It’s not her birthday, or the anniversary of her death, but instead a day that tells us exactly why we celebrate this magnificent woman on NATIONAL MAE WEST DAY! On December 27, 1937, Mae West got herself banned from NBC Radio after she performed “The Adam And Eve Skit,” an innocuous enough bit of fluff …
They cover 27% of the Earth’s surface, make neat dividing lines, and are beautiful to boot. Reasons enough to celebrate INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN DAY! You know them, you love them, you have your favorites, and now you have a National Day to celebrate mountains. No one is quite certain what that involves, since Mountain Day is …
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Today marks 81 years since the devastating surprise attack on America’s Pacific Fleet by the Japanese Imperial Navy, making today NATIONAL PEARL HARBOR DAY Sunday morning, December 7th, 1941 was a dawn like any other in Hawaii, promising another perfect sunny day. Instead, Japanese planes arrived with the sun, and soon reduced the great warships …
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The odds of two organizations with mouthfuls of names, The American Federation of Labor and The Congress of Industrial Organizations changing the world? Pretty good, which is why we celebrate INTERNATIONAL AFL-CIO DAY! The AFL-CIO is a federation of 57 different national and international trade unions representing 11 million workers, formed in 1955 of many …
On this date in 1956, Elvis Presley made his acting debut in a forgettable piece of crap called “Love Me Tender,” launching his movie career and making today NATIONAL ELVIS MOVIE DAY! The King made 31 movies in all, usually playing a handsome young rebel with a guitar who gets in and out of trouble, …
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Men might might call this “The Perfect Girlfriend Day,” but the calendar informs us that it’s NATIONAL SINGLE WORKING WOMEN’S DAY! Hurray for our single working women, the schoolmarms, secretaries, librarians, shop clerks, maids and flower girls. And also the doctors, lawyers, cabbies, electricians, cops, truckers and executives of the single female persuasion. A lot …
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There’s no sound quite like the pipe organ music that announces their presence even before you lay eyes on them, and when you do get a look, you’re seeing Paradise on a spinning platform, with the painted ponies, carriages and other creatures all saddled up and waiting for you on NATIONAL CAROUSEL DAY! Merry-Go-Round is …
Today is more than another dry date in the history books. December 6, 1865, marks the adoption of another Amendment to the US Constitution. To the nation, and the world, it was the day America said “Never again!” A day when former slaves rejoiced, NATIONAL 13TH AMENDMENT DAY! 157 years ago today, the catastrophic civil war …
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It was 1793 and France was torn by a bloody revolution that saw the ranks of the aristocracy considerably thinned by a peasantry fed up with subsidizing the decadent wealthy while they starved. The French Revolution had been brewing for decades, but what lit the powder keg that made everything go kablooey were the remarks of …
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Okay, it’s the first Monday of the year, so it’s best to just get this holiday out of the way and move on with our lives. For worse, not better, today is NATIONAL BLUE MONDAY! There’s one every week you say, 52 Miserable Mondays a year, so, why single out this one? Well, for the …
