Events

Avast ye lubbers. International Talk Like a Pirate Day (http://talklikeapirate.com) is a day to show your Piratude. Created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers, promulgated to worldwide popularity […]

The September Equinox is one of two days in the calendar year when day almost equal the night hours. In the northern hemisphere it is also the first day of […]

(http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/) September's end marks Banned Books Week, a celebration of the Freedom to Read, established by the American Library Association in 1981 in response to growing attempts to ban books in public libraries […]

Secularists and freethinkers worldwide celebrate International Blasphemy Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_Day) or "Blasphemy Rights Day" to mark the anniversary of when images of Muhammad appeared in the Denmark newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005. Conservative Muslims […]

Freethought Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethought_Day), or "Freethought Coming-Out Day," is a day to give closeted freethinkers a platform from which to declare themselves. The formal calendar holiday is October 12, but many […]

International Skeptics Day is like a party for your brain, where doubt is the guest of honor! This special day lands on October 13th each year, inviting everyone to question […]

Carl Sagan Day (http://www.carlsaganday.com/) marks the birthday of the great Carl Sagan, and is a celebration to honor his memory. Carl Sagan was Professor of Astronomy and Space Science and Director […]

Many freethinkers have adopted the week of Thanksgiving (~November 24) as Church/State Separation Week, to offer concerned and active citizens an opportunity to educate others about the importance of a […]

"IHUD (https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day)" is a way to promote, defend, and remember the basic human rights every person in every country has as a result of being born into this world. The […]

Bill of Rights Day (https://constitutioncenter.org/learn/civic-calendar/bill-of-rights-day) (by Presidential Proclamation): Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate December 15, 1941, as Bill of Rights Day. […]