2008 Holiday Dates

Dates courtesy of Holidays.net

Winter 2008

• New Year's Day: January 1
• Three Kings Day (Dia de los Santos Reyes): January 6
• Islamic New Year (Al-Hijra 1429AH): January 09
  (Depends on the sighting of the moon in North America)
• Martin Luther King, Jr's Birthday: Monday, January 21
• Groundhog Day: February 02
• Mardi Gras: Tuesday, February 05
• Ash Wednesday: February 06
• Lincoln's Birthday: February 12
• Valentine's Day: February 14
• President's Day: Monday, February 18
• Washington's Birthday: February 22
• Leap Day: February 29
• Palm Sunday: Sunday, March 16
• St. Patrick's Day: March 17
• Purim (Begins at Sundown*): March 19

Spring 2008

• Good Friday: March 21
• Baha'i New Year (Naw Ruz): March 21
• Easter: Sunday, March 23
• April Fool's Day: April 1
• Passover (Begins at Sundown*): April 19
• Earth Day: April 22
• Eastern Orthodox Easter: Sunday, April 27
• Yom Ha Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) (Begins at Sundown*): May 01
• Cinco de Mayo: May 5
• Mother's Day: Sunday, May 11
• Declaration of the Báb (Baha'i holiday): May 23
• Memorial Day: Monday, May 26
• Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i holiday): May 29
• Shavuot (Begins at Sundown*): June 08
• Flag Day: June 14 Juneteenth: June 19
• Father's Day: Sunday, June 15

Summer 2008

• US Independence Day: July 04
• Martyrdom of the Bab (Baha'i holiday): July 09
• Labor Day: Monday, September 01

• Rosh Hashanah (Begins at Sundown*): September 29
• Ramadan: September 01 (Depends on the sighting of the moon in North America)
• Eid al-Fitr: September 30 (Depends on the sighting of the moon in North America)
• Yom Kippur (Begins at Sundown*): October 08
• Sukkot (Begins at Sundown*): October 13
• Columbus Day (observed): October 13
• Birth of the Bab (Baha'i holiday): October 20
• Halloween: October 31
• Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead): November 1
• All Saint's Day: November 1
• All Soul's Day: November 2
• Veterans Day: November 11
• Birth of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i holiday): November 12
• Thanksgiving Day (US): Thursday, November 27

• World Aids Day: December 01
• Day Without Art: December 01
• Bodhi Day: December 08
• Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary: December 08
• Eid al-Adha: December 08 (Depends on the sighting of the moon in North America)
• Chanukah (Begins at Sundown*): December 21
• Christmas Day: December 25
• Kwanzaa: December 26 - January 01, 2008
• Boxing Day: December 26
• Islamic New Year (Al-Hijra - 1430AH): December 29
  (Depends on the sighting of the moon in North America)

*Because the Jewish day begins and ends at sundown, holidays begin at sundown.

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