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Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day

Name: Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day
Start: 2026-01-11T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-11
Location: US Holidays

Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day is held on January 11. This event in the second decade of the month January is annual.

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11 January - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day

Learn Your Name In Morse Code Day is a special day dedicated to learning the Morse code alphabet so that one can type in their name and communicate using other messages. It is celebrated in the United States of America. There is no record of how this day originated, or by whom.

Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the inventors of the telegraph.

Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, who helped invent it. When messages are sent by Morse code, dots are short beeps or clicks or flashes, and dashes are longer ones. It is not used as much today as it was in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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