Aquarium Month
Candy Month
Dairy Month
Gay Pride Month
National Rivers Month
Rose Month
International Children's Day
Dia de la Marina Nacional--Mexico
Dare Day
Oscar the Grouch
James Daughtery
2. Queen's Birthday--New Zealand
Marquis de Sade
Thomas Hardy
Barbara Pym
Carol Shields
3. 3-9 Fishing Week
Repeat Day
Repeat Day
Allen Ginsberg
Larry McMurtry
Margaret Cosgrove
Anita Lobel
Franz Kafka
4. Hug Your Cat Day
Donut Day
Aesop
5. Grundlovsdag-Constitution Day-Denmark
World Environment Day
Hunger Awareness Day
Richard Scarry
Ken Follett
Federica Garcia Lorca
Alfred Kazin
Margaret Drabble
Stephen Crane
Alfred Kazin
6. D-Day Anniversary
Cancer Survivors Day
Thomas Mann
Maxine Kumin
Harry Crews
Stephen Dixon
Carl Jung
7. Freedome of the Press Day
Chocolate Ice Cream Day
Elizabeth Bowen
Gwendolyn Brooks
Louise Erdich
Dorothy Parker
E.M. Forster
Henry Miller
8. Venus in Transit-Most of the world will be able to watch this astronomical event, as Venus passes
across the face of the sun. No one alive today has ever seen this, since the last occurance was
122 years ago, in 1882.
Brothers and Sisters Day
Best Friends Day
Marguerite Yourcenar
Sara Peretsky
George Sand
Thomas Paine
9. Donald Duck
Johnny Depp
James Kelman
Charles Dickens
10. 10-16 Email Week
Camoes Day--Mady explained that Portugal Day is also Camoes Day, the date of the death of the
famous Portuguese Poet.
Maurice Sendak
Saul Bellow
11. 11-13 Take a Kid Fishing Weekend
Hug Holiday
Yasunari Kawabala
William Styron
Athol Fugund
Ben Jonson
12. Russian Independence Day
Anne Frank
Djuna Barnes
Brigid Brophy
Edmund Wilson
Jorge Luis Borges
13. Abused Women and Children's Day
Juggling Day
William Butler Yeats
Fanny Burney
Dorothy L. Sayers
Peter Balakian
14. Flag Day
Caldecott Medal First Awarded-1937
Family History Day
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jerzy Kosinski
John Edgar Wideman
15. Power of a Smile Day
Fly a Kite Day-honoring the date of Ben Franklin's kite experiment
Amy Clampitt
Ana Costillo
16. Hollaring Day
Joyce Carol Oates
Erich Segal
17. 17-23 Forgiveness Week
18. International Picnic Day
19. World Sauntering Day
Juneteenth
Salman Rushdie
Garfield
Tasmanian Devil
James M. Barrie
20. Father's Day-US
Ice Cream Soda Day
First Day of Summer
Lillian Hellman
21, Summer Solstice
Jean-Paul Sartre
Mary McCarthy
Ian McEwan
22. Erich Maria Remarque
Octavia E. Butler
Joanna Scott
Niccolo Machiavelli
23. Pink Day
Johannes Gutenberg
David Leavitt
24. Ambrose Bierce
25. Mid-Summer Day
George Orwell
Louis Sabin
26. Pied Piper of Hamlin led the rats out of the city.
Pearl S. Buck
Walter Farley
Kenneth Fearing
27. Paul Bunyon Day
Helen Keller
Frank O'Hara
28. WW I Commemoration Day
Esther Forbes
29. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
30. Meteor Day
Lilliam Hellman
