Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar September 2015 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Leaves Turning Colour August 31 First Parkash/ Sri Krishna Jayanti/ International Day of Moon- Waabagaa Dibiki LPS PA Day: Installation of Holy Janmashtami Charity (UN) Giizis (this month, Scriptures of Guru (Hinduism) Elementary & Anishinaabe) Granth Sahib (Sikhism) Secondary Farvardegan (Fasli Zoroastrianism) LPS First Day of School for All Students 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Birth of H.H. International Literacy Ghamber Paitishem Trizin Day (UN) (Ethopian ) begins (Zarathushti/ () Zorostrianism)

‘Izzat (Baha’i) Nayrouz (Orthodox Christianity) Tatsunokuchi (Canada) (Buddhism) Paryvshan-parva (ends 18th – Jainism) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Eve of Rosh Hashanah International Day of Ghambar Paitishem Ganesh/ Samvatsari / Powley Day (begins at sundown, (Judaism) Democracy (UN) ends (Zarathushti/ Vinayak Dashalakshani- (Aboriginal - Métis) Judaism) Zorostrainism) Chauth parva begins

(Hinduism) (Jainism) Holy Cross Day Rosh Hashanah International Day for Auditor’s Day (Christianity) (Judaism) the Preservation of (Scientology) Ascension of Guru the Ozone Layer (UN) Angad (Sikhism)

New Moon Death of Guru Amar Das, Ascension of Guru Ramdas, Death of Guru Arjan (Sikhism) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 International Day Eihei Dogen Kigen Shuhun-no-hi (Shinto) Fall Harvest International Day of Peace (UN) Memorial (Buddhism) (CCUPCY) for the Total Harvestide / Mabon Elimination of

(Wicca) Eid-ul Adha Death of Guru Nanak Nuclear Weapons (Islamic) (UN) (Sikhism) (Judaism)

Anant Chaturdashi Fall Harvest (CCUPCY) Waqfatu’Arafat (Hinduism) (Islamic) Fall Equinox Fall Harvest (CCUPCY) 27 28 29 30 Anant Chaturdashi Ksamavani / (ends Nov. 5 – World Maritime Day (Jainism) Dashalakshani- Buddhism) (UN) parva ends

Harvest Moon Festival (Jainism) (China) Terry Fox Run (Canada, Thunder Bay) Ally Week Sukkot begins (Judaism) (LGBTQ) Orange Shirt Day Mashiyyat (Baha’i) (National Indian Residential School Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse Remembrance) Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar October 2015 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Leaves Falling Moon LBGTQ History Women’s History International Day of Mehragan Day of German – Binaakiwii Dibiki Month Month (Canada) Older Persons (UN) (Zoroastrianism) Unity (Germany) Giizis (Month, Anishinaabe) International Day of Non-Violence (UN)

Ally Week ends (LGBTQ) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 World Communion Shemini Atzeret Simchat Torah International Birth of Guru World Mental Sunday (Judaism) (Judaism) Association of Ramdas (Sikhism) Health Day (WHO (Christianity) Scientologists Day UN) World Habitat Day (Scientology) World Post Day (UN) Sukkot ends (UN) (Judaism) World Teachers Day (UN) World Space Week

(UN)

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 International Day of Thanksgiving Day begins First Day of International Day of World Food Day International Day the Girl Child (UN) (Canada) (Hinduism) Muharram, Al-Hijra Rural Women (UN) (UN) for the Eradication (New Year, Islamic) of Poverty (UN) Coming Out Day Ghambar Ayathrem ‘IIm (Baha’i) (LGBTQ) International Day begins (lasts to the for Disaster World Sight Day 16th, Zarathushti/ (UN) Reduction (UN) Zorostrainism)

Solar Eclipse

New Moon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Durga Puja begins Birth of the Bab Navaratri ends Dassehra (Hinduism) Durga Puja ends World Development (Hindu) (Baha’i) (Hinduism) (Hindu) Information Day (UN)

