Day of the week | Date | Holidays and observances |
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Monday | 16th December 2024 | Day Of Reconciliation Chocolate Covered Anything Day |
Monday | 23rd December 2024 | Roots Day |
Monday | 30th December 2024 | Cottage Cheese Day |
Monday | 6th January 2025 | Bean Day Cuddle Up Day Apple Tree Day International Shortbread Day |
Monday | 13th January 2025 | Sticker Day Rubber Duckie Day |
Monday in Modern Culture
Monday is often associated with melancholy, sadness, or even depression. Some people have even established the third Monday of January as the most depressing day of the year and named it “Blue Monday”. It is not only because of the fact that it is the beginning of the week. There are a few other elements, such as a short day, little sunlight, or bitterness caused by failed new year’s promises, that make the day so heart-sickening. Many popular songs also refer to Monday in a similar tone. A good example could be The Bangles’ “Manic Monday”; The Carpenters’ “Rainy Days and Mondays”; or The Boomtown Rats’ “I Don’t Like Mondays” - the title of which is actually the killer’s answer to the question about the motivations for the shooting spree in America. Many TV shows or cabarets also depict Monday as the reason of all human failures. It has been proved that most employees are less productive on Monday than on any other day of the week, and almost half of them is late to work. An average person also moans much more on Monday than on Tuesday or Wednesday. Sadly, Monday is also considered to be “suicide day” and “heart attack day”.
Historical Mondays
There are, however, some Mondays in the history that are very important. Probably the most prominent Monday for most Christians is Easter Monday, which is an official holiday in many countries. There is also one Monday in the year that many shopping lovers await – Cyber Monday, an equivalent of Black Friday, the biggest shopping holiday in the United States. For the Polish Catholics, October 16, 1978, was a very special Monday – the day when Karol Wojtyła became Pope John Paul II. The Red Cross organization was also established on Monday, October 26, 1863. In the United States, many Mondays are holiday days, as it was appointed by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, so the Americans can often enjoy a long weekend.
Did you know?
There was a custom in Ancient Britain to give girls born on Mondays name Mona – the Old English word for Moon.