420 | ... Chong were the guest hosts of WWE Raw in Oklahoma City. On April 20, 2010 ( | ) Cheech and Chong's Hey, Watch This, the DVD filmed in San Antonio on Mar ... |
Chinese New Year | ... ercrowding, particularly during holiday seasons, such as Chunyun during the | . The Chinese rail network carried an estimated 1.68 billion total passeng ... |
Evacuation Day | ... he world's largest parades. The parade in Boston is closely associated with | , when the British left Boston in 1776 during the American War of Independ ... |
International Women's Day | On March 8, 2003, | , on the eve of the Iraq War, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, author o ... |
Remembrance Day | ... e soldiers who were lost in World War I; it continues to be the location of | ceremonies every year |
Boxing Day | ... of music, dance, and art held in Nassau (and a few other settlements) every | , . Junkanoo is also used to celebrate other holidays and events such as E ... |
World Space Week | In 2003, Bass began serving as | 's Youth Spokesman. Bass has stated that he believes young people becoming ... |
Oktoberfest | ... f Vandalia boasts several seasonal festivals and events, such as the annual | in the autumn, the Homecoming parade in the fall, and the Air Show & Parad ... |
Christmas Eve | On | in 1741, David Nitschmann and Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, leading a sma ... |
Boxing Day | On | and New Year's Day, it is a tradition for some residents to don blackface ... |
Earth Day | An | celebration takes place on the Mall each year around April 22. (1) (2) A w ... |
Easter Vigil | ... rch's traditional requirement, concluding only after the celebration of the | |
IGY | # Place a satellite in orbit during the | |
Election Day | ... ector are nominated by their state political parties in the months prior to | . In some states, the electors are nominated in primaries, the same way th ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | ... Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004 | ;was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986 |
Yule | ... ticularly the case with the various customs of Carnival or Fasnacht and the | traditions surrounding Santa Claus/Sinterklaas. By contrast, the Christmas ... |
All Souls' Day | ... allowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on | (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar pract ... |
Bealtaine | May Day has been celebrated in Ireland since pagan times as the feast of | and in latter times as Mary's day. Traditionally, bonfires were lit to mar ... |
Exaltation of the Holy Cross | In another incident in 2004, during Orthodox celebrations of the | , a door to the Franciscan chapel was left open. This was taken as a sign ... |
Gen Con | In 2003, Indianapolis began hosting | , the largest role-playing game convention in the North America (with reco ... |
Saint Patrick's Day | ... IFA World Cup in Japan. Alternating sections of the tower were lit green on | in 2007 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Japanese-Irish relations. O ... |
Memorial Day | Occasionally episodes are taped with special audience restrictions. For | in 1991, an episode was taped with an audience composed entirely of those ... |
Sinterklaas | ... from these legends. "Santa Claus" is itself derived in part from the Dutch | |
Shmita | ... Notable examples include acceptance of rules permitting farming during the | year and permitting the advanced religious education of women |
Memorial Day | ... on was 3,722 at the 2010 census. The village claims to be the birthplace of | . The name Boalsburg comes from the Boal family who settled the region. Th ... |
Memorial Day | Every late May during | weekend the Spring Festival is celebrated. The festival includes carnivals ... |
San Juan's day | Fangio was born on | in 1911 in Balcarce, a city in Buenos Aires Province of (Argentina) |
New Year's Day | ... g, as this tradition is carried over to St. Basil of Cesarea, celebrated on | . St. Nicholas being the protector of sailors, he is considered the patron ... |
Samhain | ... may celebrate Beltane on 1 November, when a Canadian Wiccan is celebrating | . The appropriate set of festivals for an Equatorial Wiccan is problematic |
Passover | The feast of Easter is linked to the Jewish | and Feast of Unleavened Bread, as Christians believe that the crucifixion ... |
Pioneer Day | ... arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847, a date now recognized as | in Utah. Young organized the Mormon Tabernacle Choir just 29 days after ar ... |
Mardi Gras | ... the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday comes the day after Shrove Tuesday or | (Fat Tuesday), the last day of the Carnival season |
immersion | ... e significance of the individual conversion experience, affirmed by a total | in water for a believer's baptism, and rejection of infant baptism. SBC ch ... |
World Hepatitis Day | | , held on July 28, is coordinated by the World Hepatitis Alliance. The eco ... |
Columbus Day | ... an Exposition. A flag salute was to be part of the official program for the | celebration to be held in schools all over America |
Imbolc | | (or Candlemas; , ) is one of four "fire festivals" of the Wheel of the Yea ... |
May Day | ... ace for the local people, which may be used for public celebrations such as | festivities |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | ... o honor King. Observed for the first time on January 20, 1986, it is called | . Following President George H. W. Bush's 1992 proclamation, the holiday i ... |
Independence Day | Each year, Crozet holds an | celebration, which consists of a parade through the downtown area, a carni ... |
Oktoberfest | Every autumn the St. Bernardine Church hosts an | and the Village hosts a Rib-fest |
