Robert Fulton started thinking about powering ships with steam engines when he was a 12 year-old farmboy in Pennsylvania, so August 17, 1807 was a sweet day for him, NATIONAL FULTON’S FOLLY DAY! This was the day his North River Steamboat took its maiden voyage on the Hudson River, two weeks before beginning regular 36 […]
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Hey, ho, let’s go! You knew them, you loved them, you miss them, and you know damned well that Sheena is a Punk Rocker. Let’s rock NATIONAL RAMONES DAY! On this date in 1974, The Ramones played their first show at the legendary nightclub CBGB’s on The Bowery in lower Manhattan. Jeff Hyman, John Cummings,
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Here’s an underwhelming holiday for the Dog Days: NATIONAL RELAXATION DAY! It’s the Ides of August, and Summer is starting to get on our nerves big time. Blank stares and lethargic gestures are all we can manage before sundown, and we’re subsisting on takeout slop, Cheetos and Dr. Pepper. Remember those ambitious plans we made
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81 years ago today, the global slaughter that was World War 2 came to an end when Japan surrendered, making August 14th NATIONAL VJ DAY! VJ stands for Victory over Japan. With the announcement of their capitulation, the biggest and bloodiest war in history was over, a mechanized nightmare fought on four continents and two
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Lefties of the world, stand up! Today is your day to shine, and brag about how cool it is to be left handed. Dammit, it’s INTERNATIONAL LEFT HANDERS DAY! We all know being a lefty is cool. How are Jimi Hendrix, Albert Einstein, Barack Obama, Scarlet Johansson, Lefty Frizzel, Ringo Starr, Marilyn Monroe, Keith Hernandez, Robert
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You know them, you love them, sometimes you want to fling them out the window, but you can’t do without them. You’re using one right now on NATIONAL PERSONAL COMPUTER DAY! Before this date in 1981, a personal computer was an abacus, and the only ones with websites had 8 legs and ate bugs. Then
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Let’s run down to the ocean and wiggle our toes in the sand! Why? Because it’s Summertime, and today is NATIONAL PLAY IN THE SAND DAY! From our earliest days as mischievous peewees, we love playing in the sand, either in the playground sandbox or at the beach. We loved digging holes, making mud pies and sand
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Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane! No, Skippy, it’s another gigantic building, and this is NATIONAL SKYSCRAPER APPRECIATION DAY! Who hasn’t marveled at our gleaming spires that seem to reach the clouds? Well, guess what? Some of them do reach the clouds, dwarfing the first modern skyscraper, the 22 story
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Sorry, Kindle, but they smell better than you. Today we celebrate NATIONAL BOOK LOVERS DAY! Don’t we love our books? New ones, old ones, fat ones, thin ones, red ones, green ones, Mother Goose or Doctor Seuss, books are our brain’s favorite food. There are millions of them, but only a handful that everybody knows;
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Let’s Holla for a Dollar, folks, today is NATIONAL DOLLAR DAY! Yes, it’s all about the Benjamins today. No, we’re not celebrating wealth, the worship of the Almighty Dollar, or the price of eggs. Today marks the 240th Anniversary of the creation of America’s own monetary system on August 8, 1786 by the Continental Congress.
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