TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/28/26 – I HAVE A DREAM DAY!
63 years ago today a man made a speech to 300,000 people on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. A gifted orator and an extraordinary man, Martin Luther King, Jr. departed from his prepared text to share a dream with his country, and today we celebrate NATIONAL I HAVE A DREAM DAY! Originally called the
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/27/26 – BEATLES MEET ELVIS DAY!
Call it the Yalta of Rock & Roll, When Worlds Collide or Clash of The Titans, but today is NATIONAL BEATLES MEET ELVIS DAY! In 1965, Brian Epstein and Colonel Tom Parker, the two most celebrated personal managers in music history, arranged for the Beatles to meet Elvis Presley in his Memphis mansion, Graceland. The Beatles
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/26/26 – DOG DAY!
Big ones, small ones, pedigrees or mutts, we salute them all on NATIONAL DOG DAY! This is the date when dogs and humans became besties; August the 26th, 15,000 years ago. Either that, or it’s the anniversary of the first of about two hundred times that Lassie saved the life of accident-prone Little Timmy. But no
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/25/26, BANANA SPLIT DAY!
Why do we so fondly remember David Evans Strickler, Apprentice Pharmacist at Tassel Pharmacy in Latrobe, Pennsylvania? Without this enterprising young man, we wouldn’t be celebrating NATIONAL BANANA SPLIT DAY! Strickler enjoyed creating ice cream sundaes at the pharmacy’s busy soda fountain, not exactly setting himself up for the Pharmacist Hall of Fame, but he
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/24/26 – PLUTO DEMOTED DAY!
One day there you are circling the sun as usual, minding your own and keeping your appointed heavenly rounds, proudly bearing the honor of being the outermost planet in the Solar System, and the next day, Boom, you’re a nobody, a glorified asteroid, a planetoid! “Dwarf Planet” at best. Ouch. Let’s rally ’round our old