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Mmmmornin' all.
Tala.... have a SAFE trip.
Now for my usual gallon of coffeee...
ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY:
44 B.C. Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1767 Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born in Waxhaw, S.C.
1820 Maine became the 23rd state.
1875 The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York City, John McCloskey, was named the first American cardinal by Pope Pius IX.
1913 President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference.
1919 The American Legion was founded in Paris.
1956 The Lerner and Loewe musical ''My Fair Lady'' opened on Broadway.
1964 Actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal.
1975 Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, the husband of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, died at age 69.
1977 The U.S. House of Representatives began a 90-day test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on TV.
1998 Child care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock died at age 94.
2002 Andrea Yates of Houston was sentenced to life in prison for drowning her five children in a bathtub.
2003 Hu Jintao was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China.
2004 Martha Stewart resigned from the board of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia 10 days after she was convicted in a stock scandal.
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