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Today in History: December 6

1492 Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Santo Domingo in search of gold.

1776 Phi Beta Kappa, the first scholastic fraternity, is founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg.

1862 President Abraham Lincoln orders the hanging of 39 of the 303 convicted Indians who participated in the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. They are to be hanged on December 26.

1865 The 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery.

1921 Ireland's 26 southern counties become independent from Britain forming the Irish Free State.

1938 France and Germany sign a treaty of friendship.

1947 Florida's Everglades National Park is established.

1969 Hells Angels, hired to provide security at a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California, beat to death concert-goer Meredith Hunter.

Born on December 6

1952
Charles Bronson (Michael Gordon Peterson), criminal often called "the most violent prisoner in Britain" by the British Press.


JOTD

A couple is trying to have a kid

they haven't been able to have a child for over a year so they go see a doctor. He has them do all the tests, sperm, blood and so on.
After a week they get a call from the doctor's office, the results are in. So they go. The doctor comes in and sits down. He looks at the lab results, looks at them. Looks back at the lab results and then back at them again.
And then he says: "Gentlemen, you cannot be serious."