You're definitely on the wrong coast to be doing the good morning threads :D
GOOD MORNING! It's almost noon here in the peg. On my 6th cup now...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1801 The North African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.
1922 Singer-actress Judy Garland was born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn.
1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
1940 Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.
1942 The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.
1946 Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a republic.
1964 The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern lawmakers.
On June 10, 1967, the Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
1977 James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others; he was recaptured three days later.
1978 Affirmed won horse racing's Triple Crown by taking the Belmont Stakes.
1985 Socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha ''Sunny'' von Bulow.
1999 Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war.
2000 Syrian President Hafez Assad died at age 69.
2002 Organized crime figure John Gotti died at a prison hospital in Missouri at age 61.
2003 ImClone chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in connection with a stock-trading scandal.
2004 Singer-musician Ray Charles died at age 73.
Elizabeth Hurley turns 40 today
Prince Philip turns 84 today
Have a good day Tala and everyone. :D