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Old 06-28-2015, 10:53 AM   #568
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Default Re: This Day In History

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Originally Posted by The Poet View Post
On June 26 in 1948 the Berlin Airlift began, bringing supplies to the 2 million citizens of the Soviet-blockaded of the Western zones of that surrounded city for nearly a year. And in commemoration of that massive effort in 1963, President Kennedy declared in a speech there that he was a doughnut. On the topic of transportation, and in imitation of the German Autobahn system which had been blockaded, in 1956 Congress passed the Federal Highway Act, thus laying the foundation of our present interstate highway system, and ultimately producing what is arguably the greatest monument of the Eisenhower administration. On a damper note, in 1959 the Saint Lawrence Seaway opened.

And today in 1975, the divorce of Sonny and Cher became final. I got screwed, babe.
As I recall, it was a jelly doughnut. He should have said: Ich bin Berliner, not Ich bin ein Berliner. It is sort of like saying: Ich bin ein Frankfurter.
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