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Good morning baws and bawettes.

On this day in history:

1776
Delegates sign Declaration of Independence. Members of Congress affix their signatures to an enlarged copy of the Declaration of Independence.

1830
Charles X of France abdicated the throne, unable to resist the July Revolution.

1876
Wild Bill Hickok—a frontiersman, marksman, gambler, and legend of the American West—was murdered in the city of Deadwood, in what is now South Dakota.

1923
In a hotel in San Francisco, President Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke at the age of 58. Harding was returning from a presidential tour of Alaska and the West Coast, a journey some believed he had embarked on to escape the rumors circulating in Washington of corruption in his administration.

1934
With the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler becomes absolute dictator of Germany under the title of Fuhrer, or “Leader.” The German army took an oath of allegiance to its new commander-in-chief, and the last remnants of Germany’s democratic government were dismantled to make way for Hitler’s Third Reich. The Fuhrer assured his people that the Third Reich would last for a thousand years, but Nazi Germany collapsed just 11 years later.

1939
Albert Einstein writes to President Franklin Roosevelt, suggesting uranium could be used to create “extremely powerful bombs of a new type.” Years later, he will call the letter the “one great mistake” of his life.

1943
PT-109, a U.S. Navy torpedo boat under John F. Kennedy's command, was sunk by a Japanese destroyer during World War II.

1990
Iraq invaded Kuwait on this day in 1990, and Saddam Hussein's subsequent refusal to withdraw his troops sparked the Persian Gulf War, in which an international force led by the United States quickly defeated Iraq.

1992
At the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever, won the heptathlon, becoming the first person to win the event in consecutive Games.

1997
American writer William S. Burroughs—whose sexual explicitness and the frankness with which he dealt with his experiences as a drug addict won him a following among writers of the Beat movement—died at age 83.

Hope everyone has a great Saturday and wonderful rest of the weekend!

Good morning everyone.

I hope everyone has a great day except for bullfrog. Hope his canoe sinks on the way to the propstop

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Morning all from NOLA….