Our library likes to display a list of “national” events which occur during the month. This list includes monthly recognitions, weekly celebrations, wacky and crazy daily celebrations, as well as the birthdays of famous people and authors/illustrators. For our display, I also include the birthdays of our students and faculty.
Feel free to adapt the list below to meet your needs. If you want to look at other lists, I have used Holiday Insights and National Day Calendar as well as calendars I receive from publishers.
It is always fun to plan special events around some of the crazy/wacky days. I’d love to hear how you celebrate some of these days. Like this post and comment below.
February’s Month-long observances:
American Heart Month
Black History Month
Canned Food Month
Creative Romance Month
Great American Pie Month
National Cherry Month
National Children’s Dental Health Month
National Grapefruit Month
National Weddings Month
Free and Open Source Software Month
National Bake for Family Fun Month
National Library Lover’s Month
Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
Weekly Celebrations:
Cordova Ice Worm Festival Week – January 26-February 2, 2019
US Snow Sculpting Week – January 30-February 2, 2019
African Heritage and Health Week – February 1-7
National Patient Recognition Week – February 1-7
Solo Diners Eat Out Week – February 1-7
Burn Awareness Week – February 3-9, 2019 (First Full Week)
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week – Second Week of February
Boy Scout Anniversary Week – February 4-10 Annually
National School Counseling Week – February 4-8, 2019
Feeding Tube Awareness Week – February 4-8, 2019
International Networking Week – Week of February 4, 2019
Kraut and Frankfurter Week – Second Week of February
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week – February 7-14, 2019
Have a Heart for Chained Dogs Week – February 7-14
National Cardiac Rehabilitation Week – February 10-16, 2019
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week – February 10-16, 2019
Take Your Family to School Week – February 10-17, 2019
Homes for Birds Week – Seven Days Beginning Second Sunday of February
Great American Pizza Bake – Second Week of February
Children of Alcoholics Week – February 10-16, 2019
Jell-O Week – Second week of February
Random Acts of Kindness Week – February 18-22, 2019
Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden – February 11-12, 2019
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care Staff Education Week – February 14-21
American Association for the Advancement of Science Week – February 15-19, 2019
Great Backyard Bird Count – February 15-18, 2019
Brotherhood/Sisterhood Week – February 18-24, 2019
National Engineers Week – Feb. 19-26
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week – February 25-March 3, 2019
National FFA Week – Feb. 19-26
American Camp Week – February 19-22, 2019
Peace Corps Week – February 24 – March 2, 2019
February 2019 Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days:
1 National Freedom Day (Freedom From Slavery)
1 Langston Hughes, author
1 Jerry Spinelli, author
2 Judith Viorst, author
2 Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day
3 The Day the Music Died – Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in 1959.
3 National Missing Persons Day
3 National Women Physicians Day
3 Joan Lowery Nixon, author
3 Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor
4 Russell Hoban, author
4 National Thank a Mail Carrier Day
4 National Create a Vacuum day
5 David Wiesner, author
6 National Girls and Women in Sports Day
7 Wave All you Fingers at Your Neighbor Day
7 National Fettuccine Alfredo Day
7 Charles Dickens, author
7 Laura Ingalls Wilder, author
7 Fred Gipson, author
8 Jules Vern, author
9 Matt de la Pena, author
10 National Cream Cheese Brownie Day
10 E. L. Konigsburg, author
10 Mark Teague, author
11 Clean out Your Computer Day
11 Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day
11 National Shut-In Visitation Day
11 National Peppermint Patty Day
11 Mo Willems, author
11 Jane Yolan, author
11 Thomas Alva Edison, scientist
12 Judy Blume, author
12 Jacqueline Woodson, author
13 National Cheddar Day
13 Janet Taylor Lisle, author
14 National Cream-Filled Chocolates Day
14 Paul O. Zelinsky, author
15 Norman Bridwell, author
15 Galileo Galilei, scientist
17 Random Acts of Kindness Day
18 National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day
19 National Chocolate Mint Day
19 Nicolaus Copernicus, scientist
21 Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, author
22 National Cook a Sweet Potato Day
22 George Washington’s Birthday
22 International World Thinking Day
23 Tennis Day
23 C. S. Adler, author
24 Wilhelm Grimm, author
24 Steve Jobs, birthday
25 National Chocolate Covered Nut Day
25 Cynthia Voight, author
26 Spay Day USA
26 Carnival Day
27 Florence Parry Heide, author
28 National Chocolate Souffle Day