Good Morning *Thursday Edition*

Rise and Shine folks

0439 Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa, falls to Genseric and the Vandals.

1531 Bavaria, despite being a Catholic region, joins the League of Schmalkalden, a Protestant group which opposes Charles V.

1648 The signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ends the German Thirty Years' War

1755 A British expedition against the French held Fort Niagara in Canada ends in failure..

1836 The match is patented.

1861 Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line, putting the Pony Express out of business.

1863 General Ulysses S. Grant arrives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to find the Union Army there starving.

1897 The first comic strip appears in the Sunday color supplement of the New York Journal called the 'Yellow Kid.'

1901 Anna Edson Taylor, 43, is the first woman to go safely over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She made the attempt for the cash award offered, which she put toward the loan on her Texas ranch.

1916 Henry Ford awards equal pay to women



JOTD: Son: "Dad, I fell in love and want to date this girl"

Father: "That's great, son! Who is she?"

Son: "It's Sandra, the neighbor's daughter."

Father: "Ohhh, I wish you hadn't said that. I have to tell you something, son, but you must promise not to tell your mother. Sandra is actually your sister."

The boy is naturally bummed out, but a couple of months later:

Son: "Daddy, I fell in love again and she is even hotter!"

Father: "That's great, son! Who is she?"

Son: "It's Angela, the other neighbor's daughter."

Father: "Ohhh, I wish you hadn't said that. Angela is also your sister."

This went on a few more times, and finally the son was so mad, he went straight to his mother crying.

Son: "Mom, I am so mad at dad! I fell in love with six girls and I can't date any of them because dad is their father!"

The mother hugs him affectionately and says, "You can date whoever you want. He isn't your father!"