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Holidays today cover subjects like the passwords providing us with internet security, having no homework, having no diet, praying, using reason, appreciating tourists, crepe suzettes, carbonated beverages, and nurses: Beverage Day International No Diet Day National Crepes Suzette Day National Day of Prayer National Day of Reason National Nurses Day National Tourist Appreciation Day No Homework Day World Password Day In response to the religious National Day of Prayer, humanists/secularists/freethinkers created the National Day of Reason. The founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale , was born on this date in 1820, and is the reason we celebrate nurses today. Photo by Graham Ruttan on Unsplash

Observances today are about celebrating potty training milestones, salespeople, employees, praying, dressing in blue to raise money for colon cancer, cheese doodles, a highly alcoholic beverage, multiple personality disorders, preparing for Cinco de Mayo, and the first casualty of the American Revolution: Cinco de Marcho Crispus Attucks Day Dress in Blue Day Multiple Personality Day National Absinthe Day National Cheese Doodle Day National Employee Appreciation Day National Salesperson Day Potty Dance Day World Day of Prayer Cinco de Marco was created by people who want to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in a couple months but didn't feel they could handle the alcohol. Their plan was to build up their alcohol tolerance over the next couple months. (Presumably absinthe is too potent to be in their plan.) The first casualty of the American Revolution is considered to be Crispus Attucks , a black man who died during the Boston Massacre . By Unknown author or not provided - U.S. National Archi...