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  • the first Mac

    à 00:00 Chaque année jusqu'au : 31/12/2020

    On 24 January 1984, the first Apple Macintosh was created! Such an antique compared to nowadays' computers...

  • Halloween

    Le 31/10/2024 à 00:00 Chaque année jusqu'au : 31/12/2025

     



    Halloween is celebrated on the night of October 31.  The word "Halloween" is a shortening of All Hallows' Evening or All ...

  • National Candy Day

    Le 04/11/2015 à 00:00

    4 November is National Candy Day! Did you know that the best-selling candies in the USA are M&M's?


  • Milwaukee Ice Fishing and Winter Sports Show

    Du 11/12/2015 au 13/12/2015 à 00:00

    You are an ice fishing and/or a winter sports enthusiast? This festival is for you...

    http://www.gsevents.com/shows/display.cfm?showID=110

  • Monkey day

    à 00:00 Chaque jour jusqu'au : 14/12/2020

    Today is Monkey Day!

     

    It was created in 2000 by an American art student.

    People have monkey parties, act as if they were monkeys, play monkey ...

  • Bacon Day

    à 00:00 Chaque année jusqu'au : 31/12/2020

    Today is Bacon Day! An opportunity to celebrate that typical anglosaxon food with new recipes...


  • Facebook

    à 00:00 Chaque année jusqu'au : 31/12/2020

    Facebook was founded 11 years ago, by an American student called Mark Zuckenberg. And nowadays, more than 1 billion (1,000,000,000) people use Faceboo ...

  • Colour television

    à 00:00 Chaque année jusqu'au : 31/12/2020

    The first colour TV went on sale in the USA on 28 February 1954. At that time, it cost $1,295. Which would be the equivalent of around 8,300 euros!!!
    ...

  • Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

    Du 01/03/2016 au 20/03/2016 à 00:00

    From 4 to 23 March, the world's biggest event gathering animals and cowboys! With plenty of animations like laser shows and music bands.

    Go and ...

  • Coachella

    Du 15/04/2016 au 24/04/2016 à 00:00

    This year, the Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival (in California) is on 10-11-12, and on 17-18-19 April. Two weekends of 3-day festivals in the middle ...

  • Chicago Blues Festival

    Du 08/06/2023 au 11/06/2023

    In Chicago, Illinois, this is supposed to be the world's largest free blues concert. Yes, six different stages and it is free...

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  • Martin Luther King

    Le 15/01/2024

    Considered as the father of the civil rights movement in the USA, as he fought for equality of races, he was assassinated on 21 January 1968. The third ...

  • Coca-Cola

    Le 29/03/2024

    29 March 1886:

    the world famous fizzy drink appeared for the first time in Atlanta, Georgia,

    under the name of Coca-Cola.

    It was a syrup invented ...

  • Pretzel Day

    Le 26/04/2024

    German and Swiss immigrants brought that type of bread to Pennsylvania in the 18th century. Today, around 80% of America's pretzels are made there... ...

  • Donut Day

    Le 03/06/2024

    It is Donut Day!! 

    This national Donut Day is on the first Friday of June each year.

    It started during in 1917 with 2 volunteers of the ...

  • Fudge day

    Le 16/06/2024

    6 June is Fudge Day in the United States!

    Fudge is made with sugar, butter and condensed milk. You may also add chocolat, nuts, walnuts, etc!

    Terribly ...

  • National Handshake Day

    Le 27/06/2024

    The last Thursday of each June, Americans celebrate National Handshake Day.

    You are supposed to shake the hand of at least one person that ...

  • the first Mac

    Le 24/01/2015 à 00:00 Chaque année jusqu'au : 31/12/2020

    On 24 January 1984, the first Apple Macintosh was created! Such an antique compared to nowadays' computers...

  • Halloween

    Le 31/10/2015 à 00:00 Chaque année jusqu'au : 31/12/2025

     



    Halloween is celebrated on the night of October 31.  The word "Halloween" is a shortening of All Hallows' Evening or All Hallows' Eve.

    Halloween was an ancient Celtic festival, known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win"). 
    This festival celebrated the end of the harvest season. People believed that on October 31, the worlds of the living and the dead superimposed, and the deceased could come back to life and cause destruction or sickness.

    Masks ...

  • National Candy Day

    Le 04/11/2015 à 00:00

    4 November is National Candy Day! Did you know that the best-selling candies in the USA are M&M's?


  • Milwaukee Ice Fishing and Winter Sports Show

    Du 11/12/2015 au 13/12/2015 à 00:00

    You are an ice fishing and/or a winter sports enthusiast? This festival is for you...

    http://www.gsevents.com/shows/display.cfm?showID=110

  • Monkey day

    Le 14/12/2015 à 00:00 Chaque jour jusqu'au : 14/12/2020

    Today is Monkey Day!

     

    It was created in 2000 by an American art student.

    People have monkey parties, act as if they were monkeys, play monkey games...

    And it's an opportunity to talk about the protection of the monkey population!

     

     


  • Bacon Day

    Le 30/12/2015 à 00:00 Chaque année jusqu'au : 31/12/2020

    Today is Bacon Day! An opportunity to celebrate that typical anglosaxon food with new recipes...


  • Facebook

    Le 04/02/2016 à 00:00 Chaque année jusqu'au : 31/12/2020

    Facebook was founded 11 years ago, by an American student called Mark Zuckenberg. And nowadays, more than 1 billion (1,000,000,000) people use Facebook...