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National Chicken Finger Day®
Raising Cane’s states that founder Todd Graves created National Chicken Finger Day in 2010 and that it is celebrated on July 27.
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National Chicken Lady Day
National Day Calendar identifies November 4 as the annual date and documents the 2001 creation of the observance to honor Dr. Marthenia “Tina” Dupree.
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National Chicken Wing Day
New York Senate resolutions document that the City of Buffalo proclaimed July 29, 1977 as Chicken Wing Day and continued to recognize the date; modern “National” usage is informal rather th…
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National Child Day
Canada’s Child Day Act, S.C. 1993, c. 18, assented May 6, 1993, provides that November 20 in every year shall be known as Child Day throughout Canada; current federal sources promote Nation…
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National Child Identity Theft Awareness Day
Experian announced on August 27, 2018 that it was designating September 1 as Child Identity Theft Awareness Day and intended it to become an annual reminder; the campaign included September…
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National Chocolate Caramel Day
ANFP Wyoming and Wisconsin chapter calendars list National Chocolate Caramel Day on March 19.
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National Chocolate Souffle Day
Two ANFP Wyoming chapter calendars list National Chocolate Souffle Day on February 28.
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National Chocolate Wafer Day
ANFP chapter calendars list National Chocolate Wafer Day on July 3.
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National Chocolate with Almonds Day
ANFP chapter calendars list National Chocolate with Almonds Day on July 8.
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National Chocolate-Covered Nuts Day
Two ANFP Wyoming chapter calendars list National Chocolate-Covered Nuts Day on February 25.
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National Chocolate-Covered Raisins Day
ANFP Wyoming and Wisconsin chapter calendars list National Chocolate-Covered Raisins Day on March 24.
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National Clean Out Your Virtual Desktop Day
Timeanddate and Checkiday independently attribute the observance to the Personal Computer Museum in Brantford in 2010; Checkiday preserves a Wayback source to the museum’s original pcmuseum…
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National Clean Your Desk Day
A January 1992 Washington Post report identifies Anne Moeller as the person who got National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day entered in Chase’s Annual Events roughly a decade earlier, while current…
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National CleanUp Day
The official National CleanUp Day organization states that the observance takes place every year on the third Saturday in September.
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National Close the Gap Day
The current Close the Gap Campaign site places National Close the Gap Day on the third Thursday in March. Australian Human Rights Commission historical material records a first National Clo…
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National Coffee Break Day
Contemporaneous 2011 participant and Downtown Alliance records identify January 20 as the National Coffee Association’s National Coffee Break Day, place it within the NCA centennial campaig…
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National Coffee Day
The National Coffee Association repeatedly marks National Coffee Day around September 29, including its 2025 research release issued in advance of the September 29 observance and subsequent…
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National Coffee with a Cop Day
Coffee with a Cop and the U.S. Department of Justice COPS Office verify the program’s 2011 Hawthorne Police Department origin, the first national day on October 7, 2016, and the later/curre…
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National Color Day
Crayola first-party materials identify October 22 as National Color Day.
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National Coloring Book Day
Dover Publications states that it launched National Coloring Book Day, identifies August 2 as the annual date, and marks 2025 as the tenth anniversary; its 2016 release calls that year the…
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National Coming Out Day
Human Rights Campaign material verifies October 11, 1988 as the first National Coming Out Day, Jean O’Leary and Dr. Robert Eichberg as organizers/co-founders, the first-anniversary-of-the-1…
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National Concert Day
Live Nation created National Concert Day for May 5, 2015 and documented later editions on May 3, 2016 and May 1, 2017. The event therefore remains variable-custom and requires current organ…
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National Concussion Awareness Day®
The official National Concussion Awareness Day® site states that Brooke Mills founded the observance in 2016 and that it is recognized on the third Friday of September each year. A 2018 org…
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National Condom Day
SHINE SA, Australian Government health material and contemporaneous Australian reporting support February 14 as a recurring National Condom Day awareness date. The reviewed evidence does no…
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National Connecticut Day
National Day Calendar lists National Connecticut Day on August 10 within its privately created National State Days series. Connecticut’s January 9, 1788 statehood date is kept separate, and…
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National Consumer Day
Government of India Press Information Bureau / Department of Consumer Affairs
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National Controlled Environment Certifier Day
Controlled Environment Testing Association (CETA) first-party material states that CETA established National Controlled Environment Certifier Day, sponsored its creation in 2025, and observ…
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National Cookie Exchange Day
Multiple observance references consistently place National Cookie Exchange Day on December 22.
