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2010 June

MONTH-LONG OBSERVANCES

Adopt a Shelter Cat Month
Aquarium Month
Audio Book Month
Cancer from the Sun Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Children Vision Awareness Month
Effective Communications Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Flag Month
Gay Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
Home Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Month
International Men’s Month
International People Skills Month
International Surf Music Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt-A-Cat Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Black Music Month
National Candy Month
National Dairy Month
National Drive Safe Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month
National Iced Tea Month
National Rivers Month
National Rose Month
National Safety Month
National Scleroderma Awareness Month
National Scoliosis Awareness Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Tennis Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Send a Rose Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Turkey Lovers Month
Vision Research Month
Women’s Golf Month
World Infertility Month
Zoo and Aquarium Month
 
MONTH-LONG OBSERVANCES
First Week
Aphasia Awareness Week
National Fishing Week
 
Second Week
Email Week
International Clothesline Week
National Automotive Service Professionals Week
National Bathroom Reading Week
National Business Etiquette Week
National Clay Week
National Headache Awareness Month
National Hug Week
National Little League Baseball Week
National Nursing Assistants Week
National River Cleanup Week
National Sun Safety Week
Superman Week
 
Third Week
Meet a Mate Week
National Flag Week
National Men’s Health Week
Universal Father’s Week
 
 Fourth Week
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week
Lightning Safety Week
National Camping Week
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week
National Old-Time Fiddler’s Week
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Week
Sobriety Checkpoint Week
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week
 
Fifth Week
Eye Safety Awareness Week
Fish are Friends Not Food Week
Freedom from Fear of Speaking Week
Special Recreation Week
 
June 1st
Alannis Morrissette’s Birthday (1974)
Andy Griffith’s Birthday (1926)
Anne Hutchinson Memorial Day
Bringham Young’s Birthday (1801)
Dare Day
Flip A Coin Day
Heidi Klum’s Birthday (1973)
Heimlich Maneuver Week
National Cancer Survivor’s Day
National Go Barefoot Day
Pen Pal Day
Say Something Nice Day
Stand For Children Day
 
June 2nd
Helen Oxenbury’s Birthday (1938)
Jerry Mathers’ Birthday (1948)
Leave the Office Early Day
Martha Washington’s Birthday (1731)
National Bubba Day
National Rocky Road Ice Cream Day
National Tailor’s Day
Play Tennis Day
Radio Was Patented in 1896
Sir Edward Elgar’s Birthday 1897 (Wrote Pomp & Circumstance)
Thomas Hardy’s Birthday (1840)
Yell “Fudge” at Cobras in North America Day
 
June 3rd
Chimborazo Day
Colleen Dewhurst’s Birthday (1926)
Egg Day
First U.S. Spacewalk by Ed White in 1965
Repeat Day (I said, Repeat Day)
 
June 4th
Aesop’s Birthday
Cheese Day
Dr. Ruth Westenheimer’s Birthday (1928)
First Ford Car Made (1896)
First Shopping Cart Created (1937)
Hug Your Cat Day
Jim Schiller’s Birthday (My Dad)
King George III’s Birthday (1738)
National Doughnut Day (First Friday in June)
National Tailor’s Day
Old Maid’s Day
 
June 5th
Barbershop Quartet Day
Belmont Stakes Day
Do-Dah Parade
Festival of Popular Delusions Day
First Hot Air Balloon Flight by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783
Kenny G’s Birthday (1956)
National Gingerbread Day
National Trails Day
Richard Scarry’s Birthday (1919)
World Environment Day
 
June 6th
Big River Day
Bonza Bottler Day (same day of the number of months-6/6)
Cheer Coach Day
Children’s Awareness Memorial Day
Cynthia Rylant’s (Henry & Mudge Author) Birthday (1954)
D-Day Anniversary (1944)
First Drive-in Movie Theater Opens in New Jersey in 1933
Hunger Awareness Day
Nathan Hale’s Birthday (1755)
National Applesauce Cake Day
National Cancer Survivors Day
National Gardening Exercise Day
National Yo-Yo Day (Donald Duncan’s Birthday)
Teacher’s Day
The Dali Lama’s Birthday (1935)
 
