Public Holidays (from many countries)

Several are shared by many countries, while some are unique to a single country

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Hint	Answer
January 1	New Year's Day
January 6	Epiphany (the Magi ("Three Kings") visiting Jesus; also baptism of adult Jesus)
January (3rd Monday)	Birthday of Martin Luther King jr. (USA, born January 15, 1929; federal holiday)
January 26	Australia Day (arrival of the British in 1788)
January 27	International Holocaust Remembrance Day (liberation of Auschwitz in 1945)
January-February	Chinese New Year (called Spring Festival)
February 14	Valentine's Day (not a public holiday)
February-March	Clean Monday (start of Great Lent, fasting before Easter, in Eastern Christianity)
March 8	International Women's Day (first celebrated in 1914)
March 17	Saint Patrick's Day
March 19	Saint Joseph's Day (husband of Mary)
March 19, 20 or 21	Nowruz (Iranian New Year, the vernal equinox)
March-April (Nisan 15-21)	Pesach (Passover, for the Jewish exodus from Egypt)
Thursday March-May	Maundy Thursday (Last Supper of Christ)
Friday March-May	Good Friday (Christ's crucifixion)
Sunday March-May	Easter Sunday (Christ's resurrection)
Monday March-May	Easter Monday
April 22	Earth Day (since 1970, but not a public holiday)
April 30	Reunification Day (Vietnam's reunification in 1975)
April-May (Nisan 27)	Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) in Israel
April 24	Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (start of the genocide in 1915)
April-June (Vaisakha full moon)	Vesak (the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha)
May 1	International Workers' Day (Labour Day)
May 8	Victory in Europe Day (the end of WWII in Europe)
May 9	Victory Day (end of WWII in Europe, date in former Communist Bloc countries)
May 17	Norway's national day (passing the Constitution in 1814)
May (last Monday)	Memorial Day (USA, for American military dead; federal holiday)
Thursday April-June	Ascension Day (ascension of Christ into Heaven)
May-June (Sivan 6)	Shavuot (festival of weeks for wheat harvest, and God's giving of the Torah)
Sunday May-June	Whit Sunday (Pentecost, descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles)
Monday May-June	Whit Monday / Pentecost Monday
Thursday May-June	Corpus Christi (feast of the body of Christ)
June 3	Death of Khomeini (Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini's death in 1989)

Hint	Answer
June 12	Russia Day (declaration of Russia as a sovereign state within USSR, 1990)
June 24	Saint John's Day (birth of John the Baptist) (also Midsummer's Day)
June 29	Feasts of Saints Peter and Paul (apostles martyred in Rome)
July 1	Canada Day (founding of Canada in 1867)
July 4	Independence Day (USA declared independence in 1776; federal holiday)
July 14	Bastille Day (France's national day, start of the French Revolution in 1789)
July 29	Olsok (Saint Olaf's Wake, his death in 1030)
August 15	Assumption Day (assumption of Mary into Heaven)
August 15	Independence Day (India's independence from the British in 1947)
September (1st Monday)	Labor Day (USA; federal holiday)
Sept-Oct (Tishrei 1)	Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)
Sept-Oct (Tishrei 10)	Yom Kippur (Jewish day of atonement)
Sept-Oct (Tishrei 15-21)	Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles or Harvest Festival)
October 1	China's national day (founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949)
October 2	Gandhi Jayanti (birth of Mohandas Gandhi in 1869)
October 3	German Unity Day (reunification in 1990)
October 12	Columbus Day (Columbus's landing in the Bahamas in 1492)
October 24	United Nations Day (founding of UN in 1945, but not a public holiday)
October 31	Reformation Day (Luther's publication of the 95 Theses in 1517)
October-November (Kartik)	Diwali (Hindu, Jain and Sikh festival of light triumphing over darkness)
November 1	All Saints' Day
November 2	All Souls' Day
November 11	Armistice Day / Remembrance Day / Veterans' Day (the end of WWI in 1918)
November 20 (3rd Monday)	Revolution Day (start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910)
November (4th Thursday)	Thanksgiving (harvest festival in the USA; federal holiday)
November 30	Saint Andrew's Day
December 8	Immaculate Conception (Mary's conception)
December 25	Christmas Day
December 26	Boxing Day (also Saint Stephen's Day)
Muharram 10	Ashura (Shias mourning Husayn's death at Battle of Karbala, 680)
Rabi'-ul-Awwal 12/17	Mawlid (birth of the prophet Muhammad in 570)
Shawwal 1	Eid al-Fitr (festival of breaking the Ramadan fast)
Dhu al-Hijjah 10-12	Eid al-Adha (festival of the sacrifice, Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son)

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