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Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'National Chocolate Souffle Day'.
[The Hankster says ] Please go softly thru the rest of this post. We do not want our souffle to fall.
Tomorrow is 'Tooth Mouse Day', well it will really be 'National Tooth Fairy Day'.
[The Hankster says ] When our ancestors were not burying the teeth to keep evil spirits from getting to them, they were blaming their disappearance on the Tooth Mouse. I prefer the fairy since the mouse did not leave money under the pillow. Oh, and the evil spirits were afraid to come in my room when I was a kid, so no problem there. Even I had to move with caution,
Tomorrow will be 'National Public Sleeping Day'.
[The Hankster says] I would never be caught doing such a ... zzzzzzzzz.
Pick 'um and arrange 'um. Tomorrow is 'National Floral Design Day'.
Looks like we have a world wide awareness day tomorrow. It will be 'Rare Disease Day Global'. The U.S. and New Zealand' have their own day and it will be 'Wear That You Care in the Philippines'. All celebrated on the last day of February.
For the adventuresome among you, tomorrow will be 'World Sword Swallower's Day'. Last Saturday of February
[The Hankster says] I say you, because I won't be participating.
Another awareness day tomorrow in New Zealand. It will be 'Women’s Wellness Day'.
And yet a third awareness day tomorrow will be 'Mar CANSA Shavathon'. In South Africa. Celebrating Cancer Survivors.
Michelangelo once said 'There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.'
[The Hankster says ] I will not pit my ingenuity or imagination against this fellow. SO, let us jump right in and see what February 28 in the past had to offer. Let us see who spent their time well.
In 1827, The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
In 1849, The first passenger ship, SS California (steamship), line from New York arrives in San Francisco. I
[The Hankster says] It took 4 months and 22 days to get those Forty-Niners (Diggers to my Aussie friends) to the gold fields. What about the train? There wasn't a transcontinental railroad yet.
In 1883, The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston.
[The Hankster says] And I have been borrowing jokes ever since.
In 1885, The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
In 1925, The song 'Tea For Two' by Marion Harris hit #1. The song is from the 1925 musical 'No, No, Nanette'.
In 1935, Wallace Carothers manufactures the first nylon polymer.
In 1939, The erroneous word 'dord' is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
In 1940, Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
In 1943, The play Porgy and Bess, with an all African-American cast, opened on Broadway.
In 1953, Cambridge University scientists discover the chemical structure of DNA.
In 1954, The first color TV sets using NTSC standard are produced and are made available to the public.
In 1956, Jay Forrester is issued a patent for computer core memory.
In 1976, At the 18th Grammy Awards, Record of the Year is 'Love Will Keep Us Together' by Captain and Tennille. Album of the Year is 'Still Crazy After All These Years' by Paul Simon. Song of the Year is 'Send In the Clowns' by Judy Collins. Natalie Cole is Best New Artist.
In 1983, The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
In 1984, At the 26th Grammy Awards, Record of the Year is 'Beat It' by Michael Jackson (one of eight awards). Album of the Year is 'Thriller' by Michael Jackson. Song of the Year is 'Every Breath You Take' by The Police. Best New Artist is Culture Club.
In 1991, The first Gulf War ends.
In 1996, At the 38th Grammy Awards, Record of the Year and Song of the Year is 'Kiss From a Rose' by Seal. Album of the Year is 'Jagged Little Pill' by Alanis Morissette. Best New Artist is Hootie and the Blowfish.
In 1998, First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
In 2004, At the 24th Golden Raspberry Awards, 'Gigli' wins.
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February is:
February origin (from Wikipedia):
'The Roman month Februarius was named after the Latin term
februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual
Februa held on February 15 (full moon) in the old lunar Roman
calendar. January and February were the last two months to
be added to the Roman calendar, since the Romans originally
considered winter a monthless period. They were added by
Numa Pompilius about 713 BC. February remained the last month
of the calendar year until the time of the decemvirs (c. 450 BC),
when it became the second month. At certain intervals February
was truncated to 23 or 24 days, and a 27-day intercalary month,
Intercalaris, was inserted immediately after February to realign
the year with the seasons.
Under the reforms that instituted the Julian calendar, Intercalaris
was abolished, leap years occurred regularly every fourth year,
and in leap years February gained a 29th day. Thereafter, it
remained the second month of the calendar year, meaning the
order that months are displayed (January, February, March,
..., December) within a year-at-a-glance calendar. Even during
the Middle Ages, when the numbered Anno Domini year began
on March 25 or December 25, the second month was February
whenever all twelve months were displayed in order. The
Gregorian calendar reforms made slight changes to the system
for determining which years were leap years and thus contained
a 29-day February.'
February is the second month of the year in the Julian and
Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month
with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years
or 29 days in leap years.
February is the third month of meteorological winter in the
Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, February
is the third month of summer (the seasonal equivalent of August
in the Northern Hemisphere, in meteorological reckoning).
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