TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/24/26- INTERNATIONAL UNITED NATIONS DAY!
It was tentatively decided to appoint a committee to debate the possibility of forming a commission empowered to discuss empaneling a Special Board to study the calendar year for 6 months and issue nonbinding recommendations. That’s how today came, eventually, to be known as INTERNATIONAL UNITED NATIONS DAY! Founded by a wounded and shell-shocked world
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/23/26 – TALK SHOW HOST DAY!
There was Johnny Carson and there was everyone else. He took over the Tonight Show when the very popular Jack Paar unexpectedly retired in 1962, a semi-obscure WW2 Navy Ensign, comedian, magician and game show host from Nebraska. It seemed to many an odd choice for NBC’s successful late night franchise, and a temporary measure. Temporary as in
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/22/26 – CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS DAY!
Today marks the 64th anniversary of the highest stakes poker game ever played, one that terrified the entire world on INTERNATIONAL CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS DAY! It was 1962, the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and American spy planes had recently noticed newly constructed nuclear missile silos in
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/21/26 – REPTILE AWARENESS DAY!
We’re all aware of them, and frankly, they freak some of us out, especially those of the slimy, scaly and limbless variety whose name need not be invoked. Be that as it may, we’ll just have to suck it up and celebrate NATIONAL REPTILE AWARENESS DAY! Notice it says “Awareness,” and not “Appreciation” or “Reptile
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/20/26 – MICKEY MANTLE DAY!
It is said he was the best natural athlete ever to play the game, and the fastest ever running from home to first base. In spite of suffering from osteomyelitis and a series of crippling leg injuries, chronic conditions that required his legs to be wrapped from ankle to thigh for every game, the 19