Unusual Holidays
This list is courtesy of this website (however their
website uses yellow text and is painful to the eyes): http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/shamansanchez/holidays.htm
January is National Careers in Cosmetology Month, National
Eye Health Care Month, National Fiber Focus Month, National Hobby
Month, National Soup Month, Hot Tea Month, Oatmeal Month, Prune Breakfast
Month
1. First
Foot Day and Z Day (Z Day is a holiday that can be celebrated by
letting all those poor unfortunate people with names that start with
Z be first in line.)
2. Run
Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes It Day
3. Festival
of Sleep Day
4. Trivia
Day and Humiliation Day
5. Bird
Day
6. Bean
Day
7. Old
Rock Day
8. National
Joy Germ Day and Man Watcher's Day
9. Play
God Day
10. Peculiar People Day
11. National Step in a
Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day
12. Feast of Fabulous Wild
Men Day
13. Make Your Dream Come
True Day and Blame Someone Else Day
14. National Dress Up Your
Pet Day
15. Hat Day
16. Hot and Spicy Food
International Day and National Nothing Day
17. Blessing of the Animals
at the Cathedral Day
18. Winnie the Pooh Day
19. National Popcorn Day
20. National Butter crunch
Day
21. National Hugging Day
22. National Answer Your
Cat's Question Day and National Blonde Brownie Day
23. National Handwriting
Day, National Pie Day, and Measure Your Feet Day
24. Eskimo Pie Patent Day
25. Opposite Day
26. Australia Day
27. Punch the Clock Day
and Thomas Crapper Day (This holiday commemorates Mr. Thomas Crapper,
the man who--as the name may suggest--invented the flush toilet.)
28. National Kazoo Day,
Clash Day, Rattle Snake Round-Up Day
29. National Corn chip
Day
30. Escape Day
31. National Popcorn Day
and Child Labor Day
February is National Blah Buster Month, National Embroidery
Month, National Grapefruit Month, National Snack Food Month,
National Weddings Month, Responsible Pet Owner Month, Return
Carts to the
Supermarket Month, Creative Romance Month, International Twit
Award Month, Canned Food Month.
1. Serpent
Day
2. Purification
Day
3. Cordova
Ice Worm Day
4. Create
A Vacuum Day
5. Disaster
Day
6. Lame
Duck Day
7. Charles
Dickens Day
8. Kite
Flying Day
9. Toothache
Day
10. Umbrella Day
11. White Tee-Shirt Day
and Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day
12. National Plum Pudding
Day
13. Get A Different Name
Day and Dream Your Sweet Day
14. Ferris Wheel Day and
National Heart to Heart Day
15. National Gum Drop Day
16. Do A Grouch A Favor
Day
17. Champion Crab Races
Day
18. National Battery Day
19. National Chocolate
Mint Day
20. Hoodie Hoo Day (At
high noon everyone yells "Hoodie-Hoo" to chase away winter
and make way for spring.)
21. Card Reading Day
22. Be Humble Day
23. International Dog Biscuit
Appreciation Day
24. National Tortilla Chip
Day
25. Pistol Patent Day (Samuel
Colt)
26. National Pistachio
Day
27. International Polar
Bear Day
28. Public Sleeping Day
29. National Surf and Turf
Day
March is Foot Health Month, Humorists Are Artist Month, National
Furniture Refinishing Month, National Frozen Food Month, National
Noodle Month, and National Peanut Month
1. National
Pig Day and Peanut Butter Lover's Day
2. Old
Stuff Day
3. I
Want You To Be Happy Day, Peach Blossom Day and National Anthem Day
(Today President Hoover signed a bill making the Star Spangled Banner
our national anthem. Celebrate by singing as much as you can remember
with some friends.)
4. Holy
Experiment Day
5. Multiple
Personalities Day
6. National
Frozen Food Day
7. National
Crown Roast Of Pork Day
8. Be
Nasty Day
9. Panic
Day
10. Festival Of Life In
The Cracks Day
11. Johnny Appleseed Day
and Worship of Tools Day
12. Alfred Hitchcock Day,
Plant a Flower Day
13. Jewel Day
14. National Potato Chip
Day
15. Buzzard's Day and Everything
You Think Is Wrong Day
16. Everything You Do Is
Right Day
17. Submarine Day
18. Supreme Sacrifice Day
19. Poultry Day
20. Proposal Day and Festival
Of Extraterrestrial Abductions Day
21. Fragrance Day
22. National Goof-off Day
23. National Organize Your
Home Office Day and National Chip and Dip Day
24. National Chocolate
Covered Raisins Day
25. Pecan Day and Waffle
Day
26. Make Up Your Own Holiday
Day and Spinach Festival Day
27. National "Joe" Day
(Do you hate your name? Everyone who hates their name has a right
on this day to have everyone they know call them Joe.)
