Fun Holidays

• April

• May

• June

• July

• August

• September

• October

• November

• December

January

February

March

• Jan. 4 Jacob Grimm, one of the fairy tale brothers

• Jan. 5 - 12th night (of xmas)

• Midwife Day (Greece)

• Jan. 10 - Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday

• Jan 18 - Pooh's Day

• Jan. 21 - Sara's Birthday . . .

• Jan 22 -  Answer Your Cat's Question Day

• Jan. 26 - National Popcorn Day

• Jan. 27 - Mozart's Birthday

• Jan. 29 - Freethinker's Day

• Jan. 30 - Beetle's Last Appearance Day

• Jan. 41 - Zane Grey's Birthday

• 2, Ground hog's Day, Candlemas; The Tiger Moon Press birthday (1989), Imbolg

• 1st Tuesday in Feb. Laugh & Grow Rich Day

• 2nd Monday, Clean Out Your Computer Day

• Random Acts of Kindness Week (the week with Feb. 14 in it)

• 13, Dump Your Significant Jerk Day

• 14, Valentine's Day

• 17, Dickens Birthday (1812)

• 24, Gregorian Calendar Anniversary, 1582; Carl Grimm (Fairy Tale  Brother) Birthday

• 1, Share A Smile Day

• 11, Johnny Appleseed Day (1845)

• 13, Good Samaritan Day

• 14 Save a Spider (eek) Day

• 15, Ides of March (actually ever month has Ides, this is just the one that got famous)

• 23, Near Miss Day-- In 1989 a mountain-sized asteroid passed within 500,000 miles of earth, considered way -too-close

• 26, Make Up Your Own Holiday Day

• 29-31, Borrowed Days (according to a Scotish legend, the last 3 days of March were borrowed from April and, in return, promised to deliver 3 sheep

May

June

• 13, Thomas Jefferson's Birthday

• 22,  Earth Day

• 26 (2006)  Secretary's Day (the last Wednesday in in the last full week of April)

• 26, Kiss Your Mate Day (when he or she least expects it) annual

• and the all important anniversary of the zipper (1913)

• 27, Babe Ruth's Birth Anniversary

• 30, Beltane, also called May Eve, which celebrates the union of the God and Goddess

• Creative Beginnings and Date Your Mate Month
• 1st week: Be Kind to Animals Week
• May 1 - Beltane
• 1, Lumpy Rug Day (as in sweep it all under the)
• 1, Mother Goose Day
• 1, SugarDancer's Birthday
• 6, No Socks Day
• 7, Rabindranth Tagore's Birthday
• 7, Tchaikovsky's Birth Anniversary
• 14, 2006 - Mother's Day
• 16, The Tuxedo Boys Birthday

• Entrepreneur's Do-It Yourself Publicity Month
• Gay/ Lesbian History Month
• National Bless-A-Child Month
• National Roses Month
• 4-10 National Small Business Week; National Hug Week
• Jun 5 - First balloon flight anniversary
• 6 Japanese Day of the Rice God
• Ball Point Pen invented 1943 by Laszlo Biro; John Hull opened the 1st mint in America, 1652
• Jun. 18 - Father's Day
• Jun. 22 or so - Summer Solstice

July

August

September

• National Hot Dog Month

• July 1, National Postal Workers Day; 1st scheduled TV broadcast in 1941

• 3, Begin Dog Days, the hottest days of the year when the dog star, Sirius rises. "When the sea boils, wine turns sour, dogs grow mad, all creatures languish, man burns with fever and hysteris" (Pagan Book of Days)

• 4, Independence Day

• 20, National Ice Cream Day

• 22, Pied Piper of Hamelin Day

• 23, Georgous Gramma Day

• 31, Mutt Day. To celebrate the mutts of the world (dogs only); The Shadow radio show premiered in 1930

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• Aug 6-12 (1st week in August,) National Psychic Week, concentrate your psychic abilities on beneficial causes

• 8, Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night

• 9, Annual Book Lover's Day

• 11, Night of Shooting Stars

• 13, Annie Oakley's Birthday

• 18, Bad Poetry Day

• 22, Be An Angel Day

• 28, Wolfgang Johann Goethe Birthday

• 12, Lassie premiered

• 15, Lone Ranger premiered

• 18, 1st locomotive lost to a horse day

• 22, Hobbit Day (Tolkien's Birthday)

• 23, the planet Neptune was discovered today in 1846

• 29, Goose Day, the Fest of St. Michael and all the angels.

October

November

December

• Adopt A Shelter Animal Month

• 2, Snoopy and Charlie Brown's Birthday

• 9, Lief Erikson's Day

• 14, Be Bald and Free Day

• 15, National Grouch Day

• 16, Dictionary Day

• 23, Swallows leave Capistrano

• 30, Mischief Night

• 31, Halloween, Samhain, Feast of Souls (Druid)

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• 1, National Author's Day

• 2, Daniel Boone's Birthday, 1734

• 4, Sadie Hawkins Day (1st Saturday in Nov.)

• 10, Seseme Street premiered

• 14, National Teddy Bear Day

• 17, World Peace Day

• 19, Have A Bad Day Day

• 21, Man's First Free Flight Balloon, 1782; World Hello Day

• 23, Thanksgiving (2006)

• 26, Cassablanca premiered

• 28, William Blake's Birthday

• 30, Stay At Home Because You Are Well Day

• 5, Walt Disney's Birthday

• 6, St. Nicholas Day

• 10, Emily Dickensen's Birthday

• 10, Human Right's Day

• 16, Ludwig von Beethoven's Birthday, 1770

• 16, Boston Tea Party, 1773

• 16, Underdog Day (3rd Friday in Dec. annually)

• 17, Wright Brother's Day

• 21, Yule, Winter Solstice, apx. 7 pm EST (2006)

• 25, First Day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree.....