Contents at a Glance
Featured Holidays
Holidays by Month
Additional Information
January
Holidays in January
January Links
- No links yet!
- Coming soon!
February
Holidays in February
February Links
- UNESCO - International Mother Language Day | Journée internationale de la langue maternelle
- This celebration of heritage and diversity in language originated as a Bangladeshi commemoration of an incident in which university students were killed while trying to gain recognition of the Bengali tongue as a state language.
March
Holidays in March
March Links
- Pi Day - The official web site for Pi Day, March 14th
- The mathematical constant represented by the Greek letter %u03C0 (pi), has its own holiday. Since the first three digits of this number are 3.14, it makes sense to celebrate it during the third month, on the fourteenth day!
Moveable Feasts
[A more detailed essay on moveable feasts coming soon!]
April
Holidays in April
April Links
- National High Five Day
- The "high five", that hand-slapping gesture of mutual congratulation, has its own holiday, celebrated annually on the third Thursday of April in the United States and elsewhere.
May
Holidays in May
May Links
- Free Comic Book Day May 3rd 2008
- As the name implies, Free Comic Book Day is a single day when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world are giving away special issues of comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their stores.
- Towel Day :: A tribute to Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
- In the universe of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy stories, galactic hitchhikers are respected if they know where their towel is, since it is a very useful item. This holiday is more or less celebrated by bringing a towel with you wherever you go.
Free Comic Book Day
from Wikipedia
Free Comic Book Day is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to help bring new readers into independent comic book stores. Brainstormed by retailer Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics in Concord CA in his "Big Picture" column in the August 2001 issue of Comics & Games Retailer magazine, it was started in 2002 and is coordinated by the industry's single large distributor, Diamond Comic Distributors. The next event will be on May 1, 2010.
Free Comic Book Day is scheduled on the first Saturday of May. It has often been tied to the release of a major theatrical film adaptation of a well known superhero property (for example, 2009's FCBD was the day after the release of Category: X-Men Origins: Wolverine - ), in order to take advantage of the film's heavy promotion and related press about the comic book medium. On Free Comic Book Day, participating comic book store retailers give away specially printed copies of free comic books, and some offer cheaper back...
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The DC Comics Encyclopedia
This copiously illustrated encyclopedia chronicles more than 1,000 DC Comics characters from the 1930s to the present.
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The Marvel Encyclopedia
This unique, one-volume encyclopedia contains more than 1000 of Marvel's greatest, with full details of their powers and their thrill-packed careers.
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Towel Day
from Wikipedia
Towel Day is celebrated every May 25 as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their love for the books and the author. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams' death on May 11 2001. The towel is a reference to Adams's popular science fiction comedy series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy''.
In case you forgot your towel...
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June
Holidays in June
Obsolete Holidays
July
Holidays in July
August
Holidays in August
August Links
- National Underwear Day at Freshpair.com
- This annual event seems to be a promotional gimmick to sell underwear. Apparently people are even encouraged to dress only in underwear all day.
September
Holidays in September
September Links
- Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19
- Arr! Talk like a pirate! All day, matey!
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
from Wikipedia
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.The Original Talk Like A Pirate Day Web site, by John Baur and Mark Summers. For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, me hearty!" The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy. The holiday is a major observance in the religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Name Days
[A more detailed essay on name days coming soon!]
October
Holidays in October
November
Holidays in November
December
Holidays in December
December Links
- Koala Wallop - View topic - Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day: 12-8-7
- This humorous role-playing holiday was proposed last year in this forum discussion; perhaps it will become an annual event.
Directories of Unusual Holidays
- A+ Forwards: Day of Days
- a list of unusual holidays
- Bizarre American Holidays Home Page
- Only in the USA can we celebrate the glory of egg salad, dictionaries, and procrastination. Here we celebrate these lesser known holidays. You won't find boring holidays like Thanksgiving and Mother's Day in here!
- Party Guide Online - Party On!
- A directory of worldwide celebrations, listing holidays, recreational events and special occasions. Find events and plan your weekends, your vacation or your own special event!
- Office Holidays: Home
- This site is styled as a calendar listing various holidays which members of an international group of office workers might observe, as an aid in planning meetings.
What's your favorite odd holiday?
Do you participate in any unusual observances? Whether it's a wacky tribute, a promotional gimmick, a family tradition, a religious festival, a national holiday, or any other sort of special time, I'd be interested to hear about it!
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Reply
- quippingqueen quippingqueen May 7, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
- Well, now you're talking my loopy language! A mighty fine list of hiliarious holidays awaits your reading enjoyment at "funny festivities"!
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