![]() But then at some point, "Chase's" began accepting submissions for what McGuire calls special days. MALONE: The book started as a way for news organizations to keep track of actual holidays. McGuire is the editor-in-chief of a big book called "Chase's Calendar Of Events." MALONE: This is Holly McGuire If you want to make up a holiday, you want her blessing. ![]() And people started submitting to us to kind of fill that void. It got so bad that the House of Representatives eventually said enough, we're not doing this anymore. The peak of this was during the 1985-86 congressional session.ĭuring that time, 1 in every 3 laws established something like National Air Traffic Control Day or National Bowling Week. And legislators went a little crazy with them in the 1980s. ![]() UNIDENTIFIED POLITICIAN: I rise today to talk about National Golf Day. And so yeah, some of these holidays are created for exactly the reason you think - shameless promotion. KENNY MALONE, BYLINE: There's an article from over a hundred years ago complaining about National Raisin Day, about how it is just a shameless promotion by the raisin growers. Kenny Malone from our Planet Money podcast wanted to find out who is behind these weird holidays. Not sure if you knew this but today is National Garlic Day.
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