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Today in History: June 21
1667 The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War as the Dutch cede New Amsterdam to the English.

1834 C. H. McCormick patents the first practical reaper.

1900 General Douglas MacArthur offers amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule.

1915 Germany uses poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest.

1939 Baseball legend Lou Gehrig is forced to quit baseball because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis--a disease which wastes muscles.

1982 John Hinckley Jr. is found not guilty by reason of insanity for attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.


Born on June 21
1764 William Sydney Smith, British seaman during the Napoleonic Wars.

1882 Rockwell Kent, artist, book illustrator.

JOTD
"Hey Billy... where'd you get that new red pickup truck?"

Billy: "Well Jimmy, it's a bit of story. You remember cute little Jenny from down the lane?"
Jimmy: "I sure do! She's quite a cutie! What about her?"
Billy: "Well, ya see... she asked me to last night's dance. So we went, and we had a good ole' time dancin' and drinkin' and afterwards we took a drive up to Lookout Point!"
Jimmy: "You went to Lookout Point with Jenny! I know what goes on there..."
Billy: "Well, we sat there on the tailgate for a while talkin' and lookin' at the stars, and then Jenny finally got up, and tore her clothes off and said, 'Billy, you can have anything you want!' So I took the truck."
Jimmy: "That's good thinkin' there. Those clothes probably wouldn't have fit ya."