Good Morning *Favorite Snack on The Road Edition*

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1096 Crusaders under Peter the Hermit reach Sofia in Hungary.

1691 William III defeats the allied Irish and French armies at the Battle of Aughrim, Ireland.

1794 British Admiral Lord Nelson loses his right eye at the siege of Calvi, in Corsica.

1806 The Confederation of the Rhine is established in Germany.

1941 Moscow is bombed by the German Luftwaffe for the first time.

1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposes a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.

1957 The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reports that there is a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.

1974 G. Gordon Liddy, John Ehrlichman and two others are convicted of conspiracy and perjury in connection with the Watergate scandal.

1984 Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale chooses Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate.



JOTD: Four surgeons sit around discussing their favorite patients.

The first surgeon says, "I like operating on librarians. When you open them up, everything is in alphabetical order".

The second surgeon says, "I like operating on accountants. When you open them up, everything is in numerical order".

The third surgeon says, "I like operating on electricians. When you open them up, everything is color coded."

The fourth surgeon says, "I like operating on politicians."

The other three surgeons look at each other in disbelief.

The fourth surgeon continues, "Because they're heartless, gutless, spineless, and the arse and head are interchangeable."