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Chele/Yalda (Persian calendar) 21 Winter Solstice Summer Solstice Yule: 22: 23 Humanlight: 24 Christmas Eve : 25 Christmas & Yule : 26 La an Dreolin Kwanzaa Begins: 27 Uwiha Ch'uyay : 28 Dia de Innocentadas (Spain, Latin America) 29: 30 Rizal day (Philippines) 31 New Years Eve (Gregorian calendar) Hogmanay
A bank holiday is a national public holiday in the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, and a colloquial term for a public holiday in Ireland. In the United Kingdom, the term refers to all public holidays, be they set out in statute, declared by royal proclamation , or held by convention under common law .
A public holiday, national holiday, federal holiday, statutory holiday, bank holiday or legal holiday is a holiday generally established by law and is usually a non-working day during the year. Types [ edit ]
Each bank can set its own schedule, but most adhere to the federal holiday calendar observed by the U.S. Federal Reserve, which outlines the 10 federal holidays that are also banking holidays ...
The holiday is observed on the fourth Thursday in November. On the day after this holiday, the stock market trading session ends three hours early. December 25 (Fixed date) Christmas Day: 1870 The most widely celebrated holiday of the Christian year, Christmas is observed as a commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Commonly celebrated by ...
The following holidays are observed by the majority of US businesses with paid time off: New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, [2] Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after known as Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas. There are also numerous holidays on the state and local level that are observed to varying degrees.
The emergency holidays declared in the United States prior to the passage of the Emergency Banking Act during the Great Depression in 1933.; A week-long emergency holiday decreed in March 1999 by the government of Ecuador during that country's 1998-1999 financial crisis, a measure that was followed by the total year-long freeze of all bank deposits.
International Polar Year: 2007–2009 International Year of Planet Earth: 2008 International Year of Sanitation: 2008 International Year of Natural Fibres 2009: 2009 Year of the Gorilla [194] 2009 International Year of Biodiversity: 2010 International Year of Forests: 2011 International Year of Soils: 2015 International Year of Pulses: 2016