When is wookiee life day

Happy Life Day! Or as the Wookiees say, "RRRAARRWHHGWWR."

Steeped in Wookiee culture and celebrating the spirit of life, joy and brotherhood, Life Day has arrived in the Star Wars universe today.

For those uninitiated or unfamiliar with Life Day, its ceremonial roots were derived from that most notorious of ill-fated seasonal programs known as "The Star Wars Holiday Special," whose renowned prime time broadcast occurred exactly 45 years ago today on November 17, 1978.

Intended to keep "Star Wars" and its flood of toys and merchandise in fans' minds until "The Empire Strikes Back" arrived in May of 1980, that much maligned and ridiculed program centered around Han Solo and Chewbacca attempting to return to the forested Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk in time to celebrate Life Day.

That effort required the duo to ditch Darth Vader and the Empire's pursuing army, while on Kashyyyk, Chewie's wife Malla prepares a Life Day banquet as their son Lumpy checks out a cartoon showing Han and Chewie

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