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Planning your January 2010– a Day for Every Occasion and an Occasion for Every Day

posted by Ben Witherington | 3:41pm Sunday December 27, 2009

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For a moment I thought the email I had received was a prank. I knew we had a reason for celebrating every day of living, but I didn’t know we had these many reasons— in January of all months!  Three days I am definitely adding to my party down list are January 2, 6 and 16– what could be more worthy of a celebration that National Nothing Day!!!  See what you think…..

January 2010 Special
Days

For more monthly/weekly/daily observances plus celeb
birthdays in January, check this site http://www.butlerwebs.com/holidays/january.htm

 

January
1st

    * Betsy Ross’s Birthday, Born in 1752.

    * Ellis Island Aniversary, opened on this day in 1892.

    * Le Jour de l’An, French New Year

    * New Year’s Day

    * Paul Revere’s Birthday, Born in 1735.

January 2nd

    * Run it up the Flagpole and See if Anyone Salutes Day

January 3rd

    * Festival Of Sleep Day

    * Fruitcake Toss Day

    * Humiliation Day

    * J.R.R. Tolkien’s Birthday, Born in 1892.

January 4th

    * Isaac Newton’s Birthday

    * Jakob Grimm’s Birthday, Born in 1785.

    * Louis Braille’s Birthday, Born in 1809.

    * Trivia Day

January 5th

    * First Woman Governor Inaugurated, 1925 inauguration of
Nellie Ross as Wyoming’s Governor.

    * National Bird Day

January 6th

    * Bean Day

    * Cuddle Up Day

    * Dia de Reyes, Celebrated in Mexico and Latin America

    * Epiphany

    * Sherlock Holmes’ Birthday

January 7th

    * Old Rock Day

January 8th

    * Bubble Bath Day

    * Elvis Presley’s Birthday, Born in 1935.

January 9th

    * National Apricot Day

    * National Static Electricity Day

January 10th

    * First Meeting of United Nations, In London in 1946.

    * Peculiar People Day

January 11th

    * Milk Day, Milk delivered in bottles for the first time in
1878.

    * Secret Pal Day

January 12th

    * National Pharmacist Day

    * Work Harder Day

January 13th

    * Make Your Dreams Come True Day

    * Poetry Break Day

January 14th

    * Coming -of-Age Day, Celebrated in Japan on the second
Monday of January.

    * National Dress Up Your Pet Day

January 15th

    * First Super Bowl, Played in 1967. Green Bay (35) defeated
Kansas City (10).

January 16th

    * National Nothing Day

January 17th

    * Benjamin Franklin’s Birthday, Born in 1706.

    * Shari Lewis’ Birthday. Born in 1934.

January 18th

    * Hat Day, Third Friday in January.

    * Thesaurus Day

    * Winnie the Pooh Day, A.A. Milne’s Birthday. Born in 1882.

January 19th

    * Popcorn Day

January 20th

    * Cheese Day

    * Inauguration Day

    * Penguin Awareness Day

January 21st

    * Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
      Honoring his birthday (born in 1929). It is
observed on the Third Monday in January.

    * National Hugging Day

    * Squirrel Appreciation Day

January 22nd

    * National Blonde Brownie Day

January 23rd

    * Measure Your Feet Day

    * National Handwriting Day

January 24th

    * Compliment Day

    * Eskimo Pie Patented
      By Christian Nelson in 1922.

    * Gold Discovered in California
      At Sutter’s Mill in 1848.

January 25th

    * Burns Night, Celebrated in Scotland.

    * Opposite Day

January 26th

    * Australia Day
      The day Sydney Australia was settled in
1778. 

January 27th

    * Chocolate Cake Day

    * Holocaust Memorial Day
      Celebrated in the UK.

    * Lewis Carroll’s Birthday
      Born in 1832.

January 28th

    * Ernie’s Birthday
      Sesame Street Character.

January 29th

    * National Puzzle Day

January 30th

    * Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Birthday
      Born in 1882.

January 31st

    * Backwards Day

    * Jackie Robinson’s Birthday
      Born in 1919.

    * National Kazoo Day
      Usually celebrated on the last Thursday of
January.



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Mark Stevens

posted December 27, 2009 at 5:30 pm


January 28th is a pretty important day! i would have thought it deserved public holiday recognition! ;)



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Rick

posted December 28, 2009 at 2:25 pm


And plenty of good college football in the first week.



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Hoenheim

posted March 9, 2011 at 12:23 pm


That makes for a national week long holiday!



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