28. Something On A Stick
Day
29. Festival Of Smoke and
Mirrors Day
30. I Am In Control Day
31. Bunsen Burner Day and
National Clams On The Half Shell Day
April is International Guitar Month, Keep America Beautiful
Month, National Anxiety Month, National Humor Month, National Welding
Month, National Garden Month, and Uh-Huh Month .
1. One
Cent Day
2. National
Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
3. Tweed
Day and Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day
4. Tell-A-Lie
Day
5. Go
For Broke Day
6. Sorry
Charlie Day (Sorry Charlie Day honors those who have been rejected
and lived through it.)
7. No
Housework Day
8. All
Is Ours Day
9. Winston
Churchill Day and Name Yourself Day
10. Golfers Day
11. Eight-Track Tape Day
12. Look Up At The Sky
Day
13. Blame Somebody Else
Day
14. National Pecan Day
15. Rubber Eraser Day
16. National Stress Awareness
Day and National Eggs Benedict Day
17. National Cheeseball
Day
18. International Jugglers
Day
19. Garlic Day
20. Look Alike Day
21. Kindergarten Day
22. National Jelly Bean
Day
23. Read Me Day and World
Laboratory Animal Day
24. National Pigs In A
Blanket Day
25. National Zucchini Bread
Day
26. Richter Scale Day and
National Pretzel Day
27. Tell A Story Day
28. Great Poetry Reading
Day and Kiss-Your-Mate Day
29. National Shrimp Scampi
Day
30. National Honesty Day
May is Better Sleep Month, National Good Car Care Month, National
Photo Month, National Salad Month, National Egg Month, National Barbecue
Month, Revise Your Work Schedule Month, Date Your Mate Month, National
Hamburger Month, and Fungal Infection Awareness Month
1. Mother
Goose Day and Save The Rhino Day
2. Fire
Day
3. Lumpy
Rug Day
4. National
Candied Orange Peel Day
5. National
Hoagie Day
6. National
Beverage Day
7. International
Tuba Day, Pate Up Day, National Roast Leg of Lamb Day
8. No
Socks Day, Have a Coke Day
9. Lost
Sock Memorial Day
10. Clean Up Your Room
Day
11. Eat what You Want Day,
Twilight Zone Day
12. Limerick Day
13. Leprechaun Day
14. National Dance Like
a Chicken Day (Do chickens dance??)
15. National Chocolate
Chip Day
16. Wear Purple for Peace
Day
17. Pack Rat Day
18. International Museum
Day, Visit Your Relatives Day
19. Frog Jumping Jubilee
Day
20. Eliza Doolittle Day
21. National Memo Day,
National Waitress/Waiters Day
22. Buy-A-Musical-Instrument
Day
23. Penny Day
24. National Escargot Day
25. National Tap Dance
Day
26. Grey Day
27. Body Painting Arts
Festival
28. National Hamburger
Day
29. End of the Middle Ages
Day
30. My Bucket's Got A Hole
Day
31. National Macroon Day
June is Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month, American Rivers Month, Cancer
In The Sun Month, Dairy Month, Turkey Lover's Month, National Accordian
Awareness Month, National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month, National
Ice Tea Month, National Papaya Month, National Pest Control Month,
National Rose Month, Fight The Filthy Fly Month, and Zoo and Aquarium
Month.
1. Dare
Day
2. National
Rocky Road Day
3. Repeat
Day
4. Old
Maid's Day
5. Festival
Of Popular Delusions Day
6. Teacher's
Day and National Applesauce Cake Day
7. National
Chocolate Ice Cream Day
8. Name
Your Poison Day
9. Donald
Duck Day
10. National Yo-Yo Day
11. National Hug Holiday
and King Kamehameha Day
12. Machine Day
13. National Juggling Day
and Kitchen Klutzes Of America Day
14. Pop Goes The Weasel
Day
15. Smile Power Day
16. National Hollerin'
Contest Day
17. Watergate Day and Eat
Your Vegetables Day
18. International Panic
Day
19. World Sauntering Day
20. Ice Cream Soda Day
21. Cuckoo Warning Day
(BEWARE! It will be a wet summer if the sound of the cuckoo is heard
today)
22. National Chocolate
Eclair Day
23. National Pink Day
24. Museum Comes To Life
Day
25. Log Cabin Day
26. National Chocolate
Pudding Day
27. National Columnists
Day
28. Paul Bunyan Day
29. Camera Day
30. Meteor Day
July is National Baked Beams Month, National Ice Cream Month,
National Tennis Month, Read an Almanac Month, Anti-Boredom Month,
and Hitchhiking Month.
