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Today in History.


Jack Cade's Rebellion--Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
1541
Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River which he calls Rio de Espiritu Santo.
1559
An act of supremacy defines Queen Elizabeth I as the supreme governor of the church of England.
1794
The United States Post Office is established.
1846
The first major battle of the Mexican War is fought at Palo Alto, Texas.
1862
General 'Stonewall' Jackson repulses the Federals at the Battle of McDowell, in the Shenendoah Valley.
1864
Union troops arrive at Spotsylvania Court House to find the Confederates waiting for them.
1886
Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
1895
China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki.
1904
U.S. Marines land in Tangier, North Africa, to protect the Belgian legation.

1919
The first transatlantic flight by a navy seaplane takes-off.
1933
Mahatma Gandhi—actual name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—begins a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.
1940
German commandos in Dutch uniforms cross the Dutch border to hold bridges for the advancing German army.
1942
The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends.
1945
The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as VE (Victory Europe) day.

1952
Allied fighter-bombers stage the largest raid of the war on North Korea.
1958
President Dwight Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green becomes the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1967
Boxer Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.
1984
The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.
1995
Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.




Joke of the Day.




Q: What do KFC and pussy have in common?




A: Both are finger lickin' good and after you are done eating you have a box to put the bone in.