TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/4/26 – HOUND DOG DAY!
This is a song that changed history. Written by a pair of 19 year-old city boys named Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, it had been Big Mama Thornton’s biggest hit, spending 14 weeks on the R&B charts in 1953, but the world-changing part came in 1956, when a young singer from Tennessee named Elvis Presley
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/3/26 – UNDERWEAR DAY!
Boxers or briefs? Panties or bloomers? T-Shirts or tank tops? Slips or camisoles? These are the choices we make every day without a thought, but today we choose them with a thought, since it’s NATIONAL UNDERWEAR DAY! Show us what’s underneath, it’s Underwear Day! Once humans invented clothes back in the Stone Age, we decided
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/2/26 – U.S. CENSUS DAY!
4,636, 838. That’s how many people were in the 13 states of the brand new country called the United States of America on this date in 1790, NATIONAL U.S. CENSUS DAY! Almost 700,000 Americans were slaves at the time, and counted as only 3/5ths of a person, a situation since rectified at considerable cost to
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/1/26 – INTERNATIONAL BOBCRESPO.COM DAY!
Okay, so technically it’s International World Wide Web Day, way too generic a holiday for a means of communication with untold millions of sources, so we settle for one destination today, the Second Best Website Ever on INTERNATIONAL BOBCRESPO.COM DAY! As everyone knows, the internet was invented in the basement of the Vice Presidential Mansion by Al Gore
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/31/26 – UNCOMMON MUSICAL INSTRUMENT APPRECIATION DAY!
That Indie band with the Christopher Walken lookalike singer, Arcade Fire, uses about half of them, and the recording studio adventures of The Beatles, The Beach Boys and other rock & roll experimenters introduced more than a few, so today we wonder just what the hell is that haunting sound on NATIONAL UNCOMMON MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/30/26 – PAPERBACK BOOK DAY!
Dear sir or madam won’t you take a look? Dime Novels, they called them. Cheap, mass-produced instant fiction for Everyman, introduced to America in 1860 by publishers Erastus and Irwin Beadle as “Beadle’s Dime Novels,” paperback books became an instant sensation with the public, and before you could say Pluck and Luck Stories of Adventure,