April 15 - National Rubber Eraser Day

Happy National Rubber Eraser Day! Correcting mistakes since 1770, today on April 15 commemorates the date the invention first began making written errors disappear.  

  

Tablets of rubber (or wax) were used to erase lead or charcoal marks from paper before there were rubber erasers. Another option for the eraser was crustless bread.  

A Tokyo student said, “Bread erasers were used in place of rubber erasers, and so they would give them to us with no restriction on amount. So we thought nothing of taking these and eating a firm part to at least slightly satisfy our hunger.” 

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  • April 15, 1770, 18th-century English Separatist theologian, natural philosopher, chemist, innovative grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist Joseph Priestly founded a vegetable gum to remove pencil marks.  He dubbed the substance “rubber.” 
• • 1770 English optician and scientific instrument maker Edward Nairne developed the first marketed rubber eraser. 
• • 1839 American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer Charles Goodyear discovered vulcanization (a method that would cure rubber and make it a durable material)  This method made rubber erasers standard. 
• • 1858 Jamaican-born American stationer Hymen L. Lipman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania patented the pencil with an eraser at the end. 

We all make mistakes while holding a pencil in our hand, but thanks to the inventions by these men many years ago, we can erase those mistakes away. 

  

HOW TO OBSERVE 

  

It’s okay to make a mistake or two. Find your favorite eraser to fix them. Whether you’re an artist, writer, student, or accountant, an eraser comes in handy. Use #NationalRubberEraserDay to post on social media. 

  

HISTORY 

  

April 15, 1770, marks the founding of the rubber eraser. However, the research by National Day Calendar® was unable to find the creator of National Rubber Eraser Day. 

  

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April 15 - National That Sucks! Day

Happy National That Sucks! Day! Every April 15, sometimes you just need to accept that the world at large is a gigantic suck-fest. 

For example, you get up in the morning (did we mention you have to get up in the morning) drink coffee (Which is most certainly not the finest Kopi Luwak blend) and get off to work (through bad traffic and doesn’t pay enough). 

  

Later on, you have lunch (at that diner that’s always so disappointing) stay late (because your boss is a jerk and doesn’t understand “schedules”) and drive home (with cops that are no doubt out cruising for quota tickets). 

  

In short, everything is terrible and anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something. National That Sucks! Day brings awareness to this fact and is a great way to shut down those nay-sayer optimists no one really likes. 

  

HOW TO CELEBRATE 

  

Well first, you might pop on over to the website below and get yourself involved with the organization that serves as the foremost watchdog on the suckage of history, the present, and no doubt will keep cataloguing things that suck far into the future. 

https://www.thatsucks.net 

Unless they get lazy and quit, (people sometimes suck like that). There you can discover the history of suckage, little sayings called “suckisms” to get you through a sucky day. 

And of course, no life is complete without a complete selection of suck-umentaries of people who have come, gone, and sucked life away at every corner.  

Therefore, National That Sucks! Day is your opportunity to stop having such a bright disposition, and just let everyone around you obviously know all but one thing: “That Sucks!” 

HISTORY 

National That Sucks! Day seems to have come out of nowhere as a vindictive dedication to all things that suck.  

Throughout the history of the holiday and the organization that sponsored it, That Sucks LLC, they seek to exemplify all that is terrible and wrong in the world.  

As such they recognize historical figures (sometimes of questionable existence) that have been excellent representatives of suckage throughout the world. 

Characters like the terrible seer Nostrasuckus who, rather than predicting a broad range of events, specialized only in letting us know when things were going to suck.  

Oddly, he appeared to be a terrible seer as well (unsurprisingly) as none of his predictions have come true. Which is hard to believe given the huge amount of suck in the world. 

We can’t forget Evangelista Torricelli either, the man that proved that the ultimate in suckage technology existed: the vacuum. 

This, of course, was immediately followed by the invention of the vacuum pump. If the world didn’t suck before, whole new ways of sucking were surely on the way. 

Did we mention that National Tax Day, the sinking of the R.M.S Titanic, and 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination all occurred on National That Sucks! Day?  

Yeah, it really is that bad of a day. 

How has today sucked for you? 

#ThatSucks!Day
#Sucks4U 

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