GMT

Overslept. Woke up to one of my roosters crowing.


Today in History.



1832
Famed western artist George Catlin begins his voyage up the Missouri River aboard the American Fur Company steamship Yellowstone.
1885
Eastman Film Co. manufactures the first commercial motion picture film.
1913
The Balkan allies take Adrianople.
1918
On the Western Front, the Germans take the French towns Noyon, Roye and Lihons.
1938
Hermann Goering warns all Jews to leave Austria.

1942
The Germans begin sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.
1950
Senator Joe McCarthy names Owen Lattimore, an ex-State Department adviser, as a Soviet spy.
1951
The United States Air Force flag design is approved.
1953
Eisenhower offers increased aid to the French fighting in Indochina.
1953
Dr. Jonas Salk announces a new vaccine against polio.

1954
The United States sets off an H-bomb blast in the Marshall Islands, the second in four weeks.
1961
John F. Kennedy meets with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in Washington to discuss increased Communist involvement in Laos.
1969
The Soviet weather Satellite Meteor 1 is launched.
1969
Writer John Kennedy Toole commits suicide at the age of 32. His mother helps get his first and only novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, published. It goes on to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.
1979
The Camp David treaty is signed between Israel and Egypt.

1982
Ground is broken in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1989
The first free elections take place in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin is elected.
1992
An Indianapolis court finds heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson guilty of rape.


Joke of the Day

Little Billy came home from school to see the family's pet rooster dead in the front yard. Rigor mortis had set in and it was flat on its back with its legs in the air. When his Dad came home, Billy mentioned, "Dad, our rooster is dead and his legs are sticking in the air. Why are his legs like that?" His father, thinking quickly, said, "Son, that's so God can reach down from the clouds and lift the rooster straight up to heaven."

"Gee Dad, that's great," said little Billy.

A few days later, when Dad came home from work, Billy rushed out to meet him yelling, "Dad! Dad, we almost lost Mom today!" "What do you mean?" asked his father.

"Well Dad, I got home from school early today and went up to your bedroom and there was Mom, flat on her back with her legs in the air, screaming, 'Jesus, I'm coming! I'm coming!'

If it hadn't of been for Uncle George holding her down, we'd have lost her for sure!"