That's me :). I needed to show how big a deal the mozzies were, that was the most effective way I could do it in a photo.The things a photographer will go through for the right image! You can read the extensive story of the expedition here, or a shorter form in an imgur album.
I fell in the river. When I took one shoe off to squeegee my sock the mozzies descended - then I realized it was a good photo so I took the other shoe off, waited for 40 hellish seconds & took this pic.
| 455 | Rome is sacked by the Vandal army. | |
| 1815 | Napoleon defeats the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny. | |
| 1858 | Lincoln, in accepting the wingnut nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, declares that, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” | |
| 1864 | The siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins after a moonlight skirmish. | |
| 1907 | The Russian czar dissolves the Duma in St. Petersburg. | |
| 1910 | The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington. | |
| 1925 | France accepts a German proposal for a security pact. | |
| 1932 | The ban on Nazi storm troopers is lifted by the von Papen government in Germany. | |
| 1935 | President Franklin Roosevelt‘s New Deal legislation is passed by the House of Representatives. | |
| 1940 | French Chief of State, Henri Petain asks for an armistice with Germany. | |
| 1952 | Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in the United States. | |
| 1955 | The U.S. House of Representatives votes to extend Selective Service until 1959. | |
| 1961 | Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris. | |
| 1971 | An El Greco sketch, “The Immaculate Conception,” stolen in Spain 35 years earlier, is recovered in New York City by the FBI. | |
| 1977 | Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union. |
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| 1184 | King Magnus of Norway is defeated by his rival, Sverre. | |
| 1215 | King John signs the Magna Carta. | |
| 1381 | The English peasant revolt is crushed in London. | |
| 1389 | Ottoman Turks crush Serbia in the Battle of Kosovo. | |
| 1607 | Colonists in North America complete James Fort in Jamestown. | |
| 1752 | Benjamin Franklin and his son test the relationship between electricity and lightning by flying a kite in a thunder storm. | |
| 1775 | George Washington is named Commander-in-Chief by Congress. | |
| 1779 | American General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, New York. | |
| 1836 | Arkansas is admitted into the Union as the 25th state. | |
| 1846 | Great Britain and the United States agree on a joint occupation of Oregon Territory. | |
| 1849 | James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, dies. | |
| 1862 | General J.E.B. Stuart completes his “ride around McClellan.” | |
| 1864 | The Battle for Petersburg begins. | |
| 1866 | Prussia attacks Austria. | |
| 1877 | Henry O. Flipper becomes the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. | |
| 1898 | The U.S. House of representatives approves the annexation of Hawaii. | |
| 1904 | Fire aboard the paddle steamer General Slocum on New York’s East River kills 1,021, mostly German-Americans. | |
| 1916 | President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America. | |
| 1917 | Great Britain pledges the release of all Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916. | |
| 1920 | Three African Americans are lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, by a white mob of 5,000. | |
| 1928 | Wingnuts, convening in Kansas City, name Herbert Hoover their candidate for Pretender. | |
| 1932 | Gaston Means is sentenced to 15 years for fraud in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. | |
| 1940 | The French fortress of Verdun is captured by Germans. | |
| 1944 | U.S. Marines begin the invasion of Saipan in the Pacific. | |
| 1947 | The All India Congress accepts a British plan for the partition of India. | |
| 1958 | Greece severs military ties to Turkey because of the Cyprus issue. | |
| 1964 | The last French troops leave Algeria. | |
| 1977 | The first general election in Spain since 1936 results in victory for the UCD (Union of Democratic Centre). |
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