January Holidays 2008

1. New Year's Day, Ellis Island Birthday, U.S. Bowling Day (First Bowling Match occured in 1840), Betsy Ross's Birthday (Born 1752), Paul Revere's Birthday (Born 1735), New Year's Dishonor List Day, Universal Hour of Peace, First Foot Day and Z Day
2. Run Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes It Day, Boo Boo Bear's Birthday (Yogi Bear's Friend), Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Day, National Science Fiction Day (Night Vision was created), Swiss Cheese Day and Happy Mew Year for Cats Day
3. Festival of Sleep Day, Brooklyn Bridge Birthday (Construction Began in 1870), Drinking Straw's Birthday (Patented in 1888), Women Rock! Day, National Write to Congress Day and National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
4. Trivia Day, Humiliation Day, Isaac Newton's Birthday, Dimpled Chad Day, Blender Created, Roller Skates Birthday (1863), Appendectomy Day (1885 First Appendectomy preformed), Louis Braille's Birthday (Born 1809), Jakob Grimm's Birthday (Born 1785) and Earth at Perihelion
5. National Bird Day, Bozo the Clown's Birthday, FM Radio Birthday (1940) and National Second Hand Wardrobe Day
6. Bean Day, Three Kings Day, National Smith Day (Give everyone with the name of Smith a hug), Schoolhouse Rock Birthday (1973), Pepe Le Pew's Birthday, Sherlock Holme's Birthday and Epiphany or Twelfth Night
7. Old Rock Day, I'm not going to take it anymore day!, Organize your home day (Clean out those closets) and Fruitcake Toss Day
8. National Joy Germ Day, National English Toffee Day and Man Watcher's Day, National Show and Tell Day, Bubble Bath Day, Milk Carton Birthday (1929), Elvis Presley's Birthday (Born 1935), Midwife or Women's Day and Show and Tell Day at Work
9. Play God Day, Aviation in America Day, National Clean Off Your Desk Day, Word Nerd Day and Organize Your Home Day
10. First Meeting of United Nations (1946), Jeep Grand Cherokee Birthday, Peculiar People Day and National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
11. National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day, Milk Day (Milk bottles delivered for first time in 1878), Secret Pal Day and International Thank You Day
12. Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day, National Pharmacist Day, National Handwriting Day and John Hancock's Birthday
13. Make Your Dream Come True Day, Sesame Street Rubber Duckie's Birthday, International Skeptics Day and Blame Someone Else Day
14. National Dress Up Your Pet Day, National Clean off your Desk Day, Bald Eagle Appreciation Days, C-Section Birthday (First Seccussful Operation 1794), Ratification Day and Penguin Awareness Day
15. Hat Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday, National Humanitarian Day, National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day, Elementary School Teacher Day, Champion of the Month Day and World Religion Day
16. Hot and Spicy Food International Day, National Religious Freedom Day and National Nothing Day
17. Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day
18. Winnie the Pooh Day
19. National Popcorn Day
20. National Buttercrunch Day
21. National Hugging Day and Martin Luther King, Jr's Birthday
22. National Answer Your Cat's Question Day and National Blonde Brownie Day
23. National Handwriting Day, National Pie Day, and Measure Your Feet Day
24. Eskimo Pie Patent Day
25. Opposite Day
26. Australia Day and National Peanut Brittle Day
27. Punch the Clock Day, Thomas Crapper Day, Mozart Day, Auschwitz Liberation Anniversary, Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism (Germany), Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)
28. National Kazoo Day, Clash Day, Rattle Snake Round-Up Day
29. National Cornchip Day
30. Escape Day
31. National Popcorn Day and Child Labor Day

Learning Calendars

• January Preschool Learning Calendar - Learning Through the Days of the Year
• Homefires January Learning Calendar

Notes:

• Z Day is a holiday that can be celebrated by letting all those poor unfortunate people with names that start with Z be first in line.