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This Day in History:

1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.

2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars



JOTD:

If the King sleeps on a king mattress, and the Queen sleeps on a queen mattress, where does the Prince sleep?

On an heir mattress