NOTE: An *
in front of the day means that the observance is on the same date every year
regardless of the day it falls on.
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January 2018 Monthly Holidays
Adopt A Rescued Bird Month
Link
Bath Safety Month
Link Be Kind to Food Servers Month
Birth Defects Month
Link Black Diamond Month Link Book Blitz Month
California Dried Plum Digestive Month
Link Carnival
Season 1/6-2/8
Celebration of Life Month
Cervical Health Awareness Month
Link Children Impacted By Parent's Cancer Month Clap 4 Health
Month
Financial Wellness Month
FirstFolio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare
(1/4/16-1/2/17)
Get A Balanced Life Month
Get Organized Month
International Brain Teaser Month
International Change Your Stars Month
Link
International Child-Centered Divorce Month
International Creativity Month
International New Years Resolutions Month for Businesses
International Quality of Life Month
International Wayfinding Month
International Wealth Mentality Month
Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month
Link Menudo Month Link
National Be On-Purpose Month
National Braille Literacy Month
Link
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Codependency Awareness Month
Link
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Mentoring Month
Link
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month National Personal Trainer
Awareness Month
Link
National Polka Music Month
Link
Link
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Soup Month
Link National Slavery and Human
Trafficking Prevention Month
Link
National Stalking Awareness Month
Link National Sunday Supper Month
Link
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month
Link
Oatmeal Month
Link
Self-help Group Awareness Month
Self-Love Month
Shape Up US Month
Teen Driving Awareness Month
Train Your Dog Month
Link
Link
Thyroid Awareness Month
Link Unchain A Dog Month
Link Walk Your Pet Month
Link
Link
Worldwide Rising Star Month
January 2018 Weekly Holidays
*Diet Resolution Week: 1-7 National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week:
1-8 *New Year's Resolutions Week: 1-8
Link *Silent Record Week: 1-7
*Someday We'll Laugh About This Week: 2-8 Home Office Safety and Security
Week: 7-13 Link
National Folic Acid Awareness Week: 7-13
Link Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week: 8-12
(Note:
Usually week of his birthday on Jan. 8.)
*Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week: 8-14
International Consumer Electronics Show: 9-12
No Tillage Week: 9-12
*Cuckoo Dancing Week: 11-17 Healthy Weight Week: 14-20 (Third Week) No Name Calling Week: 15-19 Link Sugar Awareness Week: 15-19 (3rd Work Week) *National Fresh Squeezed Juice
Week: 17-23
National Soccer Coaches of America Week: 17-21 *Week of Christian Unity: 18-25
Sundance Film Festival: 18-28 Bald Eagle Appreciation Days: 20-21
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week: 20-28
Link Hunt For Happiness Week: 21-17 (Third
Full Week) National Activity Professionals Week: 21-27
(Third Full
Week)
National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week: 21-27 (Last Full Week)
National Handwriting Analysis Week: 21-27
(Always has John Hancock's birthday 1/23)
Clean Out Your Inbox Week: 22-26
(Last Business Week)
National Medical Group Practice Week: 22-27
(Starts
4th Monday) International Hoof-Care Week: 23-26
Link(Moved from Feb.)
