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Today in History: March 25

1668 The first horse race in America takes place.

1776 The Continental Congress authorizes a medal for General George Washington.

1813 The frigate USS Essex flies the first U.S. flag in battle in the Pacific.

1905 Rebel battle flags that were captured during the American Civil War are returned to the South.

1931 Fifty people are killed in riots that break out in India. Mahatma Gandhi was one of many people assaulted.

1940 The United States agrees to give Britain and France access to all American warplanes.

1953 The USS Missouri fires on targets at Kojo, North Korea, the last time her guns fire until the Persian Gulf War of 1992.

1954 RCA manufactures its first color TV set and begins mass production.

1965 Martin Luther King Jr. leads a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery, Ala.

1970 The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.

Born on March 25

1867 Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore.

1942 Aretha Franklin, American singer, the "Queen of Soul."


JOTD
A girl with tight skirt tries to get on a bus....

In a crowded city at a busy bus stop, a woman who was waiting for a bus was wearing a tight leather skirt. As the bus stopped and it was her turn to get on, she became aware that her skirt was too tight to allow her leg to come up to the height of the first step of the bus.
Slightly embarrassed and with a quick smile to the bus driver, she reached behind her to unzip her skirt a little, thinking that this would give her enough slack to raise her leg. Again, she tried to make the step only to discover she still couldn't.
So, a little more embarrassed, she once again reached behind her to unzip her skirt a little more. For the second time she attempted the step, and once again, much to her chagrin, she could not raise her leg. With a little smile to the driver, she again reached behind to unzip a little more and again was unable to make the step.
About this time, a large Texan who was standing behind her picked her up easily by the waist and placed her gently on the step of the bus. She went ballistic and turned to the would-be Samaritan and screeched, "How dare you touch my body! I don't even know who you are!' The Texan smiled and drawled, "Well, ma'am, normally I would agree with you, but after you unzipped my fly three times, I kinda figured we are friends."