Good Morning *Summer Edition*

Rise and Shine

1377 Richard II, who is still a child, begins his reign, following the death of his grandfather, Edward III. His coronation takes place July 16.

1558 The French take the French town of Thionville from the English.

1772 Slavery is outlawed in England.

1807 British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.

1864 Confederate General A. P. Hill turns back a Federal flanking movement at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, Virginia.

1876 General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages.

1910 German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.

1911 King George V of England is crowned.

1915 Austro-German forces occupy Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.

1925 France and Spain agree to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.



JOTD: My son was just born and another dad at the nursery congratulated me and said his daughter was born yesterday. He said; maybe they’ll marry each other.

Sure, like my son is going to marry someone twice his age...