On this day: November 21World Television Day
The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set alight, killing four (1979)
U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is...
On this day: November 20Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg (1945),
In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S....
On this day: November 19International Toilet Day
National Review publishes its first issue (1955)
Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on...
On this day: November 18George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have...
On this day: November 17
The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority") (1903)
U.S. recognizes...
On this day: November 16International Day for Tolerance
The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens (1914)
LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the...
Anyone who is a fan of Churchill know that he was a super-intelligent, deeply knowledgeable, and greatly experienced politician who was written off for higher office because he was a cranky old man,...
On this day: November 15First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva (1920)
Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial (1939)
German SS leader Heinrich...
On this day: November 14The Communist Party of Spain is founded (1921)
Jimmy Carter issues Executive order freezing all Iranian assets in the U.S. in response to the hostage crisis (1979)
A budget...
On this day: November 13Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB (1961)
Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against...
On this day: November 12Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union (1927)
The Oregon Highway Division attempts to...
To me there are three holidays. Christmas, Easter and Veterans Day. Heck I don't even celebrate my own birthday. But I ALWAYS will take Veterans Day off and go hunting.
This morning started out...
On this day: November 11Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed (1887)
In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, three American prisoners...
In this piece on Iran policy in the Wall Street Journal, Mitt Romney continues to demonstrate the steadiness, experience, maturity, and common sense that our nation desperately needs in these very...
On this day: November 10Playing against Army at Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gives what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying "Win one for...
Wow and this story continues to grow. I just published a post this morning about how silly it is to take this Bialek woman seriously. She is a young woman, had one bankruptcy when she was really...
Ok so let's get this straight. Yesterday's accuser , Bialeck, claimed bankruptcy TWICE in her life? Really? Who does that as young as she is?
So she made enough poor decisions in life to have...
Noooo... This is not about the sham Herman Cain story. This is about the rash of Sex Attacks and Violent Crime that is plaguing the OWS protests.
Once again, don't forget, these people are Barack...
On this day: November 9Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of the USSR (1917)
The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City by eight trade unions belonging to the...
HT: NRO's The Corner
It always helps to put a face to a name, even if it is a bruised and bloodied one. Here is such a face. It belongs to Bruce Fancher, a hobbyist photographer who lives “a...
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."