Welcome to Worldwide Weird Holidays, where you’ll find a new reason to celebrate every day of the year.
June 16 is Ladies’ Day
Today is Ladies’ Day, originally devised to attract women to baseball games and convert them into fans. In actuality, it was designed to sell more tickets by getting men to bring their wives and, by extension, their children to games. (While women wouldn’t win the right to cast a ballot for nearly 40 years, we […]
June 15 is Magna Carta Day
Magna Carta Day, explained in the style of Jeff Spicoli: In 1215, the king of England was a total wad, so a bunch of rich baron dudes got together and decided his divine right was bogus, so they drew up some cool rules they called the Great Charter until somebody said it sounded way more […]
Buzzard Day
June 14, 2025, is Buzzard Day in Glendive, Montana, and neighboring Makoshika State Park, Montana’s largest park, which spans 11,538 acres at an elevation of 2,415 feet above sea level. It falls on the second Saturday of June and celebrates the return of turkey vultures to eastern Montana. The name Makoshika (Ma-ko’-shi-ka) is derived from […]
June 14 is Pop Goes the Weasel Day
Today is Pop Goes the Weasel Day, celebrating the rhyme we’ve known since childhood and the tune that sticks in our heads every time we hear it played on an ice cream truck. But what does the song mean? The short answer is that it’s probably nonsense verse made popular (no pun intended) because children enjoyed […]
June 13 is National Pigeon Day
Today is National Pigeon Day. It honors Cher Ami, a carrier pigeon that valiantly completed its World War I mission to deliver military intelligence to the U.S. Army in France, even after being shot and suffering a partially severed limb. It succumbed to its injuries several months later on June 13, 1919. Ami was posthumously awarded the […]
National Blame Someone Else Day
June 13, 2025: National Blame Someone Else Day is celebrated on the first Friday the 13th of each year. It varies widely, occurring in February 2026, August 2027, October 2028, and so on. According to almost every source we checked, the holiday was invented by Anne Moeller of Clio, Michigan, in 1982. That fateful day, […]
June 12 is National Jerky Day
Today is National Jerky Day, created in 2012 by the Wisconsin Beef Council to bring awareness to the history, nutritional benefits and status of meat snacks as the “fourth-largest-grossing sector in the overall salty-snack category.” For 2014’s celebration, Jack Link’s beef jerky company built a replica of Mount Rushmore, covered it in 1,600 pounds of jerky and displayed […]
June 10 is the Banana Split Festival
June 10, 2026, marked the 32nd annual Banana Split Festival. Behind the scenes of this sweet celebration, a battle has raged for years between the citizens of two All-American towns. Each year, the festivities honor Ernest Hazard of Wilmington, Ohio, who concocted the treat in 1907 to attract Wilmington College students to his establishment. He halved a banana, […]
Donald Duck Day
June 9 is Donald Duck Day. It celebrates the date in 1934 when he first appeared in a Disney cartoon called “The Wise Little Hen.” His rise was meteoric. Only nine years later, in 1943, Donald won an Oscar for his role in a satire about Nazis, only to see the film shelved by Disney for […]
June 8 is Hannah Duston Day
Today is Hannah Duston Day. On June 8, 1697, she became the first official heroine of the American colonies when her husband was awarded the sum of 25 pounds in her honor. As a woman, she was technically her husband’s property and had no right to collect the money herself, but we suppose it’s the […]