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Independence Day. Labor Day. Columbus Day. Veterans Day. Thanksgiving Day. Christmas Day. Federal holidays in the United States are 11 calendar dates designated by the U.S. federal government as holidays. On these days non-essential U.S. federal government offices are closed and federal employees are paid for the day off.
Several federal holidays are widely observed by private businesses with paid time off. These include New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Businesses often close or grant paid time off for New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve, and the Day after Thanksgiving, but none of these are federal holidays ...
From Martin Luther King Jr to Thanksgiving, these are the dates of the 2023 federal holidays. 2023 federal holidays: New Year’s Day: Sunday, January 1 (Observed Monday, January 2)
Indigenous Peoples Day was instituted in Berkeley, California, in 1992, to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Columbus in the Americas on October 12, 1492. Two years later, Santa Cruz, California, instituted the holiday. Starting in 2014, many other cities and states adopted the holiday.
Also known as " D. Hamilton Jackson Day" or "Bull and Bread Day." A day to honor David Hamilton Jackson (1884–1946), a Virgin Islands labor rights leader from St. Croix. [4] November 11. Veterans Day. Fourth Thursday in November. Thanksgiving Day. Schools remain closed Friday. December 25.
From Memorial Day to Thanksgiving, these are the dates of the 2023 federal holidays. 2023 federal holidays: New Year’s Day: Sunday, January 1 (Observed Monday, January 2)
Sundays year-round. January 1 ( Feast of the Circumcision of Christ at the time; New Year in the late 20th and 21st centuries), June 29 (Feast of Saints Peter and Paul), August 15 (Assumption of Mary), December 8 (Immaculate Conception), December 25 (Christmas Day), and the movable holidays of the Ascension of Jesus Christ and Corpus Christi.
1 January. New Year's Day. Festival marking the beginning of the new year. 6 January. Epiphany. Commemorates the visit of the three wise men or magi to the infant Jesus. 5 February. Feast of Saint Agatha. Commemoration of Saint Agatha, co-patroness of the Republic after the country was liberated from foreign rule on her feast day in 1740 [1]