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FINALLY!
Today is the 6th day of the 4th week, the 25th day of the 1st month, the 25th day of 2019, and
- A Room of One's Own Day
- Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day
- Fluoride Day
- Macintosh Computer Day
- National Activity Professionals Day
- National Big Wig Day
- National Fun at Work Day
- National Irish Coffee Day
- National Opposite Day
- National Preschool Health and Fitness Day
- Robert Burns Day
- Thank Your Mentor Day
- Women's Healthy Weight Day
ON THIS DAY IN...
1554 – Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
1755 – Moscow University is established by Elizabeth of Russia and founded by Mikhail Lomonosov on Tatiana Day
1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1817 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" (Cinderella) premieres in Rome
1840 - American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes is first to identify Antarctica as a new continent
1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1949 – The first Emmy Awards are presented; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
1959 - American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.
1961 – Walt Disney's animated film "101 Dalmatians", based on the novel by Dodie Smith and directed by Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske is released in the US
1964 - The Beatles get their first US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
1964 - Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
1993 - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years
1994 – The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
2004 - Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
And it is Friday – while it is cold outside, at least the sun is out
‘nuff said!
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