Tied Up Today

National Chess Day is celebrated on the second Saturday in October every year. "President Ford declared National Chess Day on October ...

"Every year on October 9th, we celebrate National Curious Events Day. This odd day is dedicated to the strange, the unexplained, and t...

The fourth of October is the Feast of St. Francis, and it is also celebrated as World Animal Day, in honor of St. Francis' love for anim...

The Peanuts comic strip debuted on 2 October 1950! My tie shows all of the well-known characters using cell phones; Lucy is holding one up t...

Where's Waldo? Martin Handford, Waldo's creator, was bon on 27 September 1956. This wonderful tie came to me from the collection of ...

Tomorrow (27 September) marks the 121st anniversary of Albert Einstein's paper "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energiein...

Today marks the birthday of Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), early-20th-century researcher in genetics. He was born in Lexington, KY, and his...

I'm wearing my "computer motherboard" tie today to honor the 72nd anniversary of the first FORTRAN program (1954). If you reme...

Ahoy mateys! Weigh anchor for International Talk Like a Pirate Day on the morrow! I've just learned that one part of the phrase "n...

Today's "Norton" tie celebrates the 167th anniversary of the self-declaration of Emperor Norton I of the United States , who w...

 Today is National Coloring Day, so I'm wearing crayons.

 Today we're celebrating grandaughter TR's fourth birthday! Her favorite colors are pink and "pur-pur." I offered her four...

September is always National Piano Month and also Classical Music Month. My tie is always musically appropriate.

A few weeks ago my EKU friend Philip Gump alerted me to September 8 as Star Trek Day, celebrating the premier episode "The Man Trap...

6 September 2026 marks the 534th anniversary of the day Christopher Columbus sailed from the Canary Islands, his last port before crossing t...