2012

JANUARY

Jan 1 Sunday — New Year’s Day. U.S. population 306,780,074, which is 4.42 percent of the world's 6,935,841,550 population.

Jan 2 Monday — New Year’s Day holiday in U.S.

Jan 3 Tuesday — Festival of Sleep Day.

Jan 5 Thursday — National Bird Day.

Jan 5 Thursday —Twelfth Night. (Christian religious observance).

Jan 7 Saturday —Fruicake Toss Day. Various dates are claimed for this. Manitou Springs Colo., holds on the one of the best fruitcake tossing competitions on the first Satuday in January.

Jan 8 Sunday — All About Bubble Bath Day.

Jan 9 Monday — Full Wolf Moon also referred to as the Old Moon.

Jan 12 Thursday — National Pharmacist Day.

Jan 13 Friday — Blame Someone Else Day.

Jan 16 Monday — Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday observed.

Jan 20 Friday — Penguin Awareness Day.

Jan 23 Monday — Chinese New Year.

Jan 27 Friday — Chocolate Cake Day.

Jan 31 Tuesday — 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13×13×33 km) will pass Earth 16.6 million miles distant.

FEBRUARY

Feb 2 Thursday — Groundhog Day.

Feb 3 Friday — The Day the Music Died. On February 3, 1959, a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, killed three American rock and roll musicians: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson. The day was later called The Day the Music Died by Don McLean in his 1971 song, "American Pie." -- Wikipedia

Feb 5 Sunday — Super Bowl XLVI, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Feb 7 Tuesday — Full Snow Moon or full Hunger Moon.

Feb 12 Sunday — Lincoln's birthday anniversary.

Feb 12-18 Sunday-Saturday — International Flirting Week.

Feb 14 Tuesday — St. Valentine's Day. Also National Organ Donor Day.

Feb 16 Thursday — Do a Grouch a Favor Day.

Feb 17 Friday — Random Acts of Kindness Day.

Feb 20 Monday — President's Day.

Feb 22 Wednesday — Anniversary of Washington's birthday. Also Ash Wednesday. Lent begins (Christian religious observance).

Feb 26 Sunday — National Pistachio Day.

Feb 27 Monday — Polar Bear Day.

Feb 28 Tuesday and Aug 22 Wednesday — National Tooth Fairy Day.

Feb 27 Monday — Clean Monday. Great Lent begins. (Orthodox religious observance).

MARCH

Mar 1 Thursday — National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day.

Mar 6 Tuesday — Near Earth Object 2008EJ85 passes to within 2.2 million miles of Earth, perhaps as close as 161,000 miles.

Mar 8 Thursday — Full Worm Moon, also the full Crow Moon or the full Crust Moon. Magha Puja Day (Buddhist religious observance).

Mar 11 Sunday and Sep 26 Wednesday — Johnny Appleseed Day. Johnny Appleseed, born John Chapman Sep 26, 1774, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He became an American legend while still alive, largely because of his kind and generous ways, his great leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance of apples. His death date, possibly Feb 18, 1845, is disputed. -- Wikipedia

Mar 11-17 Sunday-Saturday — National Bubble Week.

Mar 14 Wednesday — National Pi Day. Pi Day and Pi Approximation Day are holidays held to celebrate the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14, 3.14 being the first three digits of pi. It is also Albert Einstein's and Waclaw Sierpinski's birthday. It can also be celebrated on March 4 (when 14% of the month of March has elapsed). Pi Approximation Day is observed on July 22, due to π being roughly equal to 22/7. However, all cited dates are "approximation days," since pi is an irrational number.  -- Wikipedia

Mar 15 Thursday — The ides of March is the name of March 15 in the Roman calendar. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October. The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held. In modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. The wealthy citizens were angered by Caesars' power over the senate. Caesar was later stabbed in the back by his own friend Brutus and Brutus's minions inside of the Forum. His dying words were "You too, my child?" which, according to Suetonius (The Twelve Caesars - Julius Caesar - 84), he said in Greek. In William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, Caesar is warned to "beware the Ides of March." -- Wikipedia

Mar 16 Friday– 100th anniversary of disappearance and probable death of Inniskilling Dragoons Capt. Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates, an English Antarctic explorer. Aware that his ill-health was compromising his companions' lives, he told them "I am just going outside and may be some time," he walked out into a blizzard. Expedition captain Robert F. Scott and 14 other members continued but became trapped in their tent by the weather and too weak, cold and malnourished to continue. They died March 29, eleven miles short of their objective. Their frozen bodies were discovered by a search party on November 12. Oates' body was never found. Near where he was presumed to have died, the search party erected a cairn and cross bearing the inscription, "Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman, Captain L. E. G. Oates, of the Inniskilling Dragoons. In March 1912, returning from the Pole, he walked willingly to his death in a blizzard, to try and save his comrades, beset by hardships." --Wikipedia

Mar 17 Saturday — St Patrick's Day. Also National Quilting Day.

Mar 23 Friday — Hindu religious New Year.

Mar 20 Tuesday — Vernal Equinox. Also International Earth Day and Extraterrestrial Abductions Day.

Mar 28 Wednesday — Khordad Sal, anniversary of birth of prophet Zaranhushtra (Zoroastrian religious observance).

Mar 31 Saturday — Clam on the Half Shell Day.