September Themes

• ADHD Awareness
• Alopecia Areatas Awareness
• Animal Remembrance
• Atrial Fibrillation Month
• Baby Safety
• Back to School
• Backpack Safety America
• Be Kind to Editors and Writers
• Blackpool Illuminations
• Campus Safety
• Chicken
• Child Awareness
• Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
• Childhood Obesity Awareness
• Children’s Eye Health and Safety
• Children’s Good Manners
• Church Clipping
• Classical Music
• College Savings
• Conkers
• Coupon
• Courtesy
• Disaster Preparedness
• DNA, Genomics, and Stem Cell Education
• Fall Hat
• Guide Dogs
• Gynecology Cancer Awareness
• Happy Cat
• Hat Month
• Head Lice Prevention
• Healthy Aging
• Hispanic Heritage
• Home Furnishings
• Hunger Action
• Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness
• Library Card Sign-Up
• Literacy
• Little League
• Million Minute Family Challenge (Sept. – Dec.)
• Mold Awareness
• One-On-One
• People Skills
• Piano
• Preparedness
• Prosper Where You Are Planted
• Prostate Cancer Awareness
• Read a New Book
• Responsible Dog Ownership
• Save a Koala
• Save a Tiger
• Sea Cadet
• School Success
• Self Improvement
• Self-Awareness Month
• Sewing
• Shameless Promotion
• Skin Care Awareness
• Square Dancing
• Strategic Thinking
• Subliminal Communications
• Update Your Resume
• Women of Achievement
• Women’s Friendship
• World Animal Remembrance Month

September Food Themes

• All American Breakfast
• Apple
• Better Breakfast
• Blueberry Popsicle
• Chicken
• Childhood Obesity Awareness
• Cholesterol Education
• Food Safety Education
• Fruit and Veggies — More Matters
• Honey
• Ice Cream Shake
• Mushroom
• Organic Harvest
• Papaya
• Potato
• Rice
• Wild Rice
• Whole Grains

September 2017 Daily Specials  (the * behind the special day means that the day falls on a different date from year to year)

Sept. 1

• Calendar Adjustment Day
• Cherry Popover Day
• Chicken Boy’s Day
• Eid al-Adha *
• Emma M. Nutt Day
• Enthusiasm Week begins
• Lazy Mom’s Day * (1st Fri.)
• No Rhyme Nor Reason Day
• Nutrition Week begins
• Self-University Week begins

Sept. 2

• Bison-ten Yell Day
• Blueberry Popsicle Day
• Great Fire of London – 1666
• Hummingbird Day * (1st Sat.)
• US Treasury Dept. established 1789
• Writing Day * (1st Sat.)
•  VJ Day 1945
• Vietnam Independence 1945

Sept. 3

• Afternoon Tea Day
• American Flag 1st Flown in Battle 1777
• Buffalo Chicken Wings Days * (Sat. and Sun. before Labor Day)
• Father’s Day (Australia and New Zealand) * (1st Sun.)
• National Wilderness system established 1964
• Penicillin Discovered 1928 (some sources say Sept. 15 and others Sept. 30)
• Qatar Independence 1971
• San Marino Independence 301 AD
• Skyscraper Day
• Treaty of Paris signed  1783
• National Welsh Rarebit Day
• Waffle Week begins * (1st full week)
• WWII – Great Britain, France, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany Sept. 3-15,1939

Sept. 4

• Labor Day * (1st Mon.)
• Inventor Lewis Howard Latimer born 1848
• Macadamia Nut Day
• Newspaper Carrier Day
• Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week begins
• Missionary Marcus Whitman born 1802
• Wildlife Day

Sept. 5

• Another Look Unlimited Day * (Tues. after Labor Day)
• Bacon Day
• Be Late For Something Day
• Cheese Pizza Day
• International Day of Charity
• Cowboy/Outlaw Jesse James born 1847
• Suicide Prevention Week begins
• Voyager 1 launched 1977

