January Observances
Each Day:1 New Year's Day
2 Run up the Flagpole and See if Anyone Salutes Day
3 Festival of Sleep Day
3 Fruitcake Toss Day
3 Humiliation Day
4 Trivia Day
5 National Bird Day
6 Bean Day
6 Cuddle Up Day
7 Old Rock Day
8 Bubble Bath Day
8 Male Watcher's Day
9 Play God Day
10 Peculiar People Day
11 Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend's Day
12 Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day
12 National Pharmacist Day
13 International Skeptics Day
13 Make Your Dream Come True Day
14 Dress Up Your Pet Day
15 National Hat Day
16 National Nothing Day
17 Ditch New Years Resolutions Day
17 Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday , celebrated on the third Monday
18 Thesaurus Day
18 Winnie the Pooh Day -The Birthday of Winnie's author A.A. Milne
19 National Popcorn Day
20 National Buttercrunch Day
20 Penguin Awareness Day
21 National Hugging Day
21 Squirrel Appreciation Day
22 National Blonde Brownie Day
23 National Pie Day
23 National Handwriting Day
23 Measure Your Feet Day- we only ask...."Why!?!"
24 Beer Can Appreciation Day
24 Compliment Day
25 Opposite Day
26 Spouse's Day
27 Chocolate Cake Day
27 Punch the Clock Day
28 Fun at Work Day
28 National Kazoo Day
29 National Puzzle Day
29 National Cornchip Day
30 National Inane Answering Message Day
31 Backward Day
31 Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
Holidays in January
* New Year's Day – January 1* Independence Day in Haiti – January 1
* Handsel Monday in Scotland and northern England – First Monday
* Three Wise Men Day in Latin America – January 6
* Russian and Ukrainian Christmas Eve, also known as Svyat Vechir – January 6
* Coptic and Russian Orthodox Church Christmas – January 7
* Plough Sunday in Scotland and northern England – Sunday after January 6
* Coming of Age Day (成人の日, Seijin no hi?) in Japan – Second Monday
* National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the United States – January 11
* Feast of the Santo Niño in the Philippines – Third Sunday
* Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States – Third Monday
* Republic Day in India – January 26
* Australia Day in Australia - January 26
* Makara Sankranthi (Festival of Harvest) in India – January 15
* Auckland Anniversary in Auckland, New Zealand – Monday closest to January 29
* Burns night in Scotland – January 25
* The uniting of Moldavia and Wallachia under the same ruler in 1859, Romania – January 24
