Good Morning Thread *14 Days Til Thanksgiving Edition*

Rise and Shine

392 Theodosius of Rome passes legislation prohibiting all pagan worship in the empire.

1226 Louis IX succeeds Louis VIII as king of France.

1576 The 17 provinces of the Netherlands form a federation to maintain peace.

1620 The King of Bohemia is defeated at the Battle of Prague.

1685 Fredrick William of Brandenburg issues the Edict of Potsdam, offering Huguenots refuge.

1793 The Louvre opens in Paris. But wasn't it already a Palace and it merely opens to the people?

1861 Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent.

1864 President Abraham Lincoln is re-elected in the first wartime election in the United States.

1887 Doc Holliday, who fought on the side of the Earp brothers during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 6 years earlier, dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

1889 Montana becomes the 41st state of the Union.



JOTD: I almost got caught stealing a board game today...

But it was a Risk I was willing to take