Today is the 122nd day of 2024 and the 44th day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1840, the Penny Black, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, was issued in Great Britain. In 1866, racial violence broke out in Memphis, Tennessee; in a three-day span, 46 African Americans were killed. In 1898, the U.S. Navy, led by Commodore George Dewey, defeated the Spanish Pacific fleet at Manila Bay in the…