History Spotlight: The First Ever Groundhog Day 🐾 (February 2, 1887)

This Day in History:, The First Groundhog Day.<br />February 2, 1887.<br />Groundhog Day was celebrated <br />for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob <br />in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.<br />Tradition has it that if a groundhog comes <br />out of its hole on this day and sees its shadow, .<br />it runs back into its <br />burrow predicting <br />six more weeks of winter.<br />No shadow means <br />an early spring.<br />In 1887, a newspaper editor declared that Phil, <br />the Punxsutawney groundhog, was America’s <br />only true weather-forecasting groundhog.<br />The line of groundhogs <br />that have since been <br />known as Phil are America’s <br />most famous marmots.<br />The 1993 Bill Murray movie 'Groundhog Day' <br />popularized the use of the term to mean <br />something that is repeated over and over