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Week Observance Details Ref. First week of March Save Your Vision Week Urges the media, health care professions, and other agencies and individuals to support programs to support programs to improve and protect the vision of the people of the U.S. and to convince them of the importance of their vision to their welfare and the welfare of the country.
The religious holiday is celebrated by Muslims worldwide because it marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan. The day is also called Lesser Eid, or simply Eid; Eid al-Adha is the latter of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Fitr). The day is also sometimes called Big Eid or the ...
A host of other Remembrance Sunday services, commemorations, concerts and parades will be taking place in towns and cities across the country and a two-minute silence will be observed nationwide ...
Friday holds a special celestial treat in store for astronomers and amateur stargazers. Mercury will become the seventh planet to line up in a current “planetary parade” that’s happening ...
Eid-Al-Fitr, also known as the ‘Festival of Breaking Fast’ is the first of two Eids in the Islamic calendar and is typically celebrated after the Muslim fasting month, known as Ramadan.
The following observances have been mandated or authorized by Congress or the President, but are no longer proclaimed or observed on a regular basis. March 21 (1982–1988): Afghanistan Day [55] June 14 (1982–1992): Baltic Freedom Day; June 25, 1987: National Catfish Day; October 6, 1972: National Coaches Day
How is Boxing Day celebrated today? In modern times, Boxing Day is a time to spend with family and cash in on post-Christmas deals. Families visit with the loved ones they couldn't see on December 25.