TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/22/26 – NATIONAL VICTROLA DAY!
Years before RCA and the His Master’s Voice dog, there was only Victor, as in Victor Talking Machine Company, which manufactured its first Victrola on this date in 1906, leaving us no option but celebrating NATIONAL VICTROLA DAY! The Victor Talking Machine Company was the baby of Eldridge R. Johnson, a sound recording pioneer and
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/21/26 – POET’S DAY!
Roses are red, concrete is gray, let’s say “forsooth” ’cause it’s NATIONAL POET’S DAY! Shall we gyre and gimbal in the wabe, count the ways we love thee, quoth the raven, or just lose ourselves in one quixotic odyssey after another? Poetry doesn’t care about making sense or obeying your precious grammar laws, and don’t
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/20/26 – RADIO DAY!
bedeepbedeepbedeepbedeep… this just in: It’s NATIONAL RADIO DAY! Drive time news, Top 40 hits, Oldies stations, NPR, Jazz, Classical, Grunge, Alternative, Blues, ballgames or angry guy talk shows, we’re still big radio people, no matter what else they invent. Before television, there was a Golden Age of Radio, with the popular dramas, comedies and variety
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/18/26 – WIZARD OF OZ DAY!
We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Even if you are in Kansas and your name’s not Toto, it’s still NATIONAL WIZARD OF OZ DAY! On August 18, 1939, one of the most iconic movies of all time made its Hollywood premier, “The Wizard of Oz.” We all know the story: “Young Kansas farm girl Dorothy
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/17/26 – FULTON’S FOLLY DAY!
Robert Fulton started thinking about powering ships with steam engines when he was a 12 year-old farmboy in Pennsylvania, so August 17, 1807 was a sweet day for him, NATIONAL FULTON’S FOLLY DAY! This was the day his North River Steamboat took its maiden voyage on the Hudson River, two weeks before beginning regular 36