Some Days in the Calendar

January

January   3 (approx) - First Work Day of the Year
January 6 - Epiphany
1/15 Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday
1/(3rd Mon) Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday (observed)
1/26 (4th Mon) - Australia Day
January  27 - Swedenborg's Birthday
January   28 Challenger Disaster, 1986, STS-25

February

2/12 - Lincoln's birthday
2/14 - Valentine's day
2 - 2nd Tues - Extraterrestrial Culture Day (New Mexico memorial, approved Fri March 21, 2003)
2/26 - Washington's birthday
2/(3rd Mon) - Presidents' Day -- Lincoln's, Washington's birthday (observed)

March

3/17 - St. Patrick's Day
Mardi Gras ("Fat Tuesday") is in there somewhere - the Tuesday before Lent, which is on a Wednesday ("Ash Wednesday").
xx/3/31 or so - Good Friday
xx/ 4 - Spring Ahead (turn clock an hour forward) - somewhen around now

April

4/1 - April Fool's day
xx/4/15th - Tax Day (US)
4/ - 3rd Sat - "Thunder Over Louisville" (Kentucky)
xx/4/ - 4th Sat - Earth Day
xx/4/ 4th Wed. Secretaries' Day

May

May 1 - May Day - International day for Commies
May - First Friday - "Oaks" Day, a special day for Louisville to celebrate the Kentucky Derby
May - First Sat - The Kentucky Derby
May 5 - "Cinco de Mayo" - Mexican independence day
xx/5/ 2nd Sun - Mothers' Day
May - 4th Mon - Victoria Day (Canada, except for Quebec!)
xx/5 last Mon - Memorial Day

June

June 4 - Anniversary of 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China
xx/6/6 - D Day (WWII)
xx/6/ 3rd Sun - Fathers' Day
6/15 - Mens' Health Week begins
xx/6/19 - New Church Day
June 24 - St. Jean Baptiste Day (Quebec)

July

July      1  Canada Day
xx/7/4 - US Independence Day
July 14 - Bastille Day

August

First Monday - Civic Holiday in Ontario, Canada

September

xx/9 (1st Mon) - Labor Day, Labor Day, what a dumb day - to hire some jerk and then send him away, to celebrate work by playing all day.
Sept 5 - (1670) Jury Rights Day
9/11 - Day of Infamy II (2001)- Destruction of the World Trade Center. Hello 21st Century! Welcome to global
         reactions against the US. Hit on Pentagon, attempted hit on Camp David.
9/17 - US Constitution or Citizenship Day

October

xx/10 (2nd Mon) - Thanksgiving (Canada); Columbus Day (US)
Oct 22 - International Day of Protest Against Police Brutality (Heard about June 3 2001)
xx/10 (4th Sun) - Fall Behind
Oct 28 - Anniversary of the dedication of the statue of Liberty, 1886.
October 31 - Halloween

November

November 11- Remembrance Day (Canada); Veterans' Day (US)
xx/11/~26,27 (4th Thurs?)- Thanksgiving (US)

December

Dec 1 - International walk for Capitalism
Dec 1 Procrastinator's day
xx/12/7 - Pearl Harbor Day (1939?)
Dec 10 - International Human Rights Day (1948)
xx/12/15 - Anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights (1791)
xx/12/24-25 - Christmas
December 26 - Boxing Day
xx/12/31-99/1/1 - New Year's Eve - Day

Anniversaries

April     6  Isaac Asimov's death (Monday April 6, 1992)
August 11(?)     Poul Anderson passed away (2001)  (broken link updated June 23, 2005)
October   8  Robert A. Heinlein's death (1988) (broken link updated June 23, 2005)

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Last updated June 23, 2005; April 22, 15, 2, 2003