At almost 100 years of age, DIck Van Dyke is a name that's pretty well known for a wide breadth of work.
I think most of us my age would remember him as Bert the chimney sweep in Mary Poppins.
Also a pop star of her own era is the now 32 year old Taylor Swift.
It's the holiday season, and there isn't any part of it when people are sharing their photos of their Christmas trees that are up that someone doesn't draw comparison to a "Charlie Brown tree"... a pull from one of the true items of the zeitgeist - the scraggly tree from A Charlie Brown Christmas with it's telltale tunes from Vince Guaraldi.
It came out on this day in 1965.
The Peanuts was such a wholesome bunch, lots of religious overtones, I bet they were the furthest thing from corrupt. Which is good as today is International Anti-Corruption Day.
To help celebrate some un-corruptedness, why not party out with some banging techno as it's also World Techno Day.
Okay, so usually I try to find some interesting 'national day' or birthday... but this one was just too good to pass up.
On this day... in Antarctica ... in 2013 a band played there, making it the first one to ever play a concert on all 7 continents.
That band was...
Metallica.
Not bizarre are brownies, they are a weakness and the US is celebrating them with National Brownie Day.
It's World Trick Shot Day!
Those Harlem Globe Trotters who really popularized the concept, sure could do some cool stuff and would do some real high flying shots.
Speaking of high flying, it's International Civil Aviation Day.
No, not that St. Nick, Saint Nicholas, who died on this day in 343AD.
Wholly the opposite of miracles was the terrible massacre at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989.
In honour of the 10 women killed that day, Canada instituted the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Bit of a mouthful, but oh so important.
The King of Pop released the infamous video THRILLER.
The Queen of Pop from another era was Britney Spears - and she turns 40 today.
In 1988 today was the first observance of World AIDS Day.
Aid also has other meaning, which South Park poked at in an episodes about how Jarrett has 'aides'.
The idea of something helping out each other is probably what inspired Ford to develop the moving assembly line - the first of its kind was developed for the Ford Model T on this day in 1913.
