National Pharmacist Day
National Pharmacist Day is celebrated on January 12th. The day is dedicated to the pharmacists who play a very important role in medical care. There is no doubt about it that the holiday was created by some pharmacist group. But there are still studies and researches going on to find it. Another important thing about the day is, though it is a very important day in medical care, it is not truly a "National" day which would have required an act of Congress. So on January 12, 2011, be sure to thank your pharmacist!
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John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.
Paul Jarrico (January 12, 1915 – October 28, 1997) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He mostly wrote crime and comedy scripts for lower budget Hollywood films with Columbia Pictures. Among these films were No Time to Marry (1937), I Am the Law (1938), and Beauty for the Asking (1939). His 1941 film Tom, Dick and Harry, starring Ginger Rogers, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
George Duke (born January 12, 1946, San Rafael, California) is a multi-faceted American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He first made a name for himself with the album The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio. He is known primarily for thirty-odd solo albums as well as for his collaborations with other musicians, particularly Frank Zappa.
On this day was also born Jay McShann (January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006).He was an American Grammy Award-nominated jump blues, mainstream jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer.
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McShann died on December 7, 2006, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. Jay McShann was survived by his companion of more than 30 years, Thelma Adams (known as Marianne McShann), and three daughters - Linda McShann Gerber, Jayne McShann Lewis, and Pam McShann.