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Today in History: February 18

1688
Quakers in Germantown, Pa. adopt the first formal antislavery resolution in America.

1861
Jefferson F. Davis is inaugurated as the Confederacy's provisional president at a ceremony held in Montgomery, Ala.

1885
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is published in New York.

1943
German General Erwin Rommel takes three towns in Tunisia, North Africa.

1945
U.S. Marines storm ashore at Iwo Jima.

1954
East and West Berlin drop thousands of propaganda leaflets on each other after the end of a month long truce.

1964
The United States cuts military aid to five nations in reprisal for having trade relations with Cuba.

1974
Randolph Hearst is to give $2 million in free food for the poor in order to open talks for his daughter Patty.

1982
Mexico devalues the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide.

Today in History: Born on February 18
1516
Queen Mary I, also known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants.

1862
Charles M. Schwab, "Boy Wonder" of the steel industry. President of both U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel.

1892
Wendell Wilkie, Presidential candidate against President Franklin Roosevelt.

JOTD
A waitress walks up to one of her tables in a New York City restaurant and notices that the three Bulgarian businessmen seated there are furiously masturbating…

She says, "What the hell do you guys think you are doing?"

One of the Bulgarian men says, "Can't you see? Ve arrrre all verrry, verrry hoongry."

The waitress makes a stroking motion and says, "So how is whacking-off in the middle of the restaurant going to help that situation??"

One of the other businessmen replies, "The menu say, FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED!"