Daily Holidays - May 16

[Sherman A1]

World Whisky Day is all about sharing good company, good times, and good whisky. Not a whisky person? This is a great excuse to give it a try! With events happening all over the world, from large gatherings to groups of friends sampling new varieties, why not try something a bit different? https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-whisky-day/

Biographer's Day Biographies dominate the publishing industry’s bestseller lists. However biographical writing has not always enjoyed such popularity, and biographical conventions have evolved considerably over the centuries.

The modern style of biography originated in the eighteenth-century and is most closely associated with James Boswell, who undertook an extraordinary biography of his charismatic companion Samuel Johnson – poet, journalist, critic, and writer of the first English dictionary.

Warm, expansive, uncompromising, and exhaustively detailed, Boswell’s ‘Life of Samuel Johnson’ established a new way of writing biography and shaped the emergence of the biography format that is popular today.

Biographers Day commemorates the first meeting of Boswell and Johnson in 1763 in a London bookshop and it’s a great day to celebrate the genre. Why not mark Biographers Day by reading a new biography, revisting an old favourite, or perhaps even taking a look into Boswell’s ‘Life of Samuel Johnson’ itself. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/biographers-day/

National Sea Monkey Day Everybody loves Sea Monkeys – and Sea Monkey Day is the perfect opportunity to pay homage to our small, aquatic, frolicking friends. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/sea-monkey-day/

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/may16.html

[Tobin S.]

1. Good morning, Sherman!

That's a good batch of holidays.

[Sherman A1]

4. Thanks

Just post what comes along.....

[bigwillq]

2. Whisky!

I love whisky!

[Sherman A1]

5. Enjoy

A good thing for a Saturday.

[bigwillq]

7. Well, I am working right now

so Whisky will have to wait for later!

[femmocrat]

3. Today is also Armed Forces Day:

President Harry S. Truman led the effort to establish a single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country.

On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Days. The single day celebration stemmed from the unification of the Armed Forces under the Department of Defense.

http://www.defense.gov/afd/

[Sherman A1]

6. It is indeed

Thanks for adding that. 👍