Reference: https://www.onthisday.com/events/january/20 … I took some liberties with your list here you “On This Day” folks, apologies.
Google: Find black veils.
Other search engines: Find black veils (Google threatens other search engines with digital black veils and monopolistic digital rain).
Go Duck Go: What are days synonymous with January 20th ?
January 20th … 01-20-Year … 20th day of January … 1st month 20th day … 1-20 …
Seriously, that’s what you you got? different numerations of dates?! Ok, maybe Google threats have a point, plus you are Go Duck Go for Christ’s sake.
Go Duck Go “Hey! I can’t control the asks! And don’t be a dick!”
Baidu: “We own you and all your stuff! See ya on the Moon M’fr’s” … find black veils for just January 20th … what year? … 2025? … that may be a tough one, almost all sold out.
So then? Other historical January 20th’s?
(Again, Reference: https://www.onthisday.com/events/january/20 … I did already apologize right?)
1785 Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Island), no takers. MAGA cites this as proof that immigration is bad business forgetting their own family histories.
1850 – HMS Investigator headed by Robert McClure leaves England, 1st expedition to make a Northwest passage (though some over ice) … and with twist of lime, gin and a stir, though a cup of tea would be just as nice, we are English after all.
1868 – Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee. They have a books of liberty bonfire.
1920 – The ACLU is founded … 2025 – GOP funds crackpot time travel scheme to rewrite portions of 1920, the whole year if possible, if only to stop the ACLU, says something about Florida and Ron DeSantis and state laws “well, they had books back then” says spokesman for the governor, and “liberties are only what he would decide anyway, they even burned them together in 1868”.
1920 – Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws. Liberty Moms rejoice assuming that that meant that schools would only be religious charters and also that they would split the bill with God.
1937 -45°F Boca, California … 2025 – GOP uses this as main argument to sue mother nature 85 years later for global warming nonsense. Senator Jim Inhoffe brings a snowglobe to the floor (ummmm, sir, you wanted a snow BALL, not a snow GLOBE … “but they are so pretty, I mean you just shake them …man! Look at that … and with little people inside … look it’s snowing!! … but, yes, right, snow Ball NOT snow Globe … seriously though … how cute it that?”)
1937 – 1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on Jan 20th, (previously March 4th) Democrats sue history 85 years later for changing shit, “we could have had more time” says one ranking Dem.
1939 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta. Patty Berg wins 3rd straight title by 2 strokes ahead of Dorothy Kirby … 2025 – GOP sues history for allowing women to do things, especially golf. “That’s our game!” says a prominent man. “Though don’t tell my wife I said that and my handicap really is -12l!!”
1942 – Nazi officials hold the notorious Wannsee Conference in Berlin to organize the “final solution”. Stephen Miller petitions Congress to make this a national holiday while searching for his SS uniform “And I just had it pressed!”
1943 – Lead, South Dakota, temperature is 52°F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood records -16°F … 2025 – The House, even with their slim margin, helps pass legislation that proclaims this a tie.
1945 – Franklin D Roosevelt sworn-in for unprecedented 4th term as US President … 2025 – Donald Trump says “See? I told you it was possible” then keels over dead. Coroner/Doctor/Spiritual Advisor/ Pill Pusher says he is still healthy and ready to go, even though he is dead “It’s probablly just indigestion from the quarter pounders, but he is good! still standing! (propped)” says all.
1949 -1st inaugural parade televised, for Harry Truman, watched by 10 million people. Donald Trump claims he had more people at Mara Lago on Tuesday just last week … and you don’t even want to ask about Wednesday … absolutely yuge!
1949 – J. Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen, she puts it into a time capsule to be opened only on January 20th 2025 with a note that says “For Donald Trump in 2025. Much better than a Sharpee, look close when you write, and I’m just a girl”
1952 – The NBA’s first superstar George Mikan scores a career high 61 points. Trump congratulates Vladimir Putin for scoring 62 points in a game right after 2 holes in one on the same hole, with a putter, in one stroke and right after a double hat trick earlier in the day on the ice. He then has George Mikan’s entire future family thrown in jail, with no visitation rights.
1954 – Rogers Pass, Montana records, twice, temps of -70°F (-57°C) the GOP files another suit against Mother Nature 70 years later.
1958 – KUED TV in Salt Lake City begins broadcasting and immediately becomes a Sinclair affiliate. Some newscasters balk at forced stories and are shot.
