Thursday Morning Open Thread!

 Glad it's the downside of the week.

So for today in history

• 1586 Potatoes (originally from Columbia) are introduced to England 
• 1818 Illinois is admitted in the USA as the 21st State.
• 1847 The North Star an anti slavery newspaper is started be Fredrick Douglass and Martin R Delaney
• 1967 The First Human Heart Transplant is performed by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky
• 1989 The USA (George H. W. Bush) and the USSR (Mikhail Gorbachev) announce the end of the Cold War.

Have a good one, and fire below.