It had been 2 years since Casey Jones went up in flaming immortality with The Cannonball Express, but that cautionary tale was the last thing on Engineer Joseph A. “Steve” Broady’s mind as he tried to slow down his train down to a safe speed approaching the Stillhouse Trestle in Danville, Virginia on September 27, […]
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John Chapman doesn’t ring a bell with most people outside the Chapman family, but mention apple seeds and hard cider, and you’ll know why we celebrate NATIONAL JOHNNY APPLESEED DAY Born on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts, John Chapman became an American legend in his own lifetime as Johnny Appleseed, pioneer apple nurseryman and serial planter of
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John Fred and His Playboy Band or the Lemon Pipers may not be household names, but their songs, “Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)” and “Green Tambourine” sure ring a bell. Well this is their day, the day we celebrate NATIONAL ONE-HIT WONDER DAY! You know a bunch of them, you love their songs, and maybe even
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May the Bluebird of Happiness light upon your shoulder and sing you sweet melodies forever and a day. Or, at the very least, not soil your car on this most auspicious of celebrations, NATIONAL BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS DAY! The Bluebird of Happiness was dreamed up by a Frenchman, fittingly enough, being that the French are
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On September 23, 1952, a 29 year-old Country music star from Alabama booked time in Castle Studio in Nashville’s Tulane Hotel and recorded 3 songs; “Kaw-Liga,” “Take These Chains From My Heart” and one of the most iconic Country songs of all time, which is why we celebrate NATIONAL “YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART” DAY! Hank Williams
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September 22 is not always the end of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but when it is… we call it NATIONAL AUTUMNAL EQUINOX DAY! Today’s holiday didn’t actually commence until 2:19 PM, but once it starts, Summer officially ends. We knew this was coming. The kids have been back at school for weeks, your Labor
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Today is when the entire world celebrates International Day of Peace, but screw that, that’s just not happening. Instead, let’s talk about the time I repelled an alien invasion with a dozen bottle rockets and a switch blade on NATIONAL BIG WHOPPER LIAR DAY! As Secretary of Defense Vin Diesel told me the other day while seeking my
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Words and music by Dion Di Mucci and Earnest Maresca, arrangement by Jeff Funk. Who, you say? What song you talking about? Talking about Dion, of course, formerly of Dion & The Belmonts, who went solo in 1961 to pursue a more edgy brand of Rock & Roll, and on September 20 of that year
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“Give us ten million dollars or we will sell your oil tanker to black marketeers with whom we are already in negotiations via satellite phone!” Sorry, Somalian dudes, but that just doesn’t have the cachet of Wallace Beery swilling grog, hobbling around on a peg leg, and growling about running you through with a broadsword
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We all played with it as kids, and if memory serves, it didn’t taste too bad at all, so today we reminisce and celebrate NATIONAL PLAY-DOH DAY! Officially called a “modeling compound,” Play-Doh was the invention of Noah McVicker while working for the Cincinnati-based soap manufacturer Kutol Products. Originally developed in 1956 as a compound
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