Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane! No, Skippy, it’s another gigantic building, and this is NATIONAL SKYSCRAPER APPRECIATION DAY! Who hasn’t marveled at our gleaming spires that seem to reach the clouds? Well, guess what? Some of them do reach the clouds, […]
Read more →Sorry, Kindle, but they smell better than you. Today we celebrate NATIONAL BOOK LOVERS DAY! Don’t we love our books? New ones, old ones, fat ones, thin ones, red ones, green ones, Mother Goose or Doctor Seuss, books are our brain’s favorite food. There are millions of […]
Read more →Let’s Holla for a Dollar, folks, today is NATIONAL DOLLAR DAY! Yes, it’s all about the Benjamins today. No, we’re not celebrating wealth, the worship of the Almighty Dollar, or the price of eggs. Today marks the 236th Anniversary of the creation of America’s own monetary system […]
Read more →It was August 7th, 1789 that Congress approved an “Act For The Establishment And Support Of Lighthouses, Beacons, Buoys And Public Piers,” leaving us no choice but to celebrate NATIONAL LIGHTHOUSE DAY! A welcome sight for sailors seeking shelter from the storm, oil painters looking for a […]
Read more →Like Thanksgiving and July 4th, here’s a holiday for everyone to celebrate, but without all the baggage. There is no more joyous experience than celebrating NATIONAL ROOT BEER FLOAT DAY! There’s no traditional cooking to be unfavorably compared to previous years, no complicated rituals to perform with […]
Read more →Bivalve Mollusks Rockefeller just doesn’t have a ring to it, nor does Briny Plankton Feeders sound like a big hit at the Raw Bar, but that’s what we’re celebrating on NATIONAL OYSTERS DAY! Ah, oysters! Either you love them and can’t get enough, or just the sight […]
Read more →This is a song that changed history. Written by a pair of 19 year-olds named Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, it had been Big Mama Thornton’s biggest hit, spending 14 weeks on the R&B charts in 1953, but the world-changing part came in 1956, when a young […]
Read more →Boxers or briefs? Panties or bloomers? T-Shirts or tank tops? Slips or camisoles? These are the choices we make every day without a thought, but today we choose them with a thought, since it’s NATIONAL UNDERWEAR DAY! Show us what’s underneath, it’s Underwear Day! Once humans invented […]
Read more →4,636, 838. That’s how many people were in the 13 states of the brand new country called the United States of America on this date in 1790, NATIONAL U.S. CENSUS DAY! Almost 700,000 Americans were slaves at the time, and counted as only 3/5ths of a person, […]
Read more →Okay, so technically it’s International World Wide Web Day, way too generic a holiday for a means of communication with untold millions of sources, so we settle for one destination today, the Second Best Website Ever on INTERNATIONAL BOBCRESPO.COM DAY! As everyone knows, the internet was invented in the basement […]
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