Sept. 6

• Jane Addams born 1860
• Coffee Ice Cream Day
• Fight Procrastination Day
• Horn Dance Day
• Iguana Awareness Day
• Magellan Completed 1st Circumnavigation of the World 1527
• 1620 – Pilgrims Set Sail to the New World
• Read a Book Day
• Swaziland Independence 1968

Sept. 7

• Acorn Squash Day
• Brazil Independence 1822
• Queen Elizabeth 1 born 1533
• Grace Darling Day
• Feel the Love Day
• Google founded 1996
• Artist, Grandma Moses born 1860
• Neither Rain Nor Snow Day
• Raggedy Ann patented 1915
• Salami Day
• Superhuman Day
• Threatened Species Day

Sept. 8

• Date Nut Bread
• Iguana Awareness Day
• Inca Ice Maiden Day
• International Literacy Day
• 1519 – Magellan Set Sail for the 1st Around the World Voyage
• Pardon Day
• Physical Therapy Day
• Popcorn Festival begins
• Stand Up to Cancer Day  * (2nd Fri.)
• 1st Star Trek TV broadcast 1966
• Virgin Mary born  20 BC

Sept. 9

• California Statehood 1850
• Chrysanthemum Day
• Clean Out Your Garage Day * (Sat. after Labor Day)
• Drive Your Studebaker Day * (2nd Sat.)
• Farmer’s Consumer Awareness Day * (2nd Sat.)
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day
• Teddy Bear Day
• Trail of Tears Commemoration Day * (weekend after Labor Day)
• Wienerschnitzel Day
• Wonderful Weirdos Day

Sept. 10

• Grandparents Day * (Sun. after Labor Day)
• Hug Your Hound Day * (2nd Sun.)
• Pet Memorial Day * (2nd Sun.)
• Sewing Machine Patented 1846
• Suicide Prevention Day
• Swap Ideas Day
• TV Dinner Day
• Vegetarian Awareness Week begins * (2nd full week)

Sept. 11

• Assisted Living Week begins
• Boss/Employee Exchange Day * (2nd Mon.)
• Day of Service and Remembrance
• Emergency Number Day
• Horn Dance * (Mon. after the 4th)
• Hot Cross Bun Day
• I Want to Start My Own Business Day
• Last Night of the Proms
• Libraries Remember Day
• Line Dance Week begins * (2nd Mon.)
• Make Your Bed Day
• No News Is Good News Day
• Odd Day
• 9-11-2001 Remembrance Day / Patriot Day

Sept. 12

• Ants on a Log Day *  (2nd Tues.)
• Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning married 1846
• Chocolate Milkshake Day
• Cleopatra’s Needle erected 1878
• Day of Encouragement
• Lascaux Cave Painting Discovery 1940
• UN Day for South – South Cooperation
• Video Game Day

Sept. 13

• Bald is Beautiful Day
• Celiac Awareness Day
• Chocolate Day
• Author, Roald Dahl born 1916
• Defy Superstition Day
• Fortune Cookie Day
• Milton Snavely Hershey (founder of Hershey’s Chocolate) born 1857
• Kids Take Over the Kitchen Day
• Peanut Day
• Positive Thinking Day
• Programmers’ Day (256th day of the year)
• Snack a Pickle Time
• Uncle Sam Day

Sept. 14

• Creme Filled Donut Day
• Eat a Hoagie Day
• Handel’s ‘Messiah’ composed 1741
• Holly Rood Day
• Margaret Sanger born 1879
• 1814 – Star Spangled Banner Composed by Francis Scott Key
• World Maritime Day

Sept. 15

• Battle of Britain Day 1940
• Author Agatha Christie born 1890
• Costa Rica Independence 1821
• El Salvador Independence 1821
• Guatemala Independence 1821
• Honduras Independence 1821
• Nicaragua Independence 1821
• Felt Hat Day
• Greenpeace founded 1971
• International Day of Democracy
• Dot Day
• Farm Animals Awareness Week * (3rd week)
• LGBT Awareness Day
• Linguine Day
• Make a Hat Day
• Neonatal Nurses Day
• Penicillin discovered 1928 (some sources say Sept. 3 and others say Sept. 30)
• POW/MIA Recognition Day * (3rd Fri.)
• Software Freedom Day
• President William B. Taft born 1857
• Tradesmen Day * (3rd Fri.)

