Good Morning *Weekend Edition*

Rise and Shine

1520 Montezuma II is murdered as Spanish conquistadors flee the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan during the night.

1857 Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin's Hall in London--his first public reading.

1859 Jean Francois Gravelet aka Emile Blondin, a French daredevil, becomes the first man to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1908 A mysterious explosion, possibly the result of a meteorite, levels thousands of trees in the Tunguska region of Siberia with a force approaching twenty megatons.

1934 Adolf Hitler orders the purge of his own party in the "Night of the Long Knives."

1936 Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone With the Wind, is published.

1948 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrate their invention, the transistor, for the first time.

1960 Alfred Hitchcock's film, Psycho, opens.

1971 Three Soviet cosmonauts die when their spacecraft depressurizes during reentry.



JOTD: Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, and slipped quietly into the garage. I hooked up the boat up to the van and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour. The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all day.

I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. I cuddled up to my wife's back; now with a different anticipation, and whispered, "The weather out there is terrible."

My loving wife of 5 years replied, "And, can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?"