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 clown Weary Willie, Emmet Kelly became a household […]
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It’s always better when aviation is civil, so let’s have a warm reception for NATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION DAY! Civil Aviation covers everything from jumbo jets to crop dusters, traffic choppers, and everything in between that is airborne but not military. Today, however, we celebrate the little guy, the ones piloting the tiny Pipers, Cessnas and
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Today marks 84 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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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! 160 years ago today, the catastrophic civil war
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Imagine a world with no lions and tigers or bears. Oh, my. Or one without elephants, eagles, leopards, wolves, giraffes or moose. No, thank you. Instead we’ll celebrate NATIONAL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION DAY! We build towers as high as the clouds, sail the seven seas and fly rockets to the moon. Mankind has risen from the plains,
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We do it for love, we do it for comfort, we do it for joy and for friendship, and it turns out it’s good for your health too. That’s good enough to celebrate NATIONAL LET’S HUG DAY! Turns out that hugging for just 20 seconds releases soothing chemicals in your brain, and feelings of safety and
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Oh, Captain Video! And Kirk and Picard and Nemo and, what the hell, Flash Gordon, we’ll promote him to Captain too. Get out your ray guns, boys and girls, it’s NATIONAL SCIENCE FICTION DAY! What Jules Verne started, others took up with a passion and gave us the literary genre Science Fiction, great writers like Heinlein, Asimov,
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It is called one of the best ideas in manufacturing history, and one of the worst ideas in manufacturing history, but wherever lies the truth, we still celebrate NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LINE DAY! 117 years ago, the Ford Motor Company put into operation the world’s first moving assembly line, where a car would start life as
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