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!

December

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• "Archie" Comic Strip begins (1941)
• World AIDS Day

2
• Michael Jackson's video "Thriller" debuts (1983)

3
• The first Monkees concert was held, in Honolulu on this day 1966

5
• Prohibition repealed in U.S. (1933)

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• "The Grinch" cartoon is 42 years old

7
• Tom Waits born on this day 1949

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• Jim Morrison (from the band The Doors) born on this day 1943
• Teri Hatcher born on this day in 1964

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• "A Charlie Brown Christmas" debuts (1965)

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• National Lager Day (how about a beer cocktail?)

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• "Magnum P.I." debuts (1980)

12
• Poinsettia Day

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• "Saturday Night Fever" premieres (1977)

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• Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson (1969)

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• Wear a Plunger on Your Head Day (not kidding)

19
• Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was first published in England in 1843

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• National Sangria Day

21
• Winter Solstice First Day of Winter - shortest day of the year
• Kiefer Sutherland born on this day 1966
• Ray Romano born on this day 1957

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• Harry Shearer (Spinal Tap, The Simpsons) born 1943
• Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" was released 1978

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• National Eggnog Day

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• CHRISTMAS DAY - Friday this year

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• Boxing Day (Canada)

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• Mark Knopler of Dire Straits was born 1952

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• Mary Tyler Moore born on this day 1938