Bizarre, Crazy, Silly, Unknown Holidays & Observances
January is named for the Roman
god Janus, protector of gates and doorways. Janus is depecited with two faces,
one looking into the past, the other into the future.
Stone = Garnet Flower
= Carnation
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to Start One.
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January 2023 Monthly Holidays
Adopt A Rescued Bird Month
Link
Bath Safety Month
Be Kind to Food Servers Month
Birth Defects Month
Link
Black Diamond Month
Link
Book Blitz
Month
California Dried Plum Digestive Month
LinkCarnival Season: Jan. 6-
March 1
Celebration of Life Month
Cervical Health Awareness Month
LinkChildren Impacted By Parent's
Cancer Month
Clap 4 Health Month
Financial Wellness Month
Get A Balanced
Life Month
Get Organized Month
Ginuary
Link
LinkInternational Brain Teaser Month
International
Change Your Stars Month
LinkInternational 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
LinkManuary
Menudo Month
LinkNational Be On-Purpose Month
National Braille Literacy Month
LinkNational Cheesy Sock Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Codependency Awareness Month
Link
National Conscience Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hot
Tea Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Mentoring Month
LinkNational Personal
Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Personal Trainer Awareness Month
LinkNational 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
LinkNational Stalking Awareness Month
LinkNational Sunday Supper Month
LinkNational Volunteer Blood Donor Month
LinkOatmeal Month
LinkSelf-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
World Introvert Month
Link
Worldwide Rising Star Month
January 2023 Weekly Holidays
*Diet Resolution Week: 1-7
National Folic Acid Awareness
Week: 1-7
(First Full Wk.)
LinkDating & Life Coaches Recognition Week: 1-7
National Lose
Weight/Feel Great Week: 1-7
*Silent Record Week: 1-7
International Consummer
Electronics Show: 2-8
*Someday We'll Laugh About This Week: 2-8
No Tillage
Week: 3-6
Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week: 6-9
(Note: Usually week of his birthday on Jan. 8.)
National Personal Trainer
Awareness Week: 7-14 (Starts first Saturday
Home Office Safety and
Security Week: 8-14 (2nd Full Wk.)
National Mocktail Week: 8-14 (Second
Week)
*Cuckoo Dancing Week: 11-17
Take A Friend Snowmobiling Week:
11-20
Link
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week: 14-22
Link
(Starts 2nd Saturday through following Sunday.)
Healthy Weight Week: 15-21
(Third Week)
Hunt For Happiness Week: 15-21
(Third Full Week)
Idiom Week: 15-21
Sugar Awareness Week: 15-21 (3rd Work Week)
No Name Calling Week:
16-20
Link
*National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week: 17-23
*Week of Christian
Unity: 18-25
National Soccer Coaches of America Week: 18-22
Sundance
Film Festival: 19-29
Clean Out Your Inbox
Week: 22-28 (Last Business Week)
Data Privacy Week: 22-28
LinkNational
CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week: 22-28 (Last
Full Week)
National Handwriting Analysis Week: 22-28
(Always has John Hancock's birthday 1/23)
National School Choice Week: 22-28
Link (Last
Full Week)
Snowcare for Troops Week: 22-28
National Activity Professionals
Week: 23-27 (Fourth Full Week)
LinkNational Medical Group
Practice Week: 23-28 (Starts 4th Monday)
Westminster Dog Show: 23-25
International Hoof-Care Week: 24-27
Link
National Mentoring Summit: 25-27
LinkAngouleme International Comics Festival: 26-29
Link
Cordova Ice Worm Days: 28-2/4
Link
Catholic Schools Week: 29-2/4 (Begins on Last Sunday)
Meat Week: 29-2/4 (Begins on Last Sunday)
National Anesthesiologists Week: 29-2/4
Link
January 2023 Daily Holidays
*Copyright Law Day: 1
*Ellis Island Day: 1
*Euro Day: 1
*First Foot
Day: 1 Link
*Global
Family Day: 1 Link
*Humane 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
St. Basil's Day: 1
*World Day of Peace: 1
Link
*Z Day: 1
*55-MPH Speed Limit Day: 2
Divorce Monday: 2
Link (First Monday of year which is when most feel
that divorces are filed.)
Handsel Day: 2
Link (First Monday)
*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
*National Science Fiction Day: 2
Link
National "Thank God It's Monday" Day: 2 (First Monday of the year.)
