TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/29/26 – PROFESSOR IRWIN COREY DAY!
Today we celebrate “The World’s Foremost Authority” on NATIONAL PROFESSOR IRWIN COREY DAY! Born in Brooklyn on July 29, 1914, Irwin Corey lived an eventful century-plus. Raised in a orphanage because his parents were poverty stricken, he took off at age 13, riding the rails to California, where he enrolled in high school. During The
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/28/26 – POTATO DAY!
Thomas Harriot was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, translator and a man who made drawings of the moon as seen through a telescope, even before Galileo. For none of these things is he remembered, however, and his National Day doesn’t even mention his name on NATIONAL POTATO DAY! It seems that Harriot sailed with the
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/27/26 – BAGPIPES APPRECIATION DAY!
You don’t have to wear a kilt to play them, but it helps. Might as well make a spectacle of yourself while you’re creating a godawful racket on NATIONAL BAGPIPES APPRECIATION DAY! We blame the Scots for bagpipes and kilts, and the Irish for their Uileann Pipes, but the bagpipe has been traced as far
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/26/26 – MICK JAGGER DAY!
Sure he’s a Brit, but being a foreigner never stopped America from celebrating someone who has left an impression on our nation, and few musicians have cut a broader swath than the man we wish a happy 83rd birthday on NATIONAL MICK JAGGER DAY! When you look up Rock & Roll Star, Mick Jagger is
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/25/26 – CULINARY DAY!
This is not just for chefs and foodies, today is for anyone who cooks, which means all of us on NATIONAL CULINARY DAY! In America, we’re all about the food. Big country, big appetite. Until the 20th Century, most of us made food, before we discovered big cities and jazz. The Industrial Revolution had already
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/24/26 – TEQUILA DAY!
Here’s a holiday where it doesn’t matter how you celebrate, since you won’t remember it anyway. Let’s have an involuntary shudder for NATIONAL TEQUILA DAY! Tequila is a nasty tasting white whiskey made from the blue agave plant native to the state of Jalisco in Mexico, where it is grown on vast Tequila Farms. It