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Towel Day – in memory of Douglas Adams

Today hitchhikers across the galaxy remember Douglas Adams by celebrating International Towel Day. “Why a towel?” readers of the classic scifi comedy series often asked Adams. His response was very similar to the reasons cited by the Guide itself:

“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. [...]

National Missing Children Day

“In 1983 President Regan set aside May 25 as National Missing Children’s Day in the US…”

http://homesweethome.wordpress.com/2006/05/25/national-and-international-missing-childrens-day/