January 9th 2023 - Holidays and Observances

 

(click on the day for details)

• Christian feast day:
  • Adrian of Canterbury
  • Berhtwald
  • Translation of the Black Nazarene (Manila, Philippines)
  • Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow
  • Julia Chester Emery (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Stephen (old calendar Eastern Orthodox)
  • January 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Start of Hōonkō (Nishi Honganji) January 9–16 (Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism)
• Martyrs' Day (Panama)
• Non-Resident Indian Day (India)
• Day of Republika Srpska (Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, result of 2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum) (note: not celebrated and disputed in wider Bosnia and Herzegovina, having been declared unconstitutional in 2015)

 

Observances (click on the day or week for details)

National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day

Balloon Ascension Day

Coming of Age Day

Golden Globe Awards

International Choreographers Day

National Apricot Day

National Austin Day

National Carter Day

National Cassoulet Day

National Faith Day

National Fourth Graders Day

National WONK Day

No Pants Subway Ride Day

Play God Day

Plough Monday

National Gluten Free Day

 

Wengie’s Birthday

Sean Paul’s Birthday

Toosii’s Birthday

Quincy Boykins’s Birthday

Richard Nixon’s Birthday

Nina Dobrev’s Birthday

Flo Milli’s Birthday

Eret’s Birthday

Dave Matthews’s Birthday

Brent Rivera’s Birthday

 

Fun Observances (3)

 Static Electricity Day

January 9 is Static Electricity Day a day to honor this unexpected, mostly unpleasant, and sometimes hair rising phenomenon.

Static electricity occurs due to an accumulation of positive electric charges on an object's surface.

Shocks You!

It is called static because the charge stays on the surface until it comes into contact with another surface with a negative charge.

Static electricity can be created by rubbing an object against another. Some materials like wool and glass are much more likely to have static electricity. Dry human skin and hair also accumulate electric charges. This is why people tend to experience shocks when they touch doorknobs or anything made of metal during the winter time.

Triboelectric Series

The Triboelectric Series is a list of materials that are ranked by their ability to accumulate positive and negative charges.

This shocking holiday is also sometimes called National Static Electricity Day in the United States.

How to Celebrate?

• Learn more about what causes static electricity.
• Conduct experiments with the kids in your life to show them the causes and effects of static electricity.
• Learn how to avoid static during the winter months.

Did You Know…

…that lightning is a natural example of when sparks are discharged due to the buildup of static electricity?

 

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Word Nerd Day

Word Nerd Day is celebrated annually on January 9.

Love your dictionary? Do you like long, complicated, fancy words? If your answer is yes, then this is the unofficial holiday for you.

Learn New Words

While the origins of this holiday are unknown, we assume that those who created it wanted word and language nerds to celebrate their expansive vocabulary, and for people to pick up their dictionaries and thesauruses to learn more about the origin, meaning, and usages of words in their language.

Smallest Meaningful Unit

A word is the smallest unit in a language that conveys a meaning when it is written and spoken by itself. When written, it has white space at its beginning and the end, but not in the middle. When spoken, a word is a form of speech that is uttered as a single unit.

How to Celebrate?

• Are you a word nerd? Be proud of who you are. Use words no less than 7 letters long in all your conversations.
• Do crosswords and play word puzzles all day long.
• Spend the day learning about new words and finding occasions to use them.

Did You Know…

…that according to the Oxford Dictionary, “bookkeeper” is the only word in the English language without any hyphens with three consecutive repeated letters?

 

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Clean Off Your Desk Day

To honor an uncluttered, organized and clean workspace, the second Monday of January is celebrated as the Clean Off Your Desk Day.

This unofficial and clearly made-up holiday encourages people to have a clutter-free, clean, and organized workspace.

Increase Productivity

Productivity experts and scientists agree that a functional workspace is important for having a fulfilling and productive work life. Clean and organized work desks allow workers to focus and to organize and process information. In addition, research shows that those who work within cluttered spaces tend to get frustrated faster than those whose workspaces are organized and clean.

How to Celebrate?

• Clean your desk, of course! Take a few hours to organize all the paperwork that has piled up over the last year and to purge your desk and workspace of things you have no use for anymore.
• Shred any paperwork with any sensitive or personal information, give away duplicate office supplies, and file away important documents.
• And while you are at it, organize your PC or laptop desktop as well.

Did You Know...

...that the word desk comes from the old Latin word discus meaning platter or plate?

 

 

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A Woman Shoots Her Husband For Stepping On The Clean Floor...

A police officer jumps into his squad car and calls the station. “I have an interesting case here,” he says. “A woman shot her husband for stepping on the floor she just mopped.”

“Have you arrested her?” asks the sergeant.

“No, not yet. The floor’s still wet.”

 

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A Scottish mother visits her 
son in his New York City apartment and asks, “How do you find the Americans, Donald?”

“Mother,” says Donald, “they’re such noisy people. One neighbor won’t stop banging his head against the wall, while the other screams and screams all night long.”

“Oh, Donald! How do you manage to put up with them?”

“What can I do? I just lie in bed quietly, playing my bagpipes.”

 

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To get my cousin to write to 
her even once, my aunt resorted to 
sending him a check with this note: “Do not cash until you write me a thank-you.”

A few weeks later, the check had cleared, yet no message had arrived. So she called him. “I told you not to cash the check until you’d written to thank me,” she complained.

“I didn’t cash the check,” he said. “I deposited it.”

 

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This was the first & last joke before I tried to sign out. (2022)

 

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