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Today is the 4th day of the 7th week, the 14th day of the 2nd month, the 45th day of 2017, and:
Ash Wednesday
Frederick Douglas Day
International Book Giving Day
International Quirkyalone Day
League of Women Voters Day – founded in Chicago in 1920
Library Lovers Day
National Call in Single Day
National Cream-filled Chocolates Day
National Ferris Wheel Day
National Have a Heart Dy
National Organ Donor Day
National Women's Heart Day
Pet Theft Awareness Day
Race Relations Day
Read to Your Child Day
Singles Awareness Day or Singles Appreciation Day
Valentine's Day
World Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day
World Sound Healing Day
On this day in ...
1663 - Canada becomes a Royal Province of France
1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1852 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
1895 - Oscar Wilde's final play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," opened at the St. James' Theatre in London.
1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1929 – Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago -- a debacle that came to be known as the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
1949 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
1961 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1966 – Australian currency is decimalized.
1990 – The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2003 - Dolly the sheep - the first mammal cloned from an adult - was put to death at age 6 due to premature aging and disease.
2005 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
2011 - The TV game show "Jeopardy!" began airing the first of three episodes pitting human players Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings against an IBM computer named "Watson."
Quote of the day:
"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."
~ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet
Today celebrates love [at least in Western cultures] and starts a season of penance [at least among Roman Catholics]…..
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