1961 – Democrat John F. Kennedy is administered his oath of office. At his inauguration Steve Bannon throws tomatoes and Molotov’s threatening to burn everything down.
1965 – The Byrds record “Mr Tambourine Man”. Suddenly everyone is a musician and Will Ferell adds some cowbell.
1967 – Philadelphia 76ers center Wilt Chamberlain records NBA record for consecutive shots made … GOP, almost 60 years later, says it didn’t really happen because of DEI. Says Jerry West, Larry Bird and Dave Debuscherre did it dozens of times.
1969 – U of Az reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula) … 2025 – GOP says “What the Hell? We don’t even know what the fuck that means so it didn’t happen … fuckin’ science”.
1969 – Richard M Nixon inaugurated as US president and Frankenberry’s Dad sleeps well … but not for long.
1970 – Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano; Marciano won. White by knockout!!
1971 – Tamla Records releases Marvin Gaye’s single “What’s Going On” about police brutality. GOP threatens to defund black folks and ban them from making records (unless they have a cool hook and you can tap your foot to it) and having any future interactions with police.
1972 – Six oil exporting countries conclude meetings with Western oil companies; an agreement is reached to raise the price of crude. Current and future GOP bank their stock options.
1978 – Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to “Annie” … all are damned, until the end of days, to live a “hard knock life”.
1981 – Ronald Reagan inaugurated as the 40th President and the “everyguy” feels his lifeblood drained … somebody in their ranks sells the phrase “trickle down” as a new economic voodoo and future agenda with many different iterations to come … 2025 – Dems sue for reparations to middle America. It doesn’t go far, especially with yet another iteration in the offing.
1986 – 1st US federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. White conservatives mourn, while also holding him up as an example come election time, every year, with appropriated quotes trying to appeal to black voters.
1989 – George H. W. Bush inaugurated as 41st US President, Dan Quayle becomes 44th Vice President. America yawns.
1993 – Bill Clinton last president to oversee and foster a positive debt. GOP cries foul and promises to immediately rectify this.
1993 – Maya Angelou is 1st African American and woman to recite a poem at inauguration of a US President – “On the Pulse of Morning” for Bill Clinton. Conservatives don’t know what to do. “What is a poem?” they ask. “And why is she black and saying important, profound sounding things we don’t understand?”
1999 – The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés. “Fucking coffee!” says Chinese govt “and people getting together! Why can’t everyone just smoke a lot cigarettes somewhere else?!”
2001 – George W Bush anointed President by a conservative court with a war profiteer/mongerer at his side, our slow demise and diminished intelligence clearly in the cards now.
2006 – “High School Musical” debuts, starring Zac Efron and Vanessa Hugdens; becomes Disney Channel’s most successful TV movie
2009 – Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President becoming the United States’ first African-American president and white America loses their shit.
2015 – Musical “Hamilton” starring Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Ramos premieres at The Public Theater in Lower Manhattan. Ok, got it, but musicals, what the fuck is it with these musicals!?
2017 – Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America and Mike Pence as the 48th Vice President. We go into an orange decline.
2021 – Dan Campbell is named head coach of the Detroit Lions … Ok, yeah, cool for you Dan (aside … hey, who is editing this borrowed shit?!)
2021 – Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America, championing the regular guy and gal and Kamala Harris becomes the first female or black or south Asian Vice President while white America loses their shit.
Previous office holder, Donald Trump, is first outgoing president to refuse to attend the inauguration of his successor since 1869 while stomping his feet and crying “Mommy!!” that he was a victim of a rigged election and system.
This regular Joe keeps Democracy and the economy and all semblance of what is right alive and tries to champion all of the other regular Joe’s … the GOP would have none of it while claiming otherwise.
2025 – Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States of America along with J.D. Vance as Vice President after winning a “mandate” to usher in a new oligarchy, and autocracy, and kleptocracy and numerous other “ocracy’s” that do not start with “Dem” however much winning the election by only 1.5 points can be considered a “mandate.”. White supremacists rejoice.
2025 – Elon Musk, a former illegal immigrant becomes King of the World even more so in his own mind but also in reality as money is all that matters anymore while responding to any and all criticism like a 12 year old boy.
We go, again, further into an orange decline.
2025 – there is a blueprint5888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 … sorry, cat … Cricket!!!
And, wait, are those those jackboots I hear?
