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Flip-Flop Day

Name: Flip-Flop Day
Start: 2025-06-20T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-06-20
Location: US Holidays

Flip-Flop Day is held on June 20. Annually in Third Friday Of June. This event in the second decade of the month June is annual.

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Flip flops have been worn across the globe and throughout history. It is estimated that flip-flops were first used around 4,000 B.C, according to Ancient Egyptian murals. However, the first documented account of flip-flops being worn is from 15,000 years ago during the Stone Age.

The National Flip Flop Day was created by Tropical Smoothie Café in the year 2007 to celebrate its 10th anniversary. On this day, customers can walk in and get a Jetty Punch smoothie for free wearing a flip flop. The charity and proceeds collected on this day are sent to Camp Sunshine, a place treating life-threatening illnesses and their effects on family members.

The flip flop as we know it today is modeled off the Japanese zōri: many US soldiers returned from World War II with these shoes, and the rest of the country jumped on board with the trend. Not everyone is a fan of flip flops: they are the bane of many a podiatrist’s existence.

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