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Today is:

American Zoo Day!
Balloon Airmail Day!
Canada Day!
Early Bird Day!
International Chicken Wing Day!
International Joke Day!
National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day!
National Financial Freedom Day!
National Gingersnap Day!
National Television Heritage Day!
Second Half of the New Year Day!
U.S. Postage Stamp Day!
Zip Code Day!

 

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In History:

70 - Roman General Titus and his forces set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem

251 - The Battle of Abrittus is won by the Goths against the Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.

1097 - 1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea

1200 - In China, sunglasses are invented

1798 - Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt

1831 - Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole

1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.

1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted

1898 - Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill

1905 - Albert Einstein introduces his theory of relativity

1916 - Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market

1941 - Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial

1948 - NYC subway fare goes to 10 cents, bus fare to 7 cents and combo fare at 12 cents

1963 - ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.

1967 - Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" goes #1 for 15 weeks

1972 - "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 1750 performances

1997 - Britain hands Hong Kong and the New Territories - ceded in 1841 - to the People's Republic of China.

 

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Today is:

I don't remember

July 2, 2015 is Freedom From Fear of Speaking Day!


July 2, 2015 is I Forgot Day!


July 2, 2015 is Made in the USA Day!


July 2, 2015 is National Anisette Day!


July 2, 2015 is Special Recreation for the Disabled Day!


July 2, 2015 is World Sports Journalists Day!


July 2, 2015 is World UFO Day!

 

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Today is:

June 3

Comic Sans Day!

Disobedience Day!

National Chocolate Wafer Day!

National Compliment Your Mirror Day!

National Eat Beans Day!

Stay Out of the Sun Day!

 

[MrsLooking4more]

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Today is:

I don't remember

July 2, 2015 is Freedom From Fear of Spaking Day!

Today is:

June 3

Disobedience Day!

Awesome, so if I am disobedient, I might get the spanking I am not afraid off?? Sweeettt!

 

[closed224]

Some one please tell me if I gained a month back or if I somehow lost 11months. Curious, and concerned.

 

[MrsLooking4more]

Nah you are in an alternate Universe, courtesy of Dr, Who.

 

[closed224]

Thank God there is a reasonable explanation. Suddenly finding myself in June almost caused panic.

 

[lilbigman]

Happy Independence Day to my fellow americans. May your day be filled with family, fireworks, and food!! There may be another f-word or two I'll be doing today as well, but I'll keep that to myself. :becky:

 

[closed224]

Happy Independence Day to my fellow americans. May your day be filled with family, fireworks, and food!! There may be another f-word or two I'll be doing today as well, but I'll keep that to myself. :becky:

I actually wish for you to share those other f word activities with at least one other person, and not just keep it to yourself. There have been some I thought should f word themselves, but you are not one of them.

 

[closed224]

Happy independence day to all my England brothers. Can you imagine the sh*t storms you would have to deal with if we were still one of your colonies? Hahahaha

 

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Today is:

The Fourth of July

Hop-a-Park Day!

Independence From Meat Day!

Indivisible Day!

International Cherry Pit Spitting Day!

International Day of Cooperatives!

Invisible Day!

National Barbecue Day!

National Caesar Salad Day!

National Country Music Day!

Sidewalk Egg Frying Day!

 

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In History:

1054 - Brightest known supernova SN 1054 (creates the Crab Nebula) 1st reported by Chinese astronomers


1693 - Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army


1776 - US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain


1776 - According to popular legend the Liberty Bell rings for the 2nd Continental Congress


1817 - Chief Engineer James Geddes begins construction on the Erie Canal, one of the first great engineering works in North America. Low bridge, everybody down, Low bridge, we are going through a town. Low bridge........


1862 - Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice Liddell on a family boat trip on the river Isis (Thames) in Oxford


1884 - Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris


1934 - Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.


1959 - America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled. N2B still has one he got to the July Fourth parade.


1964 - Beachboys' "I Get Around" reaches #1


1976 - Operation Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France hostage passengers In Uganda (3 hostages die along with Ugandan soldiers and Israeli soldier)

 

[BigRooster]

Happy independence day to all my England brothers. Can you imagine the sh*t storms you would have to deal with if we were still one of your colonies? Hahahaha

Queen Elizabeth would have us swinging at the gallows.

 

[closed224]

And a well hung bunch we would be.

 

[not2big]

Today is:

July 5

Bikini Day!

National Apple Turnover Day!

National Build a Scarecrow Day!

National Graham Cracker Day!

National Workaholics Day!

 

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In History:


​1295 - Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England.

1687 - Isaac Newton's great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England. Outlines his laws of motion and universal gravitation.


1811 - Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain


1937 - Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation and subsequently introduced to the PEGym Forum.


1951 - Dr William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hill NJ)

 

[Tamora]

1937 in the moderators cafeteria:

 

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Today is:

International Kissing Day!

National Air Traffic Control Day!

National Fried Chicken Day!

Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day!

Umbrella Cover Day!

 

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Today is

July 7

Chocolate Day!

Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day!

Global Forgiveness Day!

National Macaroni Day!

National Strawberry Sundae Day!

Tell the Truth Day!