On these two days, a portal between the living world and the spirit world opens for deceased loved ones to visit us. We can cook grandma’s favorite meal or serve grandpa’s favorite drink and let them know what’s happened while they’ve been gone. On November 1st, the children who have passed have access to our dimension, followed by the adults who have passed that visit on November 2nd.
On this day in 1982, ET escaped the psycho humanoids of Earth to travel back to his home planet, after a successful call home.ET the Extraterrestrial is one of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar winning masterpiece films about a boy and a creature from outer space that winds up being his bestie.
The sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich in 18th century Kent, England. The rumor was that Montagu would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread while at the gambling tables. Other gamblers began to order “the same as Sandwich!”, and thus the name “sandwich” became a common menu item
On this day in 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian Boy King, Pharaoh Tutankhamen, and spent the next 10 years excavating and cataloguing its contents. Tut was last of his royal family line in the 18th Dynasty (c. 1332 – 1323 BC), born to pharaoh Akhenaten, who had established a monotheist religion (unpopular with nobles and priests at the time) and his father’s sister/wife
Guy Fawkes Day is a celebration in the U.K. of a tragedy averted. In 1605, Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder placed beneath the House of Lords, which is similar to the U.S. Senate. Catholic conspirators had been upset that the Catholic King, James I, had refused to grant greater religious tolerance to Catholics.
In 1943 some wives of U.S soldiers from Ft. Duncan stopped by a Piedras Negras restaurant called the Victory Club, but the place had closed for the day. A manager named Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya decided to throw a dish together for the ladies based on the remaining ingredients in the kitchen
On this day in 1986, the film Sid & Nancy was released in the U.S., featuring a young Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious and Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen, the American girlfriend that Sid Vicious allegedly killed at the Hotel Chelsea in New York. Sid Vicious died of a drug overdose in 1979 at the age of 21, four months after Nancy’s death.
The word “Cappuccino” is derived from the Capuchin friars in Italy. The word is derived from the word for a hoodie or head covering. The coffee beverage was named after the color of the friars’ hooded robes.
Michael Bloomberg, the New York City Mayor, established November 10, 2009 as “Sesame Street Day,” a day to mark the show’s 40th Anniversary since its premier on November 10, 1969. Sesame Street was the most widely viewed kids’ show in the world, aired in more than
Hugging may not be your first instinct when meeting a drummer, since there is always the chance they could start tapping on your back in a way that makes the embrace incredibly awkward (or at least insincere), and yet…drummers need hugs too.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story that didn’t really reach public mainstream until Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett were cast in a film version, released in 2008. It’s a story of a newborn child that was born as a tiny old man and abandoned outside of a nursing home.
In 1914, during the early days of the Mexican-American war, the Washington Times printed ‘The Happy Hour’ Aboard Ship Makes U.S. Tars (tar heels for North Carolina sailors) Contented.”Happy hours aboard ship consisted of boxing matches, dancing, and drinking. Within 20 years, the happy hour was an established tradition at bars and restaurants across America and
There is a style of music that combines the terrifying and righteous power of heavy metal with the brutally trained cacophony of a symphony orchestra, and that is what we celebrate today.Symphonic metal is an acknowledgement of the classical construct of metal band arrangements by those competent in the craft of orchestration, and their overlapping fans.
On this day in 1908, Einstein presented his Quantum Theory of Light, which stated that light operated at a constant speed despite space and time, that light was composed of tiny bundles of energy known as photons, and that each photon carried a quantity of energy equal to the product of the frequency of vibration of that photon and
Fearless Australian zookeeper, Steve Irwin, is celebrated internationally today for his contributions to wild animal conservation and promoting public awareness about the environment. He became famous from his hit show, “Crocodile Hunter,” which he hosted with his wife, Terri, from 1996 to his untimely death in 2006 involving a stingray.
On this day in 1969, Janis Joplin performed seven songs at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Florida in front of 3,500 fans. Immediately following the show, she was arrested by local police in her dressing room and removed from the venue in handcuffs.
American musician, supermodel, and showman extraordinaire, Rupaul Andre Charles, was born on this day in 1960 in San Diego, California. His song, Supermodel (You Better Work), earned him international acclaim in 1992 and reached #2 of the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
On this day in 1977, Close Encounters of The Third Kind premiered in Los Angeles, California. Directed and largely written by Steven Spielberg, this movie introduced an edgy awe and wonder to the possibility of alien abduction, which was otherwise considered to be an unfortunate fate, or at least an awkward topic at mixers.
World Toilet Day was established as a United Nations Observance in 2013. It is a movement to raise awareness and provide funds to install sanitation systems around the world that properly treat human waste without contaminating ground water and are resilient to natural disaster. There are still 3.6 billion people in the world either living without toilets or
On this day in 1958 puppeteers Jim and Jane (Nebel) Henson created Muppets Inc. together, currently The Jim Henson Company, and were married within one year of incorporation. Jim Henson is credited as the father modern puppetry. He transformed the art and the craft, building flexible puppets who
On this day in 1931, the film Frankenstein was released in theatres featuring a lumbering Boris Karloff with bolts in his neck and a flat head. The film was a huge hit and Karloff’s monster became an instant icon. The film had to be edited for audiences depending on local censorship laws, the strictest being in Kansas City,
On this day in 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy (JFK) was assassinated while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. As the presidential limousine approached the Texas School Book Depository, shots rang out. Kennedy was struck by bullets to the upper back and neck area and
In 1202, Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, introduced a numbering sequence to Western European mathematics in his Book of Calculation. November 23 is celebrated as Fibonacci day because of the date written in the mm/dd format as 11/23. In the Fibonacci sequence each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. Starting from 0 and
On this day in 1971, D. B. Cooper bought a one-way ticket from Portland to Seattle on Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305. Once the plane was in the air, he gave a note to a flight attendant that said he was hijacking the plane. Then he opened his briefcase to reveal a bomb.
Gene Autry’s recording of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was released today in 1949. Autry rejected the song initially, but his wife convinced him to record it. The song made it to #1 on the charts by Christmas that year.
On this day in 1865, Lewis Carol’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in the United States and has never been out of print since. The story ushered in a new age of children’s literature that was intended to entertain young readers, rather than to instruct them.
On this day in 1920, The Mark of Zorro film was released as a silent Western romance starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery and was the first film produced by United Artists Corporation. The character Zorro was created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley
On this day in 1964, NASA launched the Mariner 4 Spacecraft, which embarked on an eight-month journey to gather data about Mars on a scheduled fly-by.Mariner 4 marked the first time Earthlings were able to take photos of another planet from space. The public was disappointed in the photos, however. They seemed as bleak and lifeless as the black and white photos taken of the moon
Chadwick Boseman was on born this day in 1976. During his brief acting career, he received two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination. He died of colon cancer at age 43.
Today is a tribute to the world’s oldest teenager, Dick Clark, who was known to defy the affects of aging, both physically and mentally.Dick began hosting American Bandstand in 1957 at age 27 and hosted the last regular show in 1987, promoting rock n’ roll, disco, and hip-hop hits as pop evolved through the decades.
