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2012
Apr 1 Sunday — Palm Sunday (Christian religious observance). Also April Fools Day.
Apr 2 Monday — National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day.
Apr 3 Tuesday — Tweed Day.
Apr 6 Friday — Full Moon: Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, and full Fish Moon. Good Friday (Christian religious observance).
Apr 7 Saturday — Lazarus Saturday (Orthodox religious observance).
Apr 13 Friday — Near Earth Object 2004RQ252 passes to within 3.4 million miles of Earth, but perhaps as close as 4,730 miles.
Apr 7-14 Saturday-Saturday — Passover (Jewish religious observance).
Apr 8 Sunday — Easter Sunday (Christian religious observance).
Apr 11 Wednesday — Barbershop Quartet Day.
Apr 14 Saturday – 100th anniversary of RMS Titanic striking an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean at 11:40 pm.
Apr 15 Sunday — Rubber Eraser Day.
Apr 22 Sunday — National Jelly Bean Day. The gummy interior of the jelly bean may trace its origins back hundreds of years to a candy called Turkish Delight, while the outside shell is essentially the same as that developed in the late 17th century for Jordan Almond candies. The earliest known appearance of the modern jelly bean was during the American Civil War when William Schrafft of Boston promoted sending the candy to soldiers in the Union Army.[1] It was not until 1930 or so that jelly beans became an Easter candy, presumably from their resemblance to Easter eggs. Their egg-like shape was then associated with the Easter Bunny, who gave out eggs on Easter. --Wikipedia
Apr 25 Wednesday — World Penguin Day.
Apr 29 Sunday — Ninth Day of Ridvan (Baha'i religious observance).
Apr 30 Monday — St. James the Great Day (Orthodox religious observance).
May 4 Friday — International Tuba Day, Bird Day, and National Candied Orange Peel Day.
May 5 Saturday — Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a regional holiday in Mexico, primarily celebrated in the state of Puebla, with some limited recognition in other parts of Mexico. The holiday commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. -- Wikipedia
May 6 Sunday — Full Flower Moon, also the full Corn Planting Moon, and the Milk Moon. Also International No Diet Day which encourages us to appreciate the bodies we have.
May 6-12 Sunday-Saturday — Wildflower Week.
May 9 Wednesday — Lost Sock Memorial Day is the day following No Socks Day and recognizes your drawer full of unmatched socks.
May 12 Saturday — International Migratory Bird Day.
May 13 Sunday — Mother's Day. Also Jumping Frog Day. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1867 book of short stories by Mark Twain. Twain's first book, it collects 27 stories that were previously published in magazines and newspapers. The title story first appeared in print in 1865 and has also been published as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Twain describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to—to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road." -- Wikipedia
May 16 Wednesday – 100th anniversary of birth of Studs Terkel (d. 2008).
May 20 Sunday — Annular solar eclipse. The path of annularity will begin in southern China and move east through Japan, the northern Pacific Ocean, and into the western United States. A partial eclipse will be visible throughout parts of eastern Asia and most of North America. Path of totality runs through the Pacific Ocean from northern China to California.
May 24 Thursday — National Escargot Day. Also Ascension of Jesus (Orthodox religious observance).
May 28 Monday — Memorial Day.
May 29 Tuesday — Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i religious observance).
Jun 1 Friday — National Doughnut Day.
Jun 3-9 Sunday-Saturday — Fishing Week.
Jun 4 Monday — Full Strawberry Moon. Hug Your Cat Day and Old Maid's Day. 100th anniversary of a fire destroying 1,120 buildings in Istanbul.
Jun 5 Tuesday — World Environment Day.
Jun 6 Wednesday — Yo-Yo Day. National Yo-Yo Day falls on what is believed to be the birthday for the entrepreneur who in 1932 got into the yo-yo business and built an empire, Donald Duncan Sr.
Jun 6-Jun 8 Wednesday-Friday – 100th anniversary of Novarupta volcano eruption in Alaska, of the largest eruptions of the century. The volcano is located on the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 290 miles southwest of Anchorage. Formed in 1912 during one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the twentieth century, Novarupta released thirty times the volume of magma as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. The sixty-hour long eruption spewed about 3.5 cubic miles of magma, thirty times as much as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Only the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines was of a similar magnitude during the twentieth century. Ash flow from the eruption formed what was named the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. --Wikipedia.
Jun 7 Thursday — National Chocolate Ice Cream Day.
Jun 14 Thursday — Flag Day.
Jun 16 Saturday — Lailat al Miraj (Islamic religious observance). Guru Arjan Dev martyred.
Jun 17 Sunday — Father's Day.
Jun 20 Thursday — Summer Solstice.
Jun 25 Monday — National Catfish Day.