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Splash created the inaugural National Field Marketer’s Day for September 23, 2021 and stated annual intent; official Cvent community material for Splash continued the September 23 celebrati…
National Day Calendar’s proclamation identifies Jeffrey D. Kern of Movie Scores and More Radio as founder and April 3 as the annual observance date.
Michigan DIFS identifies August 14 as National Financial Awareness Day in 2025, and Tennessee TDCI identifies Friday, August 14, 2026 as the observance date.
RoGallery’s October 16, 2018 creator account says it created the first annual National Fine Art Appreciation Day for October 25, chosen because it is Pablo Picasso’s birthday; later current…
The National First Ladies Day Commission says the observance was founded in 2021 and schedules its annual celebration on the last Saturday in April.
The U.S. Fire Administration recognizes 28 October as National First Responders Day; presidential proclamation records also use that date for national recognition.
National Day Archives records National Fish Taco Day on January 25 and attributes its creation to Rubio’s Coastal Grill in 2018; current event listings continue to tie the date to Rubio’s p…
Philippine Proclamation No. 261 (2000) declares May 31 of every year as National Fisherfolks Day.
The National Fitness Day organization states that the observance started in 2017 and is celebrated on the first Saturday of May in the United States.
Liberia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that an Act of the National Legislature approved on 25 October 1915 declared August 24 of each year National Flag Day and a national/public holi…
Philippine law declares May 28 through June 12 each year as Flag Days; Proclamation No. 374 (1965) established May 28 as Flag Day to commemorate the first unfurling of the Philippine flag a…
Government of Canada / Canadian Heritage; declared in 1996 and tied to the first raising of the maple leaf flag in 1965
National Day Calendar lists National Florida Day on January 25 within its privately created National State Days series. Florida’s March 3, 1845 statehood date is kept separate, and Indigeno…
Holland America Line announced April 6 as National Food Faces Day in honor of chef Rudi Sodamin’s food-art work; observance registration corroborates the date.
The official National Food Truck Day campaign states that the observance is always held on the last Friday in June.
National Day Archives lists National Football Day on July 19; the evidence establishes a calendar date at registry level, not an NFL or government designation.
The Industrial Truck Association’s 13th annual National Forklift Safety Day was held June 9, 2026; OSHA also published remarks for that event.
Federal records show Congress designated April 9, 1987 as National Former POW Recognition Day and President Reagan proclaimed it on April 8, 1987; VA materials continue annual April 9 remem…
National Park Service current National Fossil Day program
Prime Minister’s Office of Japan
The U.S. Senate agreed to S.Res.268 in 2000 designating July 22, 2000 as National Fragile X Awareness Day; the National Fragile X Foundation continues to use July 22 as the recurring awaren…
The FreeBSD Foundation states that FreeBSD Day is celebrated on June 19, marking the June 19, 1993 agreement on the FreeBSD name; National Day Calendar states that the Foundation founded th…
36 U.S.C. §124 authorizes an annual presidential proclamation of February 1 as National Freedom Day to commemorate President Lincoln’s February 1, 1865 signing of the joint resolution propo…
National Freedom of Information Day is observed on March 16, James Madison’s birthday. Congress designated March 16, 1987 as Freedom of Information Day in Public Law 99-539 and President Ro…
IPSE’s own records show National Freelancers Day on different dates across editions: 16 June 2022, 6 July 2023, 20 June 2024, 17 June 2025 and 10 June 2026. The observance is recurring, but…
Benihana declared September 20 the first annual National Fried Rice Day in 2018 and has continued to associate the observance with that date.
Hallmark first-party material traces the Friendship Day idea to founder J.C. Hall in 1919, while National Day Calendar supports the current first-Sunday-in-August U.S. recurrence. This iden…
The official National Fruit at Work Day site states the observance is celebrated on the first Tuesday of October and is presented by The FruitGuys.
USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture lists April 14 as National Gardening Day in its 2026 social-media toolkit.
National Day Archives lists National Garfield the Cat Day on June 19; this matches Garfield’s widely recognized June 19 birthday, but the guide remains narrowly registry/date scoped.
Ancestry’s historical overview traces National Genealogy Day to a 2013 Limerick, Ireland celebration and states that it is observed on the second Saturday in March; the City of Tulsa indepe…
National Day Calendar attributes National Get Out of the Doghouse Day to florist Heidi Richards Mooney in 1999 and gives the recurring rule as the third Monday in July; a USPTO trademark pu…
U.S. Figure Skating states that it founded National Get Up Day and has celebrated it annually on 1 February, with the campaign centered on perseverance and getting back up after setbacks.
The official National Ghost Hunting Day site states the event was established in 2016 and is held on the last Saturday of September.
Girl Me Too first-party material verifies April 7 and founder Symonia Montgomery. Because the organizer says the first celebration was in 2016 while National Day Calendar says 2017, the exa…
Current Girl Scout council resources identify April 22 as Girl Scout Leader’s Day; contemporaneous April 1982 reporting identifies April 22, 1982 as the first nationwide observance and attr…
National Day Calendar’s proclamation archive states that Ketel One Botanical founded the observance in 2018 and set it annually for September 22.
