Which one gets you, Falling Waters? The Guggenheim Museum? Johnson Wax headquarters? The Rookery? Today we honor America’s greatest architect on NATIONAL FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DAY! They laughed when he announced he had designed an earthquake-proof building. That is, until his Imperial Hotel was the only large building in Tokyo still standing after the Great …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/8/23 – FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DAY! Read More »
104 years ago today, Nathaniel Adams Coles, son of a preacher and a choir organist, was born on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama and raised in Chicago. He began playing piano in nightclubs as a teenager, and today is NATIONAL NAT KING COLE DAY! One of America’s most distinctive and accomplished singers, Nat Cole …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 3/17/23 – NAT KING COLE DAY! Read More »
You know who’s not getting a day, right? The Washington Generals. Not with their record of 6 wins and 13,000 losses against their touring rivals and today’s honorees on NATIONAL HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS DAY! The most famous professional basketball team in the world does not play in a competitive league. The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition team, not …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/7/23 – HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS DAY! Read More »
