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Today in History: June 12

1812 Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia.

1901 Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.

1918 The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France.

1921 President Warren Harding urges every young man to attend military training camp.

1931 Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen are indicted for violating Prohibition laws.

1977 David Berkowitz gets 25 years to life for the Son of Sam murders in New York.

1991 Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines begins erupting for the first time in 600 years.

1996 3 Philadelphia Fed Court judges overturn US indecency ban on internet

2012 World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer

2019 World’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund, worth $1 trillion, gets authorization to drop fossil fuel investments from Norway's government

Born on June 12

1806 John Roebling, civil engineer, pioneer in designing suspension bridges.

1915David Rockefeller, international banker.

1924 George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).

1929 Anne Frank, German diarist, victim of the Holocaust.


JOTD
A woman walks into the farmer’s market and says,

“I’d like to buy some tomatoes.”
The clerk says, “I’m sorry ma’am, but we’re all out of tomatoes, and won’t have any for a few days.”
So the woman leaves.
A few hours later, the same woman shows up and says, “I’d like to buy some tomatoes.”
The clerk says, “I apologize miss, but we’ll be out of tomatoes for the next few days. Actually, weren’t you in earlier today also? How about you give me your number and we’ll call when our shipment comes in.” So she gives him the number and leaves again.
Just before the market is getting ready to close, the same woman comes in again and says, “I’d like to buy some tomatoes”
The clerk, exasperated, pulls the woman aside and asks her, “Lady, what would you get if you took the sun out of a sunflower?
The woman, sort of confused thinks and then replies, “well, I guess you’d have just a flower.”
He says, “Great. Now, what would you get if you took the orange out of orange juice?”
The woman, proud of herself responds, “you’d have only juice.”
“Okay, good job. Now, what do you get if you take the frick out of tomatoes?”
Perplexed, she finally responds, “wait a minute, there’s no frick in tomatoes.”
He yells in her face, “That’s right, there’s no frickin’ tomatoes!!!”