Single-Tasking Day
If you can't chew gum and walk at the same time, Single-Tasking Day is for you. For your friends and family members who love to text, watch TV and exercise at the same time they can give multitasking a rest on Feb. 21. This might prove difficult since it's the day after a holiday and there may be a lot to do.
* Do only one thing at a time and don't feel guilty about it recommends the holiday's creator, Theresa Gabriel.
* You might try want to try "set shifting" instead of multitasking. "This means consciously and completely shifting your attention from one task to the next, and focusing on the task at hand," according to Inc.com.
* "By doing less, you might accomplish more" suggests a Stanford University study.
National Sticky Bun Day
We had you at sticky buns. Sticky buns are similar to cinnamon buns but usually have a clear glaze not cream cheese or white glaze. Although they both contain yeast dough and generous amounts of cinnamon, sticky buns offer more texture with their chewy raisins and crunchy pecans.
Ancient Greeks and Romans used cinnamon to flavor wine but spiced their breads with cinnamon and the ancient Egyptians flavored breads with honey and nuts, according to Foodtimeline. Our modern day sticky buns originate with "British cooking and baking, perhaps with a degree of influence from the Dutch and Germans" and later Schnecken, or "rolled up cinnamon buns" favored by to bakers in Germantown, Pa. in the 1680s.
Try these variations:
* Sticky pecan upside-down baby cakes
* Buttered rum sticky buns
The New Yorker Published Anniversary
Early editions featured pithy prose from the pens of Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott, and cartoons by Robert Benchley. Harold Ross published the first issue of The New Yorker on Feb. 21, 1925, with the now-familiar "mythical, monocled Regency dandy" on its cover. The covers from the first year are pure art, with Art Deco colors and graphics.
Early publishing highlights:
* In 1939 the magazine published, "Song," a poem by W.H. Auden, whose birth anniversary is Feb. 21, 1907. James Thurber's story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," was published in the same issue.
Malcolm X Assassinated Anniversary
A week after his home was firebombed, activist and leader Malcolm X was gunned down in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, N.Y., on Feb. 21, 1965. Malcolm X was a civil rights leader who advocated "racial separatism over integration and the legitimacy of violence in self-defense. He also championed the beauty and worth of blackness and black Americans' African past" according to NPR.
* Watch Denzel Washington in Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" movie.
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