Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first one on the Roof Theater called Jardin de Paris on Broadway on July 8, 1907, beginning a 30-year run and making today NATIONAL ZIEGFELD FOLLIES DAY! Inspired by Paris’ Follies Bergere, showman Florence Ziegfeld conceived and produced lavish revues featuring dozens of beautiful dancers and chorus girls (the legendary Ziegfeld […]
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When it comes to Greatest Things, the Gold Standard against which they are measured is the accomplishment of one Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa. Yes, that Otto Rohwedder, the guy whose invention we celebrate on NATIONAL SLICED BREAD DAY! Before July 7, 1928, great things may have happened, but not Greatest Things. The phrase
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Today really is all about the Benjamins. And the Georges and Abrahams and Ulysses and Andrews and Alexanders. It was July 6, 1785 when the brand new country called the United States of America decided it was about time they had their own currency, making today NATIONAL DOLLAR DAY! Before America had dollars, our money
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Now here’s an obituary you wouldn’t think much about, “Louis Réard (1897 – 1984) was a French (of course!) automobile engineer…” until you read “… and inventor of the bikini.” Wait, of the what? Why aren’t there statues of this man at the entrance to every public beach on Earth? Louie will just have to settle for NATIONAL BIKINI DAY!
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Since this is one of those years when Independence Day and the Fourth of July fall on the same day, thus canceling each other out, today is, by default, INTERNATIONAL GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA DAY! Born on July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, Italy, Luigina Lollobrigida was director Robert Z. Leonard’s only choice to play “The World’s Most
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Okay, George M. Cohan wasn’t born on the 4th of July, but close enough, and he didn’t singlehandedly invent the Broadway Musical, but close enough to call today NATIONAL YANKEE DOODLE DANDY DAY! Born a showman to a family of show people in Providence, Rhode Island on July 3, 1878, George M. Cohan
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Don’t look for this headline anytime soon: “ALIENS ABDUCT FAMOUS GENIUS IN BIG CITY!” It seems that all our Strange Visitors From Alien Planets have no interest at all in being taken to our leaders when they can have their pick of poor people from the boondocks, making today NATIONAL UFO DAY! Is it the
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Guy follows a chicken across the road, then walks into a bar and says “Knock-knock!” Bartender asks if he’s here to help change the lightbulb or tell ‘What’s-The-Difference’ jokes. That’s right, folks, tell ’em if you got ’em, it’s NATIONAL JOKE DAY! Not coincidentally, today is also Canada Day, a day which is not really their
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Here’s one for the Geeks, whose time has finally come after 5,000 years of recorded history, during which it was the Geeks who invented everything that made history possible, and Kings that got the credit, so today we celebrate the Holy Grail for Geeks, NATIONAL iPHONE DAY Even though they are as common as the
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