It's Fat Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras. This is the day when you're supposed to indulge and fatten up before you begin fasting for Lent, which starts on Ash Wednesday.
On this day on in 1971, Led Zeppelin first played "Stairway to Heaven" live.
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