National Weigh-In Day: 2 (Always First Monday
after New Years)
*Pet Travel and Safety Day: 2
Rose Bowl Game: 2 (Never on Sunday rule)
*Stop Spam Day: 2
Link
Tournament of Roses Parade Day: 2 (Never on Sunday rule)
*World Introvert Day: 2
Link
Asarah 'B' Tevet: 3
*Drinking Straw Day: 3
*Festival of Sleep Day: 3
Link
*J.R.R. Tolkien Day: 3
*Memento Mori "Remember You Die" Day: 3
*National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day: 3
Link
Congress Assembles: 4 (Unless it's on a weekend,
then following Monday)
*Dimpled Chad Day: 4
Earth at Perihelion
Day: 4 11:17am EST
*Pop Music Chart Day: 4
*Tom Thumb Day: 4
*Trivia Day: 4
*World Braille Day: 4
Link
*World Hypnotism
Day: 4 Link
*Kappa Alpha Psi Day: 5
*National Bird Day: 5 Link
*National Keto Day: 5
Link
*National Screenwriters
Day: 5
*Monopoly
Game Day: 5
Link
(See also Feb. 6)
*Twelfth Night: 5
*Whipped
Cream Day: 5
Link
*Armenian Christmas: 6
Bald Eagle Appreciation Days: 6-8
Carnival Season: 6-2/21
*Epiphany: 6
*I Am A Mentor Day: 6
Link
*National Bean Day: 6
Link
*National Shortbread Day: 6
Link
*National Technology Day: 6
Link
*Three
Kings Day: 6
*Harlem Globetrotter's Day: 7
*I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day:
7
*International Programmers Day: 7
*Invisible Pain Day: 7
National Play Outside Day: 7 Link
(First Saturday)
*Old Rock 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 Joy Germ Day: 8
National Sunday Supper
Day: 8 Link (2nd
Sunday)
*National Winter Skin Relief Day: 8
Link
*Show and Tell Day at Work: 8
*War on Poverty Day: 8
*World Typing
Day: 8 Link
*Balloon Ascension Day: 9
Link
*Law Enforcement Appreciation Day: 9
Link
Link
*National Cassoulet Day: 9
National Clean Off Your Desk Day: 9
(2nd Monday)
*National Static Electricity
Day: 9 Link
No Pants Subway Ride Day: 9
Link
*Panama's Martyr Day: 9
Link
*Phi
Beta Sigma Day: 9
*Play God Day: 9
Link (Do something nice for someone)
Plough Monday: 9
Link (First Monday After Jan. 6)
*Houseplant Appreciation Day: 10
Link ( International Plant Appreciation Day is April 13)
*League of Nations Day: 10
*National Booch (Kombucha) Day: 10
Link
*National Cut Your Energy Costs Day: 10
*National Oysters Rockefeller Day: 10
Link
National Poetry at Work Day: 10 (2nd Tuesday)
National Shop For Travel Day: 10 (2nd Tuesday)
Link
*Cigarettes Are Hazardous To Your Health Day: 11
*Girl Hug Boy
Day: 11
*Learn Your Name
in Morse Code Day: 11 Link
*National
Human Trafficking Awareness Day: 11
Link
*World Sketchnote Day: 11
Link
*Kiss A Ginger Day: 12
Link (Red Heads)
*National Hot Tea Day:
12
Blame
Someone Else Day: 13 (First Friday the 13th of The
Year.)
*Delta Sigma Theta Day: 13
*Korean American Day: 13
Link
*Make Your
Dream Come True Day: 13 Link
*National Sticker Day: 13
Link
*Public Radio Broadcasting Day: 13
*Rubber Ducky Day: 13
(According to a 1973 Calendar, this is Rubber Ducky's
Birthday. But, others say it's February 25, the date Rubber Ducky first appeared
on Sesame Street. I also have it
below on Jan. 28 for Ernie's birthday.
It's boggling.)
*Stephen Foster Day: 13
Bald Eagle Appreciation Days: 14-15
*Caesarean Section Day: 14
Eagle Day: 14 (2nd
Saturday)
*International Kite Day: 14
National Vision Board Day:
14 (2nd Saturday)
*Organize Your Home Day: 14
Link
*Ratification Day: 14
*World Logic Day: 14
*Alpha Kappa Alpha Day: 15
*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.)
