107 years ago today, on November 27, 1917, Robert Emil Schmidt was born, who would grow up to create television’s first children’s idol, making today NATIONAL HOWDY DOODY DAY! Television’s first generation of kiddie viewers knew and loved Schmidt as Buffalo Bob Smith. For 2,543 shows from 1947 to 1960, the creator, producer and host […]
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It is the most widely spoken language on the planet, with China having the most people who speak it, followed by India, the United States and… oh right, England, the original reason we celebrate NATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAY! Officially called a “West Germanic” language, English originated as an Anglo-Saxon tongue in England in early Medieval times,
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Okay, so February 29 only comes once every 4 years, but until you drop dead with enough good deeds to your credit to earn yourself a regular holiday, today is your National Day, so make the most of NATIONAL YOUR NAME HERE DAY! I call it National Bob Day, and get to make all sorts
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Retailers call it Black Friday, most of us call it the day after Thanksgiving, but more and more of us are calling it NATIONAL BUY NOTHING DAY! The Friday after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day in the United States, kicking off our annual materialistic feeding frenzy that we call Christmas shopping, where we buy
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Call it the day before the austere Lenten Season, a wild street party, Carnival or Mardi Gras, the idea is to overindulge in everything on FAT TUESDAY! If you want to know the exact origins of Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday, ask an anthropologist, but Margaret Meade doesn’t work at bobcrespo.com. As far as our
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On this date in 1956, Elvis Presley made his acting debut in a forgettable piece of crap called “Love Me Tender,” launching his movie career and making today NATIONAL ELVIS MOVIE DAY! The King made 31 movies in all, usually playing a handsome young rebel with a guitar who gets in and out of trouble,
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In the 1990s I worked at the San Gennaro Feast in Manhattan’s Little Italy for about 5 years running, an 11-day affair that saw Mulberry Street transformed for 12 blocks starting at Canal Street and ending on Houston Street. This is the largest, longest and most famous Italian American street fair in the country, and
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Men might might call this “The Perfect Girlfriend Day,” but the calendar informs us that it’s NATIONAL SINGLE WORKING WOMEN’S DAY! Hurray for our single working women, the schoolmarms, secretaries, librarians, shop clerks, maids and flower girls. And also the doctors, lawyers, cabbies, electricians, cops, truckers and executives of the single female persuasion. A lot
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There’s no sound quite like the pipe organ music that announces their presence even before you lay eyes on them, and when you do get a look, you’re seeing Paradise on a spinning platform, with the painted ponies, carriages and other creatures all saddled up and waiting for you on NATIONAL CAROUSEL DAY! Merry-Go-Round is
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It was 1793 and France was torn by a bloody revolution that saw the ranks of the aristocracy considerably thinned by a peasantry fed up with subsidizing the decadent wealthy while they starved. The French Revolution had been brewing for decades, but what lit the powder keg that made everything go kablooey were the remarks of
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/16/20 – “HOW’S THE CAKE, MARIE?” DAY! Read More »
