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GooOOOoood Morning everyone!!
Any day where you don't wake up dead is a great one. :D
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1663 King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island.
1776 Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence to a crowd gathered at Independence Square in Philadelphia.
1839 American oilman John D. Rockefeller was born in Richford, N.Y.
1853 An expedition led by Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Yedo Bay, Japan, on a mission to seek diplomatic and trade relations with the Japanese.
1889 The Wall Street Journal was first published.
1891 Warren G. Harding married Florence K. DeWolfe in Marion, Ohio.
1907 Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first ''Follies'' on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in New York City after his return from the Versailles Peace Conference in France.
On July 8, 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
1986 Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.
1987 Kitty Dukakis, wife of Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, revealed she had been addicted to amphetamines but had sought help and was drug-free.
1994 Kim Il Sung, North Korea's communist leader since 1948, died at age 82.
1997 The Mayo Clinic and the government warned the diet-drug combination known as ''fen-phen'' could cause serious heart and lung damage.
2003 Twenty-nine-year-old Iranian twins joined at the head died following surgery in Singapore to separate them.
2004 Enron founder and former chairman Kenneth Lay pleaded innocent in Houston to charges related to the company's collapse.
2004 Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas and his son Timothy were convicted in New York of looting the cable company and deceiving investors.
Kevin Bacon turns 47 today
Anjelica Huston is 54 today
Musician Beck is 35 today
Tennis pro Anastasia Myskina turns 24 today
... and I haven't had my coffee yet. Slept late for a change. TOUGH TRIVIA coming shortly....
Have a great day all. :D
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