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Five Things: Labor Day, Snake and Turtle Feeding

Five things you need to know today, Monday, Sept. 5, 2011

  1. Have you ever wanted to ? Then head over to between 2 and 3 p.m. today.
  2. Today is Labor Day! The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882 in New York City.
  3. On this day in 1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, one of the first novels of the Beat movement of the 1950s, was published on this day in 1957.
  4. We'll have a profile of a new gym in Annandale up on the site first thing Tuesday morning.
  5. Also on this day back in 2005, Katie Couric became the first female solo anchor of a weekday network evening news broadcast, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.


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