Today is the anniversary of the famous wager upon which the Jules Verne’s book "Around the World in Eighty Days" is based. Phileas Fogg bets twenty thousand pounds on Wednesday, the second of October that he will circle the globe in eighty days or less and return to London by Saturday, the twenty-first of December, at 8:45 pm.
Today is also World Farm Animals Day (the 2010 theme is Exposing the Dirty Secrets of Animal Agribusiness), World Card Making Day (sponsored by Paper Crafts Magazine), Guardian Angels Day, National Custodial Workers Day, and an International Day of Non-Violence (United Nations declared in 2007 on the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth)
CNN fired news anchor Rick Sanchez yesterday, a day after he called Jon Stewart a bigot in a radio show interview where he also questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority. In a ploy to rid Guam of its population of invasive brown tree snakes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is bombing the island with drugged frozen mice. The mice are given acetaminophen (Tylenol), which is toxic to the snakes who will likely eat the mice. John McCain, who will be 76 in 2012, the next presidential election, announced that he will not run for President again. Today holds another full slate of NCAA football matchups. Key matchups include Stanford vs. Oregon, Texas vs. Oklahoma, Wisconsin vs. Michigan State, and Penn State vs. Iowa.
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