Installation of the Ashura (Islam) Chung Yeung Sri Guru Granth Tenth day of Sahib Ji (Sikhism) Festival (China, Muharram Ashura Hong Kong, Taiwan) (Islamic) Durga Puja Death of Guru (Hinduism) United Nations Day Gobind Singh (UN) (Sikhism)

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Kathina / Pavarana National Day ‘Ochi’ Karva Chauth Samhain (Wicca) Day (Buddhism) (Greece) (Hinduism) (Canada) Lunar Eclipse Full Moon Reformation Day (Protestant Christianity)

Avalokitesvara ’s Pravraiya / The Buddhist Joy Day (Buddhism)

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Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar November 2015 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 All Saints Day All Souls Day Bunka No Hi Qudrat (Baha’i) Kathina ends International Day (Christianity) (Catholic (Culture Day, Japan) (Buddhism) for Preventing the Christianity) Take Our Kids To Exploitation of the Samhain (Wicca) Work (Canada) Guy Fawkes Day Environment in War Dia De Los Muertos (UK, England) and Armed Conflict Daylight Savings (Mexico) (UN) Time ends (at 2am

USA, Canada) Dia De Finades (Portugal) 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kristallnacht (1938 (begins at Diwali (Hinduism, Birth of Baha’u’llah International World World Diabetes Day Commemoration) sundown, Hinduism) Jainism) (Baha’i) Kindness Day (UN) (International) World Science Day Mahavira Shashti for Peace and (Jainism) Vratham (New Year, th Development Remembrance Day until Nov. 16 , (UNESCO) (Canada) Hinduism)

Bandi Chhor Divas Enlightenment day (Sikhism) of Gautamswami / New Year (Jainism) Armistice Day (France)

New Moon 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Bullying Awareness Louis Riel Day International World Philosophy Universal Children’s World Television and Prevention (Métis – Aboriginal) Students’ Day (UN) Day (UN) Day (UN) Day (UN) Week (ON) International Day Transgendered Day Advent begins for Tolerance (UN) of Remembrance ( Fast; E- Panchami (LGBTQ) Old Calendar) (Jainism) LPS PA/Report

Nativity Fast (ends Card Day: Dec. 24; Orthodox Anti-Bullying Week Elementary & Christianity) Secondary

National Addictions Week (Canada) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Qawl (Bahi’i) Martyrdom of Guru International Day Day of the Covenant Ascension of Tegh Bahadar Ji for the Elimination (Baha’i) ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Sikhism) of Violence Against (Baha’i) Women (UN) Dev Diwali (Jainism) Adargan (Zoroastrianism) Birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji (Sikhism)

Full Moon 29 30 First Sunday of St. Andrew’s Day Advent (Christianity) (Scotland, Christianity) National Native Freezing Moon – American Heritage Baashkaakodin Month (USA) Dibiki Giizis (Month, Anishinaabe) Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar December 2015 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Little Spirit Moon – Universal Human World AIDS Day International Day International Day of International Manidoo Giiz’soons Rights Month (UN) (UN) for the Abolition of Persons with Volunteer Day for (Month, Slavery (UN) Disabilities (UN) Economic and Social Anishinaabe) Development (UN) (USA) World Soil Day (UN) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Eve of Hanukkah begins Rohatsu/Awakening International Anti- Human Rights Day International Advent Fast (begins at sundown, (Judaism) Day/ Corruption Day (UN) Mountain Day (Christmas Fast; Judaism) (Buddhism) (UN) (UN) Orthodox Christianity) Pearl Harbor Day St. Nicholas Day (USA) Feast of Immaculate New Moon Masa’il (Baha’i) (Christianity) Conception International Civil Jamhuri (Christianity) Aviation Day (UN) (Independence Day, National Day of Kenya) Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, White Ribbon Day (Canada) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Aga Khan’s Birthday Hanukkah ends Jashan-e-Sadeh International (Islamic) (Judaism) (Fasli Migrants Day (UN) Zoroastrianism) Luciadagen (Sweden) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 International Martyrdom of Guru Tohji-taisai (Shinto) Joseph Smith’s Eid-Maulad-un-Nabi Christmas Day Death of Prophet Human Solidarity Gobind Singhs Birthday (Mormon) (Islamic) (Christianity) Zarathustra Yule / Winter Day (UN) Eldest two sons (Zarathushti/ Solstice (Wicca) Sanghamitta Day (Sikhism) Al-Nabi Zoroastrainism) (Buddhism) Maunajiyaras (Islamic) (Jainism) Manu-agiyaras Yalda/Shab-e-Yalda Martyrdom Guru (Jainism) (Zoroastrainism) Full Moon Gobind Singhs Youngest two sons December Solstice (Sikhism)