1. Creative
Ice Cream Flavor Day, Build a Scarecrow Day
2. Visitation
of the Virgin Mary Day
3. Stay
out of the Sun Day, Compliment your Mirror Day
4. National
Country Music Day, Tom Sawyer Fence-Painting Day
5. Workaholics
Day
6. National
Fried Chicken Day
7. National
Strawberry Sunday Day
8. Video
Games Day
9. National
Sugar Cookie Day
10. Clerihew Day
11. National Cheer Up the
Lonely Day
12. National Pecan Pie
Day
13. Fool's Paradise Day
14. National Nude Day
15. National Tapioca Pudding
Day, Respect Canada Day
16. International Juggling
Day
17. National Peach Ice
Cream Day
18. National Ice Cream
Day, National Caviar Day
19. Flitch Day (An old
custom from yesteryear developed into the holiday of Flitch Day.
Bacon was given to any married couple who could prove they had lived
in harmony and fidelity for one year. Very few "took home the
bacon.")
20. Ugly Truck Contest
Day
21. National Tug-of-War
Tournament Day
22. Rat catcher's Day
23. National Vanilla Ice
Cream Day
24. Amelia Earhart Day
25. Threading the Needle
Day
26. All or Nothing Day
27. Take your Pants for
a Walk Day
28. National Milk Chocolate
Day
29. Cheese Sacrifice Purchase
Day
30. National Cheesecake
Day
31. Parent's Day
August is National Catfish Month, National Golf Month, National
Eye Exam Month, National Water Quality Month, Romance Awareness Month,
Peach Month, and Foot Health Month. For more strange holidays, check
out Bizarre American Holidays.
1. Friendship
Day, National Raspberry Cream Pie Day
2. National
Ice Cream Sandwich Day
3. National
Watermelon Day
4. Twins
Day Festival
5. National
Mustard Day
6. Wiggle
Your Toes Day
7. Sea
Serpent Day
8. Sneak
Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night
9. National
Polka Festival
10. Lazy Day
11. Presidential Joke Day
12. Middle Child's Day
13. Blame Someone Else
Day
14. National Creamsicle
Day
15. National Relaxation
Day, National Failures Day
16. Bratwurst Festival
17. National Thriftshop
Day
18. Bad Poetry Day
19. Potato Day
20. National Radio Day
21. National Spumoni Day
22. Be An Angel Day
23. National Spongecake
Day
24. Knife Day
25. Kiss-And-Make-Up Day
26. National Cherry Popsicle
Day
27. Petroleum Day
28. World Sauntering Day
29. More Herbs, Less Salt
Day
30. National Toasted Marshmallow
Day
31. National Trail Mix
Day
September is Self-Improvement Month, Be Kind to Editors and
Writers Month, International Square Dance Month, Cable TV Month,
National Bed Check Month, National Chicken Month, National Courtesy
Month, National Honey Month, National Mind Mapping Month, National
Piano Month, National Rice Month, National Papaya Month, and Classical
Music Month? Whew! If that isn't enough here are some other things
you can celebrate in September if your family is looking for something
to do when they're bored (I didn't make these up!):
1. Emma
M. Nuitt Day
2. National
Beheading Day
3. Skyscraper
Day
4. Newspaper
Carrier Day
5. Be
Late for Something Day
6. Fight
Procrastination Day
7. Neither
Rain nor Snow Day
8. National
Date Nut Bread Day, National Pardon Day
9. Teddy
Bear Day
10. Swap Ideas Day
11. No News is Good News
Day
12. National Pet Memorial
Day, National Chocolate Milkshake Day
13. Defy Superstition Day
14. National Cream-filled
Doughnut Day
15. Felt Hat Day
16. Stay away from Seattle
Day, Collect Rocks Day
17. National Apple Dumpling
Day
18. National Play-doh Day
19. National Butterscotch
Pudding Day
20. National Punch Day
21. World Gratitude Day
22. Hobbit Day, Dear Diary
Day
23. Checkers Day, Dogs
in Politics Day
24. National Comic Book
Day
25. National Good Neighbor
Day, National Pancake Day
26. Crush a Can Day
27. Ask a Stupid Question
Day
28. Poisoned Blackberries
Day
29. National Mud Pack Day
October is Adopt-A-Dog Month, Computer Learning Month, National
Apple Jack Month, National Car Care Month, National Clock Month,
National Cosmetology Month, National Dessert Month, National Pickled
Pepper Month, National Popcorn Poppin' Month, National Pretzel Month,
National Sarcastics Month, National Seafood Month, National Kitchen
and Bath Month, and Vegetarian Awareness Month.
