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Today in History: July 3
1775 George Washington takes command of the Continental Army.

1790 In Paris, the Marquis de Condorcet proposes granting civil rights to women.

1863 Confederate forces attack the center of the Union line at Gettysburg, but fail to break it.

1901 The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, commits its last American robbery near Wagner, Montana, taking $65,000 from a Great Northern train.

1903 The first cable across the Pacific Ocean is spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.

1944 The U.S. First Army opens a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.

1954 Food rationing ends in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.

Born on July 3

1683 Edward Young, English poet, dramatist and literary critic (Night Thoughts).

1883 Franz Kafka, Prague-born German novelist (The Metamorphosis, The Trail).


JOTD
My wife asked me, “If I die, will you re-marry?”

I replied, “I don’t know love, I don’t think about those sorts of things.”
“Well If you did, would she live in our house?” she asked
I said, “I don’t know, I haven’t thought about it!”
Then she asked “Would you let her wear my clothes?”
I replied “Nah she’s not your size”