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Today is the 4th day of the 5th week, the 29th day of the 1st month, the 29th day of 2020 [with only 330 shopping days left until Christmas], and:
Curmudgeons Day
Freethinkers Day
National Carnation Day
National Corn Chip Day
National Puzzle Day
Seeing Eye Dog Day
Thomas Paine Day
Earliest day on which Fat Thursday can fall, while March 4 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Ash Wednesday. (Christianity)
ON THIS DAY IN ...
661 - Rashidun Caliphate, then the largest empire in history, ends with the death of its leader, Ali. Succeeded by the Umayyad Caliphate.
1594 - Mathematician John Napier dedicates his "Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" to King James VI, predicts end of the world in 1688 or 1700
1595 - William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is thought to have been first performed. Officially published early 1597.
1802 - First celebration of Burns night, in honor of poet Robert Burns's birthday by The Mother Club in Greenock (later realized his actual birthday 25th January)
1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
1845 – "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
1856 - Victoria Cross established to acknowledge valour in the face of the enemy (United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries)
1886 – Karl Benz patents the "Benz Patent-Motorwagen" in Karlsruhe, Germany, the world's first automobile with a gasoline burning motor
1892 - The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia
1896 - Emile Grubbe is the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
1920 - Walt Disney starts work as an artist with KC Slide Co for $40 a week
1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson.
1959 – The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden.
1959 - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1959 - 'The Great Smog' hits London, many die of chest and lung-related illnesses
1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced: Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and George Halas.
1964 - "Dr Strangelove", directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, premieres
1964 - Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1966 - Neil Simons, Coleman & Fields' musical "Sweet Charity" premieres at the Palace Theater NYC for 608 performances
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 – The Rubik's Cube makes its international debut at the Ideal Toy Corp. in Earl's Court, London.
1986 - 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1988 - United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36 hours 54 minutes 15 seconds
1996 - the 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
1996 - France will no longer test nuclear weapons, its president Jacques Chirac says, following international outcry over tests in the Pacific
1998 - Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
2014 - Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
2014 - Scientists discover how to convert normal cells into stem cells in mice
2018 - Marvel film "Black Panther" directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Chadwick Boseman premieres in Los Angeles
2019 - US Postal Service suspends deliveries to ten states due to severity of the polar vortex
2020 - NASA Voyager is 20 hrs 36 mins 10 sec of light-travel time from Earth
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