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Trucker Driver and Cop

A truck driver was driving along on the freeway. A sign comes up that reads "Low bridge ahead!" Before he knows it, the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under the bridge. Cars are backed up for miles. 
Finally, a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks around to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, "Got stuck, huh?" 
The truck driver says, "No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas."

1863 C.S.S. Hunley sinks during tests

On this day in 1863, the C.S.S. Hunley, the world’s firstsuccessful combat submarine, sinks during a test run, killing its inventor and seven crewmembers.

Horace Lawson Hunley developed the 40-foot submarine from a cylinder boiler. It was operated by a crew of eight—one person steered while the other seven turned a crank that drove the ship’s propeller. The Hunley could dive, but it required calm seas for safe operations. It was tested successfully in Alabama’s Mobile Bay in the summer of 1863, and Confederate commander General Pierre G.T. Beauregard recognized that the vessel might be useful to ram Union ships and break the blockade of Charleston Harbor. The Hunley was placed on a railcar and shipped to South Carolina.

The submarine experienced problems upon its arrival. During a test run, a crewmember became tangled in part of the craft’s machinery and the craft dove with its hatch open; only two men survived the accident. The ship was raised and repaired, but it was difficult to find another crew that was willing to assume the risk of operating the submarine. Its inventor and namesake stepped forward to restore confidence in his creation. On October 15, he took the submarine into Charleston Harbor for another test. In front of a crowd of spectators, the Hunley slipped below the surface and did not reappear. Horace Hunley and his entire crew perished.

How great you are, O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. —2 Samuel 7:22

"I am Yahweh, who saved you out of Egypt. You must never have any other god, but me!" The Lord God Almighty at the beginning of the Ten Commandments reminded us of this central, seminal, and consummate truth. What else is there to say?

October 15th

1965 

• Daniel Held, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 10k runner

1962 

• Susan DeMattei, born in San Francisco, California, cyclist 1996 Olympics bronze

1955 

• Tanya Roberts, Leigh, born in Bronx, New York, actress, Charlie's Angels, Sheena

1946 

• Richard Carpenter, New Haven, Connecticut, vocalist, Carpenters-Close to You

1942 

• Don Stevenson, born in Seattle, Washington rock drummer, Moby Grape

1938 

• Marvin E "Marv" Johnson, U.S. gospel/R&B singer, Move 2 mountains

1935 

• Bobby Joe Morrow, Brownsville, Texas, sprinter, Olympic-3 gold-1956

1921 

• Mario Puzo, born in New York City, novelist, Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake

1858 

• John L Sullivan, Massachusetts, heavyweight boxing champ, 1882-92

1836 

• Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Major General Confederate Army

1832 

• Henry Harrison Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1818 

• Irvin McDowell, Major General Union volunteers

1816 

• Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General Union volunteers