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The World Calendar also has the following two additional days to maintain the same new year days as the Gregorian calendar. Worldsday The last day of the year following Saturday 30 December. This additional day is dated "W" and named Worldsday, a year-end world holiday. It is followed by Sunday, 1 January in the new year. Leapyear Day
These are holidays that are not traditionally marked on calendars. These holidays are celebrated by various groups and individuals. Some are designed to honor or promote a cause or a historical event not officially recognized, while a few others are both celebrated and intended as humorous distractions. 420 (20 April) (day celebrating cannabis ...
The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non-regular special holidays. Nepal and India have the highest number of public holidays in the world with 35 annually. Also, Nepal has 6 day working schedule in a week.
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
Feast of Winter Veil: 15 December–2 January – A holiday in World of Warcraft. This holiday is based on Christmas. Cities are decorated with lights and a tree with presents. Special quests, items and snowballs are available to players during this time. The character of "Greatfather Winter", who is modeled after Santa Claus, appears.
The Babylonians invented the actual [clarification needed] seven-day week in 600 BCE, with Emperor Constantine making the Day of the Sun (dies Solis, "Sunday") a legal holiday centuries later. [2] In the international standard ISO 8601, Monday is treated as the first day of the week, but in many countries it is counted as the second day of the ...
Add these January holidays and observances to your calendar. Find official awareness days and various weekly and monthly observances in 2024. ... World Braille Day. January 5. National Bird Day ...
A holiday is a day or other period of time set aside for festivals or recreation. Public holidays are set by public authorities and vary by state or region. Religious holidays are set by religious organisations for their members and are often also observed as public holidays in religious majority countries.