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Today in History.

1789
The National Guard is created in France.
1812
The last remnants of Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armeé reach the safety of Kovno, Poland, after the failed Russian campaign. Napoleon's costly retreat from Moscow
1814
General Andrew Jackson announces martial law in New Orleans, Louisiana, as British troops disembark at Lake Borne, 40 miles east of the city. The Battle of New Orleans
1862
The Battle of Fredericksburg ends with the bloody slaughter of onrushing Union troops at Marye's Heights. Maine's Colonel Chamberlain at Marye's Heights.
1902
The Committee of Imperial Defense holds its first meeting in London.

1908
The Dutch take two Venezuelan Coast Guard ships.
1937
The Japanese army occupies Nanking, China. Boeing's Trailblazing P-26 Peashooters.
1940
Adolf Hitler issues preparations for Operation Martita, the German invasion of Greece.
1941
British forces launch an offensive in Libya.
1945
France and Britain agree to quit Syria and Lebanon.

1951
After meeting with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Harry S Truman vows to purge all disloyal government workers.
1968
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mexico's President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz meet on a bridge at El Paso, Texas, to officiate at ceremonies returning the long-disputed El Chamizal area to the Mexican side of the border.
1972
Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon.
1973
Great Britain cuts the work week to three days to save energy.
1981
Polish labor leader Lech Walesa is arrested and the government decrees martial law, restricting civil rights and suspending operation of the independent trade union Solidarity


Joke of the Day


Farmer Gossman goes to the vet and says, "My horse is constipated."
The vet says, "Take one of these pills, put it in a long tube, stick the other end in the horse's arse, and blow the pill up there."



Farmer Gossman comes back the next day, and he looks very sick.
The vet says, "What happened?"
Farmer Gossman says, "The horse farted first."