On this day in history.

[PitPat]

1958 Bill Watterson born

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I was expecting an old 70s celebrity photo.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Just keeping you on your toes

 

[PitPat]

1348 Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death states Jews are not to blame and encourages their protection

Zionist!

 

[PitPat]

1807 French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte and Russian Tsar Alexander I meet on a raft in the middle of the Neman River and sign the first Treaty of Tilsit

Settling the Blini vs. Crepes dispute once and for all.

 

[PitPat]

1800 Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives the first cowpox vaccination in the United States to his son to prevent smallpox

Followed shortly by the creation of autism so people could blame it for something.

 

[PitPat]

1868 the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, granting citizenship and “equal protection under the laws” to anyone “born or naturalized in the United States,” including formerly enslaved people.

And everybody lived happily ever after. Thank goodness it has never been challenged.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

1807 French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte and Russian Tsar Alexander I meet on a raft in the middle of the Neman River and sign the first Treaty of Tilsit

Settling the Blini vs. Crepes dispute once and for all.

Who are these crepes?

♫Don't know much about history...♫

 

[PitPat]

1991 Boris Yeltsin is sworn in as the first elected President of the Russian Federation

Drink up!

 

[Andy_Ross]

1940 First day of the Battle of Britain begins with German attacks on Channel shipping.

 

[PitPat]

1966 TV quiz show "The Newlywed Game," hosted by Bob Eubanks, premieres in the US on ABC

Whoopie!

 

[PitPat]

1804 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr, near Weehaken, New Jersey

I am in favor of cabinet vs. VP pistol duels.

 

[PitPat]

1870 King Wilhelm I of Prussia sends the "Emser Depeche (Ems Telegram)" to Otto von Bismarck who publishes an edited version to purposely offend the French government precipitating the Franco-German War

Starting a flame war that devolved into some heavy doxxing

 

[Andy_Ross]

14th July is of course the anniversary of the storming of Bastille in 1789 however it didn't become a French national holiday until 1880. At the first parade President Grevy presented flags to the army at Longchamp racecourse.
Painting by Edouard Detaille

 

[PitPat]

1798 US Sedition Act prohibits "any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the government

Any public criticism of the act will be prosecuted under the US Sedition Act.

 

[PitPat]

180 CE - Six residents of Carthage, North Africa, are executed for being Christian, the earliest recorded instance of Christianity in the region

It got better.

 

[Ron Obvious]

180 Six residents of Carthage, North Africa, are executed for being Christian, the earliest recorded instance of Christianity in the region

It got better.

Damn, I read that as 186 residents and was going to ask what year this happened. I would understand my own confusion if it had been read aloud, but reading? Weird.

 

[PitPat]

64CE Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero

Insert "history repeats itself" joke here.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

64CE Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero

Insert "history repeats itself" joke here.

Insert "history repeats itself" joke here.

 

[Trebuchet]

1966 TV quiz show "The Newlywed Game," hosted by Bob Eubanks, premieres in the US on ABC

Whoopie!

What's the strangest place you've made whoopee?

 

[Andy_Ross]

Brian May 79 today