October 17

When you take time out from your busy day and decide to waltz through the pages of history, you will discover that for most nations and peoples the 1930s was a time filled with, how should I put this, unpleasantness. There was the rise of the Nazis in Germany, never a particularly carefree bunch, disturbing conditions in France (though in my opinion, using the word disturbing in conjunction with France is tautological), there were rumblings of war from both Europe and the Far East, and America was struggling with unsettled economic and social conditions here at home. Was there no hope? Would no lone rider appear from across the Plains to return life on the planet to sanity? Where was Randolph Scott when we really needed him? Fear not oh ye of little faith, on the 17th in 1937, Donald Duck’s nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, appeared for the first time in a newspaper comic strip. Just so you don’t lay awake all night trying to figure out how to tell them apart: Huey wore red or orange and Dewey wore blue. That leaves Louie, and leaves are green.