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[IceWizard]

23 Mar 2017


National Near Miss Day



Near Miss Day commemorates March 23rd, 1989, when a large asteroid missed the Earth by a mere 500,000 miles – a very near miss indeed! What would you do if an asteroid was about to hit the Earth – how would you spend your last hours, and would you even want to know?



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National Puppy Day



They’re fluffy and playful, they yip and bark and are just all around adorable, and all they want is to be loved. What could we be talking about? That’s right, puppies! Puppy Day celebrates that most adorable of our four-footed friends, the baby canine, and it’s quite possibly the cutest day ever. It doesn’t matter the breed or gender, all puppies are the perfect solution to a terrible day. They’ll cuddle and crawl and… well, occasionally pee all over everything… but they’re puppies! When Puppy Day comes around, you better be ready for a barking good time, there’s no way to avoid it when the day is about the ultimate ball of heart-melting fluff!

History of Puppy Day

You know what’s magical and fantastic? Oh right, we’ve already been fanboying about it haven’t we? That’s right, don’t care! Puppies! Puppies bring the gift of love without boundaries to us, and they’re absolutely determined to be the best friend you’ve ever had. When you come home from school, that’s all they care about, is that you’re home. Long day at work? Just a big happy ball of fluff coming to see you right at the door, more reliable than the bestest romantic partner. What’s amazing about the love for puppies is that it spreads across the world, through every culture and every social strata. Puppies just bring us all together!

Puppy Day was established to bring awareness to the world about puppy mills and how to go about adopting. Puppy mills are often some of the most horrible establishments, with the females bred until they either can’t conceive, or die giving birth. They’re literally run like a factory, money in, puppies out. Between these heinous establishments and both wild and family dogs remaining unsprayed and unneutered, the population of dogs is getting out of control.





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National Chip and Dip Day



If love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage, what could possibly be said to describe just how well chips and dip go together?

No matter whether you prefer thick cheesy dips, hot vegetable-packed salsas, cool cream-cheese-based dips, or creative baked dips that combine all sorts of different flavors, the truth is that chips would just not be the same without them. There are thousands of different kinds of chip dips eaten with potato, corn, and more recently veggie chips the world over, meaning a holiday to celebrate the tradition of dipping chips is more than overdue.

And could you possibly think of a better, tastier day to celebrate than Chip and Dip Day? You’d be hard-pressed, that’s for sure.

The History of Chip and Dip Day

Dips have been made for thousands of years. One of the earliest dips to become popular long before chips ever came into existence is the Greek tzatziki, a combination of yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, salt and olive oil. Greeks still eat tzatziki with meats and bread, but since the invention of the potato chip in the mid-19th century, it and many variations of it have also become popular chip dips.

Guacamole, yet another iconic chip dip, that was first made by the Aztecs.

The potato chip itself is believed to have been invented in 1853 by a cook named George Crum whose potato wedges were repeatedly sent back to the kitchen by an unsatisfied customer who claimed they were too thick. Crum eventually became irritated and decided to serve the man potato slices so thin he could see through them fried to a crisp, topped with a rather excessive amount of salt. Surprisingly, the customer absolutely loved them, and chips were born. At first, chips were made only in restaurants, but by the 20th they began to be mass-produced.

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March 23 Birthdays




Chaka Khan - 64




Keri Russell - 41




Michelle Monaghan - 41




Joan Crawford - (1908 - 1977) (69)




Jason Kidd - 44




Ric Ocasek - 68








March 23rd

2002: ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill married longtime girlfriend, filmmaker-actress Charleen McCrory at Tony’s Ballroom in Houston.

1985: John Fogerty reached number one on the Billboard 200 Album Chart for the first and only time as a solo artist with Centerfield, which spent one week on top of the chart & went on to go double Platinum in the U.S.

1985: Billy Joel married supermodel Christine Brinkley on a boat alongside the Statue of Liberty. This was Joel’s second marriage and they would divorce in 1994.

1985: Journey peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Only the Young”, their fifth top ten single in the U.S.

1983: ZZ Top released their eighth studio album Eliminator which went on to reach number nine on the Billboard 200 Album Chart and sell ten million copies in the U.S.

1980: Pat Benatar reached number twenty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Heartbreaker” which was her first top forty single in the U.S.

1979: Van Halen released their second album Van Halen II, which went on to become their first album to reach the top ten of the Billboard 200 Album Chart, peaking at number six.

1973: John Lennon was ordered to leave the U.S. within 60 days by immigration authorities. This began Lennon’s long fight to obtain his green card, which he received in 1976.

1969: 30,000 people attended the Rally for Decency at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Announcements that publicized the rally warned that “longhairs and weird dressers” won’t be let inside. The rally was held in response to Jim Morrison’s alleged pants-dropping incident in Miami a few weeks earlier.

Birthdays:

Ric Ocasek - Singer & Guitarist for The Cars born in 1949