Without a doubt January is a quirky month:
January 2nd – National Buffet Day
January 10th – Peculiar People Day
January 13th – National Peach Melba Day
January 20th – Penguin Awareness Day
January 23 – National Rhubarb Pie Day
January also features some oddly sexist (not that we’re complaining) and unexplained holidays:
January 8th – Male Watcher’s Day
January 12th – The [...]

December 5th – anniversary of the end of Prohibition in the U.S. – go ahead – spike that eggnog!
December 6th – Put on Your Own Shoes Day – interesting proximity to the holiday directly above…
December 6th – Woolseymas (for all the James Joyce fans out there)
December 14th – National Bouillabaisse Day – you have to [...]

The month is pretty well dominated by Veterans’ Day and Thanksgiving, but if you’re in the mood for something less well known, these should get you started:

November 2  – Look for circles day.  No evidence that it started with Sesame Street but I’m suspicious
November 13 – Sadie Hawkins Day
November 14 – National Guacamole Day
November 28 [...]

Stay in an ice hotel – understandably these are only available for reservations in winter. However the one in Sweden’s Lapland offers a 3-day ice-sculpting class during the summer. How could anyone not want to learn that?

Lapland ice hotel
Quebec ice hotel

Do something for the next solar maximum in 2011/2012. The last one was in 1958 [...]

June 17 – Bunker Hill Day
June 18 – International Panic Day
June 19 – World Sauntering Day
June 22 – National Chocolate Eclair Day
June 30 – Meteor Watch day
The whole month of June is National Accordion Awareness Month