Oh look! Another ice cream day! Get on down to your favorite ice cream shack to celebrate National Soft Serve Ice Cream Day. You can have vanilla, chocolate, or swirl. Dont forget the chocolate dip, too. International Honey Bee Day salutes the most crucial member of any farmers workforce and is intended to draw attention and alarm about the decline in the number of bees due to climate change and habitat contamination. If we run out of bees we run out of food. Roses are red and violets are pink, celebrate Bad Poetry Day with rhymes that stink. International Trail Running Day and International Geocaching Day can be easily combined. Use your GPS to plan a cross-country exercise route that includes stops to participate in the fast growing recreational activity of geocaching. Mail Order Catalog Day was created to remind you there are only 128 shopping days left until Christmas. In many southern states its Virgina Dare Day in honor of the first English baby born in North America in 1587. Virgina has gone on to become an ubiquitous symbol along the South Eastern Seaboard. On this day in 410 the Visigoths earned their reputation as bad houseguests, in 1590 it was discovered that Virgina (and the whole rest of the Roanoke Colony) had disappeared, in 1634 the last witch was burned in France, in 1817 the first American sea serpent was sighted, in 1838 the Wilkes Expedition set out for the Northwest, in 1868 helium was discovered, in 1872 the first mail order catalog was distributed, in 1903 the unsubstantiated first powered flight may have happened (or not), in 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, in 1926 the first weather telecast was made, in 1938 the Thousand Islands Bridge was not named after salad dressing, in 1956 Hound Dog hit #1, in 1958 Lolita was published, in 1960 oral contraceptives went on sale, in 1963 the first black student graduated from the University of Mississippi, in 1986 John Tesh first appeared on Entertainment Tonight, and in 2005 the largest blackout in history happened. Birthdays today for Don Keefer, Brian Aldiss, Roman Polanski, Ronnie Carroll, Robert Redford, Martin Mull, Barbara Harris, Elayne Boosler, Bermuda Schwartz, Kelly Willard, Edith Frost, Brian Michael Bendis, Kang Soo-Yeon, Edward Norton, Christian Slater, Mizou Peck, Andy Samberg, Siri Tollerod, Riko Narumi, Sean Stewart, and Pete Winowitch.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:26:11 +0000
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