Monday, April 7, 2014

4.7.14


Good morning and welcome to Monday, Phoenix! I trust everyone had a good weekend. Stay tuned - a little later today, we're announcing a contest! You aren't going to want to miss this one!
Pop Culture Trivia for April 7, 2014
1913: 5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women.
1927: U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission. 
1948: The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded.
1949: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize winner, South Pacific opened on Broadway.
1994: Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.
2003: Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died.
2009: Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Iowa becomes the third.
Joke of the Day:
One day a miserable toothbrush sits down and says, ''Sometimes I feel I have the worst job in the world.'' Then the toilet paper yells, "Think again buddy!"
Quote of the Day:
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. Mark Twain
Random Daily Factoid:
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
Today's prank is an oldie, but a goodie. Breed males hate getting mustard on their fangs.... LOL
Have a fangtastic day!  Brock

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