July 31st 2025 - Holidays and Observances

 

(click on the day for details)

• Christian feast day:
  • Abanoub
  • Germanus of Auxerre
  • Ignatius of Loyola
  • Neot
  • July 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which the Feast of Kamál (Perfection) can fall, while August 1 is the latest; observed on the first day of the eighth month of the Baháʼí calendar. (Baháʼí Faith)
• End of the Trinity term (sitting of the High Court of Justice of England)
• Ka Hae Hawaiʻi Day (Hawaii, United States), and its related observance:
  • Sovereignty Restoration Day (Hawaiian sovereignty movement)
• Martyrdom Day of Shahid Udham Singh (Haryana and Punjab, India)
• Treasury Day (Poland)
• Warriors' Day (Malaysia)

 

Observances (click on the day, BD, or week for details)

Harry Potter Birthday

International Digital Adoption (DAP) Professionals Day

Lifeguard Appreciation Day

National Avocado Day

National Chili Dog Day

National Intern Day

National Jump for Jelly Beans Day

National Mutt Day

National Raspberry Cake Day

Shredded Wheat Day

World Ranger Day

 

J.K. Rowling’s Birthday

Lil Uzi Vert’s Birthday

Mark Cuban’s Birthday

B. J. Novak

Wesley Snipes

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Thu Jul 31st, 2025 - Sat Aug 2nd, 2025

Pol’and’Rock Festival

 

Fun Observances

Uncommon Musical Instrument Day

July 31 is Uncommon Musical Instrument Awareness Day, a day to celebrate odd, rare, experimental, and well, uncommon musical instruments.

Throughout human history, musicians have tried to push the boundary of sounds and music by inventing newer and innovative ways of creating music.

This day aims to encourage people to not only learn to play some of these uncommon instruments but also to make their own contributions to the world of music by making their own musical instruments.

How to Celebrate?

• Learn about uncommon instruments. Some examples include the Xaphoon, Daxophone, and Bowfrideaphone.
• Start learning how to play an uncommon musical instrument.

Did You Know…

…that the earliest recorded music instruments are about 42,000 years old? Found in a cave in Germany, these flutes were made of bird bones and mammoth ivory.

 

 

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Traveling through the Midwest, I stopped at an Ohio welcome center to pick up a state map. I found plenty of brochures but no maps. Then I spotted two employees and asked whether they had any.

“Sure,” said the first guy. “I’ll get you one.”

As he walked to the back, the second guy explained, “We keep them in the storage room. If we leave them out on the counter, people just come in and take them.”

 

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Delta Airlines is infusing its cabins with a lavender-and-chamomile scent called Calm. The Week asked its readers to come up with a better name to match

“the ambience of the packed economy cabin.”

“Eau the Humanity”

“Giorgio’s Arm-on-me”

“Chanel No. 5 Inches of Legroom” 

“Claustrophobique” 

“Mist Connection”

“The 99 Per-scent” 

 

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Q: What do you get when you combine an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?

A: Someone who lays awake at night wondering the true meaning of Dog.

 

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If you stop eating doughnuts you will live three years longer, but it's just three more years that you'll want a doughnut.

 

 

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