Robert R. Crespo

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/24/26- INTERNATIONAL UNITED NATIONS DAY!

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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 world […]

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/22/26 – CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS DAY!

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Today marks the 64th 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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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/5/26 – STORYTELLING DAY!

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Once upon a time there was a lonely little holiday, until one day it came upon a big sign on the side of the road saying, in big red letters; NATIONAL STORYTELLING DAY! Storytelling is the great oral tradition of every human society, dating back before alphabets. Before writing, storytellers were our scholars, and our

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/4/26 – VODKA DAY!

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Here’s a holiday to remember. Vaguely, anyway. NATIONAL VODKA DAY! What else says revelry like Pink Martinis? Well, plenty of things do, but this is, after all, Vodka Day. This clear liquid is the most versatile of whiskeys, so let’s mix up a Bloody Mary, Cosmopolitan, Screwdriver, Cape Cod, Sea Breeze, Vodka Sour, White Russian,

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/3/26 – TECHIE DAY!

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You know them, you don’t especially love them, but you have to deal with them sooner or later, so we might as well celebrate their special day and get it over with. Yes, today is NATIONAL TECHIE DAY! They answer our anguished calls for tech support and give us phony names (what else will they lie about?),

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/2/26- INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NONVIOLENCE!

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Finally, a day worth fighting for! It’s Mohandas K. Gandhi’s 157th birthday, and all over the world, people are not kicking ass and taking names on INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NONVIOLENCE! Any idiot can get violent and, as a quick peek at the bloody mess we politely call “history” tells us, they usually do, but it

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/1/26 – MODEL T DAY!

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Making its debut on October 1, 1908, there were more than 15 million of them made by the time it was replaced by the Model A in 1927, and was the first car built for the masses. The Ford Model T, called “The Tin Lizzie” and honored as The Car Of The 20th Century, claims

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 9/29/26 – INTERNATIONAL CONFUCIUS DAY!

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Who can deny that Chinese proverbs demand acquiescence by beginning with “who can deny?” None can deny that no one wrote more Chinese proverbs than Confucius, the reason we celebrate INTERNATIONAL CONFUCIUS DAY! Born Kong Qiu in 551 BC in Zou, the renowned teacher Confucius is known among philosophers as The King of One Liners.

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 9/28/26 – ASK A STUPID QUESTION DAY!

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Some say there are no stupid questions. Those would be stupid people, because there are a lot of stupid questions. Besides, without stupid questions, we couldn’t celebrate NATIONAL ASK A STUPID QUESTION DAY! This is America, dammit, where everybody gets a National Day, and today it’s that guy who asks wet people if it’s raining. Don’t be

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 9/27/26 – WRECK OF THE OLD 97 DAY!

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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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