It's International Friendship Day.
I wonder if Henry Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger would have been friends... they share the same birthday. Just a few years apart. Ford in 1863, and Arnie in 1947.
July 29th - there's a few things to say about it.
First off, it's the first time I've seen on my lists that National X Day is the same both in Canada and the USA.. it's National Lipstick Day.
On the world front it's International Tiger Day.
Then for the rings, there's 2 options.
In 1954 Tolkien released the first book of the Lord of the Rings series.
And in 1981 Prince Charles married Lady Diana.
In the US they celebrate milk chocolate day on July 28th (which I always find a bit harder to find in the states, whereas it's the more popular here in Canada).
The USA during the war had rationed coffee, and today they ended the coffee rationing.
Coffee and Chocolate... stuff I'm sure Garfield would approve of.
Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, turns 76.
Better living through Chemistry.
In 1921 diabetics were given some hope as 2 doctors in Canada were able to isolate insulin at the University of Toronto.
He's only 77?!?! Seriously, I thought he was much older.
Yup, that young whipper-snapper bartender at Cheers is now 60!
He shares his birthday with guitar legend Slash (who's 56, but kinda looks a lot older).
Okay, so it's July 22nd, meaning that it's Chris Pratt's birthday (turning 42 this year), and in his country it's also National Hammock Day. Wonder how he'll be spending it?
Today would have been Robin Williams' 70th birthday. I miss his comedy, even if some of it was a little 'strong' at times. Funnily enough, he was born also on the same day as another funny man, Don Knotts (1924) - I imagine Mr. Furley and Mork would have been a funny TV show combo.
A few days ago we mentioned that the Apollo 11 had lifted off and was on its way to the moon. Well, July 20th, 1969 the lunar module landed on the moon and Neil got to utter his famous words.
I'm not much of an art guy - I like what I like, and Degas is a name you hear often when discussing 'masters'.
If you're in the USA, it's National Daiquiri Day.
We do these things, not because they are easy, but ... to organize and measure the best of our energies.
That's what JFK had said about the goal to land men on the moon. And on July 16, 1969 the best of their energies successfully launched the Apollo 11, starting its 4 day journey before it would reach that goal of landing.
Also not as exhilerating, is popping popcorn and when it comes to popcorn - everybody knows Orville.
In 2014 the United Nations decided to take a day to celebrate the need to ensure our youth are given the skills they need to make a better tomorrow, World Youth Skills Day.
The story goes that he visited this bakery as they were making some dough and turned it into a very tasty pastry with cinnamon and a raspberry icing.
Art was so honoured by the visit he named the pastry after him.
The Persian... somehow either mispronouncing, or making a play on his name.
This is entirely not something you'll find in Wikipedia either, rather, almost the 'urban legend' that's proliferated in town here.
Whatever your take on the story, the fact remains - Persian (rolls) are tasty. I wonder if anyone puts Persians at Pershing's tombstone in Arlington?
Did you know that Mac 'n Cheese is considered a national dish for Canada? Really? I wouldn't have guessed that.
Popular yeah, but a national dish? Nah.
But, July 14th is apparently National Mac 'n Cheese Day.
It's also the day that the French population stormed the Bastille... so I guess instead of "letting them eat cake" they could have had mac 'n cheese and maybe been a little happier? Maybe?
On a more serious note, it is International Non-Binary People Day.
Not much for what I found today, except that for my youth, probably one of my favourite actors - playing the cool Han Solo or action packed Indiana Jones - it's Harrison Ford.
For those in the US of A it's also National French Fry Day.
Enjoy!
One potential is a full sphere - like a soccer ball - and it is called a "buckminsterfullerene" or nicknamed a "buckyball" (either a C60 or a C100 if I recall), and was so named after the scientist R. Buckminster Fuller.
Bucky was so interested in spheres. He thought that a true sphere in nature, couldn't be just a perfect arc, there had to be structure to it so small that it just appeared perfectly curved - so at what point does that happen? He started to create these geodesic domes (think like Epcot Centre) that would have 100s of 'node points' on it to connect and add strength.
Mr. Fuller was born July 12, 1895 and died in 1983, just 1 year before the discovery of the buckyball in chemistry.
Funny, I just watched the Imitation Game the other day.
My nostalgic memory of quintessential summer - Mr. Freezies. The scraping of the plastic against the corners of your mouth, learning how to lean the freezie in just a way in the freezer that it has that air pocket at the top (tell me that isn't just me that does that) and as I just learned this year - white is cream soda (not coconut).
Now, that's obviously, a national day usually doesn't do a 'brand' name, so it's just National Freezer Pop Day.
Also, it's Kevin Bacon's birthday.
July 7th is World Chocolate Day.
Then, via the Wikipedia page (usually my last resort to find something) it turns out that page I was using was American, and the US folks observe international chocolate day on a different day to coincide with Mr. Hershey's birthday.
Oh the US, just gotta be different eh?
Okay, so I should start using my personal blogger more - I know. I've only written that 100x before on this site.
Started a new blog over at www.smallbiztbay.ca and it's got me a bit writing charged. But what to write about? You don't care about every little detail, right?
Well, I thought I'd write about the days...
...sounds odd for a blogger to say they're going to write about the days - isn't that a journal then?
Not exactly. For those that have had the sheer pleasure of being on videoconference with me will have noticed that since about November I've been playing with the backgrounds.
Sure, most people like to put in the helm of the starship Enterprise, or the wall from The Office.
Me, I want the background to mean something. So, each morning I spend a little bit of googling "significance of [date]".
Is it a national day? An international day? Someone's birthday? A special event.
Well, it's come to a point a lot of people now wait for "okay, Ryan, what day is it"
I'll try to remember to share them with you as I go through.
Should have done this 8 months ago.
