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When the standard working week in Sweden was reduced to 40 hours by the Riksdag, all Saturdays became de facto public holidays. Holy Saturday, Midsummer's Eve, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve are also de facto holidays. Part of the Swedish tradition is the celebration of Lucia ( Saint Lucia Day ).
On June 28, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Holidays Act that made Thanksgiving a yearly appointed federal holiday in Washington, D.C. On January 6, 1885, an act by Congress made Thanksgiving, and other federal holidays, a paid holiday for all federal workers throughout the United States.
Día de la Asunción. Assumption of Mary into Heaven (only in Guatemala City ) September 15. Independence Day. Día de la Independencia. Celebrates the Act of Independence of Central America in 1821. October 12. Day of the Race. Día de la Raza.
Christmas Day. Božić. 26 December. Saint Stephen's Day. Sveti Stjepan. * In 2020 there was a change in holidays: June 25 (was Statehood Day until 2019, became Independence Day in 2020) and October 8 (was Independence Day until 2019, became Day of the Croatian Parliament in 2020) changed names and were demoted from public holidays to memorial ...
2026 date. October 12 (United States) Frequency. Annual. Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the Americas. Columbus went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on ...
From 2017 to 2022 Christmas was celebrated in Ukraine on 2 different days, 7 January (the date of the holiday according to the Julian calendar) and 25 December (the date of the holiday according to the Gregorian and Revised Julian calendars). From 2023 Christmas is only officially celebrated in Ukraine on 25 December.
Thursday, 39 days after Easter Sunday. moveable. Whit Monday. Lundi de Pentecôte. Monday after Pentecost (50 days after Easter), observed only in some businesses, see notes. 14 July. Bastille Day. Fête Nationale Française. French National Day, commemorates the Feast of the Federation.
Public holidays. The following is the list of holidays for the calendar year 2018 in Nepal. Birthday of Prithvi Narayan Shah . The first day of the month of Magh. New Year celebration by the Tamang community . Educational institution only. Martyr's day in Nepal remembering the first four Martyrs of Nepal .