Thursday is Bagel Day

Today's Flavors
Chocolate Decadence, World Class Vanilla, Butter Pecan, Chocolate Mint, Orange Vanilla, and Blueberry Cheesecake.





Today in History

1789 George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1977 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia



It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The author is Alex Haley. This magnificent book is his.Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations. It went on to win 9 Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings with the finale still standing as the 3rd-highest rated US program ever[






Births
1924 Henry Mancini, Cleveland, composer/conductor
1930 Herbie Mann, Brooklyn NY, jazz flute/sax (Just Wallin')
1933 Joseph Bottoms, Santa Barbara, Calif, actor
1935 Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist
1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, [Lew Alcindor]
1961 Selena, Texas, spanish singer (Grammy-1994)
1965 Martin Lawrence, comedian (Martin)




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