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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/9/22 – WEARY WILLIE DAY!

On December 9th, 2022   /   National Days   /   Leave a comment

Emmet Kelly was born on December 9, 1898, and as a young man began a career as a trapeze artist with the John Robinson circus, but made his indelible mark on circus history as a clown, making today NATIONAL WEARY WILLIE DAY! As the sad, ragged hobo […]

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/29/22 – BLACK TUESDAY DAY!

On October 29th, 2022   /   National Days   /   Leave a comment

“♫ It’s raining men! ♫” That phrase had a very different meaning on October 29, 1929, when it rained stockbroker suicides from the gleaming towers of Wall Street, making today  NATIONAL BLACK TUESDAY DAY! Can you say “naked  greed,” boys and girls? I knew that you could. […]

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/8/22 – ZIEGFELD FOLLIES DAY!

On July 8th, 2022   /   National Days   /   Leave a comment

Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first one on the Roof Theater called Jardin de Paris on Broadway on July 8, 1907, beginning a 30-year run and making today NATIONAL ZIEGFELD FOLLIES DAY!  Inspired by Paris’ Follies Bergere, showman Florence Ziegfeld conceived and produced lavish revues featuring dozens of […]

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/3/22 – YANKEE DOODLE DANDY DAY!

On July 3rd, 2022   /   National Days   /   Leave a comment

Okay, George M. Cohan wasn’t born on the 4th of July, but close enough, and he didn’t singlehandedly invent the Broadway Musical, but close enough to call today NATIONAL YANKEE DOODLE DANDY DAY! Born a showman to a family of show people in Providence, Rhode Island on […]

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/28/22 – MEL BROOKS’ DAY!

On June 28th, 2022   /   National Days   /   Leave a comment

He’s the guy who wears the most hats in the Comedy Industry, from The 2,000 Year Old Man to director, producer, composer, lyricist, actor and screenwriter, a skill set achieved only by Charlie Chaplin before him, and America’s most consistently hilarious comic mind. And he married Mrs.Robinson, Anne […]

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 4/19/22 – RECORD STORE DAY!

On April 19th, 2022   /   National Days   /   Leave a comment

They all smelled pretty weird in an oddly pleasant way, a combination of dust, vinyl, cardboard and whatever the guy behind the counter from some foreign country, you don’t know which one, was having for lunch, something you never ate in your life. The aisles were crooked […]

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