# Does anything at all happen if a day is declared National/State such-and-such day?

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As I noted in a previous thread, there’s a book called “Chase’s Calendar of Events” that has a bunch of these made-up days. Not sure if it’s the same as the National Day Calendar website that was mentioned by Telemark and Mean Mister Mustard.

> [@How Do You Declare A 'Day'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-declare-a-day/943822):
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> As I understand it, there is an ice cream day, a doughnut day. A cat day, a dog day. You get the picture. How do you declare a day? And do you even need legislative action? And if you don’t, then can in fact anyone do it? I guess I can tell you why I wonder this last one. The are various LGBT days and whatnot. And I know that the legislative bodies haven’t traditionally been warm to that idea. I wonder if most of them sadly would even be so now. So how do they do it then? Is it really that sim…

> **[Episode 765: The Holiday Industrial Complex](https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/04/18/524577372/episode-765-the-holiday-industrial-complex)**
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> Where do holidays like National Potato Chip Day and Argyle Day come from? We trace the roots of one made-up holiday until we find out who is running the global holiday machine.

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