December 25 in Pop Culture History
December 25 in Pop Culture History 0 (possibly 4 or 6 BC) - Jesus was born. 350 - Pope Julius I, bishop of Rome, proclaimed December 25 the official celebration...
December 4 Is National Cookie Day
(PCM) What better time than the start of the holiday season to celebrate National Cookie Day. The word cookie takes it's origin from the Dutch word "koekie" which translates to...
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...
Thanksgiving is The Fourth Thursday in November
Thanksgiving is The Fourth Thursday in November The United States of America was the first nation in the world to proclaim a national holiday for giving thanks, but it may...
Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
(Proclamation Given October 3, 1863) The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are...
The Great American Smokeout
The Great American Smokeout is held on the third Thursday of November. Its purpose is to inspire people to stop smoking and educate the public on the dangers of smoking...
November 19, 1863 President Lincoln Delivers The Gettysburg Address
November 19, 1863: President Lincoln Delivers The Gettysburg Address The Union had won The Battle of Gettysburg and the town was planning on dedicating a national cemetery to the fallen...
Celebrate Have A Bad Day Day!
(PCM) Have A Bad Day Day is celebrated each year on November 19 and it is one day of the year that you can actually embrace the fact that you...
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...
Happy National Unfriend Day!
(PCM) What began as a joke started by late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, National Unfriend Day is celebrated on November 17th and is a day to spend a few moments...
Homemade Bread Day 11/17
Bake Bread/ Break Bread: November 17th is Homemade Bread Day (PCM) According to the interwebs, November 17th is Homemade Bread Day. It's not clear why this day, in particular, has...
November 17 is The International Day of Peace
Now called The International Day of Peace, World Peace Day was established in about 1997. The idea of the day is for individuals to do what they can in order...
Veteran’s Day – Second Monday in November
Although officially November 11, Veterans Day is celebrated on the second Monday in November. It is a day to honor all those who have served The United States of America...
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...
Chaos Never Dies Day
Chaos Never Dies Day is celebrated on November ninth of each year. The idea that chaos is an ongoing problem in our society is fairly obvious to anyone from about...
November Is Peanut Butter Lover’s Month
(PCM) If you were stranded on a desert island and could have a lifetime supply of only one kind of food, what would you choose? If you said peanut butter,...
US General Election Day
This is not a holiday, though many government offices do close down on General Election Day, this day is a day of exercising the American Citizen's right to vote and...
National Author’s Day is November 1st
(PCM) They say that writing is a lonely profession, but not today! In 1949, the U.S. government designated November 1st as National Author's Day, due in part to one Mrs....
The Big List of Knock Knock Jokes For National Knock-Knock Day!
October 31st is well known as Halloween, but did you know it is also National Knock-Knock Day? Knock, Knock... Who's there? Robin Robin who? Robin you! Give me your wallet!...
The History of Halloween
(PCM) Halloween is probably the longest-running holiday with a set day or time period. The earliest celebrations of the day that became November 1st was Samhain, a celebration of the...
Devil’s Night, Mischief Night And Haunted Refrigerator Night?
(PCM) The night before Halloween (October 30) has long been referred to as either Devil's Night or Mischief Night and has been referenced for many years as a night where...
Celebrate National Cat Day!
(PCM) Everyone knows that the internet is obsessed with cats! We adore looking at their adorable fuzzy little faces and seriously, who doesn't love watching funny cat videos? Cats have...
It’s National Mulligan Day! Who Doesn’t Need A "Do-Over" From Time To Time?
(PCM) Each year, Mulligan Day is celebrated on October 17 and for those that may not be familiar with the term "mulligan", it is a word that is used...
Celebrate National Grouch Day!
(PCM) National Grouch Day is celebrated annually on October 15 and is a day for celebrating and letting loose the inner grouch that can live within us all! According to...
Christopher Columbus Day
The first celebration of Columbus Day took place in New York City on October 12, 1866. Since 1970, the holiday has been celebrated on the second Monday in October....
World Smile Day First Friday of October
World Smile Day is a moving holiday celebrated on the first Friday of October. Harvey Ball created the first smiley face in 1963. Mr. Ball was a commercial artist. The...
Join Us In Celebration Of National Coffee Day
(PCM) Without a doubt September 29 is one of our very favorite days of the year, as it is the time we get to celebrate National Coffee Day in honor...
