HOLIDAYS 2013 (Official): Daily, Monthly, Weekly, Bizarre, Crazy, Unknown, Silly, Strange, Weird, Dumb, Odd, Wacky, Wild, Traditional, Respected Observances, Awareness Days, Theme Days & Celebrations.

We were the FIRST on the net to provide this extensive validated listing!
We also try to be as accurate and up-to-date as possible.

All our holidays are validated with sponsors or organizations; or, we validate the source or origin for an observance to prove it's not made up.

We do not have holidays for every single day of the year. Sites that do, IMHO are making some of their days up. Beware!
Also, some observances that are validated through website links, can't be updated until their websites update their 2013 information.

Visiting us is free! Our Holiday information is free. We have always paid all costs and remained ad free as well.

All of my holiday and observances lists as a whole group are not "fair use" information. (Individual holidays are owned by their sponsors.)
They are copyrighted via this domain and are not to be taken and put on another website, blog, or made into a downloadable application, etc..
Doing so is a violation of the DMCA. You're invited to LINK to any holiday page(s) you'd like.

How Holidays Begin & How to Start One

Brownielocks and The 3 Bears
present

2013 Holidays & Observances
( aka Awareness Days or Theme Days)

Each Month We Feature
(with graphic fun + informative style)
A Few of The Unknown, Unobserved, Untraditional,
Silly, Strange, Crazy, Odd, sometimes Bizarre, Goofy, Crazy, Dumb, Wacky, Weird, Wild, Respected and Traditional Holidays or Observances mostly only in the United States.

These may be for the U.S. but we share our fun with everyone!

Click on the month you wish to visit.
All pages include word links to any special features we did for that month.

January	February	March	April
May	June	July	August
September	October 2013	November 2013	December 2013

2013 has been declared by the United Nations as:

Year of Water Cooperation

International Year of Quinoa

2013 is also the Year of the Snake (Chinese Calendar).

Calendar based upon Javascript by Kevin Ilsen. Enhancements provided by Rick Pike. *This graphic link goes to the current month!*	<--Our calendar link still goes to the current month and year for 2012. It will go to 2013 come January 1. All the *DAILY* observances are listed! This means some days will have larger blocks than others. This means that each month prints on 2 pages, not one.
We now offer a FREE printable Brownielocks' calendar with her Daily Observances for each month.	Note: If someone tells me of a new observance, the html pages will be updated BEFORE the calendar! But, both are always subject to change as new information is always being provided to me.

Native American Pow Wow Dates

About Bonza Bottler's Days
This confused some people because there was one every month.
It's also confusing because the title doesn't define the observance IMHO.
So I did not list them monthly this year. Instead I want to explain what they are.
The Bonza Bottler's Day celebrations means:
The day is the same as the month it is in!

There are 12 of them as follows:

1-1 (January 1)
2-2 (February 2)
3-3 (March 3)
4-4 (April 4 )
5-5 (May 5)
6-6 (June 6)

7-7 (July 7)
8-8 (August 8)
9-9 (September 9)
10-10 (October 10)
11-11 (November 11)
12-12 (December 12)

The sponsor describes it like this: "To celebrate when the number of the day is the same as the number of the month. It's an excuse to have a party at least once a month!"
Now that you know...
Party On!
Official Sponsor Site

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Florida Today
Article

I was interviewed in June by Eleska Aubespin for the "Florida Today" newspaper regarding all of these crazy, silly, wacky, and serious holidays. Note: The article printed our domain name wrong! :(

Columbia University
Article on
Bizarre Holidays
I was interviewed on April 19, 2002 by a journalism student as part of her story on silly US holidays. Her article was posted on the college website in July.

From Good Housekeeping
For November 22, 2005

Gainesville Sun
Article
I was interviewed by Jessica Gavilan on 1/19/06 for the Gainesville Sun newspaper about our holidays.
Article appeared 2/7/06

Site of the Day
from 104.1 WHTT Buffalo, NY
January 2, 2006
Hear Jim Jacka live on radio talk about Brownielocks.com!
Audio Link

Worldstart.com
Recommends Us in 2006!
Tip # 2825

The Press Enterprise
I was interviewed by Rocky Salmon in September 2006.

Oregon's 1190 KEX
Mark and Dave choose us for
Work Waster Site of the Day
May 24, 2007
This is a compliment. It means
you prefer to be at Brownielocks than doing your work.

Fort Wayne, Indiana
"The Sentinel"
Article about our holidays
by Amanda Junk
June 9, 2008

Morris Daily Herald
Article by Heidi Litchfield
about "Odd August Holidays."
August 6, 2008

The Standard Journal (Milton, PA)
Article by Coni Marie Sheridan
about "Have the Holiday Blues? - Wacky Observances To Keep You Going Throughout The Year"
January 2, 2009

The Sioux City Journal
Article by Jesse Claeys
"Forget to send a card?
There's tomorrow's holiday!"
February 6, 2009

The Dixie Sun
"Random Holidays"
By Shannon Johnson
September 21, 2009

National Public Radio
National Theme Day Appreciation Days
By Linton Weeks
June 17, 2011

Martin Hurley Interview
at great-printable-calendars.com
January 8, 2012

The Examiner
Home School Study Ideas
by Holly Craw
April 21, 2012

The Journal Star
Holidays
By Erin Andersen
January 16, 2013

Columbia News Service
"May 8 is No Socks Day. Please Dress Accordingly"
by Liam La Guerre
April 27, 2013.

What about the traditional holidays?

Visit our Cartoon Cave for all of the Traditional Holiday specials we've done such as Christmas, New Years, Valentines, St. Patrick's Day and St. Urho's Day, Easter, Halloween, 4th of July (and other patriotic holidays) Thanksgiving, Ramadan, Hanukkah & Kwanzaa + Graduation Day (some consider a holiday) and Labor Day.

What about stuff like historical events, famous people's birthdays, deaths, etc. ?
The best source for what occurred on any given day, other than our daily bizarre, silly, holidays and observances, is Wikipedia. Just do a search for any day and they list day of the year it is and then on one page all the historical events, births, deaths, etc. for that day.

Big Anniversary Terms

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125th
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Forever

biennial or diennial
triennial
quadrennial or quadriennial
quinquennial
sexennial
septennial
octennial
novennial
decennial
undecennial
duodecennial
tridecennial
quindecennial
septendecennial
vicennial or vigentennial
quadragennial
semicentennial or quinquagennial
centennial
quasquicentennial
sesquicentennial
bicentennial
tercenennial or tricentennial
quadricentennial or quatercentennial
quincentennial
sexcentennial
septcentennial
octocentennial
millennial
perennial

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