1/1 New Year’s Day Emancipation Proclamation (Black American)
1/4 Birthday of Louis Braille (Creator of system of reading and writing for visually impaired)
1/4 National Braille Day
1/6 Epiphany (Christian)
1/7 Feast of the Epiphany (Christian)
1/9 Guru Gobind Singh Birthday (Sikh)
1/11 Birthday of Alice Paul (Women’s Rights Pioneer)
1/13 Lohri- Maghi (Sikh)
1/14 Makar Sankranti (Hindu)
1/16 National Religious Freedom Day
1/17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
1/18 Mahayana New Year (Buddhist)
1/18 World Religion Day
1/20 Bodhi Day (Buddhist)
1/24 International Day of Education
1/26 International Customs Day
1/27 International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
1/31 Guru Har Rai Birthday (Sikh)
Color Shape Key
Green Triangle – Diversity Leaders’ Birthdays
Blue Circle – United States Holidays
Red Bar – Religious / Cultural Holidays
Purple Star- International Holidays
Black Square – Equinoxes