Holidays 2021-06-16
Improving education for African children, celebrating the life of James Joyce, morticians, fresh vegetables, fudge, and honoring sea turtles are topics relating to today's observances: Bloomsday Day of the African Child Fresh Veggies Day Morticians Day National Fudge Day World Sea Turtle Day The life of James Joyce is celebrated today because his novel Ulysses takes place on this date in 1922, and is called Bloomsday after the story's main character Leopold Bloom. Today is also a day to give some attention to those aquatic reptiles, the sea turtles. Photo by Olga Tsai on Unsplash