People really love holidays, and they’re great to tie into your OUTRAGEOUS marketing to make it really fun! Below is a list of many of the most well-known and not-so-well-known holidays that you can use in your marketing.
Every time you’re looking to send out a marketing message to your customers/clients/patients, look over the list below and determine if you can tie one of the holidays into your message. They’ll love it and so will you when you see the OUTRAGEOUSLY successful results!
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January 1 |
New Year’s Day |
January 1 |
Paul Revere’s birthday |
January 1 |
Betsy Ross’s birthday (designed first U.S. flag) |
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January 8 |
Elvis Presley’s birthday |
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January 14 |
Benedict Arnold’s birthday (traitor in American Revolutionary War) |
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January 15 |
National Hat Day |
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January 17 |
Al Capone’s birthday (notorious 1920s gangster) |
January 17 |
Mohammad Ali’s birthday |
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January 18 |
Peter Roget’s birthday (author of Roget’s Thesaurus) |
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January 19 |
National Popcorn Day |
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January 21 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (third Monday of January, traditionally January 15) |
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February 2 |
Groundhog Day Super Bowl Sunday (currently the first |
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February 3 |
Sunday of February) |
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February 5 |
Mardi Gras (Christian; moveable based on Easter) |
February 6 |
Ash Wednesday (Christian; moveable based on Easter) |
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February 6 |
George Herman “Babe” Ruth’s birthday |
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February 6 |
Monopoly first went on sale in 1935 |
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February 11 |
Thomas Alva Edison’s birthday (inventor of the light bulb) |
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February 14 |
Valentine’s Day |
February 14 |
Jimmy Hoffa’s birthday |
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Presidents’ Day (officially Washington’s |
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February 18 |
Birthday; third Monday of February, traditionally February 22) |
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February 29 |
Leap Day |
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March 2 |
Theodore Seuss Geisel’s birthday, “Dr. Seuss” |
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March 3 |
Alexander Graham Bell’s birthday (invented the telephone) |
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March 9 |
Employee Appreciation Day |
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March 16 Palm |
Sunday (Christian; Sunday before Easter) |
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March 17 |
St. Patrick’s Day |
March 17 |
The rubber band was invented in 1845 |
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March 19 |
Wyatt Earp’s birthday (Wild West lawman) |
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March 20 |
Vernal Equinox (based on sun), Laylat Al-Qadr (Islamic; moveable, based on lunar calendar) |
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March 21 |
Good Friday (Christian; Friday before Easter) |
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March 23 |
Easter Sunday (Christian; moveable, Sunday after first full moon during spring) |
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March 24 |
Easter Monday (Christian; Monday after Easter) |
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March 26 |
Make Up Your Own Holiday Day |
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April 1 |
April Fool’s Day |
April 1 |
The dollar sign was invented by Oliver Pollack in 1778 |
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April 8 |
Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s record in 1974 |
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April 13 |
Thomas Jefferson’s birthday (third US president (1801–1809)) |
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April 15 |
Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday (artist, sculptor, inventor) |
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April 20 |
First day of Passover (Jewish; moveable based on Jewish calendar) |
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April 21 |
Patriot’s Day/Marathon Monday (New England and Wisconsin only; third Monday of April) |
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April 21 |
Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday (queen of England) |
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April 22 |
Earth Day |
April 25 |
Arbor Day |
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April 27 |
Last day of Passover (Jewish; moveable, based on Jewish calendar) |
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May 1 |
May Day |
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May 5 |
Cinco De Mayo (Mexican holiday often observed in US) |
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May 8 |
The US post office was established in 1794 |
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May 9 |
Lost Sock Memorial Day |
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May 11 |
Mother’s Day (second Sunday of May), Pentecost Sunday (Christian; 49 days after Easter) |
May 12 |
Florence Nightingale’s birthday (a pioneer in the field of nursing) |
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May 12 |
Yogi Berra’s birthday (baseball player, manager) |
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May 13 |
Reggie Jackson becomes the first Major League ballplayer to strike out 2,000 times |
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May 14 |
Star Wars Day (George Lucas’ birthday) |
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May 22 |
The Loch Ness Monster was first sighted on May 22, 1933 |
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May 23 |
Ken Jennings’ birthday (Jeopardy record winner) |
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May 26 |
Memorial Day (last Monday of May, traditionally May 30) |
