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GOOD MORNING MY BEAUTIES.

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Today in History: June 20
0451 Roman and barbarian warriors halt Attila's army at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.

1397 The Union of Kalmar unites Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch.

1756 Nearly 150 British soldiers are imprisoned in the 'Black Hole' cell of Calcutta. Most die.

1793 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent.

1863 President Abraham Lincoln admits West Virginia into the Union as the 35th state.

1898 On the way to the Philippines to fight the Spanish, the U.S. Navy seizes the island of Guam.

1920 Race riots in Chicago, Illinois leave two dead and many wounded.

1923 France announces it will seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying her war debts.

1941 The U.S. Army Air Force is established, replacing the Army Air Corps.

1963 The United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a hot line between Washington and Moscow.

1964 General William Westmoreland succeeds General Paul Harkins as head of the U.S. forces in Vietnam.

1967 Boxing champion Muhammad Ali is convicted of refusing induction into the American armed services.

2017 US toymaker Mattel releases 15 new body types for their Ken doll, including one with a man bun

2021 Brazil's COVID-19 death toll passes 500,000, the second highest in the world


Born on June 20
1907 Lillian Hellman, playwright (The Little Foxes, Toys in the Attic).

1909 Errol Flynn, film actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood).

1924 Audie Murphy, American soldier during World War II, author and actor.

JOTD
So there is a Priest, a Rabbi, and an Atheist in a boat fishing.

The priest says "Oh heavens, I forgot my lures back on land" and steps out of the boat, walks across the water back to the land, and grabs his lures before walking back to the boat.
The atheist was astounded, but before he could make sense of the situation, the rabbi says "Oh Hashem help me, I forgot my bait!" And he also steps out of the boat, and walks across the water back to the land to grab his bait, before walking back to the boat.
The atheist was stunned, but refusing to believe in divinity of any sort or it's impact on the world, he says "Yeah... I left my extra line on land". The atheist hips out of the boat and onto the water, and goes to walk across, but falls right through to the bottom of the lake.
After a moment the priest looks at the rabbi and says "Come to think of it, we probably should have told him where the rocks were."

Have a Great Weekend All

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Today in History: June 22
1772 Slavery is outlawed in England.

1807 British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.

1876 General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages.

1910 German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.

1933 Adolf Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.

1941 Under the code-name Barbarossa, Germany invades the Soviet Union.

1942 A Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.

1944 President Franklin Roosevelt signs the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.

1970 President Richard Nixon signs the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.

1980 The Soviet Union announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.

1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.

2020 US government data shows African Americans four times more likely than whites to be hospitalized for COVID-19 highlighting racial disparities for the pandemic

2022 United Kingdom posts highest inflation rate in the G7 at 9.1%, a 40-year high, lead by a rise in the price of food and fuel

Born on June 22
1898 Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front).

1941 Ed Bradley, broadcast journalist.

JOTD
A woman walked by a pet shop on the way to work

A parrot in the window looks at her and says "you're ugly". The woman immediately complains to the shop owner and he promises he will talk to the parrot about his rude behavior.
The next day as she's walking past the pet shop it happens again - the parrot looks at her and says "you're ugly!" Again she complains to the shop owner - he is very angry with his bird and promises that he will handle the situation and it will not happen again.
The next day on her way to work she hesitantly approaches the shop on the sidewalk. As she comes into view the parrot looks at her, cocks his head and says "you know".

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Today in History: June 23
1700 Russia gives up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.

1863 Confederate forces overwhelm a Union garrison at the Battle of Brashear City in Louisiana.

1944 In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploiesti, Romania.

1966 Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi are dispersed by tear gas.

2012 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees

2018 Indian chess prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa becomes the second-youngest grandmaster at 12 years, 10 months, 13 days

2020 COVID-19 cases rise sharply again in America as country records its 3rd highest daily total, more than 35,000


Born on June 23
1912 Alan M. Turing, English mathematician and pioneer of computer theory.

1940 Wilma Rudolph, American athlete.

1948 Clarence Thomas is an American jurist who serves as the senior associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. Pin Point, Georgia, U.S.

JOTD
The Bathtub Test

During a visit to the mental asylum, I asked the director how do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized. “Well” said the director, “we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub.” “Oh, I understand,” I said. “A normal person would use the bucket because it’s bigger than the spoon or the teacup.” “No.” said the director, “A normal person would pull the plug, Do you want a bed near the window?”

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Congrats, brotha.

I was rooting for OKC all the way through, but had them beating the Celtics in my playoff bracket.

Still don't understand what sort of dark magic the Pacers were using, but I think it claimed Halliburton as a final sacrifice there in the end.