(Encourages motorists to go green and give up their cars for a day.)
National Ice Cream Cone Day
Elephant Appreciation Day
Hobbit Day
Dear Diary Day
American Business Women's Day
Chainmail Day
International Day of Radiant Peace
National Centenarian's Day
National Rock n' Roll Dog Day
(After doing some research I've learned that it's also called National Walk n' Roll Day
for dogs with Intervertabral Disc Disease (IVDD) and dogs inwheelchairs!)
National Voter Registration Day
National White Chocolate Day
World Rhino Day
National Woman Road Warrior Day
Yom Kippur
Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere.
OneWebDay, an annual day of Internet celebration and awareness, started in 2006.
100 Days remaining until the end of the year.
Birthdays
1902 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (d. 1988)
1927 - Tommy Lasorda, MLB baseball manager
1934 - MY MOM! :) (d. 2005)
1956 - Debby Boone, singer
1958 – Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1958 – Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress (The Runaways)
1959 – Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
1961 - Scott Baio, actor
1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, American-English actress
1964 - Bonnie Hunt, actress
Today In History
1692 – The last people hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies takes place.
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
1999 - The record for drinking Ketchup belongs to Dustin Phillips (USA). On this day, he drank a 14 oz. bottle of Ketchup through a 1/4" straw in 33 seconds.
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