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| One day's supply, 150 pizza rolls and 60 bagel pizzas, plus other items. |
Today is
Celtic Tree Month Tinne begins (Holly)
Feast of St. Sunniva (Ancient Norse solar maiden Sunna's worship around this time of year was merged with the story of this medieval saint; Patron of Bergen, Norway and the Norwegian west coast)
Math 2.0 Day -- celebrating the intermingling of math with technology
Nagoya Sumo Tournament -- Nagoya, Japan (one of the 6 major tournaments; through the 22nd)
National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day
Old Crafts Day -- it's listed in a few places, but i can't find the history; Old time crafts, or old crafts you've had sitting around the house and never gotten done? If you have the latter, finish them or throw them out and get rid of the guilt!
Olive Branch Petition Day -- the final attempt, by the 13 Colonies, to avoid a complete break with England in 1775
Ottawa Bluesfest -- Ottawa, Canada (12 days of fabulous music)
SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama) -- a good habit, on every day
Soapy Smith Wake -- held simultaneously in 4 locations from this evening through noon tomorrow, local time: Skagway, AK, US; Hollywood, CA, US; Denver, CO, US; Chicago, IL, US (held by Soapy Smith Preservation Trust and Friends of Bad Man Soapy Smith, preserving the memory of one of the Wild West and Alaskan Gold Rush's most notorious con men, killed in a gunfight this day in 1898)
Sts. Aquila and Prisca's Day
St. Kilian's Day (Patron of people with gout or rheumatism, whitewashers; Bavaria, Germany; Paderborn, Germany; Tuosist, Ireland; Wurzburg,Germany)
Video Games Day -- do they really need a day?
Vitulatio -- Ancient Roman Calendar (when Vitula was given the first fruits of the earth)
Wyandotte Street Art Fair -- Downtown Wyandotte, MI, US (over 250 seasoned and emerging artists display and sell their wares, with music and entertainment; through Saturday)
Ziegfeld Follies Day -- anniversary of his first, "Follies of 1907"
Anniversary Today:
Prince Richard of Gloucester marries Birgitte Eva van Deurs, 1972
Birthdays Today
Jaden Smith, 1998
Sophia Bush, 1982
Milo Ventimiglia, 1977
Kathleen Robertson, 1973
Beck Hansen, 1970
Billy Crudup, 1968
Toby Keith, 1961
Kevin Bacon, 1958
Christopher G. Moore, 1952
Marianne Williamson, 1952
Anjelica Huston, 1951
Wolfgang Puck, 1949
Kim Darby, 1948
Raffi, 1948
Cynthia Gregory, 1946
Jeffrey Tambor, 1944
Steve Lawrence, 1935
Marty Feldman, 1933
Roone Arledge, 1931
Billy Eckstine, 1914
Nelson Rockefeller, 1908
Louis Thomas Jordan, 1908
Philip Cortelyou Johnson, 1906
Alfred Binet, 1857
John D. Rockefeller, 1839
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, 1838
Etienne De Silhouette, 1709
Today in History
Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India, 1497
Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island, 1663
Battle of Restigouche – British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France, 1760
The Olive Branch Petition is drafted by the Second Continental Congress as the Congress' last attempt to get King George III of Great Britain to reason with them, 1775
The Declaration of Independence has its first public reading, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Liberty Bell is rung, 1776
Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom, 1822
Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay, 1853
The initial force of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin their March West, 1874
The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published, 1889
St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22, 1932
The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF), 1948
Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act, 1970
The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities, 1992
NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance, membership to become effective in two years, 1997
The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program, 2011
Pope Francis condemns the 'global indifference' to the plight of immigrants who have drowned trying to reach Europe, 2013
The mission of the NASA Curiosity Mars rover begins, 2013
I see you got my shopping, thanks very much :-)
ReplyDeleteand bagel bites? MY CHILD IS IN TO VOLUNTEER :-)
ReplyDeleteYou feed the people at Vacation Bible School??? When did that start?
ReplyDeleteWow thats a lot of food! I am sure so worth it as its for the volunteers =)
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you'll have a blessed and fun week too.
ReplyDeleteHave a terrific day. ☺
Looks like you have a lot of volunteers. Either that or they eat as much as my family ;)
ReplyDeleteLooks like you have a lot of volunteers. Either that or they eat as much as my family ;)
ReplyDeleteI guess you work up an appetite volunteering.
ReplyDeleteGood for you for donating. We are currently saving milk jugs for our VBS in the late summer. They want 400--I think they started with the right family here.
ReplyDeleteFeeding an army isn't easy. It's for a good cause, though, and good thing you can get big packs of stuff easily these days. Food is always a good motivator.
ReplyDeleteVacation Bible School! Nothing better for kids in the summer!
ReplyDeleteOh I would volunteer for the Bagel Bites alone!! I don't know what it is about those things, but they are sooo good. little bites of heaven. ha.
ReplyDeleteOurs is doing a soccer camp this year too, so I am guessing with all that physical activity our church is going to need a lot of food too.