January

 

 

          The month of January celebrates these events:

 

            Eye Care Month                      National Hobby Month

            National Soup Month       National Thank You Month

            Oatmeal Month          National Staying Healthy Month

                 March of Dimes Birth Defects Prevention Month

            Whale Watching Month                 National Egg Month

 

                        First Week -- SILENT RECORD WEEK

                                         BRAILLE LITERACY WEEK

                                    UNIVERSAL WEEK OF PRAYER

            Second Week -- NATIONAL BOWLING WEEK

                                   TRANSCRIPTIONIST WEEK

                                   NATIONAL PIZZA WEEK

                                   NATIONAL BOOK WEEK

             Third Week --  INTERNATIONAL PRINTING WEEK

                                  JAYCEE WEEK

                                  WORLDWIDE KIWANIS WEEK

                                  NATIONAL THRIFT WEEK

           Fourth Week -- MOZART WEEK (Austria)

                                  NATIONAL MEAT WEEK

                                                                                    

1st            New Year's Day

1st            First Foot Day

1st            Betsy Ross's Birthday   (born 1752)

1st            Paul Revere's Birthday   (born 1735)                          

1st            Z Day

1st            Polar Bear Swim Day

1st            First Cheese Factory Opened

2nd           Drinking Straw patented                                                            

3rd            Festival of Sleep Day

3rd            National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day                          

4th            Trivia Day

4th            Tennis Day

4th            Flower Basket Day

4th            National Spaghetti Day

5th            National Whipped Cream Day                                 

5th            Bird Day                       

6th            Bean Day                                  

7th            Old Rock Day

7th            Panama Canal Day

7th            Typewriter Patented

8th            Rock 'n' Roll Day

8th            First Computer Patented                 

10th          Peculiar People Day

10th          Volunteer Fireman's Day

10th          Oil first discovered in Texas (1901)                           

11th          Secret Pal Day

11th          International Thank You Day

11th          Pharmacist's Day                            

11th          National Milk Day  (milk delivered in bottles for first time-1878)                           

13th          Make Your Dreams Come True Day

13th          Stephen Foster Memorial Day                              

14th          National Dress Up Your Pet Day

15th          Hat Day                                                 

15th          Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday   (born 1929)                           

16th          Hot and Spicy Food International Day

16th          Religious Freedom Day

16th          National Fig Newton Day                            

16th          National Nothing Day

17th          Pig Day                               

17th          Ben Franklin's Birthday   (born 1706)                                                  

18th          Winnie the Pooh Day                 

19th          National Popcorn Day

19th          Archery Day

19th          Robert E. Lee's Birth Anniversary (born 1807)                             

20th           Cheese Day

20th          Basketball Day                                 

21st            Hat Day                                                 

21st            National Hugging Day                              

23rd           National Handwriting Day                                   

23rd           National Pie Day                                 

23rd            Measure Your Feet Day

24th           National Peanut Butter Day                                   

24th           Eskimo Pie Patent Day   (by Christian Nelson in 1922)                                 

24th            Gold discovered in California    (Sutter's Mill in 1848)     

24th               National School Nurse Day                        

25th           Opposite Day

25th          Observe the Weather Day

26th          National Popcorn Day

26th          National Peanut Brittle Day 

26th          Australia Day  (the day Sydney, Australia was settled in 1778)   

27th          National Chocolate Cake Day                                  

27th          National School Nurse Day                            

28th            National Kazoo Day

28th          Bald Eagle Day                                 

29th           National Rattle Snake Roundup Day                                                     

29th            National Puzzle Day                                        

29th            National Cornchip Day

30th           Escape Day                                                          

31st          National Popcorn Day    

31st         National Backwards Day                

                                           

January   February   March   April   May   June   July  August   September   October   November   December

Little Sayings: hundreds of aphorisms listed by categories

Poems: just a few of my favorites

Jellybeans:   little bit of this and that...fun pages

 

E-mail me if you have any other "special days" you think should be added to the calendar.

My Favorite Links list of sites for graphic arts, sayings & quotes, etc...

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Updated 6/26/07