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!

May

1
• 136th Kentucky Derby
• May Day
• Elvis married Priscilla (1967)

3
• Space Day

4
• International Tuba Day

5
• Cinco de Mayo
• Last episode of "Love Boat" airs (1986)

6
• Beverage Day
• National Nurses Day
• Roger Bannister runs the first ever four-minute mile (1954)

8
• Mad Magazine debuts (1952)
• World Red Cross Day

9
• Mother's Day
• Billy Joel born in 1949

10
• Last episode of “Laverne and Shirley” airs (1983)

11
• Eat What You Want Day
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded in 1927
• Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí is born in 1904

12
• Limerick Day
• Cannes Film Festival (May 12-23)
• UEFA Cup Final from Hamburg, Germany

13
• The word "cocktail" is first used in print (1806)

14
• Last Seinfeld episode airs (1998)
• Last episode of “Family Ties” airs (1989)

15
• 135th Preakness Stakes
• Chocolate Chip Day
• International Day of Families

16
• Charles Hires invents Root Beer (1866)
• Michael Jackson moonwalks on TV (1983)

17
• World Information Society Day

18
• International Museum Day

19
• Visit Your Relatives Day

20
• Last episode of “Cheers” airs (1993)

21
• National Waiters/Waitresses Day

22
• National Maritime Day (U.S.)

23
• French Open Tennis begins (May 23 - June 6)
• World Turtle Day

24
• Victoria Day (Canada)

25
• National Wine Day
• Star Wars- premiered 31 years ago (1977) in 32 theatres

27
• National Senior Health and Fitness Day

28
• Ian Fleming’s Birthday (1908)

29
• National Mint Julep Day
• International Jazz Day
• Hillary & Norgay first to summit Everest (1953)

30
• 94th Indianapolis 500
• Hug Your Cat Day

31
• Memorial Day (U.S.)
• World No-Tobacco Day
• Clint Eastwood born (1930)