1598 - William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers' Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers' Register licenced printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Shakespeare As a Christian Playwrite, by Peter Leithart
Should You Teach the Classics to Your Kids? by Pastor Kevin Swanson
1937 - New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Democrats Moving Farther Left - Worst Presidents: Lincoln, Roosevelt, Wilson, et. al. by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Teddy Roosevelt, Helen Keller Pro-Eugenics - Caught Up in the Zeitgeist, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
1976 - Japan completes its last reparation to the Phillippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Christian Nations - Least Racist Nations - Reparations for Previous Sins, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
A Dangerous Sort of Patriotism - Is Exposing War Crimes Disloyal? by John Pittman Hey [Text: Jeremiah 38:1-6, John 15:22-25]
Note: How about paying reparations to future generations who are going to have to live with the massive debt we're leaving them? (See state debts, and national debt, and unfunded liabilities).
But I can see that a case could be made for paying reparations for past atrocities committed by Americans. Here is a short excerpt from Howard Zinn's The Twentieth Century (referring to the Spanish-American war):
"A volunteer from this state of Washington wrote: 'Our fighting blood was up, and we all wanted to kill 'niggers.' ...This shooting human beings beats rabbit hunting all to pieces.' It was a time of intense racism in the United States. In the years between 1889 and 1903, on the average, every week, two Nigroes were lynched by mobs-hanged, burned, mutilated. The Filipinos were brown-skinned and strange looking to Americans...Our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children prisoners and captives. Active insurgents and suspected people from lads ten up, the idea prevailing that the Philippino as such was little better than a dog..."