New Year's Eve | Copacabana Beach plays host to millions of revellers during the annual | celebrations and, in most years, has been the official venue of the FIFA B ... |
New Year's Day | On Boxing Day and | , it is a tradition for some residents to don blackface and parade through ... |
Walpurgis Night | ... events. Today, the celebrations on Hexennacht (Witches' Night, also called | ), the night of April 30, are a regular "underground" fixture at the Thing ... |
Beltane | ... ch is balanced at the opposite point of the wheel by the spring festival of | , which is celebrated as a festival of light and fertility |
Labor Day | ... a marker it typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while | marks its end |
Immaculate Conception | ... berty bell". It is housed in a brick building shrine near the Church of the | . The brick church was built in 1843 in the squared-off French style |
Memorial Day | ... Race (also known as the Indy 500), an open–wheel automobile race held each | weekend on a oval track. The Indy 500 is the largest single–day sporting e ... |
Immaculate Conception | ... c and two decrees promulgated by Popes' exercising papal infallibility (see | and Assumption of Mary) are considered as being a part of the Church's sac ... |
Good Friday | ... sed for public holidays which are not officially bank holidays, for example | and Christmas Day |
International Nurses Day | ... ing and Midwifery at the University of Southampton is also named after her. | is celebrated on her birthday each year |
Fête nationale du Québec | ... on. It has thus seen various events staged on it, most regularly during the | , the Quebec Winter Carnival, and the Quebec City Summer Festival. Through ... |
Independence Day | ... more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The | of the is celebrated on July 4, the day Congress approved the wording of t ... |
Ides of March | ... e. For example, it is well known that Julius Caesar was assassinated on the | in 44 BC, and this is usually converted to 15 March 44 BC. While he was in ... |
Greek War of Independence | ... lso left their influence on modern Greek culture, but historians credit the | with revitalising Greece and giving birth to a single entity of its multi- ... |
Good Friday | ... his was reduced to just four: 1 May (May Day), 1 November (All Saints Day), | , and Christmas Day. In 1871, the first legislation relating to bank holid ... |
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month | ... been illuminated in a pink light on October 1 to highlight the beginning of | . The tower has also had a variety of special lighting arrangements for Ch ... |
New Year's Eve | ... hiatus, I rejoined Mr. Halstead with a new group, including Phil Harris, on | the same year for the opening night of the , a memorable occasion. |
World Communion Sunday | ... movement led by Nathan Soderblom. In the 1930s, the tradition of an annual | to celebrate ecumenical ties was established in the Presbyterian Church an ... |
Boxing Day | ... eatles' TV movie Magical Mystery Tour, which was first broadcast on BBC1 on | in 1967. On 11 July 1968, 26-year-old Mardas married 22-year-old Eufrosyne ... |
Mother's Day | Crozet Park also hosts the semiannual on | weekend and the second weekend of October. This event typically features l ... |
Buddha's Birthday | ... mbodia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, and Indonesia. Sometimes informally called " | ", it actually encompasses the birth, enlightenment (nirvāna), and passing ... |
15 August 1947 | midnight, on | , India also became an independent nation. Violent clashes between Hindus, ... |
Labor Day | ... val, which used to be held on the first full weekend of September following | , attracts thousands of visitors |
Samhain | ... ee pagan harvest festivals, preceded by Lammas / Lughnasadh and followed by | |
Memorial Day | ... ters, being the advocate for civil rights. In particular he notes Johnson's | 1963 speech at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania as being a catalyst that led to mo ... |
Saint Patrick's Day | ... those convicted by the U.S. Army of desertion at time of war, and 17 March, | |
National Arbor Day Foundation | Amsterdam was designed a Tree City USA by the | |
Samhain | ... harvest festivals and festivals honouring the dead, particularly the Celtic | ; other scholars maintain that the feast originated entirely independently ... |
Groundhog Day | #Jurģu Diena ("Day of Gregory") was a minor holiday, similar to | . In this version, the fox emerging from his den signals the start of spri ... |
Mother's Day | ... their civil rights. One of the buses was fire-bombed outside of Anniston on | , Sunday, May 14, 1961. As the bus burned, the mob held the doors shut, in ... |
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation | ... dies to end the practice, including sponsorship by the United Nations of an | , held each February 6 since 2003. , a Ugandan legal scholar, writes that ... |
Day of the Flemish Community | Damme - Dardenne, Sabine - David, Jean-Baptist - | - de Clecq, Staf - Decree (Belgium) - Declaration of Revision of the Const ... |
Lakshmi Puja | # | (30 Ashvin or 15 Krishna Paksha Ashvin): Lakshmi Puja marks the most impor ... |
Alaska Day | ... ing their Red Flannel Festival, and also in Sitka, Alaska during the annual | festival |
Lughnasadh | ... it is the second of the three pagan harvest festivals, preceded by Lammas / | and followed by Samhain |
Election Day | ... electors on a winner-take-all basis, based on the statewide popular vote on | . Although ballots list the names of the presidential candidates, voters w ... |
Fourth of July | ... es. Prophetstown is still held in high esteem for having one of the largest | fireworks shows in the area. Prophetstown also hosts a Lighted Christmas P ... |
