1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace spreading the gospel of the Religion of Peace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city. “Religion of Peace”, yeah… Never was before. Isn’t now.
1817 – First coffee planted in Kona, Hawaii. Hawaiian Kona is still a GREAT coffee. Visit Smith Farms if you want to try some REAL Kona, and don’t get fooled by ‘Kona Blend’ from anywhere.
1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest. 29,670 square miles for $10 million. Bought it fair and square. Bite that, Aztlan!
1854 – Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co., first oil company in the US is incorporated in NYC. “Rock Oil” = “petroleum”.
1906 – The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan. Ambitious title, but “all India” didn’t want to be Muslim, not that such feelings have any bearing to radical Muslims…
1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed. That’s good for about seventy years… And the murders of several million of its own people.
1953 – The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA. “NTSC” stands of “Never The Same Color”. And $1175 was a year’s worth of minimum wage in 1953. Those old color TV’s were finicky and twiddly and a good living could be made servicing them.
1959 – USS George Washington, world’s first ballistic missile sub commissioned, resulting in numerous pants being shat in the Kremlin.
1980 – “Wonderful World of Disney,” last performance on NBC-TV , back when Disney was still VERY patriotic (you old f*rts remember “The Sons of Liberty”?) and very pro-science. Not like today when it’s very “let’s promote a few kiddie acts to the pre-pubescent girl crowd and make lots of money”.
1987 – Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe. He stepped down this year. Under his august leadership Zimbabwe is almost gone, just like America was doing under that Kenyan, Obama.
2006 – Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging. “Justice” would have had him fed into a shredder, feet first.
2009 – The last roll of Kodachrome film is developed by Dwayne’s Photo, the only remaining Kodachrome processor at the time, concluding the film’s 74-year run as a photography icon. “Camera film” goes the way of “Dialing a phone”… And people will have to do research to see what the words to that song mean…
2013 – More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Politics as usual in the Congo.
1066 – One “One World Government” killing off another “One World Government” crowd? What’s not to like? After all, the tribe helped Lenin and Stalin murder 50 million. To the best of my knowledge, the ragheads aren’t there yet. Of course, Mousey Tongue got his 100 million all on his own.
1922 – See 1066 above.
2006 – And that shredder should be the same fate for every employee of the FBI and the DoJ and the CIA and the NSA and every member of Five Eyes. So you say Cankles’ e-mail server got some CIA employees killed? GOOD!!!
2009 – And then there’s this:
https://petapixel.com/2016/08/19/film-photography-making-stunning-comeback/
Went thru many a roll of kodachrome back when you had to get it right in the viewfinder, not the editing program. i suspect if i dig deep enough, ill find a complete darkroom setup in my basement….
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I used to develope B&W at the rec center when I was in the Army. Never ventured into doing color.
MC
1817 – First coffee planted in Kona, Hawaii. Hawaiian Kona is still a GREAT coffee. Visit Smith Farms if you want to try some REAL Kona, and don’t get fooled by ‘Kona Blend’ from anywhere.
Will not drink Kona coffee. It gives me headaches.