'Ello world. Emily is still here, even though partially I am not, you can ooobbbbbvvviously tell that I am.
Lets see what has happened today in the past year or so.
1783 Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.
1789 Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
1801 John Marshall was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.
1861 Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
1913 Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Ala.
1938 The Thornton Wilder play "Our Town" opened on Broadway.
1941 The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed.
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.
1948 The island nation of Ceylon - now Sri Lanka - became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
1977 The album "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac was released.
1983 Singer Karen Carpenter died at age 32.
1987 Pianist Liberace died at age 67.
1997 A civil jury found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
1999 Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo was shot and killed in front of his Bronx home by four plainclothes New York City police officers who said they mistook his wallet for a gun. The police fired 41 shots at Diallo.
2000 A coalition government that included Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party came to power in Austria, triggering European Union sanctions.
2003 Yugoslavia was dissolved and replaced with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.
2004 The Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marry.
Wow… That’s a llooottt.
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