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Welcome to the new year. Though 2025 has just begun, calendars are already being marked with holiday observances. The Office of Personnel Management lists 12 federal holidays across 11 days.
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
The following is a list of notable month-long observances, recurrent months that are used by various governments, ... This page was last edited on 11 January 2025, ...
Bank holidays. 2025. New Year’s Day. Jan. 1. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Jan. 20. Presidents’ Day. Feb. 17. Memorial Day. May 26. Juneteenth National ...
The Milwaukee music festival will host Juneteenth programming for the first time on opening night. The festival in 2025 also will run on July 4. Milwaukee's Summerfest announces 2025 dates, will ...
Observed on the last Monday preceding May 25th. [6] June 19: Juneteenth: Emancipation Day: United States: Commemorates the end of slavery in Texas as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation. [7] July 4: Fourth of July: Independence Day: United States: Commemorates the United States' adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. Holidays in the United States of America For other uses, see Public holidays in the United States (disambiguation). Public holidays in the United States Public • Paid • Federal • Observance • School • Hallmark Observed by Federal government State governments Local governments ...
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 ...