It always better when aviation is civil, so let’s have a warm reception for NATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION DAY! Civil Aviation covers everything from jumbo jets to crop dusters, traffic choppers, and everything in between that is airborne but not military. Today, however, we celebrate the little guy, […]
Read more →Today marks 80 years since the devastating surprise attack on America’s Pacific Fleet by the Japanese Imperial Navy, making today NATIONAL PEARL HARBOR DAY Sunday morning, December 7th, 1941 was a dawn like any other in Hawaii, promising another perfect sunny day. Instead, Japanese planes arrived with […]
Read more →Today is more than another dry date in the history books. December 6, 1865, marks the adoption of another Amendment to the US Constitution. To the nation, and the world, it was the day America said “Never again!” A day when former slaves rejoiced, NATIONAL 13TH AMENDMENT DAY! […]
Read more →The odds of two organizations with mouthfuls of names, The American Federation of Labor and The Congress of Industrial Organizations changing the world? Pretty good, which is why we celebrate INTERNATIONAL AFL-CIO DAY! The AFL-CIO is a federation of 57 different national and international trade unions representing […]
Read more →Imagine a world with no lions and tigers or bears. Oh, my. Or one without elephants, eagles, leopards, wolves, giraffes or moose. No, thank you. Instead we’ll celebrate NATIONAL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION DAY! We build towers as high as the clouds, sail the seven seas and fly rockets to […]
Read more →We do it for love, we do it for comfort, we do it for joy and for friendship, and it turns out it’s good for your health too. That’s good enough to celebrate NATIONAL LET’S HUG DAY! Turns out that hugging for just 20 seconds releases soothing chemicals […]
Read more →Oh, Captain Video! And Kirk and Picard and Nemo and, what the hell, Flash Gordon, we’ll promote him to Captain too. Get out your ray guns, boys and girls, it’s NATIONAL SCIENCE FICTION DAY! What Jules Verne started, others took up with a passion and gave us the literary […]
Read more →It is called one of the best ideas in manufacturing history, and one of the worst ideas in manufacturing history, but wherever lies the truth, we still celebrate NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LINE DAY! 107 years ago today, the Ford Motor Company put into operation the world’s first moving […]
Read more →They line our streets, and we pass them every day in our travels. They sell us our food and dry goods, repair our homes and cars, and ship our goods across the land, so we celebrate NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS DAY! Small, family-owned stores rock. They know you […]
Read more →They didn’t call it the “New World” or “America.” They called it home and had their own names for the land that sustained them, and today we remember their lost world on NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE DAY! Anthropologists tell us there were anywhere from 50 to 90 […]
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