via NationalDayCalendar:
Now wait a minute!!! What about your New Years Resolution of not eating a lot of sweets…Well you can help it because today is NATIONAL PIE DAY!!
National Pie Day was created simply to celebrate the pie. It is a day for all to bake or cook their favorite pies. Even more importantly, it is a day set aside for all to enjoy eating pies!
The first pies appeared around 9500 BC in the Egyptian Neolithic period or New Stone Age