"He who forgets history is doomed (or condemned) to repeat it"
George Santayana
April 24th
1061 Haley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed (oops)
1867 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond VA streetcars( this would take a while).
1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
1954 1st American, "civilian pilot" (CIA), P R Holden, wounded in Indochina (this would ultimately not end well, eleven years later on the roof of the US Embassy in Siagon).
1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs (some say this sealed his fate in Dallas).
1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to the rumors he is dead (oops, still with us).
1980 US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die (not a shining moment).
1981 IBM-PC computer introduced (world hasn't been the same since).
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