Today’s events include:
Freedom of Information Day – Lips Appreciation Day – National Artichoke Day – Everything You Do Is Right Day
Daily Trivia: In California, it takes more hours of training to become a barber than to become a police officer.
2015 Daily events
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Today’s events include:6
Cheese Doodle Day – Absinthe Day – Multiple Personality Day – St Pirans Day
Today’s focus: Saint Piran’s Day
Saint Piran ‘s Day is the national day of Cornwall. Named for one of the patron saints of Cornwall, who is also patron saint of tin miners.
Daily Trivia: Words with no direct translation: Waldeinsamkeit (German) the feeling of being alone in the woods. Cualacino (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass. Iktsuarpok (Inuit) The feeling of anticipation that leads you to keep looking outside to see if anyone is coming.
Today’s events include:
Dragobete – Flag Day in Mexico – Inconvenience Yourself Day – Tortilla Chip day
Today’s focus: Dragobete
Referred to as Romanian Valentine’s Day. Also bears the names of ap de primavară (Beginning of Spring), Santion de primavara (Saint John of the Spring), Ioan Dragobete (John the Dragobete) or Logodnicul Pasarilor (Fiancé of Birds).
Dragobete was teh son of Baba Dochia, who is the main character in the pagan myth related to spring arrival and the end of the winter. This day, considered locally as the first day of Spring, boys and girls gather vernal flowers and sing together. Maidens collect the snow from the ground and melt it, using the water in magiacl potions thorughout the rest of the year.
Those participating in Dragobete customs are supposed to be protected from illness for the rest of the year.
Daily Trivia: 75% of all sesame seeds grown in Mexico end up on McDonald’s hamburger buns.
Today’s events include:
Banana Bread Day – Curling is Cool Day – Defender of the Fatherland Day – International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day – World Spay Day – Tennis Day
Today’s focus: Defender of the Fatherland Day
Also called “Men’s Day”, this Russian holiday has origins in military history but has since evolved to be the Russian equivalent of Father’s Day and a counterpart to Womens Day on March 8th, celebrated in Russia (also some former soviet lands including Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and formerly in the Ukraine before President Petro Poroshenko moved the event to 14 October to separate and differentiate the event from the Russian, making it the Defender of Ukraine Day.
Defender of the Fatherland Day was originally to mark the date of the creation of the Red (Soviet) Army in 1918. It was known then as Red Army day, and then Soviet Army and Navy Day. In 2002, President Putin declared “Defender of the Fatherland Day” as an official public holiday.
In recent times, the day has come to recognise the contributions of Russian men irrespective of whether they have been involved in war or the military.
Interestingly, Men’s Day celebrations are usually smaller and more perfurnctory than Women’s Day, except for the public celebrations and parades which are generally much bigger for Men’s Day.
Daily Trivia: It has been proven that Calcium is not as good for your bones as Vitamin K is. Contrary to popular belief, milk is not the best thing for your bones. Avocados, peaches and bananas are much better.
Today’s events include:
Family Day (Canada) – Grammy Awards Day – Gumdrop Day – Hippo Day – President’s Day – Singles Awareness Day – Washington’s Birthday – National Flag of Canada Day – Parinirvana Day – Statehood Day in Serbia
Focus: Parinirvana Day
This is a Mahayana Buddhist holiday created in East Asia. It celebrates the day when the Buddha is said to have achieved Parinirvana, or complete Nirvana, upon the death of his physical body. In some places it is celebrated on 8th February, but most celebrate on 15th Feb.
On this day, passages from the Nirvana Sutra which describe the last days of the Buddha’s life, are often read.
Buddha was 80 years old at the time of his death, and had spent forty years teaching after his Enlightenment. He died in a state of meditation, where he is said to have achieved nirvana, being a release from the cycle of death and rebirth.
Daily Trivia: In 1920, Eugene Debs ran for president while he was a prison inmate in Atlanta Georgia serving a 10 year sentence for espionage following a speech denouncing American participation in World War I. He received nearly 1 million votes.
February is:
Bake for Family Fun Month – Bird-Feeding Month – Black History Month – Cherry Month – Heart Month – Hot Breakfast Month – Library Lovers Month – National Weddings Month – North America Inclusion Month – Potato Lovers Month – LGBT History Month (UK)
Today’s events include:
Baked Alaska Day – Car Insurance Day – Decorating with Candy Day – Dump Your Significant Jerk Day – National Freedom Day – Serpent Day
Focus: National Freedom Day
This US holiday honours the signing of a resolution by Abraham Lincoln that then became the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, outlawing slavery. Which happened on February 1, 1942.
Daily Trivia: Take-out restaurants existed in ancient Rome, with service counters opening onto the street to pick up food. More than 200 existed in Pompeii, and most of its homes lacked dining or kitchen areas, suggesting that cooking at home was unusual.
Today’s events include:
A Room of One’s Own Day – Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day – Burns Night – Irish Coffee Day – Opposite Day – Blue Monday – Tu Bishvat – Tatiana Day – Dydd Santes Dwynwen – National Police Day (Egypt)
Burns Night (also Burns Supper)
Celebrated annually in Scotland on ore around January 25th, it commemorates the life of the bard (poet) Robert Burns, born on this day in 1759 in Alloway, Scotland.
The Supper is a meal held on the evening as part of the commemoration.
Robert Burns is best known for his work, Auld Lang Syne which is sung at New Years Eve celebrations commonly in Scotland, the UK, and many countries that were once part of the British Empire.
Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!
Chorus.-For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
And surely ye’ll be your pint stowp!
And surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak a cup o’kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.
We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou’d the gowans fine;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
Sin’ auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.
We twa hae paidl’d in the burn,
Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
Sin’ auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.
And there’s a hand, my trusty fere!
And gie’s a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll tak a right gude-willie waught,
For auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.
Daily Trivia: In ancient Greek, the word idiot meant anyone who wasn’t a politician. (today, we have irony)
Events occurring on this day include:
No Interruptions Day – Make Up Your Mind Day – National Champagne Day – Universal Hour of Peace
Today’s Trivia: There is about 90 pounds per square inch of pressure in a bottle of Champagne. That’s more than triple the pressure in an automobile tire.
Events occurring on this day include:
Bacon Day – National Bicarbonate of Soda Day – Festival of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Today’s Trivia: In Middle English Bacoun referred to all pork. During the 17th century the term bacon referred only to cured pork.
Events occurring on this day include:
Tick Tock Day – Pepper Pot Day
Today’s Trivia: January is named after the Roman God Janus, God of beginnings and endings.
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