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Today in History.


1626
Huguenot rebels and the French sign the Peace of La Rochelle.
1778
France recognizes the United States and signs a treaty of aid in Paris.
1788
Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the Constitution.
1862
The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn., begins the Mississippi Valley campaign.
1891
The Dalton Gang commits its first crime, a train robbery in Alila, Calif.
1899
The Spanish-American War ends.
1900
President McKinley appoints W.H. Taft commissioner to report on the Philippines.
1904
Japan's foreign minister severs all ties with Russia, citing delaying tactics in negotiations over Manchuria.
1916
Germany admits full liability for Lusitania incident and recognizes the United State's right to claim indemnity.
1922
The Washington Disarmament Conference comes to an end with signature of final treaty forbidding fortification of the Aleutian Islands for 14 years.
1926
Mussolini warns Germany to stop agitation in Tyrol.
1929
Germany accepts Kellogg-Briand pact.
1933
Adolf Hitler's Third Reich begins press censorship.
1936
Adolf Hitler opens the Fourth Winter Olympics.
1941
The RAF clears the way as British take Benghazi, trapping thousands of Italians.

1944
Kwajalein Island in the Central Pacific falls to U.S. Army troops.
1945
MacArthur reports the fall of Manila, and the liberation of 5,000 prisoners.
1963
The United States reports that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba.
1964
Cuba blocks the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State's seizure of four Cuban fishing boats.
1964
Paris and London agree to build a rail tunnel under the English Channel.

1965
Seven U.S. GIs are killed in a Viet Cong raid on a base in Pleiku.
1968
Charles de Gaulle opens the 19th Winter Olympics in France.
1975
President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia.
1977
Queen Elizabeth marks her Silver Jubilee.
1982
Civil rights workers begin a march from Carrolton to Montgomery, Alabama.


Joke of the Day



Husband and wife are waiting at the bus stop with their nine children. A blind man joins them after a few minutes. When the bus arrives, they find it overloaded and only the wife and the nine kids are able to fit onto the bus.
So the husband and the blind man decide to walk. After a while, the husband gets irritated by the ticking of the stick of the blind man as he taps it on the sidewalk, and says to him, "Why don't you put a piece of rubber at the end of your stick? That ticking sound is driving me crazy."
The blind man replies, "If you would've put a rubber at the end of YOUR stick, we'd be riding the bus ... so shut up."