Holidays and Observances

1/19/12

US Observances

Official / Sponsored / Traditional Holidays

Bean Day
Confederate Heroes Day
Feast of Sultán
Founders Day (Kappa Alpha Order Convivium)  PDF
Get to Know Your Customer Day
National Popcorn Day
Robert E Lee Day
Tenderness toward Existence Day
Theophany – Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy
Women in Blue Jeans Days
Women’s Healthy Weight Day

Unofficial / Unsponsored / Urban Legend Holidays

Brew a Potion Day
Tin Can Day
Whisper “I Love You” Day

International Observances

Timket – Ethiopia
Vodici ( Baptism of Jesus ) – Republic of Macedonia
Weedless Wednesday – Canada

Trivia

1607 San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed
1825 Tin Can Patented
1840 Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigated Antarctica
1861 Georgia seceded from the United States
1883 First electric lighting system employing overhead wires
1915 Neon discharge tube patented
1935 World’s first briefs sold
1937 Howard Hughes set air record
1953 Lucy gave birth on I Love Lucy
1977 Snow in Miami, Florida
1978 Last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany
1983 First Graphical User Interface PC was announced
1986 First computer virus