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if you can’t tell from the header, it’s my vacation! chose the dates wisely. Between our anniversary and the first con we’re attending this summer! 😉 yes! hee hee I love stay-cations, I get to sleep and not worry that “OMG I can’t sleep in this strange bed!” or that the noises from the people surrounding my room will be non-stop. I don’t have room-service or a cabana boy, but I do have all the luxuries of home! 😉 so later after working on the honey to-do’s list, mainly going through and getting rid of some more, won’t fit me clothes. I’m thinking of firing up the hot tub jacuzzi, aka my garden bathtub with some scented fizz bombs and just ahhhhh enjoy! till laters…xoxo

Calendar day; June 22, 2015

Monday, the 22nd of June, 2015 is the 173th day in 2015 and in the 26th calendar week.

General Events:

Anti-Fascist Struggle Day
June 22, 2015 in Croatia

Anti-Fascist Struggle Day is celebrated on June 22, 2015. Anti-Fascist Struggle Day is a national holiday and celebration in Croatia. It is celebrated on June 22nd, as it marks the beginning of the uprising of Croatian anti-fascist Partisans against German and Italian occupying forces, that started with the forming of the First Sisak Partisan Detachment on June 22, 1941 near Sisak, Croatia.

Where is Anti-Fascist Struggle Day?
Nationwide Croatia

Stupid Guy Thing Day
June 22, 2015 in the World

June 22nd is officially Stupid Guy Thing Day.  I’m not kidding.  It’s an actual declared day!  Stupid Guy Thing Day is designated as a day to commemorate all of the stupid things guys do.

Ok ladies, chances are pretty good you’ll be able to relate to this annual holiday, created by the folks at Wellcat.com.

But let’s be honest. We’ve all done stupid things in our lives regardless of our gender. Really embarrassing, humiliating and downright stupid things, right? But no matter how hard we try, many gals just can’t figure out why some guys do the things they do. It’s almost like men and women really are from two entirely different planets!

Where is the event?
Worldwide

National Chocolate Eclair Day
June 22, 2015 in the USA

National Chocolate Eclair Day takes place on June 22, 2015. An chocolate éclair is an oblong pastry made with choux dough filled with a cream and topped with chocolate icing.

The dough, which is the same as that used for profiterole, is typically piped into an oblong shape with a pastry bag and baked until it is crisp and hollow inside. Once cool, the pastry then is filled with a vanilla-, coffee- or chocolate-flavoured custard, or with whipped cream, or chiboust cream; and then iced with fondant icing.

The éclair originated during the nineteenth century in France. It is a popular type of cake served all over the world. The word is first attested both in English and in French in the 1860s.

Where is National Chocolate Eclair Day?
Nationwide US

Historical Events on 22nd June:

168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War

1342 – Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reckoning)

1476 – Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland

1533 – Ferdinand of Austria & Sultan Suleiman sign peace treaty

1611 – Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery & never seen again

1633 – Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong)

1675 – Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II

1740 – King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture & guarantees religion & freedom of the press

1772 – Somerset v Stewart UK court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encourages abolitionist movement

1812 – Upon learning of plans by the Americans to execute a surprise attack, Laura Secord walks 32 km to warn the British troops, which results in a British surprise victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams

1847 – Doughnut created

1873 – Prince Edward Island joins Canada

1874 – Dr Andrew T Still, discovers the science of osteopathy

1875 – Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun & Toulouse, kills about 1,000

1900 – In China, practically the whole foreign community in Peking, including many Chinese Christians, retreat to British compounds

1910 – 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland

1922 – Herrin massacre, 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois

1939 – Princes (future Queen) Elizabeth meets future husband Prince Philip of Greece (Midshipman Mountbatten, RN)

1940 – About 10,000 Afrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of South Africa’s involvement in WWII

1941 – Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation

1942 – Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon

1959 – Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage

1973 – Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water

1978 – James Christy’s discovery of Pluto’s moon Charon announced

1983 – 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle

1990 – Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit

1990 – Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing, which has happened in South Africa, calls for a revision of the position that the Organisation has taken in its struggle against apartheid; he adds that a democratic, non-racial SA is within reach

1992 – 2 skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg identified as Tsar Nicholas II & Tsarina Alexandra

1999 – Former Mpumalanga premier, Ndaweni Mahlangu causes a storm within political circles with his now infamous statement, “It is acceptable for politicians to lie”, South Africa