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04/20/2026

NATIONAL LOOK ALIKE DAY

NATIONAL LOOK ALIKE DAY
National Look Alike Day on April 20th celebrates those who look like another person. National Look Alike Day each year on April 20th celebrates those who much like look like another person. Similar to the two sentences preceding this one, people who look like each are still unique in their own way.


This day was created as a fun day to look like another person. Growing up, did a teacher constantly call you by another student's name? Some of us often hear the words, "You remind me of someone," or "You look just like so and so." If so, then you are one step ahead of the game.

Professional look-alikes perform as entertainers. Some of the most famous roles they play are Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. But others look like presidents or actors.

You might call it a doppelganger if you find your spitting image. However, seeing your doppelganger suggests you've seen your spirit double who roams the Earth. In folklore, seeing your doppelganger signals a bad omen. Though over the years, the term has come to mean someone who looks just like you.

Now the chances of finding someone who is your mirror image depends on who you believe. There's no strong scientific evidence one way or the other, and different tools analyze different features. But if you've met your living clone, you know just how likely the chances are of running into your look alike.

HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL LOOK ALIKE DAY
Celebrate by dressing like someone you will see today or select a celebrity and dress up like them.

Fix your hair like they do and talk like them all day long!

Or, if you've met your real-life look alike, share a picture.

Have fun and post your pictures on Social Media using .

Educators and Families, visit the National Day Calendar Classroom for projects and resources to help you Celebrate Every Day!

NATIONAL LOOK ALIKE DAY HISTORY
National Look Alike Day was created by feature television reporter, Jack Etzel, in the 1980s. He was in downtown Pittsburgh with photographer Rick Minutello, desperately looking for a light feature for the news. Rick said, "This guy coming toward us looks like Humphrey Bogart." He did, cigarette and all. Jack said, "Let’s talk to him. I’ll ask him who people think he looks like." They spent a couple of hours asking others the same question. The next day Etzel got in touch with the Chase Calendar of Events people and proclaimed Look Alike Day so that they could depend on that same funny story for the next ten years.

(History as told by Jack Etzel in correspondence to National Day Calendar® in July 2014.)

04/17/2026

NATIONAL CRAWFISH DAY
National Crawfish Day on April 17th celebrates one of the South's most iconic foods. Each year the mudbug brings out not only a desire for newspaper-covered picnic tables but a language all its own.


A smaller, fresh-water cousin to the lobster, crawfish provide a unique flavor to many homegrown Southern dishes. Baked or boiled, crawfish is usually seasoned with a distinctive brand of southern heat. One particularly popular way to serve crawfish is a boil, paper towels required.

If you've never been to a crawfish boil, you don't understand the meaning of digging into your food. An unbridled desire overcomes you as the aroma hits you to devour a massive pile of corn, potatoes, and sausage. And let's not forget a variety of shellfish that go by names such as ditchbug, crayfish, crawdad, crawpappy, among other amusements.

HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL CRAWFISH DAY
time or the thousandth, celebrate with family and friends.

Whether you experience crawfish for the first

Enjoy a delicious crawfish boil or crawfish tails.

As you celebrate, share your family favorite recipes, too!

Listen to the interview on Celebration Voices.

Use to post on social media.

NATIONAL CRAWFISH DAY HISTORY
Shell Shack founded National Crawfish Day on April 17, 2020, to celebrate one of Southern culture's most beloved native foods. They encourage everyone to get out during the peak season to indulge in a crawfish boil surrounded by friends and family.

04/06/2026

NATIONAL FRESH TOMATO DAY
April 6 is National Fresh Tomato Day on the National Day Calendar and we are honoring the versatile flavor and health benefits of fresh, uncooked tomatoes. This food day highlights one of the most popular additions to salads, sandwiches and other fresh dishes as we start the spring season.


Most fruits have it easy. Oranges get their own juice cartons, and apples have an entire tech empire named after them. But the tomato? The tomato lives a life of botanical espionage. Born a berry but living life as a vegetable, the tomato has survived centuries of "poisonous" rumors and refrigerator-induced texture trauma to become the MVP of your salad bowl.

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There are so many misconceptions about the tomato. Some people believe the tomato is mostly water when in actuality, tomatoes are high in Vitamins A, C, and K. Then there is the idea that tomatoes belong in the fridge. Any tomato lover know s that cold air destroys the enzymes that create flavor. The most controversial misconception is whether the tomato a fruit or a vegetable. What do you think it is?

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The Great Tomato Heist
In 1883, U.S. government decided to impose a 10% tax on imported vegetables, but allowed fruit to be imported tax-free. A prominent New York fruit seller named John Nix was importing a shipment of tomatoes from the West Indies. When the tax collector slapped him with a 10% "vegetable" tax, Nix sued. His argument was his tomatoes were a fruit, not a vegetable. To prove his point, Nix’s lawyers literally read the dictionary definitions of "fruit" and "vegetable" out loud in court. Witnesses were called in the produce business to testify that a tomato is, indeed, a fruit.

In the end, Justice Horace Gray delivered the court's opinion that because we don't put tomatoes in fruit salads or eat them for dessert, they are legally vegetables. He acknowledged that botanically, a tomato is a "fruit of the vine," just like cucumbers or peas. However, he ruled: "In the common language of the people... all these are vegetables which are grown in kitchen gardens, and which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are... usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup, fish, or meats... and not, like fruits generally, as dessert."

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