They took their time ending wars in the 18th century, when all they had was dial-up, and cell phone service was worse than AT&T’s. British Major General Cornwallis had surrendered to George Washington almost 2 years before, ending the American Revolution, but it took that long to give us a reason to celebrate NATIONAL TREATY […]
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We all know the single name for the pink rubber balls once sold in every candy store in America for a dime, reason enough to celebrate NATIONAL SPALDING DAY! Pronounced “spaldeen” by young boys, the Spalding High-Bounce Ball is the perfect ball for every urban sport from stickball to stoop ball, handball, catch-a-fly, or just
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Call it the Yalta of Rock & Roll, When Worlds Collide or Clash of The Titans, but today is NATIONAL BEATLES MEET ELVIS DAY! In 1965, Brian Epstein and Colonel Tom Parker, the two most celebrated personal managers in music history, arranged for the Beatles to meet Elvis Presley in his Memphis mansion, Graceland. The Beatles
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This is a song that changed history. Written by a pair of 19 year-old city boys named Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, it had been Big Mama Thornton’s biggest hit, spending 14 weeks on the R&B charts in 1953, but the world-changing part came in 1956, when a young singer from Tennessee named Elvis Presley
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That Indie band with the Christopher Walken lookalike singer, Arcade Fire, uses about half of them, and the recording studio adventures of The Beatles, The Beach Boys and other rock & roll experimenters introduced more than a few, so today we wonder just what the hell is that haunting sound on NATIONAL UNCOMMON MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
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This is not just for chefs and foodies, today is for anyone who cooks, which means all of us on NATIONAL CULINARY DAY! In America, we’re all about the food. Big country, big appetite. Until the 20th Century, most of us made food, before we discovered big cities and jazz. The Industrial Revolution had already
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Does the name Richard Berry ring a bell? No? Well it is his birthday on April 11, 1938 that we celebrate today on INTERNATIONAL LOUIE LOUIE DAY! Me gotta go now! The version most of us remember was the Kingsmen’s smash hit in April of 1963, where Jack Ely’s garbled vocals set off a shitstorm
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5 So, you’re feeling like Romeo today? Call yourself Romeo Smith, or Lance Hardwick if you like, it’s okay. Seeking your inner songbird? Diva MacMelody is as good a moniker as any on NATIONAL NAME YOURSELF DAY! We’re not talking about using an alias and taking it on the lam, just asking why should showbiz types
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On this day in 1964, The Beatles did something no musical artist has done before or since. They not only had the #1 hit on the Billboard Charts, they had numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 records as well, making today NATIONAL HIT SINGLE DAY! Billboard Top 5 Songs, April 4, 1964: No. 1 “Can’t
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Who says they don’t get any holidays? Hell, they even have their own logo, just like the crosses, stars and crescents symbolizing other religions. Today our most fervent preachers and avid seekers of converts get their only holiday all year, one that most of them will spend furiously not celebrating, NATIONAL ATHEIST DAY! Steadfast believers in
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