Passover | ... ied out by Hamas militants killed twenty-nine Israeli civilians celebrating | including many senior citizens. In response, Israel launched Operation Def ... |
Day of the Dead | ... moved to Mexico, arriving in the city of Cuernavaca on 2 November 1936, the | , in a final attempt to salvage their marriage. Lowry continued to drink h ... |
Memorial Day | ... rst Barbary War. A memorial in West Somers Park was erected in his honor at | ceremonies in 1958 |
Father's Day | ... ons—for charity. The event is timed to coincide roughly with Juneteenth and | and is promoted with the slogan "Every day is Family Day When Real Men Coo ... |
Passover | ... uch as David (1 Chr. 29:10–19), or other pronouncements, such as Hezekiah’s | letter (2 Chr. 30:6–9) |
Good Friday | ... onnection today. Crosses stand in several points around the arena and every | the Pope leads a Via Crucis procession to the amphitheatre |
Vishu | ... t festivals celebrated in the city include Christmas, Onam, Easter, Eid and | . The city is widely acclaimed as the land of elephant lovers |
May day celebrations | ... y year thousands of onlookers attend. Prior to the 19th century distinctive | were widespread throughout West Cornwall, and are being revived in St. Ive ... |
Greek War of Independence | ... culminated with the ethnic/national revolutions of Europe, for instance the | . Since that time, nationalism has become one of the most significant poli ... |
Kwanzaa | ... anch candleholder which is associated with the African American festival of | . One candle is lit on each day of the week-long celebration, in a similar ... |
Columbus Day | ... became home to Autumnfest, an annual cultural festival that takes place on | Weekend at World War II Veteran's Memorial State Park. It has become one o ... |
Feralia | ... on them, or shortly afterwards. Examples of such dates are recorded for the | , Quirinalia and the Terminalia (though not yet for the Lupercalia). These ... |
Michaelmas | ... ads to the water side', and mentions two annual fairs, on Ascension Day and | Day. In 1831 Erith's population was 1533 people, and it was described (in ... |
Tartan Day | ... ken a break from acting to concentrate on writing his autobiography. At the | celebrations in New York in March 2006, Connery again confirmed his retire ... |
Day of the Dead | ... around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day. Much like | celebrations, the Christian feast of All Hallows' Eve, according to some s ... |
Beltane | ... rn Hemisphere. For instance, a Wiccan from southern Australia may celebrate | on 1 November, when a Canadian Wiccan is celebrating Samhain. The appropri ... |
Boxing Day | One Christmas, Elisabeth Beresford took her young children for a | walk on Wimbledon Common, where one referred to it as "Wombledon Common." ... |
Remembrance Sunday | ... yal British Legion Festival of Remembrance, is held annually the day before | |
Mardi Gras | ... January 5. Carnival celebrations end promptly at the stroke of midnight on | , signaling the beginning of Ash Wednesday and the first day of Lent. In M ... |
Mother's Day | ... n speeches were an endorsement of the Lincoln Memorial and his call to make | a holiday. His choice as Memorial Day speaker was criticized, as he was op ... |
May Day | ... festivals as holidays, but in 1834, this was reduced to just four: 1 May ( | ), 1 November (All Saints Day), Good Friday, and Christmas Day. In 1871, t ... |
Judaic practice | ... e noted Davids apparently uncircumcised penis, which is at odds with modern | , but is considered consistent with the conventions of Renaissance art |
Christmas Eve | ... and raised in aquaculture. In Central Europe, it is a traditional part of a | dinner. Many people in Poland and Czech Republic buy a live carp and bring ... |
Earth Day | ... preserve nature. On April 22, 1970, the United States celebrated its first | in which over two thousand colleges and universities and roughly ten thous ... |
New Year's Day | ... e majority of the current bank holidays were specified in the 1971 Act, but | and May Day were introduced after 1971 |
Green March | ... bilized 350,000 unarmed Moroccan citizens in what came to be known as the " | " into Western Sahara. The march was designed to both demonstrate and stre ... |
Christmas Eve | The story of A Christmas Carol starts on | in 1843, with Scrooge at his place of business. The book says that Scrooge ... |
New Year's Eve | ... r albums is the live recording Rock of Ages (1972), recorded at a 1971/1972 | concert and featuring the line-up, bolstered by the addition of a horn sec ... |
Saint Patrick's Day | In 1903, the Bank Holiday (Ireland) Act added 17 March, | , as a bank holiday for Ireland only |
Jāņi | #Jānis – (or John) was a deity associated with | , the Midsummer's Night festival. After Christianization, he was associate ... |
Gandhi Jayanti | ... vents and holidays. National events like Republic Day, Independence Day and | (Gandhi's birthday) are celebrated with great enthusiasm in Delhi. On Indi ... |
Mother's Day | ... top 30 in France. "I Care 4 U", the fifth single (US only), was released on | 2002. It managed to reach number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and num ... |
Remembrance Day | ... extended to Bermuda's Second World War dead) and is the site of the annual | commemoration |
mila | #Between the 10 toes of the feet is the "covenant of the circumcision" ( | in Hebrew, which also means "word" |
All Saints' Day | ... a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before | . Much like Day of the Dead celebrations, the Christian feast of All Hallo ... |
Passover | ... f Nicaea against celebrating the Lord's Supper on the day before the Jewish | (14 Nisan) (see Quartodecimanism and Easter controversy). This marked a de ... |
May Day | ... urrent bank holidays were specified in the 1971 Act, but New Year's Day and | were introduced after 1971 |
