Monthly+Highlights

=__Monthly Highlights -__=

2nd Week Letter Writing Week 1 [|New Year's Day] 18 [|Thesaurus Day] 18 [|Winnie the Pooh Day] -The Birthday of Winnie's author A.A. Milne 19 [|National Popcorn Day] 20 Inauguration Day 21 [|Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday], celebrated on the third Monday 23 [|National Handwriting Day] 29 [|National Puzzle Day] 31 [|Backward Day] 31 [|Inspire Your Heart with Art Day]
 * January **
 * National Braille Literacy Month
 * National Hobby Month
 * Hot Tea Month
 * National Soup Month
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Week Celebrations: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">January 2013 Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days: **

December
[|1st World AIDS Day] [|Universal Human Rights] Month 6 - [|St. Nicholas Day] (International) 7 - [|Pearl Harbor] Day (United States) 8 - [|Bodhi Day] - Buddha's Enlightenment (Buddhist) 8 - [|Feast of the Immaculate Conception] 8-16 - [|Hanukkah]* (Jewish) 12 - [|Virgin of Guadalupe] (Mexico) 13 - [|Santa Lucia Day] (Sweden) 16-25 - [|Las Posadas] (Mexico) 22 - [|Winter Solstice] (Dec 22-Mar 20) 25 - [|Christmas] (Christian, Roman Catholic, International) 26 - [|Boxing Day] (Canada, United Kingdom) 26 - [|Kwanzaa] (African-American) 31 - [|New Year's Eve] (United States, International)

November
__**Native American Heritage Month**__ [|National Museum of the American Indian] [|Smithsonian magazine] [|Links for education] November 3 -- [|National Sandwich Day] November 4 -- [|Daylight Savings] Ends November 6 -- [|Election Day] November 12--[|Ellis Island] closed November 13--[|Diwali] Begins [|Robert Louis Stevenson] birthday November 19--[|Lincoln’s Gettysburg address] November 22--[|Thanksgiving] November 29--[|C.S. Lewis,] [|Madeleine L’Engle], [|Louisa May Alcott] birthdays November 30--[|Mark Twan’s] birthday

October
[|Bully Prevention Month] [|Banned Books Week] **Sept. 30 - Oct 6** [|Fire Prevention Week] – **Oct 7-13** Teen Read Week – **Oct 14-20** “It Came from the Library!” [|Phantom of the Opera!] <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">**October 2 --**[|Peanuts] comic strip First Published in 1950. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">**October 8 --** [|Columbus Day] <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[|Indigenous People’s Day] -- Second Monday in October. [|Boss’s Day] <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">**October 20 --**[|Bela Lugosi’s] birthday <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">opened in New York City (1959.0 [|Bill Gates], birthday, Microsoft executive, multi-multi billionaire
 * October 4 --** [|Buster Keaton], birthday (1895), comedian
 * October 16 --** [|Dictionary Day]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">October 21 -- **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[|Guggenheim Museum] of modern and contemporary art
 * October 27 --** [|Dylan Thomas], poet, birthday (1914)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">October 28 -- **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[|Statue of Liberty’s] birthday
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">October 31 -- **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[|Halloween]

[|September] - Library Card Sign-up Month
September 13 -- Liberty Medal Ceremony Groundbreaking Ceremony for the UN Headquarters (1948) Sandra Day O'Connor (1981), 1st Female Supreme Court Justice Emancipation Proclamation (1862), 150th Anniversary (2012) Yom Kippur Begins
 * September 3** -- Labor Day
 * September 11 --** Patriot Day (9-11 Memorial)
 * September 14** -- Star Spangled Banner written (1814)
 * September 15** -- International Day of Democracy
 * September 16** -- Rosh Hashanah
 * September 17** -- Constitution Day
 * September 21** -- International Day of Peace
 * September 22** -- US Postmaster General Established (1789)
 * September 25** -- First American Newspaper Published (1690)
 * September 26** -- Yom Kippur Ends
 * September 27** -- Google Started (1998)