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Today in History: May 21

0996 Sixteen year old Otto III is crowned the Roman Emperor.

1506 Christopher Columbus dies.

1790 Paris is divided into 48 zones.

1940 British forces attack German General Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at Arras, slowing his blitzkrieg of France.

1951 The U.S. Eighth Army counterattacks to drive the Communist Chinese and North Koreans out of South Korea.

1961 Governor John Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama.

1970 The U.S. National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University.

1999 All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history

2018 Former US president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama sign deal with Netflix to produce films and series

2019 Washington is the first US state to legalize human composting

2023 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky makes a surprise appearance at G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, with world leaders also making a statement to condemn Chinese acts of "economic coercion"

Born on May 21

0427 Plato, Greek philosopher.

1917 Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason).

JOTD

A guy with bad gas goes to the doctor

He says “doc, you gotta help me. I can’t stop farting. It’s the weirdest thing, they don’t smell, and there’s no sound, but they won’t stop. I’ve farted 5 times while telling you this and see, you didn’t even notice”
The doc writes him a prescription and says “take this and come back in a week.
A week later the guy comes back and says “Doc, those pills didn’t stop the farts. All they did was make them smell terrible. I can hardly stand it”
The doctor replied “Good. Now that your sinuses are cleared up let’s work on your hearing”

Morning all

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The doctor replied “Good. Now that your sinuses are cleared up let’s work on your hearing”

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Evening ALL

Today in History: May 22

334 BC The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus

1246 Henry Raspe is elected anti-king by the Rhenish prelates in France.

1455 King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses.

1856 U.S. Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner's earlier condemnation of slavery, which included an insult to Brooks' cousin, Senator Andrew Butler.

1863 Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins.

1872 The Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners.

1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign a "Pact of Steel" forming the Axis powers.

1967 The children's program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiers.

1985 Baseball player Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108.

1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance on The Tonight Show on NBC, after 30 years as the program's host.

2004 An EF4 tornado with a record-setting width of 2.5 miles wipes out Hallam, Nebraska, killing 1 person.

2011 An EF5 tornado kills at least 158 people in Joplin, Missouri, the largest death toll from a tornado since record-keeping began in 1950.

2017 Suicide bombing at Manchester Arena, England, after Ariana Grande concert kills 22 and injures 59

2022 Report released on sexual abuse in US Southern Baptist Convention, the country's largest Protestant denomination, details 20 years of suppressing many allegations

2023 New deal cutting water usage of the Colorado River agreed by California, Arizona and Nevada, aims to conserve 3 million acre-feet of water by 2026

Born on May 22

1928 T Boone Pickens, oil magnate and financier who developed a reputation as a corporate raider in the 1980s.

1942 Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, infamous as Unabomber terrorist.

JOTD

Breaking news :NASA wants first person to reach Mars, to be a woman.

So that when men arrive, dinner would be ready.

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This condescending tone is becoming unbearable

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Today in History: May 23

1430 Burgundians capture Joan of Arc and sell her to the English.

1533 Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.

1862 Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia.

1934 American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - Bonnie and Clyde, are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana

1945 Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, commits suicide after being captured by Allied forces.

1949 The Federal Republic of West Germany is proclaimed.

1960 Israel announces the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

1977 US Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell

1980 Horror film "The Shining" released directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, based on book by Stephen King

2019 The last slave ship to smuggle slaves to America from Africa, the Clotilda (sunk 1860), is found in Mobile river, Alabama

2022 US President Joe Biden says for the first time he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion

2023 451 Illinois Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children over 70 years, according to state's attorney general’s office

Born on May 23

1934 Robert A. Moog, electrical engineer, creator of the Moog synthesizer.

JOTD

Two identical twin brothers, George and Ted, turned 100. George's hearing was just as good as ever, but Ted was slightly deaf.

An attractive female photographer came to the retirement home to take the brothers' picture. "I'm going to take your picture," she said.
"What did she say?" asked Ted. "She says she's going to take our picture," replied George. So George and Ted followed the photographer to a room.
Inside the room were two chairs. "Now sit down in these chairs," she said.
"What did she say?" asked Ted. "She says we should sit down in these chairs," replied George. So George and Ted sat down in the chairs.
The photographer pulled out her camera and pointed it at the birthday brothers. "Now let me focus," she said.
"What did she say?" asked Ted. "She says she's going to focus," replied George.
"Wow!" exclaimed Ted. "Both of us at the same time?"

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Roughneck, how far are you from Guthrie?

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30 miles North from Guthrie I'm just outside of Perry.