What are movable holidays?
Movable Holidays are ones that do not always occur on the same day or date each year. Movable Holidays are also the hardest holidays to keep up because individuals will unknowingly list them as occurring on the same day each year when they are indeed a movable holiday. (for example: bloggers & personal websites) Therefore it creates a snowball effect where incorrect dates are listed all over the Internet.
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The Fact Is:
Finding factual information, the creator, or the origin of all holidays is very hard to do. Even though a holiday is referred to as a "National" day, a/any congressional records or presidential proclamations for this day may not be found. Even if it's not, it may still be a holiday that is publicized to celebrate.
So have fun with it and celebrate it!
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Movable January Holidays
- National Sanctity of Human Life Day (third Sunday in January) pp
- Handsel Day - in Scotland; traditionally handsel - in presents were given by employers to their staff, rather than on Christmas Day. In some areas this was done on January 12th. (1st Monday)
- Passport Presentation Day - in Russia - usually Jan. 2 (1st Workday)
- Gals Night Out (1st Friday)
- Thermopolis Day - in Wyoming (1st Friday)
- "First Friday" at the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Leisure Suit Saturday (1st Saturday)
- Straw Bear Day (Saturday before Plough Monday)
- Plough Monday (1st Monday after the 6th)
- Volunteer Fireman's Day (2nd Sunday)
- Holy Family Day (2nd Sunday)
- Meitlisunntig - in Switzerland (2nd Sunday)
- Secret Pal Day (2nd Sunday)
- National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day (2nd Monday)
- Show and Tell Day at Work (2nd Monday)
- What You Don't Know Day (2nd Tuesday)
- Rid the World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day (2nd Tuesday)
- Make Your Dreams Come True Day (2nd Wednesday)
- Pharmacists Day (2nd Thursday)
- Festa do Bonfim begins - in Brazil (2nd Thursday)
- Family Communications Day (2nd Thursday)
- Healthy Weight, Healthy Look Day (2nd Thursday)
- Bald Eagle Appreciation Days (2nd Weekend)
- Golden Globe Awards (3rd Sunday)
- Human Relations Day (3rd Monday)
- Elementary School Teachers Day (3rd Monday)
- Junk Food News Alert Day (3rd Monday)
- Lee-Jackson Day - in Virginia (3rd Monday)
- Maintenance Day (3rd Wednesday)
- Guys Night Out (3rd Thursday)
- World Championship Snow Sculpture Contest - in Breckenridge, Colorado (3rd Weekend)
- Ati-Atihan Festival begins - in Philippines (3rd Saturday)
- National School Nurse Day (4th Wednesday)
- Up-Helly-Aa - in Scotland (final Tuesday)
- Backwards Day (final Tuesday)
- Get To Know Your Customer Day (third Thursday of each quarter)
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Movable February Events
- Homstrom - features the burning of straw men on poles, symbolizing Old Man Winter departing. (1st Sunday)
- Gasparilla Pirate Invasion Festival begins - in Tampa, Florida (Monday after the 1st Thursday)
- President's Day (3rd Monday)
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Movable March Holidays
- Education and Sharing day (March or April) pp
- World Day of prayer is the first Friday in March.
- National Preschooler's Day is the second Friday in March.
- Commonwealth Day is the Second Monday in March.
- Preschool Teachers Appreciation Day is the third Friday in March.
- No Homework Day the last Friday in March.
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Movable April Holidays
- National D.A.R.E. Day (second Thursday in April) pp
- Pan American Day and week (April 14 and week thereof) pp
- Easter, a holiday that is celebrated to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is observed in the US on Sunday, March 23rd of 2008 and on April 12, 2009, April 4, 2010. (some Sunday between March 22 to April 25) In Canada it was observed on Monday March 24, 2008.
- Fun at Work Day is the First Monday in April.
- Sweet Potato Day is the First Monday in April.
- Check Your Batteries Day is the First Sunday in April.
- Go Fly a Kite Day is the third Sunday In Apri.
- National Arbor Day varies by State / is the last Friday of April.
- School Librarian's Day is the Wednesday of Library Week.
- Kids Kick Butts Day (Anti-Tobacco) is the first Wednesday in April.
- National Sense of Smell Day (United States) (Last Saturday)
- Budoha Day (Hawaii)- 1st Sunday
- Vesak (Buddha's Birthday) 1st Sunday
- Saturday Market Day (Oregon) 1st Saturday
- Tax Saturday (UK)-1st Saturday before 5th
- Glarus Festival (Osman land) 1st Thursday
- Student Government Day (Massachusetts) 1st Friday in April.
- Arbor Day (Apache, Navajo, Coconino, Mohave, Yavapai; Arizona) Friday after 1st
- Sechselauten (Six Ringing Festival; Switzerland)3rd Sunday & Monday.
- National High Five Day (USA) -3rd Thursday
- First Day of Summer (Iceland) Thursday between 19th & 26th.
- Peppercorn Day (Bermuda) Saturday nearest St. George's Day (23rd)
- St. George's Day (Newfoundland) Monday nearest Feast Day of St. George (23rd)
- Lambri (Bright Day; Greece) Sunday after 1st full moon after vernal equinox following Passover.
