Good Morning Thread *Friday Edition*

Rise and Shine

1622 Indians attack a group of colonists in the James River area of Virginia, killing 350 residents.

1630 The first legislation prohibiting gambling is enacted in Boston.

1664 Charles II gives large tracts of land from west of the Connecticut River to the east of Delaware Bay in North America to his brother James, the Duke of York.

1719 Frederick William abolishes serfdom on crown property in Prussia.

1765 The Stamp Act is passed, the first direct British tax on the American colonists.

1775 British statesman Edmund Burke makes a speech in the House of Commons, urging the government to adopt a policy of reconciliation with America.

1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the first U.S. Secretary of State.

1794 Congress passes laws prohibiting slave trade with foreign countries although slavery remains legal in the United States.

1834 Horace Greeley publishes New Yorker, a weekly literary and news magazine and forerunner of Harold Ross' more successful The New Yorker.

1901 Japan proclaims that it is determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea.



JOTD: A doctor says "The good news is it's all in your head."

"The bad news is it's brain cancer."