Unusual, Weird and Fun holidays celebrated around the world
There are many unusual, weird and funny 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 to their daily routine, or simply to have some fun.
These holidays often focus on things that are normally considered trivial, silly and not worth celebrating. But sometimes these things are well worth it. Take Ice Cream Day, for instance. Would anyone really argue that this wonderful food plays an important role in the life of every human being? Some other odd 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 and obscure holiday for you to celebrate or enjoy them all with our list of the most bizarre holidays ever celebrated.
Help us List of Weird, Funny and Unusual Holidays for 2023-2024 year
March 2023
April 2023
Wednesday 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)
Saturday 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;
Auctioneers Day (is one of the world’s most ancient professions, having begun more than 2,000 years ago. Third Saturday of April);
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)
May 2023
Friday 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)
Monday 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.");
Sherlock Holmes Day (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the british writer, who gave the world one of the most famous fictional detectives, was born on this day in 1859)
June 2023
Friday 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)
Monday 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)
Monday 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)
July 2023
Monday 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);
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);
Tattoo Day Monday 24 July -
Drive-Thru Day (Restaurants, coffee shops, liquor stores, pharmacies and many more services utilize drive-thrus for quick service)
August 2023
Monday 7 August -
Lighthouse Day (day of workers of means of navigation equipment of the coast of large reservoirs in the form of a capital structure)
Saturday 19 August -
August Restaurant Day (is occurs once per season. The third Saturday of February, May, August, and November);
World Photo Day (Founded in 2009 by Australian photographer Korske Ara. The date was chosen to honor the day the French government acquired a patent for the daguerreotype, an early photographic process)
Thursday 31 August -
Franchise Appreciation Day (Franchise - the object of a franchise agreement. Franchising is a type of business organization where a party of the company-owner "franchisor" is allowed to transfer the right to sell goods/products/services of the company, for a certain fee, to another party);
Eat Outdoors Day September 2023
Sunday 3 September -
Skyscraper Day (The very first skyscraper was built in 1885 in Chicago. It was The Home Insurance Building and had 10 floors. The author of the project is the American architect William Le Baron Jenney. It lasted until 1931);
Bed Day in Japan Sunday 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);
Confucius Day (Confucius' birthday falls on the 27th day of the eighth lunar month according to the Chinese calendar)
Sunday 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)
Tuesday 26 September -
Johnny Appleseed Day (What many people don’t know is that Johnny Appleseed was no mere legend, but was, in fact, a missionary known by the name of John Chapman. Born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1774)
October 2023
November 2023
December 2023
Saturday 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)
January 2024
Monday 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)
Wednesday 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;
Bittersweet Chocolate Day Tuesday 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.")
Thursday 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)
Sunday 28 January -
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)
February 2024
Tuesday 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 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)
Tuesday 27 February -
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);
World Spay Day (Last Tuesday in February)
March 2024
How to celebrate Fun Holidays
Well, we can eat, drink, dance. All that holiday wacky stuff. And maybe think some less and feel some more.
