Basketball Day
Basketball Day falls on January 20, marking the first public game in 1892 of a sport invented in two weeks to keep students busy indoors.
January 20
6 holidays
Buttercrunch Day
Buttercrunch Day falls on January 20, and the word names two entirely unrelated things, one of which is a lettuce.
Camcorder Day
Camcorder Day falls on January 20, marking the device that took moving-image recording out of professional hands, with consequences nobody designed for.
Cheese Lovers Day
Cheese Lovers Day falls on January 20, and every cheese in the world is the same four ingredients diverging at the point where the curd is handled.
Disc Jockey Day
Disc Jockey Day falls on January 20, marking a job that began as someone introducing records and became a way of playing the turntable itself.
Penguin Awareness Day
Penguin Awareness Day falls on January 20, and most of what people assume about where penguins live and how they survive the cold is wrong.