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Good Morning OT folks. Today is going to be a beautiful day.


Today in History.

1567
Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in his sick-bed in a house in Edinburgh when the house blows up.
1799
The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.
1825
The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President.
1861
Jefferson F. Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1864
Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich.

1904
Japanese troops land near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers.
1909
France agrees to recognize German economic interests in Morocco in exchange for political supremacy.
1916
Conscription begins in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective.
1922
The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission.
1942
Chiang Kai-shek meets with Sir Stafford Cripps, the British viceroy in India.

1943
The Red Army takes back Kursk 15 months after it fell to the Germans.
1946
Stalin announces the new five-year plan for the Soviet Union, calling for production boosts of 50 percent.
1951
Actress Greta Garbo gets U.S. citizenship.
1953
The French destroy six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam.
1964
The U.S. embassy in Moscow is stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.

1978
Canada expels 11 Soviets in spying case.
1994
Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa.



Joke of the Day.



A guy is going on a tour of a factory that produces various latex products. At the first stop, he is shown the machine that manufactures baby-bottle nipples. The machine makes a loud "hiss-pop" noise. "The hiss is the rubber being injected into the mold," explains the guide. "The popping sound is the needle poking a hole in the end of the nipple."
Later, the tour reaches the part of the factory where condoms are manufactured. The machine makes a "Hiss. Hiss. Hiss" noise. but every so often there is a "Pop!" noise.

"Wait a minute!" says the man taking the tour. "I understand what the 'hiss, hiss,' is, but what's that 'pop' every so often?"
"Oh, it's just the same as in the baby-bottle nipple machine," says the guide. "It pokes a hole in every tenth condom."
"Well, that can't be good for the condoms!"
"Yeah, but it's great for the baby-bottle nipple business!