1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born.

1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States. Yeah, those people in the South, are, like, sooo backward, yahknow…

1880 – Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp. 2012 – Congress revokes the patent.

1888 – In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.

1915 – US Marines occupy Haiti. Today in Haiti this is remembered as the “Golden Age”.

1924 – Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square. Communism denies God and provides its own objects to worship.

1945 – World War II: The Red Army arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.

1967 – Apollo program: Apollo 1 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.

1973 – Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty. “Peace” comes after North Vietnam invades and subdues South Vietnam, overrunning Saigon in April of 1975. A million Vietnamese died after we “gave peace a chance”. Thousands of others fled the communists, may of them ending up in America, where they ADD to our society.

1980 – Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian caper. The rest will stay there in Iran until we get rid of the bumbling buffoon Jimmy Carter and get a REAL American president.

1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second and third degree burns on his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium. Around the same time, comedian Richard Pryor sets himself alight while free-basing cocaine, giving rise to what one of my co-workers sensitively named “The Ignited Negro College Fund, because a mind is a terrible thing to baste.”

1996 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup. That’s more democracy than most of sub-Saharan Africa sees.

2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana’a. What yemen has today is MUCH better, right? Obama’s foreign policy was almost literally ‘the bomb’.