1. World
Vegetarian Day, Magic Circles Day
2. Name
Your Car Day
3. Virus
Appreciation Day
4. National
Golf Day
5. National
Storytelling Festival
6. German-American
Day, Come Take It Day
7. National
Frappe Day
8. American
Tag Day
9. Moldy
Cheese Day
10. National Angel Food
Cake Day
11. It's My Party Day
12. International Moment
of Frustration Scream Day
13. National Peanut Butter
Festival
14. Be Bald and Free Day,
National Dessert Day
15. White Cane Safety Day
16. Dictionary Day
17. Gaudy Day
18. No Beard Day
19. Evaluate Your Life
Day
20. National Brandied Fruit
Day
21. Babbling Day
22. National Nut Day
23. National Mole Day
24. National Bologna Day
25. Punk for a Day Day
26. Mule Day
27. Sylvia Plath Day
28. Plush Animal Lover's
Day, National Chocolate Day
29. Hermit Day
30. National Candy Corn
Day
31. National Magic Day,
Increase Your Psychic Powers Day
November is International Drum Month, Peanut Butter Lover's
Month, and Slaughter Month.
1. Plan
Your Epitaph Day
2. National
Deviled Egg Day
3. Sandwich
Day and Housewife's Day
4. Waiting
For The Barbarians Day
5. Gunpowder
Day
6. Saxophone
Day and Marooned Without A Compass Day
7. National
Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day
8. Dunce
Day
9. Chaos
Never Dies Day
10. Forget-Me-Not Day
11. Air Day
12. National Pizza With
The Works Except Anchovies Day
13. National Indian Pudding
Day
14. Operation Room Nurse
Day
15. National Clean Out
Your Refrigerator Day
16. Button Day
17. Take A Hike Day
18. Occult Day
19. Have A Bad Day Day
20. Absurdity Day
21. World Hello Day and
False Confessions Day
22. Start Your Own Country
Day
23. National Cashew Day
24. Use Even If Seal Is
Broken Day
25. National Parfait Day
26. Shopping Reminder Day
27. Pins And Needles Day
28. Make Your Own Head
Day
29. Square Dance Day
30. Stay At Home Because
You're Well Day
December is Hi Neighbor Month, National Stress Free Family
Holiday Month, Bingo's Birthday Month, and Read A New Book
Month.
1. National
Pie Day and Eat A Red Apple Day
2. National
Fritters Day
3. National
Roof-Over-Your-Head Day
4. Wear
Brown Shoes Day
5. National
Sacher Torte Day
6. National
Gazpacho Day and Mitten Tree Day
7. National
Cotton Candy Day
8. Take
It In The Ear Day
9. National
Pastry Day
10. Festival For The Souls
Of Dead Whales
11. National Noodle Ring
Day
12. National Ding-A-Ling
Day
13. Ice Cream and Violins
Day
14. National Bouillabaisse
Day
15. National Lemon Cupcake
Day
16. National Chocolate
Covered Anything Day
17. Underdog Day and National
Maple Syrup Day
18. National Roast Suckling
Pig Day
19. Oatmeal Muffin Day
20. Games Day
21. Look At The Bright
Side Day, National Flashlight Day, National French Fried Shrimp
Day, and Hamburger Day
22. National Date-Nut Bread
Day
23. Roots Day
24. National Egg Nog Day
25. National Pumpkin Pie
Day
26. National Whiners Day
27. National Fruitcake
Day
28. Card Playing Day and
National Chocolate Day
29. Pepper Pot Day
30. Festival Of Enormous
Changes At The Last Minute and National Bicarbonate Of Soda
Day
31. Unlucky Day