TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/17/26 – WRONG WAY CORRIGAN DAY!
He took off from Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennet Field on July 17, 1938, heading for Long Beach, California in a beat up Curtiss Robin OX-5 monoplane, but somehow landed 28 hours later in Ireland, making today NATIONAL WRONG WAY CORRIGAN DAY! Douglas Corrigan was a 30 year-old high school dropout who had been working as an aircraft
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/16/26 – HOTDOG DAY!
Since July is National Hot Dog Month (as everyone knows), it stands to reason that the humble tube steak gets a day of its own. Well, guess what? Today’s that day, NATIONAL HOTDOG DAY! This much maligned, under-appreciated American food staple has a murky history, with a great many people claiming its invention, and others
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/15/26 – INTERNATIONAL REMBRANDT DAY!
Rembrant Harmenszoon van Rijn, better known as the mononymous Rembrandt, was born on this day in 1606 and became one of the greatest painters and print makers in history, making today INTERNATIONAL REMBRANDT DAY! Born in Leiden, Netherlands, the 9th child of a successful miller and his baker’s daughter wife, Rembrandt was educated in Latin
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/14/26 – NATIONAL NUDE DAY!
Now here’s a holiday that won’t have you shopping for a new outfit or sending your best threads to the dry cleaners. Suit up for NATIONAL NUDE DAY! Originally a New Zealand holiday (Who knew they were so cool? Or much of anything about New Zealanders for that matter?), Nude Day is not about nudist
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/13/26 – HOLLYWOOD SIGN DAY!
It was originally erected on July 13, 1923 to advertise a housing development called “Hollywoodland” in the hills above the Hollywood district of Chinatown, and intended to last only 18 months, but it’s still there and remains one of the most iconic signs in America, making this day NATIONAL HOLLYWOOD SIGN DAY! It has fallen
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/12/26 – INTERNATIONAL CAESAR DAY!
We still use his calendar, only slightly modified by Pope Gregory, still eat his salads, and still live in the world he created. Today we wish him a Happy 2,126th birthday on INTERNATIONAL CAESAR DAY! Yes, Julius Caesar was everything they say he was and more; politician, brilliant military strategist, author, dictator, conqueror, famous concubine-keeper,