February 2 is . . . . . Purification Day

February 3 is . . . . . Cordova Ice Worm Day

February 4 is . . . . . Create A Vacuum Day

February 5 is . . . . . Disaster Day

February 6 is . . . . . Lame Duck Day

February 7 is . . . . . Charles Dickens Day

February 8 is . . . . . Kite Flying Day

February 9 is . . . . . Toothache Day

February 10 is . . . . Umbrella Day

February 11 is . . . . White Tee-Shirt Day and Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day

February 12 is . . . . National Plum Pudding Day

February 13 is . . . . Get A Different Name Day and Dream Your Sweet Day

February 14 is . . . . Ferris Wheel Day and National Heart to Heart Day

February 15 is . . . . National Gum Drop Day

February 16 is . . . . Do A Grouch A Favor Day

February 17 is . . . . Champion Crab Races Day

February 18 is . . . . National Battery Day

February 19 is . . . . National Chocolate Mint Day

February 20 is . . . . Hoodie Hoo DayMore Info on Hoodie Hoo Day

February 21 is . . . . Card Reading Day

February 22 is . . . . Be Humble Day

February 23 is . . . . International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day

February 24 is . . . . National Tortilla Chip Day

February 25 is . . . . Pistol Patent Day (Samuel Colt)

February 26 is . . . . National Pistachio Day

February 27 is . . . . International Polar Bear Day

February 28 is . . . . Public Sleeping Day

February 29 is . . . . National Surf and Turf Day

A UK man who attempted to steal an expensive engagement ring by swallowing it was caught after police passed a metal detector over his stomach.

Simon Hooper, 28, from Dorset, wanted the £1,750 ring to propose to his girlfriend and so gulped it down last November while jeweller Fred Burgess was distracted.

Police X-rayed Hooper and discovered the ring.

When shown the incriminating X-ray, Hooper claimed he had swallowed some foil by accident.

The hopeless romantic was kept in the cells for three days until the platinum ring passed through his system.

Hooper was sentenced to 12 weeks for theft.

A US burglar has been dubbed the 'bare-bottom bandit' after his trousers fell down, exposing his buttocks to CCTV cameras.

Christopher Willever drunkenly broke into an empty Tobacco Hut store in Nebraska after drinking a bottle of rum and deciding he was fed up of being poor.

But the 22-year-old was so drunk he didn't realise as he crawled around the floor of the store that his trousers were around his knees, exposing his rear-end to the security cameras.

Judge Thomas Otepka - who sentenced Willever to five years in jail - said: "You were an ass in every true sense of the word in this crime."

His defence attorney, Kelly Steenbock, attempted to plead for a lenient sentence, saying: "He was pretty humiliated and embarrassed. He showed his bottom to whoever turned on the TV."