On This Day:
"1642 Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy.
Democrat leaders fear astronomy will cause global cooling.1815 U.S. forces led by Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, the closing engagement of the War of 1812.
Johnny Horton's great, great, great grandma bought a guitar. 1918 President Woodrow Wilson outlined his 14 points for peace after World War I.
Democrats still think that a great plan that just needed more time.1935 Rock 'n' roll singer Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss.
Imagine if he was born in Iran!
1959 Charles De Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France's Fifth Republic.
Don't all surrender monkeys look alike?
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty.
Democrats still think that a great plan that just needed more time...... and money.
1973 Secret peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam resumed near Paris.
Secret peace talks kinda suck.
1976 Chinese premier Chou En-lai died in Beijing at age 77.
Not surprising his last name was "lie".
1982 American Telephone & Telegraph settled the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.
America now has 2 satellite companies, one cable company per town and 3 phone companies.
1987 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 2,000 for the first time, ending the day at 2,002.25.
And Tracey Lorenz said the stock market was like Vegas.
1992 President George H.W. Bush, suffering from stomach flu, collapsed during a state dinner in Tokyo.
Sushi and Texans never was a good idea.
1996 Former French president Francois Mitterrand died at age 79.
Sushi and Froggies a good idea.
1998 Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.
Soon to be released.......
1999 The top two executives of Salt Lake City's Olympic Organizing Committee resigned after disclosures that civic boosters had given cash to members of the International Olympic Committee.
Everyone shocked, shocked....... soon to be released.
2007 A Moroccan man convicted of aiding three of the four suicide pilots who had committed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was sentenced by a German court to the maximum of 15 years in prison for his role in the terror plot."
Already released......
GordoM's-first-45-was-"Fools Rush In"