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May 29 |
John F. Kennedy’s birthday (35th US president, assassinated in office (1960–1963)) |
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June 1 |
Marilyn Monroe’s birthday |
June 14 |
Flag Day |
June 14 |
Donald Trump’s birthday |
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June 15 |
Father’s Day (third Sunday of June) |
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June 19 |
Lou Gehrig’s birthday (baseball player) |
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June 20 |
Summer Solstice (based on sun) |
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June 20 |
Bob Vila’s birthday (TV handyman) |
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June 23 |
The US Secret Service was created |
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June 26 |
Abner Doubleday’s birthday (invented the game of baseball) |
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July 4 |
Independence Day |
July 4 |
Ann Landers’ birthday (advice columnist) |
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July 5 |
P. T. Barnum’s birthday (showman, circus founder) |
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July 20 |
Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon in 1969 |
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July 20 |
National Tug-O-War Contest |
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July 22 |
Alex Trebek’s birthday (host of TV game show Jeopardy) |
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July 24 |
Amelia Earhart’s birthday (pioneer aviator) |
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July 30 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s birthday (weightlifter, actor, governor of California) |
July 31 |
J.K. Rowling’s birthday (author of “Harry Potter” series) |
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August 1 |
Francis Scott Key’s birthday (author of the national anthem) |
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August 5 |
Neil Armstrong’s birthday (first to walk on the moon) |
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August 13 |
Left Hander’s Day |
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August 24 |
Cal Ripken Jr.’s birthday (played in 2,643 consecutive baseball games) |
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August 26 |
Macaulay Culkin’s birthday (actor, starred in “Home Alone” movies) |
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August 29 |
Michael Jackson’s birthday |
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September 1 |
Labor Day (first Monday of September) |
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September 1 |
“Dr. Phil” McGraw’s birthday (TV personality) |
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September 2 |
First day of Ramadan (Islamic; moveable based on lunar calendar) |
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September 11 |
Patriot Day |
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September 18 |
Lance Armstrong’s birthday (six time Tour de France cycling champion) |
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September 19 |
National Talk Like a Pirate Day (unknown origin, but it is an official holiday) |
September 30 |
Rosh Hashanah (Jewish; moveable, based on Jewish calendar) |
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October 2 |
Eid al-Fitr Day after the end of Ramadan (Islamic; moveable, based on lunar calendar) |
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October 9 |
Yom Kippur (Jewish; moveable, nine days after first day of Rosh Hashanah) |
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October 13 |
Columbus Day (second Monday of October, traditionally October 12) |
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October 14 |
First day of Sukkot (Jewish; moveable, fourteen days after Rosh Hashanah) |
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October 16 |
Noah Webster’s birthday (compiled first American English dictionary) |
October 17 |
Evel Knievel’s birthday (motorcycle daredevil) |
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October 20 |
Last day of Sukkot (Jewish) |
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October 22 |
Simchat Torah (Jewish; moveable, twenty-two days after Rosh Hashanah) |
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October 28 |
Bill Gates’s birthday (Microsoft executive, multi-multi-billionaire) |
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October 30 |
Mischief Night |
October 31 |
Halloween |
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November 1 |
All Saints’ Day |
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November 4 |
Election Day (Tuesday after the first Monday of November) |
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November 8 |
Bram Stoker’s birthday (novelist, wrote horror novel Dracula) |
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November 11 |
Veterans Day |
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November 23 |
William “Billy the Kid” Bonney’s birthday (Wild West outlaw) |
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November 26 |
Charles Schulz’s birthday (cartoonist, created Peanuts) |
November 27 |
Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November) |
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November 28 |
Black Friday (Friday after Thanksgiving Day) |
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November 30 |
Dick Clark’s birthday (TV personality) |
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December 2 |
Charles Ringling’s birthday (formed Ringling Bros. circus) |
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December 7 |
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day |
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December 12 |
Bob Barker’s birthday (TV game show host) |
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December 22 |
First day of Hanukkah (moveable, based on Jewish calendar) |
December 24 |
Christmas Eve (Christian) |
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December 25 |
Christmas Day (Christian) |
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December 26 |
First day of Kwanzaa (Kwanzaa is celebrated until January 1) |
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December 29 |
Last day of Hanukkah (moveable, based on Jewish Calendar) |
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December 31 |
New Year’s Eve |
