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Morning all

Good morning BFC and Friday folks

Morning BFC!

Good morning baws and bawettes.

Friday is finally upon us! Wooooohhhoooooo!



On this day in history:

1588
The English fleet won a decisive battle over the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines in northern France.

1844
After Joseph Smith, the founder and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormonism, and his brother, Hyrum, were murdered by an angry mob in an Illinois prison six weeks earlier, Elder Brigham Young is chosen to be the Church’s next leader.

1846
The Wilmot Proviso, an attempt to prohibit the extension of slavery to new territories in the United States, was proposed, and, in the debate that followed, the Republican Party was born.

1863
In the aftermath of his defeat at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Confederate General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

1929
Germany’s Graf Zeppelin, a 776-foot-long dirigible, lifts off from Lakehurst, N.J., on its first round-the-world flight. It returns to Lakehurst three weeks later, having set a record for global circumnavigation.

1942
Six German saboteurs who secretly entered the United States on a mission to attack its civil infrastructure are executed by the United States for spying. Two other saboteurs who disclosed the plot to the FBI and aided U.S. authorities in their manhunt for their collaborators were imprisoned.

1945
The Soviet Union officially declares war on Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers the following day into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to take on the 700,000-strong Japanese army.

1945
The United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France signed the London Agreement, which authorized the Nürnberg trials, in which former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals by the International Military Tribunal.

1963
Armed robbers stole £2.6 million from the Glasgow-London Royal Mail Train near Bridego Bridge, north of London, in the Great Train Robbery.

1974
Resignation of U.S. President Nixon
Faced with the near-certain prospect of impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced his resignation on this day in 1974 and was succeeded by Gerald Ford the following day.

1988
Gangsta rap goes mainstream. Hip hop group N.W.A—”Ni**az With Attitude” launch their debut album, Straight Outta Compton. The recording, which would go triple platinum, revolutionized the hip hop genre, bringing a harder-edged, more profane "gangsta" rap to a wide audience.

1988
The Chicago Cubs host the first night game in the history of Wrigley Field.

1992
The U.S. men's Olympic basketball team—which had been dubbed the “Dream Team” because of an all-star roster of NBA players that included Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird—easily defeated Croatia to win the gold medal at the Barcelona Games. Jordan > LeBron

2000
The wreckage of the Hunley, a Confederate submarine that was lost during the American Civil War, was raised from the ocean floor near Sullivans Island, South Carolina; it was the first submarine to sink (1864) an enemy ship (the Union sloop Housatonic).

2011
Tibetan scholar Lobsang Sangay was inaugurated as prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, becoming the first non-monk and the first person born outside Tibet to hold the position.

2023
A series of wildfires engulfed parts of Maui island, Hawaii, causing serious damage and killing some 98 people, making it one of the world's deadliest wildfires on record.

Hope everyone has a great day and a wonderful weekend!

Mawnin y’all

Joe, papa, boot, wildcat, 225, yote, teech, bbaw, bigfish,

Morning good people of the OT. Friday is here. Not really sure how that affects you all but for me, means I will probably go fishing tomorrow.


I also just thought I would post this pic of Sydney Sweeney just in case you have not gotten enough of her lately.

Not sure how that could be but WTH


Morning.....

Mornin' BnB

You mean Kate Upton?