Today in History.

February 2021. Armymann is slacking. Good Morning Armymann

1349
Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland.
1613
Mikhail Romanov is elected czar of Russia.
1797
The last invasion of Britain takes place when some 1,400 Frenchmen land at Fishguard in Wales.
1819
Spain signs a treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida.
1825
Russia and Britain establish the Alaska/Canada boundary.
1862
Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. for the second time.
1864
Nathan Bedford Forrest's brother, Jeffrey, is killed at Okolona, Mississippi.
1865
Federal troops capture Wilmington, N.C.
1879
Frank Winfield Woolworth's 'nothing over five cents' shop opens at Utica, New York. It is the first chain store.
1902
A fistfight breaks out in the Senate. Senator Benjamin Tillman suffers a bloody nose for accusing Senator John McLaurin of bias on the Philippine tariff issue.
1909
The Great White Fleet returns to Norfolk, Virginia, from an around-the-world show of naval power.
1911
Canadian Parliament votes to preserve the union with the British Empire.
1920
The American Relief Administration appeals to the public to pressure Congress to aid starving European cities.
1924
Columbia University declares radio education a success.
1926
Pope Pius rejects Mussolini's offer of aid to the Vatican.

1932
Adolf Hitler is the Nazi Party candidate for the presidential elections in Germany.
1935
All plane flights over the White House are barred because they are disturbing President Roosevelt's sleep.
1942
President Franklin Roosevelt orders Gen. Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines.
1951
The Atomic Energy Commission discloses information about the first atom-powered airplane.
1952
French forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina.

1954
U.S. is to install 60 Thor nuclear missiles in Britain.
1962
A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks is turned down by the U.S.
1963
Moscow warns the U.S. that an attack on Cuba would mean war.
1967
Operation Junction City becomes the largest U.S. operation in Vietnam.
1984
Britain and the U.S. send warships to the Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq.

Joke of the Day.

A soldier at the Pentagon got out of the shower, and realized that his clothes were missing. While searching around for them, he accidentally locked himself out of the locker room, and he found himself completely naked in the halls of the world''s most powerful military organization HQ. But, luckily, no one was around to see him.
So, he ran as fast as he could to the elevator. When it arrived, it was empty. He breathed a sigh of relief and got in. When the doors opened on his floor, there was no one waiting outside. "This must be my lucky day," he said to himself. He was now only a few yards from his office.
Suddenly, he heard footsteps coming from around the corner. He heard the General's voice. There was no way he'd make it to his door in time, so he ducked into the closest office available, and found himself in the laboratory for Research & Development. The Head Scientist looked up from one of her experiments with puzzled interest.

The soldier thought quickly, stood up straight and saluted.
"I am here to report the partial success of the Personal Invisibility Device," he said.
"I see," the Head Scientist said. "But the Shrink Ray seems to be working perfectly."

This post was edited on 2/22/21 at 4:14 am