He was born in a Baltimore neighborhood called Pigtown 126 years ago today, February 6, 1895, son of a barkeep who sent him to live in a boys reformatory where he learned shirt making, carpentry and how to play baseball better than any else one ever played […]
Read more →Whether it’s a profile of Joe’s pancreas, Peoria’s best Girl Scout, tales of triumph over severe ordeals by ordinary people or dozens of bland jokes, we’ve all read our share of them, and so today we celebrate NATIONAL READER’S DIGEST DAY! Launched by married publishers DeWitt and […]
Read more →February 4, 2004 was a banner day for kittens and narcissism when a nerd from White Plains, New York opened a social internet network out of his Harvard dorm room, making today NATIONAL FACEBOOK DAY! That nerd was Mark Zuckerberg, who we have made an irritating boy […]
Read more →He was in many ways the Voice of America, although few heard him speak. His paintings, however, were snapshots of our history, and so we celebrate NATIONAL NORMAN ROCKWELL DAY! Born February 3, 1894 in New York City, professional illustrator Norman Rockwell transcended the boundary between popular […]
Read more →This is either the day when people remark what a wry actor is Bill Murray, or when fat guys in top hats make speeches on a frigid day in some town in Pennsylvania with an unpronounceable name before releasing a giant rodent to see if the thing […]
Read more →It wasn’t enough to win the Civil War. It had to be written into the Constitution so that it could never happen again, no matter what. On this date in 1865, Abraham Lincoln signed the Thirteenth Amendment to The Constitution, making today NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY! The Civil […]
Read more →Her name was Ida May Fuller, a retired legal secretary from Vermont, and on this day in 1940 she made history by going to her mailbox, making today NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK DAY! The mail in question was Social Security Check # 00-000-001, in the amount of […]
Read more →His initials are all you need to hear to know exactly who he is and what he stood for, the man who left the largest presidential stamp on America on NATIONAL FDR DAY! Born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was […]
Read more →Also called “Freethinker’s Day,” today we celebrate the man who pioneered political blogging, and remains one of the most influential freethinkers ever on NATIONAL THOMAS PAINE DAY! Free thought supports reason over faith, and rejects arbitrary authority, the very definition of the man. Thomas Paine’s self-published pamphlet […]
Read more →Maybe you never heard of Ole Kirk Christiansen, but you’ve handled thousands of his inventions and seen the smash hit The Lego Movie and its sequels, so this is your day too, NATIONAL LEGO DAY! Ole Kirk Christiansen (April 7, 1891 – March 11, 1958) was a maker […]
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