June 22 Holidays

National Onion Ring Day celebrates the battered and deep-fried allium ring whose American restaurant history is linked to a 1910 cookbook and whose modern form was popularized by A&W Restaurants in the 1960s. National Kissing Day was created in the UK to encourage people to plant a kiss on someone they care about and to reflect on the science of kissing, which activates up to 34 facial muscles and five cranial nerves. Anti-Fascist Struggle Day is a Croatian national holiday marking June 22, 1941, when Yugoslav partisans launched the first organized armed uprising against Nazi German and Fascist Italian occupation forces. National Chocolate Eclair Day celebrates the French pastry of choux dough filled with pastry cream and glazed with chocolate — a confection whose name derives from the French word for “lightning,” possibly because it is eaten so fast. A fried ring, a kiss, a partisan uprising, and a lightning bolt of pastry.