Monday, March 02, 2026
Monday, March 2, 2026
chirk \churk\, verb:
1. Informal. to cheer (usually followed by up).
2. to make a shrill, chirping noise.
Chirk can be traced to the Old English cearcian meaning "to creak, gnash." It shares this root with chirp, which became the prevailing word for the noise birds make.
parade maker (n).
parade maker (n).
- A driver and/or car that goes consistently under the speed limit, causing a backup of 20+ cars, creating frustration and your ability to be where you want to be on time.
It was a double line for several miles. no one could even attempt to pass the parade maker.
History
- Time: the newsweekly debuted (1923)
- Bill of Rights: the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution were finally ratified by Massachusetts, 147 years after having gone into effect (1939)
- B-50 Superfortress: became the first aircraft to fly around the world nonstop, landing in Fort Worth, Texas, after a flight time of 94:01 (1949)
- Morocco: gained independence from France (1956)
- 100-point game: Wilt Chamberlain set the NBA's single-game scoring record in a Philadelphia Warriors-New York Knicks game; he had not slept and had a hangover (1962)
Birthdays
- Sam Houston 1793 - First President of the Republic of Texas
- Dr. Suess 1904
- Jennifer Jones 1919 - Actress
- John Cullum 1930 - Actor ("Northern Exposure")
- Tom Wolfe 1931 - Author
- Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 - Former Soviet President
- Al Waxman 1934
- Doug Watkins 1934
- Paul Dino 1939
- Barbara Luna 1939 - Actress
- Jon Finch 1941 - Actor
- John Irving 1942 - Author
- Lou Reed 1942 - Musician (Velvet Underground)
- Eddie Money 1949 - Musician
- Karen Carpenter 1950 - Singer (The Carpenters)
- Cassie Yates 1951 - Actress
- Laraine Newman 1952 - Actress ("Saturday Night Live")
William Hope 1955 - Actor (ALIENS) - Jay Osmond 1955 - Singer (The Osmond Brothers)
- Mark Evans 1956 - Musician (AC/DC)
- John Cowsill 1956 - Musician (The Cowsills)
- Kevin Curren 1958
- Jon Bon Jovi 1962 - Musician (Bon Jovi)
- Daniel Craig 1968 - Actor
- Casey 1976 - Musician (Jimmie's Chicken Shack)
- Heather McComb 1977 - Actress ("Party of Five")
- Chris Martin 1977 - Musician (Coldplay)
- Bryce Dallas Howard 1981 - Actress
- Ben Roethlisberger 1982 - Football player
- Robert Iler 1985 - Actor ("The Sopranos")
- Reggie Bush 1985 - Football player



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Sunday, March 01, 2026
List of Cult Holidays
List of Cult Holidays
March 1 - March 22 - Festive Season Begins
March 15 - H.P Lovecrafts Death
Night of March 22
Morning of March 23 - Nglui-N'Ghft Nglui-N'Gha
March 23 - April 2 - Lw'Nafhyar
August 8 - Sacred Eight
August 20 - H.P. Lovecrafts Birth
November 1 - Nog Chtenff
Sunday, March 1, 2026
ailurophilia \ahy-loor-uh-FIL-ee-uh, ey-loor-\, noun:
- a liking for cats, as by cat fanciers.
Ailurophilia combines the Greek aílouro meaning "cat" with -philia meaning "affection, affinity." In modern usage, -philia is most often used in the formation of compound words that have a general sense "unnatural attraction" or "tendency."
History
- Buckeye State: Ohio became the 17th US state; in prehistoric times it was inhabited by Mound Builders (1803)
- Cornhusker State: Nebraska, purchased from France in 1803, became the 37th US state (1867)
- Yellowstone: the world's oldest national park was established; it is noted for its geysers, hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles (1872)
- Lindbergh kidnapping: Lucky Lindy's child was abducted, leading to the Lindbergh Act (1932)
- Peace Corps: JFK established an agency to "promote world peace and friendship"; since then, nearly 200,000 Americans have served in 139 countries (1961)
Birthdays
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848
- Glenn Miller 1904 - Bandleader
- David Niven 1910 - Actor ("The Guns of the Navarone")
- Ralph Waldo Ellison 1914 - Author, essayist
- Robert Lowell 1917 - Poet
- Yitzhak Rabin 1922
- William Gaines 1922 - Publisher ("MAD Magazine")
- Michael Flanders 1922 - Songwriter, comedian (Flanders and Swann)
- Deke (Donald) Slayton 1924 - Astronaut
- Robert Clary 1926 - Actor ("Hogan's Heroes")
- Pete Rozelle 1926 - Football player
- Harry Belafonte 1927 - Singer, actor
- Benny Powell 1930 - Musician
- Robert Conrad 1935 - Actor
- Judith Rossner 1935
- Joan Hackett 1942
- Jerry Fisher 1942 - Musician (Blood Sweat & Tears)
- Roger Daltry 1944 - Musician (The Who)
- Mike D'Abo 1944 - Musician (Manfred Mann)
- Dirk Benedict 1945 - Actor ("The A-Team", "Battlestar Galactica")
- Tony Ashton 1946 - Musician (Ashton Gardner & Dyke)
- Alan Thicke 1947 - Actor ("Growing Pains"), songwriter (theme songs for TV's "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life")
- Brian Winters 1952 - Basketball player
- Ron Howard 1954 - Producer, actor ("The Andy Griffith Show", "Happy Days")
- Catherine Bach 1954 - Actress (TV's "The Dukes of Hazzard")
- Janis Gill 1954 - Musician (Sweethearts of the Rodeo)
- Timothy Daly 1956 - Actor ("Diner", "Wings", "The Fugitive")
- Jon Carroll 1957
- Nik Kershaw 1958
- Bill Leen 1962 - Musician (Gin Blossoms)
- Ron Francis 1963 - Hockey player
- Thomas Anders 1963 - Musician (Modern Talking)
- John David Collum 1966
- George Eads 1967 - Actor ("CSI")
- Javier Bardem 1969 - Actor ("No Country for Old Men", "Skyfall")
- Ryan Anthony Peake 1973 - Guitarist (Nickelback)
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar 1974
- Jensen Ackles 1978 - Actor ("Supernatural")
- Ke$ha - 1987

