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Today in History: April 14

1828 The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.

1860 The first Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco with mail originating in St. Joseph, Missouri.

1865 President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.

1912 The passenger liner Titanic--deemed unsinkable--strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and begins to sink. The ship will go under the next day with a loss of 1,500 lives.

1945 American B-29 bombers damage the Imperial Palace during firebombing raid over Tokyo.

1981 America's first space shuttle, Columbia, returns to Earth.


Born on April 14


1866 Anne Mansfield Sullivan, teacher who educated Helen Keller.


JOTD

LongHis wife suggested that he should see a sex therapist

Bill worked in a pickle factory. He had been employed there for a number of years when he came home one day and confess to his wife that he had a terrible compulsion. He had an urge to stick his penis into the pickle slicer. His wife suggested that he should see a sex therapist to talk about it, but Bill indicated that he'd be too embarrassed. He vowed to overcome the compulsion on his own. One day a few weeks later, Bill came home absolutely ashen. His wife could see at once that something was seriously wrong. "What's wrong, Bill?" she asked. "Do you remember that I told you how I had this tremendous urge to put my penis into the pickle slicer?" "Oh, Bill, you didn't." "Yes, I did." "My God, Bill, what happened?" "I got fired." "No, Bill. I mean, what happened with the pickle slicer?" "Oh, she got fired, too."