Kwanzaa (African- Canadian, until January 1) LPS Winter Holidays (Dev. 21- Boxing Day (Canada) January 1) St. Stephen’s Day (Ireland)

Junkanoo (Bahamas) 27 28 29 30 31 Amitabha Buddha’s Wounded Knee Day Rizal Day Ghambr Maidyarem Birthday (Buddhism) (Lakota Sioux (Phillipines) begins (until Jan. 4, Massacre in South Zarathushti/ Dakota 1890, USA) Zoroastrainism)

Sharaf (Baha’i)

Omisoka (Japan)

Hogmanay (Scotland)

New Year’s Eve (International)

Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar January 2016 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Spirit Moon – New Year’s Day Manidoo Dibiki Giizis (International) (Month, Anishinaabe) Temple Day (Buddism)

Shogatsu (Shinto)

Feast of St. Basil (Orthodox Christianity)

Gantan-Sai begins (Shinto) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Milad-al-Nabi Birth of Sri Guru Epiphany (Christianity) Feast of the New Moon LPS School Resumes (Islamic) Gobind Singh (Sihkism) Nativity/Christmas Tomorrow Jan. 4th Feast of the Theophany (Orthodox World Braille Day Gattan-Sai ends (Orthodox Christianity) Christianity) (International) (Shinto)

Twelfth Night

(Christianity) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Baptism of the Lord Seijin Shiki Maghi (Sikhism) Makar Sankranti LPS Religious (Christianity) (Adults’ Day, / (Hinduism) PA/Report Card Day: Freedom Day Shinto) Lohri (Hinduism) (UN) Elementary ONLY New Year’s Day (Orthodox Christianity) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 World Religion Day Dr. Martin Luther Timkat (Ethopian Tailang Swami Jayanti Full Moon (UN, Baha’i) King Jr. Day (USA) Orthodox Christianity) (Hinduism) LPS Secondary LPS Secondary Exams Exams Epiphany (Orthodox Timkat (Ethopian Sakyamuni Buddha’s Christianity) Orthodox Christianity) Enlightenment (Buddhism) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 New Year Tu B’Shvat LPS Secondary International Day of LPS PA/Report LPS PA/Report Card (ends 27th, Buddhist) (Judaism) Exams Commemoration in Card Day: Day: Memory of the Victims Secondary ONLY Secondary ONLY Aban Ruz Conversion of St. of the Holocaust (UN) (Zoroastrianism) Paul (Christianity) Family Literacy Day

LPS Secondary (Canada) Exams LPS Secondary Exams 31 Birth of Guru Har Rai (Sikhism)

Swami Vivekananda Jayanti (Hinduism)

Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar February 2016 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bear Moon – Makwa Clean Monday/Lent Rissun/Setsubun-sai World Cancer Day International Day of Dibiki Giizis (Month, begins (Orthodox (Canadian, USA) (Shinto) (WHO, UN) Zero Tolerance to Anishinaabe) Christianity) Female Genital Mutilation (UN) Candlemas World Interfaith (Christianity) Harmony Week (USA) (UN) Imbolc (Wicca)

