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!

January

1
• HAPPY NEW YEAR

5
• 2010 World Junior Hockey Gold Medal Game, 8 pm EST

7
• BCS National Championship Game: Texas vs. Alabama, 8 pm EST

8
• 65th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship (July 8-11)
• English Toffee Day

9
• NFL Wild-Card Weekend
• Elvis Presley is born on this day in 1945

10
• NFL Wild-Card Weekend
• Wendy's "Where's the Beef" Campaign began on this day in 1984

13
• Invite your Neighbor to Dinner Day

15
• First Super Bowl played on this date in 1967 (Packers beat the Chiefs)

16
• NFL Divisional Playoffs: Arizona @ New Orleans, 4:30 p.m. EST; Baltimore @ Indianapolis, 8:15 p.m. EST
• Prohibition began (1920)

17
• NFL Divisional Playoffs: Dallas @ Minnesota, 1 p.m. EST; N.Y. Jets @ San Diego, 4:40 p.m. EST
• National Hot Buttered Rum Day
• 67th Golden Globe Awards on NBC, 8 p.m. EST

18
• January 18-31, 2010 Australian Open, 98th Edition

19
• Champagne Day
• National Popcorn Day
• Martin Luther King Jr Day (U.S.)

20
• Father's Day

23
• National Pie Day

24
• NFL Championship Weekend -- AFC and NFC Title Games today
• The beer can was introduced (1935)

25
• Robbie Burns Day
• Dinner Party Day

26
• Peanut Brittle Day
• Australia Day

27
• Today in 1967, The Doors release their self-titled debut album.

30
• Australian Open Tennis - Women's Final
• Hockey Day in Canada (CBC)

31
• National Brandy Alexander Day
• NFL Pro Bowl from Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida
• Australian Open Tennis - Men's Final