Today is June 10. President Andrew Jackson's funeral was held on this day in 1845.
The occasion was unceremoniously disrupted, not by a crowd of well wishers or political enemies, but by Jackson's parrot. The bird continually interrupted the service with loud and raucous swearing, which it had learned from his, um, ah, expressive master during the President's life.
The parrot had to be escorted from the premises. No cracker that day I'm sure.
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