TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/30/26 – MINT JULEP DAY!
While this day falls regrettably past Kentucky Derby Day, when Epsom Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky serves 120,000 of them, it does serve as a joyful harbinger of Summer for more than a few bourbon enthusiasts, NATIONAL MINT JULEP DAY! A Southern delicacy of the strong spirits variety, the Mint Julep is a simple mix
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/29/26- COCA COLA DAY!
On May 29, 1886, Pharmacist Doctor John Stith Pemberton of Columbus, Georgia took out an advertisement in the Atlanta Journal offering an elixir that was the end result of him getting slashed across the chest by a saber in the Civil War, making today NATIONAL COCA COLA DAY! Pemberton was gravely wounded while serving as
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/28/26 – T-BONE WALKER DAY!
If you think you never heard of Aaron Thibeaux Walker, think again on NATIONAL T-BONE WALKER DAY! Born of Black and Cherokee descent on May 28, 1910 in Linden, Texas, T-Bone Walker would give us “Stormy Monday” and the electric guitar as we know it. He also played piano, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, and violin, but
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/27/26 – GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE DAY!
You have to love when people do things they are told cannot be done. And when they do them with high style and breathtaking beauty, we’re all richer for their efforts. That’s why today we celebrate NATIONAL GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE DAY! The Golden Gate is the strait that joins San Francisco Bay to the Pacific
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/26/26 – PAPER AIRPLANE DAY!
We live in an age of technical wizardry, milliseconds away from investigating everything under the sun. None of this would be possible without the act we celebrate on NATIONAL PAPER AIRPLANE DAY! A million little minds making a million paper airplanes every single day is the first lesson in aerodynamics for every generation since Orville and
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/25/26- MEMORIAL DAY
It was never their idea to start shooting at anyone, they never started a single war. They finished every one of them, though, and too many paid with their lives. It is those who gave everything that we remember on this MEMORIAL DAY Today is about remembering our fallen soldiers, mostly very young men killed in