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Earliest known "Why did the chicken cross the road?" joke:
March 1847 According to Smithsonian Magazine, the first "Why did the chicken cross the road joke" to appear in print was in the March 1847 issue of the Knickerbocker, or New York Monthly, magazine. The magazine wrote: "Why does a chicken cross a street? Are you out of town? Do you give it up? Because it wants to get on the other side!" Source: Smithsonian, 2/1/2008
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DATES: Holidays
First official Mother's Day celebration in the United States.:
May 10th, 1908 Ann Jarvis first declared Mother's work days in connection to her efforts to improve sanitation in pre-Civil War Times. After her death, the first Mother's Day was declared in her honor in Grafton, West Virginia. Six years later, President Woodrow Wilson declared a national holiday to all mothers who had lost sons in The Great War. Ann Grafton's daughter Anna was said later to oppose the idea of a Mother's Day holiday altogether, after it became the commercial success that it is today. Source: Minneapolis Tribune, 6/15/1997
GEOGRAPHY: New York City
First apartment building built in New York City:
The Stuyvesant Richard Morris Hunt designed NYC's first apartment building in 1869. Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, 1/1/2000
