Good Morning *Where Did The Weekend Go Edition*

Rise and Shine

841 Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat Lothar at Fontenay.

1658 Aurangzeb proclaims himself emperor of the Moghuls in India.

1767 Mexican Indians riot as Jesuit priests are ordered home.

1857 Gustave Flaubert goes on trial for public immorality regarding his novel, Madame Bovary.

1862 The first day of the Seven Days' campaign begins with fighting at Oak Grove, Virginia.

1864 Union troops surrounding Petersburg, Virginia, begin building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.

1868 The U.S. Congress enacts legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the federal government.

1876 General George A. Custer and over 260 men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Bighorn in Montana.

1903 Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium.

1920 The Greeks take 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.



Jotd: I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first."I'll have the strip steak, medium rare, please."He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad cow?" "Nah, she can order for herself." And that's when the fight started...