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Today's Fun Facts--Heard Daily at 6:30 AM |
Friday, July 30, 2010
The 211th day of the year, 154 days until 2011
TODAY'S EVENTS
• Today is National Cheesecake Day.
• Today is Tic Tac Dough Day. The CBS-TV game show debuted on this date in 1956. It ran three years, then was resurrected for a year in 1978.
• Today is Cubbyhole Appreciation Day.
• Today is Paperback Day, marking the start of the paperback book revolution
ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY
1954: Elvis Presley made his first paid performance opening for singer Slim Whitman at Overton Park in Memphis. The 19-year-old nervously began gyrating his leg and a legend began.
1965: U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation creating a health-care program for the elderly called "Medicare." It became effective the following year.
1968: The Beatles closed their Apple boutique in London by giving away everything.
1974: America’s top advocate of natural foods, 63-year-old Euell Gibbons, disclosed that he had an ulcer. The author of Stalking the Wild Asparagus said he had taken too many aspirins for arthritis.
1978: Gary Deathbridge set a record by racing the 36 miles from Nanaimo to Vancouver, British Columbia, in one hour 29 minutes 40 seconds in a 6-horse-power outboard bathtub.
1987: NBC’s "L.A. Law" received 20 Emmy nominations, just shy of the "Hill Street Blues" record 21 received in 1982.
1991: The U.S. issued a patent (#5,035,072) to Rayma Rich of Las Vegas for the Collapsible Riding Companion, a simulated male human head and torso to ride shotgun with a lone driver. When not riding, the device collapses into a lightweight easy-to-carry travel case.
2002: WNBA player Lisa Leslie became the first woman to dunk in a pro basketball game, jamming on a breakaway in the first half of the Los Angeles Sparks' 82-73 loss to Miami.
2003: An extreme sports fanatic became the first man to cross the English Channel in an unpowered flight. Felix Baumgartner jumped from a plane 30,000 feet above Dover and glided 22 miles at speeds up to 220 miles an hour in a 10-minute flight. He landed by parachute near Calais, France.
2003: Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, who discovered Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins, and Charlie Rich, died in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 80.
2004: British heavyweight Danny Williams knocked out Mike Tyson in the fourth round of a fight in Louisville, Kentucky.
INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT
The word Immanuel, which means "God With Us" appears three times in the Bible. Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 8:8 and Matthew 1:23.
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The Great Dog/Cat
Birthday Battle
For years, dogs and cats have battled for center stage in the hearts and minds of humans. Nowhere is this battle more fierce than in the Calvary 88-5 Birthday Bunch.
(2009 results: Dogs 506 to cats 327 )
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Dogs 263
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Cats 131
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Honorable mentions
| Horse | 1 |
| Rabbits | 6 |
| Birds | 9 |
| Ducks | 5 |
| Turtle | 4 |
| Snake | |
| Lizard | 3 |
| Hedge Hog | |
| Chameleon | |
| Hamster | 3 |
| Chinchilla | |
| Fish | 7 |
| Goats | |
| Chickens | 42 |
| Deer | 1 |
| Seahorse | |
| Guinnea Pig | 7 |
| Frog | |
| Toad | |
| Ferrit | 2 |
| Bearded Dragon | |
| Peacock | |
| Geckos | 3 |
| Lambs | |
| Gerbil | |
| Cattle |
Dogs rule and cats drool!
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