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So I had a post that I rewrote everyday to replace 'yesterday's birthday-cohort' with 'today's birthday-cohort.' One day I asked myself, 'Why don't I just do an entry for every day (with that day's cohort & holidays & maybe its event-anniversaries)?'


That way I can go back & input new birthdays & events etc. Like today (May Day ... as well as Beer Pong-, Free Comic Book-, National Chocolate Parfait-, National Fitness-, National Mother Goose-, School Principals'- & Silver Star Service Banner-Day!)

That holiday's explanation is linked through 'the main word' below; but I feel it's more important to understand that word better. And I find that you understand words better when you look at the other words at the bases of the words you're thinking-of ...
The holiday “May Day” is actually a plethora of holidays---beside the extra holidays listed above, there's the Celtic cross-quarter day |Beltane (midway between an Equinox and a Solstice), with Maypole-Dancing to celebrate Male Fertility with Baskets & Wreaths set about it to celebrate Female-; International Workers' Day (for Labor Rights and an eight-hour Work-day in the U.S.... created especially to honor the victims of the Haymarket Affair), |Lei Day (celebrating the |Aloha-spirit) in Hawaii, a day of the Roman Spring-festival Floralia. 
The word "Mayday!" actually has nothing to do with its homophone 'May Day'---it's built on the French M'aidez! that means "Help Me!" #MaydayMayday


Today's Birthday-Cohort

Astrologically, probably in the chart of Taurus: Jo Jorgensen, Calamity Jane, Tim McGraw. Judy Collins, Jamie Dornan (Christian Grey in Fifty Shades ...), Wes Anderson, Jack Paar, Art Fleming (first host of JEOPARDY!), Ray Parker Jr. ("Who ya gonna call?")

(and--if you or someone you know about has a birthday today
--please mention them (and how you know them or -know
 about them) in the comments, thanks)

And I Wonder What Saints' Day my Heart of the Nation calendar says this is:

St. Joseph the Worker (celebrated in past years), with the clergy in White Vestments

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