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Man in coma for 19 years asks to go back to sleep. I'm not making this up. You should really read why. Sooooo funny and soooo true. Still love ya, George W.

And today in history:
1692 - Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. What a crock. How do you tell if she's a witch? Toss her in the river with her hands and legs tied. If she floats, she's a witch and will be executed. If she doesn't float and drowns, she's not a witch.

1862 Swift-Tuttle Comet is discovered by Horace Tuttle in Massachusetts. It had been independently spotted by Louis Swift in New York three days earlier. It has a 1 in 10,000 chance of colliding with Earth in the year 2126. If this occurs it will probably end civilization. I'm planning ahead. Sell everything on ebay. Spend the money quickly. The world is coming to an end!!!!!!!!!

1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon. It may be the first time but it won't be the last.

1912 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
Holy meteorite fragments Batman

1945 - Montgomery Ward is seized by United States Army troops at the direction of Attorney General Francis Biddle because of its refusal to obey National War Labor Board orders. Montgomery Ward chairman Seward Avery is carried out of his office by troops.

1947 - Burmese nationalist Aung San and 6 of his cabinet members were assassinated. as in keelt?

1957 First U.S. rocket with a nuclear warhead is fired, at the Nevada proving grounds. The world will never be the same.

1967 - A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over Hendersonville, North Carolina killing 82.

1985 - US Vice President George H. W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle (see Space Shuttle Challenger). We all know how that turned out.

1985 - 268 people are killed after a dam collapse in Val di Stava, Italy. Damn dam.

1989 - A Douglas DC-10 carrying 296 aboard crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 but due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and his crew, 184 on board survive. (See United Airlines flight 232).

1991 Mike Tyson has sex with 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington for which he was later convicted of rape. Strange enough, it looks like Mike's getting raped in this picture.

1993 President Bill Clinton announced a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from homosexual activity. You tell 'em Bill.

Happy Birthday:
1860 - Lizzie Borden, American accused murderess (d. 1927) You should read about this. There are several very good non-fiction books about her murdered parents.

1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939) Investers included Jonathon white, Colonel Walter Mustard, and William Ham.

1947 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)

1952 - Allen Collins, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)