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