CELEBRATION

A Culinary Book of Days
Celebrating Some of the Lives, Events, and Traditions
that Have Shaped our History and Popular Culture
 

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Preface

• January 01 - Anniversary of the First Meeting of Napoleon and Marie Walewska
• January 02 - Anniversary of the Death of Queen Maria Louisa of Spain
• January 03 - Anniversary of the Death of Louis Gabriel Suchet (Poularde Albufera,)
• January 04 - Sally Lunn's Birthday
• January 05 - George Washington Carver Day
• January 06 - Twelfth Night
• January 07-  Princess Charlotte's Birthday
• January 08 - Anniversary of Marco Polo's Death
• January 09 - Little Jack Horner's Birthday
• January 12 - James Salisbury's Birthday
• January 14 - Anniversary of the Premier of Tosca
• January 15 - Anniversary of the Premier of Vanessa
• January 17-  St. Anthony's Feastday
• January 20 - Anniversary of President Barack Obama's Inauguration
• January 21 - King Oscar II's Birthday
• January 22 - Lord Byron's Birthday
• January 24 - Anniversary of the Premier of Thermidor
• January 25 - Anniversary of Anne Boleyn's Marriage to Henry VIII
• January 26 - Australia Day
• January 27-  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Birthday
• January 28 - Anniversary of the Death of Henry VIII
• January 29 - Anniversary of George III's Death
• January 31 - Anna Pavlova's Birthday
   

• February 02-  St, Brigid's Feastday
• February 02 - Candlemas Day
• February 03-  St. Blaise's Feastday/Setsuban
• February 04 - Oscar De La Hoya's Birthday
• February 05 - St. Agatha's Feastday
• February 06 - Zsa Zsa Gabor's Birthday
• February 07 - Clarence Linden Crabbe's Birthday
• February 09-  Anniversary of Agnes Sorel's Death
• February 12 - Anniversary of Auguste Escoffier's Death
• February 14 - St. Valentine's Day
• February 15 - Louis XV's Birthday
• February 17 - Paris Hilton's Birthday
• February 18 - Mary I of England's Birthday
• February 19 - Adelina Patti's Birthday
• February 20 - Mary Garden's Birthday
• February 21 - Anniversary of Pope Benedict XIII's Death
• February 22 - George Washington's Birthday
• February 23 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville's Birthday
• February 24 - Caesar Cardin's Birthday
• February 25 - Enrico Caruso's Birthday
• February 29 - Gioachino Rossini Birthday

• March 01 - St. David's Day
• March 02 - Benjamin Todd Roethlisberger's Birthday/   Jules Armand Polignac's Death
• March 03 - Jean Harlow's Birthday Anniversary of Pope Clement VIII's Death
• March 04 - Premier of Babette's Feast
• March 06 - Michelangelo Buonarroti's Birthday
• March 09 - Anniversary of Jules Mazarin's  Death
• March 13 - Anniversary of the Resignation of Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
• March 10 - Alexander III of Russia (Lobster Duke Alexis)
• March 14 - Paul Erlich's Birthday
• March 15 - Andrew Jackson's Birthday
• March 17 - St. Patrick's Day
• March 18 - Grover Cleveland's Birthday (Peach pudding à la Cleveland)
• March 19 - St. Joseph's Feastday 
• March 20 - Anniversary of Queen Juliana's Death
• March 23 - Anniversary of Karl Nesslerod's Death
• March 24  - Elisa-Rachel Felix's Birthday
• March 25 -  Waffle Day/Maryland Day
• March 26 - Anniversary of Sarah Bernhardt's Death
• March 28 - Anniversary of the Confirmation of Didius Julianus as Emperor of Rome
• March 29 - John Tyler's Birthday 
• March 30 - Anniversary  of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's Death
• March 31 - Anniversary of the Death of Francis I
   

• April 01 - April Fool's Day 
• April 02 - Anniversary of Honore Gabriel Riquetti's Death
• April 03 - Harriet Helen Gould Beck's  Birthday -
• April 04 - Anniversary of Adolphe Dugléré's Death
• April 05 - Anniversary of the Casket Girls' Strike
• April 07 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi's Birthday
• April 08 - Franklin Clarence Mars' Birthday
• April 09 - Hugh Hefner's Birthday 
• April 10 - Anniversary of Elizabeth Barton's Death
• April 12 - Anniversary of Josephine Baker's Deah
• April 13 - Thomas  Jefferson's Birthday
• April 15 - Leonardo da Vinci's Birthday
• April 17 - Anniversary of Marie de Sevigne's Death
• April 18 - Albert Einstein's Birthday
• April 19 - Anniversary of the Invasion of Port Mahon
• April 21 - Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday
• April 22 - Jack Nicholson's Birthday
• April 23 - St. George's Feastday
• April 24 - Anniversary of Grigory Grigoryevich Count Orlov's Death
• April 25 - St. Mark's Feastday/Anzac Day
• April 27 - St. Zita's Day
• April 28 - Anniversary of Louisa Tetrazinni's Death
• April 29 - Anniversary of Count Anatole  Nicolaïevitch Demidov's Death
• April 30 - Alice B. Toklas' Birthday

