There are quite a few of us that have the day off today because of President’s Day, but there’s another notable anniversary that deserves celebrating today.
It was on this date fifty years ago that a little television program called Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood made its debut on American television. The show had been on the air in Canada for a few years in various forms prior to that, but it was on 19 February 1968 that the show was first aired by National Education Television (which would later become the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS).
Now, while Fred Rogers wasn’t a Marine Corps sniper or anything.