Good Morning Thread *Weekend Edition*

Rise and Shine folks

1486 Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York.

1701 Frederick III, the elector of Brandenburg, becomes king of Prussia.

1778 Captain James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, naming them the 'Sandwich Islands' after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich.

1836 Jim Bowie arrives at the Alamo to assist its Texas defenders.

1862 John Tyler, former president of the U.S., is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.

1902 The Isthmus Canal Commission in Washington shifts its support from Nicaragua to Panama as a favored canal site.

1910 Aviator Eugene Ely performs his first successful take off and landing from a ship in San Francisco.

1916 The Russians force the Turkish 3rd Army back to Erzurum.

1942 General MacArthur repels the Japanese in Bataan. The United States takes the lead in the Far East war criminal trials.

1945 The German Army launches its second attempt to relieve the besieged city of Budapest from the advancing Red Army.



JOTD: A turtle is crossing the road when he’s mugged by two snails. When the police show up, they ask him what happened. The shaken turtle replies, “I don’t know. It all happened so fast.”