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...
October 16 in Pop Culture History
October 16 in Pop Culture History On October 16, 1958 Patricia Bay Haroski (an employee of State Farm Insurance Company) registered Boss's Day with US Chamber of Commerce. Haroski chose...
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...
August 18 in Pop Culture History
August 18 in Pop Culture History 1227 - RIP - Genghis Khan (c. 1162 – August 18, 1227) is said to have fathered between 1,000-2,000 children, making him the man with most...
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 8 in Pop Culture History
June 8 in Pop Culture History 632 - Muhammad, the Islamic prophet, died in Medina. 793 - The Viking Age began when Vikings destroyed the Abbey on Lindisfarne, on an...
May 20 in Pop Culture History
May 20 in Pop Culture History 1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob W Davis patented (#139,121) copper-riveted jeans, designed to help prevent tears in the fabric. 1883 - Krakatoa began...
March 22 in Pop Culture History
March 22 in Pop Culture History Year Unknown - Diana of Themyscira, Wonder Woman, Born (made of clay) 1630 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlawed the possession of cards, dice,...
March 15 in Pop Culture History
March 15 in Pop Culture History 44 BC - Gaius Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house, by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and...
March 11 in Pop Culture History
March 11 in Pop Culture History 105 - Ts'ai Lun invented paper, in China. 1818 - Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, was published. It is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
January Sixth, The Epiphany
(PCM) 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 of the...
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 I didn’t...
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...
Christmas Trivia and The Reason For The Season
Christmas Trivia and The Reason For The Season (PCM) The word Christmas originated as a compound word, meaning "Christ's Mass". It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old...
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...
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...
First Day of Winter December 21
Winter means many things different people. For some it is the best season of the year. The thoughts of snow and cold, ice and winds bring smiles to many a...
November 22 in Pop Culture History
For those born on November 22, 1989 you have a special birthday in the year 2033. Why? On 11/22/33 you're turning 44! November 22 in Pop Culture History 1809 -...
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...
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...
The Feast of Venus by Sir Peter Paul Rubens
The Feast of Venus is a 1635/36 painting by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. He expressed a grandeur vision of color and light within...
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo's Saint Jerome in the Wilderness show the hermit/saint in the desert of Syria. Jerome is best known for befriending a lion after taking a thorn out of it's paw....
Michelangelo Born March 6, 1475
Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on March 6 1475 in Caprese Italy. His father worked for the government was called, soon after, to work in Florence and it...
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,...
November 16, 1959 The Sound of Music Opens on Broadway
The Sound of Music, the last show that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein would collaborate on together (Hammerstein passed away before the opening of the show) opened on Broadway at...
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...