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TODAY IS:
Pearl Harbor Day: By Presidential Proclamation, today we honor and remember those who were killed when the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by the Japanese Air Force on December 07th, 1941.

BIRTHDAYS

Eli Wallach (Godfather III: Don)-94
Ellen Burstyn-77
Larry Bird-53
Johnny Bench-62
C. Thomas Howell-43
James Keach-62
Aaron Carter-22

TODAY IN HISTORY

1877 Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1926 Gas refrigerator patented
1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
1945 Microwave oven patented
1963 Instant replay is used for the first time during the Army-Navy football game.
1969 “Frosty The Snowman” first airs on CBS.
1969 PBS debuts.
1973 Wings release “Band on the Run”
1974 “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas # 1.
1985 “Broken Wings” by Mr. Mister # 1.
1988 Yasser Arafat recognizes existence of Israel
1990 “Edward Scissorhands” opens in theaters.
1991 “Black or White” by Michael Jackson # 1.
1996 “Un-Break My Heart” by Toni Braxton #1.

SLIPPER SAFETY
The Warwickshire County Council in Britain has spent thousands of dollars to help those in the 50′s and 60′s learn slipper safety. For about $5 you can bring in your old slippers and get a new pair along with advice on how to wear them. The council claims that the initiative will save money in the long run because it prevents costly injuries to elderly people.

BAD BREATH ROBBER
Police in Detroit are aon the lookout for a man they think robbed the same bank twice. Tellers say the man has crooked yellow teeth and bad breath. Witnesses add he looks and smells dirty.

STOLEN CHRISTMAS TREE
Police in Portagae, IND. pulled over 48-year-old Phillip Menefee on his motorized bike about 1 the other morning. He was balancing a Christmas tree on the handlevars of his bike. The tree had been stolen from a nearby Christmas Tree lot, though he told the cops he bought it at a bar. Police arrested Menefee for theft and public intoxication. The $40 tree, which was marked with a tag, was returned.

BABY ON BOARD
An expectant mother gave birth to a baby boy aboard a Southwest Airlines plane in flight Friday morning north of Denver. The Chicago to Salt Lake City, was diverted to Denver when the mother went into labor at about 30,000 feet altitude. Flight attendants aboard the 737B threw down a blanket in the back of the cabin. A doctor who happened to be on board delivered the baby. “We now have a new passenger,” a flight attendant announced on the jet’s public address system after the delivery.

CORVETTE RETURNED
39 years ago Chance Mayfield came out of a bar to find his prized corvette missing. It’s now being returned to him. The car was traced to Mayfield when a collector who had bought the car tried to register it with the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles. A routine search of the serial number through the National Insurance Claims Bureau showed the car had been stolen. It was worth $2200 then and is now worth $65,000.

USELESS TRIVIA

Chase & Sanborn coffee was the first coffee sold in sealed tin cans in the U. S. in 1879.

Candy maker Milton S. Hersey switched from making caramels to chocolate bars in 1903 because the caramels did not retain the imprint of his name in summertime; chocolate did.

Canned herring is called sardines because the canning process for herring was developed in Sardinia , and the fish were first canned there.

Margarine was called Butterine when it was first marketed in England .

It takes one hour and 45 minutes to hard-boil a three-pound ostrich egg.