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I don't care if it's noon now, I'm bumping this.
Better late than never, especially for coffeee.
On this day in history: Mar 28
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine.
1834 The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1854 Britain and France declared war on Russia during the Crimean War.
1898 The Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen, and therefore could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1930 The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara, respectively.
1939 The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.
1941 Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf drowned herself near her home in England at age 59.
1943 Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died, days before his 70th birthday.
1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, died in Washington at age 78.
1987 Maria von Trapp, whose life inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music,'' died in Morrisville, Vt., at age 82.
2000 In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court sharply curtailed police power to rely on tips to stop and search people.
2002 The Arab League, meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, agreed on a peace plan that offered Israel normal relations in exchange for a full withdrawal from war-won lands and a Palestinian state.
I order you to have a good day.
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