Its National Lasagna Day, a perfect choice for dinner. Its also Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day an olde English commemoration of the day to buy cheese for the mouse and rat traps before you start picking the medlars and other storage fruit. International Tiger Day was created in 2010 to raise awareness about tiger conservation. If youre near Waynesburg PA stop in for the Rain Day Festival, where it has rained on this day 114 of the last 138 years. Its the Christian Feast Day of Saint Olaf Haraldsson the patron saint of Vikings. On this day in history in 1715 the Spanish Treasure Fleet sank off Florida, in 1751 the first international world championship prize fight was held, in 1793 Toronto was founded, in 1835 sugarcane was first planted in Hawaii, in 1836 lArc de Triomphe was dedicated, in 1844 the New York Yacht Club was organized, in 1858 Americans were first permitted to live in Japan, in 1899 the first motorcycle race was contested, in 1907 the first Boy Scout Camp was held, in 1914 the first transcontinental phone call was made, in 1927 the first iron lung was installed, in 1928 the first Mickey Mouse cartoon was released, in 1936 RCA broadcast the first scripted television program, in 1938 Dennis the Menace first appeared and Olympic National Park was created, in 1945 The BBC Light Programme went on the air, in 1948 the first post WWII Olympics opened in London, in 1952 the first non-stop transpacific jet flight happened, in 1957 the IAEA was established and The Tonight Show premiered, in 1958 NASA was created, in 1965 Help! was released, in 1968 Pope Paul VI banned birth control again, in 1974 the Episcopal Church ordained women, in 1981 700 million people watched Charles and Diana get married, in 1987 Cherry Garcia ice cream was introduced, in 1988 the last US Playboy Club closed, in 1996 the Communications Decency Act was struck down, and in 2005 Eris was discovered. Birthdays today for Professor Irwin Corey, Robert Horton, Mikis Theodorakis, Paul Taylor, Neal Doughty, Diane Keen, Ken Burns, Geddy Lee, John Sykes, Alexandra Paul, Chang-Rae Lee, Martina McBride, Richard Steven Horvitz, Wil Wheaton, Wanya Morris, Josh Radnor, Afroman, Fernando Alonso, Troy Perkins, Allison Mack, Elise Testone, and Munro Chambers.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:20:23 +0000
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