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Happy Geek Pride Day! Today is also one of the geekiest days of the year, with holidays relating to Star Wars, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the Discworld books: Two weeks after the death in 2001 of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and related books, is celebrated as Towel Day . (Towels were considered important and versatile items essential for hitchhiking the galaxy.) The original Star Wars movie was released on this date in 1977, inspiring Star Wars Day . In Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, a climactic revolution took place on this date that is remembered as both the Glorious Twenty-fifth of May and as Wear the Lilac Day . And Geek Pride Day is basically an umbrella holiday for these individual geeky holidays.

Observances today are about the liberation of countries in Africa, missing children, bringing lunch to school/work, singing, tap dancing, wine, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, the Discworld books, and Star Wars: African Liberation Day Geek Pride Day Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May  aka  Wear the Lilac Day National Brown-Bag-It Day National Missing Children's Day National Tap Dance Day National Wine Day Sing Out Day Star Wars Day Towel Day African Liberation Day celebrates the creation of the African Union (though it was originally called the Organization of African Unity). Today is also one of the geekiest days of the year, with holidays relating to Star Wars, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the Discworld books: Two weeks after the death in 2001 of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and related books, is celebrated as Towel Day. (Towels were considered important and versatile items essential for hitchhiking the galaxy.) The ...