The Official Tomie dePaola Blog: June 2017

Friday, June 30, 2017

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Paul - Patron of Missions, Theologians, and Gentile Christians
Feast of St. Peter - Patron of Fisherman, and Ship Builders

National Camera Day
Hug Holiday Day
National Waffle Iron Day

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born in 1900, and Little Eva was born in 1943.

International Mud Day

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Paul Bunyan Day

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

National Sunglasses Day

Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

A Vase of Peonies

Also on This Day: June 21

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga

International Day of Yoga
National Selfie Day

Rockwell Kent was born in 1882, and Al Hirschfeld was born in 1903. Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905.

Summer Begins

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Also on This Day: June 20

Also on this day...
National Ice Cream Soda Day
National Kouign-amann Day (a Breton cake)
National Hike with a Geek Day

Betty Washington was born in 1733.

Sigismund III Vasa

Monday, June 19, 2017

Old Rose Dandy Itoh Peony

Also on This Day: June 19

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Romuald

World Sauntering Day

Juneteenth - Commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas, and more generally, the emancipation of slaves throughout the South

May Whitty was born in 1865, and Moe Howard was born in 1897.

Wallis Simpson

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Also on This Day: June 18

Also on this day...
National Go Fishing Day

Five Monks from Canterbury observed the moon exploding into sparks in 1178.

Paul McCartney was born in 1942, and Isabella Rossellini was born in 1952.

Happy Father's Day

Saturday, June 17, 2017

Also on This Day: June 17

Also on this day...

National Hollerin' Contest Day

World Juggling Day

Igor Stravinsky was born in 1882.

Statue of Liberty

Friday, June 16, 2017

Also on This Day: June 16

Also on this day...
Fresh Veggies Day
National Flip Flop Day
Ugliest Dog Day

Hailstones - some that were 17 inches in circumference, and some that weighed one pound, twelve ounces - fell, in 1882, in Dubuque, Iowa.

John Cleveland was born in 1613, and Nathanael Schnittelbach was born in 1633. Geronimo was born in 1829.

Irving Penn

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Pretty Peonies

Also on This Day: June 15

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National Smile Power Day

Vice President Dan Quayle, in 1992, "corrected" a student's spelling of potato. Quayle changed it to "potatoe."

Neil Patrick Harris was born in 1973.

Feast of Corpus Christi

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Matisse in the Studio

Sherry Litwack helped us get to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Tuesday, and helped us navigate the Museum. Tomie wanted to see "Matisse in the Studio."

www.mfa.org

Also on This Day: June 14

Also on this day...

Flag Day

Family History Day

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811. Harry Turtledove was born in 1949, and Boy George was born in 1961.

International Bath Day

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Children by Mail

Also on This Day: June 13

Also on this day...
Publication of ANDY & SANDY AND THE BIG TALENT SHOW

National Sewing Machine Day
National Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
World Pet Memorial Day

The Postmaster General, in 1920, declared that children may not be transported as Parcel Post.

Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen were born in 1986.

St. Anthony of Padua

Monday, June 12, 2017

Springy Flowers

Alliums at the top. A clivia that chose to bloom. Ninety-two geraniums.

Red Rose Day

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Also on This Day: June 11

Also on this day...
Tony Awards tonight. Curtain up!

National Corn on the Cob Day
National Making Life Beautiful Day

Jacques Cousteau was born in 1910. Gene Wilder was born in 1933, and Christina Crawford was born in 1939.

Feast of the Most Holy Trinity

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Tree Peonies

Also on This Day: June 10

Also on this day...
National Iced Tea Day

Judy Garland was born in 1922, and Maurice Sendak was born in 1928.

Hattie McDaniel

Friday, June 9, 2017

Day Nine of the June Peace Novena

The Peace Novena lasts for nine days -

the first nine days of each new month.

Say the word. That's all.

Also on This Day: June 9

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Ephrem, the Syrian

National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
National Earl Day

Les Paul was born in 1915, and Donald Duck was "born" in 1934. Gregory Maguire was born in 1954, and Johnny Depp was born in 1963.

St. Columba

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Day Eight of the June Peace Novena

The Peace Novena lasts for nine days -

the first nine days of each new month.

Say the word, or "Peace." That's all.

Also on This Day: June 8

Also on this day...
National Best Friends Day

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in 1867, and Joan Rivers was born in 1933.

Upsy Daisy Day

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Day Seven of the June Peace Novena

The Peace Novena lasts for nine days -

the first nine days of each new month.

Say the word, or "Peace." That's all.

Also on This Day: June 7

Also on this day...
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

Paul Gauguin was born in 1848.

Jessica Tandy was born in 1909, and Tom Jones was born in 1940. Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943, and Prince was born in 1958.

Daniel Boone Day

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Day Six of the June Peace Novena

The Peace Novena lasts for nine days -

the first nine days of each new month.

Say the word, or "Peace." That's all.

Also on This Day: June 6

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Norbert

D-Day - June 6, 1944

National Yo-Yo Day

Nathan Hale was born in 1755, and Harvey Fierstein was born in 1954.

National Gardening Exercise Day

Monday, June 5, 2017

Day Five of the June Peace Novena

The Peace Novena lasts for nine days -

the first nine days of each new month.

Say the word, or "Peace." That's all.

Also on This Day: June 5

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Boniface of Mainz, Patron of Brewers

World Environment Day
Hot Air Balloon Day
National Moonshine Day

Richard Scarry was born in 1919, and Bill Moyers was born in 1934.