Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Day [tentative]
NATIONAL Square Dance Day
NATIONAL Electronic Greeting Card Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1777 San Jose, California, the first civilian settlement [pueblo] in Alta California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe
1890 The first Army-Navy football game, at West Point: Navy 24, Army 0
1903 An inquiry into the US Postal Service demonstrates the government has lost millions of dollars because of fraud
1948 The children’s television show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres
1963 The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in Great Britain
1972 Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game
2012 Data from the NASA space probe MESSENGER indicate that Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, almost surely has water/ice buried beneath the surface at its north pole
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