*National Bagel Day: 15
Link
(Note: Bagelfest Day is July 26)
*National
Hat Day: 15
National Sanctity of Human Life Day (or Pro-Life Day): 15
(3rd Sunday) Link
*Thank Your Mentor Day: 15
Link
World Religion Day: 15
Link
(3rd Sunday)
World Snow Day: 15
Link (3rd
Sunday)
*Appreciate A Dragon Day: 16
Blue Monday: 16
(3rd Monday)
Link
*Civil Service Day: 16
*Fig Newton Day: 16
Link
Link
Martin Luther King Day: 16 (3rd Monday)
National
Crowd Feed Day: 16 (Always on Martin Luther
King Day)
National Day of Service: 16
Link
(3rd Monday)
*National Nothing Day: 16
*National Quinoa Day: 16
*Religious Freedom Day: 16 Link
Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day: 16 (3rd
Monday)
Robert E. Lee Day: 16
Link
(3rd Monday)
*Without A Scalpel Day: 16
Link
Link
*Zeta Phi Beta Day: 16
*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
*Popeye Day: 17
*National Rye Whiskey Day: 17
Link
World Scotch Pie
Day: 17? Link
*Pooh (Winnie
The) Day: 18
*Thesaurus Day: 18
Link
Get
to Know Your Customers Day: 19 ( January 19,
April 20, July 20 and October 19 = 3rd Thurs. of Each Quarter)
*Popcorn Day: 19 Link
(Alternate date: Super Bowl Sunday)
*Tin
Can Day: 19
Women's Healthy Weight Day: 19 ( Thursday
of 3rd Full Week aka Healthy Weight Week)
*World Day of Migrants
and Refugees: 19
*World Quark Day: 19 Link
Bean Day: 20 Link
Hat Day: 20 (3rd Friday)
*Camcorder Day:
20
*Inauguration Day: 20
*International Day of Acceptances: 20
Link
International Fetish Day: 20
(3rd Friday)
*National Cheese Lovers Day: 20
*National Disc Jockey
Day: 20 Link Link
*Penguin Awareness Day: 20
Link
*Tech Day: 20
Link
Bald Eagle Appreciation Days: 21-22
*International Sweatpants Day: 21
*National Cheesy Socks
Day: 21
*National Hugging Day: 21
Link
(also May 27)
*National Hug Your Puppy
Day: 21
*National Hyalluronic Acid Day: 21
Link
National Use Your Gift Card Day: 21 (3rd
Saturday) Link
*Answer Your Cat's Questions Day: 22
Celebration of Life Day: 22
(Sunday of Last Full Wk.)
China New Year: 22
National Bible
Sunday: 22 (4th Sunday)
*Roe vs. Wade
Day: 22
*Sanctity of Human Life Day: 22
Link
Maternal Health Awareness Day: 23
Link
*National Handwriting Day: 23
Link
*National Pie Day: 23 Link
Link (Not to be confused with Pi Day on March
14)
*Paul Pitcher Day: 23
Link
*Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day: 23
*Beer Can Day: 24
Link
Link
*Belly Laugh Day: 24
*International Day of Education: 24
*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
*World Day for African and Afrodescendant Culture: 24
*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 sale to 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. )
Library Shelfie Day:
25 Link
(4th Wednesday)
*National Irish Coffee Day:
25 (Also observed on March 17)
*Opposite
Day: 25 Link
*Robert
Burns Day: 25
Link Link
*Clashing Clothes Day: 26
*Dental Drill Appreciation Day: 26
*Lotus 1-2-3 Day: 26
*National Green
Juice Day: 26
Link
*National Peanut Brittle Day: 26 Link
*Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement: 26
*Auschwitz Liberation Day: 27
Fun at Work Day: 27
(Last Friday)
*Holocaust Memorial Day: 27
*International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust:
27 Link
National Big Wig Day: 27
Link
(Last Friday)
*National Geographic Day: 27
National Pre-school Fitness Day: 27 (Last Friday)
Link
National Seed Swap Day:
28 (Last Saturday)
*Thomas Crapper Day: 27
*Viet Nam Peace Day: 27
*World Breast Pumping Day: 27
Link
*Data Privacy Day: 28
Link
Fruitcake
Toss Day: 28 Link
(Last Saturday)
*Global Community Engagement Day: 28
Link
Local Quilt Shop Day: 28
(4th Saturday)
*National Kazoo Day: 28
Link
*National Pediatrician
Day: 28
*National Gift of The Lady Bug Day: 28
Link
National Seed Swap Day: 28 (Last Saturday)
*Rubber Ducky Day: 28
Link Link
(Also here due to Sesame Street saying it's
on the 28th. Because the general belief is that this is on Ernie's birthday.
So, there are 3 dates for this. Rather boggling.)
*Thank A Plugin
Developer Day: 28
Link
AFRMA Fancy Rat Day: 29
*Curmudgeons Day: 29
*Freethinkers Day:
29
Grammy Awards: 29?
*National Puzzle Day: 29
*Seeing Eye Dog Day:
29
*Thomas Paine Day: 29
World Leprosy Day: 29
(Last Sunday)
Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day:
30 (Always Last Monday)
Link
*Croissant Day: 30 Link
*Inane Answering Message Day: 30
A.F.R.M.A. Fancy Rat & Mouse Day: 31 (Last Tuesday)
*Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day: 31
*Inspire Your Heart with Art Day: 31
National Plan For A Vacation Day: 31
Link (Last
Tuesday)
*Street
Children Day: 31 Link
Link
(Note: Different than one on April 12)
January 2023 Moon
Phases
Current Moon View
as of today
|
16
NFuFull Moon
6:09 pm EST
|
14 FLast
Qtr. 9:13 pm EST
|
|
21 NNew Moon
3:55 pm EST
|
28
First Qtr. 10:20
am EST
|
Full Moon on the 6th 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.
January 3-4: Quadrantid
Meteor Shower. (Could have up to 40 meteors per hour.)
January 30: Best
time to view Mercury, since it'll be at it's highest point above the horizon.
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