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Today in History: August 21

1831 Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia that kills close to 60 whites.

1945 President Harry S. Truman cancels all contracts under the Lend-Lease Act.

1959 Hawaii is admitted into the Union.

1976 Operation Paul Bunyan: after North Korean guards killed two American officers sent to trim a poplar tree along the DMZ on Aug. 18, US and ROK soldiers with heavy support chopped down the tree.

1991 Communist hardliners' coup is crushed in USSR after just 2 days; Latvia declares independence from USSR.

1994 Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexico's presidential election.

1996 The new Globe theater opens in England.

2000 Tiger Woods wins golf's PGA Championship, the first golfer to win 3 majors in a calendar year since Ben Hogan in 1953.

2001 NATO decides to send a peacekeeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.


Today in History: Born on August 21

1936 Wilt Chamberlin, four-time MVP for the National Basketball Association and only player to score 100 points in a professional basketball game.

1938 Kenny Rogers, singer, actor; one of top-selling artists of all time; voted Favorite Singer of All Time in 1986 poll.

1954 Archie Griffin, NFL running back; only college player to win two Heisman trophies (Ohio State) and first player to start in four Rose Bowls; member, College Football Hall of Fame.

1956 Kim Cattrall, actress (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Sex in the City TV series).


JOTD

A woman hasn't had sex with her husband in years, so he takes her to the doctor

The doctor takes her into the exam room, but he determines that she's healthy and that there is nothing physically wrong with her. So he asks her what could be preventing her from having sex with her husband. She replies:
"Well, every morning, my husband gives me money for work, but it only covers my first bus there. So I get in the cab and the driver asks "So, you money for a ride today or what?" so I end having sex with the cab driver to cover my fare. Then, I arrive to work late and my boss calls me into his office and says "You're late again, am I gonna have to fire you or what?" so I have sex with my boss to keep my job. Then I don't have any money for lunch, so that's another "or what" with the cafeteria manager. I come back from lunch late, so that's an "or what" with my boss again. Then I leave to go home, another cab, another "or what" so by the time I get back to my house, I'm just completely exhausted."
The doctor thinks for a moment. Then he leans back on the table and says:
"So do you wanna tell your husband or what?"