• May 01 - May Day/Beltane Day/Anniversary of the Opening of the Crystal Palace
• May 02 - Anniversary of Senator Joseph McCarthy's Death
• May 05-  Cinco De Mayo
• May 06 - Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre's Birthday/Anniversary of
                Johan Ludvig Runeberg's Death               
• May 08 - Anniversary of Friedrich August von Holstein's Death/Harry Truman's Birthday
• May 10 - Mabel Busby's Birthday
• May 13 - Jules Massenet's Birthday
• May 14 - Anniversary of  Louis XIII's Death
• May 15 - St. Isidro Labrador's Feastday
• May 16 - St. Honore's Feastday
• May 17 - Anniversary of Tallyrand's Death
• May 18 - Pope John Paul II's Birthday
• May 19 - Nellie Melba's Birthday
• May 20 - Anniversary of Marquis de La Fayette's Death
• May 22 - Anniversary of Martha Washington's Death
• May 23 - Anniversary of John D. Rockefeller's Death
• May 24 - Queen Victoria's Birthday
• May 25 - Eve Ensler's Birthday
• May 27 - Enoch Arnold Bennett's Birthday and Death  (unfolded omelette with smoked haddock
                invented at  the Savoy Hotel
• May 28 - Anniversary of the Invention of Tagliatelle
• May 29 - Anniversary of Josephine de Beauharnais's Death
• May 30 - St. Joan of Arc's Feastday
• May 31 - Anniversary of the First Godiva Procession
   

• June 01 - Anniversary of the Opening of the Ritz Carlton Roof Garden
• June 02 - Anniversary of the Start of the Salem Witch Trials
• June 03 - Anniversary of the Death of Pope John XXIII- Jefferson Davis's Birthday
• June 04 - Anniversary of Casanova's Death
• June 05 - Anniversary of Georges Feydeau's Death/Ronald Regan;s Death
• June 07-  Anniversary of Dorothy Parker's Death
• June 08 - Antonin Carême's Birthday
• June 09 - Anniversary of Charles Dickens' Death  (Veal pie à la Dickens)
• June 11 - Anniversary of the Death of George I
• June 13-  St. Anthony of Padua's Feastday
• June 14 - Anniversary of the Battle of Marengo/Donald Trump's Birthday
• June 19 - Salman Rushdie's Birthday
• June 22 - Anniversary of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
• June 23 - Maria Leczinska's Birthday
• June 24 - St. John the Baptist's Feastday/Midsummer's Day
• June 25 - Anniversary of Michael Jackson's Death
• June 26 - Anniversary of King George IV's Death
• June 27 - Bob Keeshan's Birthday
• June 28 - Anniversary of Empress Theodora's Death
• June 29 - St. Peter's Feastday
   

• December 01 - Alexandra of Denmark's Birthday
• December 02 - Anniversary of the Marquis de Sade's Death
• December 03 - Anniversary of the Premier of The Man Who Invented Tortellini
• December 04 - Lillian Russell's Birthday
• December 06 - St. Nicholas'  Feastday
• December 07 - Queen Mary of Scotland's Birthday
• December 08 - Ann Coulter's Birthday
• December 10 - Emily Dickenson's Birthday
• December 12 - Antoine-Augustin Parmentier's Birthday
• December 13 - St. Lucy's Feastday 
• December 14 - Henri IV of France's Birthday
• December 15 - Nero's Birthday
• December 16 - Catherine of Aragon's Birthday
• December 17 - Anniversary of the Death of Empress Maria Louisa
• December 18 - Betty Grable's Birthday
• December 22 - Lady Bird Johnson's Birthday
• December 23 - Noche de Rabanos (Night of the Radishes)/Tom Bawcock's Eve
• December 24 - Adam and Eve's Feastday/Christmas Eve 
• December 26 - St. Stephen's Feastday/Premier of Norma/Boxing Day
• December 27 - St. John's Feastday
• December 29 - Jeanne Antoinette Poisson's Birthday
• December 30 - Heidi Fleiss' Birthday