Catholic Schools Week: 28-2/3 (Begins on Last Sunday) National School Choice Week: 28-2/3
Link (Last Week)
Meat Week: 28-2/3 (Begins
on Last Sunday) Tax Identity Theft Week: 29-2/2
Link US Nationals Snow Sculpting Days: 31-2/4
January 2018 Daily Holidays
*Copyright
Law Day: 1
*Commitment Day: 1
Link Divorce Monday: 1
Link(First Monday of year which is when most feel that divorces are filed. )
*Ellis Island Day: 1
*Euro Day: 1
*First Foot Day: 1
Link
*Global Family Day: 1
Link
*Mummer's
Parade: 1
*New Years Day: 1
*New Year's Dishonor List Day: 1
*Polar Bear Plunge or Swim Day: 1
Link(Cony Island
NY & Vancouver, BC) *Public Domain Day: 1
Link
Rose Bowl Game: 1
Tournament of Roses Parade Day: 1 *World Day of Peace: 1
Link
*Z Day: 1 *55-MPH Speed Limit Day: 2
*Happy Mew Year for Cats Day: 2
*National Buffet Day: 2
Link
*National Motivation and Inspiration Day: 2
Link
*National Personal Trainer Awareness Day: 2
Link *National Science Fiction Day:
2
Link *Pet Travel and Safety Day: 2
Link *Drinking Straw Day: 3 Earth at Perihelion: 3
*J.R.R. Tolkien Day: 3
*Memento Mori "Remember You Die" Day: 3
*National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day: 3
Link *Dimpled Chad Day: 4
I Am A Mentor Day: 4
Link
*Pop Music Chart Day: 4
*Tom Thumb Day: 4
*Trivia Day: 4
*World Braille Day: 4
Link *World Hypnotism Day: 4
Link *Bird Day: 5
Link *National Screenwriters Day: 5
Link Twelfth Night: 5
Epiphany: 6 *Armenian Christmas: 6
*National Technology Day: 6
Link
*Three Kings Day: 6 Fruitcake Toss Day: 6
Link(First Saturday) Golden Globes: 7
*Harlem Globetrotter's Day: 7
*I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day: 7
*International Programmers' Day: 7
Link *Orthodox Christmas: 7
*National Bobblehead Day: 7 Link
*National Tempura Day: 7
Link
*Argyle Day: 8
*Bubble Bath Day: 8
Link *Earth's Rotation Day: 8
*National English Toffee Day:
8
Link *Midwife's
Day or Women's Day: 8 National Clean Off Your Desk Day: 8
(2nd Monday)
*National Joy Germ Day: 8 National Weigh-In Day: 8 (Always
First Monday after New Years) *National Winter Skin Relief Day: 8
Link
*Show and Tell Day at Work: 8 "Thank God It's Monday"
Day: 8 (First Workday
Monday. Holidays don't count.)
*War on Poverty Day: 8
*Balloon Ascension Day: 9
Link *Law
Enforcement Appreciation Day: 9
LinkLink
*National
Cassoulet Day: 9 National Poetry at Work Day: 9 (2nd
Tuesday) National Shop For Travel
Day: 9 (2nd Tuesday)
Link
*National Static Electricity Day: 9
Link
*Panama's Martyr Day: 9
Link *League of Nations Day: 10
*National Cut Your Energy Costs Day: 10 *National Oysters Rockerfeller
Day: 10
Link *Cigarettes Are Hazardous To Your Health Day: 11
*Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day: 11
Link
*National Human Trafficking Awareness Day: 11
Link
*National Milk Day: 11
Link
*Kiss A
Ginger Day: 12
Link(Red Heads) *National Hot Tea Day: 12
Eagle Day: 13 (2nd Saturday) *Korean American Day: 13
Link
*Make Your Dream Come True Day:
13
Link *National Sticker Day: 13
Link
National Vision Board Day: 13 (2nd Saturday)
*Public Radio Broadcasting Day: 13 *Caesarean Section Day: 14
*International Kite Day: 14 *Dress Up Your Pet Day: 14
Link National Sunday
Supper Day: 14 Link
(2nd Sunday) No Pants Subway Ride Day: 14? Link *Organize Your Home Day: 14
Link
*Ratification Day: 14 *Alpha Kappa
Alpha Day: 15 Blue Monday: 15 Link (First Monday of the Year. But It Can't Fall on New Years Day.)
NOTE: Some say it's the 3rd Monday.
Since New Yrs. Day is Monday, I'm listing it on the 3rd Monday for 2018.
