Unusual, Weird and Fun holidays celebrated around the world
There are many unusual holidays celebrated every single day all around the world. They are mostly holidays created by people who try to see everyday life from a different perspective, to bring more freshness and inspiration in daily routine, or simply to have some fun.
These holidays often focus on things that are normally considered trivial and not worth celebrating. But sometimes they are really worth. Take Ice Cream Day, for instance. Would anyone really argue that this wonderful food play an important role in the life of every human being? Some other weird holidays are dedicated to actually really weird things, like Male Watchers Day. As they say tastes differ, and there is a special day for almost everything.
Choose a strange holiday for you to celebrate or enjoy them all with our list of the most bizarre holidays ever celebrated.
Monday 27 January - No Brainer Day (This day was created by Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith, 'America's Premier Eventologist' - per Insight Magazine - Washington, DC - August, 1995, and 'The Premier Eventologist in the History of the World - per The Chicago Tribune - Chicago, Il - January 2001); Punch the Clock Day (This holiday celebrates the system of calculating employee work hours through the Punch Clock system and its invention)
Tuesday 28 January - Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day; Kazoo Day (Alabama Vest of Macon Georgia made the first Kazoo in the 1840's. Actually, he conceived the Kazoo, and had Thaddeus Von Clegg, a German clockmaster make it to his specifications)
Monday 3 February - Dump Your Significant Jerk Day; The Day the Music Died (On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson)
Thursday 6 February - Lame Duck Day (Lame Duck is a term used to describe an elected official who is no longer responsible to his constituency, usually due to the fact that he’s on his way out of office and reelection is no longer a possibility)
Sunday 9 February - Read In The Bathtub Day; Toothache Day (It is so important that we learn how to take care of our teeth and not only get rid of nasty aches but also stop them coming back or turning into something more serious)
Tuesday 25 February - Pistol Patent Day (Samuel Colt invented the pistol. He received Patent # 138 for it on this day in 1836. The patent was for the Colt Revolver with a rotating chamber containing six bullets); World Spay Day (Last Tuesday in February)
Saturday 7 March - Doodle Day (Doodle Day became a worldwide event in 2004 to raise awareness and funds for epilepsy research and support); Be Heard Day
Sunday 12 April - Big Wind Day (On April 12, 1934, the staff of the Mount Washington Observatory recorded the highest surface wind ever measured, anywhere on earth. This big wind was officially recorded at 231 miles per hour.); Walk On Your Wild Side Day (Thomas and Ruth Roy are credited with being the creators of this celebration)
Monday 13 April - Scrabble Day (April 13th is the birthday of Alfred Butts, the inventor of the Scrabble game)
Wednesday 15 April - Rubber Eraser Day (Joseph Priestley discovered the eraser in 1770, using pieces of rubber imported from Brazil. Then in 1858, Hyman Lipman of Philadelphia, Pa., patented the pencil with an eraser at the end); Take A Wild Guess Day; Stoker's Day (is celebrated in spring, at the end of the heating season. All shifts workers gether in the boiler room to extinguish the boilers and begin to celebrate. The date of this celebration is not fixed. The local authorities decide when to start and when to finish the heating season but usually it hapends not later than April 30 if the average air temperature is above +8 for 3 days in a raw)
Thursday 16 April - Foursquare Day (4sqDay or Foursquare Day was coined by Nate Bonilla-Warford, an optometrist from Tampa, Florida on March 12, 2010 being the 4th month and the 16th being equal to four squared. The idea came to him while "thinking about new ways to promote his business". FitBy4sqDay has been a quest by foursquare users to reach new fitness goals and live in a healthier way and is an excellent opportunity for local businesses to shine); Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day
Sunday 19 April - World Bicycle Day (The events of the first LSD trip in April 19, 1943, now known as “Bicycle Day”, after the bicycle ride home, proved to Hofmann that he had indeed made a significant discovery: a psychoactive substance with extraordinary potency, capable of causing significant shifts of consciousness in incredibly low doses); Garlic Day; Hanging Out Day; Poetry And The Creative Mind Day; Dancing Cow Day in Denmark (On the third Sunday of April)
Thursday 23 April - International Nose Picking Day; International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day (The Day is declared by author Jo Walton, held on April 23 and first celebrated in 2007, in response to remarks made by Howard V. Hendrix stating that he was opposed "to the increasing presence in our organization the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America of webscabs, who post their creations on the net for free". The purpose of the day, according to Walton was to encourage writers to post "professional quality" works for free on the internet. The name of the day originates from the assertion by Hendrix that the "webscabs" are "converting the noble calling of Writer into the life of Pixel-stained Technopeasant Wretch."); Take a Chance Day; Talk Like Shakespeare Day
Tuesday 12 May - Limerick Day (celebrates the birthday of Writer Edward Lear: 1812-1888. Limericks were popularized by Lear in 1846 in his Book of Nonsense); Odometer Day (The odometer was invented by William Clayton in 1847)
Thursday 14 May - Chicken Dance Day (“Der Ententanz” was the name of the song that inspired all of this, and while the dance has come to be called “The Chicken Dance”, the song itself is called The Duck Dance)
Saturday 16 May - May Restaurant Day (is occurs once per season. The third Saturday of February, May, August, and November); Biographers Day; Love a Tree Day; Sea Monkey Day (They’re known as Artemia New York Ocean Science and go through anhydrobiosis, or hibernation when they are dried out. Then, with the right mixture of water and nutrients they can spring right back into life); Wear Purple for Peace Day
Wednesday 20 May - National Seal Day in Canada (In response to this, Bill S-208 was Royally Assented on May 16th, 2017, designating May 20th annually as National Seal Products Day, and to recognize the importance of the seal hunt for Canada’s Indigenous people, coastal communities and entire population); Be a Millionaire Day
Friday 22 May - Buy a Musical Instrument Day; World Goth Day (The Official World Goth Day site defines it as "a day where the goth scene gets to celebrate its own being, and an opportunity to make its presence known to the rest of the world.")
