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Today is the 5th day of the 9th week, the 2nd day of the 3rd month, the 61st day of 2017, and: 
  • Dr. Seuss Day
  • Independence Day:  Morocco from France in 1956
  • National Banana Cream Pie Day
  • National Old Stuff Day
  • National Read Across America Day
  • World Book Day

ON THIS DAY:  In 537 the Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges began the siege of Rome.  In 1561 Mendoza, Argentina was founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro del Castillo.  In 1717 The Loves of Mars and Venus was the first ballet performed in England.  In 1791 long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.  In 1797 the Bank of England issued the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.  In 1825 Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, was defeated in combat and captured by authorities.  In 1901 United States Steel Corporation was founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company and became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.  In 1933 the film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.  In 1949 Captain James Gallagher landed his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.  In 1961 John F. Kennedy announced the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.  In 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks, an NBA record that still stands.  In 1965 the movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" had its world premiere in New York.  In 1969 the supersonic airliner Concorde flew for the first time.  In 1972 the Pioneer 10 space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.  In 1983 compact discs and players were released for the first time in the United States and other markets; they had previously been available only in Japan.  In 1995 researchers at Fermilab announced the discovery of the top quark.  In 1998 data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicated that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.

Quote of the day:

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,

Are a substantial world, both pure and good:

Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,

Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

~  William Wordsworth, Personal Talk
 

 

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