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Today in History: March 26

1804 Congress orders the removal of Indians east of the Mississippi River to Louisiana.

1804 The territory of New Orleans is organized in the Louisiana Purchase.

1885 Eastman Film Co. manufactures the first commercial motion picture film.

1938 Hermann Goering warns all Jews to leave Austria.

1942 The Germans begin sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.

1950 Senator Joe McCarthy names Owen Lattimore, an ex-State Department adviser, as a Soviet spy.

1953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces a new vaccine against polio.

1982 Ground is broken in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.


Born on March 26


1874 Robert Frost, poet, multiple Pulitzer Prize-winner.

1911 Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire).

1914William Westmoreland, U.S. army general during the Vietnam War.
1923
Bob Elliot, radio comedian, one half of Bob and Ray.
1930
Gregory Corso, beat poet, discovered literature in prison.


JOTD

A pretty woman sneezes at a restaurant.

At a hotel restaurant, a man sees an attractive woman sitting alone at the next table.
Suddenly, she sneezes, and a glass eye comes flying out of her eye socket. It hurls by the man, and he snatches it from the air and hands it back to her.
"This is so embarrassing," the woman says, and she pops her eye back in place. "I'm sorry to have disturbed you. Let me buy dinner to make it up to you. May I join you?" He nods.
The woman is a stimulating conversationalist, stunningly pretty, and the man finds they have a lot in common. He gets her phone number and asks, "You are the most charming woman I've ever encountered. Are you this nice to every guy you meet?"
"No," she replies. "You just happened to catch my eye."