Chase's Calendar of Events 2009 (Book + CD-ROM): The Ulitmate Go-To Guide for Special Days, Weeks, and Months [Paperback]

Editors of Chase's Calendar of Events (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071599541 | ISBN-13: 978-0071599542 | Publication Date: September 16, 2008 | Edition: 52

“The bible of special occasions.”--
Los Angeles Times

12,500 entries. 194 countries. 365 days.
Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe!

If you're looking to tie a promotional event into a historical milestone, schedule your next vacation to coincide with a festival halfway around the world or plan a party around your favorite celebrity's birthday, Chase's Calendar of Events is the one resource that has it all. For broadcasters, event planners, librarians, editors, writers or simply the curious, this is one reference you can't do without!

Chase's Calendar of Events 2009 brings you:

• Milestones such as the 200th birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, the100th anniversary of the NAACP and the 50th birthday of Barbie
• New birthdays such as soccer star Lionel Messi (June 24), football player Devin Hester (Nov 4), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (June 13) and newly elected heads of state worldwide
• New observances such as Girls Write Now Day (Mar 8), Stay Up All Night Night (May 9) and National Face Your Fears Day (Oct 13)

Search Chase's Anyway You Want!
Whether you want to target a specific date, location or subject, our fully searchable CD-ROM makes your research quick and easy. Also included is a free installer, so you can load Chase's directly to your hard drive.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Chase’s Calendar of Events is produced by an in-house team of editors and researchers based in Chicago, IL. McGraw-Hill has published Chase’s since 1984, but Chase’s was first published by William and Harrison Chase in December 1957.

Product Details

• Paperback: 752 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 52 edition (September 16, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071599541
• ISBN-13: 978-0071599542
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,094,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When is "I love this book" week?, October 28, 2008

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Virginia Allain "(retired librarian)" (Poinciana, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chase's Calendar of Events 2009 (Book + CD-ROM): The Ulitmate Go-To Guide for Special Days, Weeks, and Months (Paperback)

It's great fun finding oddball days and weeks to celebrate in Chase's Calendar of Events. This is invaluable for libraries and radio stations. Besides telling you when National BBQ Day is, it also gives a few details about various holidays. I can't count the number of times I used this book during my years as a librarian. Often the information can't be found anywhere else.
I haven't tried the CD-ROM but imagine it would be convenient looking things up on Chase's using the computer. The book is well-indexed, so it's easy to use.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have for Marketers, Retailers, Speakers and Bloggers, November 26, 2008

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Ed Osworth "The Joy Professor" (Lowell, Oregon Forest) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Chase's Calendar of Events 2009 (Book + CD-ROM): The Ulitmate Go-To Guide for Special Days, Weeks, and Months (Paperback)

Imagine always having something new and interesting to write or talk about. Every day of the year!

This book gives you that amazing ability, no matter how tongue tied or writer's cramped you are.

Every day you have a selection of subjects that are as topical as possible - after all they are all about today. If you are planning any event at all - you will always have a reason with this valuable resource (National Muffin Day Celebration).

For a blogger or web copywriter - this is like a box of gold.

How much is it worth to never be at a loss when you need to get out some copy? For me, way more than the reasonable investment of this book.

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money, March 7, 2011

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P. Schuhmacher "Mom 2 four" (Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chase's Calendar of Events 2009 (Book + CD-ROM): The Ulitmate Go-To Guide for Special Days, Weeks, and Months (Paperback)

I thought I would use this for all sorts of fun facts about many days of the week. Thought it would be fun for my daughters and I to celebrate obscure special days most people don't know about. And it is. However, this book is full of many, many, many details that don't have anything to do with what we wanted. It does give you fun facts for some days but not for all of them the way I had thought it was going to. Mostly it's random info. I wouldn't buy it again.