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[btd64]

INP....GP

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[btd64]

Well, it's here. Monday.
Please have a good Monday mornin....GP

[RangerJoe]

Good morning everyone. We all know what tomorrow is. Just don't say it....GP

That would be July 7th when in history, these things occurred:

1520 Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force in the Battle of Otumba in Mexico
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie boards French ship ‘Du Teillay’ at St Nazaire accompanied by the warship Elisabeth bound for Scotland
1777 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
1801 Toussaint Louverture declares Haitian independence
1807 French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte and Russian Tsar Alexander I meet on a raft in the middle of the Neman River and sign the first Treaty of Tilsit
1892 Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia
1898 US President McKinley signs the Organic Act to annex Hawaii
1912 American athlete Jim Thorpe wins 4 of 5 events to win the Pentathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982
1928 Sliced bread sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company, Missouri, using a machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder; described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped. (Hence the phrase: "The greatest thing since sliced bread.")
1930 Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
1936 American businessman Henry F. Phillips receives patents for a new "cross-recessed" screw, and the new screwdriver needed to make it work
1936 RCA broadcasts the first real TV program, a variety show with dancing, a film on locomotives, a Bonwit Teller fashion show, and a monologue from Tobacco Road
1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War
1941 US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
1941 World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops
1943 3rd day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: Germans occupy Dubrova, Luftwaffe fighter ace shoots down 7 Russian aircraft
1943 German Submarine U-951 sunk by depth charges, off Cape St. Vincent in the North Atlantic
1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517
1944 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1950 Korean War: UN Security Council establishes the United Nations Command to combat North Korean forces
1954 British runner Jim Peters, 17 minutes ahead of any rival, collapses on the final stadium lap of the Commonwealth Games marathon in Vancouver ( . . . his early fast pace and dehydration on a hot day made him stagger and crawl in search of the line before falling eventually unconscious. He was awarded a special medal at the end of that year by Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II "As a token of admiration to a most gallant marathon runner."')
1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood
1960 US cemetery officially opens at Margraten, Netherlands
1968 British rock group "Yardbirds" disbands; guitarist Jimmy Page recruits new members to fill concert commitments - the new group evolves into Led Zeppelin
1978 Solomon Islands declares independence from the United Kingdom
1990 1st 'Three Tenors' concert featuring Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti at Baths of Caracalla in Rome; recording becomes world's best-selling classical record
1993 Lenny Dykstra hits bases loaded 2-run double to end Phillies 7, LA Dodgers 6 in 20 innings in Philadelphia
1994 North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
1997 Tower, Minnesota, in the USA, temperature dips to 24°F
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Décines-Charpieu: Defending champions US win record 4th title beating the Netherlands, 2-0
2021 Haiti president Jovenel Moïse assassinated in his home in Pétionville, Haiti, state of emergency declared across the country

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Orm]

Morning, Gentlemen. Ladies.

[btd64]

Good morning soldiers....GP

[Orm]

Morning, Gentlemen and Ladies.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Zovs]

Good Morning Folks!

[btd64]

It's hump day everyone. Happy Wednesday morning folks....GP

[RangerJoe]

Good Morning Folks!

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It is coming!

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Zovs]

Good Morning Fine Folks! Hope your all doing well!

[btd64]

Good Morning Fine Folks! Hope your all doing well!

Doing ok and here. Thanks for asking .
Good morning everyone....GP

[Zovs]

Goood evvenniing Volks!

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"