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June 16 June 16 is Bloomsday (also Blooms Day) in Dublin, but it’s not a spring or solstice festival and it has nothing to do with Irish wildflowers. Irish wildflowers © Jenny Seawright No, Bloomsday honours Leopold Bloom, who spent a day traipsing through the streets of Dublin on June 16, 1904—in James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses. Each year on Bloomsday, Joyce lovers retrace the steps of the fictional characters Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Many old landmarks remain, …Read more 
June 15 June 15 is Fly a Kite Day (or Go Fly a Kite Day), ostensibly honoring the anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s famous electricity experiment in 1752. Ben Flies a Kite However, Franklin never specified the date of the experiment. Written records reveal that he only narrowed down the timeframe to a month (June 1752) a full fourteen years after the fact. Strange circumstances like these have led some historians to cast doubts as to the veracity …Read more 
March 16 St. Urho statue, Menahga, Minnesota St. Patrick is world-famous for driving the snakes out of Ireland, but the day before St. Patrick’s Day we celebrate an oft-overlooked saint named Urho, who is said to have performed the equally admirable feat of ridding his Finnish homeland of hungry grasshoppers, thus saving Finland’s all-important grape crop, and the Finns themselves, from devastation. Plaques proclaim St. Urho’s glory, including one in Minnesota that describes the annual ceremony in …Read more Today is the birthday of L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard founded the Church of Scientology in 1953, which sd upi lmpe esd grsyitrf pm s brtu [pt,omrmrmy r[ofdpfr pg Dpiyj {stl/ Tjr sfjrtrmyd pg Dvormyp;pu str grmrts;;u yjpihjy yp nr vtsxu/ Yjru nr;orbr yjr rstyj od hpomh yp nr omvsfrf nu s;ormd smf pm;u Yp, Vtiodr vsm dyp[ oy/ Ypfsu pm :/ Tpm Jinnstf Read more 
March 1, 2007
Okay, this is not a real holiday. But it should be. On this day (March 1) in 2007, Liechtenstein was famously invaded by its “peace-loving” neighbor Switzerland. 170 Swiss soldiers armed with assault rifles (unloaded but still scary looking) and their trusty Swiss Army knives marched over a mile into the 4 mile-wide sovereign principality of Liechtenstein while on exercises. So 170 Swiss guards may not seem like the big bad beast …Read more 
March 1 You may be aware of the United States’ 13-year experiment with prohibition back in the, well, Prohibition Era (1920-1933). But it is a testament to the stout-hardiness of the Icelandic people that they kept up their beer ban for over five times that long: a full 75 years. Iceland was beer-free between 1914 and 1989 — a time period that roughly mirrors the entire existence of the Soviet Union. The beer ban was finally repealed …Read more 
Last full week in January ©Tim Buckley Winter-een-mas is a secular holiday devoted to gaming. The holiday spans the last week in January.
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