Ratcatcher's Day, Rat-catcher's Day or Rat Catcher's Day is celebrated on 26 June or 22 July, commemorating the m yth of the Pied Piper of Hameli n. The town of Hamelin in Germany uses the June date. [1] The confusion of dates is because t he Brothers Grimm cite 26 June 1284 as the date the Pied Piper led th e children out of the town, while the poem by Robert Browning gives it as 22 July 1376. It is a holiday remembering rat-catchers, similar to < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Professionals%27_Day" t itle="Administrative Professionals' Day">Secretary's Day.[2][3]
Random Acts of Kindness Day is the name of an unoffi cial holiday increasingly celebrated around the world by localities or organization s, or nationwide, in order to encourage acts of kindness. The original foun der of Random Acts of Kindness Day is unknown.[citation needed ].
The holiday is celebrated annually in the Uni ted States on February 17 and in New Zealand on September 1.[1] In New Zealand, RAK day began at a national level in 2005[2] by Josh de Jong, Marshall Gray, Megan Singleton and Reuben Gwyn. It is not a holiday, rather a national day where the entire country is challenged to do something kind to a friend or stranger for no reason at all.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260614T042403Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Talk-Like-a-Pirate-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Talk-Like-a-Pirate-Day-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD)
is a parodic<
/a> holiday<
/a> created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n S
lappy), of Albany, Oregon,[1]U.S., who proclaime
d September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk
like a pirate.[1] For example, an observer of th
is holiday would greet friends not with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, matey!" The holida
y, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy. It has become a holiday for members of the Church of
the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
According to Summers, the day is the only holiday to come into being as a result of a sports injury. He has stated that during a racquetball game between Summers and Baur, one of the m reacted to the pain with an outburst of "Aaarrr!", and the idea was born. That game took place on June 6, 1995, but out of respect for the observanc e of D-Day, they chose Summers' ex-wife's birthday, as it would be easy for him to remember.< a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_like_a_pirate_day#cite_note-websi te-0">[1][3]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260614T042403Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:National Punctuation Day (September 24th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/National-Punctuation-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260924 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-National-Punctuation-Day-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:National Punctuation Day is a celebration of punctua tion which occurs each year on September 24th.[1] Founded by Jeff Rubin in 2004, National Punctuation Day simply promotes the correct usage of punctuatio n. Rubin encourages appreciators of correct punctuation and spelling to send in pictures of errors spotted in every day life. [2]
National Punctuation Day has been recognized nationally in the media and in celebrat ions by people of all ages. A few of these notable events are listed below:
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260614T042403Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:National Coming Out Day (October 11th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/National-Coming-Out-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261011 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-National-Coming-Out-Day-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an internat ionally observed civil awareness day celebrating individuals who public ly identify as bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender—coming out regarding one's sexual orientation and/or gender identity being akin to a cultural rite of passage for LGBT people. The holiday is observed annually by members of the gay community on October 11.[1]< /span>
NCOD was founded in 1988 by Robert Eichberg, a psychologist from New Mexico and founder of the personal growth worksh op, The Experience, and Jean O'Leary, an openly-gay political leader fr om Los Angeles and then head of the National Gay Rights Advocates.[2][3] Th e date of October 11th was chosen because it was the anniversary of the 198 7 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay R ights. [1]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260614T042403Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Newspaper Carrier Day (October 17th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Newspaper-Carrier-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261017 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Newspaper-Carrier-Day-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Newspaper Carrier Day is celebrated in the United St ates and honors Barney Flaherty, the first newspaper carrier (or paperboy) hired in 1833, as well as all current newspaper car riers. It is celebrated on September 4, the anniversary of Flaherty's hirin g by Benjamin Day, publisher of the New York Sun. It is also observed by The Armidale Express, NSW, Australia, where cake is served. .[1]
Candy corn is a confection in the United States< /a> and Canada , popular primarily in autumn around Halloween (though available year-round in most p laces). Candy corn was created in the 1880s by George Renninger of the Wunderlee Candy Company; the three colors of the candy mimic the appearance of kernels of corn.[1 ] Each piece is approximately three times the size o f a whole kernel from a ripe or dried ear. Candy corn is made primarily fro m sugar, corn syru p, wax, artificial coloring and binders.[2] A serving of Brach's Candy Corn is nineteen pie ces, is 140 calories and has zero grams of fat.[1] Candy corn pieces are traditionally cast in three colors: a broad yellow end, a tapered orange c enter, and a pointed white tip.
The National Confectioners Association estimates that 20 million p ounds (just over 9000 metric tons) of candy corn are sold annually.[3] The top branded retailer of candy corn, Brach's, sells enough candy corn each year to circl e the earth 4.25 times if the kernels were laid end to end.[4]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260614T042403Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:No Music Day (November 21st, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/No-Music-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261121 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-No-Music-Day-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:No Music Day (the 21st of November) is an event intr oduced by Bill Drummond to draw attention to the cheapening of music as an art form due to its mindless and ubiquitous use in contemporary society. Drummond e xplained "I decided I needed a day I could set aside to listen to no music whatsoever, [...] Instead, I would be thinking about what I wanted and what I didn't want from music. Not to blindly -- or should that be deafly -- co nsume what was on offer. A day where I could develop ideas."
The date of November 21 was chosen as it is the day before the feast of Saint Cecil ia, who is the patron saint of music. This follows the traditional obse rvance of antithetical events on the day before religious occasions, such a s celebrating Mardi Gras before the start of Lent.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260614T042403Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Repeal Day (December 5th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Repeal-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261205 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Repeal-Day-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:The Repeal of Prohibition in the United States was a ccomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to th e United States Constitution on December 5, 1933.
In 1919, the re quisite number of legislatures of the States ratified the 18th Amendment to the Federal Constitu tion, enabling national prohibiti on one year later. Many women, notably members of the Women’s Ch ristian Temperance Union, were pivotal in bringing about national Prohi bition in the United States of Am erica, believing it would protect families, women and children from the effects of abuse of alcohol.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260614T042403Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Festivus (December 23rd, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Festivus DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261223 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Festivus-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Festivus is a secular holiday celebrated on December
23 as a way to commemorate the holiday season without participating in its
pressures and commercialism.
[1] Festivus became part of worldwide[2] popular cultu
re after being featured on an episode of the American TV show Seinfeld in
1997.[1][3]
Festivus was conceived by writer Da n O'Keefe and was celebrated by his family as early as 1966. The holida y was later introduced into popular culture by O'Keefe's screenwriter son Daniel on an episode of Seinfeld. The holiday's celebration, as it was sh own on Seinfeld, included an unadorned aluminum "Festi vus pole", practices such as the "Airing of Grievances" and "Feats of Strength", and the labeling of easily explainable ev ents as "Festivus miracles".
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260614T042403Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Random Acts of Kindness Day (U.S.) (February 17th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Random-Acts-of-Kindness-Day-US DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270217 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Random-Acts-of-Kindness-Day-US-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Random Acts of Kindness Day is the name of an unoffi cial holiday increasingly celebrated around the world by localities or organization s, or nationwide, in order to encourage acts of kindness. The original foun der of Random Acts of Kindness Day is unknown.[citation needed ].
The holiday is celebrated annually in the Uni ted States on February 17 and in New Zealand on September 1.[1] In New Zealand, RAK day began at a national level in 2005[2] by Josh de Jong, Marshall Gray, Megan Singleton and Reuben Gwyn. It is not a holiday, rather a national day where the entire country is challenged to do something kind to a friend or stranger for no reason at all.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260614T042403Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:World Health Day (April 7th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/World-Health-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270407 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-World-Health-Day-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:World Health Day is celebrated every year on 7 April , under the sponsorship of the World Health Organiz ation (WHO).
In 1948, the World Health Organization held the Firs t World Health Assembly. The Assembly decided to celebr ate 7 April of each year, with effect from 1950, as the World Health Day. T he World Health Day is held to mark WHO's founding, and is seen as an oppor tunity by the organization to draw worldwide attention to a subject of majo r importance to global health each year.[1] The WHO organizes international, r egional and local events on the Day related to a particular theme. Resource s provided continue beyond 7 April, that is, the designated day for celebra ting the World Health Day.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260614T042403Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Everybody Draw Mohammed Day (May 20th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Everybody-Draw-Mohammed-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270520 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Everybody-Draw-Mohammed-Day-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Everybody Draw Mohammed Day was an event held on May 20, 2010 in support of free speech and freedom of arti stic expression of those threatened by violence for drawing representations of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It began as a prote st against censorship of an American television show, South Park, "201" by its distributor, Comedy Central, in response to death th reats against some of those responsible for two segments broadcast in April 2010. Observance of the day began with a drawing posted on the Internet on April 20, 2010, accompanied by text suggesting that "everybody" create a d rawing representing Muhammad, on May 20, 2010, as a protest against efforts to li mit freedom of speech.
U.S. cartoonist Molly Norris of Seattle, Washington, created the artwork in react
ion to Internet death threats that had been made against cartoonists Trey Parke
r and Matt Stone for depicting Muhammad in an episode of South Park.
Depictions of Muhammad are explicitly forbidden by a
few hadiths (sayings of and about Muhammad), though not by the Qur'an.[1]
Postings on RevolutionMuslim.com (under the pen name Abu
Talha al-Amrikee; later identified as Zachary Adam Chesser) had said that Parker and Stone could wind up like Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was shot to death.[citation needed]
Geek Pride Day is an initiative to promote geek culture, celebrate d on 25 May. The date was chosen as to commemorate the release of the first Star Wars film, A New Hope on 25 May 1977 (see Star Wars Day), but shares the same day as two other similar fan "holidays": Towel Day, for fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tril ogy by Douglas Adams, and the Glorious 25 May for fans of Terry Pra tchett's Discworld.
The initiative originated in Spain in 2006 as "Orgullo Friki" and spread around the world via the internet.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260614T042403Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Towel Day (May 25th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Towel-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270525 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Towel-Day-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Towel Day is celebrated every 25 May as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams.< a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day#cite_note-0">[1 ] On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their love for the books and the author, as referred to in Adams's Th e Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The commemoration was first hel d in 2001, two weeks after Adams's death on 11 May 2001.[2]
The original quotation that explained the importance of towels is found in Chapter 3 o f Adams's work The Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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