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

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• Streaker runs past David Niven at Academy Awards (1974)

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• NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four from Detroit, Michigan
• April 4 to 12 - World Men’s Curling Championships in Moncton, New Brunswick

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• The 2009 Major League Baseball season begins

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• NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Game at Ford Field in Detroit - tip-off at 9:21 p.m. EST on CBS.
• Swanson’s TV Dinner first goes on sale (1954)

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• No Housework Day

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• Twin Peaks debuts (1990)

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• 73rd Masters Tournament begins at Augusta National Golf Club (April 9-12)
• Passover (begins at sundown the previous day)

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• 2nd Round of the Masters
• Good Friday
• Paul McCartney announces Beatles breakup (1970)

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• 3rd round of the Masters

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• Final round of the Masters
• Easter
• World Men's Curling Championship Gold Medal Game, 7:30 p.m. EST

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

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• National Pecan Day

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

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

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• Daffy Duck made his debut on April 17, 1937

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• Juggler's Day
• Paul Revere Day

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• Alcohol Content allowed on labels (1955)

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

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• Queen's Birthday
• Patriots Day (U.S.)

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• Earth Day (first Earth Day was in 1970)
• Jack Nicholson born on this day (1937)

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

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• Barbra Streisand born in 1942

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• NFL Draft (April 25-26)
• DNA Day
• Freedom Day (Portugal)

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• National Pretzel Day – celebrate this one with a beer

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• Ulysses S. Grant’s Birthday (1822)

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

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• International Dance Day

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