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Today in History: August 3

1347
Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrender to Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the siege.

1492
Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his voyage to the new world.

1546
French printer Etienne Dolet, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, is hanged and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature.

1553
Mary Tudor, the new Queen of England, enters London.

1610
Henry Hudson of England discovers a great bay on the east coast of Canada and names it for himself.

1692
French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeat the English at the Battle of Steenkerque in the Netherlands.

1805
Muhammad Ali becomes the new ruler of Egypt.

1807
The trial of Aaron Burr begins. He is accused of plotting the secession of New England.

1864
Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama.

1882
Congress passes the Immigration Act, banning Chinese immigration for ten years.

1908
Allan Allensworth files the site plan for the first African-American town, Allensworth, California.

1911
Airplanes are used for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes reconnoiter Turkish lines near Tripoli.

1914
Germany declares war on France.

1916
Sir Roger Casement is hanged for treason in England.

1945
Chinese troops under American General Joseph Stilwell take the town of Myitkyina from the Japanese.


1958
The first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, passes under the North Pole.

1967
President Lyndon B. Johnson announces plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam.

1972
Former Beatle Paul McCartney announces formation of his new group, Wings.

1975
The Louisiana Superdome is dedicated.

1977
Radio Shack unveils TRS-80 personal computer, which with Apple and Commodore would form the "1977 Trinity." Its price and Radio Shack's established retail outlets made it a bestseller for several years.

1990
The US commits naval forces to the Persian Gulf region in the wake of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

2004
Statue of Liberty's pedestal reopens to visitors after being closed following the 9/11 terrorist attacks

2020
Number of Iranian COVID-19 deaths triple that of government tally, showing 42,000 have died instead of 14,405, according to BBC Persian Service investigation


Today in History: Born on August 3

1926
Tony Bennett, singer ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco").

1941
Martha Stewart, business magnate and television personality.

JOTD
I think, I'm going to lose my drivers license...

and all just because of a stupid police officer... The conversation went like this, when I got pulled over in my car:

Officer: "License and registration, please, I think you are drunk!"

Me: "I assure you, I did not drink anything."

Officer: "Ok, let's do a little test! Imagine driving in the dark on a highway at night, when you see two lights in the distance. What is this?"

Me: "A car."

Officer:"Of course! But which one? A Mercedes, an Audi or a Ford?"

Me:"I have no idea!"

Officer:"So, you're drunk."

Me:"But I didn't drink anything."

Officer:"Okay, one more test -- Imagine, you drive in the dark on a highway at night, and there is one light coming at you.What is it?

Me:"A motorcycle."

Officer:"Of course! But which one? A Honda, a Kawasaki or a Harley?"

Me:"I have no idea!"

Officer:"As I suspected, you're drunk!"

Then I started to get annoyed and asked a counter question.

Me:"So..., counter question -- You're driving in the dark on a highway at night and see a woman on the roadside. She wears a mini skirt, fishnet stockings, high heeled shoes and only a bra as a top. What is this?"

Officer:"A prostitute of course."

Me:"Yes, but which one? Your daughter, your wife or your mother?"

Things went downhill from there and now I have a court date to attend

Morning all

Morning All have a Safe Fun Day.

Today in History: August 4

1265
King Henry III puts down a revolt of English barons lead by Simon de Montfort.

1578
A crusade against the Moors of Morocco is routed at the Battle of Alcazar-el-Kebir. King Sebastian of Portugal and 8,000 of his soldiers are killed.

1717
A friendship treaty is signed between France and Russia.

1789
The Constituent Assembly in France abolishes the privileges of nobility.

1790
The Revenue Cutter service, the parent service of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, is organized.


1864
Federal troops fail to capture Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, one of the Confederate forts defending Mobile Bay.

1875
The first Convention of Colored Newspapermen is held in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1879
A law is passed in Germany making Alsace Lorraine a territory of the empire.

1914
Germany invades Belgium causing Great Britain to declare war on Germany.

1942
The British government charges that Mohandas Gandhi and his All-Indian Congress Party favor "appeasement" with Japan.

1944
RAF pilot T. D. Dean becomes the first pilot to destroy a V-1 buzz bomb when he tips the pilotless craft's wing, sending it off course.

1952
Helicopters from the U.S. Air Force Air Rescue Service land in Germany, completing the first transatlantic flight by helicopter in 51 hours and 55 minutes of flight time.

1964
The bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E. Chaney, are discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam.

1964
The U.S.S. Maddox and Turner Joy exchange fire with North Vietnamese patrol boats.

1971
The U.S. launches the first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft (Apollo 15).

1972
Arthur Bremer is sentenced to 63 years for shooting Alabama governor George Wallace, later reduced to 53 years.

1979
President Jimmy Carter establishes the Department of Energy.

1988
The US Senate votes to give each Japanese-American who was interned during WWII $20,000 compensation and an apology.

2007
NASA launches the Phoenix spacecraft on a mission to Mars.

2020
COVID-19 infection spike forces a return to lockdown in Manila and surrounding provinces in the Philippines, affecting 27 million people as cases pass 100,000

2020
UN says COVID-19 pandemic has created biggest educational disruption in history affecting nearly 1.6 million students in 190 countries, 94% worldwide

2021
Global known COVID-19 caseload passes 200 million, with the death toll at 4.2 million according to Johns Hopkins

Today in History: Born on August 4
1792
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and author.

1805
William Rowan Hamilton, Irish scientist.

1901
Louis Armstrong, legendary jazz trumpeter.

1912
Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat credited with saving nearly 100,000 Budapest Jews during World War II.

1958
Mary Decker Slaney, American athlete, winner of seven track and field records.

1961
Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States of America born in Kenya Africa

JOTD
Bob was in big trouble......
He forgot his wedding anniversary. His wife was really angry. She told him "Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in 6 seconds AND IT BETTER BE THERE!"

The next morning he got up early and left for work. When his wife woke up, she looked out the window and sure enough, there was a box gift-wrapped in the middle of the driveway. Confused, the wife put on her robe and ran out to the driveway, brought the box back in the house. She opened it and found a brand new bathroom scale.

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1265
King Henry III puts down a revolt of English barons lead by Simon de Montfort.

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Henry's last child, Katherine, developed a degenerative disease (likely Rett's Syndrome) that gradually crippled her and took away her ability to speak. Henry and his wife Eleanor were devoted parents and tried everything to help the poor girl during her decline. Including, in the last year of her life, getting her a pet deer to spend her time with.

Even today, with the many advancements we've made in medical care, it is still very unlikely someone with Rett Syndrome will live past their 40s.

Morning all

Yeah me too

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