TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/23/26 – TYPEWRITER DAY!
Never heard of Christopher Latham Sholes? Don’t feel bad, few people have, but everyone reading this has used his QWERTY keyboard, so if you need someone to blame for putting the alphabet out of alphabetical order, he’s the guy, and today is his day, NATIONAL TYPEWRITER DAY! Christopher Scholes was a newspaper editor and inventor
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/22/26 – STUPID GUYS DOING STUPID THINGS DAY!
Where would Emergency Rooms be without them? Pretty short of laughs in a grim atmosphere is where, so let’s celebrate STUPID GUYS DOING STUPID THINGS DAY! Most males of the human species bear reminders or our less-than-finest moments, the various scars, mended bones and police records that last a lifetime. Who can forget the time
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/21/26 – FLIP-FLOP DAY!
You really can’t run in them, but that’s one of the beauties of our favorite summer footwear as we celebrate NATIONAL FLIP-FLOP DAY! Called “thongs” before thongs became intimate apparel with strong comic associations, your rubber flip-flops are adapted from a simple sandal that has been in use for 6,000 years. The shoe named for
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/20/26 -MIDSUMMER!
It’s nowhere near the middle of summer, those pavement and brain-melting days of early August, but ancient tradition demands we lay off the word “solstice” today, so as not to confuse us backward peasants into thinking we displeased some god or goddess of fertility or another, and Winter comes back too soon, so we use
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/19/26 – LOU GEHRIG DAY!
“Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” There’s not many people who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness that say that, and so we celebrate NATIONAL LOU GEHRIG DAY! One of the main Murderers in the 1927 Yankees’ batting lineup dubbed Murderers Row, Lou Geghrig was the thinking
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/18/26 – WORLD SAUNTERING DAY!
It’s almost Summer, the days are pleasing and warm, Mother Nature is busting out all over, and there’s beauty everywhere you turn. Time to stop and smell the Honeysuckle on WORLD SAUNTERING DAY! What’s the rush? Sun’s shining, faces are smiling and the music of children’s laughter is everywhere. Even the sidewalk is saying “Summer’s