It's going to be a Zippity Doo Dah kind of Day!
It's Little Girl's birthday. She is 15 today. Hard to believe it's been so long since she was such a tiny thing.
School is out today because of a special event that my two managed to test out of, and the Youth Group has scheduled a trip to a baseball game, so she will be doing that and going to lunch with her sister.
This is also another excuse to make Coca-Cola cake, and just have a great day all around.
May all of us have a fun, Zippity Doo Dah kind of day today!
Today is
Armed Forces Day -- Georgia
Birthday of the King / Konungens födelsedag -- Sweden (HM King Carl XVI Gustav; an official flag day)
Camarón Day -- French Foreign Legion
Consumer Protection Day -- Thailand
Contraband Days Pirate Festival -- Lake Charles, LA, US (through the 12th)
Dia de Rincon -- Rincon, Bonaire
El Dia del Nino -- Mexico (Children's Day)
Fairy Queen's Birthday -- Fairy Calendar
Faeriae Latinae -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Feast of the Latin League, a festival to honor Jupiter)
Hairstylist Appreciation Day -- if you have a good one, let him/her know
International Jazz Day -- UNESCO
Liberation/Reunification Day -- Vietnam
May Eve -- eve of the first day of summer in many traditions, including
Beltane/Samhain Eve -- Pagan traditions
Carodejnice -- Czech Republic; Slovakia
Maitag Vorabend -- Switzerland
Mange les Morts -- Haiti (festival of the dead)
Salus -- Portugal; Spain (festival of the dead)
Valborgsmässoafton -- Sweden
Walpurgis Night -- Ancient Celtic/Nordic Calendars
Mr. Potato Head Day -- the classic toy went on sale this day in 1952, and you used your own potato
National
Honesty Day -- including Honest Abe Awards (Abies) and dishonorable
mentions for those who have been particularly publicly egregious;
celebrated today because we began the month with April Fooling and lies,
so today is to celebrate the opposite*
National Raisin Day
Queen's
Day / Koninginnedag -- Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curacao,
Netherlands, and Sint Maartin); Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Saba
St. Adjutor of Vernon's Day (Patron of drowning victims, sailors, swimmers, yatchsmen; Vernon, France; against drowning)
St. James the Great's Day -- Orthodox Christian
Teacher's Day -- Paraguay
*to
nominate someone for an Abie or a dishonorable mention, contact M.
Hirsh Goldberg, founder and author of The Book of Lies,
mhgoldberg@comcast.net)
Anniversaries Today:
Louisiana becomes the 18th US state, 1812
Birthdays Today:
Kirsten Dunst, 1982
Jeff Timmons, 1973
Carolyn Dawn Johnson, 1971
Michael Waltrip, 1963
Isiah Thomas, 1961
Stuart Mathis, 1960
Stephen Harper, 1959
Carl XVI Gustav, King of Sweden, 1946
Jill Clayburgh, 1944
Burt Young, 1940
Willie Nelson, 1933
Cloris Leachman, 1926
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, 1909
Eve Arden, 1908
Today in History:
Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus, 1006
Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503, 1483
Columbus is given a royal commission to equip his fleet, 1492
On
the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George
Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected
President of the United States, 1789
The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France, 1803
Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation, 1838
Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to
make up time on the Cannonball Express, 1900
Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city, 1907
Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty, 1920
Douglas
Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their
footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, 1927
The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny, 1938
In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established, 1948
The
Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus
Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national
attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom, 1963
Communist forces gain control of Saigon and the Vietnam War formally ends, 1975
Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, 1980
CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free, 1993
Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, 1999
Two
skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by
Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of
Russia and one of his sisters, 2008
Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, 2009
Hailed as the largest World's Fair in history, Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai, China, 2010
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