Before & After
Obscure January Holidays & Observances
That’s Abandoned!
Elizabeth
Fictional Bands
400

I Have a Dream speech + the longest venomous snake

Martin Luther King Cobra

400

January 4 is the national day to toss this type of dense Christmas goodie made with dried raisins, nuts & other stuff

Fruitcake

400

Clocking a phrase to remember twice a year, this precedes "fall back"

Spring Forward

400

This legendary actress is well known for her violet eyes

Elizabeth Taylor

400

Jack Black fronted & provided tutelage to this young band, also a 2003 movie title

School of Rock

800

the story of Some Pig + an informative virtual event

Charlotte‘s Webinar

800

Call your friends: January 20 is national awareness day for these Antarctic birds

Penguins

800

Home to one of Japan's major mines for this fuel, Battleship Island was abandoned in the 1970s when the supply petered out

coal

800

According to Google AI, she is the patron saint of bakers, beggars, brides, charities, the homeless, hospitals, nurses, widows, and the dying (especially children)

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

800

Party on, dudes! This band was created by Bill & Ted

Wyld Stallyns

1200

Bobby Pickett's Halloween hit is combined with a Thanksgiving side dish

Monster Mashed Potatoes

1200

January 17 doesn't come soon enough, as it's the designated day to ditch these annual promises made 2 1/2 weeks before

New Year’s Resolutions

1200

The Exclusion Zone created after this 1986 event covers some 1,600 square miles, & you should still keep out

Chernobyl

1200

First female doctor in the U.S. to earn a medical degree

Elizabeth Blackwell

1200

This manufactured pop boy-band from 2001’s Josie and the Pussycats stole our hearts with Backdoor Lover

DuJour

1600

Norman Rockwell illustrated for this magazine that had a 2019 hit with "Circles"

Saturday Evening Post Malone

1600

Mmmmmmmmmm, January 23 is a chance to show off your baking skills as it's the day for this; shoofly, anyone?

Pie

1600

Once a glamorous resort, Varosha on this island has been off-limits since 1974 fighting between Greeks & Turks

Cyprus

1600

Nevertheless, this U.S. Senator persisted

Elizabeth Warren

1600

The New Main Street Singers, Mitch & Mickey & The Folksmen are groups in this Christopher Guest film

A Mighty Wind

2000

British gal singer of "Bleeding Love" who wrote "Alice in Wonderland"

Leona Lewis Carroll

2000

On January 28 all of us can celebrate the day for this humming noisemaker invented in the 1840s

Kazoo

2000

This nickname for the Catskills Mountain resort area in New York spawned when it became a summer haven for East Coast American Jews from the 1920s to the 1970s

The Borscht Belt

2000

According to internet lore, this British Monarch was reincarnated as Trisha Paytas’s first daughter, Malibu Barbie

Queen Elizabeth II
2000

In the 1984 mockumentary featuring this heavy metal band, the amps go all the way up to 11 (because its 1 louder than 10)

Spinal Tap

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