Thursday 1

I Forgot Day

Send a greeting to those you forgot at some point this year.

Friday 2

Thurgood Marshall (1908)

The first African-American Supreme Court Justice.  He served from 1967-1991.

Saturday 3

Air Conditioning Appreciation Days

Cool off, thanks to AC, during the dog days of summer.

Sunday 4

Independence Day

"When in the Course of human events..." On July 4, 1776, we declared ourselves an independent nation.

Monday 5

Phineas T. Barnum (1810)

Although he may never have said "There's a sucker born every minute," he was still a great showman who merged with his rival J.A. Bailey to found the Greatest Show on Earth.

Tuesday 6

John Paul Jones (1747)

"I have not yet begun to fight."

Wednesday 7

Running of the Bulls

The annual running of the bulls, made famous by Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises, in Pamplona, Spain.

Thursday 8

Kevin Bacon (1958)

Born today he inspired the Oracle of Bacon.

Friday 9

First Open Heart Surgery (1893)

African-American surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams operates successfully on a stab would to the chest.

Saturday 10

Ima Hogg (1882)

She founded the Houston Symphony and created the Bayou Bend Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Sunday 11

Bowdler's Day

A day to remember Thomas Bowdler who cleansed and purified Shakespeare and portions of the Old Testament removing words and expressions that he considered indecent.

Monday 12

Buckminster Fuller (1895)

Architect of the geodesic dome. A US Postal Stamp is being issued this month in his honor.

Tuesday 13

All-Star Game

The 75th anniversary here in Houston.

Wednesday 14

Baby and Child Care (1946)

Dr. Benjamin Spock's famous book is first published

Thursday 15

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606)

Dutch painter of The Night Watch.

Friday 16

Atomic Bomb Tested (1945)

"Fat Boy" was set off near Albuquerque, NM.

Saturday 17

"Wrong Way" Corrigan Day

In 1938 Douglas Groce Corrigan left Brooklyn for Los Angeles in a monoplane.  28 hour, 13 minutes later he landed in Dublin Ireland.

Sunday 18

National Ice Cream Day

Dish up some ice cream to celebrate. Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream

Monday 19

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)

The beginning of an epic was first published.

Tuesday 20

Moon Day (1969)

35 years ago Neil Armstrong took "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Wednesday 21

Ernest Hemingway (1899)

The writer and Nobel Prize winner was born in Oak Park, IL.

 

Thursday 22

Pied Piper of Hamelin

According to legend, after the German town of Hamelin refused to pay the piper for ridding the town of rats, the piper piped the children out of the town, never to be seen again.

Friday 23

Raymond Chandler (1880)

Philip Marlowe's creator is born.

 

Saturday 24

Sam Houston

In 1863, Houston passed away with the final words "Margaret! Texas!"

Sunday 25

Parents Day

Celebrate the people who raised you.

Monday 26

Armed Forces Unified (1947)

The War Department and the Navy were merged to create the Department of Defense.  At the same time the Air Force was split off from the Army.

Tuesday 27

Insulin First Isolated

(1921) Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best gave a dog, without a pancreas, insulin paving the way for the first injection of a diabetic boy in 1922.

Wednesday 28

World War I Begins (1914)

The war to end all wars began with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Thursday 29

Great Texas Mosquito Festival

'Skeeters in Clute.

Friday 30

Paperback Books Introduced (1935)

Penguin introduced the first modern paperback, Ariel, a life of Shelley by Andre Maurois.

Saturday 31

Blue Moon

Once in a blue moon...the second of two full moons occuring in one month.