AD 64 - The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastaton and rages on for six days, destroying half the city (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Nero the Hero at National Museum - National Heroes Are Changing, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
1553 - The attempt to install Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England collapses after only 9 days (Source)
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1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel (Source)
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1848 - Women's Rights: A two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York (Source)
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1870 - Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia (Source)
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1916 - World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches to part of the Battle of the Somme (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
How News of the Somme Came Home, by Dr. Ian Brown [Text: 2 Samuel 18:32,33; 19:1-4]
The Battle of the Somme, by Rev. Thomas Martin [Text: John 15:13]
1964 - Vietnam War: At the rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh call for expanding the war into North Vietnam (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 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."
1969 - Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Lessons From Ted Kennedy, by Rev. Joel Pankratz
