What will you celebrate in June?
As I’ve mentioned before, 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. I know many of you are on summer break but I also know that some of you may be in year-round schools.
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.
Month:
Aquarium Month
Candy Month
Dairy Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
Rose Month
Turkey Lovers Month
National Give a Bunch of Balloons Month*
African-American Music Appreciation Month
National Caribbean American Month
National Country Cooking Month
Weekly Events:
Fishing Week, Week 1
National Gardening Week – First Full Week
National Little League Week – Second Week
Email Week, Week 2
National Nurse Assistants Week – Second Thursday of the Second Full Week
National Flag Week – Week of June 14
National Play Catch Week – Third Full Week
Lightning Safety Week – Last full week of Month
June, 2019 Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days:
1 Dare Day
1 National Heimlich Maneuver Day
1 National Say Something Nice Day
1 James Daugherty birthday
2 National Rotisserie Chicken Day
2 National Cancer Survivor’s Day
2 Paul Galdone birthday
2 Norton Juster birthday
3 National Chocolate Macaroons Day
3 Anita Lobel birthday
5 Richard Scarry Birthday
6 Verna Aardema Birthday
6 Cynthia Rylant Birthday
6 Peter Spier Birthday
6 National Higher Education Day
6 National Applesauce Cake Day
6 National Gardening Exercise Day– Get out and exercise with your plants.
7 National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
7 National Doughnut Day always the first Friday in June
7 VCR Day
7 Nikki Giovanni birthday
8 National Name Your Poison Day
9 National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
10 National Herbs and Spices Day
10 Maurice Sendak birthday
11 Robert Munsch birthday
11 National Corn on the Cob Day
11 National Making Life Beautiful Day
11 National German Chocolate Cake Day
12 National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
13 National Weed Your Garden Day
13 National Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
14 National Strawberry Shortcake Day
14 National Pop Goes the Weasel Day
14 Harriet Beecher Stowe birthday
14 Laurence Yep birthday
15 Brian Jacques birthday
15 National Hollerin’ Contest Day
16 Father’s Day
17 National Eat Your Vegetables Day
17 National Stewart’s Root Beer Day
18 Pam Conrad birthday
18 Chris Van Allsburg birthday
19 Juneteenth
19 National Garfield the Cat Day
20 National Hike with a Geek Day
20 National Vanilla Milkshake Day
21 Go Skate Day
21 Finally Summer Day / Summer Solstice – date varies
21 Take a Road Trip Day – third Friday in June
21 Take Your Dog to Work Day Friday after Father’s Day
21 National Peaches ‘N’ Cream Day
21 National Daylight Appreciation Day
22 Summersgiving – Saturday after Summer Solstice
22 National Chocolate Eclair Day
23 Theodore Taylor birthday
24 Kathryn Lasky birthday
25 National Strawberry Parfait Day
25 Eric Carle birthday
26 Walter Farley birthday
26 Charlotte Zolotow birthday
26 National Coconut Day *
26 National Chocolate Pudding Day
27 National Onion Day *
27 National Ice Cream Cake Day
27 National Orange Blossom Day
27 National PTSD Awareness Day
27 James Lincoln Collier birthday
28 National Insurance Awareness Day
28 International Body Piercing Day
29 Camera Day
29 Hug Holiday