Hanks William, Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells, Minnie Pearl and the Carter Family are but a handful of the members of this organization that has touched all our lives for 98 years now on NATIONAL GRAND OLE OPRY DAY! On November 28, 1925, in Nashville, Tennessee, a young …
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106 years ago today, on November 27, 1917, Robert Emil Schmidt was born, who would grow up to create television’s first children’s idol, making today NATIONAL HOWDY DOODY DAY! Television’s first generation of kiddie viewers knew and loved Schmidt as Buffalo Bob Smith. For 2,543 shows from 1947 to 1960, the creator, producer and host …
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On this day in 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first men to enter a sealed tomb for 3,000 years, which any Steve Martin fan will tell you makes this INTERNATIONAL KING TUT DAY! The Pharaoh Tutankhamun died at about age 18 or 19 from some wacky disease that’s not around anymore, or …
Well, ho-friggin’-hum, it’s a holiday weekend. No big whoop, this one. Nothing fails to get your blood racing like NATIONAL BLASÉ DAY. Being blasé means being unburdened from giving a tinker’s damn, a sweet release from the pressing concerns of everyday life and the greater world, at least for this one day. We wish we …
Retailers call it Black Friday, most of us call it the day after Thanksgiving, but more and more of us are calling it NATIONAL BUY NOTHING DAY! The Friday after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day in the United States, kicking off our annual materialistic feeding frenzy that we call Christmas shopping, where we buy …
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Do you love Lucy? How about Conan O’Brien, Maureen O’Hara, Helen of Troy, Mohammed, Ann Margaret, Brigham Young, Hedy Lammar, Vincent Van Gogh or Brenda Starr? Today, we rejoice. It’s NATIONAL LOVE YOUR RED HAIR DAY! While some natural redheads feel self conscious about their flaming locks, an equal amount of people are jealous of …
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You could have knocked me over with a feather when I found out today’s National Day walks like a duck and talks like duck on NATIONAL CLICHE DAY! It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good, and on Cliche Day we wish the wind to be ever at your back as you keep …
It was tentatively decided to appoint a committee to debate the possibility of forming a commission empowered to discuss empaneling a Special Board to study the calendar year for 6 months and issue nonbinding recommendations. That’s how today came, eventually, to be known as INTERNATIONAL UNITED NATIONS DAY! Founded by a wounded and shell shocked …
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Today marks the 61st anniversary of the highest stakes poker game ever played, one that terrified the entire world on INTERNATIONAL CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS DAY! It was 1962, the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and American spy planes had recently noticed newly constructed nuclear missile silos in …
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What’s that musical sound? What’s that heavenly smell? Could this be an Ascension? If not, that can only mean one thing. Today is NATIONAL BACON DAY! You know it, you love it, you can’t get enough bacon, as close to a national food as there is in the USA. It’s so good that some people …
