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Originally Posted by nmcog
Do you have to do this everyday
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Yes.
However, the good news is that you do not have to click on it every day. Isn't that great? :D
Morning Tala..... yes, I overslept again, and then got caught up in answering emails and ICQ's from overnight. It's been a busy morning.
Anyway, without further ado....
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1822 Florida became a U.S. territory.
1867 Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million, a deal roundly ridiculed as ''Seward's Folly.''
1870 The 15th amendment to the Constitution, giving black men the right to vote, was declared in effect.
1870 Texas was readmitted to the Union.
1909 The Queensboro Bridge, linking the New York boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, opened.
1945 The Soviet Union invaded Austria during World War II.
1981 President Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr. Also wounded were White House news secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent and a District of Columbia police officer.
1986 Actor James Cagney died at age 86.
1995 Pope John Paul II issued an encyclical condemning abortion and euthanasia as crimes that no human laws could legitimize.
1998 German automaker BMW bought Rolls-Royce for $570 million.
1999 A jury in Portland, Ore., ordered Philip Morris to pay $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades.
2002 The Queen Mother Elizabeth of England died at age 101.