First time I tried to change the world I was hailed as a visionary.

Second time I was politely asked to retire.

So here I am enjoying my retirement.

Happy Birthday David Bowie.

Incidentally Bowie was not interested in this role, but after Nolan met and spoke with him, he was convinced.

#TodayInHistory The first public demonstration of machine translation is held in 1954 jointly by Georgetown University and IBM at their New York HQ, when around 60 Russian sentences are translated into English, using an algorithm.

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Vietnamese troops capture Phnom Penh in 1979, deposing Pol Pot, and ending the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, that had caused the death of more than a million civilians, and devastated Cambodia turning the country into the killing fields.

#TodayInHistory Samuel Colt sells his first set of revolvers in 1847 to Capt. Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers. The Colt .44 used a revolving cylinder from which one could fire multiple shots without reloading.

#TodayInHistory German geophysicist Alfred Wegener presents his theory of continental drift in 1912 suggesting all continents were part of a single land mass called Pangea before they drifted apart due to tectonics.

#TodayInHistory Operation Eastern Exit begins in 1991, as the American embassy officials and diplomats in Somalia are evacuated by helicopters, following the outbreak of the Civil War there. They were transported to Muscat, Oman by January 11.

#TodayInHistory Ford Motors announces an 8 hour workday and a minimum daily wage of 5$ in salary plus bonus in 1914, a crucial moment in industrial history, that would also lead to rise of the American middle class in a way.

#TodayInHistory Vladimir Lenin breaks away with his supporters at the 1912 Prague Conference Russian Social Democratic Labour Party to form their own Bolshevik movement, as opposed to the more moderate group called the Mensheviks.

#TodayInHistory Greek Navy inflict a decisive rout on the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Lemnos in 1913, during the First Balkans War, as the Turks final attempt to break the Greek blockade of the Dardanelles fails, with the Greeks gaining full control of the Aegean Sea.

#TodayInHistory The French army commanded by Viscount of Turenne, defeats a combined army of Austria and Brandenburg in 1675 at Turckheim during the Franco-Dutch War, saving France from a potential invasion.

#TodayInHistory The Palais Garnier an iconic opera house of Paris is inaugurated in 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. It used to be the primary theater of Paris Opera, though now used mostly for ballet. It was the setting for the novel Phantom of the Opera.

#TodayInHistory Alexander Dubcek comes to power in Czechoslovakia in 1968 beginning what is called the Prague Spring where he would initiate a series of political reforms. By August however Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations would invade to crush the revolt.

#TodayinHistory French army officer Alred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank in 1895 and sent to life imprisonment at notorious Devil's Island. The incident known as the Dreyfus Affair would expose anti Semitism in France and lead to rise of Zionism.

#TodayInHistory Rosa Parks a seamstress refuses to vacate her seat in a segregated bus in 1955. She would be arrested for her act, and the event would be a major catalyst in propelling the Civil Rights movement.

Amazon IT campus in Hyderabad, India. One of Amazon's largest campus in the world.

This basically explains US foreign policy and who calls the shots, the Military Industrial complex which Eisenhower had warned about. Doesn't matter whether the Dems or Reps are in charge.

The US loves a good war, as it rarely had to experience a war fought on it's soil except a Pearl Harbor,9/11.