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Today is Pinocchio Day, likely because on this date in 1940 Walt Disney premieres his movie of the same name — adapted from the well-known children’s book by Italian writer Carlo Collodi — in which a cobbler named Geppeto carves a puppet from a piece of wood, which subsequently turns into a real boy. Speaking of shoes, today in 1943 the United States begins rationing of same. Feeling stepped on? This day marks the 1870 birthday of Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler, who pioneered the concept of the inferiority complex.

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