Donald Duck Day – June 9

Happy Birthday Donald Duck! Donald Duck was “born” on June 9, 1934 when he made his film debut in “The Wise Little Hen”, a Silly Symphony cartoon. Since then Donald Duck has been in over one hundred cartoons and even had a daily newspaper comic strip in the late 1930s.

June’s Bizarre Holidays

  1. Dare Day
  2. National Rocky Road Day
  3. Repeat Day
  4. Old Maid’s Day
  5. Festival of Popular Delusions Day
  6. National Applesauce Cake Day
  7. National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
  8. Name Your Poison Day
  9. Donald Duck Day
  10. National Yo-Yo Day
  11. National Hug Holiday
  12. Machine Day
  13. Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
  14. Pop Goes the Weasel Day
  15. Smile Power Day
  16. National Hollerin’ Contest Day
  17. Eat Your Vegetables Day
  18. International Panic Day
  19. World Sauntering Day
  20. Ice Cream Soda Day
  21. Cuckoo Warning Day
  22. National Chocolate Eclair Day
  23. National Pink Day
  24. Museum Comes to Life Day
  25. Log Cabin Day
  26. National Chocolate Pudding Day
  27. National Columnists Day
  28. Paul Bunyan Day
  29. Camera Day
  30. Meteor Day

May 19 is Frog Jumping Jubilee Day

Mark Twain wrote about the frog jumping contest in “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” in 1865 which took place in Angels Camp, a gold rush town. As the story goes Dan’l Webster had a frog that could out jump all other frogs.