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!

March

1
• Peanut Butter Lovers Day

2
• 1944 : First televised Academy Awards (Going My Way - Best picture)
• Dr Seuss born on this day 1904

3
• National Mulled Wine Day
• National Anthem Day (U.S)

4
• First tavern in U.S. opens (1634)

5
• National Cheese Doodle Day
• The Hula Hoop was patented on this day 1963

6
• Silly Putty invented (1950)

7
• 1876 : Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
• 2009 Tim Horton's Brier (Canadian Men's Curling) - March 7-15

8
• International Women's day
• Daylight Savings Time starts

9
• The Barbie doll was introduced on this day in 1959

12
• Alfred Hitchcock Day
• Employee Day

13
• Haley’s Comet first noticed (1758)

14
• Dennis The Menace comic strip first appears (1951)
• National Potato Chip Day

15
• Ides of March
• Tim Hortons Brier final - Calgary
• 1972 - The Godfather movie opens

16
• Bock Beer Day

17
• St. Patrick’s Day

18
• John Updike is born on this day 1932

19
• March Madness! NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament (March 19 - April 6)
• National Poultry Day (who celebrates this, and how?)
• Nevada legalizes gambling (1931)

20
• Vernal Equinox - Spring officailly begins at 11:44 a.m.
• 1952 : Humphrey Bogart wins Oscar for The African Queen

21
• First full day of spring!

22
• James T. Kirk's Birthday
• World Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles, California (March 22-29)
• National Goof-Off Day

23
• National Chip and Dip Day

24
• Elvis joins the army (1958)
• ABC Nightline debuts (1980)

25
• Waffle Day

26
• The documentary film Woodstock opens in 1970

27
• The corkscrew is patented (1860)

28
• Beatles have 10 songs on Billboard 100 at one time (1964)

29
• In 1990 record companies agree to put a warning label on records

30
• Jeopardy debuts (1964)