Morning Minute December 5, 2010
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Website of the Day Walt Disney's birthday
Celebrate Walt Disney's birthday by visiting this site. Learn about his life, the story behind his characters, watch clips of him and read his famous quotes.
Number to Know 50.9 percent: Proportion of the nation's spuds produced in Idaho and Washington in 2009. Potato latkes are always a crowd pleaser during Hanukkah. - http://Census.gov
This Day in History Dec. 5, 2007: Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Neb., mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
Today's Featured Birthday
Actor/racer Frankie Muniz (25)
Daily Quote
"Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority." - W.J. Cameron