Today is Friday March 26, 2010

Today is:

Make Up Your Own Holiday Day

f you've been following our daily Reasons to Celebrate, then this is a day you've been waiting for - Make Up Your Own Holiday Day! It's finally your chance to make up your own holiday. The objective of today is to be creative and make up a special holiday that means something important to you. You have the authority, so you can make it is as silly or serious as you want!

Creating a national holiday can certainly be a lengthy process. Just look at Sarah Josepha Hale's story, the editor of the Ladies' Magazine in Boston. She began writing editorials that a uniform day of thanks should be observed throughout the United States and she wrote letters to the President and governors about her idea. Finally in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln agreed with Hale's proposal, but Thanksgiving was not officially passed by Congress until 1941!

So today, simply declare your own holiday and host a huge celebration for it. Everyone will be wishing their holiday was as fun and creative as yours!

March is National Peanut Month & International Ideas Month & National Craft Month

On this day in History:

1827	Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna, Austria, at age 56.
1874	Poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco.
1885	The Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co. of Rochester, N.Y., manufactured the first commercial motion picture film.
1892	Poet Walt Whitman died at age 72.
1911	Playwright Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Miss.
1917	The Seattle Metropolitans became the first U.S. team to win the Stanley Cup as they defeated the Montreal Canadiens.
1964	The musical "Funny Girl," starring Barbra Streisand, opened on Broadway.
1971	East Pakistan proclaimed its independence, taking the name Bangladesh.
1992	A judge in Indianapolis sentenced former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson to six years in prison for raping a Miss Black America contestant.
1997	The bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate techno-religious cult who had committed suicide were found inside a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
1999	Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder for giving a lethal injection to an ailing man whose death was shown on "60 Minutes."
2000	Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia.
2002	Arthur Andersen chief executive Joseph Berardino resigned, bowing to mounting pressure as a result of the accounting firm's role in the Enron scandal.
2003	Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., died at age 76.

Quote of the Day:
"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."
- Mother Teresa