Good morning Okanagan! Hope you鈥檙e getting back into your fall routine! Let鈥檚 get your day started!
Fun Fact: Rabbits can swim and their ears go into 鈥榮wim mode鈥�.
Just now finding out that rabbits can swim. Also learned their ears go into swim mode when they do. This is news.
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In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a giant swimming rabbit!
On this day
In 1814, 鈥楾he Star-Spangled Banner鈥� is written by Francis Scott Key while he witnessed Fort McHenry get bombarded.
In 1956, IBM releases the RAMAC 305, the world鈥檚 first commercial computer with a hard drive. Each one weighed more than a ton.
In 1981, People鈥檚 Court and Entertainment Tonight both premiere on television.
In 1985, 鈥楾he Golden Girls鈥� premieres.
In 1990, father and son duo Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. hit back-to-back home runs in a game.
In 2009, actor Patrick Swayze dies at age 57 of pancreatic cancer.
In 2021, actor Norm McDonald dies at age 61.
National Holidays
Today is National Cream Filled Doughnut Day, National Colouring Day, National Sober Day, National Coding Day, National Food is Medicine Day, National Eat a Hoagie Day, and Gobstopper Day.
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Celebrity birthdays
If your birthday is today, you share a birthday with singer Amy Winehouse (would鈥檝e been 39), actor Andrew Lincoln (49), and rapper Nas (49).
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