Joe Biden Adds to the List of Great Historical Events on April 25

Joe Biden chose today, April 25, 2023, to release a canned video announcing his campaign for reelection. This symbolic choice joins a line of similar historical events:

April 25, 1599: Oliver Cromwell is born. After urging the beheading of King Charles I, Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the one and only effort at republican government in British history, established after brutally repressing the Irish. It was a failure, the monarchy was restored under Charles II less than two years after Cromwell’s death, and is still in place under Charles III.

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Joe Biden chose today, April 25, 2023, to release a canned video announcing his campaign for reelection. This symbolic choice joins a line of similar historical events:

April 25, 1599: Oliver Cromwell is born. After urging the beheading of King Charles I, Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the one and only effort at republican government in British history, established after brutally repressing the Irish. It was a failure, the monarchy was restored under Charles II less than two years after Cromwell’s death, and is still in place under Charles III.