January 17th Holidays
🎓 International Mentoring Day
✋🏻 International We Are Not Broken Day
💡 Kid Inventors Day
🎉 Ditch New Year’s Resolution Day
🚠 Cable Car Day
🛷 International Snowmobile Safety Week
💪 Popeye Day
🇺🇸 Judgment Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Hug A Short Person Day - USA
🇺🇸 Soup Swap Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Classy Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Hot Heads Chili Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Hot Buttered Rum Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Use Your Gift Card Day - USA
🇺🇸 Benjamin Franklin Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Bootlegger’s Day - USA
🇺🇸 Customer Service Day - USA
🇦🇷 Animal Protector’s Day (Día del Protector Animal) - Argentina, Venezuela
🇹🇭 National Dairy Day (Wan Khonom Haeng Chat, วันโคนมแห่งชาติ) - Thailand
🇹🇭 King Ramkhamhaeng Day (วันพ่อขุนรามคำแหงมหาราช) - Thailand
🇵🇭 James Leonard Tagle Gordon Day - Philippines
🇳🇴 Pig’s Day (Grisens dag) - Norway
🇬🇷 Patras Carnival (Πατρινό Καρναβάλι) - Greece
🇮🇹 Festa di Sant’Antonio Abate - Italy
🇪🇸 Menorca Day (Diada del Poble de Menorca) - Spain
🇵🇱 Baltic Porter Day (Dzień Porteru Bałtyckiego) - Poland
🇨🇩 Patrice Lumumba Day (Anniversaire de l`assassinat de Patrice Lumumba) - DR Congo
🇬🇸 Possession Day - South Georgia
This Day in History
• On January 17, 395, The Roman Empire split into two parts, the Western and the Eastern 1631 yr.
• On January 17, 1773, James Cook was the first in the world to cross the Southern Arctic Circle 253 yr.
