Cupid, draw back your TRIVIA QUIZ!
Today is Valentine’s Day and National Have A Heart Day. One promotes romance, the other promotes eating your vegetables.
Today once was the Feast Day of St. Valentine, the patron saint of lovers. Father Valentine was beheaded in Rome on this date in 269. The church dropped the feast from its liturgical calendar in 1969. The first valentine card was probably sent by the Duke of Orleans while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1415.
Today is Read to Your Child Day, Ferris Wheel Day, Hug Day, and Race Relations Day.
On this day in 1979, history's oldest caged guinea pig, Snowball, died in Bingham, England, at age 14 years 10½ months.
On this day in 1980, CBS announced that reporter Dan Rather had been chosen to succeed retiring "CBS Evening News" anchor Walter Cronkite.
On this day in 1990, Friends of Beer was founded in Czechoslovakia as a political party with a platform of improving the quality of Czech beer while forcing down the price.
This is kind of an obscure one, but what gift did President George Bush give First Lady Barbara for Valentine's Day 1991?
Good luck :)
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A box of chocolates and a card reading "I promise you on this day that some day our son will be the leader of the free world. No, really, I mean that. Hey, stop laughing!"
OK I'm off to hug a minority child while reading to him on a ferris wheel :)
It was an electronic thesaurus and dictionary. Perhaps a gift better suited for their son...
Kim, HA! I like your idea much better. Is that a Hallmark card? :) And I hope you enjoyed your ferris wheel minority reading adventure!
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