1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem (Source)
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1378 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism (Source)
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1854 - Crimean War: British and French troops defeat Russians at the Battle of Alma (Source)
Recommended drama:
Florence Nightingale, by BJU Students and Faculty
1973 - Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana (Source)
Recommended podcast:
The Coming Death of Just About All Rock and Roll Legends, by Dr. Paul J. Dean, Jr
1977 - Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations (Source)
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 Kennedy 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."
2011 - The United State military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time (Source)
Recommended sermons:
A Biblical Response to the Supreme Court Decision, by Dr. David P. Murray (2015)