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National Cooking Day™
Meyer Corporation’s creator-provided 2016 release says PotsandPans.com created National Cooking Day and identifies September 25 as the observance date.
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National Coquito Day
Don Q Rum announced National Coquito Day as an annual December 21 observance and described the 2018 formalization of the day.
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National Corn Dog Day
National Day Calendar credits Brady Sahnow and Henry Otley with creating the observance in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1992; a preserved co-founder-attributed history corroborates the basketball…
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National Couscous Day
Ainsley Foods’ first-party page states that it created National Couscous Day for August 5; Ainsley Harriott’s official news archive dates the launch item to August 4, 2020. Supporting obser…
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National Craft Distillery Day
National Day Calendar identifies Nicholas Strauser, Connie Strauser and Brandy Strauser-Sobanski of N Scott Distillery as the 2019 founders and records May 22 as the annual observance date.
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National Craft for Your Local Shelters Day
Founder Erika Lindquist’s Sew Doggy Style archive says the official date is July 21 and that the observance started in 2012; NAPPS independently attributes the day to Lindquist.
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National Craft Jerky Day
National Day Calendar identifies Long Beach Jerky Co. as founder, states that November 27 honors “Gramps” Albert’s birthday, and records private registrar approval in 2016; the approval is…
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National Crayon Day
Crayola’s current craft resources identify March 31 as National Crayon Day and provide dedicated activities for the observance.
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National Cream Cheese Frosting Day
Arla Foods announced December 13 as the inaugural National Cream Cheese Frosting Day in 2018.
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National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day
ANFP chapter calendar material lists Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day / National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day on July 1.
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National Crime and Intelligence Analyst Appreciation Day
The Florida Crime & Intelligence Analyst Association states that it created NCIAAD in 2021 and promotes the sixth annual observance on September 20, 2026; IALEIA also recognizes the day.
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National Crime Junkie Day
Crime Junkie’s first-party fifth-anniversary page established National Crime Junkie Day for December 18, 2022 and ties the date to the podcast’s December 18, 2017 debut; a creator-linked cu…
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National Croc Day
Crocs corporate history traces Croc Day to fan activity on October 23, 2017 and repeatedly identifies October 23 as the annual Croc Day date, including in 2025. The inherited October 25 val…
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National Cuban Sandwich Day
Tampa Bay Times reporter Christopher Spata documented creating National Cuban Sandwich Day for August 23, 2016 as a journalism experiment; later University of South Florida institutional ma…
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National Culture and Senior Citizens Day
Kiribati’s Public Service Office lists the observance in the national public-holiday calendar, while the Ministry of Internal Affairs cultural division explains that it merged earlier cultu…
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National Custodian Day
Public-school systems corroborate October 2, while a 2021 Stanislaus County agenda item says the unofficial holiday’s origins are unknown and reports no earlier online reference than 2016;…
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National Cut the Cord Day
Sling TV’s 2020 fifth-anniversary release announced February 9, 2020 as the first National Cut the Cord Day and states that National Day Calendar declared the observance to recur annually o…
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National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
U.S. Department of Energy material lists National Cut Your Energy Costs Day on January 10, with municipal-utility and energy-industry sources independently using the same annual date.
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National D.R.E.S.S. Syndrome Day
DRESS Syndrome Foundation organizer-side 2022 launch material establishes National DRESS Syndrome Day on July 16 and identifies the foundation co-founders as creators; current foundation an…
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National Dance Day
American Dance Movement states that National Dance Day was established in 2010 and, since 2019, takes place annually on the third Saturday in September.