- Fast Day (New Hampshire) 4th Monday
- Take Our Daughters (and Sons) to Work Day - 4th Thursday
- Just Pray No weekend -4th Weekend
- Confederate Memorial Day (Alabama, Mississippi) Last Monday
- Arbor Day (Last Friday in April)
- Bird Day (Last Friday in April)
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Movable May Holidays
- National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week (third Friday in May and week thereof) pp
- Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day (last Monday in May) pp
- Mothers Day - Mothers Day is always (second Sunday in May). Here are the movable dates for the next few years. May 11, 2008 -- , May 10, 2009 -- May 9, 2010 -- May 8, 2011.pp
- Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May.
- National Backyard Games week (Last full week before Memorial Day.)
- Surgical Technologist Week (Always the week with the 3rd Sunday)
- Police Week (Full Week including May 15th)
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Movable June Holidays
- National Child's Day (first Monday in June) pp
- Flag Day, and National Flag Week (June 14 and week thereof) pp
- Father's Day: In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson made Father's Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June in the US. Note: Other countries also celebrate Fathers Day that may be celebrated on different dates. pp
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Movable July Holidays
- Barn Day is the second Sunday In July.
- Ice Cream Sundae Day is the third Sunday in July.
- Ride to Work Day is the third Wednesday in July.
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Movable August Holidays
- American Family Day (1st Sunday in August)
- Friendship Day (1st Sunday in August)
- National Day of Peace (1st Sunday in August)
- Bahamas Emancipation Day (1st Monday in August)
- Colorado Day (1st Monday in August)
- Grenada Emancipation Day (1st Monday in August)
- Jamaica Independence Day (1st Monday in August)
- Nut Monday (1st Monday in August)
- Shop & Office Workers' Holiday - in Iceland (1st Monday in August)
- Youth Day - in Zambia (1st Monday in August)
- Feast Day of St. Wilfred - in Yorkshire, UK (1st Saturday)
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Movable September Holidays
- National POW/MIA Recognition Day (Third Friday in Sept.) pp
- CitizenshipDay and ConstitutionWeek (Sept.17 & week thereof) pp
- Aunt's Day is the first Saturday after Labor Day.
- Idaho Spud Day is the third Saturday in September.
- International Day of Peace is the third Tuesday in September.
- Native American Day is the fourth Friday In September, although it is often celebrated on different days.
- National Hunting and Fishing Day is the fourth Saturday in September.
- Good Neighbor Day is the fourth Sunday in September
- National Public Lands Day is the last Saturday in September.
- Confucius Birthday is September 28 in the US calendar, where it is also known as National Teacher's Day, his birthday falls on the 27th day of the eighth lunar month (Sometime between the end of September and the beginning of November) in the Chinese lunar calendar
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Movable October Holidays
- Child Health Day is the first Monday in October.
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Movable November Holidays
- Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November) The first US National Holiday made by presidential proclamation. pp
- New York City Marathon (1st Sunday)
- RAC London to Brighton Veteran Car Run - in the UK (1st Sunday)
- Recreation Day - in Australia, Tasmania (1st Monday)
- Black Solidarity Day (Yale University) (1st Mondday)
- Melbourne Cup Day - in Victoria (1st Tuesday)
- Wet Wellington Wednesday (Imps and Gremlins) (1st Wednesday)
- World Community Day (1st Friday in November)
- Arbor Day - in Western Samoa (1st Friday in November)
- Sadie Hawkins Day - (1st Saturday) also "officially" on November 9 and Leap Day (February 29) It became a day-long event observed in Canada and in the U.S. on the Saturday that follows November 9th.
- National Service Day (1st Saturday)
- Lord Mayor Day - in London (2nd Saturday)
- Elephant Round-up - in Surin, Thailand (2nd Saturday)
- Zibelemarit (Onion Market Day) - in Berne, Switzerland (4th Monday)
- National Bible Sunday (Sunday before Thanksgiving)
- Black Friday - opening of the Christmas shopping season. (Friday after Thanksgiving)
- Pasadena Doo Dah Parade (Sunday after Thanksgiving)
- Volkstrauertag (Memorial Day) - in Germany (Sunday before Totensonntag.
- Stir-Up Sunday - in UK (Sunday before Advent)
- Totensonntag - in Germany (Sunday before Advent)
- JFK Day - in Massachusetts (Last Sunday in November)
- International Computer Security Day (last workday)
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Movable December Holidays
- Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week (December 10 and week beginning of) pp
- Lover's Fair - in Belgium - (first thursday)
- Festival of Trees begins - in Topeka, Kansas - (first thursday)
- Klopfelnachte - in Germany - (thursday before Christmas)
- Apple Pie Day - at Winchester College - (thursday after the 1st Tuesday)
- Army & Navy Union Day - in Massachusetts - (2nd Saturday)
- California Kiwifruit Day - (1st Day of Winter)
- Nuts Fair - in Belgium - (3rd Monday in December)
- Underdog Day (3rd Friday in December)
- Boxing Day - in the UK, Australia and New Zealand (1st weekday after Christmas)
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