Mad Hatter Day

Name: Mad Hatter Day
Start: 2022-10-06T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2022-10-06T23:59:59+00:00

October 6, 2022

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Mad Hatter Day

When: October 6	Where: Everywhere	First occurrence: 1986
Created by ? yet unknown computer proficient people ? from Boulder Colorado in 1986
The original stories of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Caroll were published with the now famous illustrations of John Tenniel. He depicted the Hatter with a price tag on his hat saying “In this style 10/6”. The 10/6 was how English price tags in that time would depict the price of 10 shillings and 6 pence.Because the creators of this holiday were from the USA, the date was chosen in month/day format. If the date was to be interpret the European way, Mad Hatter Day would have been on 10th of June