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Mornin all

Good morning baws and bawettes. This is the last Saturday we'll be without college football for the next few months, as week 0 is next weekend and with that, college football will be back!

On this day in history:

963
Nicephorus II Phocas was crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire in Hagia Sophia by the patriarch Polyeuctus.

1812
During the War of 1812, American Brigadier General William Hull, who was with his troops at Fort Detroit, surrendered to the British without a fight. He was later court-martialed and sentenced to death, but he was saved by a presidential pardon.

1858
Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan for the first time via transatlantic telegraph cable; he replies, "It is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle".

1861
US President Abraham Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy.

1888
Archaeological scholar and military strategist T.E. Lawrence—who was best known for his legendary activities in the Middle East during World War I, which earned him the nickname “Lawrence of Arabia”—was born in Wales.

1896
Gold is first discovered in the Klondike at Bonanza Creek in Yukon, Canada, by George Carmack.

1898
Edwin Prescott patents the first vertical loop-the-loop roller coaster.

1920
Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in the head by NY Yankees pitcher Carl Mays and dies the next day in the only MLB game-related fatality.

1942
A Navy blimp flying over San Francisco Bay to hunt for Japanese submarines, crash lands on a street in nearby Daly City. Rescuers race to the scene but find a ghost ship, with both pilots vanished—still an enduring mystery.

1945
The last Chinese Emperor and ruler of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo, Puyi, is captured by Soviet troops while preparing to board a plane to escape to Japan.

1946
Direct Action Day: Widespread riots erupt in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus over whether Pakistan should be a separate state, killing over 4,000 and leaving 100,000 homeless.

1948
American baseball legend Babe Ruth died at age 53.

1954
The first issue of Sports Illustrated was released. By the 1960s, it became the leading sports magazine in the United States.

1960
The island of Cyprus achieved independence from Britain and became a republic.

1977
American singer Elvis Presley, known as the “King of Rock and Roll,” died of a heart attack brought on largely by drug abuse.

1996
The youngest person ever elected president of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández Reyna was sworn in this day in 1996 and soon instituted measures intended to curtail corruption and improve the country's economy.

2018
American singer Aretha Franklin, who defined the golden age of soul music of the 1960s and was known as the “Queen of Soul,” died at age 76.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Deep cleaning the house this weekend before our trip next weekend while trying to figure out our 3D printer.

Mornin everybody

Mawnin y’all

Good morning OT'ers
Happy 50th anniversary to my parents!

What’s up td.

Good morning, folks.

I mowed during the week so Whoomp! Dere it is.

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