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Texas House Resolution 1419 recognized October 26, 2011 as Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day and described it as the second annual observance; the organizer continues to promote October 26.
The Texas State Library lists Texas Independence Day on 2 March as an official partial-staffing state holiday; the Texas Comptroller’s FY2027 schedule also lists it on 2 March.
MENTOR’s National Mentoring Month materials list Thank Your Mentor Day on January 28 for 2026. MENTOR documents National Mentoring Month’s 2002 launch with the Harvard Mentoring Project, bu…
A creator-attributed National Day Archives record identifies MYOS Canine Muscle Formula as creating the observance in October 2020; Animal Medical Center calendars independently list Novemb…
5 U.S.C. 6103/OPM establishes Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday in November. National Archives documents the 1789 federal proclamation, 1863 annual tradition, 1939 shift and 1941 cong…
The Eden Project says The Big Lunch has run annually since 2009 on the first weekend in June; in 2026 it joined The Big Help Out for a 5–8 June campaign window.
The Compassionate Friends; annual remembrance begun in 1997
The Surf Ballroom records the February 2, 1959 final concert and the fatal plane crash in the early hours of 3 February 1959, events remembered as “The Day the Music Died”.
The USCCB identifies 28 December as the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs.
The National Dog Show states that its Saturday show is taped for nationwide NBC telecast on Thanksgiving Day; its 2026 event schedule is November 14–15.
Salvation Army International Headquarters directly identifies July 2 as Founders’ Day, commemorating the 1865 beginning of William and Catherine Booth’s East London ministry. The organizati…
36 U.S.C. §141 requires an annual presidential proclamation inviting April 13 commemoration of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday and flag display on federal buildings. The source resolution dates…
Spain’s official tourism material identifies Día de Reyes on 6 January and describes the Three Kings tradition.
Official Kingdom of Morocco portal
CTA archives establish recurring March 10 anniversary statements and a first-anniversary address in 1960; U.S. historical records independently anchor events beginning in Lhasa on March 10,…
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Brazilian federal law makes 21 April a national holiday; Law 1,266/1950 established the Tiradentes holiday, Law 4,897/1965 added civic-patron and annual-commemoration provisions, and Law 10…
Spain’s national labor-holiday regulation identifies 1 November as Todos los Santos; the 2026 official calendar shows that substitute-day treatment can vary by autonomous community when the…
The Tolkien Society describes Tolkien Reading Day as an annual March 25 observance, with the Society’s history identifying March 25, 2003 as the first edition after a reader suggestion was…
The dedicated Top Gun Day site explicitly identifies May 13 as Top Gun Day and maintains future-year countdown information for the date.
Singapore Ministry of Defence / Total Defence programme
Wellcat’s creator calendar lists Trading Cards for Grown-ups Day on April 8 and states that Wellcat Holidays were created by Thomas and Ruth Roy; Wellcat’s creator biography documents the R…
Current 2026 Nicaraguan coverage documents the traditional return of the image of Santo Domingo de Guzmán to Las Sierritas on 10 August; separate current reporting records 1 and 10 August a…
GLAAD identifies Transgender Day of Remembrance as recognized annually on 20 November.
TriMet’s 2026 campaign asks riders to celebrate Transit Driver Appreciation Day on 18 March 2026.
Common Ground states that Tree Dressing Day falls on the first weekend of December and was initiated by the organization in 1990.
The Organization of American States’ current country page lists Trinidad and Tobago National Independence Day as 31 August.
Cuba Travel currently lists January 1 as the Anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution among Cuba’s national remembrance days and holidays, with work-recess rules subject to statut…
Nicaragua’s Labor Code Article 66 lists 19 July as a mandatory national holiday. Historical accounts anchor the date to the Sandinista-led political transition of July 1979; public copy is…
Missouri Revised Statutes § 9.035, effective 28 August 1967, requires the governor to issue an annual proclamation setting aside 8 May as Truman Day; current gubernatorial proclamations con…
Mongolian government sources identify Tsagaan Sar (White Moon/Lunar New Year) as a traditional national holiday. Mongolia’s labor-law material designates the first three days of the first s…
TSC Alliance history identifies the first worldwide TSC Global Awareness Day as 15 May 2012, and its current international page states that TSC International coordinates the observance each…
Turkmenistan government sources repeatedly state that Turkmen Melon Day is celebrated every year on the second Sunday of August and describe it as a national holiday.
North Bend government material and Real Twin Peaks organizer history establish a 2018 Snoqualmie Valley municipal-proclamation lineage on February 24; King County records document later con…
Tynwald’s official pages establish the national-day identity, the usual 5 July date with following-Monday adjustment when 5 July falls on a weekend, and the 1417 written procedure that reco…
Vietnam’s Government News reports the Prime Minister-approved nine-day 2026 Lunar New Year holiday break from 14 through 22 February.
