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Today in History: September 8
1504
Michelangelo's 13-foot marble statue of David is unveiled in Florence, Italy.

1565
Spanish explorers found St. Augustine, Florida, the first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States.

1760
The French surrender the city of Montreal to the British.

1863
Confederate Lieutenant Dick Dowling thwarts a Union naval landing at Sabine Pass, northeast of Galveston, Texas.

1915
Germany begins a new offensive in Argonne on the Western Front.

1921
Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., is named the first Miss America.

1935
Senator Huey Long of Louisiana is shot to death in the state capitol, allegedly by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.

1945
Korea is partitioned by the Soviet Union and the United States.

1955
The United States, Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Thailand sign the mutual defense treaty that established the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).

1974
President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard M. Nixon for any crimes arising from the Watergate scandal he may have committed while in office.

1988
Wildfires in Yellowstone National Park in the US, the world's first national park, force evacuation of the historic Old Faithful Inn; visitors and employees evacuate but the inn is saved.


Today in History: Born on September 8
1922
Sid Caesar, comedian and television star, best known for "Your Show of Shows," and "The Sid Caesar Show."

1925
Peter Sellers, English comic actor, famous for his role as Inspector Clouseau.

1932
Patsy Cline, country singer ("Crazy", "I Fall to Pieces").

1979
Pink (Alecia Beth Moore), multiple award-winning singer, including three Grammys ("Lady Marmalade," "Trouble," "Imagine.")

JOTD
So this city blonde goes to a barn

She asks the farmer: “Excuse me, why does that cow have no horns?”.

The farmer, being quite the expert on the matter, explained to her with great detail:

“Well m’am, there’s many reasons why some cows don’t have horns. Some breeds don’t have horns. For example: Angus cows don’t have horns. Another reason is that when you’ve been milking a cow for too long, their horns get very sensitive, so we remove them in a process that’s completely painless to the animal. And sometimes, when they’re calves, we don’t want them to grow horns so we put a little acid where the horns would grow and they never grow horns.

But the reason why THAT cow doesn’t have horns is because it’s a horse”.