Mark Your Calendar #1: February Holidays and Observances

Here is my sweet and lovely daughter, all decked out in red on the first Friday of February in support of the awareness campaign, Heart Truth, as National Wear Red Day ® in the United States. Men and women were encouraged to wear red as a symbol of their support of women’s heart health.

As we have lost several family members to heart disease and its complications, this cause was definitely important to my family and we all wore red in support.

Our family, not unlike many others, has likewise been greatly affected by cancer. Though the actual day of awareness has passed for this year, I applaud and support this cause.

I'm not going to even attempt to list all of the upcoming (or recently passed holiday's and observances) for this month. But, here are just a few that caught my eye.

NATIONAL HOLIDAYS...UNITED STATES

• • Black History Month http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-month
    https://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/
• • Great American Pie Month (because who doesn't love pie) http://www.gone-ta-pott.com/great_american_pie_month.html
• • National Bake for Family Fun Month
    http://www.homebaking.org/familyfun/
• • National Heart Month
    http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/
• • National Hot Breakfast Month
    http://www.gone-ta-pott.com/National_breakfast_month.html
• • National Library Lover’s Month
• • Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

FEBRUARY INTERNATIONAL DAYS/OBSERVANCES

• National Flag of Canada Day
• World Anthropology Day – Third Thursday in February
• International Day of Women and Girls in Science (February 11th)
• World Day of Social Justice
  (February 20th)

What holiday's or observances are you observing during the month of February?

Sources:

• Photo by Estée Janssens on Unsplash

• https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/national-wear-red-day

• https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/world-cancer-day-2017-02-04/
  *http://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/index.html

• https://nationaldaycalendar.com/february-overview/

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