TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/5/26 – MOONSHINE DAY!
White Lightning is an American institution dating back to the years following the Revolution, when Congress imposed a Whiskey Tax to pay for the war debt, inspiring thousands of Americans to distill their own whiskey and stiff Uncle Sam for the taxes, making today NATIONAL MOONSHINE DAY! The Whiskey Tax led directly to the Whiskey
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/4/26 – WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE DAY!
They make up the majority of our electorate, but until 107 years ago today, they could not vote in our American Democracy, when the United States Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, making today NATIONAL WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE DAY! It took America 144 years for America to be America for our women, and it
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/3/26 – CASEY AT THE BAT DAY!
If you want to understand the timeless nature of America’s baseball obsession, look no further than this comic poem by Ernest Thayer, published under the pseudonym “Phin” in the San Francisco Examiner on this day in 1888, making June 3rd NATIONAL CASEY AT THE BAT DAY! This rhyme about a swaggering, handlebar-mustachioed slugger coming to bat
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/2/26 – MARQUIS DE SADE DAY!
You know him, you love him, you’ve read about his naughty deeds. Okay, maybe you don’t love him, but dare we celebrate his birthday? What the hell, let’s! It’s NATIONAL MARQUIS DE SADE DAY! Born to an aristocratic family in Paris, France on June 2, 1740, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade was a revolutionary, a
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/1/26 – MARILYN MONROE DAY!
She’s still the World’s Goddess, the Gold Standard for desirable women, her image familiar and identifiable to billions, and we wish her a Happy Birthday on NATIONAL MARILYN MONROE DAY! Born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, the future Marilyn Monroe had a troubled childhood, the daughter of a mentally unstable
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/31/26 – NATIONAL © COPYRIGHT ACT DAY!
Ever since May 31, 1790, the symbol © has signified authorship and/or ownership of intellectual property in the United Staes of America, making today NATIONAL COPYRIGHT ACT DAY! It was President George Washington who signed the Copyright Act of 1790 into law. A copyright protects authors, or the commissioners of written works; from poems, plays,