Orthodox Christmas Day is on January 7 every year, and isn’t it an exciting opportunity to celebrate another Christmas just as the New Year kicks off? Can you believe that Christmas was originally celebrated 13 days after December 25 (the day we all celebrate it on today)? In the Julian calendar — a much older calendar used before the current Gregorian calendar — Christmas was celebrated on January 7. The Orthodox Church still uses the same old calendar to celebrate Christmas Day. Orthodox Christians celebrate by going to church and other traditions like burning frankincense to commemorate the Wise Men’s gifts to baby Jesus.
National Smith Day
If you can believe it, National Smith Day is on January 6, and no, it’s not a day to celebrate blacksmiths, but rather to celebrate those who have the last name ‘Smith’ or one containing ‘Smith’. Smith is one of the most popular names in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith founded the day in 1994.
National Take a Poet to Lunch Day
If you know a poet, National Take a Poet to Lunch Day on January 6 will be the best time to show your support and appreciation for their work. Take them out for a great meal, on you. Poetry has been around since before Christ, and this creative, rhythmic form of literature has become the foundation for things we now enjoy, such as modern music.