Today is Friday January 3, 2014
3rd day of 2014, 362 remaining
Sunrise: 7:25am
Sunset: 5:03pm
Special Celebrations today:
Today is Chocolate Covered Cherry Day,Fruitcake toss Day, Humiliation Day and Festival of Sleep Day.
This is National Hot Tea Month, Oatmeal Month, Soup Month and Wheat Bread Month.
On this day in...
1888: The drinking straw was patented.
1924: The sarcophagus of Tutankhamen was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
1938: The March of Dimes was established to fight Polio in children.
1947: U.S. Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time.
1959: Alaska became the 49th state.
1961: The U.S. severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
2004: NASA's Spirit Rover landed on Mars.
If today is your birthday, you share it with:
J.R.R. Tolkien
Zasu Pitts
Dabney Coleman
Victoria Principal
Michael Shumacher
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