June 29th 2024 - Holidays and Observances

 

(click on the day for details)

• Christian feast day:
  • Cassius of Narni
  • Hemma of Gurk
  • Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Western Christianity), and its related observances:
    • Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja)
    • l-Imnarja (Malta)
  • June 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Engineer's Day (Ecuador)
• Independence Day (Seychelles), celebrates the independence of Seychelles from the United Kingdom in 1976.
• Veterans' Day (Netherlands)
• National Statistics Day (India)

 

Observances (click on the day, BD, or week for details

Central Province Day

Hug Holiday

Internal Autonomy Day

International Day of the Tropics

International Fisherman Day

International Mud Day

Midsummer Day

National Almond Buttercrunch Day

National Bacon Burnt End Day

National Dieselbilly Day

National Guy Day

National Waffle Iron Day

Saint Peter and Saint Paul Day (Chile)

San Francisco's Birthday

UK Armed Forces Day

World Sand Dune Day

World Industrial Design Day

 

SSN Santa’s Birthday

Matthew Mercer’s Birthday

Kawhi Leonard’s Birthday

Colin Jost’s Birthday

Camila Mendes’s Birthday

Suzette Quintanilla’s Birthday

Jovanie’s Birthday

Oprah Winfrey

Nicole Scherzinger

 

Fun Observances

 Camera Day

June 29 is Camera Day, a day to celebrate the gadget that lets you record all your memories.

Today, cameras are very sophisticated, allowing us to capture, save, and manipulate thousands of images as well as to shoot films. Every year, companies come out with smaller cameras with larger capabilities than their predecessors.

An Ancient History

Indeed, cameras have come a long way from the days of the camera obscura. Used by the ancient Chinese and Greeks, the camera obscura, a primitive precursor to the cameras we all use today, used a pinhole to project an upside-down image on a surface in a dark room.

Cameras, as we know them today, did not exist until the early 1900s. Nicéphore Niépce (Joseph Niépce) was the first person in known history to have permanently captured an image using a camera in 1816. His partner, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre made the next big stride in photography when he invented the daguerreotype, a process that used a silver plate or a copper plate covered in silver to capture images.

Cheap and Easy to Learn Hobby

Photography and camera technology evolved by leaps and bounds and by the end of the 19th century, Kodak had started marketing photographic film and cameras to the general public.

The next major revolution in the field came with the invention of digital cameras. Marketed commercially in the late 1980s, digital cameras have made photography an inexpensive and easy-to-adopt hobby and profession.

How to Celebrate?

Can you imagine a life where you couldn't capture the first dance at a wedding or a baby's first year or a graduation or one where there are no movie theaters? Here are some ways you can honor the humble device:

• Take your camera with you and record little moments of the day.
• Share the pictures you took on any of the photo sharing social website out there.
• If you have always wanted to learn about photography, today may be the day to start.
• Learn more about the history and science of cameras and photography.

Did You Know…

…that Kodak, one of the most popular brands of cameras, was the first company to build a digital camera?

 

 

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Experience is a great teacher, especially if it’s someone else who’s learning from his mistakes. These examples were sent to learnfrommyfail.failblog.org:

"When holding a DVD in one hand and food in the other, remember which hand has what when you take a bite."

"When running errands where one stop involves going to a bank and one involves dropping off a firearm, drop off the firearm first."

"If you’re prone to impulse purchases, stick to shoes, not tattoos."

"When attending a funeral, never clap after the eulogy, regardless of how meaningful and heartfelt it was."

 

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A bilingual road sign in Wales caught bikers off guard. The English part read Cyclists Dismount.

The Welsh: Llid Y Bledren Dymchwelyd, or "Bladder disease has returned."

One theory for the mistake—instead of typing cyclist into an online translation program, someone typed cystitis.

 

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An elevator in our office building is frequently out of order. The last time, maintenance posted a sign that summed up the situation: Elevator Closed for Temporary Repairs.

 

 

 

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( A repeat, I know, but it still cracks me up! )

 

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