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Today in History

1774
The British close the port of Boston to all commerce.
1799
In Palestine, Napoleon captures Jaffa and his men massacre more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.
1809
Aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard -- the first person to make an aerial voyage in the New World -- dies at the age of 56.

1838
Soprano Jenny Lind ("the Swedish Nightingale") makes her debut in Weber's opera Der Freischultz.
1847
U.S. General Winfield Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1849
The Austrian Reichstag is dissolved.
1862
Confederate forces surprise the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, but the Union is victorious.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.

1904
The Japanese bomb the Russian town of Vladivostok.
1906
Finland becomes the third country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who are supported by the state.
1912
French aviator, Heri Seimet flies non-stop from London to Paris in three hours.
1918
Finland signs an alliance treaty with Germany.
1925
The Soviet Red Army occupies Outer Mongolia.

1927
A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.


1933
The board game Monopoly is invented.
1935
Malcolm Campbell sets an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.
1936
Hitler sends German troops into the Rhineland, violating the Locarno Pact.

1942
Japanese troops land on New Guinea.
1951
U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launch Operation Ripper, an offensive to straighten out the U.N. front lines against the Chinese.
1968
The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day of the Tet Offensive, ends.
1971
A thousand U.S. planes bomb Cambodia and Laos.
1979
Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter.


Joke of the Day

Two cowboys are out on the range talking about their favorite sex position. One says, "I think I enjoy the rodeo position the best." "I don't think I have ever heard of that one," says the other cowboy. "What is it?" "Well, it's where you get your girl down on all four, and you mount her from behind.

Then you reach around, cup her t*ts, and whisper in her ear, 'boy these feel almost as nice as your sisters.' Then you try and hold on for 30 seconds."