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(I know, you were thinking, “Why wasn’t it World Turtle Day just last week?“.) The purpose of World Turtle Day, sponsored yearly since 2000 by American Tortoise Rescue, is to bring attention to, and increase knowledge of and respect for, turtles and tortoises, and encourage human action to help them survive and thrive. It’s celebratedContinue reading “It’s World Turtle Day”

May 22, 1971 –The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers album, with a working zipper on the cover, hits #1 in the US, on this date. Andy Warhol designed the Sticky Fingers album cover. Before he started working on it, Mick Jagger send Warhol a note warning that a complicated design could cause nasty production delays, butContinue reading “Today in Rock History”

May 21, 1927 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, racist, Neo-Nazi, Isolationist and serial philanderer became the first man to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean, on this date. Exactly five years later Amelia Earhart became the first woman to do it, on this day as well. This was an impressive step forContinue reading “Heroes of the Skies”

May 21, 1972 – A deranged Australian geologist took a hammer on this date, to Michelangelo’s Pieta, shouting “I am Jesus Christ — risen from the dead!“ Laszlo Toth was never charged with any crime, instead receiving a free trip to an Italian insane asylum. Toth’s name is later adopted by comedian and former SNLContinue reading “Today in History”

Today is National Be a Millionaire Day. It’s the day to celebrate the desire to win the lottery and go tell your boss where they can stick it. Sources say that the word Millionaire was coined by Lord Byron sometime in 1816 but I believe he was too busy sleeping with anything that moved toContinue reading “The Megamillions jackpot is 515 million on Friday”

May 20, 1927 –Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., at 7:40 AM aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France on this date Exactly five years later, on May 20, 1932, Amelia Earhart took off for Ireland from Habor Grace, Newfoundland on this date, becomingContinue reading “Flew a youth in search of fame”

May 19, 1935 –Thomas Edward Lawrence died after an motorcycle accident on this date. Lawrence was a British officer who rose to prominence during the Arabian campaigns of the First World War. Clad in the magnificent white silk robes of an Arab prince … he hoped to pass unnoticed through London. Alas he was mistaken.Continue reading “Wear your helmet!”

The very truly perverse horror film from Universal, The Black Cat, premiered in NYC on this date. This film was made just before the Hays code went into effect. It is chockablock filled with Satanism, black mass orgies, necrophilia, pedophilia, sadistic revenge, murder and incest. Oh, I forgot to mention Bela Lugosi slices off BorisContinue reading “May 19, 1934 –”

May 18, 1980 –After a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in Washington state, 57 people were killed in an avalanche of volcanic mud in the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The volcano spews out 200 million cubic yards of of pumice, ash, and debris which covers 24 square miles of the valley below. virgin volcano Kids, howContinue reading “Today in History”

The day honors Inventor Stephen Perry’s receiving a patent for the rubber band on this date in 1845 (We’ve also seen it listed as March 17th but we can be sure, no one from ACME was there at the time.) (The ACME Corporation is in no way endorsing this sort of behavior. But what theseContinue reading “It’s Rubber Band Day.”