Happy SUMMER! While summer unofficially kicked off with Memorial Day a few weeks back, today is, in fact, the official start of the flaming hot summer season! I guess it’s no coincidence, then, that June 21st is also World Music Day. This annual celebration began in 1982, and has turned into a worldwide phenomenon as countries around the
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Flag Day was first observed in 1916. In that year, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that established June 14th as a nationwide observance of “Flag Day.” While it is unconfirmed who actually designed Old Glory, it is accepted that Betsy Ross made the first US flag in 1776 right here in Philadelphia, PA. While the
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At the heart of it all. . . a squeaky clean, impressively pink Gay Bar! In June of 1970, the nation’s first PRIDE parade was held in New York City to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots (a nearly week-long uprising between NYC police officers and the city’s youth, following a raid of Stonewall Inn). Stonewall was a
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