History for July 18

History for July 18 - On-This-Day.com
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811, Vidkum Quisling 1887, Richard "Red" Skelton 1913


John Glenn 1921 - Astronaut, Hunter S. Thompson 1937, Martha Reeves (Martha and the Vandellas) 1941


0064 - The Great Fire of Rome began.


1789 - Robespierre, a deputy from Arras, France, decided to back the French Revolution.


1914 - Six planes of the U.S. Army helped to form an aviation division called the Signal Corps.


1932 - The U.S. and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.


1936 - The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.


1936 - The Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.


1942 - The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, made its first flight.


1947 - U.S. President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.

Susan Rice Abruptly Backs Out of Tuesday Testimony Before House Panel

Susan Rice Abruptly Backs Out of Tuesday Testimony Before House Panel:

"Susan Rice will no longer be appearing in front of the House committee on Tuesday to answer questions about her unmasking of Trump and his private associates."

Bolling: One Person, Obama, to Blame for Any Russian Meddling | Fox News Insider

Bolling: One Person, Obama, to Blame for Any Russian Meddling | Fox News Insider:

"Eric Bolling said one person would be to blame for possible interference in the 2016 presidential election.
"If Russia interfered in our elections there is only one person to blame, and that is Barack Obama, who was in charge of protecting the integrity of our federal elections system," the host said Saturday."

The way we were-----Deep Purple - Hush

Canadian girls are being taken abroad to undergo female genital mutilation, documents reveal | Toronto Star

Canadian girls are being taken abroad to undergo female genital mutilation, documents reveal | Toronto Star:
"Thousands of Canadian girls are at risk of female genital mutilation, government officials believe.
And some are being taken overseas to have the dangerous procedure done — an illegal act known as “vacation cutting.”
Officials from the federal government’s Global Affairs Ministry warn that, as with forced marriage, the “one chance rule” applies to these cases, meaning a professional might get only one opportunity to speak to a potential victim and save her, according to documents obtained by the Star.
And yet Canada has done little to understand the scope of the problem and is lagging far behind other developed countries in efforts to prevent it, experts say..."

Health Care Will Bankrupt the Nation | Economics21

Health Care Will Bankrupt the Nation | Economics21:
"After doubling to $20 trillion since 2009, the national debt is now projected to soar to an unfathomable $92 trillion over the next 30 years.
At that point, depending on interest rates, between 60 and 100 percent of all individual income taxes will go towards paying the interest on this debt.
What is driving the federal budget into bankruptcy?
Health care spending.
The problem is not tax revenues (they will continue growing above historical averages), nor other spending programs (Social Security is the only other major category growing as a share of the GDP).
Rather, health care is devouring the budget..."
Read on!

Crime Wave Perpetrated by Afghan Refugees in Europe Has Reached "Mind-Boggling" Proportions | Buck Sexton

Crime Wave Perpetrated by Afghan Refugees in Europe Has Reached "Mind-Boggling" Proportions | Buck Sexton:

"This week, an article ran in The National Interest by Cheryl Benard, Director of Metis Analytics and author of Civil Democratic Islam, who has worked within and alongside numerous refugee efforts, that recounts the particularly awful crime wave undertaken by Afghan refugees in Europe as well as the deliberate cover-up effort by media and politicians in Europe, from members of the EU on down.

“It took a while for the pattern to be recognized because, until recently, western European media deliberately refrained from identifying an assailant’s refugee or asylum status, or his country of origin,” Benard writes. “Only when the correlation became so dramatic that it was itself newsworthy did this policy change. "