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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…

Pongal (பொங்கல், /ˈθaɪˈpoʊŋʌl/, also spelled Poṅkal), is also referred to as Thai Pongal (தைப்பொங்கல், also spelled Tai Pongal), is a multi-day Hindu harvest festival celebrated by Tamils in India and Sri Lanka. It is observed at the start of the…

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…

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday in the United States marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.. It is observed on the third
Monday of January each year. Born in 1929, King's actual birthday is
January 15. The holiday is similar to holidays set under the Uniform Monday
Holiday Act. The earliest Monday for this holiday is January 15 and the
latest is January 21. King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent
activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which protested racial
discrimination in federal and state law. The campaign for a federal holiday
in King's honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. President
Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first
observed three years later. At first, some states resisted observing the
holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other
holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in
2000.