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Another exciting date! Two in one month! I’m having an exclamation mark overload!! I could write the date with exclamation marks! !!/!/!!
I had a look back at what happened on this date because I had nothing interesting to say about it.
- 1569 England: first state lottery was held. And I bet if we’d started buying tickets back then we still wouldn’t have won more than a tenner.
- 1770 USA (not quite): sent the first shipment of rhubarb to London. Thank you America; I love you.
- 1902: Popular Mechanics first published. I threw that one in for the boys.
- 1922 Canada: first person treated successfully with insulin. Diabetes becomes Diabeaten.
- 1942: Japan declared war against the Netherlands. That struck me as peculiar: how did the Dutch upset Japan?
- 1949 USA: Dennis (Frederick) Greene was born. What? You’ve never heard of Sha-Na-Na?
- 1973 UK: first Open University degrees awarded. Yay, forerunners of mine.
Happy Eleven-One-Eleven, everyone!
And happy !!/!/!! to you, too.
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