According to the Haiku Foundation, Haiku Poetry Day is a 'celebration of the genre of haiku, a kind of poetry whose origins date back a millennium in Japan.' The three-line, 17-syllable poems are popular in the U.S., too. Haiku Haiku is a very short form of Japanese...
Today we celebrate one of the greatest ways to enjoy the summer season—an outdoor picnic with friends, family, games and activities, and delicious food. During the Victorian era, picnics were very important social occasions. They offered the rare opportunity for young men and women to...
Garfield the Cat Day celebrating the first publication of the Garfield comic strip on June 19, 1978. The newspaper might become less and less of a staple on our lawns or breakfast tables but even the youngest among us can recognize one of its most iconic and colorful stars (and we don’t...
If you are one of those folks who have special names for your vehicles, this annual holiday may be right up your alley. July 20th is Ugly Truck Day. Ugly Truck Day is also known as 'Ugly Truck Contest Day'. Why shouldn't ugly pickup trucks get just as much attention as the shiny, new trucks...
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD, September 19) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. For...
Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of its original title 'All Hallows' Evening'), also known as All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the eve before the Western Christian feast of All Hallows. According to some scholars, All Hallows' Eve initially...
