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!

April

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• April Fools' Day

2
• Good Friday

3
• NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana
• April 3 to 11 - World Men’s Curling Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
• Streaker runs past David Niven at Academy Awards (1974)

4
• Easter
• The 2010 Major League Baseball season opens today -- N.Y. Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox

5
• NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana - 9 p.m. EST on CBS.
• Easter Monday

6
• Swanson’s TV Dinner first goes on sale (1954)

7
• No Housework Day

8
• 74th Masters Tournament begins at Augusta National Golf Club (April 8-11)
• Twin Peaks debuts (1990)

9
• 2nd round of the Masters

10
• 3rd round of the Masters
• Paul McCartney announces Beatles breakup (1970)

11
• Final round of the Masters
• World Men's Curling Championship Gold Medal Game

13
• Thomas Jefferson's Birthday
• “We Are the World” hits #1 (1985)

14
• National Pecan Day

15
• First McDonald's opens in Illinois (1955)
• Income Tax Day (also Accountant's Day)

16
• Kingsley Amis’ Birthday (1922) Gravesite reads “supreme clubman, boozer and blimp.”

17
• Daffy Duck made his debut on April 17, 1937

18
• Juno Awards
• Juggler's Day
• Paul Revere Day

19
• Patriots Day (U.S.)
• Alcohol content allowed on labels (1955)

20
• Billie Holiday records "Strange Fruit", recognized as the first Civil Rights song

21
• Queen's Birthday

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• NFL Draft (April 22-24)
• Earth Day (first Earth Day was in 1970)
• Jack Nicholson born on this day (1937)

23
• Administrative Professionals Day (formerly Secretaries Day)
• World Copyright Day
• Shakespeare's Birthday (1564)

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• Barbra Streisand born in 1942

25
• Freedom Day (Portugal)
• DNA Day

26
• National Pretzel Day – celebrate this one with a beer

27
• Ulysses S. Grant’s Birthday (1822)

28
• Mutiny on the HMS Bounty (1789). Well - the Captain did cut off their grog.

29
• International Dance Day

30
• Willie Nelson’s Birthday (1933). Singer and Distiller