Today is International Make Your Point Day
• Today is Fantasy Island Day, marking the debut of the TV series on this date in 1978. It starred Ricardo Montalban as Mr. Rourke and Herve Villechaize is his faithful sidekick Tattoo in 130 episodes..
• Today is fun at work day. Plan fun activities to make workers laugh, and they will be more productive.
• Today is national Kazoo day. Or if you don't have a kazoo, a pocket comb and paper will do. Play something upbeat
• Today is National Blueberry Pancake Day.
• Today is National Serendipity Day.
And on this day, since i have been alive....
1973: Ron Howard appeared in a M*A*S*H episode entitled "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet."
1985: Dozens of top singing stars joined to record the anti-hunger anthem, "We Are the World," written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. When the video was released, Jackson was the only singer whose solos had been re-shot so that he could be seen singing alone.
1987: ABC-TV moved reporter Charles Gibson into the co-anchor chair next to Joan Lunden for the start of another era of "Good Morning America." Eleven-year host, David Hartman, retired as original host of the show.
1993: Dallas Police revealed that grease burglars had hijacked more than seven tons of scrapings from griddles and deep-fat fryers in local restaurants in less than a month. The rotten grease had a street value of 13-cents a pound for use in cattle feed and cosmetics.
1998: Scientists in New York announced fossil ants dating back 90 million years, proving the existence of the insects back to the age of dinosaurs. The ancient ants were uncovered in New Jersey.
1999: Karasjok, in north Norway, recorded its coldest temperature of the century at a minus-60.2 degrees Fahrenheit. The town recorded minus-60.5 in 1886.
1999: Ford announced the purchase of Sweden's Volvo for $6.45 billion.
2001: A 19-year-old robbery suspect in the Netherlands was allowed out of jail to take his driving test. In fact, a police officer went with him and returned him to his cell immediately afterward. Arrested only two hours before he was to take the test, the suspect kept his cool and passed it.
2005: European scientists confirmed the first known case of 'mad cow' disease in a goat.
2005, Condoleezza Rice became the 66th U.S. secretary of State and first African-American woman to hold the office.
2007: Some 10,000 people lost power for 45 minutes in Juneau, Alaska, when an over-confident eagle failed to clear power lines with a deer's head in its talons. Apparently, the eagle found the head in the city's landfill. The bird's body and his prize were found at the scene of the broken cable.
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