Link
*Humanitarian Day: 15 (Martin
Luther King Jr.'s Birthday. Started in 2009
by a committee for King Days of Respect. Different than World Humanitarian Day
in August.) Martin
Luther King Day: 15 (3rd Monday)
National Crowd Feed Day: 15 (Always on Martin
Luther King Day) National Day of Service: 15 Link *Appreciate A Dragon Day: 16
*Civil Service Day: 16 *Fig
Newton Day: 16 LinkLink *Nothing Day: 16 *Religious Freedom Day: 16
Link Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day: 16 (Part of
Healthy Weight Week)
*Without A Scalpel Day: 16 LinkLink
*Cable Car Day: 17 *Hot
Heads Chili Days: 17-18 *International Mentoring Day: 17
Link (Muhammad Ali's birthday)
*Judgment Day: 17
*Kid Inventors' Day: 17
*National Bootleggers Day: 17
Link
*Popeye Day: 17
*Pooh (Winnie The) Day: 18
*Thesaurus Day: 18
Link
Get to Know Your Customers Day: 18 ( January
18, April 19, July 19 and October 18 = 3rd Thurs. of Each Quarter) Bean Day: 19 Link International
Fetish Day: 19 (3rd
Friday)
*Popcorn Day: 19
Link(Alternate date: Super Bowl Sunday) *Robert E. Lee Day: 19 Link
*Tin Can Day: 19 Women's Healthy Weight Day: 19
(Friday of 3rd Full Week aka Healthy Weight Week) *World Day of Migrants and Refugees: 19
Link
*Camcorder Day: 20 *National
Cheese Lovers Day: 20 Link Link
*Penguin Awareness Day: 20
Link
*Inauguration Day: 20
*National Disc Jockey Day: 20
Link
or Link(Go to 1958) Celebration of Life Day: 21(Sunday of Last Full Wk.) *National Hugging Day: 21
Link(also May 27) National
Sanctity of Human Life Day (or Pro-Life Day): 21 (3rd Sunday)Link
Stephen Foster Day: 21
World Religion Day: 21
Link(3rd Sunday) World Snow Day: 21
Link *Answer Your Cat's Questions Day: 22 National Bible Sunday: 22
Link(4th Sunday)
*Roe vs. Wade Day: 22
*National Handwriting Day: 23 Link
*National Pie Day: 23
Link
*Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day: 23
*Belly Laugh Day: 24
Link
*Beer Can Day: 24
Link
Link Bodhi Day: 24
Link[Observed] (See also
Dec. 8) International Mobile Phone Recycling Day: 24
Link
*National Compliment Day: 24
*National Peanut Butter Day: 24
Link
*Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day: 24
Link *A Room of One's Own Day: 25
*Macintosh Computer Day: 25
Link (Note: On Jan. 22, 1984 in a Super Bowl ad the Macintosh got introduced.
Steve Jobs then presented it to the world on Jan. 24, 1984 and it went on saleto the public the next day on Jan. 25, 1984. There is a big 30th
Anniversary event on Jan. 25, 2014. Since Apple considers Jan. 25 the anniversary day for
celebration, this is why I am listing it on the 25th also and not the
other dates. )
*National Irish Coffee Day: 25
(Also observed on March 17)
*Opposite Day: 25
Link
*Robert Burns Day: 25
Link Link
Thank Your Mentor Day: 25
Link *Dental Drill Appreciation Day: 26 Fun at Work Day: 26
(Last
Friday)
*Lotus 1-2-3 Day: 26 National Big Wig Day: 26
Link(Last Friday)
*National Peanut Brittle Day: 26 Link
National Pre-school Fitness Day: 26 (Last Friday)Link *Toad
Hollow Day of Encouragement: 26 A.F.R.M.A. Fancy Rat & Mouse Day: 27
*Auschwitz Liberation Day: 27
*Holocaust Memorial Day: 27
*International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust:
27
Link *National Geographic Day: 27
National Seed Swap Day: 27 (Last
Saturday) *Thomas Crapper Day: 27
*Viet Nam Peace Day: 27 Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day: 27 (4th
Saturday) *Data Privacy Day: 28
LinkLink Grammy
Awards: 28
*National Kazoo Day: 28
Link *National Pediatrician Day: 28 *Rubber Duckie Day: 28
LinkLink
(I
moved this from the 13th due to Sesame Street saying it's on the 28th. And, the
general belief is that this is on Ernie's birthday.)
