New Year's Day

Paul Revere's Birthday (1735)

Betsy Ross's Birthday (1752)

Ellis Island Opened for Immigration (1892)

Nat'l Science Fiction Day

Georgia Ratification Day (1788)

Moon First Photographed (1839)

J.R.R. Tolkien's Birthday (1892)

Alaska Named 49th State (1959)

Nat'l Trivia Day

Jakob Grimm's Birthday (1785)

Louis Braille's Birthday (1809)

Utah Admission Day (1896)

Letter Writing Week

Nat'l Bird Day

X-Ray Discovered (1896)

Telegraph First Demonstrated (1838)

New Mexico Ratified (1912)

Jupiter's Moons Discovered (1610)

U.S. Hydrogen Bomb Revealed (1953)

Last Battle of War of 1812 (1815)

Elvis Presley's Birthday (1935)

Nat'l Static Electricity Day

Connecticut Ratification Day (1788)

Richard Nixon's Birthday (1913)

Oil Discovered in Texas (1901)

UN General Assembly First Convened (1946)

Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across Pacific (1935)

John Hancock's Birthday (1737)

First Public Museum Opened in SC (1773)

First Woman Elected to Senate (1932)

James Joyce Died (1941)

Clean Off Your Desk Day

Revolutionary War Ended (1784)

Hat Day

Martin Luther King's Birthday (1929)

Operation Desert Storm Announced (1991)

Ben Franklin's Birthday (1706)

First Baby Born in White House (1806)

World Religions Day

A.A. Milne's Birthday (1882)

Martin Luther King Day

Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday (1809)

Nazis Formulated "Final Solution" (1942)

Reagan Became Oldest President (1981)

MLK Jr. Day Celebrated as Federal Holiday (1986)

First Atomic Submarine Launched (1954)

Vietnam Draft Evaders Pardoned (1977)

Nat'l Popcorn Day

500 Russians Killed on "Bloody Sunday" (1905)

Abortion Legalized in Roe v. Wade (1973)

Nat'l Handwriting Day

Earthquake Killed 830,000 in China (1556)

First Female Physician in the U.S. (1849)

California Gold Rush Began (1848)

Edith Wharton's Birthday (1862)

Thurgood Marshall Died (1993)

First Transcontinental Phone Call (1915)

First Winter Olympics (1924)

Chinese New Year

Australia Day

Michigan Admission Day (1837)

Earthquake in India Killed 20,000 (2001)

Mozart's Birthday (1756)

Lewis Carroll's Birthday (1832)

Auschwitz Concentration Camp Liberated (1945)

Vietnam War Peace Accords Signed (1973)

Jackson Pollock's Birthday (1912)

First Jewish Associate Justice Appointed to Supreme Court (1916)

Challenger Shuttle Exploded (1986)

Nat'l Puzzle Day

Poe's "The Raven" Published (1845)

Kansas Admission Day (1861)

Robert Frost Died (1963)

Adolf Hitler Named German Chancellor (1933)

"Blue Suede Shoes" Recorded (1956)

Thirteenth Amendment Abolished Slavery (1865)

Jackie Robinson's Birthday (1919)