Welcome to Worldwide Weird Holidays, where you’ll find a new reason to celebrate every day of the year.
National Onion Ring Day
Today is National Onion Ring Day. The first known iteration of the onion ring appeared in the 1802 cookbook “The Art of Cookery.” The recipe for Fried Onions with Parmesan Cheese called for onions to be sliced into 1/2 inch rings, dredged in a batter of flour, cream, salt, pepper, and Parmesan cheese, then deep-fried […]
Polar Bear Swim
June 21, 2025, marks the 51st annual Polar Bear Swim, celebrated in Nome, Alaska, on the Saturday closest to the summer solstice (on June 21). Unlike many places in the USA’s lower 48 states (and Hawaii, of course), where taking a dip in the middle of June is a pleasure, splashing in the Bering Sea […]
American Eagle Day
Today is American Eagle Day. On June 20, 1782, the American eagle, also known as the bald eagle, was chosen to grace the Great Seal of the United States of America. Two centuries later, President Ronald Reagan declared June 20, 1982, National Bald Eagle Day and designated 1982 as the Bicentennial Year of the American Bald […]
World Sauntering Day
Today is World Sauntering Day, also known as International Sauntering Day. Initially conceived as a curative to the scourge of jogging, this holiday is perfect for our age of screens and short attention spans. The first official saunter reportedly took place at Michigan’s Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Participants strolled across the 660-foot porch, which […]
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, […]