On Monday as I was checking my Calendar in ERage, I noticed that at the top it listed as a holiday “Expedition of the 33 (United States).”
I also see this using Outlook2003. Not having any idea what this means, I checked Google and all I can find are cites that list it as a holiday in Uruguay. 
My wall calendar doesn’t list this holiday nor have I ever heard of it before. Can anyone tell me what this holiday is? Maybe some history behind it?
Maybe it celebrates the people who discovered rolling rock beer
I think the Philipines were liberated in 1933.
April 19 is Patriots Day in New England.
You’ll find plenty of Google hits if you search for “Expedición de los 33” so it’s clearly a Uruguayan holiday.
I don’t speak Spanish so I can’t read what they say.
Here’s the full list for April 19. No mention of 33 except for Uraguay
bradministrator and Tapioca Dextrin, that’s exactly what I found when I searched.
So why is it listed as a US holiday in my Outlook Calendar?
Does anyone else see this in their Outlook calendars for 4/19?
Just checked my Outlook. No mention of “Expedition of the 33”.
Followup to my own post.
I added Uruguay holidays to my Outlook and “Expedition of the 33” showed up for the 19th labeled as Uruguay.
I’m running Outlook 2002 SP-2 if it matters.
Nah.
The anniversary of the excommunication of the people who first made Rolling Rock? Now that’s a holiday!
Uruguayan or Argentinian Lavalleja with 32 men known as “orientales” landed on 19 april 1825 somewhere claimed by Brazil and this lead to war and Brazil lost the Province of Oriente to Argentina. . . or something like that.
Blarg! I must now post a screenshot to prove I’m not crazy.
I can’t find any mention of “Expedition of the 33” but apparently Outlook 2002 had some crazy calendar holiday listing problems -->
Perhaps this one is fresh for 2003?
Wikipedia lists it as “Landing of the 33” (look on the page devoted to April 19). Ah-ha, I thought, we’re using an unknown variant name!
Sure enough, “Landing of the 33” merits a blurb on a webpage.
To wit:
August “Who’s your research daddy!” Derleth
So it seems the area was disputed by Argentina and Brazil and the 33 Argentinian orientales managed to take it away from Brazil and then declared it the independent country of Uruguay.
It’s pretty obvious what happened, here. When you told Outlook to “Add Holidays” to your calendar, there’s a check-off box next to each available country. The next entry, after “United States,” is “Uruguay.” A moment of sloppy mouse handling, and hey presto! You’ve added Uruguayan holidays to your calendar.
Damn… too late. 
Anyway, “Landing of the 33” is the more accurated translation.
Except that it’s listed as a US holiday, not as a Uruguayan holiday, and after cross-checking with Expedia, I have no other Uruguayan holidays in my calendar.
If you look at the screenshot link I posted earlier, you’ll see that it says “Expedition of the 33 (United States).”
As a further test I downloaded Algerian holidays, and sure enough, May 1st is listed as “Prophet Mohammed’s Birthday (Algeria).”
So why does it think Expedition of the 33 is a US holiday rather than a Uruguayan holiday? larsenmtl’s link doesn’t say anything about this problem in the KBase article.
You’ve got me, there - that really is weird. Has the Administration launched any more preemptive invasions lately, ones that we haven’t heard about?
