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[Bri369]

Hi @Preds 

[Cakers3]

On this day:

1975-Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed a partnership for Microsoft.

1973-World Trade Center opens.

1968-Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.

1940-NATO treaty signed in Washington, DC

1789-First US Congress begins regular sessions under Pres.Washington

1655-Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbary pirates.  No relationship to Dennis Farina. 

1581-Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I.

[suzyQ3]

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@Cakers3 wrote:

On this day:

1975-Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed a partnership for Microsoft.

1973-World Trade Center opens.

1968-Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.

1940-NATO treaty signed in Washington, DC

1789-First US Congress begins regular sessions under Pres.Washington

1655-Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbary pirates.  No relationship to Dennis Farina. 

1581-Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I.

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@Cakers3, I was fine until I got to the last one. I read it as "1581-Francis Drake dated Queen Elizabeth I.

Where IS my mind?

[RedTop]

Just reminded my husband his grandmother would be 120 years old today.   She lived to be 101 1/2.