Meghalaya government holiday records place the Death Anniversary of U Tirot Sing on 17 July in consecutive years, and Raj Bhavan Meghalaya identifies 17 July 2025 as his 190th death anniver…
The U.S. Air Force Academy’s official history states that the Academy was established on April 1, 1954. The source supports an institutional anniversary, not a distinct nationwide recurring…
Air Force Reserve Command materials mark 14 April 2026 as the Air Force Reserve’s 78th anniversary.
The U.S. Army’s official 2026 birthday page identifies 14 June 2026 as the Army’s 251st birthday.
The U.S. Army Reserve’s official birthday page identifies 23 April 2026 as its 118th birthday.
Naval History and Heritage Command identifies 13 October as the date celebrated as the U.S. Navy’s birthday.
Uganda’s State House describes Uganda Martyrs Day as a national religious holiday observed every year on 3 June; in 2026 the government postponed public celebrations because of Ebola-outbre…
Animal Medical Center calendars repeatedly list Ugliest Dog Day on June 20; the separately scheduled Sonoma-Marin Fair World’s Ugliest Dog Contest is not treated as the same observance or o…
Eswatini’s cultural/tourism authorities publish the target-year Umhlanga schedule. The 2026 ceremony spans 25 August–1 September and identifies 31 August as the main dance day.
New York Executive Law §168-a designates September 13 in each year as “Uncle Sam Day in the State of New York” and expressly provides that a day of commemoration is not a holiday or half-ho…
Genetic Alliance UK states that Undiagnosed Children’s Day is an annual SWAN UK awareness day on the last Friday in April and lists April 24 for 2026. SWAN UK is run by Genetic Alliance UK;…
UNESCO 36 C/Resolution 38 (2011) established International Arts Education Week; UNESCO 43 C/Resolution 54 (2025) renamed it UNESCO Culture and Arts Education Week. 43 C/21 is the General Co…
UNICEF states that the United Nations established UNICEF on 11 December 1946; the date supports a founding-anniversary page rather than a formal UN “UNICEF Birthday” observance.
Slovenia’s current Holidays and Days Off Act lists August 17 as the incorporation of Prekmurje and unification of Prekmurje Slovenes with the mother nation and expressly keeps it non-work-f…
The official Union State portal states that April 2 has been observed as the Day of Unity of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia since the April 2, 1997 Treaty on the Union of Belarus and Rus…
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Official Marine Corps history establishes November 10, 1775 as the Corps birthday, Major Edwin McClellan’s 1921 proposal, and Commandant John A. Lejeune’s Marine Corps Order No. 47 directin…
Zambia’s Public Holidays Act schedules Unity Day for the Tuesday following Heroes Day; the government can alter particular holiday dates by Gazette, as shown by official notices.
Nicholas Roerich’s writings proposed a World/Universal Day of Culture, and the international movement dedicated to the initiative identifies 15 April as its observance.
EPA’s 1996 Reusable News documents the first annual Use Less Stuff Day on 16 November 1995, one week before Thanksgiving, and identifies the original campaign coalition; contemporary Washin…
Bud Bilanich’s own creator announcement states that he created Use Your Common Sense Day as an annual November 4 event in 2007 and selected the date because it is Will Rogers’ birthday; lat…
The Usher Syndrome Coalition states that it declared the third Saturday in September Global Usher Syndrome Awareness Day in 2015. Coalition material records September 19, 2015 as the first…
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command documents an annual February 15 USS Maine commemoration at Arlington, while the Sons of Spanish American War Veterans explicitly lists “Remember the…
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda lists V.C. Bird Day on 9 December; its Government Information Service also identifies 9 December as V.C. Bird Day/National Heroes Day.
The Library of Congress identifies February 14 as Valentine’s Day and documents its long history of cards, friendship and romantic traditions in the United States.
The Vascular Birthmarks Foundation currently identifies May 15 as its International Day of Awareness for vascular birthmarks, anomalies and related syndromes. VBF founder material says Dr.…
The OAS current member-state information identifies July 5 as Venezuela’s national independence day. Historical reference material distinguishes the July 5, 1811 congressional declaration f…
A/RES/54/115 (1999)
Title 5 of the U.S. Code lists Veterans Day on November 11 as a legal public holiday, and the Department of Veterans Affairs confirms that Veterans Day is officially observed on November 11.
Current Veterans of Foreign Wars material states that VFW Day is commemorated each year on September 29 and ties the date to the organization’s September 29, 1899 founding. VFW history also…
Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research publishes annual Victory Day messages on December 10 commemorating victory over terrorism/ISIS.
The 8 May 1945 Soviet decree preserved by the Presidential Library declared 9 May the Victory holiday; current Russian labour-law material lists 9 May as a non-working public holiday.
The President’s Office identifies Victory Day with the events of 3 November 1988, and official Maldives materials list the observance on 3 November.
