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Fast facts: The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen. The first TV couple to share a bed was not on "The Brady Bunch" or "The Munsters," but was on the "Mary Kay and Johnny" show in 1947. It was the first situation comedy. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be televised, in ceremonies opening the New York World's Fair in April 1939. "The Simpsons" is the longest running animated series on TV. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver." In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter. The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of more than 60,000 taxis.

 

On this date: In 1777, Vermont declared independence from New York. In 1865, drunken sailors attacked a munitions dump at Fort Fisher, N.C., 40 died In 1936, the first photo finish camera was installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah, Fla. In 1951, the world's largest gas pipeline opened between Brownsville, Texas and New York City. In 1965, the U.S.S.R. performed nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk in the former Soviet Union. In 1967, Lucius Amerson became the South's first black sheriff of the 20th century, in the state of Alabama. In 1988, Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired from CBS for making racial remarks on the air. In 1995, Universal-Paramount Network began telecasting on WWOR in New York City.

 

Quotable... "Youth is not absolution for treachery. Misdirected Americans cannot receive direction in murderous ideology." - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft about John Walker Lindh's actions while involved with the Taliban.