First Day of World Wetlands Day Semester 2 for LPS (UN) Secondary 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sexual and / Fat Ash Wednesday Vasant Panchami Reproductive (Vietnamese, Tuesday / Shrove (Christianity) (Hinduism) Health Awareness Korean, Buddhism) Tuesday (USA, Week (UN) International, Darwin Day (Atheist, Christianity) Humanist) (Chinese) Triodion begins

(Orthodox New Moon Christianity)

LPS PA/Report Card Day: Elementary ONLY 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Valentine’s Day (ON) World Day of Social (Canada, USA, Justice (UN) Catholicism) /Nirvana Day ( Buddhism)

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 International Magha Puja Day / Pink Shirt Day Intercalary Days Mother Language Lantern Festival (LGBT, Canada) (begins at sundown, Day (UN) (Buddhism) lasts to March 1 - Bahá’i) Guru Ravidas Jayanti (Hinduism)

Full Moon 28 29

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Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar March 2016 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Snow Crust Moon – Intercalary Days Baha’I Nineteen Hina Matsuri Maharishi Birth of Taoist Naabdin Dibiki Giizis end (Bahá’i) Day Fast (to March Festival of the Dolls Dayanand Lao-Tzu (Shinto) (Month, Anishinaabe) 20 - Bahá’i) (Shinto) Saraswati Jayanti

(Hinduism) Zero Discrimination Day (UN) World Wildlife Day (UN) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 International (Hinduism) Women’s Day (UN)

Maha Shivaratri / Shiva Ratri (Hinduism)

New Moon 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 L. Rob Hubbard March Break 14-18 Gambar St. Patrick’s Day Earth Hour (8:30- Birthday (Scientology) (LPS Elementary and Hamaspathmaede (Canada, USA) 9:30 pm, th Secondary) m (until 20 , International) Zoroastrianism)

Sikh New Year’s Day

(Sikhism) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Ostara, Lady Day Naw Ruz/Now World Water Day Holi (Hinduism) Purim (Judaism) Shivaji Jayanti (Wicca) Ruz/Navroz (New (UN) (Christianity, (Hinduism) Year, Baha’i, Fasli Lantern Festival Holy/Maundy Canadian Holiday)

Palm Sunday Zoroastrianism, Magha Puja Day Thursday Khordad Sal (Christianity) (Buddhism) (Christianity) Annunciation Islamic) (Zoroastrianism) (Christianity) Parsi New Year Jamshedi Noruz (Fasli Lord’s Evening Meal Death of Guru

(Hinduism) Zoroastrian) (Jehovah’s Witness) Hargobind (Sikhism) Shushan Purim Spring Ohigon Shunki-Korei-Sai Fast of Esther (Judaism) (Buddhism) Hola Mohalla (Sikh (Shinto) (Judaism) New Year, Sikhism) International Day of International Day of International Day for World Happiness (UN) World Tuberculosis Remembrance of the Elimination of Meteorological Day Racial Discrimination Day (UN) the Victims of Journee de la (UN) Slavery and the Francophonie (UN) Sakyamuni Transatlantic Slave (Canada) World Poetry Day Buddha’s Nirvana Trade (UN) Spring Equinox (UN) Day (Buddhism) First Day of Spring World Down Full Moon Syndrome Day (UN)

International Day of Forests (UN) 27 28 29 30 31 Sunday National Aboriginal (Christianity) (Christianity, Language Day Canadian Holiday) (Canada) Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva’s Khordad Sal (Fasli Birthday (Buddhism) Zoroastrian) Birth of Prophet Zarathustra (Zoroastrainism)

Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar April 2016 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Maple Sugar Moon April Fool’s Day World Autism Day – Ziisbaakdoke (Canada, USA) (UN) Dibiki Giizis (Month,

Anishinaabe)

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Yom HaShoah National Tartan Day Navaratri (until (New Jhulelal Jayanti th (Judaism) (Canada) 15 , Hinduism) Year, Hinduism) (Hinduism)

