National Moon Day celebrates not only the historic lunar landing on July 20, 1969, but the day also reminds us of the uphill slog to get the space program literally off the ground.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
World Emoji Day on July 17 (International is an unofficial holiday. Celebrated annually since 2014, NBC reported that the day was Twitter's top trending item on July 17 in 2015);
Yellow Pig Day on July 17 (is a monthly collaborative art project celebrating the United States' wide array of bizarre national holidays);
Get Out of the Doghouse Day on July 21 (The original idea came from the symbolism in the 1911 Peter Pan novel written by J. M. Barrie in chapter16 when Mr. Darling goes out and sleeps in the dog kennel, remorseful of not paying enough attention to his family and allowing his children to be kidnapped);