s tiara.

1991 – Military coup in Haiti. Still having trouble with that whole ‘election’ thing…

2013 – Over 42 people are killed by members of radical Baptist Muslim group Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria.