Holidays and Observances

1/20/12

US Observances

Official / Sponsored / Traditional Holidays

International Fetish Day
National Coffee Break Day
National Disc Jockey Day
Women in Blue Jeans Days (19-20)

Unofficial / Unsponsored / Urban Legend Holidays

Camcorder Day
National Buttercrunch Day
National Cheese Lover’s Day
Penguin Awareness Day
Stay Young Forever Day

International Observances

Army Day – Lesotho
International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo - Monaco
Martyrs’ Day – Azerbaijan
National Heroes Day – Guinea-Bissau
Nosso Senhor Do Bonfim Festival (Washing the Bonfim Church) – Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
San Sebastian’s Day – Brazil

Trivia

1265 First meeting of the first English parliament
1801 John Marshall Appointed Chief Justice
1841 British occupied Hong Kong Island
1885 Roller coaster was patented
1920 The American Civil Liberties Union was founded
1929 First full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors was released
1934 Fujifilm was founded
1937 First U.S. President inaugurated on January 20th
1953 First television show to be transmitted from the United States to Canada
1954 The National Negro Network was established
1982 Iran released 52 American hostages
1982 Camcorder Developed
1982 Ronald Reagan became the oldest man ever inaugurated as U.S. president
1986 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time
1994 First woman to attend classes at the Citadel
2006 Bottlenose whale seen swimming in the River Thames
2007 The southern pole of inaccessibility reached without mechanical assistance