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Calendar of Observances Calendar of Observances 19-Juneteenth 12-Birth of Baha’u’llah (Baha’i) Father’s Day 16-International Day for Tolerance March 2011 All Saints Day (Eastern Christian) 24-Thanksgiving Day 3-Maha Shivaratri (Hindu) 26-Day of the Covenant (Baha’i) 8-Shrove Tuesday (Western Christian) July 2011 Muharram (Islamic) International Women’s Day 27-Advent (Christian) 9-Ash Wednesday (Western Christian) 4-Independence Day 9-Martyrdom of the Bab (Baha’i) 17-St. Patrick’s Day (Christian) December 2011 19-Magha Puja (Buddhist) 15-Dharma Day (Buddhist) Holi (Hindu) 17-Nisf Shabaan (Islamic) 5-Ashura (Islamic) 20-Purim (Jewish) 8-Bodhi Day (Buddhist) 21-International Day for the Elimination of Racial August 2011 12-Our Lady of Guadalupe (Christian) Discrimination 1-30-Ramadam (Islamic) 15-Bill of Rights Day Nowruz (Zoroastrian) 9-Tisha B’av (Jewish) 21-28 Chanukah (Jewish) 31- Cesar Chavez Day 13-Raksha Bandhan (Hindu) 25-Christmas (Western Christian) 14—Ulambana (Buddhist) 26-Jan1-Kwanzaa 29-Wounded Knee Day April 2011 22-Krishna Jayanti (Hindu) 26-Laila Al-Qadr (Islamic) 12-Rama Navami (Hindu) January 2012 17-Palm Sunday (Christian) 31-Eid Al-Fitr (Islamic) 18-Theravada New Year (Buddhist) 1-New Year’s Day 19-26-Passover/Pesach (Jewish) September 2011 Temple Day (Buddhist) 21-May 2-Festival of Ridvan (Baha’i) 1-Ganesh Chaturthi (Hindu) 6-Epiphany (Christian) 21- Holy Thursday (Christian) 5-Labor Day Christmas (Armenian Orthodox Christian) 22-Good Friday (Christian) 28-Native American Day 7-Christmas (Eastern Christian) 24- Easter (Christian) Navaratri (Hindu) 9-Makar Sankranti (Hindu) Armenian Martyr’s Day 29-30-Rosh Hashanah (Jewish) 15-World Religion Day(Baha’i) 16-Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday 19-Mahayana New Year (Buddhits) May 2011 October 2011 27-UN Holocaust Memorial Day 1-Yom Hashoah (Jewish) 6-Dassera (Hindu) 5-Cinco de Mayo 8-Yom Kippur (Jewish) February 2012 8-Mother’s Day 10-Columbus day 9- Yom Haatzma’ut (Jewish) 13-19 Sukkot (Jewish) 1-National Freedom Day 17-Buddha Day (Buddhist) 20-Birth of the Bab (Baha’i) 3-Maha Shi Varatri (Hindu) 22-Lag B’omer (Jewish) 26-Diwali (Hindu) 5-Milad Al-Nabi (Islamic) 23-Declaration of the Bab (Baha’i) 31-Reformation Day (Christian) 7-Magha Puja (Buddhist) 20-Ascension of Baha’ullah (Baha’i) 8-Tu B’shvat (Jewish) 30-Memorial Day 14-Valentine’s Day November 2011 Race Relations Day 1-All Saints’ Day (Western Christian) 15-Susan B. Anthony Day June 2011 2-All Souls’ Day (Christian) Nirvana Day (Buddhist) 2-Ascension Day (Christian) 7-Eid Al-Adha (Islamic) 20-Presidents Day 8-9 Shavuot (Jewish) 8-Election Day 21-Shrove Tuesday (Western Christian) 12-Pentecost (Christian) 9-Kristallnacht 22-Ash Wednesday (Western Christian) 14-Flag Day 11-Veterans’ Day Calendar of Observances 17-Father’s Day 24-Dassera (Hindu) March 2012 19-Juneteenth United Nations Day 2-20-Nineteen Day Fast (Baha’i) 20-World Refugee Day 26-Eid Al Adha (Islamic) 8-International women’s Day 31-Reformation Day (Christian) Holi (Hindu) July 2012 17-St. Patrick’s Day 3-Dharma Day November 2012 21-International Day for the Elimination of Racial 4-Independence Day 1-All Saints’ Day (Western Christian) Discrimination 5-Nisf Shabaab(Islamic) 2-All Souls’ Day (Christian) Nowruz (Zoroastrian) 9-Martyrdom of the Bab (Naha’i) 6-Election Day 31-Cesar Chavez Day 20-August 19-Ramadan (Islamic) 9-Kristallmnacht 26-ADA (Americans with Disabilities Day) 11-Veterans’ Day April 2012 28-Tisha B’av (Jewish) 12-Birth of Baha’u’llah (Baha’i) 1-Palm Sunday 13-Diwali (Hindu) Rama Navami (Hindu) August 2012 15-Muharram (Islamic) 5-Holy Thursday (Christian) 2-Raksha Bandhan (Hindu) 16-International Day for Tolerance 6-Good Friday (Christian) 10-Krishna Jayanti (Hindu) 22-Thanksgiving Day Theravada New Year (Buddhist) 12-International Youth Day 24-Ashura (Islamic) 7-14-Passover/Pesach (Jewish) 14-Laila Al-Qadr (Islamic) 26-Day of the Covenant (Baha’i) 8-Easter (Christian) 15-Obon (Buddhist) 19-Yom Hashoah (Jewish) 19-Eid Al-Fitr (Islamic) December 2012 21-29-Festival of Ridvan (Baha’i) 23-International Day for the Slave Trade and Its 1-World Aids Day 24-Armenian Martyrs’ Day Abolition 2-Advent (Christian) 26-Yom Haatzma’ut (Jewish) 31-Ulambana 3-International Day of Disabled Persons 8-Bodhi Day (Buddhist) May 2012 September 2012 9-16-Chanukah 5-Cinco De Mayo 3-Labor Day 10-Human Rights Day 6-Buddha Day (Buddhist) 8-International Literacy Day 12-Our Lady of the Guadalupe (Christian) 10-Lag B’omer (Jewish) 17-Constitution Day and Citizenship Day 15-Bill of Rights Day 13-Mother’s Day 17-18-Rosh Hashanah (Jewish) 25-Christmas (Western Christian) 17-Ascension Day (Christian) 19-Ganesh Chaturthi (Hindu) 26-Jan. 1, 2013-Kwanzaa 23-Declaration of the Bab (Baha’i) 26-Yom Kippur (Jewish) 29-Wounded Knee Day 27-Pentecost (Christian) 27-28-Shavuot (Jewish) 28-Memorial Day October 2012 29-Ascension of Baha’ u llah (Baha’i) 1-7 Sukkot (Jewish) 8-Shemini Atzeret (Jewish) Native American Day June 2012 Columbus Day 3-All Saints Day (Eastern Christian) 9-Simchat Torah (Jewish) 10-Race Unity Day (Baha’i) 16-navaratri (Hindu) 12-Anne Frank Day 17-International Day for the Eradication of Loving Day Poverty 14-Flag Day 20-Birth of the Bab (Baha’i).
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