TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/11/26 – KING KAMEHAMEHA DAY
Not many people get to be called The Great, unless you have conquered some people and laid waste to their lands. Well, our Great State of Hawaii has just such a person that we honor on NATIONAL KING KAMEHAMEHA DAY! King Who The What, you ask? Kamehameha the Great, that’s who, unifier of the Hawaiian Islands into
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/10/26 – WASHINGTON, D.C. DAY!
America was still brand new and operating out of its temporary capital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania while the new Federal Capital was being built, and on June 10, 1793, it officially superseded Philly as our nations’s capital on NATIONAL WASHINGTON, D.C. DAY! The States of Maryland and Virginia had donated the land straddling the Potomac River
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/9/26 – SECRETARIAT DAY!
He was the fastest horse who ever lived, and on this day in 1973 he proved it, proved it by an unheard-of 31 lengths, his margin of victory in the Belmont Stakes, making today NATIONAL SECRETARIAT DAY! Nicknamed Big Red for his size and bright-red chestnut coloring, Secretariat was born to minor Thoroughbred Horse royalty
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/8/26 – FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DAY!
Which one gets you, Falling Waters? The Guggenheim Museum? Johnson Wax headquarters? The Rookery? Today we honor America’s greatest architect on NATIONAL FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DAY! They laughed when he announced he had designed an earthquake-proof building. That is, until his Imperial Hotel was the only large building in Tokyo still standing after the Great
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/7/26 – DANIEL BOONE DAY!
What is least understood about Daniel Boone is that he didn’t like people. He liked chopping wood, hunting game, growing corn and, most of all, being left alone, something we still won’t do for him on NATIONAL DANIEL BOONE DAY! There was a reason the man was a world famous explorer and trailblazer; people got on his
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/6/26 – D-DAY
Half of them were teenagers, and not very many among the 156,000 Allied troops were much older. It was 82 years ago today, and they were heading for the beaches of Normandy and the Nazi fortress that was Western Europe in the largest sea and airborne invasion in history, a day known simply as D-DAY