GARE Diversity Calendar

January 2023

1/1 Blue circle New Year’s Day
1/1 Blue circle Emancipation Proclamation (Black American)
1/2 Blue circle New Year’s Day Holiday
1/4 Green Triangle icon Birthday of Louis Braille (Creator of system of reading and writing for visually impaired)
1/4 Blue circle National Braille Day
1/5 Red bar icon Guru Gobind Singh Ji Jayanti (Sikh)
1/6 Red bar icon Feast of Epiphany (Christian)
1/7 Red bar icon Mahayana New Year (Buddhist)
1/9 Red bar icon Guru Gobind Singh Birthday (Sikh)
1/11 Green Triangle icon Birthday of Alice Paul (Women’s Rights Pioneer)
1/13 Red bar icon Lohri- Maghi (Sikh)
1/15 Red bar icon Makarsankranti (Hindu festival to Sun God, Surya)
1/15 Blue circle World Religious Freedom Day
1/16 Blue circle Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
1/18 Purple star icon World Religion Day
1/22 Red bar icon Lunar New Year (Year of Rabbit)
1/24 Purple star icon International Day of Education
1/26 Purple star icon International Customs Day
1/26 Red bar icon Vasant Panchami (Hindu)
1/27 Purple star icon International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (UN)


Color Shape Key

Green Triangle icon Green Triangle – Diversity Leaders’ Birthdays
Blue circle Blue Circle – United States Holidays
Red bar icon Red Bar – Religious / Cultural Holidays
Purple star icon Purple Star- International Holidays
black square Black Square – Equinoxes