The purpose of this page is to give you ideas of anniversaries or
interesting dates that are coming up soon.

Interesting events in and around tomorrow’s date of:

 

Interesting Dates For The Current Month

Here are important occasions for your diary that are happening in the next few
day.  Also events that you may have missed yesterday.

December Special Day Calendar

  •   Advent
  •   HanukkahHanukkah
  •   7th Pearl Harbour – Japanese attack in 1941
  • 10th Human Rights Day
  • 14th Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole (1911)
  • 16th Boston Tea Party
  • 16th Jane Austen born 1755
  • 17th Wright Brothers make their first flight (1903)
  • 18th Piltdown Man
    discovered
  • 21st Winter Solstice
  • 21st Arthur Wynne published the first crossword (1913)
  • 25th Christmas (Quarter Day)
  • 26th Boxing Day – St Stephen’s
    Day
  • 26th Kwanzaa – Fastest growing festival
  • 28th Dia de los Santos Inocentes (Spanish Fools Day)
  • 31st New Years Eve

See other interesting events that
happened in December back
down the years.

Interesting Events for Next Month

It is interesting occasions, which give this season its distinctive signposts.
You may have already noticed that Will and Guy, research a wide-variety of
intersting events from many different cultures.
Here are special days that are upcoming in the next few weeks.

January Special Day Events

  •  1st New Year’s Day
  •  1st Kwanzee ends
  •  3rd Festival of Sleep
  •  4th Trivia Day
  •  5th Twelfth NightMagh Mela
  •  5th National Bird Day
  •  6th Epiphany
  • 11th National Milk Day
  • 13th St Hilary’s Day (Coldest Day?)
  • 14th Magh Mela and
    Kumbh Mela (Indian
    festivals)
  • 14/15th Kite Festival India
  • 15th Martin Luther King Day
  • 15th Chosun Gul Day or Korean
    Alphabet Day – (North Korea)
  • 19th Popcorn Day
  • Blue Monday
  • 20th Festival of San Sebastian Spain
  • 25th Burns Night
  • 26th Australia Day
  • 26th Republic Day India
  • 27th Holocaust Memorial Day
  • 28th Cullinan Diamond discovered (1905)
  • World Religion Day – Third Sunday in January
  • Jan Up Helly Aa

See other interesting events that happened in January back
down the years.

Special Days

Here are interesting events that are just coming onto the horizon.

February’s Distinctive Events

  •  1st Imbolc Eve
    Pagan Festival
  •  1st Super Bowl
    Jokes XLIX NFL
  •  2nd Groundhog Day
  •  2nd St. Brigid’s Day
  •  2nd Candlemas  40 Days since
    Jesus’ nativity
  •  4th World Cancer Day
  •  7th Charles
    Dickens Born (1812)
  •  6th Monopoly Goes on Sale
    (1935)
  •  8th Parinirvana
    (Nirvana Day) – Buddhist Festival
  •  9th Toothache Day – Ouch!
  • 10th St. Scholastica (Patron Saint of Nuns)
  • 11th Thomas Edison’s Birthday (Inventor)
  • 12th Barbie Doll
    Goes on Sale (1959)
  • 14th Valentine’s Day
  • 15th Nirvana Day –
    Buddhist Festival
  • Presidents Day (Third Monday)
  • 25th Mohammad Ali (Cassius Clay) KO’s Sonny Liston 1964
  • 27th Polar
    Bear Day
  • Shrove
    Tuesday
  • February Mardis Gras

See other interesting events that happened in February back
down the years.

Special Days

A calendar of
‘special day todays’ gives the year signposts.  Incidentally every month has at least one Saint’s
day indicating the importance that our ancestors put on the seasons and having
an excuse for a feast day.  Knowledge of what’s particular about today
date can be a great ice-breaker for meeting both new and old friends.

Will and Guy are also keen to make these festival day as international as
possible, hence we have included Jewish and Muslim holy dates in amongst
Christian festivals.

See special day today for other
months.

 

Special Day – Amusing Sayings to Use Today

  • To succeed in life, you need three things: a
    wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.  Reba McEntire
  • If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  Anonymous
  • Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never
    cease to be amused.
  • The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual
    pursuit that carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes
  • Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
    because then you don’t have a leg to stand on.
  • See more
    amusing say
    ings.

Footnote:

If
we have missed something important then please send us your special day
tomorrow
event.

See more Saints Days and other special days :

•
Special Days   •
St David’s Day   •
St Patrick’s Day   •
St George’s Day   •
St Andrew’s   •
St Matthew

• Australia Day   •
Up-Helly-Aa   •
Groundhog Day   •
Shrove Tue   •
Candlemas   •
Lady Day

• 4th July Jokes   •
Bastille Day   •
St Swithin’s Day   •
Lammas   • Remembrance Day   •
May Day