I’m celebrating lots of things on this December 26th!
Mummer’s Day (Cornwall)
Boxing Day (UK, Australia, Canada)
Junkanoo (Caribbean Diaspora, see image above)
South African Day of Goodwill
Poya (Sri Lanka)
Candy Cane Day (USA)
Zartosht No-Diso (Ancient Persia and Zoroastrianism)
Slovenian Independence Day
Feast of Our Lady of Andacollo (Chile)
Saint Stephen’s Day (Ireland)
The beginning of the Decembrist Uprising against Tsar Nicholas II (1825, Russia)
First exhibition of wood pulp paper (1854, Buffalo NY)
National Whiner’s Day (USA)
Quviasukvik (Inuit, Upik, Aleut, Chukchi, and Iñupiat)
Grant of patent for FM radio (1933, USA)
Second Day of Christmas
Proclamation Day (South Australia)
Dionysia ta kat’ agrous (Rural Festival of Dionysius, Ancient Greece)
Father’s Day (Bulgaria)
Howdy Doody Day Eve
