Good Morning Thread *Friday Edition*

Rise and Shine

1204 The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople.

1606 England adopts the Union Jack as its flag.

1770 Parliament repeals the Townsend Acts.

1782 The British navy wins its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica.

1811 The first colonists arrive at Cape Disappointment, Washington.

1861 Fort Sumter is shelled by the Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.

1864 Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, in Tennessee.

1877 The first catcher's mask is used in a baseball game.

1911 Pierre Prier completes the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56 minutes.

1916 American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clash at Parral, Mexico.



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