Appreciate A Dragon Day:

(excerpted from http://www.furriesonline.com/dragonday/)

Hooray for dragons! January 16 is Appreciate A Dragon Day!

Today we celebrate the most noble of creatures, the dragon! Dragons, as symbols, have existed for centuries. While some sociologists believe that folklore dragons were the result of our ancestors’ combining the lizards and alligators they knew about with the few, fossilized skulls and dinosaur remains they’d encountered, those who’ve met a dragon know that sociologists are tasty.

Hot & Spicy International Food Day:

(excerpted from http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/January-16-Is-International-Hot-and-Spicy-Foods-Day)

January 16 is International Hot and Spicy Foods Day! No one knows exactly how it originated, but it usually falls somewhere in the middle of the first month of the year. So this Friday, be sure to celebrate it by eating some Indian, Chinese, Thai, Mexican, or maybe some good ol’ fashioned American chili or hot wings…something to warm up a cold January day!

National Day of Peace (El Salvador):

(excerpted from http://www.elsalvador.org/embajadas/eeuu/home.nsf/0/2fd6010e5830065b85256b12006fcf51?OpenDocument)

On January 16, 1992, the Government of El Salvador and the FMLN signed the Peace Accords in Chapultepec, México, that ended one of the most painful chapters in the history of El Salvador. The 12 year-old conflict resulted in more than 75,000 casualties. In terms of population, that number would be proportionately equivalent to 3.2 million US citizens, or seen another way, the total population of the second largest city in the US: Los Angeles, California.

National Fig Newton Day:

(excerpted from http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/articles/view/421/1/National-Fig-Newton-Day.html)

Generically known as fig rolls, Fig Newtons are popular with kids and adults alike. These bars, made with a light cookie crust and filled with dark fig cream, are named for their place of birth, Newton, Massachusetts. An additional benefit of these delicious snack bars? Your fingers won’t get sticky when you eat them! Put a few in your lunch box on National Fig Newton Day!

National Nothing Day:

(excerpted from http://childrencomefirst.com/nothingday.shtml)

January 16th is National Nothing Day. This un-event was created by newspaperman Harold Pullman Coffin. It was first observed in 1973. The goal of National Nothing Day is “to provide Americans with one national day when they can just sit without celebrating, observing, or honoring anything.” The Smithsonian American Art Museum has a short blurb on this event and a picture that depicts one way to celebrate it.

National Religious Freedom Day:

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Religious_Freedom_Day)

National Religious Freedom Day commemorates the Virginia General Assembly’s adoption of Thomas Jefferson’s landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786. This vital document became the basis for the separation of church and state, and led to freedom of religion for all Americans as protected in the religion clause in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.

Religious Freedom Day is officially proclaimed on January 16 each year by an annual statement by the President of the United States. This day is commemorated by the First Freedom Center in Richmond, Virginia by an annual First Freedom Award banquet.

Teachers’ Day (Thailand):

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher%27s_Day)

Adopted as Teachers’ Day in Thailand by a resolution of the government on November 21, 1956. The first Teachers’ Day was held in 1957.

Wind a Clock Day:

(excerpted from http://hicards.com/platinum/bizarre/1-16.html)

Clocks are instruments that measure and show time. We have used the sun, water, candles, sand, pendulums, weights, springs, electric currents, tuning forks, quartz crystals, and atomic power to tell time.

Prohibition (18th Amendment) Day:

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States)

In the history of the United States, Prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, is the period from 1919 to 1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally as mandated in the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Under substantial pressure from the temperance movement, the United States Senate proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 18, 1917. Having been approved by 36 states, the 18th Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919 and effected on January 16, 1920. Some state legislatures had already enacted statewide prohibition prior to the ratification of the 18th Amendment.

The “Volstead Act”, the popular name for the National Prohibition Act, passed through Congress over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto on October 28, 1919 and established the legal definition of intoxicating liquor. Though the Volstead Act prohibited the sale of alcohol, it did little to enforce the law. The illegal production and distribution of liquor, or bootlegging, became rampant, and the national government did not have the means or desire to enforce every border, lake, river, and speakeasy in America. By 1925, in New York City alone, there were anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 speakeasy clubs.

Celebrity Birthdays:

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Merman)

Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer. Known primarily for her powerful voice and roles in musical theatre, she has been called “the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage.” Among the many standards introduced by Merman in Broadway musicals are “I Got Rhythm,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “It’s De-Lovely,” “Friendship”, “You’re the Top,” “Anything Goes,” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” which later became her theme song.

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Dean)

Jay Hanna “Dizzy” Dean (January 16, 1910 – July 17, 1974) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball, and was the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953.

Dean, who was born in Lucas, Arkansas, pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals (1930-1937), the Chicago Cubs (1938-1941), and briefly for the St. Louis Browns (1947).

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