Monday, April 07, 2008

Just a little something

Today is No Housework Day, no bed-making, no dishes, no trash, no guilt, sponsored by the Wellness Permission League of Lebanon, Pennsylvania (717-279-0184). Some call today Let Someone Else Clean Day.

Today is National Coffee Cake and Caramel Popcorn Day.

Today is Women's Day in Mozambique.

Today is World Health Day, marking creation of the UN's World Health Organization on this date in 1948.

This is Families Laughing Through Stories Week, time to tell funny family stories.

National Networking Week and National Public Health Week begin today.

1997: An Amsterdam university began offering a course entitled "Madonna 101."

1998: Three inmates at New York’s Rikers prison were indicted after one smuggled a gun into the jail and another shot the third in the leg as part of a scheme to sue the city. The mastermind, as you might expect, was the guy who got shot.

1999: An Israeli couple was hospitalized for fatigue after kissing in Tel Aviv for 30 hours and 45 minutes. Dror Orpaz and Karmit Tsubera set a world record and won a trip around the world. But they were really tired.

2002: Police in Moss, Norway, said they caught an assault suspect trying to escape naked on a single roller skate. They've charged the man after he allegedly attacked a woman delivering his newspaper. The woman said the man was angry at the number of advertising flyers that came with his paper, so he hit her over the head repeatedly with the paper. Though not hurt seriously, she said it was a little scary.

2003: The U.S. Supreme Court voted upheld a 50-year-old Virginia law making it a crime to burn a cross as an act of intimidation.

2005: The popular painkiller Bextra was removed from the U.S. market and a warning was put on Celebrex after the Food and Drug Administration cautioned that similar prescription drugs could lead to risk of heart attack or stroke.

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