Labor Day | ... rbs of Blaine and Fridley. The district usually operates from the day after | to June 6 |
Opiconsivia | ... Varro said that the Consualia were named for Consus. The festivals of Ops ( | or Opalia) followed his closely, being held every August 25 and December 1 ... |
Gulf Breeze UFO incident | ... ulf Breeze became famous in 1987 as the site of several UFO sightings. (see | ) |
Jewish holy days | ... ic roles included celebrations called farbrengens (gatherings) on Shabbats, | , and special days on the Chabad calendar, when he would give lengthy serm ... |
Sinterklaas | ... us became the model for Santa Claus, whose modern name comes from the Dutch | , itself from a series of elisions and corruptions of the transliteration ... |
New Year's Eve | ... k a second plunge into television with 1992: Year of the Farce, a satirical | special. For this and all subsequent TV appearances, the troupe abandoned ... |
Samhain | ... came to Tara put himself into Conn's service. He learned that every year at | , the monster Aillen would put everyone at Tara to sleep with his music, a ... |
Terminalia | ... ds. Examples of such dates are recorded for the Feralia, Quirinalia and the | (though not yet for the Lupercalia). These dates are all after the Ides of ... |
New Year's Eve | During a | party, Harry and Sally find themselves attracted to each other. Though the ... |
Juneteenth | ... wn for generations—for charity. The event is timed to coincide roughly with | and Father's Day and is promoted with the slogan "Every day is Family Day ... |
Lyndon Baines Johnson Day | ... iday to be observed on August 27 to mark Johnson's birthday. It is known as | . The Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac was dedicated on ... |
Gandhi Jayanti | ... agaland and Mizoram. Certain national holidays such as Independence Day and | (birthdate of Mahatma Gandhi) are meant to be dry days nationally. The sta ... |
William Davis Miners' Memorial Day | ... s led to a major union sentiment that persists to this day in some circles. | is celebrated in coal mining towns to commemorate the deaths of miners at ... |
Februa | ... e Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual | held on February 15 (full moon) in the old lunar Roman calendar. January a ... |
Greek War of Independence | ... ycle came into being between the late Byzantine period and the start of the | . The klephtic cycle, together with historical songs, paraloghes (narrativ ... |
New Year's Eve | ... Since 1974, ABC has generally aired Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on | |
Twelve Days of Christmas | ... e in Pieces. The 12 interviews saw Sir Arthur recount his life based on the | . Unscripted interviews with Cook as Streeb-Greebling and satirist Chris M ... |
Vaisakhi | ... ch in Bukit Mertajam. Buddhists observe Wesak Day while the Sikhs celebrate | . Many of these festivals are celebrated in a large scale and are also pub ... |
Our Lady of Guadalupe | Guadalupe County was named after Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe ( | ) or after the Mesita de Guadalupe (Guadalupe Plain). The county was creat ... |
Lohri | ... tival of lights), Mahavir Jayanti, Guru Nanak's Birthday, Durga Puja, Holi, | , Chhath, Krishna Janmastami, Maha Shivaratri, Eid ul-Fitr, Moharram and B ... |
Culture Day | Traditionally, most schools hold Bunkasai on or around | (November 3), a national holiday. Normally it is held on a Saturday or Sun ... |
Lammas | ... sabbats, it is the second of the three pagan harvest festivals, preceded by | / Lughnasadh and followed by Samhain |
Christmas Eve | ... shopping mall Santa Claus at the suggestion of his friend Barney Gumble. On | , Bart goes to the mall and harasses Santa, exposing Homer's secret. After ... |
May Day | ... indulge themselves in growing their own fruits and vegetables. To this day, | holidays remain a feature of Russian life allowing urban residents a long ... |
Independence Day (4th of July) | ... c. is an American non-profit company, whose purpose is to arrange an annual | festival at the park. The first Rebild Festival took place in 1912, when K ... |
St George's Day | ... ates from the existing list are the feast days of patron saints; 23 April ( | and the birthday of William Shakespeare) in England and 1 March (St David' ... |
Day of the Dead | ... us colors. These are most often used to decorate the tombs of loved ones on | . The Yaquis make unique belts using the paws of deer as well as elaborate ... |
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Bastille Day | Violette met Etienne Szabo, a French officer of Hungarian descent, at the | parade in London in 1940. They married on 21 August 1940 after a whirlwind ... |
Statehood Day | ... onies and Andreas Stirland conferred the crown. 6 July is now celebrated as | (Lithuanian: Valstybės diena); it is an official holiday in modern Lithuan ... |
Independence Day | ... ortance of national events and holidays. National events like Republic Day, | and Gandhi Jayanti (Gandhi's birthday) are celebrated with great enthusias ... |
Samhain | Every year for twenty-three years at | , the fire-breathing fairy Aillen would lull the men of Tara to sleep with ... |
Regifugium | ... it would be moved by one day if it fell on the same day as the festival of | , an event that could occur every other Julian leap year. When this happen ... |
Hallowmas | ... late medieval practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on | (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Sou ... |
Mother's Day | ... s. One such event is the annual Art in Bloom festival, which is held around | each year. During the two-day festival, over 10,000 people attend and more ... |
