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Good Morning Err’body

JOTD
My best friend passed away recently, and grieving before his grave I said,

"Bro, I really miss you. My wife has been pregnant for 8 months now. How about you reincarnate as my child?"

A month later, my wife gave birth to a big boy. As my child grew older each day, I realized he looks a lot like my best friend.

I'm really happy that my prayer worked.


This was a busy day in History
1066
William of Normandy defeats King Harold in the Battle of Hastings.
1651
Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding the poor to adopt excessive styles of dress.
1705
The English Navy captures Barcelona in Spain.
1773
Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo is burned at Annapolis, Md.
1806
Napoleon Bonaparte crushes the Prussian army at Jena, Germany.
1832
Blackfeet Indians attack American Fur Company trappers near Montana's Jefferson River, killing one.
1884
Transparent paper-strip photographic film is patented by George Eastman.
1912
Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and wounded in assassination attempt in Milwaukee. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and, though wounded, insisted on finishing his speech.
1930
Singer Ethel Merman stuns the audience when she holds a high C for sixteen bars while singing "I Got Rhythm" during her Broadway debut in Gershwin's Girl Crazy.
1933
The Geneva disarmament conference breaks up as Germany proclaims withdrawal from the disarmament initiative, as well as from the League of Nations, effective October 23. This begins German policy of independent action in foreign affairs.
1944
German Field Marshal Rommel, suspected of complicity in the July 20th plot against Hitler, is visited at home by two of Hitler's staff and given the choice of public trial or suicide by poison. He chooses suicide and it is announced that he died of wounds.
1947
Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier aboard a Bell X-1 rocket plane.
1950
Chinese Communist Forces begin to infiltrate the North Korean Army.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis begins; USAF U-2 reconnaissance pilot photographs Cubans installing Soviet-made missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
1964
Rev. Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of non-violence.
1966
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, opens its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
1968
Jim Hines, USA, breaks the "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint at the Olympics in Mexico City; his time was 9.95.
1968
US Defense Department announces 24,000 soldiers and Marines will be sent back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty.
1969
The British 50-pence coin enters the UK's currency, the first step toward covering to a decimal system, which was planned for 1971.
1983
Prime Minister of Grenada Maurice Bishop overthrown and later executed by a military coup.
1994
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres for establishing the Oslo Accords and preparing for Palestinian Self Government.
1998
Eric Robert Rudolph charged with the 1996 bombing during the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia; It was one of several bombing incidents Rudolph carried out to protest legalized abortion in the US.
2012
Felix Baumgartner breaks the world record for highest manned balloon flight, highest parachute jump, and greatest free-fall velocity, parachuting from an altitude of approximately 24 miles (39km).