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It’s Generic Executive Office Holder of the Government Day. So let’s hear it for all the generic Presidents, just remember that we now have to include Trump in this celebration.

Today is National Drink Wine Day. This is opposed to National Wine Day, which is May 25th. Yeah, yeah, before you make the joke, I know, it’s National Drink Wine Day every day in my home. I can make wine disappear. What’s your superpower? While, I can’t find the basis for the holiday, I haveContinue reading “The International Committee has met”

Elm Farm Ollie (known as “Nellie Jay” and post-flight as “Sky Queen“) was the first cow to fly in an airplane, doing so on February 18, 1930, as part of the International Air Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri. On the same trip, which covered 72 miles from Bismarck, Missouri, to St. Louis, she alsoContinue reading “The Cow flew under the moon”

February 18, 1930 –Clyde Tombaugh liked to look at French Postcards. He like to look into his neighbors’ windows. When he got tired of that, he started studying photos of the night sky where astronomers predicted a “Planet X” would show up. Tombaugh ended up discovering the dwarf planet Pluto on this date. He alsoContinue reading “He liked to look at things”

February 18, 1962 –On weekend leave from marine training, The Everly Brothers appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, in full uniform and with regulation cropped hair, singing their new single, Crying In The Rain, on this date. The song was recorded shortly before Don and Phil Everly were inducted into the Marine Corps Reserves onContinue reading “The Everly Brothers on Ed Sullivan”

It’s the name of an unofficial holiday increasingly celebrated around the world by localities or organizations, or nationwide, in order to encourage acts of kindness. All you need to do is something a simple as hold the door open for someone or say ‘good morning’ to the counter person giving you your morning cup ofContinue reading “Today is Random Acts of Kindness Day –”

February 17, 1997 –Mike Nesmith directed himself and the other original Monkees in Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkees, a one-hour comedy special which premiered on ABC, on this date. The special assumes the Monkees have been living in their beach house all the years since the series ended and have continued having adventures. This oneContinue reading “The last Monkees episode”

February 17, 1869 –The dream that changed the world – Dmitri Mendeleev began creating what we now call The Periodic Table. On the night of February 16, 1869, it is said, Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian Chemist and owner of the wildest beard east of Vienna, had a dream in which he saw almost all of theContinue reading “The Periodic Table”

February 16, 1964 –The Beatles appeared for the second time on the Ed Sullivan Show on this date. The Beatles performed six songs: She Loves You, This Boy, All My Loving, I Saw Her Standing There, From Me To You and I Want To Hold Your Hand. The Beatles received $25,000 for their appearance; halfContinue reading “The Beatles in Miami”

Today is the Feast of Saint Juliana of Nicomedia. She refused to marry a Roman official, so he had her roasted in flames, then dipped into boiling oil before finally being beheaded, which seems rather harsh even for Roman times. Once again, Springsteen was right – it’s hard being a saint (in the city.) AndContinue reading “Saint Juliana of Nicomedia”