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Good morning wild people of the OT

JsOTD
I always thought Steve Jobs would have made a better president than Donald Trump.

But then that’s really just comparing Apple to Orange.
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When I was a kid, I used to think earwigs actually lived in your ears

So you can imagine how terrified I was of cockroaches.

A few tidbits from this day in history:
1813
During the land defeat of the British on the Thames River in Canada, the Indian chief Tecumseh, now a brigadier general with the British Army (War of 1812), is killed.
1863
For the second time, the Confederate submarine H L Hunley sinks during a practice dive in Charleston Harbor, this time drowning its inventor along with seven crew members.
1878
Thomas A. Edison founds the Edison Electric Light Co.
1880
Victorio, feared leader of the Minbreno Apache, is killed by Mexican troops in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico.
1892
An attempt to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kan., ends in disaster for the Dalton gang as four of the five outlaws are killed and Emmet Dalton is seriously wounded.
1894
Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, is arrested for betraying military secrets to Germany.
1914
Congress passes the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which labor leader Samuel Gompers calls "labor's charter of freedom." The act exempts unions from anti-trust laws; strikes, picketing and boycotting become legal; corporate interlocking directorates become illegal, as does setting prices which would effect a monopoly.
1917
Mata Hari, a Paris dancer, is executed by the French after being convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans.
1924
German ZR-3 flies 5000 miles, the furthest Zeppelin flight to date.
1945
Vichy French Premier Pierre Laval is executed by a firing squad for his wartime collaboration with the Germans.
1950
President Harry Truman meets with General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island to discuss U.N. progress in the Korean War.
1964
Nikita Khrushchev is replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the Soviet Union..
1969
Rallies for The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam draw over 2 million demonstrators across the US, a quarter million of them in the nation's capital.
1989
Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky makes his 1,851st goal, breaking the all-time scoring record in the National Hockey League.
1990
Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the USSR, receives Nobel Peace Prize for his work in making his country more open and reducing Cold War tensions.
1997
Andy Green of the UK becomes the first person to break the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere, driving the ThrustSSC supersonic car to a record 763 mph (1,228 km/h).
2003
China launches its first manned space mission.
2008
Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 733.08 points, the second-largest percentage drop in the Dow's history.

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