Vimy Ridge Day International Day of World Health Day Ramayana begins th (Canada) Sport for (UN) (until 15 , Hinduism)

Development and New Moon Peace (UN) Farvardegan (Fasli Zoroastrianism) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Birth of Guru Arjan Yom Ha’Atzamaut Saka New Year (Sikhism) Ramanavami begins (Sikhism) (begins at sundown, (Buddhism) (Hinduism)

Judaism) Chaitra New Year Day of Pink (LGBTQ, (Hinduism) Day of Silence Canada) International Day of (LGBTQ) Human Space Flight (UN) New

Year (Buddhism) Vaisakhi (Hinduism) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Equality Day Birth of Guru Mahavir Jayanti Ridván (begins at Hanuman Jayanti Theravadin (Canada) Angad, Birth of (Jainism) sundown, until May (Hinduism) Buddhist New Year Guru Tegh Bahadur 2, Bahá’i) (Buddhism) Theravadin Buddhist (Sikhism) New Year (Buddhism) Pesach/ (until 30th, Judaism) (Canada)

Full Moon Lazarus Saturday (Orthodox LPS PA/Report Card Christianity) Day: Elementary and Secondary 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 National Day of Ninth Day of Ridván International Jazz (Orthodox Mourning (Bahá’i) Day (UN) Christianity) (Canada) Holy Friday (Orthodox Zarathosht-no-Diso Christianity) (Qadimi Zoroastrianism)

World Immunization Week (WHO)

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Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar May 2016 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pascha Easter Easter Monday Vallabhacharya Isra and Mi’raj New Moon (Orthodox (Orthodox Jayanti (Hinduism) /Lailat al-Miraj Christianity) Christianity) (Islamic)

Birth of Guru Amar Yom HaShoah Beltane (Wicca) Twelfth Day of Das (Sikhism) Ridván (Bahá’i) (Holocaust Remembrance Day, International Family World Press Equity Day (UN) Freedom Day (UN) Judaism) Ascension (Christianity) 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Mother’s Day Dianetics Yom Ha’Atzmaut Sakyamuni (Canada, USA) (Scientology) (Judaism) Buddha’s Birthday (Buddhism) World Migratory Bird Day (UNEP)

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Visakha Puja International Day Buddha Purnima (Buddhism) Against (Hinduism) Homophobia, Pentecost Biphobia, and Lailat al-Bara’ah (Christianity) Transphobia (Islamic) (LGBTQ, UN) International Day of International Day

Families (UN) World for Cultural Telecommunication Diversity for and Information Dialogue and Society Day (UN) Development (UN) Wesak/Buddha Day (Buddhism)

Full Moon 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 International Day Victoria Day Aboriginal Lag BaOmer for Biological (Canadian Holiday) Awareness Week (Judaism) Diversity (UN) (Canada) Declaration of the Corpus Christi Trinity Sunday Bab (Baha’i) Zarthost-no-Diso (Catholic (Christianity) (Shenshahi Christianity) Nisfu Shaban Zoroastrianism) (Islamic) 29 30 31 Ascension of World No Tobacco Sucker Moon – Bahá’u’lláh (Bahá’i) Day (UN) Namebine Dibiki Giizis (Month, International Day of Anishinaabe) UN Peacekeepers (UN)

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Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar June 2016 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Flower Blooming Italian Heritage Pride Month Global Day of Ascension International Day of Moon – Waabigoni Month (ON) (Canada) Parents (UN) (Orthodox Innocent Children Dibiki Giizis (Month, Christianity) Victims of Anishinaabe) National Aboriginal Senior’s Month (ON) Aggression (UN) History Month LPS PA/Report (Canada) Card Day for New Moon Elementary 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Yom Yerushalayim First Day of World Ocean’s Day Ascension of Guru (Judaism) Ramadan (Islamic) (UN) Hargobind (Sikhism)

World Environment Freewinds Day (UN) (Scientology)

