Built over 150 years ago, the first machine gun is still influential American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand-cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis. “It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine gun which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty…
Category: On This Day in History
On This Day in History: October 31, 1517
Oct 31 Martin Luther sends his Ninety-five Theses to Albert of Brandenburg, Archbishop of Mainz, precipitating The Protestant Reformation 1517 Copy of Martin Luther’s ’95 Theses’, the Publication of which began The Protestant Reformation in Europe.
On this Day in History, October 25, 1854
The Charge of the Light Brigade Throughout the history of warfare there are recorded instances of events taking place for which no good reason can be offered. At the Battle of Balaclava, on the 25th of October 1854, during the Crimean War, such an incident took place. An incident which inspired a great poem…
On This Day in History (10-9-67): Belated Happy Dead Che Day!
Hoist A Glass! 🍻 Forgive the lapse, but as Boat Guy reminded me in Comments, today is the anniversary of the date in 1967 when sociopath commie bastard mass murderer (but I repeat myself) Ernesto “Che” Guevara performed his highest duty to mankind, by volunteering as a target for a detachment of the glorious…
On This Day in History
Srebrenica Massacre Jul 11 More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys are massacred by Bosnian Serbs after they overrun the UN ‘safe haven’ of Srebrenica on directive of Radovan Karadžić. 8,000+ Muzzahs Killed?
On this Day in History: 1916, Easter Proclamation Read Aloud in Dublin
Easter Proclamation of 1916 The 1916 Easter Proclamation of an Irish Republic was read out on 24th April by Patrick Pearce on the steps of the General Post office in Dublin. It was the beginning of a week-long attempt by Irish rebels to end British control in Ireland. Printed just the day before, the…
On This Day in History: 1861, Robert E. Lee Named Commander of Virginia Confederate Forces
Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces Damnatio Memoriae for the 21st Century?
Red Letter Dates in History
March 19th, 1775 American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts, with the “Shot Heard Round the World” fired later that day in Concord. March 19th, 1995 Timothy McVeigh sets a truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Okahoma City, killing 168. including 19 children, and injuring 500.
On This Day in History 1865: Lincoln is Shot & The South is Avenged
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War Defending Dixie’s Land: What Every American Should Know About The South And The Civil War
On This Day in History, 1861
Battle of Fort Sumter The first battle of the war took place at Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, which had been the first state to seceded the union. After a long period of shortages in the fort due to a Confederate blockade, the first crisis of Lincoln’s administration was to resupply the fort….