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Today in History: April 19

1802 The Spanish reopen New Orleans port to American merchants.

1861 President Abraham Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports.

1880 The Times war correspondent telephones a report of the Battle of Ahmed Khel, the first time news is sent from a field of battle in this manner.

1934 Shirley Temple appears in her first movie.

1977 Alex Haley receives a special Pulitzer Prize for his book Roots.

1993 The FBI ends a 51-day siege by storming the Branch Davidian religious cult headquarters in Waco, Texas.

1995 A truck bomb explodes in front of the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.


Born on April 19

1903 Eliot Ness, Treasury agent during Prohibition.


JOTD

A guy goes to the supermarket and notices an attractive woman waving at him...

She says hello.
He’s rather taken aback because he can’t place where he knows her from. So he says, "Do you know me?"
To which she replies: "I think you’re the father of one of my kids."
Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife and says: "My God, are you the stripper from my bachelor party that I made love to on the pool table with all my buddies watching while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery?"
She looks into his eyes and says calmly: "No, I’m your son’s teacher."