2nd Day of 2012 / 364 Remaining 78 Days Until Spring Begins Sunrise:7:25 Sunset:5:03 9 Hours 32 Minutes Moon Rise: 12:19pm Moon Set:1:27am Moon’s Phase: 65 % Tides High Tide:5:09am/6:53pm Low Tide:12:32pm/11:34pm Holidays Happy Mew Year for Cats Day National Motivation and Inspiration Day National Cream Puff Day No-Fault Divorce Day National Run It Up the Flag Pole and See If Anybody Salutes It Day. National Motivation and Inspiration Day National Thank God It's Monday Day Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Day National Buffet Day Ratification Day-Georgia Ancestors' Day-Haiti Kakizome-Japan 2nd New Years Day-Russia Bridge Day-NewCaledonia Labor Day-Ukraine Kaapse Klopse-South Africa On This Day In … 1788 --- One peach of a state, Georgia, became the 4th state to enter the United States of America. Nicknamed the Peach State for obvious reasons, Georgia is also referred to as the Empire State of the South. First explored by the Spanish, but named after King George II of England, Georgia became the stronghold of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Atlanta, its capital and largest city has been the center of commerce, communication, politics and transportation for the Southeastern region of the U.S. Like the rest of the 50 states, Georgia has a state bird: the brown thrasher; a state flower: for some reason it's not the peach blossom, but the Cherokee rose; a state tree: the live oak; a state song: Georgia on My Mind; and an official state motto: Wisdom, Justice and Moderation. 1872 --- Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives. 1910 --- The first junior high school in the United States opened. McKinley School in Berkeley, CA, housed seventh and eighth grade students. In a separate building students were housed who attended grades 9-12. 1936 --- Burma Shave erected roadside signs throughout the U.S. promising, "Free! Free! A Trip to Mars For 900 Empty Jars." Arliss French collected 900 jars and demanded the free trip. He finally settled when Burma Shave supplied a space suit and flew him to Mars (Moers), Germany, a small town near Dusseldorf. 1941 --- The Andrews Sisters recorded Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy on Decca Records. LaVerne, Maxene and Patty Andrews recorded in Los Angeles and the song was heard in the movie, Buck Privates, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. 1971 --- The first no-fault divorce law became effective in California 1974 --- U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill requiring states to lower the maximum speed limit to 55 MPH. The law was meant to conserve gasoline supplies during an embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries. The embargo was lifted on March 13, 1974, but the speed limit lid stayed on until 1987 1975 --- Working with Canadian zoologist Freud Urquhart, amateur naturalist Kenneth C. Brugger discovered the winter home of the Monarch butterfly in the mountains of central Mexico. The refuge he found was only about 200 square meters and contained about 20 million butterflies. 1993 --- New York police revealed that a "thriving" gun rental business had been operating in a Brooklyn housing project. Rental price for a 9mm pistol was $20.00 a night, or $100 if the gun was used to shoot someone. Birthdays Cuba Gooding Jr Tia Carrere Kate Bosworth Taye Diggs Isaac Asimov Sally Rand Nathaniel Bacon Julius DeRosa Jim Bakker
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