January |
1st |
New
Year's Day |
6th
|
Three King's Day |
8th |
Elvis
Presley's official birthday |
20th-ish
|
Martin
Luther King Jr Day - 3rd Monday of Jan. |
25th |
Robert Burns' Day - Scotland's national poet |
26th |
Indian Republic Day |
26th |
Australia Day |
|
Eid ul-Adha - on the tenth day of the Islamic
month of Dhul Hijja - varies in the Gregorian
calendar |
|
Chinese New Year |
February |
2nd |
Groundhog
Day |
6th |
Waitangi Day - New Zealand |
14th |
Valentine's Day |
21st |
International Mother Language Day |
|
The Oscars |
March |
1st |
St.
David's Day - Wales |
4th |
World Book Day - UK & Ireland |
8th |
International
Women's Day |
10th |
United
Kingdom Commonwealth Day |
14th |
International Pi Day |
17th
|
St
Patrick's Day |
21st |
World Poetry Day |
20th/21st |
First
Day of Spring |
22nd |
World Water Day |
26th |
Independence Day of Bangladesh |
27th |
World Theatre Day |
April |
1st |
April
Fool's Day |
2nd |
International Children's Book Day |
7th |
World
Health Day |
14th
|
Anniversary
of Titanic sinking
International Moment of Laughter Day |
18th |
Record Store Day - UK
Crossword
Puzzle Day |
22nd |
Earth
Day |
23rd |
St.
George's Day - England
International Day of the Book
Anniversary of Shakespeare's death (1616)
|
25th |
International
Noise Awareness Day
varies slightly each year |
30th |
International Jazz Day |
|
Passover |
|
Easter |
|
Carnival
time |
|
London
Marathon |
May |
1st |
May
Day - Labour Day
|
5th |
Cinco
de Mayo - Mexico |
8th |
World
Red Cross Day |
9th |
Europe Day |
12th |
Limerick
Day - birthday of Edward Lear |
17th |
International Day Against Homophobia and
Transphobia |
18th |
International
Museum Day |
24th |
Victoria
Day - Canada |
June |
5th |
World Environment Day |
6th
|
D-Day WWII |
20th |
United
Nations World Refugee Day |
21st
|
Summer
Solstice (& Dec 21st) |
27th |
Happy
Birthday, "Happy Birthday" |
|
Mother's
Day - dep. on country |
|
Wimbledon
begins |
July |
1st |
Canada
Day
International Joke Day |
4th |
US
Independence Day |
11th |
World Population Day |
14th
|
French
Bastille Day |
20th |
First man on the moon (1969) |
|
Tour
de France bicycle race |
August |
1st |
World
Wide Web Anniversary |
12th |
International
Youth Day |
13th
|
Lefthanded
Day |
14th |
Pakistan Independence Day |
15th |
Indian Independence Day |
20th |
World Mosquito Day |
31st |
BlogDay |
31st
|
Malaysia
Independence Day |
|
La
Tomatina Festival, Spain |
|
The
Burning Man Project in Nevada |
September |
7th |
Brazilian Independence Day |
8th |
International Literacy Day
World Physiotherapy Day |
15th |
International Day of Democracy |
19th |
International Talk Like A Pirate Day |
21st |
International
Day of Peace |
26th |
European
Day of Languages |
27th |
International Tourism Day |
29th |
Scotland
Yard Anniversary |
|
Confucious Day |
30th |
International Spelling Day |
|
Rosh
Hashanah |
October |
2nd |
Gandhi born (1869) |
3rd
|
Reunification
Day in Germany |
5th |
World
Teachers' Day |
9th |
John
Lennon's birthday |
10th |
World
Mental Health Day |
4th > 10th |
World Space Week |
12th>18th |
Week of Global Action against Debt and IFIs |
12th
|
Columbus
day |
15th |
Global Handwashing Day |
16th |
World Food Day |
24th
|
United
Nations Day |
29th
|
Internet
First Created (1969) |
28th |
John Peel Day |
31st
|
Halloween |
|
Nobel
Prizes |
|
Ig Nobel Prizes |
November |
5th
|
Bonfire
Night |
7th |
Marie Curie's birth
(1867) |
9th |
Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) |
11th |
Remembrance
Day |
13th |
World Kindness Day |
16th |
International
Day for Tolerance |
17th
|
World
Peace Day |
20th |
Universal Childrens Day - UN |
22nd |
JF Kennedy assassinated
(1963) |
25th
|
Eid
Al Fitr |
28th |
Buy
Nothing Day (varies) |
30th |
St Andrew's Day, Scotland |
|
US
Thanksgiving Day - 4th Thurs. in month. Buy Nothing Day
in US - day after Thanksgiving. |
December |
1st |
World
Aids Day |
7th |
Pearl
Harbour Day |
10th |
Human Rights Day |
21st
|
Winter
Solstice (& June 21st)
World Peace Day |
24th |
Christmas
Eve |
25th |
Christmas
Day - Xmas in
general |
26th |
Kwanzaa
Boxing
Day |
31st |
New
Year's Eve |
|
Channukah |
|
Tolerance
Week - 1st week of Dec. |
|
International
Language Week |
|
Teachers' Day around the world takes place on different dates - see the days at the Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachers%27_Day
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