Good Morning *Hump Day Edition*

Rise and Shine


41 Shortly after declaring himself a god, Caligula is assassinated by two Praetorian tribunes.

1458 Matthias Corvinus, the son of John Hunyadi, is elected king of Hungary.

1639 Representatives from three Connecticut towns band together to write the Fundamental Orders, the first constitution in the New World.

1722 Czar Peter the Great caps his reforms in Russia with the "Table of Rank" which decrees a commoner can climb on merit to the highest positions.

1848 Gold is discovered by James Wilson Marshall at his partner Johann August Sutter's sawmill on the South Fork of the American River, near Coloma,California.

1903 U.S. Secretary of State John Hay and British Ambassador Herbert create a joint commission to establish the Alaskan border.

1911 U.S. Cavalry is sent to preserve the neutrality of the Rio Grande during the Mexican Civil War.

1915 The German cruiser Blücher is sunk by a British squadron in the Battle of Dogger Bank.

1927 British expeditionary force of 12,000 is sent to China to protect concessions at Shanghai.

1931 The League of Nations rebukes Poland for the mistreatment of a German minority in Upper Silesia.



Joke of the day: Two elderly gentlemen, who had been without sex for several years, decided they needed to visit a cat-house for some tail. When they arrived, the madam took one look at them and decided she wasn't going to waste any of her girls on these two old men. So she used "blow-up" dolls instead. She put the dolls in each man's room and left them to their business.
After the two men were finished, they started for home and got to talking.
The first man said, "I think the girl I had was dead. She never moved, talked or even groaned... how was it for you?"
The second man replied, "I think mine was a witch."
The first man asked, "How's that?"
"Well," said the second man, "when I nibbled on her breast... she farted and flew out the window!"