An advert in a pointless supplement magazine from yesterday's paper brought my attention to a weird but official event - Oral Health Month, Sept 2011. However, the 'event' turns out to be mainly of relevance to one entity - Colgate, the advertiser taking up a full page.
A quick look on Google helped reveal a strange abundance of related special months, as I came across listings for:
Children's Dental Health Month - February 2011 (US)
Oral Health Month - June 2011 (which was Colgate again, although the site is in English and Spanish, so probably relates to a non-UK 'event')
National Smile Month (from the British Dental Health Foundation) which confusingly ran from 15th May to 15th June 2011, and so whilst is ran for the equivalent time frame of one month, it was in fact an event over two half-months.
National Dental Hygiene Month - October 2011
National Oral Health Month - April 2011 (Canada)
National Pet Dental Health Month - February 2011 (US)
A natural progression was for me to check on other 'Special Days/Months' and the following represents a selection of officially recognised 'events', although the selection from Wikipedia is probably biased towards American days etc.
January - Alzheimer Awareness Month [isn't that an oxymoron?]
11th January - Global Human Trafficking Awareness Day
6th February - International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
9th February - Formal Announcement Day
15th February - Mistake Day
March - Supply Management Month
10th - 16th March - Brain Awareness Week
3rd March - Pi Day
6th March - World Glaucoma Day [I don't see it myself]
April - Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month
15th April - Day of Silence [Students take a day-long vow of silence to symbolically represent the silencing of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender students and their supporters]
15th April - Day of Dialogue ['Encouraging honest and respectful conversation among students about God's design for sexuality']
6th May - International No Diet Day
12th May - Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome National Awareness Day [If they're not too tired to take part]
June - National Basketball & Hip-Hop Culture Month
2nd June - International World's Whore Day
July - Hot Dog Month
22nd July - Pi Approximation Day
1st - 7th August - World Breastfeeding Week
30th August - International Sex Bomb Day
September - National Library Card Sign-up Month
12th September - World Rubber Day
13th November - Kindness Day UK
22nd November - Day of Road Traffic Victims
22nd November - Day of Singers & Musicians
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