Special Days

Special Days

Here is Will and Guy's collection of Special Days.  Every month has at least one Saint's day or special anniversary.  Our intention is to use these special days to give the year signposts.  Incidentally, special days can be a good ice-breaker if you are meeting new people on a particular day.

January

•  1st New Years Day
•  5th Twelfth Night
•  6th Epiphany
• 15th Martin Luther King Day
• 25th Burns Night
• 26th Australia Day
• World Religion Day - Third Sunday in January
• Last Tuesday  Up-Helly_Aa

February

•  2nd  Groundhog Day
•  2nd Candlemas.  40 Days since nativity
•  7th Chinese New Year (2008)
• 14th Valentine's Day
• 18th Chinese New Year (2007)
• 19th Presidents Day  (Third Monday)
• 24th Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday 2009)

March

•  1st St David's Day - Patron Saint of Wales
• 8th Women's Day
• 15th Ides of March
• 17th St Patrick's Day
• 21st Vernal Equinox  Note Leap year effect 365.25. Thus can be one day later.
• 23rd Mothering Sunday Three weeks before Easter Sunday (2009)
• 25th Lady Day (Quarter Day)

April

•  1st April Fools Day
• 12th Easter (2009)
• 23rd St George's Day
• 30th Beltane - 1st May

May

•  1st May Day
• Mother's Day USA 2nd Sunday in May (11th 2008, 10th 2009)
• 28th Memorial Day

June

• 15th Father's Day (2008)
• 21st Summer Solstice
• 24th Midsummer's Day
• 27th Veterans' Day (UK only)  Veterans Day USA

July

•   4th American Independence Day
•  6-14th Running of the Bulls at Pamplona
• 14th July Bastille Day
• 15th July St Swithin's Day

August

• 1st Lammas (The start of the harvest)
• Tomatina Tomato Festival Bunol Spain

September

•   Labor Day USA (1st Monday)
•   2nd Ramadan (2008)   Date varies e.g. 22nd August 2009
•  8th Blackberry Day
• 19th Talk like a Pirate Day
• 21st St Matthew's Day (Mabon in Wales)
• 23rd Autumnal Equinox. Note Leap year effect 365.25 means day can vary by one day.
• 29th Michaelmas (Quarter Day)

October

•   1st China National Day 中國國慶節
•   9th Yom Kippur (2008 date, other years vary, e.g. in 2009 28th September)
• 21st Trafalgar Day
• 31st Halloween (Samhain)

November

•  1st All Saints 
•  2nd All Souls (Day of the Dead)
•  5th Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes
• 11th Remembrance Day, Armistice day, Poppy day and Veterans day
• 22nd Thanksgiving (4th Thursday in November)
• 27th Thanksgiving (2008)
• Stir-up Sunday  Last Sunday of the Christian year.  5 Sundays before Christmas
• 30th St Andrews Day (Patron Saint of Scotland)

December

• Advent
• 21st Winter Solstice
• 25th Christmas (Quarter Day)
• 26th Boxing Day
• 31st New Years Eve

Traditions and Customs

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.  Barbara Tober

Special Sports Days

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