National _________ Week/Month

Is there a website somewhere that compiles a list of what’s being honored this week? or this month?

Like “National Black History Month” or “National Nurses Week.”

My googlefu fails me. Anyone else?

I don’t know if this helps you at all:

Link

I posted the link to the HTML version, you can also look at the (presumably nicer) pdf version.

Aaand, I’m a dumbass and didn’t notice it was only for October. So, in semi-repentance, I’ll post the link to Wiki’s article on holidays in the US, and say that I searched google for “national awareness days” (without quotes) which seemed to be fruitful but I don’t have time to go through them any better…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holidays_of_the_United_States

For decades, the authoritative listing for “National Whatnot Week” listings has been Chase’s Annual Events, now known as Chase’s Calendar of Events.

There doesn’t seem to be an online version, sadly. Most libraries ought to have a copy at the reference desk.

Historical and pretty meaningless footnote: Back in the day before PageMaker or Quark, my mother worked for Contemporary Books, publisher of Chase’s. When she did the keyline, she had free rein over placing clipart and managed to work our family members into the artwork.

Hmm. It surprises me that there doesn’t seem to be some blog, or webpage, somewhere, that collects these things.

Maybe if some of you could help me think of things to Google for? “national week” doesn’t help; it just leads me to pages about individual “weeks” liek National Nurses Week.

If you were to dedicate a website to such information, what would you call it? I need terms, titles, to search for.

Thanks.

I think the problem is there’s just so many of them. I don’t even know what the criteria is for something to be declared a national week or day or month, some of them seem so outlandishly silly.

Here, however, is a list of White House Proclaimed recognition days and months…

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/proclamations/

BTW, that’s current administration proclamations.

It would also appear that searching Wikipedia for each individual month will often generate a (likely incomplete) list of National Whatver Weeks/Days/Months, so that might help? I’ll confess to not checking all of them…

One last post; if you’re looking for federally recognized days, etc, googling on “Commemorative observances” seems to be a good place to start; a quick google shows results for various commemorative observances for various years.

No, not federally recognized. The goofier the better, actually: National Ingrown Toenail Awareness Month; National Natural Fibers Week; whatever.

Every little nonprofit organization claims a week; most weeks have LOTS of different “official” commemorations competing for publicity.

National Bootleg Beanie Babies Week; National Liposuction Week; National Be Kind to Slugs Week.

Things like that.

One last link in my quest to be helpful :wink:

http://www.butlerwebs.com/holidays/august.htm

They have a list for every month, and include things like “National Toasted Marshmallow Day”. The drawback is, they list just about every other thing that happens each day (Martin Luther gave his “I Have A Dream” speech, The Boys Scouts were founded, Madonna broke a toenail… that kind of thing) so there’s a lot to wade through, but short of the book mentioned above, I think this is probably about as comprehensive as I will be able to find.

Thanks!

Also found this, and this.

Who knew that January is National Prune Breakfast month, or that today is National Sibling Day, or that there are only 14 shopping days left till National Zucchini Bread Day?

September 19th is National Talk Like a Pirate Day! :cool:

Arrrrr, matey!