Happy Sunday January 3rd and Festival of Sleep Day! Get some extra rest, you deserve it. Today we celebrate Alaska officially becoming the 49th U.S. State in 1959; the birthday of renowned author, J.R.R. Tolkien; and the death of Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald following the assassination of JFK.

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| Research assistance by Kristin Bradley and music by AJ Curtin