I'm looking for a list of holidays or celebrations that take place
within a calendar year.

For example these would include mainstream holidays such as Christmas,
Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Halloween but it would also include
obscure holidays or celebrations like Groundhog Day, Shortest month of
the year, start of summer, longest day of the year, shortest day of
the year ect.

I'd like them in a text file listed according to the month, date and
holiday.  Here is an example:

December
24 - Christmas Eve
25 - Christmas Day
26 - Boxing Day
31 - New Years Eve

January
1 - New Years Day

The more holidays and celebrations the better (even if they maybe
silly).  Finally, I'd also like a list of things that maybe celebrated
throughout the year but not have a defined date on the calendar for
everyone.  These things could include birthdays, anniversaries,
weddings, ect.

These can simply be listed underneath the calendar celebrations.

Thanks for your help!!

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Clarification of Question by stu_mc10-ga on 24 Apr 2006 13:19 PDT

Sorry I forgot to add that I would also like to know any dedicated
"month of" holiday's like "Black History Month", "Prevention of Animal
Cruelty Month" ect.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 24 Apr 2006 14:00 PDT

Stu_mc10,

Take a look at this list of daily and monthly events and holidays
listed for January.
http://www.a2zgorge.info/calendar/historyevents/01janhistory.html

You mentioned that you would accept silly events as well; but there
might be some events on this listing that are too silly to include.

What do you think?

Thanks, 
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by stu_mc10-ga on 25 Apr 2006 00:00 PDT

Bobbie,

Thanks for your response.

I agree with you in that some of them are a little overboard. 
Basically as long as it's fairly reasonable then let's include it but
if it seems "forced" then not.

For example, "Secretary Day" is good but "TV Repair Man Day" seems far
fetched and wouldn't therefore be good for the list.

Most of the holidays on the website you gave me for January seem "made
up" and a little too unrealistic.

As long as they are reasonable let's go for them :)

Thanks again for your help.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 25 Apr 2006 00:22 PDT

Hi stu_mc10,

Please take a look at this site and let me know what you think:
http://www.butlerwebs.com/holidays/default.htm


Take January as an example:

January Holiday & Observance Daily Calendar
Monthly Observances for January
http://www.butlerwebs.com/holidays/january.htm


Looking forward to your clarification.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 25 Apr 2006 05:12 PDT

stu_mc10-ga,


The best list that I know of is the one at the Infoplease page, which
gives holidays, major events (like daylight savings) and "month of"
designations:


http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0901046.html


For instance, here are the listings for April:


POETRY MONTH
 
1?April Fool's Day 
2?Daylight Saving Time begins
9?Palm Sunday
11?Mawlid al-Nabi*
13?1st Day of Passover*
14?Good Friday
16?Easter Sunday
23?Orthodox Easter


Does this listing meet your needs?


pafalafa-ga

By combining lists from two main sources, I was able to put toegther a
pretty complete listing of the types of events you asked about:


January

1?New Year's Day
6?Epiphany
13?Friday the 13th
10?(Eid) al Adha
16?Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday observed
29?Chinese New Year
31?1st Day of Muharram





February

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
 
2?Groundhog Day
9 -Chinese New Years
10?26?Winter Olympics: Turin, Italy
12?Lincoln's Birthday
14?St. Valentine's Day
20?Washington's Birthday (or Presidents' Day) observed
22?Washington's Birthday
28?Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)







March

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
 
1?Ash Wednesday
2-Pulaski Day
14?Purim
15?The Ides of March
17?St. Patrick's Day
20?Spring begins (EST)





April

POETRY MONTH
 
1?April Fool's Day Explained 
2?Daylight Saving Time begins
9?Palm Sunday
11?Mawlid al-Nabi
13?1st Day of Passover
14?Good Friday
15-Tax Day
16?Easter Sunday
22-Earth Day
23?Orthodox Easter
26-Administrative Professional's Day 
28-Arbor Day


National Volunteer Week 4/23/06 - 4/29/06
 



May

ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
 
1 -May Day
4 -National Day of Prayer
5 -Cinco de Mayo
6 -Nurses Day 
6 -Derby Day 
14?Mother's Day
25?Ascension Day
29?Memorial Day observed

National Teacher Appreciation Week 5/1 - 5/7/06





June

2?1st Day of Shavuot
4?Pentecost
14?Flag Day
18?Father's Day
21?Summer begins (EDT)




July

1?Canada Day
4?Independence Day
14-Bastille Day




August
[oddly enough, no listings]




September

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH (Sept. 15?Oct. 15)
 
4?Labor Day
10-Grandparents Day
16-Ocktoberfest begins
22?Autumn begins (EDT)
23?1st Day of Rosh Hashanah
24?Ramadan begins




October

2?Yom Kippur
7?1st Day of Sukkot
9?Columbus Day observed
9?Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
13?Friday the 13th
14?Shemini Atzeret
16-Boss's Day
21-Sweetest Day
21?Diwali
22-Mother-in-Law's Day
24?Ramadan ends (Eid al-Fitr)
29?Daylight Saving Time ends
31?Halloween
31-Dia de los Muertos






November

AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH
 
1?All Saints' Day
7?Election Day
11?Veterans/Remembrance Day
23?Thanksgiving Day (U.S.)






December

3?1st Sunday of Advent
16?1st Day of Hanukkah
21?Winter begins (EST)
25?Christmas Day
26?1st Day of Kwanzaa
26-Boxing Day
31?(Eid) al Adha



Hope that does the trick, but if there's anything else you need, just
let me know by posting a Request for Clarification.


pafalafa-ga


search strategy -- Used bookmarked sites for holidays, and combined lists from:


http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0901046.html

and

http://www.yahoo.americangreetings.com/category.pd?path=40650