Good Morning *Friday Edition*

Good morning, Rise and Shine Folks. Friday is Finally Here.

1567 Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in his sick-bed in a house in Edinburgh when the house blows up.

1799 The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.

1825 The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President.

1861 Jefferson F. Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.

1864 Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich.

1904 Japanese troops land near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers.

1909 France agrees to recognize German economic interests in Morocco in exchange for political supremacy.

1916 Conscription begins in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective.

1922 The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission.

1942 Chiang Kai-shek meets with Sir Stafford Cripps, the British viceroy in India.



Joke Of The Day: If a man opens the car door for his wife, you can be sure of one thing — either the car is new or the wife is.