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Happy Earth Day!

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“Don’t let it worry ya, skipper, I’m just a crazy darn fool duck” were the first words uttered by Daffy Duck when he made his first appearance 82 years ago in the cartoon Porky's Duck Hunt.

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"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on" -Albert Einstein

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On this day, in 1925, the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby” was first published by Scribner’s of New York.

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52 years ago today, Roger Ebert’s first published review of the French Film, Galia, was released in the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1975, Ebert would become the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize.

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On April 6th, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, with athletes from 14 nations participating. The last ancient Olympics are believed to have taken place in A.D. 393.

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On this day in 1902, the first full-time movie theatre opened in downtown LA. Thomas Lincoln Tally's Electric Theatre charged a dime for an hourlong viewing of two movies. Tally's Theatre is often credited with putting Hollywood on the map as the movie capital of the world.

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Happy April Fool's!

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On this day, in 1943, Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved musical, Oklahoma!, premiered on Broadway. A contemporary re-imagining of the classic will also open on Broadway on April 7th, 2019.

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130 years ago, engineer Gustave Eiffel climbed 1,710 steps to unfurl the French flag atop of the Eiffel Tower. Standing at just under a 1,000 feet, it became the tallest structure in the world -- and remained so until the construction of New York's Chrysler Building in 1928.

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14 years ago today, the Office aired on national television for the first time.

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On March 22, 1963, The Beatles released their first full-length album, Please Please Me. It entered the U.K. charts on April 6th and spent 30 weeks at number one. It was knocked out of first place by the Beatles next album, With the Beatles.

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Spring is here!

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On this day in 1916, Albert Einstein submitted to the scientific journal ‘Annalen der Physik’ the final draft of an article outlining his solution to the scientific problem he had been grappling with for almost a decade. His solution was called the General Theory of Relativity.

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Have a sham-ROCKIN' day!

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96 years ago today, phonofilm was first demonstrated at a press conference by Dr. Lee De Forest, marking a new era in film production with its ability to sync sound with the moving image.

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Don't forget to set your clocks!

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Basketball was televised for the first time on this day in 1940. The game was Fordam University vs. University of Pittsburgh.

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The technology that made the modern music business possible came into existence in the New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Alva Edison created the first device to both record sound and play it back. He was awarded a U.S. Patent for his invention–the phonograph–on this day in 1878.