National Day Calendar identifies Linda Eaton Hall-Fulcher as the founder of National Give Something Away Day in 2015 and records July 15 as the annual date.
The American Golf Industry Coalition documents its 18th annual National Golf Day in Washington, D.C. in May 2026 and separately announces May 3–5, 2027 for the next edition. The dates are o…
National Day Archives and National Day Calendar place National Golf Lover’s Day on October 4; National Day Calendar links the date to the first U.S. Open while leaving the observance origin…
The current National Good Neighbor Day organizer uses September 28. Historical congressional materials contain date-specific and fourth-Sunday recognition formulations, so the record does n…
Schnucks’ first-party page states that National Gooey Butter Cake Day is August 12 and that the observance was created by Schnucks; supporting observance history dates the launch to 2019.
National Day Calendar’s proclamation record states that Siete Family Foods founded National Grain-Free Day in 2019 and that the registrar proclaimed it annually on February 21.
The current National Grammar Day home maintained by Quick and Dirty Tips identifies 4 March, traces the observance to Martha Brockenbrough in 2008, and carries current 2026 programming.
36 U.S.C. §125 requests an annual presidential proclamation for the first Sunday in September after Labor Day; 1978 proclamation and 1979 law history are preserved separately.
Rolf Benirschke’s first-party biography identifies September 7, 2017 as the inaugural National Grateful Patient Day and launch of the Grateful Patient Project; National Day Calendar records…
National Day Calendar records September 23 as National Great American Pot Pie Day and attributes creation of the observance to Marie Callender’s in 2002.
National Day Archives records Lovepop Cards as creator in March 2021 for an annual April 1 observance; Lovepop first-party material ties April 1 to its April 1, 2014 launch anniversary and…
Local-government proclamations consistently recognize August 30 and identify Angie Cartwright as the 2014 founder; no federal legal-holiday status or exclusive current national facilitator…
The National Guard identifies 13 December as its birthday.
NuMe identifies founder/CEO Sabrina Maren as the creator of National Hair Day, describes an October 1 launch in 2017, and states that the observance returns every October 1; first-party mat…
The Animal Medical Center’s 2026 veterinary-awareness calendar and National Day Calendar both place Hairball Awareness Day on the last Friday in April.
Beauty-industry material published on May 27 states that Booksy designated May 27 as National Hairstylist Mental Health Awareness Day; current observance listings attribute the 2021 creatio…
Wendy’s and BurgerFi first-party materials identify May 28 as National Hamburger Day in separate years.
The Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association says it sponsors National Handwriting Day every January 23 in conjunction with John Hancock’s birthday.
National Day Calendar identifies National Hawaii Day as its private July 5 National State Day founded within the 2017 series. Federal and NPS/OHA sources keep August 21, 1959 statehood, the…
The Conversation Project states that National Healthcare Decisions Day is an annual April 16 initiative founded in 2008 by attorney Nathan Kottkamp to encourage advance-care-planning conver…
Healthy Fats Coalition material calls March 21 National Healthy Fats Day, describes the 2022 observance as the fifth annual edition, and identifies the day as the coalition’s brainchild.
Consecutive New York legislative resolutions describe National Heat Awareness Day as observed each year on the last Friday in May. NWS and OSHA provide authoritative heat-safety guidance, b…
CDC records that the 2011 HHS viral hepatitis action plan established May 19 as National Hepatitis Testing Day and that the first observance occurred in 2012; current CDC material continues…
The Bahamas National Heroes Act designates the second Monday in October as National Heroes Day and a public holiday.
Timor-Leste’s official 2026 holiday list, applying Law No. 10/2005, lists 31 December as National Heroes Day among fixed public holidays.
Jamaica’s Holidays (Public General) Act schedule names the third Monday in October as National Heroes’ Day; Jamaica Information Service states that the country first celebrated National Her…
Official project material verifies a 2002 University of Virginia student origin and third-Thursday-in-April recurrence.
Puget Sound Educational Service District identifies June 6 as National Higher Education Day and traces the 2015 founding to Izamar Olaguez and Marcie Hronis.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says National Hire a Veteran Day is recognized annually on July 25 and traces the observance to Dan Caporale in 2017.
HIV.gov states that National HIV Testing Day is June 27 and was first observed on June 27, 1995; the federal HIV history timeline identifies the National Association of People With AIDS (NA…
HIV.gov and NIH identify September 18 as National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day. NIH states that The AIDS Institute launched the observance on September 18, 2008; current federal materia…
Turkmenistan government sources state that the National Holiday of the Turkmen Horse is celebrated annually on the last Sunday of April.
Bulgaria’s Labour Code Article 154 lists March 3, the Day of Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, as the national holiday; the Council of Ministers links the date to the preliminary Tr…
2-10 Home Buyers Warranty states that National Home Warranty Day is celebrated every February 10, identifies 2-10 as founder, and credits employee Tahlia Hersch with founding the day in 201…
SAGE/National Resource Center materials identify May 16 as National Honor Our LGBT Elders Day; congressional resolutions have also recognized the observance.
