Next Sunday, 18 September 2022
On September 18, take time to reminisce about the first time that you felt butterflies in your stomach because it is National First Love Day. Whether it was a childhood friend, a high school crush, or the person you chose to spend the rest of your life with, everybody has had a first love. This is the day to remember your first kiss, a first date, and that feeling of innocent love. Those memories might be bittersweet, but they remain with us throughout our lives.
Background
Although it is not known who created this holiday, or why they created it, records show that National First Love Day was first celebrated in 2015 and originated in the United States. It has since become an annual holiday, as people clearly like to think back to the memories of their first love experience.
Even though there are other holidays to celebrate relationships and love such as Valentine's Day, National Girlfriend Day, and National Boyfriend Day, National First Love Day is the only relationship holiday that is not exclusively dedicated to celebrating a current partner. It also shouldn't be confused with Global Love Day, or International Love Day, which is a worldwide celebration of love as a whole.
You never forget your first love and even though the memories of an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend may be painful for some, sometimes it is important to think back to those times to realize how much someone has grown and how much they have learned by going through that experience. Whether we want it or not, our first love is always going to influence us and play a role in how we are in future relationships.
What to do for National First Love Day
There are different ways to celebrate National First Love Day depending on your current situation.
If you are still in a loving relationship with your first love, then this day truly is for you! It is the ideal day to do something very special with them, such as planning a nice day at the place you first met, if possible, go out for dinner and a movie, have a romantic picnic, or simply spend the day in one of your favorite places together. The possibilities are endless. If you don’t have time to celebrate with one of the more grand suggestions above, some smaller gestures such as writing a heartfelt message, poem, or a love note for your partner can have just as much impact. Just make sure to celebrate the love that you two share!
If you are in a relationship but have long got over your first love, then take the day to commemorate and be thankful for your current partner, while acknowledging the role that your first love played in your life. Let them know just how much you adore and appreciate them.
If you're single, but still love romance and reminiscing, settle down with some popcorn and treat yourself to a day of watching your favorite romantic movies or binge-watching that new season you’ve been meaning to start. If you're more of the reading type, then delve into a new romantic novel.
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September 18, 2022: Day of the Week
September 18, 2022 is the 261st day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 104 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.
Here’s the September 2022 calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly 2022 calendar.
Zodiac & Birthstone
Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Tiger is the mythical animal and Water is the element for a person born on this day if we consider the very old art of Chinese astrology (or Chinese zodiac).
September 18: Day of the Week
September 18, 2022 is the 261st day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 104 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.
Here’s the September calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
Zodiac & Birthstone
Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
September 18 Historical Event(s)
Who were born on September 18?
American lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court (1993–2020), died at age 87. Why are there nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Steve Petteway/Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States
For the second straight day, Typhoon Nari pounded Taiwan with record rainfalls, causing massive flooding and killing 79 people. Sort fact from fiction in our natural disasters quiz
Japanese astronomers Ikeya Kaoru and Seki Tsutomu discovered Comet Ikeya-Seki. Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about space objects
Roger Lynds/NOAO/AURA/NSF
UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash that generated much speculation; a 2017 investigation found that “it appears plausible that an external attack or threat may have been a cause of the crash.”
JO/UN Photo
Canadian ice hockey coach Scotty Bowman, who won a record nine Stanley Cups as a head coach in the National Hockey League, was born. Test your knowledge of cold weather games
© Marty Ellis/Shutterstock.com
British forces under Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener confronted French forces commanded by Jean-Baptiste Marchand at the disputed fort of Fashoda in the Egyptian Sudan.
BBC Hulton Picture Library
Booker T. Washington declared the Atlanta Compromise—a classic statement on race relations—in a speech at the Atlanta (Georgia) Exposition. Read about 10 milestones in U.S. civil rights history
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Bulgarian nationalists in Eastern Rumelia mounted a coup and declared the province's unification with Bulgaria, leading to the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Take our quiz about the history of warfare
French physicist Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault, who introduced and helped develop a technique of measuring with extreme accuracy the absolute velocity of light and provided experimental proof that Earth rotates on its axis, was born. Sort fact from fiction in our physics quiz
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York