February 13

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2024 Daily Holidays that fall on February 13, include:

• Desperation Day 
  
• Dream Your Sweet Day 
• Employee Legal Awareness Day 
• Extraterrestrial Culture Day - February 13, 2024 - (Second Tuesday in February)
• Extraterrestrial Visitor Day - February 13, 2024 (Second Tuesday in February)
• Galentine's Day - (Always the day before Valentine's Day)
• Get a Different Name Day 
• International Condom Day 
• International Natural Day 
• International Pancake Day - February 13, 2024
• Kiss Day 
• Madly In Love With Me Day
• Mardi Gras Carnival (New Orleans) - February 13, 2024 (47 Days before Easter)
• National Break Up With Your Carrier Day 
• National Cheddar Day 
• National Crab Rangoon Day 
• National Internet Friends Day 
• National Tortellini Day
  
• National Wingman's Day 
• Paczki Day - February 13, 2024 (Always Shrove Tuesday - 47 Days Before Easter)
• Safer Internet Day - February 13, 2024 (Second Tuesday in February)
• Self-Love Day 
• Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras - February 13, 2024 (State Holiday in Alabama, Florida and Louisiana)
• Travel Africa Day - February 13, 2024 (Third or Fourth Tuesday in February)
• World Radio Day 

2024 Weekly Holidays that include February 13, are:

• 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)
• Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week - February 7-14 
  
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week - February 13-19
• Freelance Writers Appreciation Week - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Week of February)
• Getting Dizzy Week - February 8-14
  
• Great American Pizza Bake - February 11-17, 2024 (Second Full Week of February)
• Have a Heart for Chained Dogs Week - February 7-14
• 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)
• International Week of Black Women In the Arts - February 7-15
  
• 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)
• Love a Mensch Week - February 7-14
  
• Love Data Week - February 12-16, 2024
• Love Makes the World Go Round, but Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week - February 8-14
• National Cardiac Rehabilitation Week - February 11-17, 2024 - (Second Week of February, the Week of Valentines Day)
• 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 Marriage Week USA - February 7-14
  
• 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)
• 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)
• Risk Awareness Week - February 7-14
  
• Shrovetide - February 11-13, 2024 (Shove Tuesday plus two days before)
• Take a Friend Snowmobiling Week - February 10-19, 2024
• Take Your Family to School Week - February 11-17, 2024
• Valentine's Week - February 7-14

2024 Monthly Holidays that include February 13, 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:

1. A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
2. 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. 
• Carnival of Venice - January 27 - February 13, 2024 - An annual festival held in Venice, Italy where people wear masks and costumes
  
• 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
• Mardi Gras Carnival (New Orleans) - February 13, 2024
• World AG Expo - February 13-15, 2024 (Held in Tulare, CA)

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for February 13 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

• 1885 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman (d. 1982)
• 1919 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
• 1923 – Chuck Yeager, American fighter plane test pilot
• 1933 – Kim Novak, American actress
• 1934 – George Segal, American actor
• 1942 – Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees)
• 1942 – Carol Lynley, American actress (original Poseidon Adventure)
• 1950 – Peter Gabriel, English musician (Genesis)

Famous Deaths

• 1980 – David Janssen, American actor (The Fugitive, Harry O) (b. 1931) 
• 2002 – Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
• 2014 - Ralph Waite, American actor (The Waltons, NCIS) (b. 1928)
• 2016 - Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and Supreme Court Judge (b. 1936)
• 2018 - Henrik, Price Consort of Denmark - Danish royal born in France (b. 1934)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1983 - Actor and comedian Jerry Lewis marries SanDee Pitnick

Quote of the Day

Chuck Yeager, an American fighter plane test pilot was born on this day in 1923.  He was the first pilot to travel faster than sound in 1947.

Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day 
or a Recipe of the Day

The Holidays and Observances, Recipe of the Day for February 13, is a Simple Ham Pasta Recipe from Kerry, at Healthy Diet Habits.

This Day in History

• 1832 - 1st appearance of cholera in London
• 1861 - Abraham Lincoln is declared President of the United States
  
• 1866 - Jesse James holds up his 1st bank in Liberty, Missouri and gets away with $15,000
• 1920 - Switzerland rejoins the League of Nations, and they recognize the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
• 1924 - King Tut's tomb is opened
• 1943 - The United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve (USMCWR) is created
  
• 1945 - Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany and 135,000 die
• 1955 - Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
• 1959 - Barbie doll goes on sale
• 1960 - France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
• 1968 - US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
• 1984 - 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
• 1990 - US, England, France & England give Germany OK to reunify
• 2000 – The last original Peanuts comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies. He did not want anyone else taking over the strip.
  
• 2021 - Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial
• 2021 - Texas and Northern Mexico have a major winter storm that causes blackouts and the death of 82 people

This Day in Music

• 1969 - The Doors' Touch Me is certified gold
• 1969 - Sly and the Family Stone's Everyday People is certified gold
• 1971 - The Osmonds' One Bad Apple hits #1
• 1981 - Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon sets the record for most consecutive weeks on the charts - it debuted in March, 1973 and didn't leave until April, 1988, after 724 weeks.
• 1983 - Marvin Gaye performs a very memorable National Anthem at the NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles
• 2011 - Switchfoot's Hello Hurricane is awarded the Grammy Award for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album.
• 2004 - Led Zeppelin was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards
  
• 2011 - Arcade Fire's The Suburbs wins Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards
• 2012 - Adele won all six categories she was nominated in at the Grammy Awards

Above is one of my favorite Switchfoot songs...Dare You to Move!

This Day in Sports

• 1920 - The National Negro Baseball League organizes
• 1937 - NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington DC to become the Washington Redskins
  
• 1952 - Heavyweight Champion Boxer, Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win
• 1965 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
  1965 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
• 1972 - 11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan
• 1976 - Dorothy Hamill wins the Olympic figure-skating gold medal in Innsbruck, Austria
• 1977 - Eric Heiden is the 1st American to win world speed skating championship
• 1983 - World Boxing Council becomes the 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds
• 1988 - 15th Winter Olympic games opens at Calgary, Canada
• 1990 - Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!