Sept. 16

• Anna Bradstreet Day
• Big Whopper Liar Day * (3rd Sat.)
• Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day
• Coastal Cleanup Day * (3rd Sat.)
• Collect Rocks Day
• Illusionist David Copperfield born 1956
• Eat an Apple Day * (3rd Sat.)
• Gedaliah
• Guacamole Day
• Mayflower Day
• Mexican Independence Day 1810
• Play-Doh introduced 1955
• Ozone Preservation Day
• Papua New Guinea Independence 1975
• Red Panda Day (3rd Sat.)
• Responsible Dog Ownership Day (3rd Sat.)
• Author, H.A. Rey born 1898
• Stay Away from Seattle Day
• Step Family Day
• Wife Appreciation Day  * (3rd Sat.)
• Working Parents Day
• Wrinkled Raincoat Day

Sept. 17

• Apple Dumpling Day
• Citizenship Day
• Clean Hands Week begins * (3rd full week)
• Constitution Day
• Constitution Week begins
• Horseman’s Sunday * (3rd Sun.)
• Pollution Prevention Week  * (3rd full week)
• Time’s Up Day
• Singer/Songwriter Hank Williams born 1923

Sept. 18

• Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  created 1947
• Cheeseburger Day
• Chile Independence 1975
• 1851 – 1st Edition of the New York Times Published
• Farm and Ranch Safety and Health Week begins * (3rd full week)
• Global Be Responsible Day
• Hug a Greeting Card Writer Day
• Prostate Cancer Awareness Week begins
• Respect Day
• Roadrunner Cartoon debut 1949
• Singles Week
• US Air Force Founded 1947
• Woman Road Warrior Day * (3rd Mon.)
• World Gurning Championships
• World Water Monitoring Day

Sept. 19

• Balance Awareness Week begins
• Butterscotch Pudding Day
• George Cadbury (founder of Cadbury’s Cocoa and Chocolate Co.) born 1839
• Mickey Mouse 1st appearance 1928
• Talk Like A Pirate Day

Sept. 20

• Artist Dale Chihuly born 1941
• Punch Day
• Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset *
• School Backpack Awareness Day * (3rd Wed.)
• Women’s Friendship Day

Sept. 21

• Alzheimer’s Day
• Banana Festival
• Belize Independence 1981
• Coastal Cleanup Day
• International Day of Peace
• Malta Independence 1964
• Miniature Golf Day
• Peace One Day
• Pecan Cookie Day
• Author H.G. Wells born 1866
• World Gratitude Day

Sept. 22

• American Business Women’s Day
• Autumnal Equinox *
• Band Aid Invented 1922
• Bulgaria Independence 1908
• Car Free Day
• Centenarian’s Day
• Dear Diary Day
• Elephant Appreciation Day
• Scientist Michael Faraday born 1791
• 1st Day of Autumn
• Hobbit Day
• Ice Cream Cone Day
• International Day of Radiant Peace
• Love Note Day * (4th Fri.)
• Mabon *
• Mali Independence 1960
• Native American Day * (4th Fri.)
• Peace Corps established 1961
• Stonehenge Day
• White Chocolate Day
• World Rhino Day

Sept. 23

• Autumn Stroll Day
• Checkers Day
• Fish Amnesty Day * (4th Sat.)
• Hunting and Fishing Day * (4th Sat.)
• Harvest Festival (UK)
• Missionary John Hyde born 1858
• Innergize Day * (day after equinox)
• Kids’ Day * (4th Sat.)
• Author William Holmes McGuffey born 1800
• Neighborhood Day * (4th Sat.)
• Neptune discovered 1846
• Pot Pie Day
• Rabbit Day * (4th Sat.)
• Saudi Arabia Independence 1932
• Activist Victoria Woodhull born 1838

