Today’s thought starter ideas :
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