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Today is Hat Day, during which you are encouraged to wear and enjoy a hat of your own personal choice and style. Coincidentally it is on this date in 1797 that the first top hat is worn — by John Etherington of London.

Speaking of making history — on this day in 1983 Thom Syles inexplicably manages to keep a Lifesaver candy intact in his mouth for over seven hours. In other news from the Sweet Department today marks the 1919 Boston Molasses Disaster wherein an enormous storage vat of Purity Brand Molasses ruptures, spilling a 15-foot high river (2 million gallons) of the viscous substance into the city streets, drowning twenty-one people and injuring 150. Ironically the flood was not slow as molasses, advancing as fast as 35 miles per hour. No life savers on that scene. Also, on this date in 1935 three hundred Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against the Italian competition and today in 1971 George Harrison releases My Sweet Lord.

This vibrant Smiling Thru Sailor Boy Pear Vintage Crate Label Art Infant/Toddler T-Shirt — more items with this motif here — is from the Vintage Labels Collection area of the CafePress.com Crazy Legs Gift Emporium.

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