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National Dance/Movement Therapy Advocacy Day
A 2026 NHS mental-health service article identifies June 13 as National Dance/Movement Therapy Advocacy Day; National Day Archives records the June 13 date and Erica Hornthal as the 2019 cr…
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National Day
Austrian Parliament material establishes October 26 as National Day, ties the date to the 1955 neutrality law and identifies Federal Act No. 298 of October 25, 1965 as the law establishing…
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National Day
Bahrain’s official national portal lists National Day on December 16 and separately lists independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1971; official cultural material documents the n…
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National Day
China’s central government states that October 1 is National Day, that the Central People’s Government adopted the National Day resolution on December 2, 1949, and that current national-hol…
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National Day
An official Union of the Comoros government publication identifies July 6, 1975 as the country’s accession to international sovereignty and documents current official July 6 national ceremo…
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National Day
Kuwait Government Online documents the National Day history: the first celebration was held on 19 June 1962; celebrations used 19 June through 1964; an Amiri decree merged National Day with…
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National Day
Lao News Agency states that National Day is celebrated annually on 2 December and links the date to the proclamation/establishment of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on 2 December 1975…
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National Day
Liechtenstein government material identifies National Day on 15 August, says the Government introduced it in 1940, and explains that the date combined the Feast of the Assumption with the e…
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National Day
Luxembourg’s Grand Ducal Court explains that a Grand-Ducal decree/order of 23 December 1961 fixed 23 June as the official day of public celebration of the Grand Duke’s birthday, with the fi…
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National Day
The Journal de Monaco explains that Prince Rainier III fixed 19 November as the Sovereign’s Feast from 1952 by Sovereign Ordinance no. 465 of 27 October 1951, choosing his enthronement day…
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National Day
Official Ethiopian sources identify May 28 as a national day/national holiday associated with the 1991 downfall of the Derg military government. The Ethiopian Investment Commission currentl…
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National Day
Qatar Law No. 11 of 2007 establishes 18 December—the 1878 power-assumption date of Sheikh Jassim bin Mohamed bin Thani—as the State National Day and makes the annual National Day an officia…
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National Day
Romania’s Law No. 10 of 31 July 1990 proclaims 1 December the National Day and repeals the former 23 August national-holiday decision; Romanian government material connects 1 December with…
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National Day
Singapore’s National Archives documents the first National Day celebrations in 1966 and the August 1966 switch from the announced name Independence Day to National Day; Singapore’s Independ…
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National Day (Fête Nationale)
Benin government sources mark 1 August as the Fête Nationale and describe the 2026 celebration as the 66th anniversary of accession to national sovereignty.
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National Day of Belgium
Belgium’s federal portal identifies July 21 as National Day and a national public holiday, links the date to Leopold I’s constitutional oath on July 21, 1831, and says a law of May 27, 1890…
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National Day of Cameroon
Cameroon Presidency material identifies May 20 as National Day and links it to the 1972 referendum establishing the Unitary State; ministry sources list May 20 in the legal-holiday framewor…
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National Day of Civic Hacking
Archived White House material establishes the first nationwide National Day of Civic Hacking on 1–2 June 2013. Later White House and Code for America sources document continuing organizer-l…
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National Day of Community Service
Dominica’s Ministry of Community Development states that National Day of Community Service is implemented on November 4 every year; the government portal lists it as a public holiday.
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National Day of Iceland
Icelandic government/parliamentary material identifies June 17 as National Day and the date on which the Republic was established in 1944; public-institution holiday information treats June…
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National Day of Joy
Comfort Keepers states that it created National Day of Joy in 2019, held the first annual observance on June 26, 2019, and continues to observe it on the last Wednesday in June.
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National Day of Motoring
MINI USA announced National Day of Motoring for 24 July in 2021 and later described the observance as marked each July 24. This supports a stable creator-defined date while remaining distin…
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National Day of Mourning for persons killed or injured in the workplace
The Government of Canada states that the Workers Mourning Day Act established April 28 as the official day observed every year, and current 2026 federal material continues to mark the Day o…
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National Day of Prayer
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