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Rise and Shine folks

1072 Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger take Palermo in Sicily.

1645 The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, is beheaded on Tower Hill, accused of acting as an enemy of the British Parliament.

1724 King Philip V shocks all of Europe when he abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, Louis.

1811 An uprising of over 400 slaves is put down in New Orleans. Sixty-six blacks are killed and their heads are strung up along the roads of the city.

1847 General Stephen Kearny and Commodore Robert Stockton retake Los Angeles in the last California battle of the Mexican War.

1861 Florida secedes from the Union.

1863 London's Underground begins operations.

1870 John D. Rockefeller and his brother William establish the Standard Oil Company of Ohio.

1899 Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo renounces the Treaty of Paris, which annexed the Philippines to the United States.

1901 The Automobile Club of America installs signs on major highways.



JOTD: The boiled water died

It shall be mist