14<\/b> — Augustus died.<\/p>\n
1692<\/b> — For five people, the witch hunt ends in Salem, MA.<\/p>\n
1812<\/b> — The Constitution<\/i> defeats her adversary.<\/p>\n
1848<\/b> — Rush tops the news on the East Coast.<\/p>\n
1902<\/b> — The author of Fleas<\/i> was born. I think.<\/p>\n
1919<\/b> — Afghanistan gains full independence from the Mother Country.<\/p>\n
1934<\/b> — The creation of the position F\u00fchrer is allegedly approved by the German electorate with allegedly 89.9% of the allegedly-popular vote.<\/p>\n
1943<\/b> — President Thompson was born. (Sorry, folks, the crystal ball malfunctioned.)<\/p>\n
1945<\/b> — Ho Chi Minh takes power in Hanoi.<\/p>\n
1946<\/b> — President Clinton was born, but he wasn’t called that yet (unless it was by God).<\/p>\n
1948<\/b> — Al Gore’s other half was born. She wasn’t called Mrs. Gore then. Nor Tipper.<\/p>\n
1953<\/b> — The Iranian military (or was it the CIA? Or both? Or neither?) overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran.<\/p>\n
1989<\/b> -\u2013 Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist Prime Minister in 42 years.<\/p>\n
1991<\/b> — Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Crimea. There goes the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
2005<\/b> — The first-ever Russian-Chinese joint military exercise begins. They called it Peace Mission 2005. They forgot to include People’s<\/i> in there somewhere.<\/p>\n
2009<\/b> — A series of blasts in Baghadad kills at least 75 and wounds at least 300.<\/p>\n
So there you are. Enjoy National Aviation Day while you’re at it. Stimulate the economy; buy an airplane.<\/b><\/p>\n
Most of this I first posted at WorldMagBlog a few minutes ago.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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