Reasons To Celebrate February 1

The Start of: National Hot Breakfast Month U.S. Observance / Month of February

"Traditional breakfasts in the United States and Canada derive from the full English breakfast and other European breakfast traditions and feature predominantly sweet or mild-flavored foods, mostly hot. Typical items include hot oatmeal porridge, grits (in the South), other hot grain, porridges, egg sausage or small link sausages, pan-fried potatoes (hash browns), hot biscuits, toast, pancakes, waffles, bagels, French toast, cornbread, English muffins, pastries (such as croissants, doughnuts, and muffins), and fresh or stewed fruits of various types (stone, citrus, etc.). Hot grilled Steak may be served with eggs on the traditional menu.

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The Start of: Black History Month U.S. & Canada Observance / Month of February

"Black History Month is a national annual observance for remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. It is celebrated annually in the United States and Canada in February and the United Kingdom in the month of October.

The remembrance originated in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson as "Negro History Week". Woodson chose the second week of February because it marked the birthdays of two Americans who greatly influenced the lives and social condition of African Americans: former President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. Woodson also founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History".

• See Black History Month

It's Working Naked Day! (February 1) U.S. Observance / Weird Holidays

Strip down and get to work! It is a day for millions of Home Office Professionals to try to improve the way they work from home by stripping away their anxieties about working from home.

Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church () World

"The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as that saint's feast day.

• St. Brigid, patron saint of Ireland. Feast day in the Roman Catholic Church.

• Feast day of Astina in the Syrian church

National Baked Alaska Day U.S. Observance / February 1

"Baked Alaska (also known as glace au four, omelette à la norvégienne, Norwegian omelette and omelette surprise) is a dessert made of ice cream placed in a pie dish lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding and topped with meringue. The entire dessert is then placed in an extremely hot oven for just long enough to firm the meringue. The meringue is an effective insulator, and the short cooking time prevents the heat from getting through to the ice cream."

Other noted Observances for February 1

• The start of LGBT History Month in the United Kingdom.

• National Freedom Day in the United States

• Federal Territory Day for Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and

Putrajaya, Malaysia.

• Serpent Day

• Women's Heart Day

• National Freedom Day

• Royal Canadian Mounted Police officially started

• Skippy Peanut Butter Created (1933)

• National Girls & Women in Sports Day

• Robinson Crusoe Day

Significant February

• Birthstone of the Month: Amethyst - meaning Sincerity.

• February Flower of the month:

• Zodiac Signs: Aquarius Jan. 20 - Feb. 18; Pisces Feb. 19 - Mar. 20

• The name for the Moon this month is called Hunger Moon, Snow Moon, Chaste Moon, Wolf Moon.

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