Welcome to Worldwide Weird Holidays, where you’ll find a new reason to celebrate every day of the year.
National Gibberish Day
Today is National Gibberish Day, which celebrates seemingly meaningless speech or writing. Unlike International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19), there’s no need to learn any jargon or speak with a funny accent. Although we were unable to identify the source of this unofficial holiday, we feel like Paul Krueger deserves some credit. In the […]
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. On June 6, 1995, John Baur and Mark Summers were playing racquetball when one decided it would be amusing to shout encouragement to the other using pirate slang. Soon, the two were trading pirate-speak with every swing. Afterward, they agreed the game had been especially entertaining and that […]
September 16 is World Play-Doh Day
Today is World Play-Doh Day. On September 16, 2006, Hasbro created National Play-Doh Day to honor its 50th anniversary. In 2015, it kicked the unofficial holiday up a notch by going global. Today we celebrate the 61st anniversary of Play-Doh and the third World Play-Doh Day. Noah McVicker of Cincinnati-based soap manufacturer Kutol Products invented the […]
Google.com Day
Today is Google.com Day. On September 15, 1997, Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the domain. Page and Brin met at Stanford University in 1995. The following year, they collaborated on a search engine they named BackRub because it analyzed websites’ backlinks to determine their relative importance. It ran for a year, but eventually took up so […]
National Cream-Filled Donut Day
Today is National Cream-Filled Donut Day. We don’t know who created this holiday and first celebrated it. We aren’t even certain who invented the cream-filled donut, but who cares? Take a look at this: It is an edible work of art meant to delight the senses in its fleeting existence. There are millions like it right […]
Roald Dahl Day
Today is Roald Dahl Day. September 13, 2025, would have been the beloved children’s book author’s 109th birthday. Dahl is best known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Matilda, and Fantastic Mr. Fox. His dark, twisted sense of humor has endeared him to generations of young readers. ***** A lesser-known […]
It’s National Video Games Day – Or Is It?
Today is National Video Games Day. Or is it? According to Video Game History Foundation, Video Games Day first appeared in 1991’s Chase’s Calendar of Events, which stated that David Earle, president of Kid Vid Warriors, declared July 8th “a day for kids of all ages who enjoy video games to celebrate the fun they […]
International Creepy Boston Dynamics Horse Day
Today is International Creepy Boston Dynamics Horse Day. On September 10, 2012, Boston Dynamics released footage of a rough-terrain robot it developed with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Marine Corps. The robot’s official name is The Legged Squad Support System (LS3). Its sensors allow it to follow a […]
Tester’s Day
Today is Tester’s Day. This unofficial holiday for technicians everywhere is not without controversy. The Story On September 9, 1945, Grace Hopper, a computer scientist at Harvard University, was running tests on the Mark II Calculator (designed by Howard Aiken) when she found a moth that had landed between two solenoid contacts, shorting out an electromechanical relay. Hopper […]
Pardon Day
Today is Pardon Day. On September 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford issued a controversial pardon to Richard Nixon, who had resigned on August 9, 1974 (a.k.a. National Veep Day). What follows is an excerpt. Read the full proclamation here. As a result of certain acts or omissions occurring before his resignation from the Office of President, […]