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Mawnin y’all

Today in History
1876 Native Americans won the Battle of Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand.

1943 Dwight D. Eisenhower became the Supreme Allied Commander during World War II.

1950 North Korea attacked South Korea at the start of the Korean War.

1993 Kim Campbell became Canada’s first woman Prime Minister.

2011 New York became the sixth US state to legalize same-sex marriage.

Happy Birthday
1945 Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter ("Anticipation"; "You're So Vain"), born in NYC, New York

1947 Jimmie Walker, American comedian (JJ-Good Times, At Ease), born in The Bronx, New York

1948 Michael Lembeck, American actor (Max-One Day at a Time), born in Brooklyn, New York

1949 Phyllis George, American beauty queen (Miss America, 1971), sportscaster (CBS, 1974-85), and First Lady of Kentucky, 1979-83, born in Denton, Texas (d. 2020)

1954 David Paich, American rock keyboardist (Toto - "Rosanna"; "Africa"), born in Los Angeles, California

1966 Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American NBA center (Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets), born in Leopoldville, Congo

JOTD
A guy meets a sex worker in a bar. She says, ‘This is your lucky night. I’ve got a special game for you. I’ll do absolutely anything you want for £300 as long as you can say it in three words.’ The guy replies, ‘Hey, why not?’ He pulls his wallet out of his pocket and lays £300 on the bar, and says slowly. ‘Paint…my….house.’