Employing the cleverest of disguises, horn-rimmed glasses and mild manners, Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent always seems to disappear whenever there’s a big story to report, so let’s leave him out of NATIONAL SUPERMAN DAY! The Man of Steel has been patrolling the skies since 1938, when DC Comics unveiled the creation of Jerry Siegel […]
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/12/26 – SUPERMAN DAY! Read More »
We’re all sons and daughters of immigrants in America, if not immigrants ourselves. If your people emigrated to the United States between 1892 and 1954, odds are they passed through the hallowed place we celebrate on NATIONAL ELLIS ISLAND DAY! Starting with 15 year-old Annie Moore from Cork, Ireland, who got a ten dollar gold
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 4/17/26 – ELLIS ISLAND DAY! Read More »
Wars are expensive, and nobody knew that better than Napoleon Bonaparte, who was forced to unload some prime real estate for a lousy 42¢ an acre to pay for his latest contretemps with the British Empire, making today NATIONAL LOUISIANA PURCHASE DAY! The year was 1803, and Napoleon had learned the hard way in Russia
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 3/10/26 – LOUISIANA PURCHASE DAY! Read More »
Our first president was a hemp farmer, and 7 more farmers and a rancher also became American Presidents, the most recent being peanut farmer Jimmy Carter. There’s something humble and hopeful about farmers, generally a good natured bunch. Even in today’s largely urban society, everyone celebrates NATIONAL FARMERS DAY! Well, we’d better celebrate, these are
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/12/25 – NATIONAL FARMERS DAY! Read More »
When most people are 76, they’re done. When Anna Mary Robertson Moses turned 76, she started a career as an oil painter of such power and originality that today we celebrate NATIONAL GRANDMA MOSES DAY! Go Granny go. Born in 1860 in Greenwich, New York, Grandma Moses wasn’t always an old lady. Anna Robertson was
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 9/7/25 – GRANDMA MOSES DAY! Read More »
Our first president was a hemp farmer, and 7 more farmers and a rancher also became American presidents, the most recent being Jimmy Carter. There’s something humble and hopeful about farmers, generally a good natured bunch. Even in today’s largely urban society, everyone celebrates NATIONAL FARMERS DAY! Well, we’d better celebrate, these are the
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/12/13 – NATIONAL FARMERS DAY! Read More »
