Happy Thesaurus Day! (January 18th)
(PCM) On this day in 1779, Peter Mark Roget, the father of the modern thesaurus, was delivered, produced, came into being, born. After a long career as a physician, scientist...
Benjamin Franklin Born January 17, 1706
Happy Birthday, Benjamin Franklin!In movies and in real life, whenever people talk about large amounts of money, they talk about the Benjamins. This is because of Benjamin Franklin, who is...
Superman Comic Strip Debuted January 16, 1939
Sci Fi Newspaper strips had been around long before Superman would make his first appearance as a newspaper comic strip on January 16, 1939. His first appearance was in the...
America’s First Hot Air Balloon Flight
In the late 1700s, there was a major change in a lot of people's perception of the world. It was the end of the Age of Enlightenment and the Start...
Stan Lee Born December 28th 1922
Stan Lee (Stanley Lieber, December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) . As a boy Mr. Lee loved to read to quote him, “It would be easier to say what...
Peter Pan Opens December 27, 1904
(PCM)Peter Pan Or The Boy Who Wouldn’t grow up opened on December 27, 1904 at the Duke of York Theater in London England. Peter Pan was written by the playwright/novelist...
December 26 is Boxing Day
Boxing Day is a traditional holiday in a few countries around the world, but its main celebration and place of origin is The United Kingdom or England. Boxing Day is...
5 Days 5 Staves Of A Christmas Day Two
Stave Two of A Christmas Carol is titled “The First of the Three Spirits. When the Stave opens we find Scrooge in bed. He wakens to the sound of the...
Happy Winter Solstice!
(PCM) The Winter Solstice falls on or around December 21st. On this day in the Northern Hemisphere, the earth is tilted away from the sun as far as it...
Celebrate Short Fiction – December 21st
(PCM) Does life imitate art? If the sales of fiction for our e-readers, smart phones and – oh yeah, books – tell us anything, it's that it might be the...
Happy National Sangria Day! (December 20th)
(PCM) December 20th is National Sangria Day. We're not really sure why, other than "because the internet says so," but hey – if you've made it this far into December,...
Saturnalia: December 17th – December 23rd
(PCM) In ancient Rome, the period between December 17th and December 23rd was known as the Saturnalia, a festival to honor the god Saturn. Saturn ruled over such things...
December 2nd Is National Special Education Day
(PCM) Happy Special Education Day! On this day in 1975, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was signed into law, giving all children with disabilities access to free and...
Occult Day is November 18
This is the day that celebrates anything unnatural, or supernatural. November 18 is Occult Day. Though there is no specific origin to the celebration of Occult Day, it is not...
USMC Day November Tenth
USMC stand for The United States Marine Corps and November 10th has been chosen to celebrate and honor these brave men. The Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775...
November 9 Is Sadie Hawkins Day
Sadie Hawkins is not a real person she was a character created for the comic strip Little Ab’ner by Al Capp. Sadie was the ugliest girl in the mountain town...
50 United States Quick Facts
50 United States Quick Facts US State #1. Delaware - Capitol: Dover, joined on Dec. 7, 1787, nickname: The First State US State #2. Pennsylvania - Capitol: Harrisburg, joined on...
June 12 is Superman Day
Superman Day was founded by DC Entertainment. The company started the day in order to honor their most iconic character. It is said that there are three characters every child...
Happy Birthday Superman
“Faster than speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall building in a single bound. “Look up in the sky!” “It’s a bird!” “It’s a plane!” It’s...
International World Thinking Day February 22
International World Thinking Day is celebrated every year by both The Girl Scouts and The Girl Guides. It is also celebrated by some boy organizations. The point of International World...
Blondie Marries Dagwood February 17, 1933
There have been many weddings both historical and fictional in the world of pop culture. We can go back two thousand years to wedding that Jesus attended in Cana where...
Happy Singles Awareness Day (February 15th)
(PCM) Forget all the hearts and flowers stuff. Valentine's Day is yesterday's news. Today is Singles Awareness Day! Singles Awareness Day (February 15th) was originally created in response to the...
Valentine’s Day, February 14
(PCM) Valentine’s Day, a day for romance and love, a day to take that special someone out for dinner buy them chocolates or get a special card or gift that...
National Plum Pudding Day, February 12
Plum Pudding is a traditional English dessert usually served at Christmas and New Year’s. There are no plums in plum pudding. When the recipe was written in the 17th century...
January 29th Curmudgeon’s Day
Curmudgeon’s Day. According to The American Heritage Dictionary a curmudgeon is a “cantankerous person’. And, according to The American Heritage Dictionary cantankerous means” ill tempered, quarrelsome, disagreeable, contrary.,” in other...
Sign Here, Please: It’s National Handwriting Day! (January 23rd)
(PCM) National Handwriting Day was established by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) on January 23rd, 1977. Most people who were around then were taught penmanship as children, but that...
Give Us a Hug! It’s National Hugging Day! (January 21st)
(PCM) January 21, 2016 marked the 30th anniversary of "National Hugging Day", a festival of physical affection invented by one Kevin Zaborney (a guy who knew someone who knew someone...
A.A. Milne Born January 18, 1882
(PCM) A.A. Milne (Alan Alexander) was born on January 18, 1882 in London. He attended Cambridge University to study mathematics but soon found that his true passion was writing. After...
Happy Birthday Sherlock! January 6
(PCM) Happy Birthday Sherlock! Beloved super sleuth Sherlock Holmes was created by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. He is one of (if not the) most adapted fictional characters in literature,...
A Brief History of Emoticons and Emojis
Level 1 - The Emoticon Emoticon is actually short for EMOTION ICON, and was started by using punctuation marks with letters and numbers to express feelings, happy, sad, angry; they...
National Blame Someone Else Day is Celebrated on the First Friday the 13th of Every Year
Friday the 13th is traditionally a day to safely stay in bed with the covers over your head in order to protect yourself from the horrid bad luck that is...