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Today in History


1564
John Calvin, one of the dominant figures of the Protestant Reformation, dies in Geneva.
1647
Achsah Young becomes the first woman known to be executed as a witch in Massachusetts.
1668
Three colonists are expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists.
1813
Americans capture Fort George, Canada.
1907
The Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco.

1919
A U.S. Navy seaplane completes the first transatlantic flight.
1929
Colonel Charles Lindbergh marries Anne Spencer Morrow.
1935
The Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
1937
San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opens.
1941
The German battleship Bismarck is sunk by British naval and air forces.

1942
German General Erwin Rommel begins a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.
1944
American General Douglas MacArthur lands on Biak Island in New Guinea.
1960
A military coup overthrows the democratic government of Turkey.
1969
Construction begins on Walt Disney World in Florida.
1972
President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev sign an arms reduction agreement.

1999
The international war crimes tribunal indicts Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for war atrocities.


Joke of the Day.



A tough looking group of hairy bikers are riding when they see a girl about to jump off a bridge, so they stop. The leader, a big burly man, gets off his bike and says, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to commit suicide," she says. While he doesn’t want to appear insensitive, he also doesn’t want to miss an opportunity, so he asks, "Well, before you jump, why don't you give me a kiss?"

She does, and it is a long, deep, lingering kiss. After she's finished, the tough, hairy biker says, "Wow! That was the best kiss I’ve ever had! That's a real talent you’re wasting. You could be famous. Why are you committing suicide?"

"My parents don't like me dressing up like a girl…"