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SUNDAY
New Year's Day
MONDAY
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TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Drinking Straw Patented,
1888.
Festival O f Sleep Day
J.R .R . T olkien born,
1892
Trivia Day
Isaac Newton bom, 1643
Jakob Grimm bom, 1785.
Louis Braille bom, 1809.
Isaac Asimov, bom, 1920
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10
Secret Pal Day
Elvis Presley bom, 1935
1st U.S. Balloon Flight,
1793
National Apricot Day
National Static Electric
ity Day
Boys will be Men
M ulticultural
Film Festival
North Portland Library
512 N. Killingsworth St.
Portland, Or 97217
5:00pm-7:30pm
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First Super Bowl Played
in 1967. Green Bay
(35) defeated Kansas
City (10).
Hat Day The first top
hat was worn.
Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. Day Bom in 1929.
Observed Third
Monday in January.
Prohibition began in
1920
Benjamin Franklin bom,
1706
Shari Lewis bom, 1934
Brian Wildsmith
National Blonde
Brownie Day
29
Baseball Hall of Fame
established, 1936
National Puzzle Day
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
2
Betsy Ross bom, 1752
Paul Revere bom, 1735.
Ellis Island Opened, 1892
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THURSDAY
23
Chinese New Year -
Year of the Dragon
Measure Your Feet Day
National Handwriting
Day
National Pie Day
30
23rd President Franklin
D. Roosevelt bom,
1882
24
Gold Discovered in
California At Sutter's
Mill in 1848 by John
Marshall
31
Backwards Day
Baseball Great Jackie
Robinson bom, 1919
11
Make Your Dreams
Come True Day
Milk Day
Amelia Earhart, flew
solo across the Pacific
Ocean, 1935
18
Author A.A. Milne
bom, 1882
Raymond Briggs
Marks the beginning of
the Lewis & Clark
Bicentennial.
25
Opposite Day
First Winter Olympics
held, 1924
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George Washington
Carver Recognition
Day
National Bird Day
12
Work Harder Day
Author Jack London
bom, 1876
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Artist Paul Cezanne
bom, 1839
Popcorn Day
Bean Day
Old Rock Day
13
Poetry Break Day
Michael Bond
20
Inauguration Day (Every
4 years - 2009, 2013)
Cheese Day
First traffic rules
published, 1900
14
National Dress Up Your
Pet Day
The Revolutionary War
ended, 1784
21
National Hugging Day
First flight o f the
Supersonic Concorde,
1976
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Australia Day Australia
first settled, 1788
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Lewis Carroll
National Geographic
Society Founded, 1888
Julius Lester
Jackson Pollock, Artist,
bom in 1912
National Kazoo Day