NATIONAL Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
NATIONAL Drinking Straw Day
NATIONAL Fruitcake Toss Day [who keeps them this long?]
NATIONAL Festival of Sleep Day [now here's a holiday I can get into!]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1521 Martin Luther excommunicated from Catholic Church
1920 NY Yankees acquired Babe Ruth
1947 Proceedings of US Congress are televised for the first time
1958 Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole
1959 Alaska admitted to the US as the 49th state
1962 Fidel Castro excommunicated from Catholic Church
1977 Apple Computers incorporates
1996 First mobile flip phone goes on sale
1999 Mars Polar Lander launched
2000 The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published after a 50-year run
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