#UnofficialDiaryDates

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-29

Happy birthday to the iPhone (released 6/29/2007)!

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-28

Happy birthdays to Peter Paul Rubens (b. 6/28/1577) & Jean-Jacques Rousseau (b. 6/28/1712)!

Their child was, of course, Jean-Paul Sartre.

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-28

Happy Paul Bunyan Day!

This photographic evidence of his continued existence in the California woods has been dismissed by so-called “experts”, but I know what I saw. I CAN STILL HEAR THE SCREAMS.

A blurry, overexposed, black & white photo of a “giant” at the edge of parking lot full of cars. There is a low, wide building with an asymmetrical, sloping roof to the left, and a thick woods of tall trees fills the background.
donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-28

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS-LOCK DAY (SUMMER)!

capslockday.org

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-27

Happy birthday, Paul Lawrence Dunbar (b. 6/27/1872)!

gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/62

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-25

On this International Day of the Seafarer, we also celebrate the birthday of famed mariner Eric Carle (b. 6/25/1929).

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-23

Happy birthdays to the typewriter (patented 6/23/1868) and to Giambattista Vico, who would have been a champion typist if he hadn’t been born exactly 200 years too early (6/23/1668)!

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-20

Happy birthday, Errol Flynn (b. 6/20/1909)!

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-19

Happy birthday, Blaise Pascal (b. 6/19/1623)!

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-19

Happy 33⅓ day!

The 33⅓ rpm microgroove record album was unveiled by the Columbia Record Company at a NYC press conference June 18, 1948.

#33⅓Day

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-17

Happy Þjóðhátíðardagurinn (Icelandic Republic Day)!

The Republic of Iceland established 6/17/1944 ending centuries of political domination by Denmark.

Also, if you know how to pronounce “Þjóðhátíðardagurinn”, please let me know.

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-16

Happy Bloomsday, all you peregrinators! Here's a playlist to keep you company until you find your true Penelope.

open.spotify.com/playlist/624q

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-14

Happy World Gin Day! We may all need some before this day is through.

worldginday.com/

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-13

Happy birthdays to James Clerk Maxwell (b. 6/13/1831) & William Butler Yeats (b. 6/13/1865)!

A good day for prominent middle names?

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-12

Happy Dock Ellis Day!

On 6/12/1970, Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis no-hit the San Diego Padres, reportedly while under the influence of LSD.

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-09

Happy birthday, Donald Duck (born 6/9/1934*)!

* Official release date of "The Wise Little Hen", the first cartoon including Donald. However, the short was first screened earlier at a benefit event at the Carthay Circle Theatre on 5/3/1934.

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-08
donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-07

Happy birthday, Paul Gauguin (b. 6/8/1848)!

donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-06

Happy National Donut Day from all of us here at America's Donut Magazine!

Front cover of Donut Age: America's Donut Magazine for March-April [1961]. The cover is predominantly brown with white sans serif lettering. It features an outline of the continental United States filled with a collage of various donut shop signs. The listed cost is 50 cents.
donutage (Bill Cole)donutage
2025-06-05

Happy Hot Air Balloon Day!

On 6/5/1783, the first hot air balloon flight was recorded in France.

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