Good Morning *National Ice Cream Month*

Rise And Shine Favorite Brand of Ice Cream/Flavor?

Fun Facts
-Vanilla is the most popular flavor of ice cream
-The ice cream soda was invented in 1874
– It takes roughly 50 licks to finish an ice cream cone
-California produces the most ice cream in the United States
-You can make homemade ice cream in a bag! All you need is your ingredients (milk, sugar, and vanilla extract or other flavorings), ice, salt, and two plastic bags (one large one to hold the ice and salt, and one smaller one to put inside the large bag. The smaller bag hold’s your ingredients/eventual ice cream)
-You can deep fry ice cream too!

1775 George Washington takes command of the Continental Army.

1790 In Paris, the Marquis de Condorcet proposes granting civil rights to women.

1844 American ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiates a commercial treaty with China.

1863 Confederate forces attack the center of the Union line at Gettysburg, but fail to break it.

1878 John Wise flies the first dirigible in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

1901 The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, commits its last American robbery near Wagner, Montana, taking $65,000 from a Great Northern train.

1903 The first cable across the Pacific Ocean is spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.

1944 The U.S. First Army opens a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.

1945 U.S. troops land at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.

1950 U.S. carrier-based planes attack airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War.



JOTD: My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.
She said, "I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds."

I bought her a bathroom scale.