"Mother's Day" is the second episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Rugrats, first broadcast on May 6, 1997, on Nickelodeon. In this Mother's Day special, Tommy Pickles and Phil and Lil Deville attempt to find the perfect mother for Chuckie Finster, who is being raised by his father Chas. They discover that Chuckie's mother, voiced by Kim Cattrall (pictured), died of a terminal illness. Norton Virgien and Toni Vian directed the episode. "Mother's Day" was praised by critics for its storyline and its representation of breastfeeding, and has been the subject of several retrospective reviews for its treatment of the death of a parent. It won a CableACE Award and was nominated for the Humanitas Prize in the Children's Animation Category. Rugrats received a nomination for the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program after Nickelodeon submitted "Mother's Day" for consideration.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1901:

The first Parliament of Australia opened (depicted) in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, exactly 26 years before it moved to Canberra's Provisional Parliament House, and exactly 87 years before it moved into the Parliament House in Canberra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Australia

1961:

In a speech to U.S. broadcasters, FCC chairman Newton Minow described commercial television programming as "a vast wasteland". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_and_the_Public_Interest

2001:

Police at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, fired tear gas to quell unrest at a football match, leading to a stampede that killed 126 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accra_Sports_Stadium_disaster

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system: 1. A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members. 2. (derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual. 3. (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer. 4. (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously. 5. (music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously. 6. (physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function. 7. A method or way of organizing or planning. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/system

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The "ideas" of the average man are not genuine ideas, nor is their possession culture. An idea is a putting truth in checkmate. Whoever wishes to have ideas must first prepare himself to desire truth and to accept the rules of the game imposed by it. It is no use speaking of ideas when there is no acceptance of a higher authority to regulate them, a series of standards to which it is possible to appeal in a discussion. These standards are the principles on which culture rests.   --José Ortega y Gasset https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset