Virgin Mobile FreeFest 2009 tickets go on, uh, unsale today? Maybe it's more appropriate to say today is when tickets to the Virgin Mobile FreeFest 2009 are handed out and even then they're not really handed out - there's no guy on a street corner passing these things out, you still have to go to Ticketmaster to get the tickets. We're assuming there will be no Bruce Springsteen fans at Virgin Mobile FreeFest

With Blink-182, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand and Public Enenmy in the FreeFest line-up, it would be hard to not put Ticketmaster issues aside and go to the show. Virgin Mobile FreeFest 2009 is August 20 at the Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, Md.

Today is an important day. With the CDC estimation that one in five people living with HIV don't know that they have HIV, National HIV Testing Day encourages people to know their HIV status with "I Know I Took the Test" messaging. Folks are encouraged to share their testing stories in the comments section of the AIDS.gov blog.

Today Is...
- The 178th day of 2009
- National HIV Testing Day
- Great American Backyard Campout

Today Was ...
the day in 1829 when English scientist James Smithson who had never been to America died and provided for the establishment of the Smithsonian in his will provided his nephew also died without an heir which, of course he did ... the day ini1844 when Mormon founder and prophet Joseph Smith was martyred by an angry mob in Carthage, Ill. ... the day in 1922 when Hendrik Willem van Looy's The Story of Mankind won the first Newbery Medal award for kid lit ... the day in 1945 when the FCC standardized television broadcasting by assigning airwaves to television stations allowing for the spread of commercial TV ... the day in 1966 when sci-fi darling J.J. Abrams was born ... the day in 1975 when Sonny and Cher divorced disproving their 'I Got You Babe' theory ... the day in 1990 when Tom Cruise's racing vehicle Days of Thunder is released ... the day in 2008 when Bill Gates steps down as CEO of his beloved Microsoft setting the stage for to him to invent a keg less than a year later. | More June 27th events

Word of the Day
wah-wah - n. a music special effect that attempts to add a human voice-like quality to instruments like guitars producing a sound that, uh, sounds like 'wah'

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