Source: Good News Network
40 years ago, on this day, snow fell in the Sahara Desert for the only time in recorded history. The snowstorm lasted a half hour. (1979)
MORE Good News on this Date:
- Hindus and Hare Krishnas commemorate the day Lord Krishna left his body (3102 BC)
- The First Academy Award winners were announced (1929)
- And, Happy 65th Birthday to John Travolta, star of such films as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Hairspray, and Swordfish (1954)
- Gambia became the 37th sovereign state in Africa and last of Britain’s West African colonies to gain independence (1965)
- California’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s death penalty (1972)
- The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle went on its maiden “flight” perched atop a Boeing 747 (1977)
- American speed skater Shani Davis became the first black athlete to win a gold medal in Winter Olympic history for an individual event, winning the men’s 1,000-meter in Turin (2006)
Also, on this day in 1885, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in the US.
The sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism, and was among the first novels in major American literature to be written fully in regional…
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