January 2024 Observances for Your

Senior Activity Calendar

Find interesting and unique observances and holidays for you to use as inspiration for your senior activity program.

January 2024 Monthly Observances

• Be Kind to Food Servers Month
• Book Blitz Month
• Celebration of Life Month
• Children Impacted by a Parent’s Cancer Month
• Get Organized Month
• International Brain Teaser Month
• International Child-Centered Divorce Month
• International Creativity Month
• International New Year’s Resolutions Month for Businesses
• National Clean Up Your Computer Month
• National Glaucoma Awareness Month
• National Hobby Month
• National Hot Tea Month
• National Mail Order Gardening Month
• National Mentoring Month
• National Oatmeal Month
• National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
• National Poverty in America Awareness Month
• National Radon Action Month
• National Skating Month
• National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
• National Soup Month
• National Stalking Awareness Month
• National Volunteer Blood Donor Month
• National Wheat Bread Month
• Walk Your Pet Month

January 2024 Weekly Observances

• New Year’s Resolution Week (January 1-7)
• Cuckoo Dancing Week, honoring the comedian duo Laurel and Hardy (January 11-17)
• Week of Christian Unity (January 18-25)
• National Activity Professionals Week (January 21-27)
• Catholic Schools Week (January 28 – February 3)

January 2024 Daily Observances

January 1

• National Black Eyed Peas Day
• National Bloody Mary Day
• National Hangover Day
• National Thank God It’s Monday! Day
• New Year’s Day
• World Day of Peace
• Z Day, paying tribute on this first day of the year to all those whose names begin with the last letter of the alphabet

January 2

• Happy Mew Year for Cats Day
• National Buffet Day
• National Cream Puff Day
• National Personal Trainer Awareness Day
• World Introvert Day

January 3

• National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
• National Fruitcake Toss Day

January 4

• Dimpled Chad Day
• National Spaghetti Day
• National Trivia Day
• World Braille Day

January 5

• National Bird Day
• National Screenwriters Day
• National Whipped Cream Day
• Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany

January 6

• Epiphany or Twelfth Day, where Christians celebrate the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus Christ
• National Bean Day
• National Shortbread Day
• Three Kings Day, commemorating the visit of the Three Wise Men (kings or magi)

January 7

• National Bobblehead Day
• National Tempura Day

January 8

• Argyle Day
• Earth’s Rotation Day
• English Toffee Day
• National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day
• National Gluten-Free Day
• National JoyGerm Day, encouraging people to infect one another with joy

January 9

• Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
• National Apricot Day
• Poetry at Work Day
• Static Electricity Day

January 10

• National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
• National Cut Your Energy Costs Day

January 11

• Hot Toddy Day
• Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day
• National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
• National Milk Day

January 12

• Kiss A Ginger Day
• National Hot Tea Day
• National Pharmacist Day

January 13

• Korean American Day
• Make Your Dream Come True Day
• National Peach Melba Day
• National Sticker Day
• National Vision Board Day

January 14

• National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
• Ratification Day, anniversary of the act that ended the American Revolution in 1784
• World Logic Day

January 15

• Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• National Bagel Day
• National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
• National Hat Day
• National Strawberry Ice Cream Day

January 16

• Appreciate a Dragon Day
• International Hot and Spicy Food Day
• National Fig Newton Day
• National Nothing Day, a day to not celebrate anything
• National Quinoa Day
• Religious Freedom Day

January 17

• International Mentoring Day
• Kid Inventors’ Day
• National Hot Buttered Rum Day

January 18

• Get to Know Your Customers Day
• National Thesaurus Day
• Winnie the Pooh Day

January 19

• National Popcorn Day
• Tin Can Day

January 20

• National Buttercrunch Day
• National Cheese Lover’s Day
• National Coffee Break Day
• National Disc Jockey Day

January 21

• National Granola Bar Day
• National Hugging Day
• National New England Clam Chowder Day
• Squirrel Appreciation Day
• World Snow Day

January 22

• Answer Your Cat’s Question Day
• National Blonde Brownie Day
• National Polka Dot Day
• National Southern Food Day

January 23

• National Handwriting Day
• National Pie Day
• Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day

January 24

• Global Belly Laugh Day
• International Day of Education
• National Compliment Day
• National Peanut Butter Day

January 25

• Full Wolf Moon
• National Irish Coffee Day
• Opposite Day

January 26

• National Activity Professionals Day
• National Green Juice Day
• National Peanut Brittle Day
• National Preschool Fitness Day
• Spouses Day

January 27

• International Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Local Quilt Shop Day
• National Chocolate Cake Day
• National Seed Swap Day

January 28

• Data Privacy Day
• National Blueberry Pancake Day
• National Kazoo Day
• World Leprosy Day

January 29

• Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
• Curmudgeons Day, honoring the bad-tempered
• National Corn Chip Day
• Puzzle Day

January 30

• Inane Answering Message Day
• National Croissant Day

January 31

• Backward Day
• Inspire Your Heart With the Arts Day
• National Hot Chocolate Day