Independence Day | ... pshots of him at gay bars and nightclubs, most notably during the preceding | weekend in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hil ... |
Kali Puja | ... deities and forefathers, and enjoyed with family and friends. The ritual of | is a famous affair in puri, Bhadrak, Rourkela, Cuttack &Jajpur area |
Lughnasadh | ... Wiccan sabbats, Midsummer is preceded by Beltane, and followed by Lammas or | |
International Geophysical Year | A 10 mW mercury battery powered transmitter on the 108 MHz band used for | (IGY) scientific satellites, and a 5 mW, 108.03 MHz transmitter powered by ... |
Christmas Eve | ... ough. Desperate for a miracle, Homer and Bart go to the dog racing track on | in hopes of earning some money |
Mardi Gras | ... ation is perhaps the best illustration of this. Mobile is the birthplace of | in the United States and has the oldest celebration, dating to the early 1 ... |
Samhain | ... s less common; this practice and particularly the overarching importance of | over Midsummer and Midwinter festivals is idiosyncratic of pagan rites of ... |
Armistice Day | ... y newly conceived, and in any case approved, by their respective armies) on | 1920 (the burial itself taking place later in January of the following yea ... |
Annunciation | ... and dairy are never consumed on any fast day). For example the Feast of the | almost always occurs within the Great Lent in the Orthodox calendar: in th ... |
Samhain | ... hawk and her friends staged a public celebration of the Neopagan holiday of | (Halloween) incorporating an actual spiral dance. This group became the Re ... |
Passover | ... o obtain a green light from the government, though with Allon's consent, on | in 1968, a group led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger rented the main hotel in Hebr ... |
Epiphany | ... nglish, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after | and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi gras is French for ... |
Vaisakhi | ... that "a disturbing brand of extremist politics has surfaced" at some of the | parades in Canada, and The Trumpet agreed with the CBC assessment. Two lea ... |
Annunciation | In , in the | , before the birth of Jesus, the angel tells Mary that her child "shall be ... |
Reformation Day | Other Protestant Christians also celebrate the holiday as | , a day to remember the Protestant Reformation, alongside All Hallow's Eve ... |
Boxing Day | ... music videos and heavily promoted their releases. The first release was on | , 1994 and was the single "Tell Me When", which gave the band their first ... |
Chinese New Year | ... at the centre of a carnival of colour and noise as the city celebrates the | |
Beltane | ... lebrations of the Germanic countries. It is also associated with the Gaelic | . Many pagan celebrations were abandoned or Christianized during the proce ... |
Lammas | ... Among the Wiccan sabbats, Midsummer is preceded by Beltane, and followed by | or Lughnasadh |
Republic Day | ... lified the importance of national events and holidays. National events like | , Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti (Gandhi's birthday) are celebrated w ... |
Memorial Day | ... t lawn of the United States Capitol during the evening of the Sunday before | (the last Monday of May). (1) (2) The National Gallery of Art hosts a Jazz ... |
Bonfire Night | ... e biggest celebrations outside of India. Diwali also coincides with British | traditions on November the 5th. In the of London, a kind of joint festival ... |
Greek War of Independence | ... o match his work, and his death at 36 in 1824 from disease when helping the | appeared from a distance to be a suitably Romantic end, entrenching his le ... |
Beltane | ... the sun shines longest. Among the Wiccan sabbats, Midsummer is preceded by | , and followed by Lammas or Lughnasadh |
Independence Day | Since 1947, Catonsville has celebrated | with children's games in the morning, a parade in the afternoon, and a fir ... |
celebratory meal | After the ceremony, a | takes place. At the birkat hamazon additional introductory lines, known as ... |
Roodmas | | was a Christian Mass celebrated in England at midnight on May 1 |
May Day | ... elic Bealtaine, such as the bonfire, it bears more relation to the Germanic | festival, both in its significance (focusing on fertility) and its rituals ... |
Independence Day | ... an Folklife Festival takes place on the Mall each year for two weeks around | (July 4). (1) (2) On that holiday, the A Capitol Fourth concert takes plac ... |
Immaculate Conception | ... e until the Last Judgment. Though some claim that he campaigned against the | , this is far from clear. He engaged in long theological debates with othe ... |
Juneteenth | ... racts close to one million people, and large pow-wows, Asian festivals, and | celebrations are held in the city each year. The Tulsa State Fair attracts ... |
May Eve | ... perhaps the Celtic festival of Beltane. The festival starts at midnight on | when townspeople gather outside the Golden Lion Inn to sing the "Night Son ... |
April Fools' Day | ... season was marred by a life-threatening injury sustained by Eric Lindros on | during a game against the Nashville Predators, a season-ending injury late ... |
Lughnasadh | ... ations are not based on Celtic culture, despite common use of a Celtic name | . This name seems to have been a late adoption among Wiccans, since in ear ... |
Dominion Day | ... received Royal Assent and became effective on July 1 as part of that year's | celebrations |
Mardi Gras | ... at many regional holidays that are not celebrated nationwide, most famously | , a music and dance parade and festival in New Orleans, Louisiana |
Independence Day | The All-States Picnic, an | celebration, began in 1939 to recognize the varied origins of the city's r ... |
