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Eid al-Adha • عيد الأضحى‎. The first two days are observed.

Rosh Hashanah • ראש השנה‎ is sunset through next sunset.

Yom Kippur • יוֹם כִּיפּוּר is nightfall the first day and all day the second day.

Diwali (or Deepawali) is observed on the first two days: 4th for the south and 5th for the north (generally).

The Thursday is the observed Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday is typically also taken off. Many in USA will travel during the four-day weekend.

New Year's Day is a festival observed in most of the world on 1 January, the first day of the year in the modern Gregorian calendar. 1 January is
also New Year's Day on the Julian calendar, but this is not the same day as
the Gregorian one. Whilst most solar calendars begin the year regularly at
or near the northern winter solstice, cultures that observe a lunisolar or
lunar calendar celebrate their New Year's Day at less fixed points relative
to the solar year. In pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day
was dedicated to Janus, god of gateways and beginnings, for whom January is
also named. From Roman times until the middle of the 18th century, the new
year was celebrated at various stages and in various parts of Christian
Europe on 25 December, on 1 March, on 25 March and on the movable feast of
Easter.

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Coming of Age Day is a Japanese holiday held annually on the second Monday of January. It is held in order to congratulate and encourage all those who have reached or will reach the age of maturity between April 2…

Makara/Makar Sankranti or Uttarayan or Maghi or simply Sankranti, also known in Bangladesh and West Bengal as Poush Sankranti, and in Nepal as Maghe Sankranti, 'Sankranti' here means ‘transfer', this day is considered as the transition day of Sun into…