These events occurred on this date in history. The events are actual; the comments are mine:
841 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat Lothar at Fontenay (I guess that better than being known as Charles the Rotund or Charles the Guy with a Funny Looking Scar on His Left Cheek)
1857 - Gustave Flaubert goes on trial for public immorality regarding his novel, Madame Bovary (And yet, not even a reprimand for Desperate Housewives?)
1876 - General George A. Custer and over 260 men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana (Teaching us that hindsight is 20/20).
1903 - Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium (“In a glowing announcement today….”)
1941 - Finland declares war on the Soviet Union (Did they awaken Stalin to tell him this?)
1950 - North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War (so that’s why they called it the Korean War)
1973 - White House Counsel John Dean admits President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up (tattle-tale)
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