Samhain | ... ad called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of | , derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning "summer's end". Samhain was th ... |
Mardi Gras | ... which they discuss why their roommates did not get along with them. During | , cast member Danny Roberts used the confessional to engage in a sex act |
International Nurses Day | ... htingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual | is celebrated around the world on her birthday |
Portugal Day | ... public performance was when she sang a duet with her mother at a church on | . She began playing musical instruments at the age of nine, learning the t ... |
Labor Day | ... al, National Kidney Foundation Pro-Am Surfing Festival, has been held every | Weekend in Cocoa Beach |
Labor Day | ... ent as a weekend long cruise-in and car show that is still held annually on | Weekend |
Oktoberfest | ... rgest marksmen's festival, and the Oktoberfest Hannover, the second largest | in the world. In 2000, Hanover hosted the world fair Expo 2000. The Hanove ... |
Samhain | ... mn harvest festivals, the other two being the Autumn equinox (or Mabon) and | . Wiccans mark the holiday by baking a figure of the god in bread, and the ... |
Durga Puja | ... de Diwali (the festival of lights), Mahavir Jayanti, Guru Nanak's Birthday, | , Holi, Lohri, Chhath, Krishna Janmastami, Maha Shivaratri, Eid ul-Fitr, M ... |
Easter Monday | ... throughout the year, and movable holidays include the Christian holiday of | and the Muslim holidays of Eid ul-Fitr, Eid ul-Adha, and Eid Milad Nnabi |
Passover | ... ical times necessitated circumcision otherwise one could not partake in the | offering . Today, as in the time of Abraham, it is required of converts in ... |
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day | ... missioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 | ceremony; Calixa Lavallée wrote the music as a setting of a French Canadia ... |
Dhanteras | The festival starts with | on which most Indian business communities begin their financial year. The ... |
Epiphany | ... y to city, as some traditions consider Mardi Gras the entire period between | or Twelfth Night and Ash Wednesday. Others treat the final three-day perio ... |
Statehood Day | ... oronation date – 6 July 1253. This day is now an official national holiday, | |
Day of the Dead | ... n among outsiders is Holy Week, along with rituals associated with Lent and | . As they consider the soul to be immortal, funerals are not a somber occa ... |
Lupercalia | ... rded for the Feralia, Quirinalia and the Terminalia (though not yet for the | ). These dates are all after the Ides of February, which suggests that the ... |
National Doughnut Day | | celebrates the doughnut's history and role in popular culture. There is a ... |
Boxing Day | ... lc was completed in May 2002. The new Devonport End was opened for the 2001 | fixture with Torquay United. The other end, the Barn Park End, opened on t ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | ... ittee on Interior Affairs. Also that year, he opposed creation of a federal | , but admitted in 2008: "I was wrong and eventually realized that, in time ... |
Good Friday | ... while the Indians observe Deepavali, Thaipusam and Thai Pongal. Christmas, | and Easter are celebrated by Christians. The annual Saint Anne's Novena an ... |
Greek War of Independence | ... motto Eleftheria i thanatos (freedom or death), which was the motto of the | . The blue square in the upper hoist-side corner bears a white cross, whic ... |
Angam Day | ... i. Two of the 12 original tribal groups became extinct in the 20th century. | , held on 26 October, celebrates the recovery of the Nauruan population af ... |
International Year of Astronomy | ... l Jarre met Brian May, who proposed he create a concert in Tenerife for the | , but a lack of sponsorship meant that the concert did not take place |
Good Friday | ... or (love songs) to a lady whom he professed to have seen first in church on | . So far as the difference of language allows, he reproduced the rhythmica ... |
Independence Day | ... he did not foresee that Americans—including himself—would instead celebrate | on the date that the announcement of that act was finalized |
Veterans Day | ... vation of American history, and hosts high-profile events such as an annual | ceremony attended by dignitaries and other VIPs. Los Angeles Magazine desc ... |
Labor Day | ... y before this day, while schools that started the school year the day after | in early September will remain in session until early June |
Diwali | Religious festivals include | (the festival of lights), Mahavir Jayanti, Guru Nanak's Birthday, Durga Pu ... |
Juneteenth | ... as by Union General Gordon Granger at Galveston in an event commemorated as | . Black communities such as Wheatville, Pleasant Hill, and Clarksville wer ... |
Imbolc | ... specific timing of the equinox. Among the Wiccan sabbats, it is preceded by | and followed by Beltane |
Statehood Day | ... ugas Throne hill-fort" collapsed. The town now hosts a major celebration on | |
Bastille Day | ... than Oxygène, but the following year Jarre held a large open-air concert on | , at the Place de la Concorde. The free outdoor event set a new world reco ... |
Ziemassvētki | ... hology is also seen in contemporary Christian holidays. Christmas is called | . Not only is Easter called Lieldienas, but the pussy willow has supplante ... |
a federal holiday | ... ). Helms tried, with a 16-day filibuster, to stop the Senate from approving | to honor Martin Luther King, Jr |
Bastille Day | On July 14, 1906, the first | Celebration was held. In 1911, the Eleazar Theater was built. In 1916, the ... |
Trafalgar Day | ... Day, replacing it with a bank holiday in October, possibly co-inciding with | (celebrated on 21 October), to create a "United Kingdom Day" |
