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National Day (Chinese: 国庆节; pinyin: guóqìng jié; lit. 'national celebration day'), officially the National Day of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国国庆节), is a public holiday in China celebrated annually on 1 October as the national day of the People's Republic of China, commemorating Mao Zedong's formal proclamation of the establishment of the People's ...
A national day is a day on which celebrations mark the statehood or nationhood of a state or its people. It may be the date of independence, of becoming a republic, of becoming a federation, or a significant date for a patron saint or a ruler (such as a birthday, accession, or removal). The national day is often an official public holiday. Many ...
On the national day of mourning, the federal government will be closed, as will the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. All governmental flags will be lowered to half-staff for 30 days following.
The last national day of mourning observed was when former President George H. W. Bush died in December 2018, when the postal service also announced it would observe the day.
National Day of Mourning (United States protest), an American Indian protest held on the fourth Thursday of November; National Day of Mourning (Canadian observance), held 28 April, a commemoration of workers killed or injured on the job; Nakba Day, annual commemoration of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight on 15 May by Palestinians ...
A national Day of Mourning will take place on Jan. 9 the day of former President Jimmy Carter's official state funeral at Washington National Cathedral.
March 10: Harriet Tubman Day; March 19: National Day of Honor [5] March 25: Greek Independence Day [6] March 29: National Vietnam War Veterans Day [7] [8] March 31: Cesar Chavez Day [9] March 31: Transgender Day of Visibility [10] April 6: National Tartan Day; 2nd Thursday in April: National D.A.R.E. Day; April 9: National Former Prisoner of ...
President Joe Biden announced that Thursday, Jan. 9 will be a national day of mourning in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia at the age of 100.