Occasions and trivia calendar

Our popular calendar lists over 300 entries designed to inspire a party, or simply create an excuse for one.

From classic holidays we all celebrate like Thanksgiving, events like the Super Bowl, to obscure celebrations like "Limerick Day" and the always popular "Eggs Benedict Day.

We have suggestions on how to celebrate some of these dates. Try a Mint Julep to celebrate "Mint Julep Day", or a Dean Martini cocktail to celebrate Dean Martin's birthday.  (How you celebrate "National Poultry Day" or "National Pass Gas Day" is your business.)

Click on the month of your choice and find out what holidays or excuses to party you have been missing, or find out who invented Root Beer, or what day the final episode of "Cheers" aired.  Have Fun!

November

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• DST ends today - let your clocks "Fall back"
• Rolling Stone magazine debuts (1967)
• Suspicious Minds, by Elvis Presley hits No. 1 on the Billboard charts (1969)

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• Sandwich Day

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• Guy Fawkes Day

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• 1975 - The Sex Pistols made their live debut at St. Martin's School of Art in London

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• NBC is the first Network to broadcast in color (1966)

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• Harvey Wallbanger Day

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• Jan Hammer's Miami Vice Theme #1 (1985)

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• Sesame Street premiered on PBS television (1969)
• Sadie Hawkins Day (is the invention of Al Capp, creator of the Li'l Abner)

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• Veterans Day (U.S.)
• Remembrance Day (Canada)

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• 1984 - Madonna released the album "Like a Virgin"

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• 1987 - Sonny and Cher sang "I Got You Babe" on the David Letterman show

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• National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
• America Recycles Day

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• 1968 - NBC cut away from the final minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to show "Heidi"

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• Mickey Mouse's Birthday

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• On this day in 1990, Milli Vanilli was stripped of their Grammy Award

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• Sony introduces the Walkman (1979)

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• "Who Killed J.R.?" revealed (1980)
• World Television Day

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• Band-Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" recorded (1984)

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• U.S. Thanksgiving

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• Jimi Hendrix born in 1942
• First Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade 1924

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• CFL - 97th GREY CUP from Calgary. Get set with our party guide.

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• Stay at Home Because You're Well Day
• International Computer Security Day