TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/18/26 – IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE DAY!
Frank Russel Capra deserves a day just for giving us the phrase “Platinum Blonde.” This most American of early filmmakers was actually born Franceso Rosario Capra in Sicily on May 18, 1897, and at age 5 was brought to the country he would help define, earning him honors on a day that best describes his
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/17/26 – TV SPORTS DAY!
It was 87 years ago exactly, on the afternoon of May 17, 1939, when 2 college baseball teams were squaring off in Andy Coakley Field on 218th Street & Broadway in Manhattan, the Columbia Lions hosting the Princeton Tigers. It was a baseball game like any other, except for that guy perched on a wooden
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/16/26 – ENDANGERED SPECIES DAY!
In these sensitive times, there’s few enough occasions when we can parade our genuine leopardskin coats, ivory bracelets and Bald Eagle feather boas, so let’s hear it for NATIONAL ENDANGERED SPECIES DAY! And what’s on the menu today? Rare Gunnison Sage Grouse hot wings, Plains Bison steaks and the almost impossible to find Hawkbill Turtle
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/15/26 – NYLON STOCKINGS DAY!
There are some who would have you believe they are an ordinary piece of attire; practical apparel, mere hosiery, and not the cultural icons we celebrate on NATIONAL NYLON STOCKINGS DAY! Pity those blind fools who cannot identify fine art, the kind of legs that tell you yes, this is a beautiful world indeed. Invented in America to address a worldwide
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/14/26 – NIGHT SHIFT DAY!
You sleep when everyone else is up and at ’em, and come alive after dark, when the shadows rule, on NATIONAL NIGHT SHIFT DAY! The Graveyard Shift, they call it, the Midnight to Eight, with ‘lunchtime’ at about 4AM. Today we salute those of the night shift, our nocturnal brothers and sisters who keep the
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/13/26 – VELCRO DAY!
It’s all about the hooks and the loops, but who cares about that? To most if us, it’s magic. You know it, you love it, you use it all the time, and today we celebrate it on NATIONAL VELCRO DAY! Shkrriipptch! That’s the ripping sound of velcro being pulled apart, far louder than expected for