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350th day of 2010 - 15 remaining Thursday, December 16, 2010 PETER RABBIT DAY On this day in 1901, the famous story, Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time, complete with Potter’s watercolor illustrations. Ms. Potter had come up with the Peter Rabbit concept eight...

340th day of 2010 - 25 remaining Monday, December 6, 2010 LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL DAY On this day in 1883 Ladies’ Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper was published for the first time. It became one of the few magazines to reach a circulation of over one million. Paid circulation is over...

333rd day of 2010 - 32 remaining Monday, November 29, 2010 TV TUNES DAY The Grammy Awards were shown on network television for the first time on this night in 1959. (It was actually the second year of the Grammy Awards.) Mack the Knife won Record of the Year and Bobby Darin, who belted it out...

322nd day of 2010 - 43 remaining Thursday, November 18, 2010 STEAMBOAT WILLIE DAY On this day in 1928, Walt Disney debuted his talking, animated cartoon, Steamboat Willie, at the Colony Theatre in New York. The short film featured a character who had been named Mortimer. Walt changed the name...

England’s Leslie Townes Hope was born on this day in 1903, and he was probably smiling instead of crying when he entered the world. You see, Leslie, better known to us as Bob, kept the world smiling for seven decades. In his autobiography, ‘Ski Nose’ gave us an insight into his sense of humor...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)—Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops doesn’t know whether Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford will be ready for Saturday night’s game at No. 17 Miami, but said it won’t be a game-time decision. “I would think we would know here later in the week what Sam’s able to handle and where we...

Going into Baltimore with the most anemic offense in the NFL, you knew the Browns were in danger of going 0-3 for the season. But even the most cynical Browns-watcher could not have expected the debacleization that occurred. Cleveland started with Brady Quinn(notes) throwing six completions in...