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20 Jan 2017

National Penguin Awareness Day



Penguin Awareness Day was created to celebrate everybody’s favourite zoo animal! Find out more about penguins, explore what others have to say about penguins, why not visit your local zoo to share the penguin love! You don’t have to wait until Penguin Awareness Day, because penguins can be loved all year long!



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International Day of Acceptance



The (International) Day of Acceptance is a valuable social entrepreneurial awareness experiment with a heart-warming back-story.

Annie Hopkins founded 3E Love to make the world a better place, also creating the International Symbol of Acceptance, which shows a wheelchair in the shape of a heart. Together, the occasion and the symbol communicate the 3E Love ethos of devotion, equality, respect and understanding, to be adopted and appreciated by people of all abilities.

Disability owned and operated, 3E Love works to empower people through pride and passion, rather than charity. Taking control, following our dreams and being the best we can, regardless of physical factors, makes us what we are, and Annie’s goal to share this with as many people as possible has proved a source of inspiration all across the world.

On January 20th 2009, Annie passed away due to unexpected complications during a simple medical procedure. Her memory lives on in the hearts of her friends and family, and it also lives on in the heart of the International Symbol of Acceptance. Annie’s brother, Stevie Hopkins, who helped her start 3E Love, paid tribute to his sister’s selfless efforts and vowed to keep them alive. On the first anniversary of Annie’s passing, Stevie and family founded an annual celebration of her life and work, inviting everyone to take part in a variety of ways, from drawing the symbol on your hand or cheek, to ordering buttons and T-shirts from the website, or simply changing your social media profile pictures to the logo for the day.

To quote 3E Love:

“Friends, tell the world you embrace who you are; a person with social rights, who has an opinion, who has interests, who has goals and who loves life; a person who is empowered to make a difference in the world and not be without a voice in society. You are not living disabled, you are living.”

The Days of the Year team will be changing their Facebook profile pictures for January 20th 2014, and we hope that you’ll join us in helping to spread the word and pay tribute to a wonderful girl and her incredible philosophy.


Anne Marie Hopkins (1984 - 2009)

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January 20 Birthdays




Buzz Aldrin - 87



Paul Stanley - 65



Aristotle Onassis -  (1906 - 1975)



Bill Maher - 61



George Burns - (1896 - 1996)



Ian Hill - 65







January 20th


2002: George Harrison posthumously topped the U.K. Singles Chart with “My Sweet Lord” which spent one week at number one. This was the second time Harrison topped the chart with “My Sweet Lord”.

1999: Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland was arrested for failing to provide a urine sample to his live-in drug treatment center. Weiland was on probation for a 1997 heroin case.

1990: Tesla peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Love Song” which was their first top ten single in the U.S.

1988: At the third Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan & Les Paul were among the inductees. Mike Love of The Beach Boys gave a speech where he insulted The Beatles, Mick Jagger, & Bruce Springsteen.

1986: Bob Dylan & Stevie Wonder performed together at a concert in Washington, D.C. commemorating the first Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the U.S.

1983: Def Leppard released their third album Pyromania which went on to reach number two on the Billboard 200 Album Chart & sell ten million copies in the U.S.

1982: Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat during a concert at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, IA. Osbourne thought it was a rubber bat, so he bit its head off & was taken to a hospital after the concert to undergo a rabies injection.

1979: Eric Clapton peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Promises” which was Clapton’s third top ten single as a solo artist in the U.S.

1968: Bob Dylan made his first public appearance in nearly two years performing with the Band at a memorial concert for Woody Guthrie at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Birthdays:

Ian Hill - Bassist for Judas Priest born in 1951

Paul Stanley - Singer & guitarist for Kiss born in 1952