Wednesday, January 6, 2010: Today is Twelfth Day, known also as Old Christmas Day and Twelfthtide. On the 12th day after Christmas, Christians celebrate the visit of the Magi, the first gentile recognition of Christ.
On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse’s telegraph system was demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. The telegraph, a device which used electric impulses to transmit encoded messages over a wire, would eventually revolutionize long-distance communication, reaching the height of its popularity in the 1920s and 1930s.
On this day in 1942 A Pan American Airways plane arrived in New York which completed the first around-the-world trip by a commercial aircraft.
Did You Know?
Did you know that by walking an extra 20 minutes every day, the average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in a year?
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