Tuesday 9 June - Donald Duck Day (Donald first appeared to us in a 1934 film called The Wise Little Hen, a retelling of the original little red hen story)
Wednesday 10 June - Ball Point Pen Day (In June of 1943 the Bíró brothers, László and György, became owners of US Patent 2,390,636 – better known around the world as the ball point pen)
Friday 12 June - Red Rose Day; Loving Day (is the biggest multiracial celebration in the United States. This is anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states."); Superman Day (Superman was first created in 1933 by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, the writer and artist respectively)
Friday 19 June - Garfield The Cat Day (Garfield was famously created by cartoonist Jim Davis and appeared in a cartoon strip on 19th June 1978); World Sauntering Day (The holiday was created in 1979 by W.T. Rabe in response to the growing popularity of jogging. It is believed to have begun at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Michigan, USA. The Grand Hotel has the world's longest porch at 660 feet. The idea behind the day was to encourage people to slow down and appreciate the world around them)
Tuesday 23 June - Pink Day in US; Let It Go Day; Rehabilitation day of the swastika (arose from 2009 on the initiative of the followers of the realism movement who believed that life on Earth was created scientifically by representatives of a highly developed extraterrestrial civilization who transmitted their message to us. Representatives of this civilization are called reelites by Elohim)
Sunday 5 July - Comic Sans Day (Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif casual script typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation); Bikini Day (is the anniversary of the invention of the bikini in 1946 by a Parisian fashion designer, Louis Reard); Work-a-Holic Day
Friday 17 July - World Emoji Day (International is an unofficial holiday. Celebrated annually since 2014, NBC reported that the day was Twitter's top trending item on July 17 in 2015); Yellow Pig Day (is a monthly collaborative art project celebrating the United States' wide array of bizarre national holidays); Tattoo Day
Monday 20 July - Ugly Truck Day; Get Out of the Doghouse Day (The original idea came from the symbolism in the 1911 Peter Pan novel written by J. M. Barrie in chapter16 when Mr. Darling goes out and sleeps in the dog kennel, remorseful of not paying enough attention to his family and allowing his children to be kidnapped)
Saturday 12 September - Video Games Day (The Nimrod was a computer built and displayed at the Festival of Britain in 1951 and designed to play a game called Nim)
Thursday 17 September - Batman Day (an annual observance begun by DC Comics on September 17, 2013. The purpose of Batman Day is to celebrate the anniversary of the character’s first ever appearance, which was in Detective Comics #27 way back in May 1939)
Thursday 24 September - World Day Against Software Patents (Brussels, 2nd September 2008 — A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the “World Day Against Software Patents”); National Microfilm Week in USA (Acknowledging the important contributions made by microfilm in the day-to-day life of America and the accomplishments of the microfilm, President to designate the week which begins on September 24, 1972, as National Microfilm Week. PROCLAMATION 4158)
Wednesday 30 September - Mud Pack Day (The use of mud for therapeutic and beauty purposes can be traced back to the 16th century during the Renaissance)
Wednesday 23 December - Roots Day; HumanLight Day (is a secular holiday that focuses on the "positive, secular human values of reason, compassion, humanity and hope"); Festivus (a holiday made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld, as an alternative to the pressures and commercialism of the Christmas season)
Friday 1 January - Commitment Day (The first known Commitment Day was celebrated in 1960 as an extension of the tradition of New Year’s Resolutions—however); First Foot Day; Polar Bear Swim Day or Polar Plunge Day (Canada and United States); Z Day (People whose first or last name start with the letter Z must have it pretty rough. Most processes, systems and organizations use alphabetical sorting as standard, meaning they are always last no matter the place or occasion)
Friday 8 January - Argyle Day (The argyle pattern comes from the tartan of Clan Campbell, which originated in Argyll in western Scotland); Bubble Bath Day (Bubble Baths have been popular for as long as baths with surfactant-based soap have been a thing); Earth's Rotation Day (In 1851, the French physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated how the earth rotates by suspending a lead-filled brass ball from the top of the Panthéon in Paris); Joy Germ Day (Back in 1981, Joan White of Syracuse, New York thought of the idea of holding joy germ Day); Male Watchers Day; Poetry At Work Day (finding the beauty in your job and putting it into some form of artful prose); Show & Tell Day At Work Day
Sunday 10 January - Houseplant Appreciation Day (was established by The Gardener’s Network, establishing an official opportunity to remind people of the benefits of houseplants. Having plants in your home or office can do a great deal to lift your mood and improve your quality of life. For example, a 2009 study showed that the scent of lavender can effectively lower pulse rates in stressful situations); Peculiar People Day
Saturday 16 January - Appreciate A Dragon Day; Nothing Day (This day was first practiced way back in 1973 by newspaperman Harold Pullman Coffin. The goal of the day is "to provide Americans with one national day where they can just sit without celebrating, observing, or honoring anything.")
Monday 18 January - Thesaurus Day (It is celebrated every year on January 18th, which is the birthday of the author of Roget's Thesaurus, Peter Roget. Peter Roget was born on January 18th in 1779); Winnie the Pooh Day (This day was created to celebrate the birth of A.A .Milne in 1882)
Wednesday 20 January - Camcorder Day (On this date in 1982, the camcorder was first introduced into the public marketplace by Sony Electronics); Blue Monday (Date for 2020. The third Monday is claimed to be the most depressing day of the year)
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