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Tolkien's birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\n01/08 - Roy Batty's Incept date (Blade Runner) and Stephen Hawking's birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\n01/12 - HAL 9000 goes online.\u003cbr\u003e\n01/15 - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day) Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n01/17 - Ben Franklin's birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\n01/23 - Wear Your Nerdiest T-Shirt Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n01/25 - [Apple Computer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh) Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n01/26 - Dungeons \u0026 Dragons Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n01/28 - [Data Privacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Privacy_Day) Day.\n\n## February\n02/08 - Clean Out Your Computer Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n02/11 - National Inventors Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n02/14 - Pris' Incept date (Blade Runner).\u003cbr\u003e\n02/15 - Galileo Galliei's birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\n02/19 - Nicolaus Copernicus' birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\n02/27 - Pokemon Day.\n\n## March\n03/02 - Raspberry Pi Birthday Jam (Day 1)\u003cbr\u003e\n03/03 - Raspberry Pi Birthday Jam (Day 2)\u003cbr\u003e\n03/04 - Game Master's Appreciation Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n03/11 - [Douglas Adams'](http://www.douglasadams.com/) and James T. Kirk's Birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\n03/13 - World Wide Web's 31st birthday (2020)\u003cbr\u003e\n03/14 - Pi Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n03/23 - Hellboy Day!\u003cbr\u003e\n03/23 - Wernher von Braun's Birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\n03/24 - [Ada Lovelace](http://findingada.com/about/) Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n03/25 - Tolkien Reading Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n03/30 - Table Top Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n03/31 - [World Backup](http://www.worldbackupday.com/en/) Day.\n\n## April\n04/02 - [Arduino](https://day.arduino.cc/#/) Day #ArduinoD16\u003cbr\u003e\n04/05 - First Contact Day. If you're a nerd/geek you'll know what this is. #trek\u003cbr\u003e\n04/09 - [Global Internet of Things](http://iotday.org) (IoT) Day. #iotday\u003cbr\u003e\n04/11 - [International Tabletop](http://www.tabletopday.com) Day. Break out the D\u0026D books and celebrate! #tabletopday\u003cbr\u003e\n04/22 - Earth Day\u003cbr\u003e\n04/23 - World Book Day. #WorldBookDay\u003cbr\u003e\n04/25 - DNA Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n04/26 - Alien Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n04/28 - National Superhero Day.\n \n## May\n05/02 - World Password Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n05/04 - Happy Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you!\u003cbr\u003e\n05/07 - Free Comic Book Day (First Saturday in May).\u003cbr\u003e\n05/08 - Mother's Day (the first woman to ever love your geekiness).\u003cbr\u003e\n05/23 - International Synthesizer Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n05/25 - [Geek Pride](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Pride_Day) and [Towel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day) Day. Happy Towel Day, froods!\u003cbr\u003e\n05/31 - International Amiga Day.\n\n## June\n06/16 - [Captain Picard](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Captain_Picard_Day) Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n06/19 - Father's Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n06/25 - [Free RPG](http://www.freerpgday.com/) Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n06/28 - [Felicia Day's](http://feliciaday.com/) birthday.\n\n## July\n07/10 - [Nikola Tesla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla) Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n07/13 - [Embrace Your Geekness](http://www.geek.com/news/its-embrace-your-geekness-day-1269590/) Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n07/27 - System Administrator Day and Gary Gygax Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n07/29 - Wil Wheaton's birthday.\n\n## August\n08/16 - Debian Day. #DebianDay\u003cbr\u003e\n08/19 - [Gene Roddenberry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Roddenberry) was born on this day in 1921.\u003cbr\u003e\n08/20 - [H.P. Lovecraft's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft) Birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\n08/22 - [Ray Bradbury's](http://www.raybradbury.com/) birthday.\n\n## September\n09/12 - Programmer's Day (Sep. 12 or 13).\u003cbr\u003e\n09/19 - [Talk Like A Pirate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day) and Software Freedom Day (Sep. 19).\u003cbr\u003e\n09/22 - [Hobbit Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit_Day).\u003cbr\u003e\n09/26 - Batman Day.\n\n## October\n10/03. [Techies](http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/October/techiesday.htm) Day and [Virus Appreciation](http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/October/virusappreciation.htm) Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n10/13 - Happy [Ada Lovelace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace) Day! Celebrating the world's first computer programmer. #AdaLovelaceDay\u003cbr\u003e\n10/31 - Halloween.\n\n## November\n11/07 - Marie Curie was born on this day in 1867.\u003cbr\u003e\n11/23 - TARDIS Day. Celebrating when the very first episode of Doctor Who aired on Nov. 23, 1963.\u003cbr\u003e\n11/30 - Computer Security Day.\n\n## December\n12/05 - Pretend You're a Ninja Day.\u003cbr\u003e\n12/25 - Grav-Mass Day and Sir Isaac Newton's birthday.\n\n## Author\nCreated by [Patrick H. Mullins](http://www.pmullins.net). You can find me on  [Twitter](https://twitter.com/phmullins) and on [Telegram](https://telegram.org/) as @pmullins.\n\n## License\nSource is released under the MIT License (MIT) [license](license.md).\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fphmullins%2Fgeek-holidays","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fphmullins%2Fgeek-holidays","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fphmullins%2Fgeek-holidays/lists"}