Good Morning *National Chocolate Cake Day Edition*

Rise and Shine folks Stay Dry.



According to the Dover Post, the chocolate cake was born in 1765 when a doctor and a chocolate maker teamed up in an old mill. They ground up cocoa beans between huge millstones to make a thick syrup. The liquid was poured into molds shaped like cakes, which were meant to be transformed into a beverage. A popular Philadelphia cookbook author, Eliza Leslie, published the earliest chocolate cake recipe in 1847 in The Lady’s Receipt Book. Unlike chocolate cakes we know today, this recipe used chopped chocolate. The first boxed cake mix was created by a company called O. Duff and Sons in the late 1920s. Betty Crocker released their first dry cake mixes in 1947.

1695 Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II.

1825 Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."

1862 President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies.

1900 Foreign diplomats in Peking fear revolt and demand that the Imperial Government discipline the Boxer Rebels.

1905 Russian General Kuropatkin takes the offensive in Manchuria. The Japanese under General Oyama suffer heavy casualties.

1916 President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program.

1918 Communists attempt to seize power in Finland.

1924 Lenin's body is laid in a marble tomb on Red Square near the Kremlin.

1935 A League of Nations majority favors depriving Japan of mandates.

1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.



JOTD: I always read my wife's horoscope...To see what kind of day I am going to have.