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People do not change, but how we live our lives does due to technology. Technology can be something simple, such as the humble beer can (first put on sale this day in 1935), or as complex as a computer....
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Thank a Plugin Developer Day was created by WordPress developer and techie Matt Mullenweg in 2009. Plugin Developers, by that year, had already produced over 4000 plugins that make building websites fo...
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Thomas Crapper Day honors Thomas Crapper an English plumber born in Yorkshire in 1837, who died on this day in 1910. Though he is often credited with inventing the modern flushing toilet, he actually im...
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Tin Can Day celebrates the invention of tin cans on this day in 1810 by British merchant Peter Durand. A major game-changer in food preservation, tin cans revolutionized the food industry. The first comme...
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There is something about a new year that causes travel queries to spike in mid-January. Obviously, people are thinking about someplace other than enduring the winter doldrums. Capitalizing on this trend a...
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National Work from Home Week in the United Kingdom was first held in 2003. As the climate crisis escalates, many companies and workers are opting to swap out one or more days a week to work from home and...
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Television Safety Day is a joint promotion of Safe Kids Worldwide and The Consumer Electronics Association. It focuses on removing hazards from your home that are a danger to children. Approximately 17 ch...
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Today is the day set aside each year to remove duplicate files and information you no longer use. It's a good day to defrag your system too if you use a PC. There is no set sponsor for this event at th...
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Safer Internet Day (SID) is organized by Insafe and occurs in February. Its objective is to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones within the European Union. In 2018...
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One day of National Engineering Week in the US each year is dedicated to getting young women and girls interested in engineering. Dubbed ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day’, company and institutions inv...
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Discover Engineering Family Day is one of several events during Engineering Week. Family Day is designed to help students between the ages of 4 and 12 learn about engineering and the importance of techn...
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Created in 2011 by the Information Architecture Institute, World Information Architecture Day brings together a diverse community of information architects, user experience designers, content strategists,...
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The picture for this event is of girls in Syria at school. Computers and the Internet have opened an entire world of knowledge to all, if one knows how to use the tools. This day is about making sure tha...
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C2E2 first ran in 2010. Today the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo attracts nearly 85,000 people. At the event are celebrities, unique exhibitors, comic artists and literary authors. It's a celebratio...
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Canned Food Month celebrates the invention of the process for preserving foods in cans that was invented in 1809. Prior to cans, glass, pottery and other materials were used with limited effect. Such m...
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Typewriter Appreciation Month, a time to celebrate the typewriter, without which most of our modern means of communicating would be unknown. Even on a smart phone, there is a keyboard patterned after the...
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Engineers Week was first created in 1951 and seeks to introduce youth to the exciting and well-paying careers in the fields of engineering including civil, mechanical, electrical, agricultural, chemical,...
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The pre-eminent marketing conference for the African continent and emerging markets, Social Media Week, which first ran in 2013, brings together business leaders, tech companies, influencers and marketers...
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The Tuesday of Social Media Week in Lagos is set aside each year to encourage people worldwide to explore Africa through pictures, stories and blogs. It endeavors to teach how the tourism industry can bet...
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GI Joe Day marks the anniversary of the launch of the first action figure created for boys, the GI Joe Doll, On February 2, 1964. The doll was retired in 1994 but continues on in video games.