#unofficialdiarydates — Public Fediverse posts
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Happy Car-Submarine Collision Day!
"On 19 August 1961, a driverless Volvo PV544 car crashed into a docked HSwMS Bävern submarine in Lysekil, Sweden. It is the only collision between a car and a submarine recorded in history."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_between_a_car_and_a_submarine
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Happy Buckaroo Banzai Day!
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘰 𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘻𝘢𝘪 𝘈𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 8𝘵𝘩 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯—universally† recognized as one of the greatest cinematic achievements of the 20th century—was released 8/10/1984.
† [citation needed]
#UnofficialDiaryDates #BuckarooBanzai #NoMatterWhereYouGoThereYouAre
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Happy birthday to Smokey Bear, who first appeared August 9, 1944.
#UnofficialDiaryDates #SmokeyBear #OnlyYOUCanPreventForestFires
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Happy National Lighthouse Day!
(photo taken August 2021)
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Happy birthday Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong (b. 8/4/1901 in New Orleans)!
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Happy anniversary of the Caldwell Sky Thread!
On 8/2/1970 residents in Caldwell, NJ, reported a mysterious "wire" or "silver thread" suspended in the sky above their house, stretching into the clouds & motionless regardless of weather. It was eventually pulled down and analyzed, determined to be similar to nylon fishing line, but no explanation for its origin or seemingly impossible behavior was discovered.
https://weirdnj.com/stories/unexplained-phenomena/caldwell-mystery-sky-thread/
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Happy 1st anniversary of the Pennsylvania Hot Dog Spill!
On 8/1/2025, a tractor-trailer carrying hot dogs ripped open, scattering its contents across I-83 and forcing a temporary closure of the highway until the mess could be cleared using a front loader.
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-hot-dogs-crash-96a3994dc8d5c5ce8835ddf3928b35b6
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Happy anniversary of the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa!
Hoffa left his home on the morning of 7/30/1975, supposedly for a meeting with Mafiosi Anthony"Tony Pro" Provenzano & Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone, and never returned. He is presumed murdered, but this has never been proven, nor have his remains been discovered. Hoffa was declared dead 7/30/1982.
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Happy birthday to NASA!
The National Aeronautics and Space Act was signed into law by Dwight Eisenhower on 7/29/1958.
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Happy(?) anniversary of the Erfurt Latrine Disaster (26 July 1184)!
Up to 60 people died when the floor under a group of nobles collapsed, dropping the occupants into the cesspit below.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116963459410501440
Happy World Brain Day!
I'd rather be a disembodied intelligence drifting through the ether, but if that's off the table, I guess having a brain is ok.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@reinodeboer/116957098667697866
I need to add this mysterious event to my #UnofficialDiaryDates calendar.
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RE: https://jawns.club/@andrewhinton/116949090439855886
Happy National Ice Cream Day!
#UnofficialDiaryDates #IScream #YouScream #WeAllScream #ForIceCream
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116940809367811910
Happy birthday, William Thackeray (b. 7/18/1811)!
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Happy St. Swithin's Day!
7/15 is the feast day of St. Swithin/Swithun, patron saint of Winchester Cathedral (b. ~800, d. 2 July 863).
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Not-coincidentally to today being Bastille Day, today also marks the birth of Dada.
On July 14th, 1916, writes the New York Times‘ Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, “the poet Hugo Ball proclaimed the manifesto for a new movement. Its name: Dada. Its aim: to ‘get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanised, enervated.'”
https://www.openculture.com/2016/07/dada-was-born-100-years-ago.html
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7/11! Happy Slurpee Day!
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Happy Aphelion!
The earth is at its farthest from the sun today—94,502,962 mi!
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Happy birthday to national treasure Bill Watterson (b. 7/5/1958)!
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Happy birthday, Mick Jones of the Clash (b. 6/26/1955 in Wandsworth, London)!
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Happy 33⅓ Day!
The 33⅓ rpm microgroove record album was unveiled by the Columbia Record Company at a NYC press conference June 18, 1948.
#UnofficialDiaryDates #33⅓Day
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RE: https://spore.social/@minouette/116742621002744426
Happy birthday, James Clerk Maxwell (b. 6/13/1831)!
John Nefastis & Stanley Koteks still believe in your demon.
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Happy Dock Ellis Day!
On June 12, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis no-hit the San Diego Padres, 2–0, in the first game of a two-game doubleheader at San Diego Stadium, while reportedly under the influence of LSD.
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RE: https://c.im/@jake4480/116714313563129578
Happy birthday, floppy disks!
I never used 8" floppies, but I remember the excitement of my first 5 1/4", which meant I no longer had to save programs for my Trash-80 on cassette tapes. What a time to be alive!
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Happy birthday, Paul Gauguin (b. 6/8/1848)!
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Happy Casey at the Bat Day!
The poem "Casey at the Bat" was published in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) 6/3/1888.
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Happy National Heimlich Maneuver Day!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116669020267437913
Happy birthday, Walt Whitman (b. 5/31/1819 in Huntington, NY)!
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@reinodeboer/116662558877431867
Happy International Day of the Potato! Have some Louis Armstrong: