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| 05apr : First Contact Day (see also March 15th) | |
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*| 08apr : Total Solar Eclipse across North America | |
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| 12apr : International Day of Human Space Flight (aka: Yuri's Night) | |
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| 23apr : World Book Day | |
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| 28apr : National Superhero Day | |
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| 04may : Free Comic Book Day (first Saturday in May) | |
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| 05may : National Cartoonists Day | |
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| 11may : National Twilight Zone Day | |
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| 18may : International Museum Day | |
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| 21may : End of the World | |
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| 25may : Towel Day (Whatever you do... Don't Panic!) | |
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| 26may : National Paper Airplane Day | |
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| 16jun : Captain Picard Day | |
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| 25jun : George Orwell | |
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| 02jul : World UFO Day | |
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| 10jul : Nikola Tesla | |
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| Wed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla | |
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| Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived | |
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| 13jul : Embrace Your Geekiness Day | |
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| 29jul : Don't Be a Dick Day please be kind to each other) | |
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| My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression: | |
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| 12aug : IBM PC Day (1981) & IBM PC DOS | |
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| 19aug : Gene Roddenberry | |
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| 29aug : Judgment Day (1997) : Rise of the... chatbots(?) | |
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| 21sep : Software Freedom Day | |
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| Sat 3rd Saturday of September | |
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| 03nov : Daylight Saving Time Ends (back 1 hour) | |
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| 11nov : Hugh Everett III (the multiverse) | |
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| 30nov : Computer Security Day | |
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| 03dec : National Baud Day (non-US) : date format dd/mm/yy | |
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| Tue Previous Baud Day 12mar2024 : date format mm/dd/yy | |
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| https://www.southernamis.com/baudday | |
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| https://archive.ph/UqihQ and wayback | |
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| 14dec : International Shareware Day (second Saturday in December) | |
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| 28dec : Stan Lee | |
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| 02jan : Science Fiction Day | |
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| Thu Isaac Asimov | |
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| 04jan : Isaac Newton (25dec on Julian Calendar) | |
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| 15jan : Wikipedia Day | |
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| Best offfline ZIM Viewer: | |
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| https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-pwa/ | |
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| 28jan : Data Privacy Day | |
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| 02feb : Groundhog Day | |
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| 17feb : Random Acts of Kindness Day | |
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| https://youtu.be/bGJZP0rePuY (Rue Mevlana, this is so great!) | |
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| 20mar : Fred Rogers (he was the best of us) | |
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| 20mar : Alien Abduction Day | |
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| https://redd.it/jkm76b (most compelling UFO posts/videos) | |
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| 22mar : Talk Like William Shatner Day | |
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| 26mar : Live Long and Prosper Day (Peace and long life) | |
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| 27mar : World Theatre Day | |
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