June 7th
Accordian Lover’s Day
Banana Split Day
Boone Day
Liam Neeson’s Birthday (1952)
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
National Trails Day
Paul Gaugin’s Birthday (1848)
Prince’s Birthday (1958)
VCR Day
Write to Your Father Day
 
June 8th
Abused Women & Children’s Awareness Day
Barbara Bush’s Birthday (1925)
Best Friends Day
Boz Scagg’s Birthday (1944)
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Birthday (1867)
Julianna Marguiles’ Birthday (1966)
Name Your Poison Day
Race Unity Day
Shoo Fly Day
Upsy Daisy Day
World Ocean Day
Write to Your Father Day
 
June 9th
Cole Porter’s Birthday (1891)
Donald Duck’s Birthday (1934)
Johnny Depp’s Birthday (1963)
Les Paul’s Birthday-Creator of the Electric Guitar (1915)
Michael J. Fox’s Birthday (1961)
Shavout
 
June 10th
Ball Point Pen Day
Federal Tax Withholding Came into Law (1948)
Frederick Loewe’s Birthday (1901)
Iced Tea Day
Maurice Sendak’s Birthday (1928)
National Nurses Assistant Day
National Yo-Yo Day
 
June 11th
Corn on the Cob Day
Hugh Laurie’s Birthday (1959)
Jacques Cousteau’s Birthday (1910)
National Hug Holiday
Richard Strauss’ Birthday (1864)
Robert Munsch’s Birthday (1945)
Vince Lombardi’s Birthday (1913)
 
June 12th
Anne Frank’s Birthday (1929)
Crowded Nest Awareness Day
Diary Day
George Bush’s Birthday (1924)
Loving Day
Machine Day
Magic Day
National Open Your Window Day
Raggedy Ann & Andy Day
Red Rose Day
Ride the Wind Day
 
June 13th
Blame Someone Else Day
Children’s Sunday
Croquet Day
Mary Wickes’ Birthday (1916)
National Juggling Day
Race Unity Day
St. Anthony of Padua Feast Day
Sewing Machine Day
William Butler Yeats’ Birthday (1865)
Work At Home Father’s Day
 
June 14th
Abused Women and Children’s Awareness Day
Burl Ives’ Birthday (1909)
Caldecott Medal First Awarded (1937)
Dr. Alois Alzheimer’s Birthday (1864)
Donald Trump’s Birthday (1946)
Family History Day
Flag Day
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Birthday (1811)
Pause for a Pledge Day
Pig Callers Day
"Pop Goes the Weasel" Day
Sandpaper Invented by I. Fischer Jr. (1834)
U.S. Army’s Birthday
World Blood Donor Day
 
June 15th
Bob Wian (Founder of Big Boy’s) Birthday (1914)
Family Awareness Day
Father’s Day (Third Sunday in June)
Fly A Kite Day (Ben Franklin’s Kite Experiment in 1752)
Helen Hunt’s Birthday (1963)
Husband Caregiver Day
Justice for Janitors Day
Magna Carta Day
National American Citizenship Day
Nature Photography Day
Neil Patrick Harris’ Birthday (1973)
Power of a Smile Day
Ride to Work on a Motorcycle Day
Spill the Salt Day
U.S. Electricity Day
 
June 16th
Bloomsday
Fresh Veggies Day
Joyce Carol Oates Birthday (1938)
National Fudge Day
National Hollerin’ Contest Day
National Mortician’s Day
Youth Day
 
June 17th
Barry Manilow’s Birthday (1946)
Bunker Hill Day
Disneyland Opened (1955)
Eat Your Vegetables Day
Igor Stravinsky’s Birthday (1882)
M C Escher’s Birthday (1898)
Mud Pack Day
National Violin Day
Newt Gingrich’s Birthday (1943)
Recess at Work Day
Root Beer Day
Watergate Day
World Juggling Day
 
June 18th
Chris Van Allsburg’s Birthday (1949)
Go Fishing Day
International Panic Day
Isabella Rossellini’s Birthday (1952)
National Splurge Day
Paul McCartney’s Birthday (1942)
Strawberry Moon
Work at Home Father’s Day
 