Mardi Gras | The halftime show, featuring singers and dancers, was a " | Festival" |
Independence Day | ... years immediately following the American Revolution. Early celebrations of | , like early histories of the Revolution, largely ignored the Declaration. ... |
Double Ninth Festival | Jia Peilan is credited in passing out Han Dynasty court customs of | to commoners |
Greek War of Independence | ... e of Greek life in the half century and more leading to the outbreak of the | in 1821. Not coincidentally, on the eve of 1821, the three most important ... |
LGBT History Month | ... face to the LGBT rights movement. This day was the inspiration for holding | in the United States in October. The day was founded in 1988, by Dr. Rober ... |
Oktoberfest | ... rtained more than 375,000 people in four days during 2007. In 2006, Tulsa's | was named one of the top 10 in the world by USA Today and one of the top G ... |
4 July | ... t. It is also the site of a large fireworks display, said to be the largest | display west of the Mississippi River, lasting for 31 minutes and featurin ... |
New Year's Eve | ... central gathering place during celebrations such as the Fourth of July and | . Private residences, the library, and the Golden Eagle surround the squar ... |
Chinese New Year | ... n can be seen yearly on Christmas night or during Chinese festivals such as | or other major events in Penang |
Good Friday | ... ited States, there are only two obligatory days of fast – Ash Wednesday and | . The Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence: eating meat is not allowed. ... |
Burns supper | ... ly served with the Scottish national dish of haggis as the main course of a | . Rutabagas were also carved out and used as candle lanterns in early Hall ... |
April Fools' Day | In observance of | (April 1) in 2006, Slashdot temporarily changed its signature teal color t ... |
Greek Revolution | ... ch as Adamantios Korais and Rigas Feraios will prepare with their works the | (1821–1830) |
Mother's Day | By 1975, Gacy had openly admitted to his wife he was bisexual. On | , after making love, he informed her they would never again have sex. He b ... |
Passover | ... n the wilderness" were not. Therefore Joshua, before the celebration of the | , had them circumcised at Gilgal specifically before they entered Canaan. ... |
Ganesh Chaturthi | ... d is another important festival. Other traditional Indian festivals such as | , Ugadi, Sankranthi, Eid ul-Fitr, and Christmas are also celebrated |
Boxing Day | Dumfries has experienced two | earthquakes. These were in 1979 (measuring 4.7 ML centred near Longtown) a ... |
Mother's Day | ... of West Virginia in 1863. The county is home of Anna Jarvis, founder of the | holiday, as well as the International Mother's Day Shrine |
Labor Day | On | Weekend 1988, Central City began hosting The Everly Brothers Homecoming ev ... |
Sinterklaas | ... iss folklore, the Christmas gift-bringer is known as Samichlaus (like Dutch | a corruption of the name of St. Nicholas) |
Beltane | May Day is related to the Celtic festival of | and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day falls exactly half a ... |
Bastille Day | Dreyfus died two days before | in 1935. His funeral cortège passed through ranks assembled for Bastille D ... |
International Workers' Day | The first of May is instead celebrated as | |
Groundhog Day | ... t is Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog said to predict the weather annually on | (February 2). Phil and the town were the basis for the 1993 film Groundhog ... |
Groundhog Day | ... snowstorm, when fell within 24 hours. Likewise, the Blizzard of 1993 and a | snowstorm in 1996 were substantial winter events for Huntsville. On Christ ... |
Immaculate Conception | ... ho was also a Franciscan. His primary reason was to promote the doctrine of | , in sense of the declaration of the council of Basle. They forbade the pr ... |
midwinter celebration | ... arade through the town singing 'minstrel' songs. This is an ancient British | that occurs every year in Padstow and was originally part of the pagan her ... |
Ugadi | ... tant festival. Other traditional Indian festivals such as Ganesh Chaturthi, | , Sankranthi, Eid ul-Fitr, and Christmas are also celebrated |
Passover | ... r massacre since it took place on the first night of the Jewish festival of | at a |
Australia Day | ... ver adjacent to the City of Perth is a popular place for viewing the annual | fireworks, with over 400,000 people crowding the foreshore, Kings Park and ... |
the last British forces left the city | ... d until November 25, 1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan, as | |
Walpurgis Night | ... y is related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of | . May Day falls exactly half a year from November 1, another cross-quarter ... |
Gen Con | ... le playing game was released in August 2007 by Margaret Weis Productions at | |
Yule | ... s include the young God regaining strength in his youth after being born at | , and the Goddess returning to her Maiden aspect |
Immaculate Conception | The Catholic doctrine of the | of Mary is that Mary was conceived free from original sin: "the most Bless ... |
Beltane | ... likely stems from an ancient fertility rite, perhaps the Celtic festival of | . The festival starts at midnight on May Eve when townspeople gather outsi ... |
Immaculate Conception | Luther, however, also agreed with the Roman Catholic doctrine of the | (that Mary was conceived free from original sin) by saying |
Greek War of Independence | During and after the | , Greeks of the diaspora were important in establishing the fledgling stat ... |
Good Friday | ... ons and still has close connections with the Roman Catholic Church, as each | the Pope leads a torchlit "Way of the Cross" procession that starts in the ... |