Sept. 24

• Bluebird of Happiness Day
• The Bullwinkle Show 1st aired 1961
• Cherries Jubilee Day
• George Cross instituted 1940
• Gold Star Mother’s Day * (last Sun.)
• Jim Henson born 1936
• Keep Kids Creative Week * (last week)
• Monopoly (board game) introduced
• Punctuation Day
• Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving
• Teach Ag Day

Sept. 25

• Ataxia Awareness Day
• Bill of Rights ratified 1789
• Comic Book Day
• Dog Week begins
• Family Dinner Day  * (4th Mon.)
• Greenwich Meantime (GMT) began 1676
• Homeschool Spirit Week begins * ( 4th Mon.)
• Mars Observer launched 1992
• Math Story Telling Day
• One-Hit Wonder Day
• Save the Koala Day
• Poet, Author, Song writer Shel Silverstein born 1930
• World School Milk Day

Sept. 26

• Johnny Appleseed born 1774
• Better Breakfast Day
• Poet T. S. Eliot born 1888
• European Day of Languages
• Composer George Gershwin born 1898
• The Muppet Show 1st aired 1976
• Pancake Day
• Shamu (the whale) Day

Sept. 27

• US Revolutionary /Patriot Samuel Adams born 1722
• Ancestor Appreciation Day
• Chimney Safety Week begins
• Chocolate Milk Day
• Corned Beef Hash Day
• Crush a Can Day
• Evangelist / Philanthropist George Mueller born 1805
• Rosetta Stone Deciphered 1822
• See You at the Pole * (4th Wed.)
• Stockton & Darlington Railway opened 1825
• World Tourism Day

Sept. 28

• Artist Caravaggio born 1573
• Fish Tank Floorshow Night
• Good Neighbor Day
• International Right to Know Day
• Public Lands Day
• Strawberry Cream Pie Day
• Saint Wenceslas Day
• World Rabies Day

Sept. 29

• Ask a Stupid Question Day * (last school day)
• Ashura *
• Author Stanley Berenstain born 1923
• Coffee Day
• Confucius born 551 BC
• Physicist Enrico Fermi born 1901
• Happy Goose Day
• Heart Day
• Hug a Vegetarian Day * (last Fri.)
• Inventors Day
• Michaelmas Day/ Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel
• Save the Koala Day * (last Fri.)
• Scotland Yard Formed 1829
• VFW Day
• William the Conqueror invaded England 1066
• World Maritime Day *
• Yom Kipper *

Sept. 30

• Botswana Independence 1966
• Fall Astronomy Day *
• Family Health and Fitness Day * (last Sat.)
•  Penicillin Discovered 1928 (some sources say Sept. 3 and others Sept. 15)
• Hot Mulled Cider Day
• International Translation Day
• Mud Pack Day
• Nelson’s Column Construction began 1840
• Public Lands Day * (last Sat.)
• Stapler patented 1841

RESOURCES:

My (growing) list of September Resources updated for 2017 https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2016/09/01/special-days-resources-for-september/

And here’s the list of my favorite resources for help with any month’s Special Days lesson planning  https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2016/07/31/learning-resources-for-special-days/

Free Printable Download  – Special Days in September

How I use Special Days lists in our homeschool blog series :

Special Days and the Evolution of Morning Calendar Time

Special Days and Biographies

Special Days and Geography

Special Days and Science

Special Days in September Activity Companion – E-Book with 120 Activities for classrooms, homeschools, after school programs, and clubs. https://www.etsy.com/listing/531554432/september-special-days-activity-calendar?ref=listing-shop-header-0

I make my monthly special days lists by using several sources including old calendars,  holiday books, newspapers, and the web. If you know of a special day that I do not have listed, please comment and let me know what it is so I can add it in.   Below are the links to my favorite online themed calendars.

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/september.html

http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/september.htm

http://www.se7en.org.za/se7ens-september

http://food.unl.edu/fnh/september#vegetarian

https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/animal-holidays-celebrations/

http://projectbritain.com/calendars/sept.html

http://aglobalworld.com/international-independence-days/country-independence-day.php

Happy September!

betty jo