June 19th
Guy Lomardo’s Birthday (1902)
Juneteenth Day
Lou Gehrig’s Birthday (1903)
Louis Jordan’s Birthday (1919)
Monarch Butterfly Day
World Juggling Day
World Sauntering Day
 
June 20th
Bald Eagle Day
Chet Atkins’ Birthday (1924)
Errol Flynn’s Birthday (1909)
Family Awareness Day
Father’s Day
Husband Caregiver Day
Ice Cream Soda Day
National Hollerin’ Contest Day (3rd Saturday in June)
Plain Yogurt Day
Toad Hollow Day of Thank You
World Refugee Day
 
June 21st
Anne & Samantha Day
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Cuckoo Warning Day
First Day of Summer/Summer Solstice
Go Skateboarding Day
Jean Paul Sartre’s Birthday (1905)
Martha Washington’s Birthday (1931)
National ASK Day
Ride to Work Day
Vinegar Day
World Handshake Day
World Humanist Day
 
June 22nd
America’s Kids Day
Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Birthday (1907)
Bill Blass’ Birthday (1922)
Billy Wilder’s Birthday (1906)
Cyndi Lauper’s Birthday (1953)
G.I. Bill (1944)
Meryl Streep’s Birthday (1949)
National Chocolate Éclair Day
National Columnist Day
Pledge of Allegiance Recognized (1942)
Stupid Guy Thing Day
Thumb Exercise Day
Todd Rundgren’s Birthday (1948)
US Department of Justice Established
 
June 23rd
Alfred Kinsey’s Birthday (1894)
Bob Fosse’s Birthday (1927)
Johannes Gutenberg’s Birthday-inventor of printing press (1400)
June Carter Cash’s Birthday (1929)
Let it Go Day
National Pink Day
Public Service Day
Soap Opera Day
Take Your Dog to Work Day
Typewriter Patented (1868)
 
June 24th
Celebration of the Senses Day
International Fairy Day
Museum Come to Life Day
National Bomb Pop Day
St. Jean Baptiste Day
Swim a Lap Day
U.F.O. Day (First documented UFO sighting)
 
June 25th
Anthony Bourdain’s Birthday (1956)
Carly Simon’s Birthday (1945)
Eric Carle’s Birthday (1929)
Fried Okra Day
George Orwell’s Birthday (1903)
Handshake Day
June Lockhart’s Birthday (1925)
LEON Day-LEON is NOEL spelled backwards.
 It means six months until Christmas.
Log Cabin Day
National Bomb Pop Day
National Catfish Day
Rose O’Neil’s (Creator of the Kewpie Doll) Birthday (1874)
Take Your Dog to Work Day
 
June 26th
Abner Doubleday’s (inventor of baseball) Birthday (1819)
Beautician’s Day
Bicycle Patented (1819)
Forgiveness Day
Harp Music Day
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Jennette McCurdy’s Birthday (1992)
Lunar Eclipse
National Chocolate Pudding Day
Pearl S. Buck’s Birthday (1892)
Rat Catcher’s Day
Toothbrush Invented (1498)
Ugly Dog Day
 
June 27th
Captain Kangaroo’s Bob Keeshan Birthday (1927)
Decide to be Married Day
Descendants’ Day
Drake Bell’s Birthday (1986)
Great American Backyard Campout Day
Happy Birthday to You Day
Melody for Happy Birthday Song written in 1859
Helen Keller’s Birthday (1880)
National HIV Testing Day
Paul Bunyan Day
Sunglasses Day
Tobey Maguire’s Birthday (1975)
Vera Wang’s Birthday (1949)
 
June 28th
Anniversary of the Versailles Treaty (1919)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s Birthday (1900)
Gilda Radner’s Birthday (1946)
Insurance Awareness Day
Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Birthday (1712)
John Cusack’s Birthday (1966)
King Henry VIII’s Birthday (1491)
Log Cabin Day
Marble Day
Mel Brooks’ Birthday (1926)
Paul Bunyan Day
Please Take My Children to Work Day
Richard Roger’s Birthday (1902)
 
June 29th
Camera Day
Literacy Advocacy Day
Remote Control Invented (1964)
Waffle Iron Day
 
June 30th
Johnny Carson Show Debuted in 1955
Meteor Day
Rupert Graves’ Birthday (1963)
Superman’s Birthday