Sinterklaas | ... nd and third generation even as late as World War II. The Dutch festival of | was celebrated as “St Nick’s Day” (December 5). This practice continues in ... |
International Geophysical Year | The | (IGY), created an enormous increase in research into space weather. Ground ... |
Mid-Autumn Festival | ... ls to celebrate. The Chinese celebrate, among others, the Chinese New Year, | , Hungry Ghost Festival, Qing Ming, and the feast days of various deities. ... |
Labor Day | ... ation of Richlands's agrarian roots. It is held on the first Saturday after | each year, and has been running for over forty years. The celebration begi ... |
Memorial Day | ... line Avenue is also used as the route for local parades, such as the annual | Parade. At Union City's southern end, Bergenline is primarily a residentia ... |
Good Friday | ... ngements in some areas to even out the length of school terms mean that the | and Easter Monday bank holidays, which vary from year to year, may also fa ... |
Labor Day | ... t lawn of the United States Capitol during the evening of the Sunday before | (the first Monday of September). The takes place on the Mall each year in ... |
Greek War of Independence | ... in the world. The modern Greek state was established in 1830, following the | |
Ides of March | ... ing granted a dictatorship for perpetuity. He was murdered in 44 BC, in the | by the Liberatores |
All Souls' Day | ... All Saints' Day (also known as Hallowmas, All Hallows, and Hallowtide) and | . Falling on November 1 and 2 respectively, collectively they were a time ... |
Dhanteras | On the 13th day is | , the days Diwali starts in the rest of India |
Guy Fawkes Night | ... with the notion of predestination. In addition the increasing popularity of | (5 November) from 1605 on saw Halloween become eclipsed in Britain with th ... |
Bastille Day | ... nt Cousteau, inspired by the French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. On | 1990 he performed a concert at La Défense in Paris, attended by a record-b ... |
Epiphany | ... uing year. This is similar to the tradition of king cake at the festival of | |
Battle of Pichincha | ... nce after Antonio José de Sucre defeated the Spanish Royalist forces at the | , near Quito. Following the battle, Ecuador joined Simón Bolívar's Republi ... |
Chinese New Year | ... number of festivals to celebrate. The Chinese celebrate, among others, the | , Mid-Autumn Festival, Hungry Ghost Festival, Qing Ming, and the feast day ... |
Sinterklaas | ... ms of Carnival or Fasnacht and the Yule traditions surrounding Santa Claus/ | . By contrast, the Christmas tree in spite of frequent association with Th ... |
Lakshmi Puja | The 15th (new moon day) is | , celebrated throughout India |
Independence Day | ... s like the national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner", are a major part of | celebrations. Music also plays a role at many regional holidays that are n ... |
immersion | ... n for "I believe"). Furthermore, they hold the historic Baptist belief that | is the only valid mode of baptism |
Beltane | ... equinox. Among the Wiccan sabbats, it is preceded by Imbolc and followed by | |
Easter Monday | ... areas to even out the length of school terms mean that the Good Friday and | bank holidays, which vary from year to year, may also fall during term tim ... |
Good Friday | ... here Justus Jonas officially introduced the Reformation into Halle with his | address in 1541. The service must have been at least partly conducted in t ... |
International AIDS Day | ... Empire State Building with red lights in New York City December 1, 2010 on | , as part of (RED)'s new awareness campaign, 'An AIDS Free Generation is D ... |
Bastille Day | ... ucing totally white images when the spacecraft was hit by the exceptional ' | ' coronal mass ejection in 2000, and did so again on subsequent close appr ... |
Courir de Mardi Gras | ... as celebrations. In the rural Acadiana area, many Cajuns celebrate with the | , a tradition that dates to medieval celebrations in France |
Our Lady of Guadalupe | ... was raised in the middle of the small settlement and dedicated in honor of | . Among its earliest settlers were Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, and the Po ... |
Saint Patrick's Day | ... er team club Deportivo Chivas USA's supporters association, was evoked in a | message from Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Libera ... |
May Day | The most recent public holiday to be added was | (sometimes wrongly called Labour Day). This holiday is taken as the first ... |
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day | ... the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society and first performed on June 24, 1880, at a | banquet in Quebec City. At that time, the "Chant National", also by Routhi ... |
Good Friday | ... are optional, with the main focus being on repentance. On Ash Wednesday and | , Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59 (whose health enables them to do ... |
Retrocession Day | ... Government in September 1945 and proclaimed on October 25, 1945 as "Taiwan | ." This is the day in which the Japanese troops surrendered. The validity ... |
Memorial Day | ... history of Piedmont was the official opening of the Clearwater Lake Dam on | , May 30, 1948. Construction of the project started in May 1940 and was co ... |
Jāņi | ... ns and festivals are still noted, if not also celebrated today—for example, | is a national holiday |
Annunciation | ... s. It is often seen as referring to his divinity, from the beginning in the | up to the Crucifixion. The declaration that Jesus is the Son of God is mad ... |
Remembrance Day | ... November, Whitlam phoned Kerr and arranged to see him at 12.45pm after the | ceremonies. Kerr also arranged for Fraser to come "a quarter of an hour la ... |