Labor Day/May Day
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Monday may 1, 2023
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Patriots' Day
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Friday may 5, 2023
Secular holiday : Five years of Italian occupation of the capital city Addis Ababa were ended in 1941 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Mothers' Day
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Sunday may 14, 2023
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
End of the Military Regime
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Sunday may 28, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorates the end of the communist junta in 1991. paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
End of school year (international schools)
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Friday june 9, 2023
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Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 18, 2023
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Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Thursday june 29, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
End of school year
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Saturday july 29, 2023
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Beginning of school year (international schools)
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Wednesday august 16, 2023
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Beginning of school year
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Monday august 28, 2023
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Ethiopian New Year (Enkutatash)
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Tuesday september 12, 2023
Coptic :
Prophet's Anniversary - Eid-Milad Nnabi (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday september 27, 2023
Muslim, Sufi :
Finding of the True Cross (Meskel)
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Thursday september 28, 2023
Rastafarian : Observance of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, according to the Julian Calendar
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday october 13, 2023
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Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday october 23, 2023
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