Sweet Circle of History: Celebrating National Donut Day Today marks a delicious milestone in the American calendar—National Donut Day, observed annually on the first Friday of June. While many …
World Environment Day – June 5: A Global Call to Action
World Environment Day, observed every year on June 5, is the United Nations’ flagship platform for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect the environment. It was first established by …
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National Cheese Day – June 4
What Is National Cheese Day?National Cheese Day, celebrated on June 4, is a food holiday that recognizes one of the oldest and most popular foods in the world: cheese. This day is a simple reminder to …
National Egg Day, June 3rd
June 3rd is National Egg Day, and it's been around since the 1950s. The whole thing started as a way to get people thinking about eggs again after some rough years when everyone got worried about …
National Leave Work Early Day – June 2nd.
Today is June 2nd and on this day in history. Instead, sometime in the late 20th century, someone decided this would be National Leave Work Early Day. A manufactured holiday, sure, but maybe that's …
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June 1st – National Olive Day
Today is June 1st and on this day in history, and it is National Olive Day. Picture the first human who looked at an olive tree—gnarled, ancient-looking even when young—and thought, "I'm going to …
Today is National Pigeon Day
Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We’ve kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to …
National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
Now I know why I was craving peanut butter today. It happens to be National Peanut Butter Cookie Day. I started wondering where the idea of peanut butter came from and turns out that the Aztec …