Another Khemi Saturday
DateTime:1/7/2009 11:45:13 AM

Happy America Recycles Day! Well it's aboot time, eh. I wish the ass munches in the park across the street from me would recycle. It's turned in to a haven for garbage and dog poo. The garbage and doodies... they have homes, families, pets of their own, they probably even have MTV. Today is also Great American Smokeout, Philanthropy Day, Bundt Pan Day, I Love To Write Day and Clean Your Refrigerator Day. 'bout it boys 'n girls. Go forth and slayeth some stuff.

On this day in history...

• 1492 - Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco.
  
• 1660 - 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam).
  
• 1763 - Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland.
  
• 1827 - Creek-indians lose all their property in US.
  
• 1948 - William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada.
  
• 1969 - 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland).
  
• 1969 - Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indicent language in Tampa, FL.
  
• 1969 - Wendy's Hamburgers opens.
  
• 1971 - Intel advertises 4004-processor.
  
• 1982 - Atari signs an agreement with Nintendo for the world-wide license of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior video games for Atari home computers.
  
• 1995 - Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir.
  
• 1999 - Unreal Tournament goes gold.
  
• 2001 - At 12:01 AM in New York’s Time Square, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates signs and sells the first Xbox, to Edward Glucksman.