Jan. 1. New Year’s Day, a very popular one anyway, but not
the only one throughout the year. Whatever the case may be I just hope 2013, a
year that just for the record will have 54 Friday the 13th’s, two
regular ones in September and December and the rest because, well because when
you write out the day on a Friday it will have a 13 in it, so there! / Festival of Janus (Roman) / Circumcision of
Christ Day (Catholic) Yes there is at least one church that claims to have the
item in question. / O-Shogatsu (Japan) Along with O-Bon this is one of Japan's
most important ceremonies where bad fortune of the past year is eliminated. /
Fortuna's Day (Roman) Fortuna was the Roman Goddess of Luck / Zeus & Hera's
Day (Greek) / Jupiter & Juno's Day (Roman) / Independence Day (Haiti) Heck
of a lot of holidays to be piled up on a day when so many people have
hangovers. / Kwanzaa ends.
Jan. 2. Ancestors Day. (Haiti) Be sure to call yours up and
have them over! / Only 4 shopping days left until Armenian Christmas.
Jan. 3. Festival of Sleep (U.S.) and it's on the Thursday
after my winter vacation is over, is this supposed to be ironic or something?
/ and going until the 7th,
Carnival de Blancos y Negros Holiday of Blacks and Whites (Columbia) Festival
held in Pasto City, Columbia. To celebrate 300 years of racial harmony they
have a two-day festival with music, street dances, free food and drink, and
usually water & flour fights and the picking of a queen. On the first day
everyone wears white face while on the last they don black face with special
make-up produced in the city for the purpose, it helps that they don't have
that whole toxic `minstrel show thing as part of their heritage. But what of
the Indians? / It was on this day in 1863, on the cover of Harper´s Weekly in a
cartoon by Thomas Nast, that Santa was first shown delivering gifts with a
reindeer-drawn sleigh. The title was `Santa Claus in Camp, the recipients of
those gifts, Union solders.
Jan. 4. Braille Day, birthday of Louis Braille a day for
honoring the blind. / Pharmacist Day (U.S.) / Spaghetti Day (U.S.) / Elizabeth
Ann Seton Feast Day (Catholic) First American born saint.
Jan. 5. Fragga's Day. (Norse) A day for the wife or Odin and
the Goddess of marriage. / Christianity introduced to England in 597.
Jan. 6. Twelfth Day, now you know when that damn song is
over! / Epiphany, This day was also at one time known as Old Christmas (Julian
calendar). / Christmas Day (Armenia). / La Bafana (Italy) a festival on which
the night before Bafana, a kindly witch flies down chimneys on her broom and
bestows gifts on good children and leaving lumps of coal for the bad children.
/ la Fiesta de los Reyes Magos `Three Kings Day (Latin America) day when, among
other things, the kids get presents rather than Christmas. / Festival of Kore
(Ancient Greek)
Jan. 7. Nanakusa (Japan, a festival that dates back to the 7th century and recalls the seven plants served to the emperor that are believed to have great medical value: Shepherd's Purse, chickweed, parsley, cottonweed, radish, hotoke-no-za, and aona.
Jan. 8. Feast of Justicia (Roman) / Mid-Wife's Day, (Greece)
/ Man Watcher Day (US) / Rock n' Roll Day or the Birthday of Elvis 1935. / Secret
Pal Day (internet) I guess if Hallmark can push dubious holidays why not 123greeting?
Jan. 9. Seijin-No-Hi `Coming of Age Day´ (Japan) Holiday for
anyone who attains the age of 20 anytime between April 2 of last year April 1
of this year. Always held on a Monday. / Feast of the Black Nazarene
(Philippines)
Jan. 10. Business God's Day (Japan) / Peculiar People Day
(US) about damn time. / The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers in 1926.
Jan. 11. Juturnalia (Roman) Time when water was taken from
her well to be used in state offerings. / Carmentalia (Roman) Day to celebrate
prophecy, the chief giver of which was Carmentis, Goddess of prophecy, who also
protected women during childbirth.
Jan. 12. Fabulous Wild Men Day (US)
Jan. 13. Midwinter blot (Norse) / Final Witchcraft laws
repealed in Austria, 1787. / Wham-O introduces the Frisbee in 1957; American
roofs have never been the same since.
Jan. 14. Makar Sankranti (Hindu) Marks the transition of the
Sun from Dhanu rashi (Sagittarius) to Makara rashi (Capricorn) while there are
12 Sankranti throughout the year, this is regarded as one of the most important
and is celebrated across Indian in a variety of ways depending on the local
culture of the different regions. / Bald Eagle Appreciation Day (US) / The
Simpsons Series Premiered 23 years ago, meaning Bart & Lisa have been
around longer than they are old.
Jan. 15. Feast of the Lord Esquipulas (Mayan) / Black Christ
Festival (Guatemala) / Feast of the Ass (French) Started out in Rome and was
dedicated to the Goddess Vesta's sacred animal, later it was Christianized.
Jan. 16. / Flag Day or Magen David Day (Israel) / Teacher's
Day (Thailand)
Jan. 17. Surya, Hindu Feast of the Sun Goddess.
Jan. 18. World Religion Day. (U.N.) Day to appreciate the
diversity of different religious expressions. At least the ones that aren't
trying to kill each other that is. / Winnie the Pooh Day.
Jan. 19. International Hot & Spicy Food Day (see bottom
of page for recipes) / Ati-Atiha Festival (Philippines) which goes to the 20th.
Jan. 20. Theogamia of Hera (Greek)
Jan. 21 Martin Luthor King Jr. Day observed / White Dog
Feast. (Iroquois)
Jan. 22 Festival of the Muses (Ancient Greek) / today is the
107th birthday of Robert E. Howard creator of Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane &
others.
Jan. 23. National Pie Day. (US) Ooooooh National pie day
agggggaaagh! (You know, the sound that Homer Simpson makes.)
Jan. 24. Milad un Nabi (Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad) or
Id-E-Milad which commemorates the Prophet Muhammad's (or Mohammad's) birthday.
Shia Muslims celebrate these 5 days later. Some Muslims do not approve of
celebrating the birthday, and regard doing so as a religious innovation. / Blessing
of the Happy Woman's Candle (Hungary) Bless that candle you happy little woman! / Clashing Clothes Day (US) Held the 4th Thursday of each January, wouldn't want to get that wrong would we? I mean if they go to the trouble to make one of the few movable silly "holidays" we might as well play along.
Jan. 25. Vietnamese New Year / Robert Burn's Night
(Scotland).
Jan. 26. Australia Day / Republic Day (India)
Jan. 27. National School Nurse Day (US) / Thomas Crapper
Day.
Jan. 28. National Kazoo Day (U.S.)
Jan. 29. Freethinker's Day also Thomas Paine's birthday in
1737. Happy 276th Tom!
Jan. 30. Festival of Pax (Greek) Feriae Senentiva `Feast of
Spring´. (Roman)
Jan. 31. National Popcorn Day (US) / Hecate's Feast (Greek)
/ Up-helly-Aa (Scotland) held the last Tuesday in January; it is the largest
Fire Festival in the world.
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