Special Days and Saints Days

Special Days and Saints 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 great 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
• 14th Valentine's Day
• 14th Chinese New Year (2010)
• 15th Presidents Day 2010  (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
•  2nd Cherry Blossom Day
•  5th Palm Sunday (2009)
• 12th Easter (2009)
• 22nd Earth Day
• 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

• 21st Father's Day (2009, 20th 2010)
• 21st Summer Solstice
• 24th Midsummer's Day
• 27th Veterans' Day (UK only)  Veterans Day USA

July

•   4th of July - 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)
• 12th Blackberry Day
• 19th Talk like a Pirate Day
• 21st St Matthew's Day (Mabon in Wales)
• 22nd Ramadan (Date varies  11th August 2010)
• 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
• 26th Thanksgiving (2009)
• 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 - St Stephen's 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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