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Beware, for I am: Chipper

Wah! Reiko's coming over soon! Oh yeah, and here's your daily reference =.=

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On This Day: Tuesday July 25, 2006

This is the 206th day of the year, with 159 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: sushi

Sushi, the Japanese specialty, consists of rice mixed with a dressing that not only adds flavor but makes the rice shapeable in a mold or by rolling. Additional ingredients include raw or cooked fish or seafood and vegetables. Layers of sushi rice and prepared ingredients are pressed into a mold to form little cakes, or wrapped in a sheet of nori seaweed and served in slices. Dipping sauce, mustard, and pickled ginger are typical accompaniments.

Holidays

• Feast day of St. Christopher, Saints Thea, Valentina and Paul, St. James the Greater, and St. Magnericus.
• Spain: St. James Day.
• Costa Rica: Guanacaste Day.
• Puerto Rico: Constitution Day.
• Tunisia: Republic Day.

Events

• 1832 - The first recorded railroad accident in U.S. history occurred, on the Granite Railway near Quincy, Massachusetts.
• 1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank.
• 1868 - The U.S. Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
• 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces launched their invasion of Puerto Rico.
• 1909 - Louis Bleriot first crossed the English Channel in an airplane.
• 1917 - Margaretha Zelle, the Dutch spy known as Mata Hari, was sentenced to death.
• 1943 - Benito Mussolini was forced to resign as Dictator of Italy, bringing an end to the Fascist regime.
• 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
• 1956 - The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm, 45 miles south of Nantucket Island; 51 people died.
• 1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
• 1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
• 2000 - A New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground.
• 2004 - Lance Armstrong won a record sixth Tour de France bicycle race, in an amazing comeback after his bout with cancer.

Births

• 1844 - Thomas Eakins, American painter.
• 1937 - Colin Renfrew, British archaeologist.
• 1986 - Dark Horse (aka David), MM's friend from MySpace ^_^
  

Deaths

• 1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor.

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MM