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Today’s thought starter ideas : World Hepatitis Day Birthdays for Garfield creator Jim Davis (1945), Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn (1952) and Venezuelan opposition leader/acting President Juan Guaidó (1983) Anniversary of: […]

Today’s thought starter ideas :

World Hepatitis Day

Birthdays for Garfield creator Jim Davis (1945), Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn (1952) and Venezuelan opposition leader/acting President Juan Guaidó (1983)

Anniversary of:
the invention of the hamburger in Connecticut (1900)
• Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia starting WWI (1914)
the release of Walt Disney’s animated film Alice In Wonderland (1951)
the Provisional Irish Republican Army calling an end to their 30-year armed campaign in Northern Ireland (2005)
the birthdays of Beatrix Potter (1866), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929)
the deaths of Thomas Cromwell (1540), Antonio Vivaldi (1741), Johann Sebastian Bach (1750)

Facts about Garfield

  • Garfield is a tabby cat – NOT a ginger cat as many think!
  • The first Garfield comic came out in 1978.
  • Garfield was born in a restaurant kitchen.
  • His favorite food is lasagna.
  • He was named after Jim Davis’s grandfather.
  • Garfield is called Gustaf in Sweden.
  • He had an existential crisis in the 1980s

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