Good Morning *Finally Friday Edition*

Rise and Shine folks

1760 Cherokee Indians held hostage at Fort St. George are killed in revenge for Indian attacks on frontier settlements.

1804 US Navy lieutenant Steven Decatur leads a small group of sailors into Tripoli harbor and burns the USS Philadelphia, captured earlier by Barbary pirates.

1862 Fort Donelson, Tennessee, falls to Grant's Federal forces, but not before Nathan Bedford Forrest escapes.

1865 Columbia, South Carolina, surrenders to Federal troops.

1923 Bessie Smith makes her first recording "Down Hearted Blues."

1934 Thousands of Socialists battle Communists at a rally in New York's Madison Square Garden.

1937 Dupont patents a new thread, nylon, which will replace silk in a number of products and reduce costs.

1940 The British destroyer HMS Cossack rescues British seamen from a German prison ship, the Altmark, in a Norwegian fjord.

1942 Tojo outlines Japan's war aims to the Diet, referring to "new order of coexistence" in East Asia.

1945 American paratroopers land on Corregidor, in a campaign to liberate the Philippines.



JOTD: Q: Why did the can crusher quit his job?

A: Because it was soda pressing.