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National Themes For July 17th: National Lottery Day, National Peach Ice Cream Day, National Tattoo Day, Wrong Way Corrigan Day, National Yellow Pig Day, World Emoji Day, and National Hot Dog Day.

🎟National Lottery Day celebrates the way lotteries contribute to local and state programs. Dating back to the 15th century, a variety of early lotteries funded village needs such as strengthening defenses or support for the poor. According to Random Riches author, Manfred Zollinger, one of the oldest lotteries dates back to 1441 in Bruges. In this Low Country lottery, merchants paid for the chance to win money prizes as well as the grand prizes – the tax farm on the wijnscrooderschap (wine transporters) and the quality control of wines. During the Renaissance, the lottery owning the tax farm and quality control meant that they controlled who collected those taxes and who maintained the quality of the wines. In the Low Country, those were lucrative positions for merchants to have. In the United States, early lotteries paid for cannons during the American Revolution and paved roads up and down the East Coast. Today, lotteries are state-owned and operated. The funds they raise support government programs and the communities the lotteries serve.

🍑🍦National Peach Ice Cream Day! Fresh peaches are at their peak during July. So, it makes perfect sense to celebrate National Peach Ice Cream Day. It’s also National Ice Cream month, so add peach to the growing list of flavors to choose from in the creamy frozen treat section! This sweet stone fruit makes delicious ice cream when it’s very ripe and full of peachy juices. Make it a refreshing treat to try on a hot July day.

🎨National Tattoo Day! This just might be the day to get that ink you’ve been contemplating. Evidence of humans marking their bodies with permanent designs have existed for thousands of years. Egyptian and ice mummies reveal several forms of religious and status symbols. The word “tattoo” is derived from the Polynesian language for tatau which means “to tap or to mark.” Around the world, cultures surrounding tattooing vary and some have changed very little over time. In the United States, sailors brought tattooing to coastal shores from their island exploits. Getting inked continues to be a growing trend as technology and acceptance increases. Age, gender, and religion are less common barriers than they used to be. The reasons for going under the needle range from intensely personal symbols to recording a significant event. There are those who get a tattoo on a whim. Some people confess it’s an addiction.

🔄National Wrong Way Corrigan Day! An Irish-American stunt pilot from Galveston, Texas, gained notoriety for an unplanned transatlantic flight to Ireland on July 17, 1938. Growing up as a boy, Douglas Corrigan’s (January 22, 1907- December 9, 1995) fascination with flight was not uncommon. Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight may have been the most impressionable moment in his young life. In 1938 the young stunt pilot flew from his home in California to New York and requested permission to duplicate his hero’s historic flight. They quickly denied his request due to the age of Corrigan’s 1929 Curtiss Robin. With only a magnetic compass, Corrigan advised officials he was returning to California. According to the story, after takeoff, cloud cover prevented Corrigan from accurate navigation. It wasn’t until he dropped below the clouds hours later and saw water surrounded him that Corrigan realized his navigation was off, and 28 hours later he landed in Ireland. Or so he said. Reporters suggested Corrigan made secret plans to repeat his hero’s flight anyway, but years later Corrigan held to his original explanation. Corrigan’s received a movie deal and soon played himself in The Flying Irishman. During World War II, he tested bombers and after the war toured the country with other familiar war heroes in parades. As the notoriety died down, Corrigan settled into a quiet life with his wife and family occasionally running into a reporter who wanted question the veracity of his story.

🐷National Yellow Pig Day is a holiday especially for the mathematicians of the world! Look for the not so random occurrence of the number 17. Look! Yellow pig! National Pig Day originated sometime during the early 1960s when two mathematicians named Michael Spivak and David Kelly analyzed the random properties of the number 17 and a mysterious yellow pig. It seems the process became excessive and professional. Kelly lectured and developed classes around it. Spivak published several mathematics texts, while not based upon it, does subtly reference the number 17 and Yellow Pig.

😊World Emoji Day! Now before the emoji, there were emoticons. Emoticons (emotion + icon) were developed as an expression of emotions in the cold hard texts that were devoid of them. Emoji, a Japanese expression, roughly means “picture word” and was developed in 1990 by Shigetaka Kurita. While working for NTT Docomo, a Japanese telecom company, Kurita design these picture words as a feature on their pagers to make them more appealing to teens. When Apple released the first iPhone in 2007, an emoji keyboard was embedded to nab the Japanese market. While not intended for U.S. users to find, they did and quickly figured out how to use it. Every year new emojis (both emoji and emojis are acceptable plural forms of the word) are developed. The emojipedia.org keeps track of all the emoji updates across all platforms and operating systems. There are over 1800 emojis covering much more than just emotions. From transportation, food, an assortment of wild and domesticated animals to social platforms, weather, and bodily functions emojis virtually speak for themselves.

🌭National Hot Dog Day! Whether they are grilled, boiled, broiled, pan-fried, rotisserie cooked, cooked on a stick over a campfire or any other way, hot dogs are a favorite summertime staple. They are loved by children and adults alike plain or garnished with one or a combination of mustard, ketchup, onions, mayonnaise, relish, cheese, bacon, chili, or sauerkraut. On May 31, 2012, a world record was set for the most expensive hot dog. The “California Capitol City Dawg” sold for $145.49 at Capitol Dawg in Sacramento, California. The “California Capitol City Dawg” features: A grilled 18″ all-beef, in natural casing frank from Chicago served on a fresh-baked herb and oil focaccia roll spread with white truffle butter, then grilled and topped with whole grain mustard from France, garlic and herb mayonnaise, sauteed chopped shallots, organic mixed baby greens, maple syrup, marinated/fruitwood smoked uncured bacon from New Hampshire, chopped tomatoes, sweetened dried cranberries, chopped tomato, expensive moose cheese from Sweden, basil, olive oil/pear-cranberry-coconut balsamic vinaigrette and ground peppercorn. Proceeds from the sale of each 3 lb. super dog were donated to the Shriners Hospitals for Children. 7-Eleven sells the most grilled hot dogs in North America – 100 million annually. Over 25 million hot dogs are sold at baseball stadiums each year. National Hot Dog and Sausage Council created National Hot Dog Day. The first National Hot Dog Day was established in 1991.

I had no idea lotteries were so old. Forget the ice cream for my first peach, I just want the ripe sweet peach, Yummy! I'll pass on the tattoo. I still don't get the yellow pig 🤔. I'll have my hot dog roast on a campfire, if you please.

We're waiting right here beside you MD, hoping it's not serious.

Warm hugs!💕🐶🐶🌦⛈