Today is Monday January 3, 2011
Fruitcake Toss Day
Fruitcake seem to be the holiday gift that no one ever asks for, yet everyone always receives. Today is the perfect opportunity to finally throw away that holiday fruit cake, it's National Fruitcake Toss Day! After all, you never really wanted it in the first place.
Every year in Manitou Springs, Colorado there is a Great Fruitcake Toss in which people compete to see how far they can throw or hurtle their fruitcakes. People also use the cakes at this event to make little cars to race during a Fruitcake Derby.
The first Great Fruitcake Toss occurred in 1995 and has since exploded into a huge festival that people come from all over the country to attend. So go ahead and join the rest of the country today in throwing out your holiday fruitcakes!
Today is also National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
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On this day in History:
| 1823 - Stephen F. Austin received a grant from the Mexican government and began colonization in the region of the Brazos River in Texas. 1888 - The drinking straw was patented by Marvin C. Stone. 1938 - The March of Dimes was established by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The organization fights poliomyelitis. The original name of the organization was the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. 1951 - NBC-TV debuted "Dragnet." 1957 - Fats Domino recorded "I'm Walkin'." 1964 - The Beatles made their first appearance on U.S. television in a film clip shown on the "Jack Paar Show." It was a performance of the song "She Loves You." 1993 - U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Moscow. |
Quote of the Day:
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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