Monday 7/10/23
Celebrate:
Global Hug Your Kids Day
National Get Out of the Doghouse Day
National Peach Ice Cream Day
National Tattoo Day
World Day for International Justice
World Emoji Day
Yellow Pigs Day - is celebrated with things related to yellow pigs, but the main focus of the day is on celebrating the number 17.
The day was created in the early 1960s by two Princeton math students, Michael Spivak, and David Kelly after they had been working with and listing the properties of the number 17. The day's name likely was a reference to David Kelly's collection of yellow pigs.
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Wrong Way Corrigan Day - commemorates the day in 1938 when Douglas Corrigan made a transatlantic flight. He had recently purchased a 1929 Curtiss Robin plane and rebuilt and modified it. In July of 1938, he flew it from California to New York.
He then applied for permission to make a transatlantic flight but was denied. On July 17, 1938, he flew out of Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, with the supposed intention of flying back to California. He instead started heading east and flew all the way to Dublin, Ireland. As he disembarked from the plane he said, "Just got in from New York. Where am I?" He claimed his flight had been an accident and he had gotten lost after his compass failed to work.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Mushrooms and other fungi share more DNA with people than they do with vegetables.
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