Breaking‼️ Major poll finds majority on the island of Ireland support Irish reunification. Fianna Fáil Fine Gael, get the finger out and start preparing! Ní neart go cur le chéile 🇮🇪🙌 Time to end the British union.

7th Sunday of Easter Crown Him with Many Crowns www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiHu...

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. –Henry IV Part 2, Act I, Scene ii

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." It is sweet and fitting to die for your country. – Horace

Blessed Ivan Ziatyk Held in Zolochiv prison, then exiled to Ozerlah, Irkhutsk, Russia. Tortured routinely, beaten severely, and eventually died in prison on Easter Sunday, 17 May 1952 from injuries received in a beating three days earlier at Ozerlah, Irkhutsk, Russia

Saint Paschal Baylón , OFM 24 May 1540 – 17 May 1592 Spanish Catholic religious brother in the Order of Friars Minor.

Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. born May 17, 1942 better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9RJ...

Archibald Cox Jr. May 17, 1912 – May 29, 2004 American legal scholar who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal.

Charlotte Cynthia Barnum May 17, 1860 – March 27, 1934 mathematician and social activist, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University.

May 17, 1995, 35-year-old Shawn Timothy Nelson stole an M60A3 tank from a local California Army National Guard armory in San Diego and drove six miles (9.7 km) through nearby neighborhoods, crushing cars and infrastructure in his path—though without injuring anyone.

May 17, 1987 – Iran–Iraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.

May 17, 1980 – Rioting breaks out in downtown Miami, following the acquittal of four white police officers in the killing of Arthur McDuffie, a Black insurance salesman.

May 17, 1974 – Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.

May 17, 1974 – The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.

May 17, 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.

May 17, 1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby with the jockey Oliver Lewis (2:37.75).

May 17, 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement. The agreement organized securities trading in New York City and was signed between 24 stockbrokers outside of 68 Wall Street.

May 17, 1536 George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage is annulled.

May 17, 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason. He was tried before a panel of 17 peers, being accused of listening to prophecies of the king's death and intending to kill the king.

May 17, 1946 The Bell X-1 supersonic jet aircraft was shown to the general public for the first time, at an exhibition at Wright Field.

Happy Sunday youtu.be/nYMeJSehCe4?...

WARNING: This may be the least flattering photo of Trump ever taken. Fuckface would absolutely HATE seeing this spread across timelines. So whatever you do… DO NOT RETWEET! Don’t share it. Let’s all be mature adults and make sure that doesn’t happen.

May 16 ARMED FORCES DAY youtu.be/jpUFgHg-Q0Q?...

"Veni, vidi, vici" I came, I saw, I conquered. – Caesar

Veni, vidi, Visa. I came, I saw, I went shopping

She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults… Stop there. I’ll have her. –Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III, Scene i

Blessed Michal Wozniak Priest in the archdiocese of Warsaw, Poland. Imprisoned, tortured and murdered by Nazis for the crime of being a Catholic priest. Martyr. 16 May 1942 in the concentration camp at Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany

Blessed Vitaliy Bayrak Arrested for his faith on 17 September 1945 by the NKVD. On 13 November 1945 his property was confiscated, and he was sentenced to eight years in a forced labour camp. Martyr. beaten to death on 21 April in 1946 in prison at Drohobych, L'vivs'ka oblast', Ukraine

Blessed Vladimir Ghika Arrested by Communists on 18 November 1952 for the crime of being Christian. Tortured, beaten, starved, and finally martyred. Died 16 May 1954 in Jilava, Bucharest, Romania from years of torture, starvation and general abuse

Saint Brendan the Navigator Brendan of Clonfert (c. AD 484 – c. 577) is one of the early Irish monastic saints and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. Patron Saint of the United States Navy

Woodrow Charles "Woody" Herman May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987 American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ocy...

Louis "Studs" Terkel May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008 American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1985 for The Good War

Henry Fonda May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982 American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. mKnown for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who embodied an everyman image.

William H. Seward May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872 United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869

May 16, 1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.

May 16, 1975 – Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

May 16, 1966 – The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

May 16, 1943 – Operation Chastise is undertaken by RAF Bomber Command with specially equipped Avro Lancasters to destroy the Mohne, Sorpe, and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley RAF 617 Squadron The Dam Busters

May 16, 1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.

May 16, 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.

May 16, 1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.

May 16, 1868 – The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote

May 16, 1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.

May 16, 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.

May 16, 1946 At the Institute of Radio Engineers convention in San Francisco, Major Jack Mullin of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, demonstrated the Magnetophon and its magnetic recording tape, which he had found in Germany following the Allied victory in World War II.

May 16, 1946 Prime Minister Clement Attlee informed the House of Commons that the Cabinet Mission had rejected the Muslim League proposal for an independent State of Pakistan.

May 16, 1946 The musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley, premiered on Broadway, at the Imperial Theatre. Written by Irving Berlin, the show introduced the hit songs "There's No Business Like Show Business"and ran for 1,159 performances www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LwB...

Happy Saturday youtu.be/MCSsVvlj6YA?...

She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults… Stop there. I’ll have her. –Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III, Scene i