2024 Daily Holidays that fall on February 16, include:
Daytona Pole Day - February 16, 2024
Do a Grouch a Favor Day
Elizabeth Peratrovich Day - (Local Observance in Alaska)
Innovation Day
Kyoto Protocol Day
National Almond Day
National Caregivers Day - February 16, 2024 (Third Friday in February)
National Tartar Sauce Day - February 16, 2024 (First Friday during Lent)
Tim Tam Day
World Information Architecture Day - February 16, 2024 (Third Friday in February)
2024 Weekly Holidays that include February 16, are:
Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Staff Education Week - February 14-21
American Association for the Advancement of Science Week - February 15-17, 2024
Celebration of Love Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Full Week in February)
Children of Alcoholics Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Full Week in February)
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week - February 13-19
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Week of February)
Girl Scout Cookie Weekend - February 16-18, 2024
Great American Pizza Bake - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Full Week of February)
Great Backyard Bird Count - February 16-19, 2024
Heart Failure Awareness Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Week of Valentine's Day)
Homes for Birds Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Full Week of February)
International Flirting Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Week of Valentines Day)
Jell-O Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Full Week of February)
Kraut and Frankfurter Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Full Week of February)
Lent - February 14 - March 26, 2024 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
Love Data Week - February 12-16, 2024
Love Teaching Week - February 14-21
Make Mine Chocolate - (Campaign kicks off annually on Feb 15, and ends on Easter which is March 31, 2024)
National Cardiac Rehabilitation Week - February 11-17, 2024 - (Second Week of February, the Week of Valentines Day)
National Condom Week - February 14-21
National Date Week (Fruit) - February 11-20
National Entrepreneurship Week - February 10-17, 2024 (Third Week of February)
National Green Week - February 4 - April 30, 2024 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
National Hero Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Full Week of February)
National Nestbox Week - February 14-21
National New Idea Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Full Week of February)
National Pancake Week - February 11-17, 2024
National Salute to Veteran Patients - February 11-17, 2024 (Week of February 14 - Valentine's Day)
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Full Week in February)
National Week of Chastity - February 11-17, 2024 (Week of Valentine's Day)
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week - February 14-21
Pickle Time Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Full Week of February)
Random Acts of Kindness Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second or Third Full Week in February)
Take a Friend Snowmobiling Week - February 10-19, 2024
Take Your Family to School Week - February 11-17, 2024
2024 Monthly Holidays that include February 16, are:
There are too many monthly holidays to include here, so please check out our February Holidays page to see all of the holidays that are celebrated the entire month of February.
NOTE:
A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
If a date is a movable holiday, that is different every year, I'll include the year as well as the date rule above. Otherwise, the holiday falls on the same date each year.
World Festivals and Events (Date Order)
Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival - Usually starts annually on January 5, and typically runs for a month or more, in Harbin, China and is the largest ice and snow festival in the world! 2024 dates are December 20, 2024 - Early March, 2024.
Chinese New Year Festival and Parade - (San Francisco) - February 3 - March 3, 2024, Parade on February 24, 2024
Carnival (Rio de Janeiro in Brazil) - February 9-17, 2024 - Carnival is the biggest festival in the world with two million people a day on the streets. Floats, Parades, Balls, Music and Dancing are all part of the Event
Simplot Games - February 15-17, 2024 - Held at Idaho State University's Holt Arena, it is one of the Nation's premier high school indoor track and field events.
Astrological Sign
The Astrological Sign for February 16 is an Aquarius.
Birth Flower of the Month
The Birth Flower(s) for the Month for February are:
Violet - symbolizes faithfulness, loyalty, humility, wisdom, and hope
Primrose - Modesty, distinction, and virtue
Birthstone
The Birthstone for February is Amethyst.
Famous Birthdays
1812 – Henry Wilson, American politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (d. 1875)
1903 – Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978)
1909 – Richard McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur, who established the first McDonald's restaurant along with his brother in San Bernardino, California (d. 1998)
1918 – Patty Andrews, American singer, member of Andrews Sisters (d. 2013)
1935 - Sonny Bono, American entertainer (Sonny & Cher), politician (d. 1998)
1936 – Jill Kinmont, American skier (d.2012)
1952 - James Ingram American singer, pianist and composer
1957 – LeVar Burton, American actor (Roots, Star Trek - The Next Generation, Reading Rainbow)
1959 – John McEnroe, American tennis player
Famous Deaths
2012 – Gary Carter, American Hall of Fam baseball catcher (b. 1954)
Famous Weddings and Divorces
1982 - Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce
1989 - Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage
Quote of the Day
As far as I can tell, reading will never go out of style, and neither will good old fashioned storytelling. ~LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton was born on this day in 1957. He was an American actor who
starred in Roots and the Star Trek - The Next Generation movie. He went
on to host the Reading Rainbow, a children's television show that ran
from 1983 to 2006. Reading Rainbow won a Peabody Award and twenty-six Emmy Awards, ten of which were in the "Outstanding Children's Series" category.
Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day or a Recipe of the Day
The Holidays and Observances Recipe of the Day for February 16, is a Pork Stir Fry Recipe from Kerry, at Healthy Diet Habits. February 16, is National Almond Day, so you can serve this meal with some slivered almonds on top!
This Day in History
1741 - Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, begins publishing. It is the 2nd US Magazine
1878 – Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender
1883 -Ladies Home Journal begins publishing
1909 - The 1st subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City
1914 - 1st airplane flight (LA to SF)
1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. (King Tut)
1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
1946 - The 1st commercially designed helicopter is tested in Bridgeport Connecticut
1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
2006 – The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
This Day in Music
1963 - The Beatles' Please Please Me hit #1 in the UK
1968 - Elvis Presley receives gold record for How Great Thou Art
1974 - Bob Dylan's album Planet Waves hits #1
1974 - Elton John, Bennie And The Jets is released (video below)
1997 - Michael Jackson sings Elizabeth I Love You, which he wrote for the actress Elizabeth Taylor, at her 65th birthday celebration
2011 - Lady GaGa's Born This Way, becomes the Billboard Hot 100 chart's, 1000th number one.
This Day in Sports
1936 - 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1970 - Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1972 - 1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games during a game with Phoenix Suns)
1984 - Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold
2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs.
1991 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
Word of the Day from Wiktionary
treknobabble (noun)
1. A kind of technobabble particular to the Star Trek universe, with a particularly heavy emphasis on configurations of pseudoscientific particles and waves.
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