TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/31/25 – LIGHT BULB DAY!
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/30/25 – BACON DAY!
Why this holiday doesn’t get an entire season is just the bad luck of falling so close to the Christmas/New Year juggernaut. If this day fell in that holiday-starved stretch of late winter it would be huge, as is only befitting NATIONAL BACON DAY! You know it, you love it, you devour every bit of it
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/29/25 – TEXAS STATEHOOD DAY!
On this date in 1845 the Republic of Texas ceased to exist and the 28th State was admitted to the Union, making today NATIONAL TEXAS STATEHOOD DAY! The nation born of insurrection against Mexico and remembering the Alamo became America’s largest state that December 29, 1845. Texas is larger than France and chock full of
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/28/25 – BAIRNS’ DAY!
They say today, December 28, is the unluckiest day of the year. But when you get the gist of it, no one that is able to read this is in any danger. It’s the little guys who have to sweat it on NATIONAL BAIRNS’ DAY! Bairns’ Day is another name for Holy Innocents Day, supposedly
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/27/25 MAE WEST DAY
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
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/26/25 – RED SOX SELL BABE RUTH DAY!
It was the best of trades. It was the worst of trades. December 26, 1919. For the New York Yankees, it was the best thing that ever happened, the very first step in forging their brand name as the winningest team in professional sports. For the Red Sox? Not so much, making this a day of
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/25/25 – ISAAC NEWTON DAY!
On Christmas Day, 1642, the world received the gift of science for Christmas when a man was born who would not only make groundbreaking scientific discoveries in mathematics and physics, but who also laid down the laws for the Scientific Method that transformed every science, and so we celebrate NATIONAL ISAAC NEWTON DAY! His hometown
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/23/25 – FESTIVUS!
“What about the rest of us,” you query? Where’s our special day in the midst of America’s month-long feeding frenzy called Christmas Season? It took a very special man and a bold thinker to challenge the Christmas Hegemony. We have Frank Costanza to thank for FESTIVUS! But Frank Costanza is a fictitious character on the “Seinfeld”
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/22/25 – MAYFLOWER DAY!
While some feel it would have been better for America if the Mayflower had simply sunk to the bottom of the sea, taking its cargo of miserable Puritanical scolds and punishers with it, they made it to Plymouth Rock on December 22, 1620, forcing the rest of us to celebrate these dour idiots on NATIONAL
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/21/25 – YULE DAY! (WINTER SOLSTICE)
Celebrated ever since mankind had the wits to celebrate anything but staying uneaten by Buick-sized bears for one more day, Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, marking the official change of seasons from Autumn to Winter. In European cultures, it was originally called Yule Day or Yuletide, hence our modern observance of
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