*Thank A Plugin Developer Day: 28
Link World Leprosy Day: 28
(Last Sunday) Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day: 29
(Always
Last Monday) Link
and
Link *Curmudgeons Day: 29
*Freethinkers Day: 29 *Library Shelfie Day: 29
Link
Link
*National Puzzle Day: 29
Link
Link
*Seeing Eye Dog Day: 29
*Thomas Paine Day: 29
*Croissant Day: 30 Link
*Inane Answering Message Day: 30 National Plan For A Vacation Day: 30
Link (Last Tuesday) *Appreciate Your Social Security
Check Day: 31
*Inspire
Your Heart with Art Day: 31 *Street Children Day: 31
LinkLink(Note: Different than one on
April 12) Tu B'Shvat: 31
(Sundown)
January 2018 Moon Phases
Current Moon View
as of today
11 Full Moon
9:24 pm EST
8
Last Qtr.
5:25 pm EST
16
NeNew Moon
9:17 pm EST
24 First Qtr.
5:20 pm EST
31
Full Moon
8:27 am EST
Full Moon on the 1st is called "Wolf Moon" by Native Americans of New England and the Great Lakes
because at this time of the year, the wolves howl in hunger.
The Full
Moon on the 31st is called a Blue Moon because it's the 2nd Full Moon in the
month. You could also say that it could be the "Snow Moon" that normally
we see in February?
On January 31st, there is also a total eclipse of the moon,
visible in Australia, Asia, Australia, Pacific Ocean and North America.
Credits:
Chases Calendar of Events 2018, Bernan Press Special thanks to Chris Sodini for letting me know about No Name Calling Week.
Special thanks to Pam Hennessy for letting me know about Bird Day.
Special thanks to Sonjia Bradshaw for letting me know about A LOT of observances!
Special thanks to Eric Cornell for letting me know about Nat'l Activity Professional Week.
Special thanks to Elaine Carter for letting me know about Celebration of Life Week and Universal Letter Writing Week
Thanks to Liesl Anderson for letting me know about World Hypnotism Day.
Thanks to Dan Loomis for letting me know about International Programmers' Day
Thanks to Nicole Dooley for letting me know about Panama Martyr Day.
Thanks to Kimberly Adkins for letting me know about "National Activity Professionals Week."
Thanks to Kit Singleton for letting me know about " Thank a Plugin Developer Day."
Thanks to Jeff Veverka for letting me know about National Polka Music Month.
Thanks to Dawn Weyde for letting me know about Popcorn Day.
Thanks to Chris Jepsen for letting me know about "Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day."
Thanks to Scott Heiner for letting me know about Kazoo Day.
Thanks to Roger W. Hancock for letting me know about Robert E. Lee Day.
Thanks to Holly Craw for letting me know about Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month and Awareness Day.
Thanks to Lisa Nusbaum for letting me know about Squirrel Appreciation Day.
Thanks to Tim Olson for letting me know about National Peanut Butter Day.
Thanks to Kathryn Baker for letting me know about National Science Fiction Day.
Thanks to Paul Lescarmure for letting me know about Robert Burns Day.
Thanks to Justin Deering for letting me know about Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month, National Folic Acid Awareness Week.,
World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Blue Monday, Divorce Monday, Train Your Dog Month, Unchain A Dog Month,
Walk Your Dog Month, Adopt A Rescued Bird Month, Pet Travel Safety Day, National School Choice Week, World Day of Peace.
Thanks to Shimna Gammack for letting me know about No Pants Subway Ride Day.
Thanks to Diane Jellen for letting me know about National Codependency Awareness Month.
Thanks to Ashley Dwight for letting me know about Bubble Bath Day.
Thanks to Aaron Jarvis for letting me know about Kiss A Ginger Day.
Thanks to Mike Lanz for letting me know about National Cheese Lovers Day.
Thanks to Lauren Longworth for letting me know about Thank Your Mentor Day.
Thanks to Dinah Hunt for letting me know about World Snow Day.
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