Towel Day

May 25th is known as “Towel Day” and celebrates the work of Douglas Adams. Fans carry around a towel due to a passage in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (and an earlier reference in the preceding radio series) that praises the versatility of towels for interstellar hitchhikers. May 25th doesn’t have any particular meaning in the fandom (FYI, the anniversary of the first radio broadcast is March 8th), the anniversary of the death of Douglas Adams is a few weeks earlier and it took time to set up the first Towel Day.