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Category: Books and Literature
Events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions celebrating books, authors, libraries, and related topics
The books and literature category includes events related to books, writing, authorship, and the literary world. This includes famous authors, works of literature, textbooks, papers, theses, and libraries
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Rounds Resounding Day: August 1
Daily
While researching her book Rounds Re-Sounding, Gloria T. Delamar found references to several "Catch Clubs" in eighteenth, nineteenth, and even twentieth-century England. They were traditionally for gentle...
January
Coloring Book Day, Nt.: August 2
Daily
Coloring Books aren't just for children. In 1970 National Coloring Book Day championed Dover Publications as a promotion. They published the first-ever coloring book for adults featuring and called "Antiq...
January
Book Lovers Day, Intl.: August 9
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Book Lover's Day encourages people to pick up a book and read it for the day. Celebrating Book Lovers Day is simple. Buy that book you've always wanted to read. Rearrange your home library or host a par...
January
Calligraphy Day, World: August 14
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Created in 2017, World Calligraphy Day is a promotional, fundraising, and educational initiative of The Pen Museum and Manuscript Pen Company in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Calligraphy is the ornate style...
January
Tell a Joke Day (1738): August 16
Daily
Tell a Joke Day marks the anniversary of the death of Joseph Miller, a comedian who lived in England from 1684 until his death on August 16, 1738. A collection of his works can be found in the book Joe Mi...
January
Feet, I Love My Feet Day: August 17
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I Love My Feet Day is about paying attention to the foundation of your life and what everything you do, stands on. Created by author Carolyn D Jenkins to promote her children's book on foot care, "My F...
January
Poet's Day, Ntl.: August 21
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National Poet’s Day was created in 2001 by husband and wife poetry lovers Daniel and Natalie Rhodes. It is a day to honor poets and the prose they produce.
January
The Duchess Who Wasn't Day, (1850): August...
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Created by the late Peggy Shirley, The Duchess Who Wasn't Day honors Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford who wrote under the pen name ''The Duchess." The Duchess is also the title of her most famou...
January
According to Hoyle Day (1769): August 29
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If you play card games, you've been influenced by Edward Hoyle, who died on this day in 1769. Hoyle published the defining book on rules for various games, "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist," in 1742...
January
Literacy and Numeracy Week (AU): August 2...
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NATIONAL LITERACY AND NUMERACY WEEK: PROMOTING FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS IN AUSTRALIA National Literacy & Numeracy Week is a collaborative effort celebrated annually across Australia. It emphasizes the importan...
January
Frankenstein Day, Ntl. (1797): August 30
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Frankenstein, the story of a mad scientist who brings the dead back to life, only to discover that he has created a monster, continues to be one of our most popular and lasting horror stories. National...
January
Crankshaft (1987): August 31
Daily
Crankshaft celebrates the initial publishing of the nationally syndicated comic strip on August 31, 1987.
January
Mother Tongue Day, (MD)(1991): August 31
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Mother Tongue Day in Moldova marks the anniversary of August 31, 1991, when the nation exchanged the Cyrillic alphabet with the Latin alphabet. Mother Tongue Day is a national holiday.
January
Anne and Samantha Day: December 21
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Anne and Samantha Day occurs on the summer and winter solstice to honor the work of two teenage women who died too young. Its purpose is to create a postage stamp to commemorate their actions promoting wo...
January
Calendar Awareness Month, Intl.: December
Monthly
International Calendar Awareness Month seeks to remind us of changes to our current calendar over the years and educate us about the different calendars used by various cultures worldwide. Pope Gregory X...
January
Crossword Puzzle Day (1913): December 21
Daily
The first officially published crossword puzzle was created by the journalist Arthur Wynne of Liverpool, England, on December 21, 1913. However, his was not the first crossword puzzle ever created. A si...
January
Crossword Solvers Day: December 8
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Crossword puzzle creator Myles Mellor created Crossword Solvers Day in 2022 to celebrate people who enjoy crossword puzzles. The creation of the day is strange, given International Crossword Day is fift...
January
Dewey Decimal System Day (1873): December...
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Dewey Decimal System Day honors Melvil Louis Kossuth Dewey, the influential librarian born on December 10, 1851, in upstate New York. Dewey's passion was simplifying processes, so much so that he even s...
January
Dickensian Christmas Festival, Kent (UK):...
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Step into Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and live the experience as in Victorian England. Each year the city of Rochester in Kent, the United Kingdom, rolls out the red carpet, plumb pudding, and Ch...
January
Galveston Dickens on the Strand (US-TX): D...
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With a nod to the ghost of Dickens' past and an eye toward the future, the world-famous Victorian holiday festival returns to Galveston Island. The annual holiday street festival, based on 19th-century...
January
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