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TODAY IN HISTORY:
1248 Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun

1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)

1765 Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)

1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance

1848 Oregon Territory created

1862 Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president

1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (wait!!! That's 632 years)

1893 France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test

1935 Social Security Act became law

1941 Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill

1945 V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II

1962 US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million

1965 Beatles tape an appearance for the Ed Sullivan Show

1966 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting the Moon

1974 Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold


HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
1774 Meriwether Lewis Charlottsville VA, capt of Lewis & Clark Expedition

1941 David Crosby rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross)

1945 Steve Martin Waco Tx, comedian (The Jerk, Man With 2 Brains)

1958 Earvin (Magic) Johnson NBA star (LA Lakers)

DEATHS ON THIS DAY:
1951 William Randolph Hearst newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills

1958 Gladys L Presley mom of Elvis, dies at 46

Electric Vehicles

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In The News:

Japan's females are longest living in world That's good to know. Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men? The real question is why do most men die before their wives do? Because they want to. hahahaha DOH!!! Really. The woman pictured above is 82. No kidding!!! Okay. I'm kidding.

Average ER waiting time nears 1 hour, CDC says. That's reassuring.

Military jury convicts bin Laden's driver . I'm no fan of bin Laden but.... Read the news article. He wasn't part of a conspiracy. He was his driver. The news story said he transported missles. Did he know this? According to this news story, there is no way he should have been convicted of this.

SC deputy killed while responding to alarm call . Very very sad.

Convoy rescued after GPS led them to Utah cliff . GPS devices don't have a dumbass warning or dumbass cutoff switch. Use a little common sense people. Never put your full trust in a machine. When all else fails, just think for a second. I have a Garmin and absolutely love it. Granted, it won't tell me if a road is rough, if a drunk driver is heading my way, or if gas prices are cheaper at the next station. Well, maybe it will tell me that. I'm not so sure. Anyway..... You get my point.



Policewomen get "bullet-proof bras" . I think I've dated women with bullet proof bras. Or what about this one. You're getting cuddly with a girl. Slide your hand up her shirt really really slowly and sensually then SNAP!!! A mouse trap stops your advance. YOUCH!!! Do you get it? Police bra, bacon bra?

Clooney to host fundraiser -- in Switzerland... Should presidential candidates accept money from other countries? That seems kind of wrong somehow. I think I'll refer to George as Looney Clooney.



NISSAN unveils new prototype electric car... I'll probably be trying to purchase one of these.

PAPER: Teen had assault guns, map to White House retreat...



TODAY IN HISTORY:
1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.

1862 - American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. Can't we all just get along? Obviously not.

1914 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.

1923 - Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel.

1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.

1926 - In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.

1942 - Queen Wilhelmina becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years due to burns and radiation poisoning.

1956 - After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.

1960 - Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

1964 - Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

1997 - Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.

2001 - White House briefing document entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. is delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadows the September 11, 2001 attacks.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
1861 - Edith Roosevelt, American First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)



1911 - Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989) Awww I Love Lucy. Lucy Topless?

1917 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)

1928 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987) What a freak!!! Wait a minute,... I like freaks.

1952 - Vinnie Vincent, American musician (Kiss) His friends call him Vin Vin. I call him Vinnie Vincent. lol. Just joking Vin. See you this weekend? Cool.



1972 - Geri Halliwell, British singer (Spice Girls)


DEATHS ON THIS DAY:
1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556)

1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575) hehehe I like middle sex.

1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711) What a way to go.... I've heard of going out with a bang.....

2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)

2007 - Heinz Barth, German convicted war criminal (SS) (b. 1920)

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Today in History:

910 - The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred.

1100 - Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.

1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.

1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.



1620 - The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.

1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Native American force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat. Also listen to 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky. My absolute favorite classical piece.

1858 - Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It operated for less than a month.

1861 - American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872). "A legislation can trample a mans rights just as easily as a king can." Remember that.



1861 - The United States Army abolishes flogging.

1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge - along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.

1882 - Martial law is imposed in Japan.



1884 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.

1912 - Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo.

1914 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.

1944 - Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners. Take that Hitler, you freak!!!

1957 - American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.



1962 Marilyn Monroe found dead.

1981 - Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work. You show 'em Ron.

Redneck Pickup Lines

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I play in a band that plays in mostly country redneck bars. Before you get offended, let me just say.... I can call it redneck because I'm a redneck. Here are some of the lines I heard this weekend:

1) Did you fart, cause you blew me away.

2) Are your parents retarded, 'cause you sure are special.

3) My Love for you is like diarrhea ... I can't hold it in.

4) Do you have a library card, 'cause I'd like to sign you out.

5) Is there a mirror in your pants? Because I can see myself in them.

6) If you and I were Squirrels, I'd store my nuts in your hole.

7) You might not be the best looking girl here, but beauty is only a light switch away.

8) Man - "Fat Penguin!"

Woman - "WHAT?"

Man - "I just wanted to say something that would break the ice."

9) I may not be Fred Flintstone, but I bet I can make your bed-rock.

10) I can't find my puppy, can you help me find him? I think he went into this cheap motel room.

11) Your eyes are as blue as window cleaner.

12) If you're going to regret this in the morning, we can sleep until the afternoon.

13) Your face reminds me of a wrench, every time I think of it my nuts tighten up.