1629 - Charles I dissolves the Parliament of England, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
I think it was Oliver Cromwell who said:
"You need not hope in order to undertake, and you need not succeed in order to persevere." The following sermons and podcasts are on Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War:
1762 - French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities, the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
1922 - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation (Source)
From Mere Morality: What God Expects from Ordinary Christians:
"Ghandi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. the only way out is forgiveness."
Recommended podcast:
Why Christ Excels Gandhi, Muhammad, and Darwin, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
1970 Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with my Lai war crimes (Source)
Recommended videos of Vietnam Prisoner of War:
Captain Gerald Coffee - Prisoner of War: His Story, Part 1
Captain Gerald Coffee - Prisoner of War: His Story, Part 2
The following book should be required reading before anyone is allowed to vote in the 2020 election:
Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, by Ann Coulter
Here is what Ann Coulter has to say about the Vietnam War:
"Vietnam is the Left's favorite war because America lost."
"Historical accounts of the Vietnam War are incomprehensible because liberals refuse to admit the failure of their national security strategy. The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars."
"In the great Democratic tradition of taking the nation to war without a plan to win, only the Democrats could have produced Vietnam."
"President Lyndon Johnson, who inherited the war when Kenedy was assassinated, viewed the Vietnam War as a method of proving the Democrats could be trusted with foreign policy, which they cannot."
"Nixon had been elected in part based on his promise to end the war honorably. He would have done so, too, but for Democrats in Congress,"
"A Republican President either wouldn't have started that war, or would have won it pretty fast."
