Happy Festival of Sleep Day! It's also Momento Mori "Remember You Die" Day (lovely, thanks for the reminder. jerk.), Tolkien Day, Chocolate Covered Cherries Day and Fruitcake Toss Day. I suppose I could toss a few of you. Only the light ones though, I don't want to throw out a shoulder or anything. Today's birthdays include Mel Gibson , Danica McKellar [Winnie Cooper!] , J.R.R. Tolkien , and Shannon Sturges . Have a one good one! Buy cheap AOC gold here !

On this day in history...

• 1825 - Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community.
  
• 1840 - 1st deep sea sounding.
  
• 1847 - California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
  
• 1870 - Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883.
  
• 1871 - Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY.
  
• 1945 - Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room.
  
• 1969 - John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in NJ.
  
• 1977 - Apple Computers incorporate.