Feb. 1-28 National Black History Month. It is observed annually in the United States and Canada in February. It is also called African-American History Month. In 1926, Historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and announced the second week of February to be “Negro History Week” in honor of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, according to Wikipedia. It has evolved since then to occupy a month.
Feb. 1 National Dark Chocolate Day. Editorial opinion: The best kind of chocolate.
Feb. 1 National Baked Alaska Day. For an Alaska-centric recipe, look to Julia O’Malley’s published in Edible in 2021. https://ediblealaska.ediblecommunities.com/recipes/recipes-baked-alaska-true-alaska/
Feb. 2 National Groundhog Day. The day when Punxsutawney Phil, a beloved groundhog, tells us if we are going to have six more weeks of winter. Hint: We are.
Feb. 3 National Four Chaplains Day
Feb. 3 National Missing Persons Day. In recognition of the people who go missing every day. There are roughly 90,000 open missing person cases in the United States.
Feb. 4 National Girls and Women in Sports Day is marked on the first Wednesday in February annually.
Feb. 7 National Periodic Table Day. This national day has only been around 11 years, but it helps us think about the organization and function of the table.
Feb. 9 National Pizza Day. Pizza is a wildly popular dish nearly worldwide. In the U.S., we order about 3 billion pies and eat another 1 billion frozen pizzas.
Feb. 11 National Shut-in Visitation Day
Feb. 13 International Galentine's Day. Galentine's Day is a holiday that celebrates women's friendship. It can be observed any day. Galentine's Day events are typically all-female occasions of mutual "empowerment...a reminder for women to support and uplift one another."
Feb. 14 International Valentine’s Day. Originally the feast day of St. Valentine, an early Christian martyr, it is now globally celebrated day of love and romance.
Feb. 14 National Organ Donor Day. Encourage lifesaving organ donation.
Feb. 16 National Presidents Day Combines birthday celebrations of President George Washington (born Feb. 22, 1732) Abraham Lincoln (born Feb. 12, 1809), both considered to be among the finest statesmen of any era.
Feb. 17 National Random Acts of Kindness Day. Do something nice and unexpected for a friend or stranger.
Feb. 17 International Ramadan. The holy month in Islam lasts until March 19.
Feb. 18 International Ash Wednesday. The start of Lent.
Feb. 26 National Letter to an Elder Day. A day to encourage people to write to the seniors in their lives.
