July 17th


180: Twelve inhabitants of Scillium are executed for being Christians... which makes sense since Scillium was ruled by the ancestors of MSNBC.

1717: King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians… everyone was stoned within five minutes.

1979: Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami… only to find that there are more Nicaraguans there who want to kill him than there were in Nicaragua.