Special Days

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Special days (definition) Use the links below to access the specific Special Day pages to read details about the day as well as request or claim books to be proofed for a particular special day.

Note: The following special days are those days that have actually been defined and enabled in the database table that tracks special day definitions, so as to appear in the DPC site queue pages. Please do not add to this list unless Project Managers are able to select the Special Day from within an Edit Project page.

Contents 1 Special Days 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Other 2 Suggested Special Days

Special Days

January

• 1 Public Domain Day
• 25 Burns Night
• 26 India's Republic Day
• 26 Australia Day
• 29 Chinese New Year

February

• 1 Black History Month
• 12 Darwin Day
• 14 Saint Valentine's Day

March

• 8 International Women's Day
• 15 Ides of March
• 17 Saint Patrick's Day
• 20 International Earth Day

April

• 1 April Fools Day
• 2 International Children's Book Day
• 7 World Health Day
• 16 Astronomy Day
• 22 Earth Day
• 23 Shakespeare's Birthday
• 25 ANZAC Day

May

• 1 May Day
• 24 Queen Victoria's Birthday

June

• 28 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

July

• 1 Canada Day
• 4 U.S. Independence Day
• 28 Beginning of World War I

August

September

• 19 Talk Like A Pirate Day
• 23 Ramadan (for 2006)

October

• 11 Boer War
• 31 Halloween

November

• 1 Native American Heritage Month
• 11 Armistice Day
• 13-19 Children's Book Week   (The week before Thanksgiving, since 1919)

December

• 2 Abolition of Slavery
• 17 Wright Brothers Anniversary
• 25 Christmas

Other

• Authors' Birthdays
• "Otherday"

Suggested Special Days

Important: This is a place to list suggested days. Please relegate all discussion about these days to the Suggestions for new SPECIAL DAYS forum thread.

• 15 July - Rembrandt's birthday
• 30 December - Stephen Leacock's Birthday

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