NATIONAL SAUSAGE PIZZA DAY
October 11 of each year celebrates National Sausage Pizza Day, a food holiday that pizza lovers enjoy across the country.
- In ancient Greece, the Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs and cheese which some believe is the beginning of the “pizza”.
- In Byzantine Greek, the word was spelled “πίτα”, pita, meaning pie.
- A sheet of dough topped with cheese and honey, then flavored with bay leaves was developed by the Romans.
- The modern pizza had it’s beginning in Italy as the Neapolitan flatbread.
- The original pizza used only mozzarella cheese, mainly the highest quality buffalo mozzarella variant which was produced in the surroundings of Naples.
- It was estimated that the annual production of pizza cheese in the United States in 1997 was 2 billion pounds.
- The first United States pizza establishment opened in 1905 was in New York’s Little Italy.
- Pizza has become one of America’s favorite meals.
Enjoy these “tried and true” sausage pizza recipes:
NATIONAL SAUSAGE PIZZA DAY HISTORYWithin our research, we were unable to find the creator of National Sausage Pizza Day, an “unofficial” national holiday.
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NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY
National Coming Out Day is an observed civil awareness day celebrated annually on October 11. This day celebrates individuals who publicly identify as bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender – coming out regarding their sexual orientation and/or gender identity being akin to a cultural rite of passage for LGBT people.
NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY HISTORY
National Coming Out Day, an “unofficial” national holiday, was founded in 1988 by New Mexico Psychologist and founder of the personal growth workshop, The Experience, Robert Eichberg and Jean O’ Leary, an openly gay political leader from Los Angeles and then head of the National Gay Rights Advocates. October 11 was chosen as it was the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
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GENERAL PULASKI MEMORIAL DAY
In honor of General Kazimierz Pulaski (spelled Casimir Pulaski in English), a Polish hero of the American Revolution, October 11 is set aside as General Pulaski Memorial Day, a United States holiday. This holiday is held each year by Presidential Proclamation to commemorate his death from wounds suffered at the Siege of Savannah on October 9, 1779 and to honor the heritage of Polish Americans.
GENERAL PULASKI MEMORIAL DAY
In honor of General Kazimierz Pulaski (spelled Casimir Pulaski in English), a Polish hero of the American Revolution, October 11 is set aside as General Pulaski Memorial Day, a United States holiday. This holiday is held each year by Presidential Proclamation to commemorate his death from wounds suffered at the Siege of Savannah on October 9, 1779 and to honor the heritage of Polish Americans.
The observance was established in 1929 when Congress passed a resolution designating October 11 as General Pulaski Memorial Day. (Public Resolution 16 of 1929)
A Presidential Proclamation has been issued each year since (except 1930).
Presidential Proclamation 2013
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