A Brief History On June 11, 1963, George Wallace, the governor of Alabama stood in the doorway to the University of Alabama in a vain attempt to block four newly admitted African-American students from entering the school.  Wallace had ascended to the governorship on promises of fighting Civil Rights for African-Americans, most especially against Federal efforts to end racial segregation. Digging Deeper Today, with throngs of Alabama football fans heartily cheering Black athletes and with a mixed race man in the White House, it is hard to remember such a day when a state governor could physically try to block…

A Brief History On June 11, 1964, World War II veteran Walter Seifert went on a rampage at a Catholic elementary school outside of Cologne, Germany earning him a place on the list of history’s most evil people.  He did not have a gun, but he did have a home-made flamethrower, a mace and a lance! Digging Deeper Seifert served in an anti-aircraft unit during World War II and became a policeman after the war.  After he was found to have tuberculosis, Seifert was released from his job and began an odyssey through the government bureaucracy in an attempt to…

A Brief History On June 10, 2016, 22 year old internet singing sensation Christina Grimmie was shot to death at an autograph signing after a concert in Orlando, Florida.  The beautiful Grimmie rode her beautiful voice to third place on the 6th season of the television singing contest, The Voice. Digging Deeper A 27 year old Florida man, James Loibl, shot the singer 3 times before being tackled by Grimmie’s brother.  Loibl then shot and killed himself during the struggle, his motives unknown at the time of this article. Grimmie had won a variety of music industry awards and had…

A Brief History On June 10, 1942, and again on June 10, 1944, the German army committed atrocities in Czechoslovakia (Lidice), France (Oradour-sur-Glane), and Greece (Distomo, Boeotia) in separate incidents.  Slaughtering or massacring innocent civilians or prisoners of war was a sadly not uncommon practice of one of history’s most brutal regimes.  Here we list 10 such examples of how rotten the Nazis really were, and thus why there should be no romanticizing about their “glory days.”  Indeed, with good reason, multiple Nazis appear on the list of most evil people in history due to their many atrocities.  Most of…

A Brief History On June 10, 1990, in an incredible tale of survival and an equally improbable freak accident, a British Airways pilot was sucked out of the windscreen of his jetliner and lived to tell about it. Digging Deeper Flight 5390 from Birmingham had taken off and was heading for Malaga, Spain (a beautiful resort town on the Spanish Costa del Sol) when the unthinkable happened.  Without warning, the left panel of the windscreen blew off the plane and the captain was suddenly sucked out through the missing panel. Captain Lancaster had taken the jet to over 17,000 feet…