Today is the first day of spring for everyone living in the Northern Hemisphere; the vernal equinox, after which every day has a little more sunlight than the day before. It is also a great date for celebrating the fiftth annual UN-endorsed International Day of Happiness.
MORE Good News on this Day:
- The slavery novel, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was published (1852)
- The United States Senate ratified a peace treaty with Japan (1952)
- Tunisia gained independence from France (1956)
- John Lennon married Yoko Ono “in Gibraltar near Spain” (1969)
- Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race (1985)
- The AIDS drug AZT became the first US-approved treatment for HIV…
