GMT 10/12

Mawnin y’all

Just pouring it on here but yesterday was the date of my dad passing 6 years ago too. Was the main reason we didn't tell her yesterday

Oh no.

I’m praying for yall.

Mornin everybody

Morning all

Good morning, folks.

Sorry aboot your mom and her dog, B&B. How is she feeling?

Today in History: October 12
1492
Christopher Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas.

1576
Rudolf II, the king of Hungary and Bohemia, succeeds his father, Maximillian II, as Holy Roman Emperor.

1609
The song "Three Blind Mice" is published in London, believed to be the earliest printed secular song.

1809
Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies under mysterious circumstances in Tennessee.

1872
Apache leader Cochise signs a peace treaty with General Howard in Arizona Territory.

1900
The first modern submarine is commissioned by the U.S. Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland

1933
Alcatraz Island is made a federal maximum security prison.

1943
The U.S. Fifth Army begins an assault crossing of the Volturno River in Italy.

1960
Inejiro Asanuma, leaders of the Japan Socialist Party, is assassinated during a live TV broadcast.

1964
1964 USSR launches Voskhod I, first spacecraft with multi-person crew; it is also the first mission in which the crew did not wear space suits.

1971
The House of Representatives passes the Equal Rights Amendment 354-23.

1999
The Day of Six Billion: the proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born

2000
Suicide bombers at Aden, Yemen, damage USS Cole; 17 crew members killed and over 35 wounded.

2002
Terrorist bombers kill over 200 and wound over 300 more at the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali.

2020
UK PM Boris Johnson announces a new three-tier system for COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge

2023
Roman scrolls burnt in Mt Vesuvius eruption at Herculaneum read for the first time, after computer-science student develops machine-learning algorithm - first word deciphered is purple

Today in History: Born on October 12
1537
Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII by his third wife Jane Seymour.

1947
Chris Wallace, former host/moderator of Meet the Press, currently (2013) host of Fox News Sunday; the three-time Emmy winner is the only person thus far to host more than one major Sunday political talk show.

1949
Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramirez Sanches), one of the most infamous political terrorists of the 1970s; currently (2013) serving a life term in France.

1968
Hugh Jackman, actor; well known for his recurring role as Wolverine in the X-Men films, his many awards include a Golden Globe (Les Miserables, 2013) and a Tony Award Special Award for Extraordinary Contribution to the Theatre Community (2012).

JOTD
A guy walks into a bar with a .44 magnum a yells "who the frick fricked my wife!".



Everybody's silent for a second, then a guy in the back of the bar says "you havent got enough bullets mate"

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How is she feeling?

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Awful.

morning everyone