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33<\/strong> — Jesus Christ ascended back into heaven. (Possible date)<\/p>\n

1607<\/strong> \u2013- Jamestown (Virginia USA) is settled as an English colony.<\/p>\n

1643<\/strong> -\u2013 Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. (No way he was old enough to know better.)<\/p>\n

1787<\/strong> — Delegates congregate in Philadelphia. Mission: crank out the US Constitution.<\/p>\n

1796<\/strong> — Edward Jenner (a doctor, I hope) administers the first smallpox vaccination (and I doubt it was on an animal guinea pig).<\/p>\n

1804<\/strong> \u2013- The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.<\/p>\n

1897<\/strong> — Marconi makes the first communication by wireless telegraph. (I don’t know what he said. Nor do I know what his message was.)<\/p>\n

1939<\/strong> \u2013- Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.<\/p>\n

1940<\/strong> \u2013 Holland (aka the Netherlands) surrenders to Germany.<\/p>\n

1948<\/strong> \u2013 After nineteen centuries of enforced exile, the Jewish people regain their homeland when Israel is declared to be an independent state. The neighboring Arab countries “celebrate” by immediately launching military strikes.<\/p>\n

1950<\/b> \u2013 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot writes in his journal: “To believe is to act as though a thing were so. Merely saying a thing is so is no proof of my believing it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

1955<\/strong> \u2013 Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, establish the Warsaw Pact.<\/p>\n

1970<\/strong> \u2013 The US launches its Skylab space station into orbit.<\/p>\n

1975<\/strong> — The US military raids a Cambodian island and recaptures the American merchant ship Mayaguez. (I remember listening about it on the radio.) As it turned out, about 40 military men lost their lives in the operation — which freed 40 crew members of the Mayaguez.<\/p>\n

2001<\/strong> — The Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that federal law makes no exceptions for people to use marijuana for medical purposes.<\/p>\n

2008<\/strong> — The Obama Interior Department declares the polar bear a threatened species (because of the loss of Arctic sea ice — a global warming thing, no doubt).<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong> — The US inaugurates its new embassy in Jerusalem (the first country to move its embassy there from Tel Aviv).<\/p>\n

Source:<\/i> Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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