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Shavuot (Judaism) Shavuot (Judaism) World Blood Donor World Elder Abuse Martyrdom of Guru World Day to Day (UN) Awareness Day (UN) Arjan Dev Ji Combat World Day Against World Albinism Day (Sikhism) Desertification and Child Labour (UN) (UN) Drought (UN)

Race Unity Day LPS Secondary (Bahá’i) Exams

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 National Aboriginal Litha/Midsummer National Aboriginal National Aboriginal LPS Secondary St. Jean Baptiste Week (Aboriginal (Wicca) Day (Canada) Day, Education Day Exams Day (Quebec) Canadian) (Thunder Bay) International Day of Final Day of School World Refugee Day Final Day of School Pentecost (Orthodox (UN) Yoga (UN) LPS Secondary for Secondary for Elementary Christianity) Exams Students Students Kabirdas Jayanti LPS Secondary

Juneteenth (Hinduism) Exams LPS PA/Report (commemoration of Card Day for LPS Secondary Secondary the ending of slavery Exams in the US in 1865)

Summer Solstice Father’s Day Full Moon (Canada, USA) 26 27 28 29 30 All Saints Day Ghambar (Orthodox Maidyoshem (until Christianity) July 3, Zoroastrianism) International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (UN)

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Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar July 2016 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Berry Moon – Miin Lailat al Qadr begins Dibiki Giizis (Month, at sundown (Islamic) Anishinaabe) Jumatul Widha (Islamic)

Canada Day (Canadian Holiday) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ghambar New Moon Birth of Guru Eid-al-Fitr (Islamic) Jaisa Salana (to 10th, Martyrdom of the Maidyoshem ends Hargobind (Sikhism) Ramadan ends Islamic) Bab (Baha’i) (Zoroastrianism) Jagannath (Islamic) Rathyatra (Hinduism)

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Imamat Day Obon (until 15th, World Youth Skills (Islamic) Buddhism, Shinto) Day (UN)

World Population Day (UN)

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Nelson Mandela / Wassana Avalokitesvara Birth of Guru International Day / Day Bodhisattva’s Harkrishan (Sikhism) (UN) (Buddhism) Enlightenment/ The Buddhist Joy-Day Khordad Sal (Qadimi Navroze (New Year Guru Purnima (Buddhism) Zoroastrianism) – Qadimi (Hinduism, Jainism) Emperor Haile Zoroastrianism) Full Moon Selassi Birthday (Rastafari)

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 St. James the Great International Day of (Mormon Day (Chrisitianity) Friendship (UN) Christianity, USA)

31

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Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar August 2016 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Grain Moon – Civic Holiday New Moon Farvardegan Transfiguration of Mnoomni Dibiki (Canadian Holiday) (Qadimi the Lord (Orthodox Giizis Zoroastrianism) Christianity) Lammas OR Blueberry Moon - (Christianity) Ganesh Chathurthi Hiroshima Day Miinan Dibiki Giizis (Hinduism) (remembrance day of (Month, Anisinaabe) Lughnassad (Wicca) the first atomic Fast in Honour of bomb dropped in Mother of Hesus Japan on August 6, (Orthodox 1944) Christianity) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 International Day of Tulsidas Jayanti International Youth the World’s (Hinduism) Day (UN) Indigenous Peoples (UN) Paryushan Parva begins (Jainism)

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Tisah B’Av begins at Assumption of Day / Raksha Bandhan World Humanitarian sundown (Judaism) Blessed Virgin Mary Ullambana (Hinduism) Day (UN) (Catholicism) (Buddhism) Full Moon Dormition of the Raksha Bandhan Theotokis (Orthodox (Hinduism) Christianity) Navroze New Year (Shenshahi Zoroastrianism) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Khordad Sal International Day Sri Krishna (Shenshahi for the Janmashtami Zoroastrianism) Remembrance of (Hinduism) the Slave Trade and its Abolition (UN)

28 29 30 31 International Day Against Nuclear Tests (UN)

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