National Bring Your Manners To Work Day
The first Friday of September is National Bring Your Manners To Work Day. This day is dedicated to reminding people to be considerate and polite with their co-workersHow many of...
September is National Milkshake Month!
September is National Milkshake Month! ~ Milkshake Trivia & History ~ The basic ingredients for a milkshake include milk, ice cream, and flavoring. Bandleader Fred Waring financed the invention by...
National Cherry Popsicle Day – August 26
(PCM) What’s better on a hot August day than a delicious, icy popsicle?Today you can get all sorts of flavors and make even stranger ones on your own, but that...
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to...
June 20 in Pop Culture History – National Vanilla Milkshake Day
June 20 in Pop Culture History June 20 is National Vanilla Milkshake Day. 1214 - The University of Oxford received its Royal charter. 1782 - Congress adopted the Great Seal...
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...
The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, The Christ
The life and passion of Jesus of Nazareth or of Jesus The Christ remains the center of history. Even though the terms have changed we still date everything from his...
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...
April Fools' Day
April Fools' Day is day celebrated in almost all western cultures. It is a day that people play pranks on each other, all in good fun, and when the prank...
March 26 in Pop Culture History
March 26 in Pop Culture History 1169 - Saladin became the emir of Egypt. 1812 - A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coined the term "gerrymander" (named after Governor...
Saint Patrick The Man and The Legend
Very Little is actually known about Saint Patrick. His tale is shrouded in mystery and legend. What we do know comes to us by his own writing. There are two...
Mardi Gras 2019
Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. It refers to the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday when many Christians begin to fast for the 40 days leading up to Easter Sunday....
World Wildlife Day, March Third
World Wild Life Day is a day that both wild plants and animals are celebrated and also a day to be aware of what human beings are doing to endanger...
Leap Day Coming February 29 in 2020
February 29 in Pop Culture History Bachelors Day Leap Day Underlings Day46 BC - Julius Caesar declared the first Leap Day.1288 - The concept of allowing women to propose marriage...
Celebrate Tooth Fairy Day February 28
(PCM) Tooth Fairy Day was concocted as a way to pay homage to the delightful deity known as the Tooth Fairy who graciously leaves money or small presents under the...
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 Thinking...
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...
February 14 in Pop Culture History
February 14 in Pop Culture History Ferris Wheel Day, named after George Ferris, born Feb. 14, 1859. It is also National Donor Day & St. Valentine's Day. ~270 - Valentine,...
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...
Charles Dickens Born February 7, 1812
Charles John Hoffman Dickens was born February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth England. He was the son of a naval clerk and his wife and he was the second of eight...
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...
Don’t Let Blue Monday Get You Down!
(PCM) Blue Monday is the name given to what is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year. It typically falls on either the third or fourth Monday...
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...
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...
January Sixth, The Epiphany
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi[a] from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king...
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 Carol. Day Five
Stave Five or The End of It. JRR Tolkien wrote in The Hobbit “ Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to hear are soon told...
5 Staves 5 Days of A Christmas Carol. Day Four
Stave 4, The Last of the Spirits. The last stroke of midnight had cease to vibrate and there appeared before Scrooge a figure “shrouded in a deep black garment, which...
5 Days 5 Staves of A Christmas Carol Day Three
The Second of The Three Spirits or Stave Three begins with Scrooge waking up and without even hearing the sound of the clock he knows it is the hour of...
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...
5 Days 5 Staves of A Christmas Carol. Day One
“Marley was dead to begin with.” These six words may be, at least, one of the most famous lines in all of literature. In 1843 Charles Dickens was short on...
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...
October 17, 1979 Mother Teresa Awarded The Nobel Peace Prize
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize on October 17, 1979. Mother Theresa was a Roman Catholic nun who lived from August 25, 1910 to September 5,...
October 20, 1955 JRR Tolkien Publishes The Return of the King Completing The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
On October 20 1955 JRR Tolkien finally published The Return of the King the last volume of his Lord of the Rings trilogy. After the publication of The Hobbit in...
November 12 1859, Jules Leotard Performs The First Flying Trapeze Act
Human skills were held in high regard in the 1800’s with the popularity of the circus. Jules Leotard developed the flying trapeze act to feed this trend. He debuted the...