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I'm up, awright? I'M UP! No damn coffee made yet but I'm damn well up.
'Sposed to be going all the way up to +18 today.... that's in the mid to high 60's to my friends south of the border.Highest temp. so far this spring for Winnipeg, if you can imagine that. Whatever, no skin off my ass, I'll be inside most of the day working, updating, type type typing. You know... THE USUAL. ha ha
Have a good day.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On April 7, 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
1927 An audience in New York saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.
1939 Italy invaded Albania.
1945 American planes intercepted a Japanese fleet that was headed for Okinawa on a suicide mission during World War II.
1947 Auto pioneer Henry Ford died in Dearborn, Mich., at age 83.
1948 The World Health Organization was founded.
1949 The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''South Pacific'' opened on Broadway.
1953 The U.N. General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be secretary-general.
1957 New York City's last electric trolley completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.
1969 The Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
1976 China's leadership deposed Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping.
1990 Former national security adviser John M. Poindexter was convicted of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. (A federal appeals court later reversed the convictions.)
1990 A display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs opened at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center; the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges.
1992 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat survived the crash-landing of his plane in the Libyan desert; three crew members were killed.
1994 Civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi.
1998 Mary Bono, the widow of entertainer-turned-politician Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband's congressional term.
2001 NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey to the red planet.
2001 An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots.
2003 U.S. troops in more than 100 U.S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad and seized one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces.
2003 The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to uphold a 50-year-old Virginia law making it a crime to burn a cross as an act of intimidation.
2004 Mounir el Motassadeq, the only Sept. 11 suspect ever convicted, was freed after a Hamburg, Germany court, ruled that the evidence was too weak to hold him pending a retrial.
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