He took off from Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennet Field on July 17, 1938, heading for Long Beach, California in a beat up Curtiss Robin OX-5 monoplane, but somehow landed 28 hours later in Ireland, making today NATIONAL WRONG WAY CORRIGAN DAY! Douglas Corrigan was a 30 year-old high school dropout who had been working as an aircraft […]
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Since July is National Hot Dog Month (as everyone knows), it stands to reason that the humble tube steak gets a day of its own. Well, guess what? Today’s that day, NATIONAL HOTDOG DAY! This much maligned, under-appreciated American food staple has a murky history, with a great many people claiming its invention, and others
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Rembrant Harmenszoon van Rijn, better known as the mononymous Rembrandt, was born on this day in 1606 and became one of the greatest painters and print makers in history, making today INTERNATIONAL REMBRANDT DAY! Born in Leiden, Netherlands, the 9th child of a successful miller and his baker’s daughter wife, Rembrandt was educated in Latin
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Now here’s a holiday that won’t have you shopping for a new outfit or sending your best threads to the dry cleaners. Suit up for NATIONAL NUDE DAY! Originally a New Zealand holiday (Who knew they were so cool? Or much of anything about New Zealanders for that matter?), Nude Day is not about nudist
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It was originally erected on July 13, 1923 to advertise a housing development called “Hollywoodland” in the hills above the Hollywood district of Chinatown, and intended to last only 18 months, but it’s still there and remains one of the most iconic signs in America, making this day NATIONAL HOLLYWOOD SIGN DAY! It has fallen
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Ten-hut! Look sharp, because today we honor the branch of our military with the coolest uniforms, the United States Marines Dress Blues, on NATIONAL SEMPER FI DAY! Created on July 11, 1798 by an Act of Congress, the United States Marine Corps has always done America proud, so often first into the fight, distinguishing themselves
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Of all the people who invented and built today’s modern world, he was not only one of the most brilliant, but the most selfless, relinquishing his claims to many patents and a potential vast fortune in order to ensure that mankind benefitted from his scientific breakthroughs, and today we salute him on NATIONAL NIKOLA TESLA
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Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! Before Anderson Cooper, before newspapers or telegraphs, before there were newsreels in movie theaters, before radio or television, and before Cable TV News stations began bombarding us 25 hours a day, 8 days a week, there were bearers of tidings in every town and village, and today is NATIONAL
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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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