Since some of the listings on the calendar shirt are a bit obscure, this page will feature explanations and commentary on the events listed on the calendar T-shirt, with updates each week as the year progresses.
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Jan 17: Ben Franklin's Birthday Jan 17: It's National Pizza Week! Jan 18: End of Ramadan Jan 18: Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday (observed) Jan 19: Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday Jan 19: Robert E. Lee Day Jan 19: The front-hook bra is invented, 1951 Jan 20: Aquarius phase begins Jan 20: Maintenance day (thank your janitor) Jan 21: Benny Hill's Birthday Jan 22: Roe Vs. Wade decision legalizes abortion, 1972 Jan 23: National Handwriting Day |
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Jan 24: It's National Glaucoma
Awareness week Jan 26: Australia Day (anniversary of arrival of the first convicts, 1788) Jan 27: Lewis Carroll's Birthday (1832) Jan 27: Loss of astronauts White, Grissom, and Chaffee in Apollo-1 capsule fire, 1967 Jan 28: Loss of Challenger vehicle and crew, 1986 Jan 29: National Puzzle Day Jan 30: Beatles last public performance, on the roof, 1969 Jan 31: Non-sports fans beware: it's superbowl sunday |
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February is National Cherry
Month! Feb 1: National Freedom Day (Lincoln abolishes slavery, 1865; Woolworth's lunch counter sit in, 1960) Feb 1: All lucky finders of golden tickets should be at the Wonka Chocolate Factory at 10:00 sharp in the morning. Feb 2: Groundhog day Feb 3: The Day That Music Died (Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash, 1959) Feb 4: National Homemade Soup Day Feb 5: Debra Jo Fondren's Birthday (She's a Playboy Playmate from the seventies, with exceptionally long hair) |
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Feb 7: National Hangover
Awareness Day Feb 8: Jules Verne's Birthday Feb 8: Boy Scouts of America founded, 1910 Feb 9: The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan show, 1964 Feb 11: The La-Z-Boy chair is invented, 1948 Feb 11: Thomas Edison's birthday Feb 12: Abe Lincoln's Birthday Feb 12: Turn off your TV day Feb 13: Peter Tork's Birthday (He was a Monkee.) |
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Feb 14: Read to your child
day Feb 14: Valentine's day Feb 15: Remember the Maine - The battleship was blown up this day in 1898 Feb 15: Galileo's Birthday Feb 15: President's day Feb 16: Chinese New Year of the Rabbit Feb 16: Mardi Gras Feb 16: Pancake day (Shrove Tuesday) Feb 17: Ash Wednesday Feb 18: Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto, 1930 Feb 19: Temporary Insanity Day (temporary insanity defense first successfully used, in murder trial of Dan Sickles, 1859) Feb 20: Pisces phase starts Feb 20: John Glenn orbits the Earth, 1962 |
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Feb 21: Malcom X murdered,
1965 Feb 22: George Washington's Birthday Feb 23: The death of Laura Palmer (central character in the series Twin Peaks) Feb 25: Milli Vanilli wins the "Best New Artist" Grammy, 1990 Feb 26: French Fry Friday Feb 26: World Trade Center bombing, 1993 Feb 27: The Gulf War ends, 1991 |
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Feb 28: Ten million toilets flush at once (at
the end of the final episode of M*A*S*H) - 1983 Feb 29: Leap Day is canceled this year |
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March 1: Yellowstone, the
nation's first National Park, opens, 1872 March 2: Dr. Seuss's Birthday March 2: Lou Reed's Birthday March 3: Alexander Graham Bell's birthday March 5: John Belushi dies, 1982 March 6: Remember the Alamo (it fell this day in 1836) March 6: The running of the Iditarod dog sled race, from Fairbanks to Nome, Alaska |
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March 7: Monopoly invented,
1933 March 8: International Women's Day March 9: First battle between armored ships, the Monitor and the Merrimac, 1862 March 11: Johnny Appleseed day March 12: Girl Scouts founded, 1912 March 13: Teaching of evolution prohibited in Tennessee, 1925 |
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March 14: Albert Einstein's
Birthday March 15: Andrew Jackson Day March 15: Beware the Ides of March: Julius Caesar Assassinated, 44 BC March 16: Robert Goddard's launches the world's first liquid fuel rocket, 1926 March 17: St. Patrick's day March 18: Poppin' Fresh Dough Boy debuts, 1961 March 19: The swallows return to the San Juan Capistrano Mission in California March 20: Earth Day March 20: First day of spring / Vernal Equinox 8:46 PM |
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March 21: The 1999 Academy
Awards (My prediction, Saving Private Ryan, was incorrect) March 21: Aries phase starts March 21: James T Kirk born, 2228 March 22: John and Yoko's Bed-in for Peace, 1969 March 24: Exxon Valdez oil spill, 1989 March 24: The Great Escape: 76 POWs break out of Stalag Luft III, 1944 March 25: Lady Day (Return of the Goddess day) March 25: The One Ring falls into the Cracks of Doom and is destroyed March 26: Robert Frost born, 1874 March 26: Leonard Nimoy's Birthday March 27: Ponce De Leon discovers Florida (but fails to locate the fountain of youth) 1512 |
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March 28: Palm Sunday March 28: 3 Mile Island Meltdown, 1979 March 29: Coca-Cola concocted, 1886 March 29: Final troops leave Vietnam, 1973 March 30: National Doctor's Day March 30: Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 March 31: Bunsen Burner Day |
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