It’s where Mom took you to shop for bargains, and movie stars got discovered sitting on a stool at the soda fountain, making today NATIONAL WOOLWORTH’S FIVE & DIME DAY! On February 22, 1879, Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first store, “Woolworth’s Great Five Cent Store” in Utica, New York. The store wasn’t as great as […]
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Minds out of the gutter now, we’re talking pastry here! You know who you are on NATIONAL STICKY BUNS DAY! Okay, salacious thoughts are unavoidable when saying sticky buns, but they were introduced to America by the notoriously unsexy German immigrants to Pennsylvania back in the 1700s. Sticky buns involve twisted leavened dough, almond paste,
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Wait a minute, wait a minute, Mister Postman! Don’t return to sender, ’cause my baby, she wrote me a letter on NATIONAL POST OFFICE DAY! He always rings twice, and since February 20, 1792, Mail Carriers of the U.S. Postal Service have been braving every sort of precipitation, darkness and mean dogs to deliver the
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What’s it going to be today; ducks in a row, swallows returning to Capistrano, birds of a feather or 6 geese-a-laying? It’s all good on NATIONAL BIRD DAY Consider what a dreary world this would be without birds, the creatures that most inspire us. Could we fly without their guidance? Would it even occur to
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You know who you are, all those people born around Christmas Week, and yes, we all know you get royally screwed your whole life when it comes to celebrating your birthday. From this day forward, Christmas Babies get to claim December 10th as their birthday, NATIONAL CHRISTMAS BABIES DAY! It’s close enough to your birthday
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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 100 years now on NATIONAL GRAND OLE OPRY DAY! On November 28, 1925, in Nashville, Tennessee, a young
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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
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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 marks the 63rd 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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