Events and Celebrations

NATIONAL SOBER DAY was started by Real Aligned Women to celebrate sober life and to bring awareness to addiction.   Addiction can happen to anyone and having a good caring support system can make all the difference.  If you need help, don’t fight this battle by yourself.  Today is a good day to be sober.

LIVE CREATIVE DAY encourages the artist in all of us to come out and play.  Whether that means painting, singing, coming up with a new game, writing a new computer program or just thinking up new ideas – whatever it is – let your creative genius shine today.

NATIONAL PARENTS DAY OFF coincides with the kiddos going back to school.  You never stop being a parent and you may not even get the whole day off but see if you can’t find some time to relax and do your own thing.

NATIONAL HOAGIE DAY celebrates this sandwich that is a meal all by itself.  Hoagies, subs, heroes, grinders, or whatever you call them, are just begging to be loaded with all of the meats, cheeses and veggies you want.  Build it and have at it.

Let’s sweeten the pot with CREAM FILLED DONUT DAY.  It’s a donut…with cream…enough said…just enjoy.

On this day…

1716 – A new light shines out of Brewster Island, Boston – from the first lighthouse in America

1814 – Francis Scott Key pens The Star-Spangled Banner

1901 – President William McKinley succumbs to his assassin’s gunshot wounds and passes away

1963 – Mary Ann Fischer delivers the first surviving quintuplets in America – just days after she was told she would be birthing 5 babies

1984 – The first ever Video of the Year Award goes to The Cars for their hit You Might Think

1985 – We get introduced to The Golden Girls

1994 – The last of the season and the World Series are canceled due to the players and owners not being able to settle the player’s strike.  That was one big error for Major League Baseball.

2021 – According to Johns Hopkins – the death toll from COVID for the U.S. reached 663,913 – that is one out of every 500 Americans

Happy Birthday to…

Gave us The Divine Comedy while in exile

Activist who started the birth control movement

The first African American woman elected to the New York Senate and nominated as a Federal Court Judge

Grammy Award winning artist whose voice is now forever silenced – her album Back to Black, went platinum and was praised by critics

Enjoy the day and make it your own

LORD, what a beautiful day and thank you for these beautiful souls.  Please watch over them, protect them, bless them and let them know that they are loved.  In your name I pray Jesus, Amen.

Thank you to National Day Calendar; National Today; History.com; Britannica.com; Wikipedia; on this day.com

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