1907: Over 2,000 Spanish immigrants arrive in Hawaii to work on plantations.1937: The first U.S. social security checks are distributed.
1947: "Babe Ruth Day" held at Yankee Stadium to honor the ailing baseball star.
1950: Following the institution of apartheid in 1948, South Africa passes the Group Areas Act, formally segregating the country's racial groups.
Macaroni Self-Portrait Day
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Today's Birthdays:
Telegraph inventor Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872)
Civil War General & President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
"Woody Woodpecker" animator Walter Lantz (1899-1994)
Activist Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
Laugh-In Sock-it-to-me girl Judy Carne (1939)
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Herm Edwards (1954)
Singer Sheena Easton (1959)
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Something to Think About:
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." ~ Joseph Campbell
