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Fast facts: More than 80 languages are spoken in New York, with Spanish as the second-most popular language after English. More than one-third of all adults hit their alarm clock's "snooze" button each morning an average of three times before actually getting up. Adults spend an average of 16 times as many hours selecting what clothes to wear as they do on planning their retirement. An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33 percent of dog owners admit to talking to their dogs on the phone or leaving messages on an answering machine for them while away. Nabisco uses more than 37 million pounds of chocolate a year to make their Chewy Chips Ahoy! cookies.

 

On this date: Wednesday August 29th, 2001 In 1929, Lt. James H. Doolittle set aside his sophisticated use of astronomy and geography and led the first all-instrument flight over Mitchell Field in New York. Babe Ruth played his last game as a regular player for the New York Yankees in 1934. The game ultimately ended in defeat against the Boston Red Sox, 5-0. The country listened with anticipation in 1955 as the news spread that former President Eisenhower had suffered a major heart attack while on vacation in Denver. Following recent desegregation laws, federal troops were sent to Little Rock, Ark. in 1957, to protect nine Black students at their newly integrated Central High School. Children everywhere turned on their television sets to see Bullwinkle J. Moose and friend, Rocket J. "Rocky" Squirrel, on NBC prime time for the first time in 1961.

 

Quotable... "We need to get back to ball games. We need to show the world that America is strong." - Secretary of State Colin Powell on the future of the United States following the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.