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Cultural Calendar

{ Cultural Calendar: January }

The Month Of...

Birth Defect Prevention * Chilly * Human Resources * Market Ability * Being-Purpose * Book Blitz * Candy * National Health * Hobbies * Hot Tea * Meat * Oatmeal * Retail Bakers * Soup * Volunteer Blood Donor * Yours Mine and Ours * Wheat Bread * Thyroid Disease Awareness * Prune Breakfast * Whale Watching

First:

- New Year's Day

- Season of Chaos (Discordian)

- Day of Universal Brotherhood (Brazil)

- Goddess Fortuna's Day

- Haiti Independance Day

- Liberation Day (Cuba)

- Polar Bear Swim Day

Second:

- Kakizome (First Writing; Japan)

- Festival of Four Winds and All Sky

- Shigoto Hajime (Beginning of Work Day; Japan)

Third:

- Gensh-Sai (Japan)

- Hero's Day (Haiti)

Fourth:

- Festival of Fufluns (Etruscan God of Wine)

- Myanmar Independance Day

Fifth:

- Twelfth Night

- Epiphany Fair (Italy)

- Festival of Pyrotechnics

Sixth:

- Epiphany

- Maroon Festival (Jamaica)

- Children's Day (Uruguay)

- Army Day (Iraq)

Seventh:

- Eastern Orthodox Christmas

- Sekhmet (Ancient Egyptian New Year's Day)

- National Tempura Day

- Ganna (Ethiopian Christmas; aka Leddat)

Eighth:

- Id al-Fatir/Feast of Sacrifice (Marks the end of Ramadan which started on 11/27)

- World Literacy Day

- Redistribution of Wealth Day

- Midwife's Day (Greece)

Tenth:

- Iroquois Midwinter Ceremony

Eleventh:

- National Unity Day (Nepal)

- Carmentalia (Old Roman Festival to 9 Muses)

- Unity Day (Nepal)

- International Thank You Day

- Albania Independence Day

- National Hot Toddy Day

Twelfth:

- First Minimum Wage enacted ($0.33/hr - 1933)

- Orangemen's Day (Ireland)

- Printing Ink Day

- Working Woman's Appreciation Day

- Festival of Sarasyati (Hindu Goddess of Wisdom)

Thirteenth:

- Apple Computers founded

- Northwest Ordinance passed outlawing slavery in NW (1787)

- Silvesterklaus (Switzerland)

- Zero Birth Day

- 1st Public Radio Broadcast (1910)

Fourteenth:

- Thai Pongal-The Great Harvest Fesitval (Southern India and Sri Lanka)

- Narcissus Festival

- Cakes and Ale Day (UK)

Fifteenth:

- Seijin-no-hi-Coming of Age Day (Japan)

- Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday

- Dia Del Maestro/Teacher's Day (Venezuela)

- Humanitarian Day

- Feast of Christ of Equipulas/Black Christ Festival (Guatemala)

Sixteenth:

- Religious Freedom Day

Seventeenth:

- Martin Luther King Jr. Day

- World Religion Day

- Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day

- Carnivale begins (Italy)

- Thomas Crapper Day

Nineteenth:

- Husband Day (Iceland)

- Tenderness Toward Existence Day

- Artist As Outlaw Day

Twentieth:

- US Presidential Inauguration Day (every four years)

Twenty fifth:

- A Room of One's Own Day

Twenty sixth:

- Australia Day

- India Republic Day

Twenty ninth:

- Carnation Day

Thirtieth:

- Festival of Peace

- Bloody Sunday (Northern Ireland)

Thirty first:

- Child Labor Day

Floating Holidays:

Black Nazarene Fiesta (1st 9 days) * Silent Record Week * Universal Letter Writing Week * Universal Week of Prayer * "Weeks" Week * Munich Fasting Festival (7th to Shrove Tuesday) * International Clergy Appreciation Week (begins on last Sunday)