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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
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