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By some conventions (see ISO 8601), the Thursdays of a year determine the week numbering: week 1 is defined as the week that contains the first Thursday of the year, and so on.
In the popular rhyme, "Thursday's Child has far to go".
In the United Kingdom, elections are traditionally held on Thursdays. This was to ensure a high turnout, as people would have spent their previous weeks wages, paid the previous Friday.
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the character Arthur Dent says "This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays". A few minutes later the planet Earth is destroyed.
ThursdayThursday is an emo/ hardcore band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, formed in 1997. Thursday has been one of the largest bands in the underground scene. They have defined a new sound and pushed the edge of "rock" into new areas, all while gaining a huge fan is the name of a rock band on Island RecordsIsland Records is a record label that was founded in Jamaica in 1959 by Chris Blackwell. Initially focused on Jamaican music, Island Records branched out, and became one of the more important record labels of the 1980s. Their distinctive palm tree logo ha from New Brunswick, NJ , USA.Thursday is also the first name of the main character of Jasper FfordeJasper Fforde is a novelist and aviator from Stroud in Gloucestershire, UK. His early career was spent as a focus puller in the movie industry. His published books are a series of novels starring Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair (2001), Lost In A Good Book's popular books: The Eyre AffairThe Eyre Affair is the first novel written by Jasper Fforde. Published in 2001, it is the story of literary detective Thursday Next's pursuit of master criminal Acheron Hades through 1985 United Kingdom (minus Wales, an independent republic in the novel's, Lost In A Good BookLost in A Good Book is the second book by Jasper Fforde and the sequel to the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next in The Eyre Affair''. Published in 2002, Lost uses a variety of literary allusions and places Thursday at the center of a governme, The Well of Lost Plots , and Something Rotten (not yet released). Her full name is Thursday Next, playing on the British phrase. Her mother's name is Wednesday.
Thursday is also the name of an emo/ hardcore band from the US; see Thursday (band).
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