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Originally Posted by Tala
Someone wake up CD.
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That someone better be female, I had major morning wood. :D
Good morning you, good morning everyone....
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1587 A second English colony, also fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances, was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.
1796 The city of Cleveland was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
1916 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, killing 10 people.
1933 American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 1/2 hours.
On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.
1937 The Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
1942 Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
1943 American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily.
1946 Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing about 100 people.
1981 Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca was sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting Pope John Paul II.
1991 Police in Milwaukee arrested serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
1992 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin.
1994 O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent to the slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1995 Susan Smith was convicted by a jury in Union, S.C., of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons.
1998 Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia.
2002 Factory worker Alejandro Avila was charged with murder and kidnapping in the abduction and slaying of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion of Stanton, Calif.
2003 Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed when U.S. forces stormed a villa in Mosul, Iraq.
2003 Months after her prisoner-of-war ordeal, Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch returned home to a hero's welcome in Elizabeth, W.Va.
2004 The Sept. 11 commission issued a report saying America's leaders failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats before the 9/11 attacks.
2004 The Army Inspector General's office released a report on abuses by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan which found 94 cases of confirmed or alleged abuse and 39 deaths.
Willem Dafoe turns 50 years old today.
Bob Dole, Former Senate majority leader, is 82
Alex Trebek, fellow Canadian and Game show host (''Jeopardy'') is 65 today
Both actor Danny Glover and singer Don Henley turn 58
John Leguizamo is 41
David Spade Actor-comedian (''Saturday Night Live,'' ''Just Shoot Me'') is 41
Have a freaking great Friday everyone. :D