Long List of January Holidays and Special Days

By popular request, here is a long list of all of the special days celebrated in January 2008. If you prefer, you can explore january's special days by date.

Month Long Observances

• Eye Care Month

• Hot Tea Month

• National Blood Donor Month

• National Braille Literacy Month

• National Hobby Month

• National Soup Month

• National Staying Healthy Month

• National Thank You Month
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• Oatmeal Month
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January 1st

• Betsy Ross's Birthday
  Born in 1752.

• Ellis Island Aniversary
  Ellis Island opened on this day in 1892.

• Le Jour de l'An
  French New Year

• New Year's Day
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• Paul Revere's Birthday
  Born in 1735.

January 2nd

• Boo Boo Bear's Birthday
  Yogi the Bear's little buddy.

• Drinking Straw Patented
  On this day in 1888.

• Run up the Flagpole and See if Anyone Salutes Day

January 3rd

• Festival Of Sleep Day

• Fruitcake Toss Day

• Humiliation Day

• J.R.R. Tolkien's Birthday
  Born in 1892.

January 4th

• Isaac Newton's Birthday

• Jakob Grimm's Birthday
  Born in 1785.

• Louis Braille's Birthday
  Born in 1809.

• Trivia Day

January 5th

• First Woman Governor Inaugurated
  1925 inauguration of Nellie Ross as Wyoming's Governor.

• National Bird Day
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January 6th

• Bean Day

• Cuddle Up Day

• Dia de Reyes
  Celebrate in Mexico.

• Epiphany

• Sherlock Holmes' Birthday

January 7th

• Old Rock Day

January 8th

• Bubble Bath Day

• Elvis Presley's Birthday
  Born in 1935. Check out my page for this special day!

January 9th

• National Apricot Day

• National Static Electricity Day

January 10th

• First Meeting of United Nations
  In London in 1946.

• Peculiar People Day

January 11th

• Milk Day
  Milk delivered in bottles for the first time in 1878. Check out my page for this special day!

• Secret Pal Day

January 12th

• National Pharmacist Day

• Work Harder Day

January 13th

• Make Your Dreams Come True Day

• Poetry Break Day

• Rubber Duckie's Birthday
  Sesame Street Character. Check out my page for this special day!

January 14th

• Coming -of-Age Day
  Celebrated in Japan on the second Monday of January.

• National Dress Up Your Pet Day

January 15th

• First Super Bowl
  Played in 1967. Green Bay (35) defeated Kansas City (10).

January 16th

• National Nothing Day

January 17th

• Benjamin Franklin's Birthday
  Born in 1706. Check out my page for this special day!

• Shari Lewis' Birthday
  Born in 1934.

January 18th

• Hat Day
  Third Friday in January.

• Thesaurus Day

• Winnie the Pooh Day
  A.A. Milne's Birthday. Born in 1882. Check out my page for this special day!

January 19th

• Popcorn Day
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January 20th

• Cheese Day

• Inauguration Day

• Penguin Awareness Day

January 21st

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  Honoring his birthday (born in 1929). It is observed on the Third Monday in January - the 21st in 2008. Check out my page for this special day!

• National Hugging Day

• Squirrel Appreciation Day

January 22nd

• National Blonde Brownie Day

January 23rd

• Measure Your Feet Day

• National Handwriting Day

January 24th

• Compliment Day

• Eskimo Pie Patented
  By Christian Nelson in 1922.

• Gold Discovered in California
  At Sutter's Mill in 1848.

January 25th

• Burns Night
  Celebrated in Scotland.

• Opposite Day

January 26th

• Australia Day
  The day Sydney Australia was settled in 1778. Check out my page for this special day!

January 27th

• Chocolate Cake Day

• Holocaust Memorial Day
  Celebrated in the UK.

• Lewis Carroll's Birthday
  Born in 1832.

January 28th

• Ernie's Birthday
  Sesame Street Character.

January 29th

• National Puzzle Day

January 30th

• Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday
  Born in 1882.

January 31st

• Backwards Day
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• Jackie Robinson's Birthday
  Born in 1919.

• National Kazoo Day
  Usually celebrated on the last Thursday of January.

This information is correct to the best of my knowledge. These dates are collected from many online and offline resources. Please do not email me asking me for more info about a date - All the information I have is posted here.