TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/5/26 – BIKINI DAY!
Now here’s an obituary you wouldn’t think much about, “Louis Réard (1897 – 1984) was a French (of course!) automobile engineer…” until you read “… and inventor of the bikini.” Wait, of the what? Why aren’t there statues of this man at the entrance to every public beach on Earth? Louie will just have to settle for NATIONAL BIKINI DAY!
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/4/26 – GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA DAY!
Since this is one of those years when Independence Day and the Fourth of July fall on the same day, thus canceling each other out, today is, by default, INTERNATIONAL GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA DAY! Born on July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, Italy, Luigina Lollobrigida was director Robert Z. Leonard’s only choice to play “The World’s Most
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/3/26 – YANKEE DOODLE DANDY DAY!
Okay, George M. Cohan wasn’t born on the 4th of July, but close enough, and he didn’t singlehandedly invent the Broadway Musical, but close enough to call today NATIONAL YANKEE DOODLE DANDY DAY! Born a showman to a family of show people in Providence, Rhode Island on July 3, 1878, George M. Cohan
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/2/26 – UFO DAY!
Don’t look for this headline anytime soon: “ALIENS ABDUCT FAMOUS GENIUS IN BIG CITY!” It seems that all our Strange Visitors From Alien Planets have no interest at all in being taken to our leaders when they can have their pick of poor people from the boondocks, making today NATIONAL UFO DAY! Is it the
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/1/26 – JOKE DAY!
Guy follows a chicken across the road, then walks into a bar and says “Knock-knock!” Bartender asks if he’s here to help change the lightbulb or tell ‘What’s-The-Difference’ jokes. That’s right, folks, tell ’em if you got ’em, it’s NATIONAL JOKE DAY! Not coincidentally, today is also Canada Day, a day which is not really their