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December 31 Saint of the Day – Melania the Younger
On this day in 1695, a window tax was imposed in England. Many shopkeepers bricked up their windows to avoid it. Fortunately, Parliament did not impose a brick tax. Melania the Younger (ca. 383 – 439)...
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December 25 Feast of the Day – The Nativity of Our Lord, God, and Savior...
On this day in 1651, the Massachusetts General Court instituted a five-shilling fine for “observing any such day as Christmas.” They also outlawed gambling, food with flavor, and non-scratchy clothes....
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December 22 Saints of the Day – Anastasia, Deliverer from Potions, and Hunger...
On this day in 1958, “The Chipmunk Song” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Two years later, nobody admitted to having purchased it, even among people with Hula Hoops. The Greatmartyr Anastasia,...
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December 14 Saints of the Day – Philemon, Apollonius, & Arianus of...
On this day in 1901, the first table tennis tournament was held, at the London Royal Aquarium. The rules were changed to disallow multiple paddles per player after the squid won in straight sets. The...
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December 4 Saints of the Day – Barbara, and Clement of Alexandria
On this day in 1680, a hen in Rome laid an egg imprinted with a comet not seen in that city until December 16, when it flew over easy. Barbara (IV cent.) of Heliopolis (Syria) was the daughter of a...
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November 24 Saint of the Day – Catherine of Alexandria
On this day in 1971, Dan “D.B.” Cooper parachuted over southwestern Washington State from a Northwest Airlines 727 with $200,000 in cash, and has never been found. Nobody believes the Ariel,...
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November 11 Saints of the Day – Menas of Egypt and Martin of Tours
On this day in 1675, Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated the integral calculus for the first time, throwing a curve to area mathematicians. Menas of Egypt (285 – ca. 304 or 309)’s mother Euphemia (“good...
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November 5 Saints of the Day – Galacteon & Episteme
On this day in 1935, Parker Brothers launched the game Monopoly. Soon they had cornered the market. To learn the story of Galacteon & Episteme (d. 251) we must go back to Kletophon and Leukippe,...
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November 2 Saints of the Day – Acindynus of Persia and All Souls
On this day in 1948, President Harry Truman was re-elected in an upset over opponent Thomas Dewey, despite the next day’s Chicago Tribune headline proclaiming the opposite. Fortunately the Press...
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October 30 Saints of the Day – Zenobius & Zenobia and Alphonsus Rodriguez
On this day in 1944, Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” premiered in Washington, DC. Its working title was “Appalachian Autumn,” but it took longer to write than he expected. Zenobius & Zenobia...
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October 29 Saint of the Day – Abraham of Rostov
On this day in 1945, the first ball point pen went on sale, a mere 57 years after it was patented. The inventor had lost it. Abraham of Rostov (d. ca. 1037–1077), through no fault of his own, was born...
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October 26 Saints of the Day – Demetrius of Thessaloniki and Eata of Hexham
On this day in 1972, Henry Kissinger declared “Peace is at hand” in Vietnam. He also announced to his staff he was going to the restroom, and would be right back. He was right about two of these three...
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October 14 Saints of the Day – Nazarius, Celsius, Gervasius, & Protasius and...
On this day in 1908, the Chicago Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers to clinch the World Series, their last one to date, making the Curse of the Bambino seem like a First World problem. Nazarius, Celsius,...
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October 11 Saints of the Day – Zenaida & Philonilla and Pope John XXIII
On this day in 1976, President Gerald Ford approved George Washington’s posthumous appointment as General of the Armies of the United States. This would have raised Martha’s widow’s pension, if she...
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October 9 Saints of the Day – Andronicus & Athanasia and Denis
On this day in 1594, the Portuguese army was defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture (seriously). People who don’t want to lose their Dantures would do well to...
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October 2 Saints of the Day – Cyprian & Justina and Guardian Angels
On this day in 1950, the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz was first published. Schulz throughout his life hated the name; he would have preferred “Filberts.” Cyprian of Nicomedia (d. 304), an...
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September 19 Saints of the Day – Theodore the Black and Susanna the Deaconness
On this day in 1959, Nikita Khrushchev was barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns. He had refused to let the Themepark Security Administration inspect his shoes. Theodore the Black...
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September 17 Saints of the Day – Agathocleia and Hildegard of Bingen
On this day in 1814, Francis Scott Key finished his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry,” better known as “The Star-Spangled Banner.” On the bottom he scratched, “Note to self: set this to a singable tune.”...
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September 7 Saints of the Day – Sozon of Cilicia and Eugenia Picco
On this day in 1895, in England, the first game of what would become known as rugby league football was played. Everybody lived. Sozon of Cilicia (d. 304) was a literate shepherd (which is a miracle...
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September 6 Saints of the Day – Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonae,...
On this day in 1847, Henry David Thoreau left Walden Pond and moved in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts. His chamber pot was finally full. The Miracle of the Archangel...
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