Which one gets you, Falling Waters? The Guggenheim Museum? Johnson Wax headquarters? The Rookery? Today we honor America’s greatest architect on NATIONAL FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DAY! They laughed when he announced he had designed an earthquake-proof building. That is, until his Imperial Hotel was the only large building in Tokyo still standing after the Great …
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What is least understood about Daniel Boone is that he didn’t like people. He liked chopping wood, hunting game, growing corn and, most of all, being left alone, something we still won’t do for him on NATIONAL DANIEL BOONE DAY! There was a reason the man was a world famous explorer and trailblazer; people got on his …
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Half of them were teenagers, and not very many among the 156,000 Allied troops were much older. They were heading for the beaches of Normandy and the Nazi fortress that was Western Europe in the largest sea and airborne invasion in history, a day known simply as D-DAY World War 2 had been raging for years, …
White Lightning is an American institution dating back to the years following the Revolution, when Congress imposed a Whiskey Tax to pay for the war debt, inspiring thousands of Americans to distill their own whiskey and stiff Uncle Sam for the taxes, making today NATIONAL MOONSHINE DAY! The Whiskey Tax led directly to the Whiskey …
They make up the majority of our electorate, but until 104 years ago today, they could not vote in our American Democracy, when the United States Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, making today NATIONAL WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE DAY! It took America 144 years for America to be America for our women, and it …
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If you want to understand the timeless nature of America’s baseball obsession, look no further than this comic poem by Ernest Thayer, published under the pseudonym “Phin” in the San Francisco Examiner on this day in 1888, making June 3rd NATIONAL CASEY AT THE BAT DAY! This rhyme about a swaggering, handlebar-mustachioed slugger coming to bat …
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You know him, you love him, you’ve read about his naughty deeds. Okay, maybe you don’t love him, but dare we celebrate his birthday? What the hell, let’s! It’s NATIONAL MARQUIS DE SADE DAY! Born to an aristocratic family in Paris, France on June 2, 1740, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade was a revolutionary, a …
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She’s still the World’s Goddess, the Gold Standard for desirable women, her image familiar and identifiable to billions, and we wish her a Happy Birthday on NATIONAL MARILYN MONROE DAY! Born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, the future Marilyn Monroe had a troubled childhood, the daughter of a mentally unstable …
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Ever since May 31, 1790, the symbol © has signified authorship and/or ownership of intellectual property, making today NATIONAL COPYRIGHT ACT DAY! It was President George Washington who signed the Copyright Act of 1790 into law. A copyright protects authors, or the commissioners of written works; from poems, plays, novels, songs, films to just about …
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While this day falls regrettably past Kentucky Derby Day, when Epsom Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky serves 120,000 of them, it does serve as a joyful harbinger of Summer for more than a few bourbon enthusiasts, NATIONAL MINT JULEP DAY! A Southern delicacy of the strong spirits variety, the Mint Julep is a simple mix …
