"Official" Lunatic the Marquis de Sade died today in 1814. (He probably enjoyed it, too!! )


Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII in 1814.


In 1823 President James Monroe outlined his famous doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere


In 1859 Abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry


The first controlled nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated at the University of Chicago today in 1942


Today in 1970 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established


Barney B. Clark became the first person to receive an artificial heart in a transplant operation carried out today in 1982


A combined Protestant and Catholic cabinet convened for the first time in Northern Ireland today in 1999.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind