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Morning Folks!

Good morning baws and bawettes. Friday is finally upon us!

On this day in history:

1057
Macbeth, king of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, eldest son of Duncan I.

1534
St. Ignatius of Loyola led companions, who would become cofounders of the Society of Jesus, to Montmartre, Paris, where the first members of the Roman Catholic religious order took their vows.

1620
The Mayflower sets sail from Southampton, England, with 102 Pilgrims bound for the New World.

1899
Henry Ford leaves Edison to start automobile company. Henry Ford resigns his position as chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company’s main plant in order to concentrate on automobile production.

1914
After some 10 years of work, the Panama Canal opened to ships.

1935
Entertainer Will Rogers and aviation pioneer Wiley Post were killed in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska.

1947
Independence for India. After three decades, the Indian Independence Movement, led by Mahatma Gandhi, achieved its goal on this day in 1947 as a free and independent India was established, ending nearly 200 years of British rule.

1948
Syngman Rhee announced the establishment of the Republic of Korea (South Korea).

1960
The Republic of the Congo gained independence from France.

1969
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens its doors to participants and spectators. The iconic music festival, popularly known as Woodstock was held in Bethel, New York at the 600-acre farm of farmer Max B. Yasgur. Over 400,000 people attended the festival, which is often thought to be a key moment in the anti-establishment movement that was gaining popularity in the United States.

1971
Bahrain proclaimed independence from the United Kingdom.

1973
US involvement in Vietnam ends. The Case–Church Amendment passed by the US Congress set August 15 as the deadline for the end of the US military involvement in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Because of this, the US ended all military offensives in Vietnam on this day.

1979
After a troubled production, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now was released. It became a film classic, noted for performances by Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall, whose character famously says that he loves “the smell of napalm in the morning.”

1995
An Air France Concorde leaves NYC. Flying nearly 2x the speed of sound, it sets the record for a round-the-world passenger flight: 31 hours, 27 minutes, 49 seconds. One champagne-swilling passenger dubs it “a supersonic party bus.”

1998
A car bomb exploded in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killing 29 people and leaving more than 200 injured. The Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), an IRA splinter group, claimed responsibility for the bombing, which was the deadliest attack in Northern Ireland since the violence known as the Troubles began in the late 1960s.

2013
Scientists at the Smithsonian announced the discovery of the olinguito, “the first carnivore species to be discovered in the American continents in 35 years”; the small arboreal animals live in the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador.

2021
The Taliban regained control of Kabul, Afghanistan, as U.S. troops withdrew from the country.

Hope everyone has a great Friday and a wonderful weekend!

Sorry I missed this one