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Today in History.

1588
The Spanish Armada is sighted off the coast of England.
1602
The Duke of Biron is executed in Paris for conspiring with Spain and Savoy against King Henry IV of France.
1603
Bartholomew Gilbert is killed in Virginia by Indians, during a search for the missing Roanoke colonists.
1693
The Army of the Grand Alliance is destroyed by the French at the Battle of Neerwinden.
1830
Liberals led by the Marquis de Lafayette seize Paris in opposition to the king's restrictions on citizens' rights.

1848
A rebellion against British rule is put down in Tipperary, Ireland.
1858
Japan signs a treaty of commerce and friendship with the United States.
1862
Confederates are routed by Union guerrillas at Moore's Mill, Missouri.
1875
Peasants in Bosnia and Herzegovina rebel against the Ottoman army.
1915
U.S. Marines land at Port-au-Prince to protect American interests in Haiti.

1921
Adolf Hitler becomes the president of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis).
1945
After delivering parts of the first atomic bomb to the island of Tinian, the U.S.S. Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese submarine. The survivors are adrift for two days before help arrives.
1981
Prince Charles marries Lady Diana.
1990
The Boston Red Sox hit 12 doubles in a game, setting a major league record.
1996
A US federal court strikes down the child protection portion of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, calling it too broad.

2005
Astronomers announce the discovery of dwarf planet Eris, leading the International Astronomic Union to clarify the definition of a planet.



Joke of the Day

A man walks into a bar and the bartender says, "If you can make that horse over there laugh, you can get free drinks for the rest of the night."

The man walks over, says something to the horse, it laughs, and he walks back over to the bar to collect his free drinks.

The next night, the man goes back to the bar and the bartender asks the man if he can make the horse cry.

The man walks over, does something to the horse, and it starts to cry.

The bartender asks, "How did you make it cry?"

The man replies, "Well, to make the horse laugh last night I told it I had a bigger dick and to make it cry tonight I showed it."