On this day:
306
Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1603
James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
1609
The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
1755
British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
1759
French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
1783
American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
1799
At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
1814
War of 1812: Battle of Lundy’s Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall’s British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown’s Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
1861
American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
1934
The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1943
World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1978
Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby” is born.
1993
Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
1994
Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
***
Police in India have arrested a man accused of running a fake embassy for illicit activities like scamming folks looking for overseas employment. The alleged grifter went to serious lengths to appear legit, like photoshopping himself next to world leaders, adorning luxury cars with fake diplomatic plates, and faking seals for a dozen different countries.
He apparently told his victims he was an ambassador for the fictional countries of Seborga and Westarctica.
***
Apparently, 7/22/25 was 1.34 milliseconds shorter than the normal 24 hours due to Earth’s rotation, making it one of the shortest days in recorded history.
***
Approximately 28,000 IRS employees have been eliminated by buyouts and layoffs through May, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The cuts will return the agency to a workforce of about 77,000, roughly where it stood before Biden supersized it.
***
A UK study suggests cooling your home by smearing yogurt on your windows.
Where would we be without these studies?
***
Is it really true that Ghislaine Maxwell has never been interviewed by federal prosecutors?
***
Pirate prospect K.onnor Griffin was ranked No. 43 on the preseason Top 100 and has had an in-season jump to No. 1. That is unprecedented.
That said, whatever happened to Termarr Johnson?
306
Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1603
James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
1609
The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
1755
British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
1759
French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
1783
American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
1799
At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
1814
War of 1812: Battle of Lundy’s Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall’s British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown’s Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
1861
American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
1934
The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1943
World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1978
Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby” is born.
1993
Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
1994
Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
***
Police in India have arrested a man accused of running a fake embassy for illicit activities like scamming folks looking for overseas employment. The alleged grifter went to serious lengths to appear legit, like photoshopping himself next to world leaders, adorning luxury cars with fake diplomatic plates, and faking seals for a dozen different countries.
He apparently told his victims he was an ambassador for the fictional countries of Seborga and Westarctica.
***
Apparently, 7/22/25 was 1.34 milliseconds shorter than the normal 24 hours due to Earth’s rotation, making it one of the shortest days in recorded history.
***
Approximately 28,000 IRS employees have been eliminated by buyouts and layoffs through May, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The cuts will return the agency to a workforce of about 77,000, roughly where it stood before Biden supersized it.
***
A UK study suggests cooling your home by smearing yogurt on your windows.
Where would we be without these studies?
***
Is it really true that Ghislaine Maxwell has never been interviewed by federal prosecutors?
***
Pirate prospect K.onnor Griffin was ranked No. 43 on the preseason Top 100 and has had an in-season jump to No. 1. That is unprecedented.
That said, whatever happened to Termarr Johnson?
***
The Night King
Communism was doomed from its inception. Adherents who sneered at the "invisible hand" saw a mysterious invisible force in history that picked its fights toward an idyllic endpoint of incentive-less, motiveless production of peace and wealth, leaving behind a path littered with the bodies of those poor souls only placed on this earth to facilitate as antagonists to communism's great march. This strange, murderous idealism violated all the laws of human reality yet staggered on, storming trenches, deracinating appropriate families, and slashing and burning the present to plant the seeds of the future. It is said that it attracted the idealist--but who could say its mayhem and murderous creed was, in any way, idealistic? No, it attracted the foolish, the embittered, the cynically ambitious, the irrational, and the overtly psychopathic, who unsurprisingly rose in its hierarchy. But eventually, after years of misery and death, the cause flagged, failed, and died.
The death of communism was perfectly predictable, and those critics who predicted it can be rightfully proud. But they must be surprised by its stubborn death throes. How many people were drafted into its horrible, morbid experiment? How many had to die to prove this was a stupid, unworkable, and unnatural pipe-dream? And what are the responsibilities of those clear-thinking observers who coolly watched this nightmare without interfering? After all, it took the Russian communist state three generations to die.
And how should those people react when confronted with communism's new iterations, like socialism and Nazism?
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