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PDF Version of Observances Calendar January National Mentoring Month National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month 2021 This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Kwanzaa World Introvert Day New Year’s Day Solemnity of Mary 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 World Braille Day Día de los Reyes, Three Russian Orthodox Kings Day, or Epiphany Christmas The Frontline Mass Calls: Learn, Connect, Act 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Korean American Day Maghi National Religious The Frontline Mass Calls: Makar Sankranti Freedom Day Learn, Connect, Act Old New Year or Orthodox New Year 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 World Religion Day Martin Luther King, Jr. Bodhi Day Day Inauguration Day MLK Jr. Marade 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 International Day of Tu B’Shevat Tu B’Shevat Education International Holocaust Remembrance Day 31 February Black History & Heritage Month 2021 This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 National Freedom Day Imbolc Imbolc 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 St. Valentine’s Day President’s Day Mardi Gras Ash Wednesday Lent Lent Lent Lent 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Purim Purim Lantern Festival 28 Lent March March 13 – April 15: Deaf History Month National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month Women’s History Month Irish-American Heritage Month 2021 National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent International Women’s Maha Shivaratri Day 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Daylight Saving Time St. Patrick’s Day Spring Equinox or Ostara Naw-Rúz or Bahá’í New Year 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Naw-Rúz or Bahá’í New Nowruz, Persian New Earth Hour Year Year, or Iranian New Passover Nowruz, Persian New Year, Year or Iranian New Year 28 29 30 31 Lent Lent Lent Lent Passover Passover Passover Passover Palm Sunday Holi Cesar Chavez Day Holi International Transgender Day of Visibility April Autism Awareness Month Arab American Heritage Month 2021 March 13 – April 15: Deaf History Month This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Lent Lent Lent Passover Passover Passover World Autism Awareness Day Good Friday 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Passover National Tartan Day Rwanda Genocide Yom Hashoah or Yom Hashoah or Qingming or Tomb- Commemoration Holocaust Holocaust Sweeping Day Remembrance Day Remembrance Day Easter 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan International Day for Patriot’s Day First Day of Ridvan Earth Day Day of Silence Monuments and Sites First Day of Ridvan 25 26 27 28 29 30 Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ninth Day of Ridvan Ninth Day of Ridvan Twelfth Day of Ridvan Beltane Jewish American Heritage Month Haitian Heritage Month May Mental Health Month Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Older Americans Month 2021 This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Twelfth Day of Ridvan Beltane Ramadan 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Cinco de Mayo World Ovarian Cancer Day 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Ramadan Eid al-Fitr Eid al-Fitr 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Shavuot Shavuot Haitian Flag Day Declaration of the Báb International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Declaration of the Báb African Liberation Day Vesak Day or Buddha Ascension of Ascension of Day Bahá’u’lláh Bahá’u’lláh 30 31 Memorial Day June LGBTQIA+ Pride Month 2021 This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Russia Day Dragon Boat Festival 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival Juneteenth 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Summer Solstice or Litha 27 28 29 30 July 2021 This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Independence Day Martyrdom of the Báb Martyrdom of the Báb 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Tisha B’Av 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Tisha B’Av Remembering Aurora Eid al-Adha Eid al-Adha 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Disability Independence Day August 2021 This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Al-Hijra Al-Hijra 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 International Day for the Women’s Equality Day Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 29 30 31 Krishna Janmashtami Krishna Janmashtami September Hispanic Heritage Month: September 15 through October 15 2021 This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Paryushana Paryushana 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Paryushana Paryushana Paryushana Paryushana Paryushana Paryushana Remembrance of Labor Day Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah Ganesh Chaturthi Ganesh Chaturthi September 11th, 2001 Rosh Hashanah Enkutatash 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yom Kippur Yom Kippur El Día de Independencia 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 International Week of International Week of International Week of International Week of International Week of International Week of International Week of the Deaf the Deaf the Deaf the Deaf the Deaf the Deaf the Deaf Sukkot Sukkot Sukkot Sukkot Sukkot Sukkot Chung-ch’iu or Mid- Autumnal Equinox Bi Visibility Day Autumn Moon Festival 26 27 28 29 30 Sukkot Sukkot Shemini Atzeret Simchat Torah Shemini Atzeret Simchat Torah Hispanic Heritage Month National Arts & Humanities Month Polish American Heritage Month October Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month LGBTQIA+ History Month 2021 Filipino American History Month This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Day of German Unity Sharad Navaratri Sharad Navaratri Sharad Navaratri 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Sharad Navaratri Sharad Navaratri Sharad Navaratri Sharad Navaratri Sharad Navaratri Sharad Navaratri Dussehra National Coming Out Dussehra Day Indigenous Peoples’ Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Mawlid al-Nabi Mawlid al-Nabi 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Halloween Samhain November National Native American Heritage Month Panamanian Independence Month 2021 This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Samhain Día de los Muertos Diwali or Festival of Diwali or Festival of Diwali or Festival of All Saints’ Day All Souls’ Day Lights Lights Lights Día de los Muertos US General Election Day Birth of the Báb 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Diwali or Festival of Diwali or Festival of Veterans Day Lights Lights Birth of the Báb Birth of Bahá'u'lláh Daylight Saving Time Birth of Bahá'u'lláh 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Transgender Day of Remembrance 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Thanksgiving Day of the Covenant Ascension of ‘Abdu’l- Day of the Covenant Bahá 28 29 30 Ascension of ‘Abdu’l- Chanukah Chanukah Bahá Chanukah December 2021 This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion.
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