Penguin Awareness Day
When:
Penguin Awareness Day: Always January 20
About Penguin Awareness Day, and World Penguin Day:
Penguin Awareness Day, and World Penguin Day are great opportunities to learn about and appreciate one of the few natives of Antarctica. On these days, spend a little time learning about them.... a pictorial book or internet site is fun. You can also watch a documentary of these cute and popular, grounded birds.
These days are also a time to wear black and white---penguin colors. However, wearing a tuxedo in their honor is optional. It is also popular today to tell a penguin joke or two.
Origin of Penguin Days:
World Penguin Day coincides with the annual northward migration of penguins. This happens each year on or around April 25th. Penguins do not fly. Rather, they walk, or waddle their way to and from.
Our research did not uncover any information about the origin of Penguin Awareness Day. And, we found no consensus on the date. Rather, we found several conflicting dates in January. If anyone can provide information about this day, please contact us.
Did you know? Penguins are found in Antarctica, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, the Falkland Islands, and the Galapagos Islands. Elsewhere, they are only found in zoos.
Today the following famous people celebrate their birthdays:
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Claude Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1943)
Slim Whitman, American singer
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th and the first black President of the United States. Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004, and was elected to the Senate in November 2004. He began his presidential campaign in 2007, and in 2008, and finally defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, having won 52.9% of the popular vote.
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