He was born in Hamilton, Missouri on May 23, 1888, son of an English-descended father and a Cherokee mother, but made his name playing right field in Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field, and today we celebrate NATIONAL ZACK WHEAT DAY! He was a Brooklyn Dodger before they were the […]
Read more →Astounding, Holmes! Doctor Watson must have said that line a thousand times in Sherlock Holmes stories, and today we celebrate the man who created them both on INTERNATIONAL ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE DAY! Contrary to popular belief, his last name was Doyle, not Conan-Doyle, and he was a […]
Read more →Everyone alive has a favorite waitress, one above all the rest, so let this be her day, NATIONAL WAITRESS DAY! They’re hostesses, jugglers, hustlers, psychologists, organizers, fast on their feet and damned good at their jobs. A good waitress is as important as the food, maybe more so. The […]
Read more →It was May 20, 1927, the early days of aviation, and airplanes were considered ideal for short hops, but not long distance transport like the airships of the day. One guy disagreed, and at 7:27 that morning Charles Lindberg took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, […]
Read more →Malcolm Little didn’t show much promise. Smart as a whip, he used his brain as a young man to be a thief, gambler, drug dealer and pimp, a small time Harlem racketeer out of Milwaukee. Of course he was caught and sent to prison, but that’s where […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →It was 83 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, […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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, […]
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