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Today is New Year's Day     

Today is also Ellis Island Day, the day we celebrate the island in New York Harbor that served as the gateway to America during the immigration wave of 1892 through 1954.     

Before we get to a birthday, let’s acknowledge the death yesterday of actress and comedian Betty White, at age 99.     

Born on this day in 1714 in East Prussia, Prussian-Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor  Christian Donalitius.     

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