• Sunshine Week

    Sunshine Week (http://www.sunshineweek.org/) includes Freedom of Information Day (March 16), the birthday of James Madison, and runs through that calendar week. Madison was the principal author of the US Constitution and […]

  • Equinox (March)

    The March Equinox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox) is one of two days in the calendar year when day and night hours are nearly equal; in the northern hemisphere, it is also the first […]

  • Atheist Coming-Out Day

    Atheist Day or Atheist Coming-Out Day (http://www.atheistrepublic.com/atheist-day) is a relatively new global secular holiday declared in 2019 by the Freedom From Religon Foundation (https://ffrf.org/) in partnership with the Atheist Republic […]

  • April Fool’s Day

    You gotta be kidding me ...For decades, April Fools Day has been a celebration of nonsense. Practical jokes and other foolish activities mark the morning hours of April 1st. But by one […]

  • Yuri’s Night, or Cosmonauts Day

    Yuri's Night, also called Cosmonauts Day, is a day in honor of Yuri Gagarin, who became the first human in space on April 12, 1961. Twenty years later on the […]

  • Ask An Atheist Day

    National Ask an Atheist Day (https://www.wheniscalendars.com/national-ask-an-atheist-day/) is a movible secular holiday occurring twice each year -- on the 3rd Thursday of April (anywhere from April 15 to April 21), and on […]

  • Earth Day

    Earth Day is a day to grow and diversify the environmental movement, and to mobilize our resources to promote a healthy, sustainable planet. Earth Day is the only Secular Holiday celebrated simultaneously […]

  • National Day of Reason

    The National Day of Reason (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_day_of_reason) (NDoR), endorsed first in 2003 and honored by U.S. secularists, occurs on the first Thursday of May. NDoR is a response and counterbalance to the National […]

  • Towel Day

    Towel Day (http://towelday.org/) is the annual celebration of the life and writings of Douglas Adams (1952-2001), humorist, humanist, conservationist, science fiction writer, and social critic. On that day, fans around the […]

  • Opposite Day

    Some say the proper date is May 26, some say April 30, some say March 27th -- can you ever be sure? When someone says "Today is Opposite Day," he might […]