They line our streets, and we pass them every day in our travels. They sell us our food and dry goods, repair our homes and cars, and ship our goods across the land, so we celebrate NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS DAY! Small, family-owned stores rock. They know you […]
Read more →They didn’t call it the “New World” or “America.” They called it home and had their own names for the land that sustained them, and today we remember their lost world on NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE DAY! Anthropologists tell us there were anywhere from 50 to 90 […]
Read more →Hanks William, Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells, Minnie Pearl and the Carter Family are but a handful of the members of this organization that has touched all our lives on NATIONAL GRAND OLE OPRY DAY! On November 28, 1925, in […]
Read more →105 years ago today, on November 27, 1917, Robert Emil Schmidt was born, who would grow up to create television’s first children’s idol, making today NATIONAL HOWDY DOODY DAY! Television’s first generation of kiddie viewers knew and loved Schmidt as Buffalo Bob Smith. For 2,543 shows from […]
Read more →On this day in 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first men to enter a sealed tomb for 3,000 years, which any Steve Martin fan will tell you makes this INTERNATIONAL KING TUT DAY! The Pharaoh Tutankhamun died at about age 18 or 19 from […]
Read more →Retailers call it Black Friday, most of us call it the day after Thanksgiving, but more and more of us are calling it NATIONAL BUY NOTHING DAY! The Friday after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day in the United States, kicking off our annual materialistic feeding frenzy […]
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For a holiday that no religion can claim, it sure has a ton of rituals. Consider the almost universal Thanksgiving menu of the driest bird in the animal kingdom stuffed with bread mixed with the flesh of a far tastier animal, and surrounded by mounds and mounds […]
Read more →Attention Little Boy Blue, Miss Muffet and the Tweedles, both Dee and Dum! Hickory Dickory Dock, look at the clock, it’s NATIONAL MOTHER GOOSE DAY! Little Jack Horner, Old King Cole, Wee Willie Winkie and Little Bo-peep are just a few of the friends of Mother Goose, […]
Read more →On this day in 1955, entertainment conglomerate RCA Victor made its best investment when they paid $35,000 to Sam Philips’ small Memphis record company for Elvis Presley’s contract, making today NATIONAL SUN RECORDS DAY! Everyone knows that Presley went on to become one of the most successful […]
Read more →We criticize it, complain about it, yell at it and take it for granted, but we can’t ignore the squeakiest wheel in the house, and the reason we celebrate NATIONAL TELEVISION DAY! Whether you prefer Kimmel to Colbert, Jerry Springer to Judge Judy, or “Hard Core Pawn” over […]
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