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Every day has lore.
Track the anniversaries, birthdays, first appearances and wonderfully odd celebrations hiding across gaming, science fiction, technology and internet culture.
- Games & pixels
- Sci-fi & screens
- Tech history
- Odd holidays
Did you know? Since 2005, August 27 has been celebrated in the USA as an easy day. Why? Just like that!
Why is the banana crooked? August 27 is celebrated in the USA as the day of banana lovers.
Judgment Day, also known as J-Day, refers to the day that the artificial intelligence Skynet becomes self-aware and starts a nuclear strike on the United States of America, Russia, and other places, killing three billion people.
Netflix, Inc. is an American media-services provider and production company headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. The company's primary business is its subscription-based streaming OTT service which offers online streaming of a library of films and television programs, including those produced in-house.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Happy Birthday Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851). August 30 honours the birthday of the British writer and author with the Frankenstein Day.
Street Fighter is a fighting video game franchise developed and published by Capcom. The first game in the series was released in 1987, followed by five other main series games, various spin-offs and crossovers, and numerous appearances in various other media. Its best-selling 1991 release Street Fighter II is credited with establishing many of the conventions of the one-on-one fighting genre.
Want a snack? On August 31st we celebrate the US American Day of Student Food.
A day to celebrate words, to which nothing rhymes.
eBay Inc. is an American multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in the autumn of 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble.
September 4 is Eat an Extra Dessert Day, a day that encourages people to treat their sweet tooth with a second (or well, even a third) helping of dessert.
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
Masters of the Universe (commonly abbreviated MOTU and sometimes referred to as He-Man, after the lead hero) is a media franchise created by Mattel.