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Good Morning.

Hope everyone’s day goes well. Working on outboard motors today.

Cooking a big pot of shrimp stew also. With two dozen hard boiled Bantam Chicken eggs put into it after it’s cooked. I love rice and gravy.






Today in History


1773
The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.

1777
American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.

1805
First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The “shores of Tripoli” part of the Marines’ hymn)

1810
Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.

1813
War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).

1840
Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

1861
President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.

1865
The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grant institution.

1865
The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.

1904
The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.

1909
Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.

1911
Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.

1914
Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

1927
Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.

1936
The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

1941
World War II: German troops enter Athens.

1941
World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as “National Democrats”) and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.

1945
World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.

1945
World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.

1950
Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.

1953
Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.

1959
The last Canadian missionary leaves the People’s Republic of China.

1960
Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.

1961
Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.

1967
Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.

1974
10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon

1977
28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.

1978
Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

1981
Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

1987
The U.S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

1992
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.

1992
Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

1992
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.

1993
All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.

1994
South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.

1996
The 1996 Lebanon war ends.

2002
The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.

2005
The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.

2006
Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.

2007
Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.

2011
The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.



Joke of the Day



A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, "This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you."

The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, son?" The boy takes the quarters and leaves.

"What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!"

Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream parlor.

"Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?"

The boy licked his cone and replied:
"Because the day I take the dollar the game is over!"