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How to find today's fun holiday

  1. The tool opens on today's date: if the collection has an entry for it, the holiday name and a one-line primer appear immediately — otherwise you get the next three holidays coming up instead.
  2. Press Surprise me for a random holiday from the whole collection, then jump the date picker to it with one click. Every entry in the month list does the same.
  3. The Every holiday in [month] panel lists the month's entries in date order with the selected date highlighted — handy for planning themed days, parties or classroom events.

Fixed dates only — so nothing is ever wrong

The collection deliberately contains only observances that fall on the same date every year: Star Wars Day on 4 May, Pi Day on 14 March, Halloween on 31 October. Floating days — Mother's Day, Thanksgiving, Diwali — move with the calendar and would be wrong in most years if hard-coded, so they are left out. Everything is a plain bundled dataset read locally: no requests, no accounts, nothing stored.

Also useful: On This Day, Spin Wheel, and Countdown Creator.