TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/9/26 – INTERNATIONAL JOHN LENNON DAY!
Imagine no John Lennon. It’s not easy, even if you try. No Beatles, no Day in The Life, no Imagine, no Jealous Guy, no I Feel Fine or Eight Days a Week. Unthinkable. He would have been 86 on this INTERNATIONAL JOHN LENNON DAY! Born in wartime England to a teenage mother and a merchant sailor
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/8/26 – PERFECT GAME DAY!
“The Imperfect Man Pitches The Perfect Game!” was how one headline so aptly put it. On October 8th, 1956, the only perfect game ever pitched in the World Series was thrown by Don Larsen, which is why today is NATIONAL PERFECT GAME DAY! It was yet another World Series matchup between the New York Yankees and
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/7/26 – JOE HILL DAY!
“I never died, he said…” Born Joel Emmanuel Hillstrum on October 7th, 1879 in Gävle, Sweden, he emigrated to the United States at age 23 and became a migrant laborer, traveling the western USA in search of work, even surviving the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. None of which is the reason he “never died,” or why
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/6/26 – MAD HATTER DAY!
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” You’d see it clearly if you knew it was NATIONAL MAD HATTER DAY! Today
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/5/26 – STORYTELLING DAY!
Once upon a time there was a lonely little holiday, until one day it came upon a big sign on the side of the road saying, in big red letters; NATIONAL STORYTELLING DAY! Storytelling is the great oral tradition of every human society, dating back before alphabets. Before writing, storytellers were our scholars, and our
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/4/26 – VODKA DAY!
Here’s a holiday to remember. Vaguely, anyway. NATIONAL VODKA DAY! What else says revelry like Pink Martinis? Well, plenty of things do, but this is, after all, Vodka Day. This clear liquid is the most versatile of whiskeys, so let’s mix up a Bloody Mary, Cosmopolitan, Screwdriver, Cape Cod, Sea Breeze, Vodka Sour, White Russian,