In 1988, Democrat Richard Gephardt and Republican Rep. Jack Kemp win their respective parties' Iowa caucuses.

President Gary Hart's defeat by Senator Gephardt sends shock waves through the Democratic Party. Although the President's supporters try to argue that Iowa is unrepresentative of the nation as a whole, the result points up the erosion in his political support since the Donna Rice scandal emerged.

Talk that he will be denied renomination intensifies.

On the Republican side, the real shocker is the second-place finish by right-wing TV preacher Rev. Pat Robertson. George H. W. Bush finishes third. Robertson's strong showing is taken as a sign of the rising power of evangelical and fundamentalist Protestant voters in the GOP.

On this day in 1960, the American Football League's Boston Patriots hired Weeb Ewbank as their first head coach.

In 2007, comedian Jerry Seinfeld is left uncharacteristically lost for words on live television after an attack by news pundit Bill O' Reilly, while appearing on the latter's show The O'Reilly Factor to promote The Seinfeld Movie.

O'Reilly seemed little interested in talking about the feature film spin-off of the popular sitcom and instead wanted Seinfeld to explain his reasoning behind the unpopular series finale that broadcast in 1998.

(In which the four main characters are put in prison). O'Reilly revealled his belief that Seinfeld and co-writer Larry David deliberately made the last episode of the sitcom terrible as "a lame attempt to give two-fingers to the liberal media, and with no regard for the real viewers".

An uncomfortable Seinfeld struggled to try and understand O'Reilly's reasoning with his usual levity, but became increasingly serious when he defended the choices he and David made, eventually telling O'Reilly "to get over himself "and pointing out "no-one wants to talk about something that was on TV nine years ago. "

When O'Reilly grumpily replied, "I do!", Seinfeld looked directly into the camera and quipped: "To think I gave up The Daily Show appearance for this". to which O'Reilly then abruptly stopped the interview. In a follow-up programme, O'Reilly labeled the sitcom star a 'pinhead', and claimed the star misinterpreted that O'Reilly was trying to joke with him: "Y'know, for one of the all-time famous comedians, he sure can't take it when he's made the butt of the joke. Guess I offended his delicate liberal tendacies".

In revenge, Seinfeld appeared on The Colbert Report the following week, in which Stephen Colbert's fictional conservative pundit (oft-said to be a comedic take on O'Reilly) pretends to shoot him repeatedly with a revolver when Seinfeld refuses to agree with him about the Seinfeld series finale.

In 2003, the soviet of Montana surrenders to the Soviet States of America, reducing the People's Republic of America to Idaho and Washington. With all hope of resistance against the S.S.A. crushed by the loss of their fellow soviets, they send an embassy to Washington D.C. to negotiate for peace.

In 1969, Wilhelm Schoemann returns from his trip to see himself in the alternate, Nazi-dominated timeline he has created. He has also been to see himself in his own past; he radios Faisal Yassin, waiting with Israeli agents, that 'the door is closed.'

In 1855, the Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon with the contemporaneous sightings of Spring Heeled Jack, a mysterious figure known for his extraordinary jumps.

Jack was described by alleged victims as having a terrifying and frightful appearance, with diabolical physiognomy that included clawed hands and eyes that resembled red balls of fire. He was finally trapped in the East End of London where he was captured for the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 and later executed at the Tower of London.

In 1983, on this day Generals Ariel Sharon better known as the terrorist Arik and Rafael Eitan of the Zionist Liberation Army were sentenced to death.

The court found that Mr Sharon was indirectly but personally to blame for the massacres of more than 800 people in the Sabra and Shatila villages near Beirut in 1982. ZLA terrorists were in control of west Beirut when right-wing Christian militias entered the villages. The Lebanese Phalangist militia acted within the wider context of the Jewish-Christian consipiracy to strike the State of Palestine by destabilising the Northern border. The Phalange leader, Bashir Gemayel was still at liberty in the Lebanon.

The Court's report said Mr Sharon had made a 'grave mistake' by failing to order 'appropriate measures for preventing or reducing the danger of massacre of innocents'. It concluded that Sharon should have foreseen what the Phalange would do when they entered the villages. Mr Sharon's defence lawyer said that because he had no knowledge of what would happen when ZLA irregular troops allowed the militia into the camps, he could not be held to account.

The report also condemned Zionist General Rafael Eitan for breach of the Geneva convention in not taking steps to stop the massacre. It said he should have anticipated the danger and opposed the decision to send militia into the villages. Also criticised was ZLA President Menachim Begin, dismissing the argument that the Zionists could not be held directly accountable.

In 1952, on this day Princess Elizabeth proclaimed herself Queen, Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith in a ceremony at Rideau Hall, the Governor's Residence in Ottawa.

The proclaimation was met with a cool response from London. Prime Minister Oswald Mosley had made common cause with continental fascists Mussolini of Italy, Franco of Spain and Hitler of Germany during his premiership, but where they were all gone by the end of the decade, Mosley's rule of Britain had only begun.

The death of King George VI was a potential catalist to perhaps end the schismastic crisis in the British monarchy.

Ironically the Queen's Uncle, King Edward VIII had been forced to abdicate having married an American divorcee, Wallace Simpson. He returned from the Govenorship of the Bahamas as titular Head of a Nazi Client State when the remainder of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha fled to the Americas during Operation Sealion in 1940. Of German origin themselves, the British Royal Family traced their routes to the House of Wettin in Saxony. This dynasty of German counts, dukes, prince-electors (Kurfursten) and kings ruled the area of today's German state of Saxony for more than 800 years as well as holding at times the kingship of Poland. Agnates of the House of Wettin have, at various times, ascended the thrones of Great Britain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Poland, Saxony, and Belgium.