Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown
Today is:
Cakes and Ale Day, UK
Celebration of the 2nd Week of Moonhopper -- Fairy Calendar
Maghi -- Sikh
Narcissus Festival
National Dress Up Your Pet Day
National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
Organize Your Home Day
Pongal, India (harvest festival)
St. Sava's Day (patron of Serbia)
Take a Missionary to Lunch Day
Vinegrower's Day, Bulgaria
Winterskol, Aspen CO (Aspen's annual "toast to winter", through the 17th)
Anniversaries Today:
Joe DiMaggio marries Marilyn Monroe, 1954
Birthdays Today:
Faye Dunaway, 1941
Jack Jones, 1938
Andy Rooney, 1919
William Bendix, 1906
John dos Passos, 1896
Hal Roach, 1892
Hugh Lofting, 1886
Albert Schweitzer, 1875
Thornton W. Burgess, 1874
Benedict Arnold, 1741
Today in History:
Spain annexes Cuba, 1539
The Roman Catholic Church burns Hebrew books in Rome, 1601
Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for wrongly accusing "witches", 1699
Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War, 1783
The US Supreme Court rules that racial separation on trains is unconstitutional, 1878
An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills more than 1000, 1907
Henry Ford introduces the assembly line to the production of the Model-T, 1914
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