Holidays and Observances

US Observances

Official / Sponsored / Traditional Holidays

Fun at Work Day
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Thomas Crapper Day

Unofficial / Unsponsored / Urban Legend Holidays

Auschwitz Liberation Day
Vietnam Peace Day

National Chocolate Cake Day

International Observances

Holocaust Memorial Day
Il Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day) – Italy
Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism – Germany

Trivia

1785 First public university in the United States
1870 First Greek-letter fraternity for women
1888 National Geographic Society founded 
1944 Leningrad liberated
1945 Auschwitz Liberated
1973 Vietnam Peace Agreement Signed
1976 Laverne and Shirley TV Premiere
1980 Canadian caper
1984 Michael Jackson burned filming Pepsi commercial
1993 American becomes yokozuna
1996 Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2003 First selections for the National Recording Registry announced
2006 Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services