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Saturday, February 28, 2026
Saturday, February 28, 2026
schatzi \SHAHT-see\, noun:
- Slang. sweetheart, darling.
Schatzi is derived from the German word for "treasure," schatz, which entered English as a term of endearment for a woman in the early 1900s.
make it rain
- When you're in da club with a [stack], and you throw the money up in the air at the strippers. The effect is that it seems to be raining money.
History
- Methodism: Anglican clergyman and evangelist John Wesley chartered the first Methodist church (1784)
- Shanghai Communiqué: US President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued a document advancing normalization between the two countries (1972)
- M*A*S*H: the final episode — "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" — aired; it was the top-rated TV episode in the US (1983)
- Olof Palme: the Swedish prime minister and his wife were shot in Stockholm; he was killed, she survived (1986)
- Waco siege: 51-day standoff began with a gun battle between federal agents and members of the cloistered Branch Davidian sect; the agents were attempting to arrest leader David Koresh on a weapons charge (1993)
- Iran: A coordinated attack on Iran by the USA and Israel commenced, leading in the deaths of top Iranian officials.
Birthdays
- Mary Lyon 1797 - Educator, founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary (later Mt. Holyoke College)
- Sir John Tenniel 1820 - Cartoonist, illustrator
- Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet) 1824 - Acrobat, aerialist, first to walk across Niagra Falls on a tightrope.
- Linus Pauling 1901 - Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954, Nobel peace prize winner in 1962
- Vincente Minnelli (Lester Anthony Minnelli) 1903 - Director, Liza Minelli's father
- Earl Scheib 1907
- Milton Caniff 1907 - Cartoonist
- Billie Bird 1908
- Zero (Samuel) Mostel (Samuel Joel Mostel) 1915 - Actor
- Lee Castle 1915 - Musician, bandleader (Jimmy Dorsey's band)
- Alf Kjellin 1920 - Actor, director
- Charles Durning 1923 - Actor ("Spy Hard", "Dick Tracy", "The Hindenburg")
- Chris Kraft 1924 - NASA flight director and voice of Mission Control for all Mercury and many Gemini missions
- Svetlana Allilueva 1926 - Author, daughter of Russian leader Joseph Stalin
- Frank Malzone 1930 - Baseball player
- Gavin MacLeod 1931 - Actor ("Love Boat", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
- Don Francks 1932 - Actor
- Tommy Tune 1939 - Dancer, actor, choreographer
- Mario Andretti 1940 - Auto racer, twin of Aldo Andretti
- Aldo Andretti 1940 - Twin of Mario Andretti
- Joe South 1940 - Songwriter, singer
- Frank Bonner 1942 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
- Brian Jones (Lewis Hopkin-Jones) 1942 - Musician (The Rolling Stones)
- Poul Popiel 1943
- Barbara Acklin 1944
- Kelly Bishop 1944 - Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
- Bubba Smith 1945 - Football player
- Stephanie Beacham 1947 - Actress
- Marty Perez 1947 - Baseball player
- Mercedes Ruehl 1948 - Actress ("Last Action Hero", "Married to the Mob")
- Bernadette Peters (Lazzara) 1948 - Actress ("The Jerk", "Pennies From Heaven"), singer
- Tom Riker 1950 - Basketball player
- Roland Harper 1953 - Football player
- Gilbert Gottfried 1955 - comedian
- John Turturro 1957 - Actor ("Girl 6", "The Color of Money", "Desperately Seeking Susan")
- Cindy Wilson 1957 Musician (B-52's)
- Phil Gould 1957 - Musician (Level 42)
- Rae Dawn Chong 1961 - Actress
- Robert Sean Leonard 1969 - Actor ("Manhattan Project", "House")
- Pat Monahan 1969 - Musician (Train)
- Maxine Bahns 1971 - Actress
- Eric Lindros 1973 - Hockey player
- FeFe Dobson 1985 - Singer
Ali Larter 1976 - Actress - Bobb'e J. Thompson 1996



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