Category: Technology and Telecommunications Events

Clean up Your Computer Month, Ntl.: Januar...

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It’s a new year and time to get rid of what is holding you back, clean up your act and prepare for your best year yet. Most of us start the new year slowly, making it the perfect time to update your co...

January

Data Privacy & Protection Day (US/EU)(1981...

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Data Privacy & Protection Day aims to raise awareness and to promote healthy privacy and protection practices. Sponsored by a number of organizations throughout the country, Data Privacy and Protection Da...

January

Day without a Scalpel, Ntl (1964): January...

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American surgeon, Charles Dotter performed the first angioplasty procedure on a leg, without a scalpel, in Portland Oregon on January 16, 1964. He changed how surgery could be done going forward. Day with...

January

Dental Drill Day (1875): January 26

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Today is the anniversary of the patenting of the electric dental drill by George F. Green from Kalamazoo on January 26, 1875. Although there were other patented dental drills prior to this, Green’s drill...

January

Energy, Cut Your Energy Costs Day, Ntl. (C...

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National Cut Your Energy Costs Day occurs in the US and Canada each year. It is an education and awareness outreach program designed to help citizens reduce their energy usage and save money by replacing...

January

Energy, Decade for Sustainable Energy for...

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Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) empowers leaders to broker partnerships and unlock finance to achieve universal access to sustainable energy, as a contribution to a cleaner, just and prosperous worl...

January

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Fig Newton Day, Ntl.: January 16

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A Fig Newton is a soft cookie filled with fig jam. A machine invented in 1891 made the mass production of Fig Newtons possible. James Henry Mitchell invented a machine which funneled the dough and jam i...

January

Get Organized Month (Go Month), Ntl.: Janu...

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January is celebrated as the National Get Organized Month ever since 2005, when the National Association of Professional Organizers proclaimed it as such. That was done in order to increase the awarenes...

January

Green Week, Intl. (DE): January 17-26

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First run in 1926, International Green Week is a global forum on food, agriculture and sustainability. The conference includes 1,800 exhibitors with over 100,000 products from all over the world as well a...

January

Home Office Safety & Security Week: Januar...

Weekly

Home Office Safety & Security Week occurs each year and is focused on people who work out of their home. Many of the precautions taken in corporations or the workplace to safeguard employees (and the comp...

January

Macintosh Day (1984): January 25

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Macintosh Day marks the anniversary of the day the first version of the Macintosh personal computer and operating system developed by Apple Inc., introduced on January 25, 1984.

January

Measure Your Feet Day: January 23

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Measure Your Feet Day commemorates how we measure feet, though why it is not on the birthday (May 16, 1903) of the device’s inventor or the day patent US1682366 was approved (August 28, 1928) or filed (N...

January

Milk Bottle & Milkman Day, Ntl. (1878): Ja...

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National Milk Bottle & Milkman Day commemorates the first home deliveries of milk by a 'milkman' January 11, 1878 by the New York Dairy Company. The service no longer exists. 'Honey, can you pick up mil...

January

PAX South, San Antonio (US-TX): January 17...

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PAX is a series of gaming conventions held in Seattle, Boston, Melbourne, Philadelphia, and San Antonio. Founded by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, authors of the popular web comic Penny Arcade, each PAX...

January

Programmers' Day, Intl: January 7*

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International Programmers' Day is one of two days celebrating the men and women behind nearly every modern tool and convenience from your car and videos to smart phones and the internet. These are the pe...

January

Public Domain Day (1790): January 1

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Public Domain Day celebrates intellectual property such as copyrighted works by legendary authors and other creatives whom have passed on or donated their works to the creative commons. Public domain work...

January

Radio Show, European (FR): January 23-25

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Considered the world's largest trade show, conference and event for radio professionals, this annual gathering is held each year. In 2019, Paris hosts the event. PLEASE NOTE: All televised and venue sp...

January

Smart Phone Day, Intl. (2007): January 9

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International Smart Phone Day marks the anniversary of the premier of the iPhone by Steve Jobs of Apple Computer on January 9, 2007.

January

Static Electricity Day: January 9

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Static Electricity Day celebrates the oft amusing and somewhat annoying physical effect of static electricity. Whether you've zapped your hand on a doorknob, or you've had your hair go in every directio...

January

Tax Identity Theft Prevention Week, Nation...

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Beginning in 2014 the Federal Trade Commission has launched an awareness campaign under the title National Tax Identity Theft Prevention Week. Tax identity theft happens when someone uses your Social Se...

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