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February 1

1909 U.S. troops leave Cuba after installing Jose Miguel Gomez as president.

1945 U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 American survivors of the Bataan Death March.

1951 Three A-bomb tests are completed in the desert of Nevada.

1965 Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 others are arrested in protest against voter discrimination in Alabama.


Born on February 1

1901 Clark Gable, American film actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone With the Wind).


JOTD

While riding my motorbike, I swerved to avoid hitting a deer, lost control and landed in a ditch, severely banging my head.
Dazed and confused I crawled out of the ditch to the edge of the road when a shiny new convertible pulled up with a very beautiful woman who asked, "Are you okay?"
As I looked up, I noticed she was wearing a low-cut blouse with cleavage to die for...
"I'm okay I think," I replied as I pulled myself up to the side of the car to get a closer look.
She said, “Get in and I’ll take you home, so I can clean and bandage that nasty scrape on your head.”
"That's nice of you," I answered, "but I don't think my wife will like me doing that!"
"Oh, come now, I’m a nurse," she insisted. "I need to see if you have any more scrapes and then treat them properly."
Well, she was pretty and very persuasive. Being sort of shaken and weak, I agreed, but repeated, "I'm sure my wife won't like this."
We arrived at her place which was just few miles away and, after a couple of cold beers and the bandaging, I thanked her and said, "I feel a lot better, but I know my wife is going to be really upset so I'd better go now."
"Don't be silly!" she said with a smile. "Stay for a while. She won't know anything. By the way, where is she?"
"Still in the ditch with the motorbike, I guess."